Adrian Zumbrunnen’s website is now conversational. And it can recommend you UX reads.
CO2NCRETE Is Able To Turn Carbon Dioxide Into Sustainable Concrete – UCLA believes their upcycling system could help curb global climate change.
Why do we follow digital maps into dodgy places?
“The feed is dying. The reverse-chronological social media feed — the way you’ve read Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and blogs (which is to say, the internet) at various points over the last decade, updates organized according to the time they were posted, refreshed at the top of the screen — no longer really makes sense.”
Everything is illuminated.
Eggs Literally Spark With Light Upon Contact With Sperm, and We Caught It on Camera.
The biggest question about the beginning of the Universe — Starts With A Bang!
“Where did it come from” is pretty high up there!
The tearful birth of democracy.
How Chinese third-graders elect a class monitor.
“What kind of thing is ‘Democracy’? Born into an authoritarian state that professes to value the greater good over individual expression, many Chinese children have little familiarity with Western ideals of democracy. Nevertheless, they prove themselves quick studies in Please Vote For Me, which chronicles China’s first ever modern classroom election, held among third-graders in the city of Wuhan. After the students learn the basic tenets of democracy, a campaign for the position of class monitor swiftly descends into an all too familiar jumble of campaign promises, back-room deals and dirty tricks. Funny, touching and full of small surprises, the Chinese director Weijun Chen’s documentary is a wry look at the democratic process and all its chaotic, imperfect promise.”
Gentoo Tesla T2 Edition.
“After 2 weeks of cross-compiling, struggling with ALSA, and fighting with Xorg and Nvidia Tegra drivers, I finally have something I would consider presentable!”
Via t3n.de.
The already shameful history of the young Web.
10 years later, ‘Star Wars Kid’ speaks out.
The End of Average.
“(…) our notion of average, when applied to human beings, is terribly misguided. The belief that variation can be summarized using measures of center is often erroneous, especially when describing people. The ‘average person’ does not exist, but the notion of the ‘Average Man’ is deeply rooted in our culture and social institutions. (…) Sometimes variation—individuality—is the norm, with no meaningful measure of average.”