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14.01.2024
- Ancient Insurrections—and Ours
- Would-be tyrants keep trying until they succeed.
- After all of This Time Searching for Aliens, is it The Zoo Hypothesis or Nothing?
- Either extraterrestrial civilizations (ETCs) are incredibly rare (or non-existent), or they are deliberately avoiding contact with us (aka. the “Zoo Hypothesis“).
- Yotam Ottolenghi’s winter soups
- Warm up with a hearty potato, cheese and cabbage soup, a mushroom and sausage meatball number or a rich, hot Mexican tortilla soup
- The Economics of Time Travel
- In this article, I argue an alternative explanation is that we are not economically important enough to our descendants to justify the costs of time travel.
- Huge network of ancient cities uncovered in the Amazon rainforest
- Archaeologists working deep in the Amazon rainforest have discovered an extensive network of cities dating back 2,500 years.
- The Dangerous Side Of Marina Abramovic’s Performance Art: Rhythm 0
- “Rhythm 0” was a groundbreaking piece of art by legendary performance artist, Marina Abramovic. She demonstrated what can happen when you give up your own free will to the whims of a crowd. The result nearly killed her.
- No money for meat, so we eat rats: The Indian snake catcher
- A snake catcher earns a steady income for only half the year, but his small abode always has room for one more.
- What We Lost When Twitter Became X
- As a former Twitter employee, I watched Elon Musk undermine one of the Internet’s most paradoxical, special places.
- Hoe het klimaat op aarde verder ontspoorde in 2023
- vijf opvallende vaststellingen over een uitzonderlijk weerjaar
7.01.2024
- The Letterboxd 2023 Year in Review
- A comprehensive summary of the highest-rated and most popular films of 2023, according to the Letterboxd community.
- Four Years Later, Two Million Infections A Day
- Disastrous covid failure
- Opinion: In 2024, why are we still playing make-believe about COVID?
- Thanks to the newly dominant strain JN.1, about 2 million Americans are getting infected each day.
- Thirteen Discoveries Made About Human Evolution in 2023
- Smithsonian paleoanthropologists reveal some of the year’s most fascinating findings about human origins
- How Big is YouTube?
- Our current estimate for the size of YouTube is 13.325 billion videos – we are now updating this number every few weeks at tubestats.org.
- Opinion | The End of Snow
- The phrase “wintry mix” fills me with despair. But even so, the lack of cold and ice in 2023 felt unsettling.
- How Oulu became the winter cycling capital of the world
- Through a series of simple changes, the city of Oulu encourages its residents to cycle through the snowy winter. What can other cities learn from the pioneer of winter cycling?
- Japanese vs European Swords: How and why are they different?
- ...or similar.
- Humpback Whales: A Detective Story on Vimeo
- RIP: Software design pioneer Niklaus Wirth
- Evangelist of lean software and devisor of 9 programming languages and an OS was 89
- Firm develops jet fuel made entirely from human poo
- Scientists have found a way to make jet fuel from human sewage and cut carbon emissions.
- X Kicked Off 2024 by Screwing Up During Japan's Earthquake Emergency
- As misinformation proliferated on X thanks to verified users, a massive account sharing accurate information hit its Musk-imposed posting limit.
- Less beef, more leftovers: 21 food sustainability resolutions for 2024
- From beginner tips to pro maneuvers, and solo moves to community undertakings, these changes will help you cut down on food waste this year
- The Most Important New Year’s Resolution for Climate
- Changing your personal habits won’t change the world, but there are other benefits to doing so.
31.12.2023
- 52 things I learned in 2023 - Kent Hendricks
- Human ancestors nearly went extinct 900,000 years ago
- A new technique analysing modern genetic data suggests that pre-humans survived in a group of only 1,280 individuals.
- 20 Things That Happened for the First Time in 2023
- A series of surprising and serious events and trends that were unprecedented until now.
- TimeGuessr
- Guess the right time and location of a historical photo.
24.12.2023
- Steden zijn niet toegankelijk voor vrouwen. Zo kan het anders
- Soms met grootschalige herstructurering, soms met relatief simpele ingrepen in de openbare ruimte.
- How extreme heat is changing tourism
- Climate change could forever alter how people travel.
- Warm Places May Have Loud Languages and Cold Places May Be Quieter
- Places that are usually hot or cold developed languages differently.
- A Holiday’s Worth of Video Essays
- This month, a range of video essays about tech-related subjects and history.
- What's a life hack that's so simple yet so effective, you're shocked more people don't know about it? : r/AskReddit
- Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew Up on Real
- Today’s Silicon Valley billionaires grew up reading classic American science fiction. Now they’re trying to make it come true, embodying a dangerous political outlook
- 66 Good News Stories You Didn't Hear About in 2023
- A lot of things went right this year. Almost none of them made the news.
- GOP's 2025 Plan: Attack Birth Control, Surveil Women and Ban Abortion
- Republicans’ Project 2025 plan would leverage virtually every arm, tool and agency of the federal government to attack abortion.
- Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content
- Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie’s plan to ‘strip bad ideas of their power’ is to profit from disseminating them as widely as possible.
- Suno AI
- We are building a future where anyone can make great music. No instrument needed, just imagination. From your mind to music.
- We raise 18 billion animals a year to die — and then we don’t even eat them
- From farm to plate, one in four animals raised on factory farms are wasted.
- COP Out: Wrapping Up a Useless Climate Summit That Should Fool Nobody
- What We Do in the Shadows’ Sixth Season Will Be Its Last
- The sun is coming up on television’s darkest, weirdest comedy.
- I miss the internet.
- A love letter to webmasters and geocities
- Comfyui Web - Free AI Image Generator
17.12.2023
- Elon Musk's Big Lie About Tesla Is Finally Exposed
- More than 2 million of the cars are being recalled — because Tesla’s “self-driving” systems have always been anything but
- A New Encyclopedia Explores Europe's Smelly History
- Odeuropa is an online database of scents from 16th- to early 20th-century Europe culled from historical literature and art
- Why One H&M Skirt Traveled 15,000 Miles After It Was Brought Back to the Store
- Atmos follows the journey of one H&M skirt, while breaking down what happens when we return our unwanted clothes to the brands that sold them.
- Utilization Considered Harmful
- Why It’s Costly Keeping Everyone Busy in Software Organizations
- Why Don't I Understand Pop Music Anymore?
- After analyzing the results of a survey sent to my readers, I have a better sense for how our taste in art evolves as we age.
- The Economics of Christmas Music
- Why aren't musicians churning out new holiday tunes each year?
- Priscilla review – Sofia Coppola paints an absorbing, intimate portrait of Elvis’s wife
- Based on Priscilla Presley’s memoir, the film shows how a naive schoolgirl became trapped behind the gates of Graceland in a bizarrely co-dependent relationship
- I Tried the Taylor Swift Treadmill Workout
- After three-plus hours on the treadmill belting out every song on the Eras tour, I can tell you why Swift’s concert training regimen works
- Paris is saying ‘non’ to a US-style hellscape of supersized cars – and so should the rest of Europe
- From emissions to road deaths, the trend for ever-bigger SUVs is a disaster. We need regulation to turn the car industry back to smaller vehicles
- Substackers Against Nazis
- I’m joining with a number of other Substackers today in asking the leadership of Substack to do something about the white nationalist outlets that use this place
- ‘It’s all gone’: CAR-T therapy forces autoimmune diseases into remission
- Engineered immune cells, most commonly used to treat cancers, show their power against lupus and other immune disorders.
10.12.2023
- Woman Sentenced to Working at a Fast Food Restaurant After Chipotle Assault
- Rosemary Hayne, a 39-year-old woman from Ohio, was sentenced to both jail time and to working in a fast food restaurant after she assaulted a Chipotle employee.
- How to live like a Cynic
- Take inspiration from Diogenes, the philosopher in a barrel, and transform your negativity into a liberating force for good
- Nine Meals from Anarchy
- If there were an interruption in the supply of food, fear would set in immediately.
3.12.2023
- Inside the surprisingly secretive world of crisp flavours
- Why can you buy lasagne flavour snacks in Thailand but not in Italy? Which country can cope with the hottest chilli? And why do Germans like paprika so much?
- There Once Was an Empire
- Over a century ago, Austria-Hungary collapsed and a generation of writers wrote about what it was like to have your whole world melt away.
- Extreme power naps: These penguin parents sleep for four seconds 10,000 times a day
- Antarctica's chinstrap penguins could get the same benefit of longer periods of snoozing by taking microsleeps during nesting season, according to a new study documenting one of the most extreme examples of incremental sleep in the animal world.
- Opinion | A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending.
- There is a clear path to dictatorship in the United States, and it is getting shorter every day. So why is everyone behaving like normal?
- Cop28 president says there is ‘no science’ behind demands for phase-out of fossil fuels
- Exclusive: UAE’s Sultan Al Jaber says phase-out of coal, oil and gas would take world ‘back into caves’
- Deze hoogleraar pleit voor een grens aan rijkdom: ‘Waarom zou iemand meer dan 10 miljoen euro aan vermogen moeten hebben?’
- Bij superrijken voegen nog meer miljoenen niet alleen niets meer toe, ze zijn schadelijk voor de samenleving, stelt politiek filosoof Ingrid Robeyns in haar boek Limitarisme. Voor minder ongelijkheid moet er een ‘rijkdomsmaximum’ komen van 10 miljoen euro. ‘De bovenkant moet naar beneden.’
- COP28 sucks. Pay attention anyway.
- The fossil fuel interests attempting to corrupt the high-stakes summit would love nothing more than for us to look away.
- Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America's Ruling Class, Finally Dies
- Henry Kissinger has died at age 100, his consulting firm said in a statement on Wednesday.
- Oceanograaf David Ho: 'Klimaatstrijd heeft disruptieve actie nodig'
- Aan de vooravond van COP28 hekelt de oceanograaf dat zeker fossiele bedrijven te veel invloed hebben op politici.
- Met een gadget voor op de borst begint de volgende race in AI
- De AI Pin van het met honderden miljoenen gefinancierde Amerikaanse Humane lijkt zo weggelopen uit Star Trek. ‘We gaan meer AI-apparaten zien de komende jaren.’
- Why Bother With uBlock Origin Being Blocked In Chrome?
- Now Is The Best Time To Switch To Firefox
26.11.2023
- California Man's Plot to Avoid Tickets With 'NULL' Vanity Plate Nets Him $12K in Fines
- 280 million e-bikes are slashing oil demand far more than electric vehicles
- E-bikes and scooters displace 4x as much demand for oil as all of the EVs in the world.
- The horrifying toll of Sweden's lax pandemic policy
- A new study shows just how badly Sweden fared in the pandemic.
- A Code Red for Our Democracy
- Trump is running the Hitler speech and playbook. America needs to wake up.
- The Netherlands underestimated the far right – and Geert Wilders’ victory is the result
- Media complacency and outgoing PM Mark Rutte’s decision to campaign on immigration have created a political earthquake, says Cas Mudde of the University of Georgia
- Earth likely passed key 2C warming point on two November days so far
- first two days on record to have a global average surface temperature above 2°C when compared with preindustrial levels
- A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft
- Coding has always felt to me like an endlessly deep and rich domain. Now I find myself wanting to write a eulogy for it.
19.11.2023
- Bij welke politieke partij kunnen de 3.2 miljoen alleenwoners terecht?
- 'Tot 1989 was er een alleenstaandentoeslag om tegemoet te komen aan hogere woonlasten, maar die is door het CDA en de VVD de nek omgedraaid.’
- Why Norway is rethinking its reliance on electric cars
- Electric cars are crucial, but not enough to solve climate change. We can’t let them crowd out car-free transit options.
- Stemadvies van WOMEN Inc.
- Bekijk Het Gendergelijkheid Stemadvies en krijg snel en eenvoudig inzicht in hoeverre partijen aan de slag gaan met gendergelijkheid.
- Verkiezingsprogramma's in Beeld
- De partijprogramma’s door chatgpt samengevat en vervolgens in Dall-e ingevoerd. Die genereerde op basis van de tekst beelden. Brr.
12.11.2023
- Indonesia’s utopian new capital may not be as green as it looks
- Moving the government to Borneo could speed deforestation
- Iceland: experts predict feared volcanic eruption could destroy town near Reykjavik
- People of Grindavík, where eruption could happen within hours, permitted five minutes to collect pets and essentials
- Orcas sink another boat in Europe after a nearly hour-long attack
- For the fourth time in two years, a group of unusually brazen orcas in southwestern Europe have sunk a sailing boat after relentlessly attacking it for almost an hour on Halloween.
- Jezebel and the Question of Women’s Anger
- When the feminist Web site launched, in 2007, it quickly became known for its contentious readership. What have we learned about online outrage since?
- 'Endemic' SARS-CoV-2 and the death of public health
- Information control has replaced infection control, and that does not bode well for the near- and medium-term future of the human species on planet Earth.
- First-Gen Social Media Users Have Nowhere to Go
- The collective erosion of X, Instagram, and Facebook marks a turning point for millennials, who are outgrowing a constant need to be plugged in.
- Antidepressants or Tolkien's character?