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www.npr.org
3 weeks ago
OMG science

Liftoff! Four people are on their way to the space station on NASA's Crew-8 mission

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched Crew-8 mission to the International Space Station.
Crew-8 members will conduct 200+ experiments during the 6-month mission.
Ars Technica
9 months ago
OMG science

Testing antibacterial surfaces on the International Space Station

1. Tests on the International Space Station (ISS) have revealed that certain antibacterial surfaces can reduce the growth of bacteria, making them a valuable tool for maintaining healthy environments.
2. The ISS tests showed that the antibacterial surfaces were effective at reducing bacterial growth on various surfaces, including stainless steel, polypropylene, and polytetrafluoroethylene.
3. The results of the ISS study could have implications for the use of antibacterial surfaces in other
Inverse
10 months ago
OMG science

Carbon-Sniffing Rover Is Designed To Crack Mars' Biggest Mystery

March 17, 2022, was a rough day for Jorge Vago.A planetary physicist, Vago heads science for part of the European Space Agency's ExoMars program.His team was mere months from launching Europe's first Mars rover - a goal they had been working toward for nearly two decades.But on that day, ESA suspended ties with Russia's space agency over the invasion of Ukraine.
Inverse
10 months ago
OMG science

Cutting-Edge Tech Could Enable Same-Sex Couples to Have Biological Children

It may have seemed inconceivable to scientists merely decades ago, but this dream is inching closer to reality thanks to recent leaps in reproductive technology: One day, couples assigned the same sex at birth may be able to have children that are genetically related to both parents.Recently, scientists have made some breakthroughs, though only in lab mice.
www.nytimes.com
11 months ago
OMG science

What Cheetahs, Armadillos and Whales Revealed About Human DNA

It has been 20 years since scientists put together the first rough draft of the human genome, the three billion genetic letters of DNA tightly wound inside most of our cells.Today, scientists are still struggling to decipher it.But a batch of studies published in Science on Thursday has cast a bright light into the dark recesses of the human genome by comparing it with those of 239 other mammals, including narwhals, cheetahs and screaming hairy armadillos.
Theregister
1 year ago
OMG science

Space dust already on Earth could hold proof of alien life

If we want to find evidence for alien life we don't need to keep looking for chemicals in exoplanet atmospheres or distant radio signals, says a Japanese astronomer.Instead, we should be studying the thousands of micrometer-sized bits of interstellar dust that hit Earth every year.University of Tokyo Professor Tomonori Totani proposed the new approach in a paper in which he suggests bits of space dust could contain the remains of single-celled organisms or other chemical evidence of life.
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Science
www.scientificamerican.com
9 months ago
Science

Pebbles from an Asteroid Are about to Be Delivered to Earth, and It's Totally Awesome

What would it be like to hold a piece of outer space in your hand?Some lucky scientists will find out soon when NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft (shorthand for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer) returns from its seven-year mission.The probe will drop off a canister holding about a cup of pebbles and dust from the surface of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu.
www.scientificamerican.com
9 months ago
Science

This Tiny Fish Can Recognize Itself in Photos

Bluestreak cleaner wrasses are entrepreneurial fish.This tiny, shiny species sets up shop in coral reefs, where it eats parasites off of client fish, some of them big and hungry.It's a dangerous business that requires impeccable social skills.No wonder, then, that these fish can identify other individuals by their facesand even recognize their own, according to a recent study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.
Washington Post
9 months ago
Science

Roger Payne, who shared whale songs with the world, dies at 88

Biologist Roger Payne aboard a research vessel in 2002.His discovery that whales can sing galvanized a movement to end commercial whaling.(Christopher Johnson/Ocean Alliance/AP)Roger Payne, a biologist who put his ear to the ocean and pioneered the study of whale songs, recording the creatures' hypnotic, intricately patterned vocalizations - haunting wails, birdlike chirps, playful squeals and mournful moos - for a hit album that galvanized the anti-whaling movement and seemed to suggest the animals had a far richer inner life than previously imagined, died June 10 at his home in South Woodstock, Vt.
www.npr.org
10 months ago
Science

Saudi astronauts, including nation's 1st woman, catch a SpaceX flight to space station

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Dragon capsule and a crew of four private astronauts lifts off from pad 39A, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Sunday.John Raoux/AP CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Saudi Arabia's first astronauts in decades rocketed toward the International Space Station on a chartered multimillion-dollar flight Sunday.
Washington Post
10 months ago
Science

Scientists sent balloons into the stratosphere - and found a mystery

A solar-powered balloon takes flight bearing multiple scientific instruments, including a GPS tracker and a reusable 'infrasound' sensor.(Courtesy Sandia National Laboratories)At first listen, Earth's stratosphere seems calm and quiet.But when researchers launched solar-powered balloons up 70,000 feet, they detected a hidden acoustic world - including mysterious noises without a known origin.
Washington Post
11 months ago
Science

Gene-edited cells move science closer to repairing damaged hearts

Heart attacks are the leading cause of death in the United States, but fixing damaged tissue has been a unique biological challenge.(N/A/iStock)Scientists seeking to combat the nation's number one killer have discovered why experiments using cell transplants to repair damage from a heart attack wind up backfiring and causing life-threatening arrhythmias.
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Harvard Business Review
9 months ago
Business

How Retailers Can Capitalize on the "Refund Effect"

Product returns pose a major challenge for retailers.In 2022, U.S. consumers returned 16.5% of merchandise purchases, costing retailers an estimated $816 billion in lost revenue.Typical strategies to reduce revenue lost to product returns include reducing the likelihood of returns by providing more information about products (e.g., reviews and FAQs) and increasing the financial and transaction costs to consumers who do return products (e.g., shipping costs and limited return windows).
Medium
10 months ago
UX design

Never really over: how design experiments can revive brand identity

Prior to delving into the article, explore BleepBleeps' captivating presence on Behance Brief backstory Hey there!We're Mindset, a design studio obsessed with experiments that lead to a better, clear, emotionally engaging, and more meaningful design.This is a case study (or rather a story) of how we fell in love with a product on Kickstarter, identified the gaps in its brand identity, briefed ourselves to fix it, and created the perfect example of how we enrich tech products with design philosophy and a branding that don't quit.
Dezeen
10 months ago
Design

Lexus Design Award exhibition displays "power of design" at Milan design week

Promotion: Japanese car brand Lexus displayed the four winning works of this year's Lexus Design Award as part of Milan design week 2023, including a jacket that turns fog into drinking water and a humidifier made from recycled ceramic waste.Displayed at Superstudio Più in Milan's Tortona Design District, the Lexus Design Award exhibition marked the first public reveal of the competition's winning designs, which were created in response to the theme named Design for a Better Tomorrow.
www.independent.co.uk
10 months ago
France news

Highlight of training so far was trip to biology labs, says UK astronaut

Rosemary Coogan, the UK's newest astronaut, has spoken about her experience of training to go into space.Ms Coogan, who began training at the European Space Agency's astronaut centre in Cologne, Germany, last month, said that it has brought her a huge amount of enjoyment and one of the highlights of her training was a trip to the biology labs.
www.cnn.com
1 year ago
Health

How scientists are decoding what the past smelled like | CNN

Sign up for CNN's Wonder Theory science newsletter.Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more.Smells hover just below our conscious awareness, conjuring up emotions and memories that shape how we perceive and navigate the world.An unexpected whiff of a long-forgotten snack or a dusty book can transport a person to years past enabling a kind of time travel that makes hazy memories more vivid.
kottke.org
1 year ago
UX design

Kottke.org Is 25 Years Old Today and I'm Going to Write About It

I realize how it sounds, but I'm going to say it anyway because it's the truth.When I first clapped eyes on the World Wide Web, I fell in love.Here's how I described the experience in a 2016 post about Halt and Catch Fire:

When I tell people about the first time I saw the Web, I sheepishly describe it as love at first sight.
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The Paris Review
9 months ago
Books

Making of a Poem: Richie Hofmann on "Armed Cavalier" - The Paris Review

Collaboration between writer and editor is essential to the writing process. The poet Richie Hofmann and his editor at The Paris Review illustrate how a dynamic dialogue between writer and editor can lead to a successful poem.
Revision is an integral part of the creative process. Through multiple drafts and conversations, Hofmann and his editor were able to shape his poem into something they were both proud of.
english.elpais.com
1 year ago
Books

To book or audiobook? That is not the question

Is listening to an audiobook the same as reading it?Am I cheating if I go to my book club having listened to the novel instead of reading it?Daniel Willingham, a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Virginia and author of The Reading Mind: A Cognitive Approach to Understanding How the Mind Reads, says that these are the questions he has to answer most; after conducting many experiments in his lab and writing a book, he is considered an expert on the subject.
www.scientificamerican.com
9 months ago
Science

AI Promises Humanity One Last Job. Helping AI Help Humanity

From dethroning chess masters and game show champions to outperforming radiologists, the dazzlingand at times overwhelmingworld of artificial intelligence raises deep questions about the future of human jobs.In the last century, our capacity to store and process data has soared, with electronics marching from the vacuum tube to the transistor to today's semiconductor chips.
Hubspot
6 months ago
Online marketing

15 Call-to-Action Statistics You Need to Know About to Increase Your Conversion Rate

You're leaving money on the table by not using effective call-to-actions (CTAs) in your marketing campaigns.To help you create irresistible CTAs and move a higher percentage of people down your marketing funnel, we've compiled a list of 15 relevant call-to-action statistics.We scoured the internet for the latest research papers, reports, and case studies.
www.scientificamerican.com
9 months ago
Science

Why Nuclear Fusion Won't Solve the Climate Crisis

In December 2022 scientists at the U.S. National Ignition Facility (NIF) announced a breakthrough in the decades-long effort to create an energy source based on the same nuclear fusion reactions that power the sun.An engineering marvel beyond belief, they proclaimed, as major newspapers quickly followed with breathless coverage.
www.scientificamerican.com
10 months ago
Science

Six Gravitational-Wave Breakthroughs Scientists Can't Wait to See

On May 24, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) will resume its hunt for gravitational wavestiny, periodic variations in the curvature of space and time created by distant, violent cosmic events such as two colliding black holes.Some would call gravitational-wave scientists lucky, based on their field's remarkable series of transformative discoveries occurring in less than a decade's time.
Nieman Lab
10 months ago
Media industry

The New York Times launches "enhanced bylines," with more information about how journalists did the reporting

Starting Thursday, New York Times stories online will no longer include a traditional dateline that tells where a story was reported from.Instead, certain stories will have "enhanced bylines" that tells readers more about how journalists did the reporting.The Times has made changes to its dateline conventions before, eliminating actual dates in 2007.
Portland Mercury
10 months ago
Portland

Look around and see the sunshine

So here's the thing people, one of the flaws in propaganda, mass frauds, or other similar criminal enterprises, is that lies, mistruths and factually untrue statements can usually be tracked backed to their sourcing or atleast their maintainence.Think about it, it's getting harder and harder to maintain untruths in the age of the internet, sure there are things like flatearthers that highlight how social influence can override reasonable thought, but at the same time there are some great videos and documentations of former flatearthers documented the experiments they used to personally confirm to them that the earth is round.
Design Milk
9 months ago
Design

Code/Craft/Chaos: The Space Between Man + Machine in Art

As the space between man and machine continues to grow smaller, design agency Here went to work exploring the rapidly evolving gap between craft and technology.The big question: Can technology help us make beautiful art?The fear is of course that it will lead to lifeless work that lacks both depth and meaning.
time.com
9 months ago
Wellness

Can Taurine Slow Aging? Here's What the Latest Science Says

Anti-aging supplements become popular based more on hype than hard evidencebut researchers are starting to investigate some of the more promising ones to add some scientific rigor to the claims.The latest is the amino acid taurine: a familiar ingredient in energy drinks and one that scientists have been studying for decades, albeit for reasons other than aging.
www.scientificamerican.com
9 months ago
Science

The Weirdest Particles in the Universe

They're small, nearly imperceptible, and there are 500 trillion of them passing through you right now.Neutrinos are among nature's most plentiful yet mysterious creations.Science writer James Riordon recently set out to list what was known versus unknown about neutrinos, and he found the second column was longer.
Ars Technica
10 months ago
OMG science

Life on Earth might have gotten a boost from the Sun's mega-tantrums

How, exactly, living things emerged on Earth remains a mystery.Now a new experiment has revealed that blasts of solar particles could have kickstarted the process by creating some of the basic components of life.Time in the sun
Before so much as the first microbe existed, there had to be amino acids thought to have formed in one of the primordial oozes of early Earth.
Washington Post
10 months ago
Science

How mosquitoes use your body chemistry to pick you for their next meal

A female Anopheles gambiae mosquito, one of the species that carries malaria.(Andrew Hammond)To unravel the age-old question of why mosquitoes eat some people alive but spare others, scientists built a large, open-air arena in Zambia and piped in the smells of a half-dozen humans slumbering in nearby tents.
Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
11 months ago
Design

Absolutely stunning sunglasses created using Stratasys' cutting-edge 3D printing technology are sadly not for sale - Yanko Design

Constraints form a major part of a designer's process.Whether it's constraints based on materials, manufacturing capabilities, technology, or even just budget constraints, designers work well within those boundaries to create the best solutions possible... but what if there were absolutely no constraints?
KQED
9 months ago
Music production

Janelle Monae Wants You ... to Enter the 'Pleasure' Zone | KQED

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On her new album, 'The Age of Pleasure,' Janelle Monáe concocts a vision of sensuality that is open to complication but goes down easy.(Mason Rose/Courtesy of the artist)



In the already uncomfortably hot summer of 2023, talk of pleasure can hit like a forbidden tonic, providing relief from a steady diet of grief, outrage and anxiety.
Python
9 months ago
Python

Python in Visual Studio Code - June 2023 Release - Python

Courtney Webster
We're excited to announce that the June 2023 release of the Python and Jupyter extensions for Visual Studio Code are now available!This release includes the following announcements:


Test Discovery and Execution Rewrite
Run Python File in Dedicated Terminal
Preview: Intellisense support for overloaded operators
Configurable indexing limits with Pylance


If you're interested, you can check the full list of improvements in our changelogs for the Python, Jupyter and Pylance extensions.
www.npr.org
9 months ago
Tech industry

One mom takes on YouTube over deadly social media blackout challenge

Annie McGrath and her son Griffin when he was young.Annie McGrath Annie McGrath never had to worry too much about her 13-year-old son Griffin.He had good grades and lots of friends.Griffin played baseball and the drums and had even won a national science competition.Because he was so interested in science and experiments, he spent a lot of time watching YouTube videos.
Faithandfearinflushing
10 months ago
New York Mets

Hijinks Don't Ensue

The Rockies has somehow now been around for 30 years.I was at their first-ever game, which they lost to the Mets at Shea.I watched them beat the Mets behind Dante Bichette in extras at Coors Field's christening.Since then I've seen the Mets play at Coors far too often for my liking.I've seen them pound various Rockies incarnations by scores that feel more suited to football; I've seen them suffer the same indignities.
Medium
1 year ago
UX design

10 cognitive biases that shape our world

1. Building a successful online presence requires a multi-faceted approach that includes optimizing website content, leveraging social media, and developing relationships with influencers.
2. An effective SEO strategy should target high-value keywords that will draw in the right audience and drive organic traffic.
3.
Medium
10 months ago
Data science

Using Azure ML to Train a Serengeti Data Model for Animal Identification

Article on Azure ML by Bethany Jepchumba and Josh Ndemenge of Microsoft In this article, I will cover how you can train a model using Notebooks in Azure Machine Learning Studio.To get the data, you will need to follow the instructions in the article: Create a Data Solution on Azure Synapse Analytics with Snapshot Serengeti - Part 1 - Microsoft Community Hub, where you will load data into Azure Data Lake via Azure Synapse.
AdExchanger
10 months ago
Marketing tech

More DTC Agency Execs And Consultants Are Giving 'Brand Operator' A Try | AdExchanger

Hey, readers!This is James Hercher, AdExchanger's senior editor and your escort into the world of commerce media.This week, we examine an interesting DTC marketing trend whereby online brand building and ecommerce advertising experts are testing their mettle by launching and operating brands of their own.
www.independent.co.uk
9 months ago
UK news

Octopuses beat the cold by editing genetic material in less than a day' study

Octopuses are able to survive cold temperatures by editing their genetic material in less than a day, scientists have found.Researchers have discovered that the creatures are able to make changes to their RNA a complex molecule essential for life within hours of being exposed to cold water.Previous studies have shown that squid and octopuses can edit their genes but this is the first time scientists have established how rapidly these changes can occur.
www.independent.co.uk
10 months ago
UK news

Researchers solve mystery of why champagne bubbles rise in straight line

Whether you call it a glass of bubbly, bubbles or fizz, champagne is worthy of a toast, and now researchers have discovered why its bubbles rise in the way they do.Unlike other fizzy drinks like beer or soda, bubbles in champagne go up in a straight line.The study suggests the stable bubble chains in champagne and other sparkling wines occur due to ingredients that act as soap-like compounds called surfactants.
www.independent.co.uk
11 months ago
UK news

Far-right extremist who blew up own kitchen found guilty of terrorism charges

A gun-making far-right extremist who said minorities should be shot and accidentally blew up his kitchen while experimenting with explosives has been convicted of terrorism offences.Bungling Vaughn Dolphin filmed himself in a gas mask surrounded by a choking cloud of smoke, after attempting to blend a blast mixture in a saucepan, on a domestic hob.
Dezeen
9 months ago
Design

Christian + Jade explores the Weight of Wood at 3 Days of Design

Danish design studio Christian + Jade has created an exhibition in collaboration with wood flooring manufacturer Dinesen that explores the density of wood and its significance and history as a commodity.The Weight of Wood exhibition, which takes place at the Dinesen showroom as part of Copenhagen festival 3 Days of Design, was the result of a year-long research project commissioned by the brand's recently founded Dinesen Lab.
Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
10 months ago
Design

Top 5 Midjourney Artists using Artificial Intelligence to push the boundaries of creativity - Yanko Design

I increasingly find it harder and harder to imagine a world without AI creation tools.In a matter of just a few months these tools have gone justifiably mainstream, and no matter where you look, there's really no escaping them.Don't get me wrong though, I don't mean to paint these tools in a bad light, because we've seen them be capable of creating some stunning pieces of work, whether images, text, podcasts, or even music (if you haven't heard the AI Drake and The Weeknd collab, go do it right now)!
Dezeen
11 months ago
Design

Ten standout projects and installations at this year's Milan design week

Following this year's Milan design week, Dezeen has highlighted ten standout exhibitions, installations and shows at the Milanese festival, ranging from textiles made from brick to a denim-clad jet plane.Milan design week is the biggest annual design event in the world and encompasses a number of exhibitions, shows and installations across the city of Milan, as well as hosting Salone del Mobile - the world's largest and most important furniture fair.
time.com
9 months ago
Wellness

Why the Diabetes Drug Mounjaro Works So Well for Weight Loss

The latest buzzy diabetes drug semaglutidebetter known by brand names Ozempic, Wegovy, and Rybelsusis drawing attention for its ability to both control blood sugar and cause weight loss.But doctors and patients are anticipating that the most powerful of these drugs is yet to come, since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is considering approving Eli Lilly's drug tirzepatide (brand name: Mounjaro) for weight loss later this year.
www.nytimes.com
10 months ago
Wellness

The Best and Worst Habits for Eyesight

If you were ever scolded as a child for reading in the dark, or if you have used blue-light-blocking glasses when working on a computer, you might have incorrect ideas about eye health.About four in 10 adults in the United States are at high risk for vision loss, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
www.nytimes.com
10 months ago
Wellness

What Happens to My Body When I Eat Spicy Food?

Q: I eat spicy food almost every day.I love the taste and the tingle, but I wonder: How is all that heat affecting my body?Eating spicy food can produce a variety of physiological reactions, like a tingling in the tongue and lips, as well as sweating, said David Julius, a physiologist at the University of California, San Francisco.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
Wellness

Our Second Date Was Statistically Abnormal

Years later, I still told the undergraduate students in my research methods class the story of my first date with Corey to help them remember the concept of regression to the mean how something that is extreme on a first measurement will become less extreme, or regress to the mean, on a second measurement.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
Wellness

Our Second Date Was Statistically Abnormal

Years later, I still told the undergraduate students in my research methods class the story of my first date with Corey to help them remember the concept of regression to the mean how something that is extreme on a first measurement will become less extreme, or regress to the mean, on a second measurement.
Medium
9 months ago
Data science

How Open Source Developers Can Push the Universe's Frontier

Editor's note: Dr.-Ing.Thomas Albin is a speaker for ODSC Europe this June 14th-15th.Be sure to check out his talk, "Space Science with Python - Enabling Citizen Scientists," there!2009, a paper by Postberg et al. was published in Nature.The title: Sodium Salts in E-Ring Ice Grains from an Ocean Below the Surface of Enceladus.
Medium
10 months ago
Data science

Unlock the Power of Media Mix Modeling for Effective Advertising

Editor's note: Hajime Takeda is a speaker for ODSC East this May 9th-11th.Be sure to check out his talk, "Media Mix Modeling: How to Measure the Effectiveness of Advertising in Python," there!Advertising is a crucial aspect of marketing strategies, and businesses often grapple with determining the effectiveness of their marketing channels.
Medium
11 months ago
Data science

Botnet Detection at Scale-Lessons Learned From Clustering Billions of Web Attacks Into Botnets

Editor's note: Ori Nakar is a speaker for ODSC Europe this June.Be sure to check out his talk, "Botnet detection at scale - Lesson learned from clustering billions of web attacks into botnets," there!A common problem in the cybersecurity industry is how to detect and track botnets from billions of daily attacks and millions of daily attacking IPs.
VentureBeat
11 months ago
Data science

Got It AI's ELMAR challenges GPT-4 and LLaMa, scores well on hallucination benchmarks

Conversational AI startup Got It AI has released its latest innovation ELMAR (Enterprise Language Model Architecture), an enterprise-ready large language model (LLM) that can be integrated with any knowledge base for dialog-based chatbot Q&A applications.The company claims that ELMAR is notably smaller than GPT-3 and can run on-premise, making it a cost-effective solution for enterprise customers.
Medium
9 months ago
UX design

It takes a village to do human-centred design

1. Human-Centred Design requires collaboration and cooperation from multiple stakeholders.
2. It is important to take into account the user’s needs and wants when designing products and services.
3. Involving users in the design process is essential for successful Human-Centred Design projects.
Creative Bloq
10 months ago
Graphic design

The freakiest AI art of 2023 (so far)

Ah, AI art.The technology has developed so phenomenally fast that it feels it can't possibly be only around 12 months since we started talking about the latest generation of text-to-image generators.No doubt, in another year things will have advanced even further, ironing out some of those strange artefacts that appear in AI art.
www.cnn.com
10 months ago
US politics

Grab your popcorn and watch': Arizona's messy Senate race begins to take shape

The most unpredictable Senate race on the 2024 map is unfolding in Arizona, where a high-profile Democrat is targeting Democratic-turned-independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema and Republicans are hoping to seize on those tensions in a state trending away from them.It's grab your popcorn and watch, said GOP state Rep. Justin Wilmeth, who described the race as the Wild, Wild West.
www.fastcompany.com
10 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Companies adopting AI need to move slowly and not break things

AI is not a computational condiment: You can't just spread it on an existing product or process and expect improvements, as if you'd asked ChatGPT to summarize some notes.As the surge of interest in artificial intelligence applications continues unabated since last fall's launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT, one can trace it spreading from the tech industry itself to every corner of corporate America.
www.thelocal.de
11 months ago
Germany news

Germany's oldest convicted former Nazi camp guard dies aged 102

Lars Kraume's Measures of Men tells the story of a German ethnologist who travels to what was German South West Africa in the early 1900s to study the country's indigenous peoples and harvest their skulls.The film was released in German cinemas on March 23th and has also been the subject of special screenings, including in schools and the Bundestag lower house of parliament.
time.com
1 year ago
Coronavirus

Getting COVID-19 Could Weaken Your Immune System

Even relatively easy bouts with COVID-19 can still take a toll on the immune system, according to a paper published Mar. 15 in the journal Immunityparticularly on T-cells, which provide long term and durable protection against viruses.Mark Davis, a professor of immunology at Stanford University and director of the Stanford Institute for Immunity, Transplantation, and Infection, and his team made the discovery when studying T cell responses to SARS-CoV-2 among 72 people through the early months of 2021, as the first COVID-19 vaccines were becoming available.
Deep House London
9 months ago
London music

Oceanvs Orientalis talks life, learning and his live setup ahead of MOGA Caparica | Interviews | Deep House London

MOGA Caparica returns to Portugal this May 31 - June 4th and is sure to make a stunning impression in its third year.Located just 20 minutes south of Lisbon, it offers a sun kissed and escapist mix of sunset beach parties with yoga, surfing, brunches and boat parties.Music comes from top talents like Bradley Zero, Chaim b2b Jenia Parsol, Danilo Plessow (MCDE), Shanti Celeste, Gerd Janson, Heidi Lawden & Lovefingers, Hunee, Jimi Jules, Kerri Chandler, Sadar Bahar, Slim Peace & Blossom and more will all be joined by a host of local talents.
Washingtonian - The website that Washington lives by.
9 months ago
Washington DC

This Poem Is Traveling to One of Jupiter's Moons on a NASA Spacecraft - Washingtonian

When NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft embarks on its six-year, 1.8 billion mile journey toward one of Jupiter's icy moons in October 2024, it won't only search for conditions suitable for life-it'll also grace the cosmos with the verse of US Poet Laureate Ada Limón.Etched onto the spacecraft will be Limón's latest poem, "In Praise of Mystery," written specifically for the ambitious mission and unveiled at the Library of Congress last night.
www.npr.org
10 months ago
Health

A 'natural death' may be preferable for many than enduring CPR

SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images/Science Photo Libra "Nurse refuses to perform CPR," read the caption on an ABC newscast in California."911 dispatcher's pleas ignored."Several days earlier, an elderly woman at a senior living facility had gone into cardiac arrest.The dispatcher instructed an employee to perform CPR, or cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
www.cnn.com
10 months ago
Health

The NIH is enrolling volunteers in an early-stage trial for an mRNA-based universal flu vaccine

The National Institutes of Health is now enrolling participants to test an experimental universal influenza vaccine using mRNA technology.The NIH is looking for 50 volunteers ages 18 to 49 for the Phase 1 trial at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.A universal influenza vaccine would be a major public health achievement and could eliminate the need for both annual development of seasonal influenza vaccines, as well as the need for patients to get a flu shot each year, said Acting NIAID Director Dr. Hugh Auchincloss in a news release.
Inverse
1 year ago
Health

This Artificial Sweetener Has a Surprising Effect on the Immune System

Artificial sweeteners get a bad reputation.To be fair, natural sweeteners do, too.But in the past few decades, researchers have put tremendous effort into studying the health effects, particularly the detrimental ones, of these sugar substitutes.This week, scientists report a surprising twist: One of the most popular and commonly used artificial sweeteners, sucralose, may benefit our immune systems.
www.nytimes.com
10 months ago
Education

Opinion | The Most Common Graduation Advice Tends to Backfire

As American high school and college students graduate and embark on the next phases of their lives, one piece of advice they will undoubtedly receive is to follow your passions or some equivalent sentiment.It seems like fine guidance, however cliched: Do something that feels true to yourself, rather than conforming to expectations.
Ars Technica
10 months ago
Coffee

The chemistry of fermented coffee

Hardcore coffee aficionados are always on the lookout for the next big twist on the world's favorite caffeinated beverage, and these days it's fermented coffee that is turning heads and tickling taste buds with its distinctive fruity notes.Scientists in Switzerland conducted experiments with fermented coffee in hopes of identifying the specific chemical compounds behind the beverage's unusual flavor profile.
Mission Local
10 months ago
Mission District

Stuff to do: Free concerts, comedy, and a shadow puppet workshop

Just in time for the weekend, here is your weekly grab bag of neighborhood goings-on - featuring art exhibits, political panels, and oodles of workshops and fun activities for kids.The first of these events starts in a few hours, so waste no time diving in:
Friday, May 19
Democracy and storytime at Manny's
From 5-7:30 p.m., Manny's cafe at 16th and Valencia is hosting Sochua Mu, a Cambodian women's rights activist and politician living in exile in the United States.
Mission Local
1 year ago
Mission District

Middle school science fair returns to Buena Vista Horace Mann

Does the five second rule actually work?What kind of paper airplane flies best?Does your heart rate change when you're watching a horror movie?Does Diet Coke explode crazier than Coke?Our city's future thought leaders put these questions and more to the test Thursday, March 16, at Buena Vista Horace Mann's science fair, where around 100 sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders proudly presented tri-fold poster boards bearing their experiments.
www.nytimes.com
10 months ago
World politics

When Leaders With Authoritarian Streaks Like Elections

Two important elections happened this week.In Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan failed to win an outright victory so he now faces a runoff election that could be the most significant political challenge of his career.And in Thailand, ruled by military leaders who took power in a 2014 coup, voters overwhelmingly backed opposition parties, delivering a stinging rebuke to the military establishment.
www.nytimes.com
10 months ago
US politics

NASA Picks Blue Origin-Led Group to Build Moon Lander for Artemis V Mission

On the second try, Jeff Bezos and his rocket company have won a contract to take NASA astronauts to the surface of the moon.NASA announced on Friday that it had awarded a contract to Mr. Bezos' company, Blue Origin, to provide a lunar lander for a moon mission that is currently scheduled to launch in 2029.
Poynter
10 months ago
Coronavirus

A European study on possible COVID-19 brain effects looked at the virus, not vaccines - Poynter

A TikTok video shared a since-deleted tweet claiming that "a European study has found COVID-19 vaccines could be causing 'long-term brain damage.'"But the study examined the possible effects on the brain of COVID-19 infection - not effects of COVID-19 vaccines.The video included a screenshot of a tweet from Leading Report, which describes itself as a source for breaking news.
www.nytimes.com
10 months ago
New York City

These Spiders Look Frightening, but They May Be Scaredy-Cats

Joro spiders are the size of your palm.They weave webs up to three feet across, and for the past decade, the East Asian arachnids have been spreading throughout the southeastern United States.If you're an arachnophobe, they're the stuff of your nightmares, said Andy Davis, a biologist at the University of Georgia who studies them.
www.nytimes.com
10 months ago
New York City

New York's Most Inventive Pizzas Are Cooked Upat Pop-Ups

I was sitting next to a forklift inside a brewery in Queens when I understood that everything I knew about New York pizza was wrong.Until that moment, I would have told you that the best pizza in the city comes out of a large oven that is either built into a wall or weighs so much that it might as well be; that the dough needs to be soft, stretchy and raw when it begins to bake; and that the toppings should be somewhat Italian, if not in tradition then at least in spirit.
Digiday
10 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Google attempts to flaunt AI capabilities with new search function

* By Ronan Shields



"Generative AI" is already the key talking point of the marketing industry this year with Microsoft's $10 billion investment in ChatGPT-maker OpenAI widely considered a game-changing development.It is within this context that Google, the online marketing industry's dominant power, showcased its experiments in Search Labs at its developer conference Google I/O earlier this week.
Engadget
10 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Vice President Harris tells tech CEOs they have a moral responsibility to safeguard AI | Engadget

The Biden administration may be funding AI research, but it's also hoping to keep companies accountable for their behavior.Vice President Kamala Harris has met the CEOs of Alphabet (Google's parent), Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic in a bid to get more safeguards for AI.Private firms have an "ethical, moral and legal responsibility" to make their AI products safe and secure, Harris says in a statement.
www.fastcompany.com
1 year ago
Artificial intelligence

Ikea's generative AI furniture designs are trippy, retro, and inspiring

Artificial intelligence has shown itself to be really good at writing essays, generating artwork, and even composing music.But are algorithms capable of designing a new Ikea chair?That's a question the Ikea-funded Swedish design agency Space10 has been exploring on behalf of the furniture giant.Space10 recently began a series of experiments on creativity in the Age of AI, which included training AI models on photos taken from decades-old Ikea catalogs.
www.fastcompany.com
1 year ago
Artificial intelligence

Canva's new generative AI tools are now the ones to beat

Party invitations.Social media posts.Sales decks.T-shirts.Canva has won over 125 million people with an intuitive user interface that makes it easy to design just about anything within a single appthanks largely to CEO Melanie Perkins's decade-long obsession to make her platform operate as efficiently as possible.
Ars Technica
1 year ago
Artificial intelligence

AI imager Midjourney v5 stuns with photorealistic images-and 5-fingered hands

On Wednesday, Midjourney announced version 5 of its commercial AI image synthesis service, which can produce photorealistic images at a quality level that some AI art fans are calling creepy and " too perfect."Midjourney v5 is available now as an alpha test for customers who subscribe to the Midjourney service, which is available through Discord.
Washington Post
10 months ago
DC food

Perspective | 'Afrofuturism' navigates past, present and future of Black experience

Visitors explore the exhibition "Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures" at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.(Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post)"Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures," a showcase of artifacts at the National Museum of African American History and Culture gathered from the worlds of art, music, film, literature and history, takes visitors on an immersive trip - one that navigates and reimagines the past, present and future of the Black experience and the history of Black liberation.
www.fastcompany.com
10 months ago
Graphic design

Nintendo experimented its way to a brilliant logo

The Nintendo logo is a mark fueled by nostalgia, regardless of whether you were around for the launch of the brand's first landmark console in the 1980s or grew up wielding Wiimotes in the aughts.It has survived intact in an industry known for amorphous identitiesand that's perhaps part of the brand's magic.
Creative Bloq
10 months ago
Graphic design

AI imagines the weirdest brand collabs yet

Brand collabs have been an inescapable trend in marketing in recent years, and some of them have been totally unexpected.For every match made in heaven, we've also seen a random mashup designed, apparently, with the only intention of shifting a few limited-edition items.Now one creative agency has let its imagination run wild to see what other bizarre collabs between big-name brands could look like.
Speckyboy Design Magazine
1 year ago
Graphic design

5 Common Tasks That ChatGPT Can Perform for Web Developers

Every web developer has tasks they'd rather avoid.Or ones that simply take up too much time.Quite often, they're little things that get in the way of more important work.You could hire someone to help with these tasks.But that can be cost-prohibitive - not to mention inefficient.And there's also the challenge of finding someone who is reliable.
Washington Post
10 months ago
Europe news

Hungary's Orban bemoans liberal 'virus' at CPAC conference

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban delivers the keynote speech at the opening session of Hungary Conservative Political Action Conference Hungary in Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, May 4, 2023.The two-day CPAC meeting organized by Center for Fundamental Rights of Hungary features some 60 prestigious foreign speakers from 20 countries and five continents.
www.thelocal.se
11 months ago
Europe news

Today in Sweden: A roundup of the latest news on Thursday

Danish PM celebrates Sweden's shift to tough migration stance Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Tuesday welcomed Sweden's moves to follow Denmark's example and bring in a much stricter immigration policy, as Sweden's prime minister Ulf Kristersson visited her in Copenhagen.Sweden and Denmark have got close to one another when it comes to migration policy and that is something we should take advantage of as much as possible, she said at a joint press conference at Marienborg, a castle north of Copenhagen.
www.theguardian.com
10 months ago
France news

Solved at last: the mystery of why champagne bubbles go straight up

From the pop of its cork to its delicate golden hue, champagne has many features that make it a celebratory tipple but none are as recognisable as its fine fizz.Now researchers have shed new light on the quintessential sparkle, revealing why champagne bubbles rise in a straight line, unlike those of many other drinks.
Food & Beverage Magazine
10 months ago
Food & drink

Buffalo Trace Distillery Announces Peated Bourbon As Its Latest Experimental Collection Bottling

Buffalo Trace Distillery is thrilled to release Buffalo Trace Experimental Peated Bourbon, an innovative Kentucky straight bourbon made with smoked peated malt, as the latest innovation from their ongoing Experimental Collection.As the world's most award-winning distillery, Buffalo Trace Distillery is deeply committed to honoring traditional production techniques while embracing change and pushing the limits of innovation in American whiskey.
www.nytimes.com
10 months ago
Girls

Opinion | E. Jean Carroll v. Donald Trump

Image E. Jean Carroll says Donald J. Trump raped her in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman, a luxury department store, in the mid-1990s.Credit...Anna Watts for The New York Times To the Editor: Re In Vivid Detail, Trump Accuser Tells Her Story (front page, April 27): Clear evidence suggests that Donald Trump sexually assaulted E. Jean Carroll.
Medium
10 months ago
UX design

How fonts die, layoff lessons, atomic design in motion, working with AI

Weekly curated resources for designers - thinkers and makers."When the layoffs caught up with me, I was relieved.I had been secretly hoping I would be next because I felt stuck after having worked on the same products for 12 years (6 years on user documentation and another 6 years on UX writing).
IndieWire
11 months ago
Independent films

Christopher Nolan Unveils Explosive 'Oppenheimer' Trailer at CinemaCon

Nolan teased the trailer will debut in theaters ahead of "Guardians of the Galaxy" showings in two weeks." Oppenheimer " is here, and while the world might not be forever changed, the trailer will certainly be an event.Universal Pictures unveiled the full trailer of Christopher Nolan's upcoming biographical feature about J. Robert Oppenheimer to CinemaCon 2023 attendees Wednesday night to rapturous applause from the audience.
Streetsblog San Francisco
1 year ago
San Francisco

Call to Action: Help Build a Better Valencia Street

Only 13 percent of people supported abandoning the Dutch-style plan (a pilot of which is seen below) in favor of center-running in last year's SFMTA outreach.Decades of Dutch and Danish planning experience shows center-running doesn't work.But the city forges ahead despite public opinion and international best practices.
www.theguardian.com
1 year ago
Exercise

The healthspan revolution: how to live a long, strong and happy life

Twenty years ago, Peter Attia was working as a trainee surgeon at Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore, where he saved countless people facing what he calls fast death.I trained in a very, very violent city, he tells me.We were probably averaging 15 or 16 people a day getting shot or stabbed.And, you know, that's when surgeons can save your life.
IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law
1 year ago
Intellectual property law

The 'Truth Leaks Out': Justices Struggle with the Science, Sanofi Welcomes End to Functional Genus Claims in Amgen Oral Arguments

"What human health innovation policy does not need is a brilliant but scientifically uninformed Supreme Court advocate, Paul Clement, guessing that genus claims 'retard the science.'How would he know?" - Judge Paul Michel
The U.S. Supreme Court heard three separate arguments today in Amgen v. Sanofi, a case that even Sanofi's counsel agreed could effectively wipe out patents involving genus claims if the Court sides with Sanofi, or-as counsel for Sanofi and the Solicitor General's Office suggested the Court could do-if it were to dismiss the case as improvidently granted (DIG).
TechCrunch
1 year ago
Tech industry

Twitter Blue relaunched has made just $11M on mobile in its first 3 months

Legacy Twitter checkmarks are disappearing on April 1st, Twitter says, and in the future, the only way users will be able to get the coveted blue badge is by paying for a Twitter Blue subscription.That points to a big question for Twitter and owner Elon Musk: will that nail finally drive more take-up of the social network's premium tier?
Inverse
1 year ago
Science

New Study Proposes Why an Interstellar Object Suddenly Accelerated - And It's Not Aliens

A pair of scientists may have figured out interstellar asteroid 'Oumuamua's secret - and it's not an alien spaceship after all.When the first known interstellar object passed through our Solar System in 2017, it got a lot of attention.Astronomers noticed that it was accelerating away from the Sun in a way that shouldn't have been possible, leading to wild speculation from some big names who suggested it might even be part of an alien spacecraft.
Editor In Leaf
1 year ago
Toronto Maple Leafs

Toronto Maple Leafs: Sheldon Keefe's Comments Out of Line

The Toronto Maple Leafs coach has recently made some lineup decisions that are less than ideal.For example, Toronto Maple Leafs coach Sheldon Keefe healthy scratched Timothy Liljegren, arguably the team's best statistical defenseman over the past two years, when the team acquired several new defenders at the trade deadline.
www.theguardian.com
1 year ago
Mental health

Gut feelings: why drugs that nurture your microbes could be the future of mental health

In a classic comic strip, most recently gracing the Beano, tiny characters called numskulls live in the head of a chap called Edd, controlling what he gets up to often with hilarious results.It has run for decades, presumably because the idea that there could be critters within us capable of exerting a profound mental and physical influence seems pretty absurd.
Inverse
1 year ago
Science

Earth's Early Oxygen May Have Come From Rocks

One broken piece of quartz in a physics lab could shed light on the history of life on Earth and the search for other habitable worlds.Between two and four billion years ago, water and freshly-broken rock could have kept early Earth supplied with small amounts of oxygen - just enough to steer early life to evolve the tools to thrive in a more oxygen-rich environment.
Silver Screen and Roll
1 year ago
LA Lakers

Dennis Schroder gives another health update on LeBron James: 'German doctors are great'

LeBron James may not be close to returning from the foot tendon injury he suffered nearly three weeks ago, but that hasn't left his Lakers teammate Dennis Schröder completely without optimism about his prognosis.The Lakers point guard and LeBron medical update enthusiast spoke with reporters at the team's Friday shootaround, and while he couldn't say what he knew about James' status... he also basically said what he knew about James' status:

Dennis Schroder on LeBron: "I know.
Riggo's Rag
1 year ago
Washington Redskins

4 experiments the Washington Commanders could cut short in 2023

Which recent experiments could the Washington Commanders cut short during the upcoming 2023 campaign?The stakes could not be any higher for the Washington Commanders in 2023.There is a real sense of change emerging from the franchise given Dan Snyder's current predicament, so it's vital those in power leave no doubt that they are the right men to lead this organization into a new era.
Theregister
1 year ago
Science

Firefly to deliver Lunar Pathfinder to the Moon

Firefly Aerospace has won a second NASA contract to take hardware to the Moon - including the hotly anticipated Lunar Pathfinder satellite that will serve as a communication relay between future Lunarians and Earthlings.The award, worth just under $112 million, will see Firefly deliver the Lunar Pathfinder into the Moon's orbit, as well as dropping a couple of experiments off on the far side of the Moon, when it launches in 2026.
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