Welcome to Sin News: Journalism for Digital Millennials Who Want the Truth.
We don’t have researchers. We don’t have fact checkers. We’ve got an intern in a gimp suit who listens exclusively to Phantogram and Beach House. Every so often, we give him an article to copyedit, or a granola bar to make sure he doesn’t die, but that’s only because if we don’t, we’ll go to jail.
Christoph Niemann, Illustrator.
Of 9 Tech Companies, Only Twitter Says It Would Refuse to Help Build Muslim Registry for Trump.
Microsoft declines to commit itself; IBM, Google, and Apple do not respond after two weeks.
List for life.
The English Wikipedia’s list of lists of lists.
This sounds like when the teacher talks to a Peanut.
A 2D slice of the 6D Calabi-Yau quintic manifold.
Calabi–Yau manifolds are complex manifolds that are generalizations of K3 surfaces in any number of complex dimensions (i.e. any even number of real dimensions). They were originally defined as compact Kähler manifolds with a vanishing first Chern class and a Ricci-flat metric, though many other similar but inequivalent definitions are sometimes used.
Craigslist, Wikipedia, and the Abundance Economy.
You’ve heard it before. Maybe you’ve even said it. “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.”
“Girls don’t go to the meetings.”
The Woman the Mercury Astronauts Couldn’t Do Without: Katherine Johnson negotiated the dynamics of both race and space.
Battling sexism and dissension, Marie Tharp changed how we understand the Earth.
This lively short animation from the Royal Institution chronicles how the American geologist Marie Tharp’s tireless and brilliant work helping to map the ocean floor during the mid-20th century – which included battling endemic sexism – forced a massive paradigm shift that led to plate tectonics gaining widespread acceptance among scientists.
One by One, ISIS Social Media Experts Are Killed as Result of F.B.I. Program.
How domestication changes species, including the human.
Domestication means replacing a relationship founded on trust with one ‘based on domination’.