What would the world be like if the land masses were spread out the same way as now - only rotated by an angle of 90 degrees? —Socke It would profoundly alter our biosphere in general and public radio
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Published in Monday Note · 4 min read · Sep 2, 2012 -- “Monsieur Voiture, you hopeless [redacted French slur], you still can’t prepare a proper mayonnaise! I’ll show you one last time while standing o
Bring Your Stories and Ideas 4 min read · Aug 14, 2012 -- Medium is a new place on the Internet where people share ideas and stories that are longer than 140 characters and not just for friends. It’s
Neil Armstrong, the first human to set foot on a world outside our planet Earth, passed away today. Let that sink in a little bit. The first human to ever leave Earth and stand on another body. For al
Neil Armstrong steps onto the Moon Nobody born after 1935 has walked on the moon. Nobody since the nineteen thirties . The children of eight decades since have still not made it back there, or reached
By Adam Grossman on June 17, 2015. Today we’re releasing a major new version of Dark Sky with a new design, advanced notification features, crowd-sourced weather reporting, and faster loading. A big goal of this update is not only to make the app significantly better, but also to limit how often you…
Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. makes for powerful courtroom drama. Calling it drama, however, is faint praise. It’s entertaining and thrilling but the effects are shallow and they don’t l
The old tech giant freshens up, but still looks like a follower. Contributed by Stephen Coles on Aug 24th, 2012. Artwork published in 2012 . Today, Microsoft announced a new logo using Segoe . It is t
Illustration by Jon Krause “SPEEK EENGLISH, TACO,” THE GIRL with the giant backpack yelled when Maria asked where to find a bathroom. The backpack giggled as it bounced down the hall. It had been hour
Myths about the Hero Twins , one of whom is shown holding a bow here, are an important part of Navajo identity. In certain circles, there is a violent allergic reaction whenever someone suggests that religion and science are compatible. A particular type of atheist is especially vulnerable to this…
I just returned from a five-day trip in which I worked a lot , doing significant amounts of writing, web development, and especially iOS development. And I did it all on my base-model Retina MacBook P
Terror, Power, and Cruelty An Israeli soldier mans his post in Hebron. / Tali Caspi One morning, when I was about four years old, I proudly announced from the back seat of my family’s car, “Mother, I want you to know that I am the first kid in my whole kindergarten to think inside my head rather…
paul offline It's all anybody asks me. I tell them I'm not using the internet for a year, and they just need to know: "How's it going?" "It's going great," I say. "Yeah?" they say, dubiously. Their ey
Mario Savio, shown here at a victory rally in UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza on Dec. 9, 1964, was the face of the free speech movement. AP In 1964, students at the University of California, Berkeley, form
For Brave , the team at Pixar had to deal with a hero or rather heroine, who is on screen for almost every shot, but who needed wild, yet beautiful hair. The simulation department needed to develop a
Aurich Lawson / Thinkstock In late 2010, Sean Brooks received three e-mails over a span of 30 hours warning that his accounts on LinkedIn, Battle.net, and other popular websites were at risk. He was t
We need to talk about email clients. I’ve been joking for years that I’m going to write an email client and charge $500 for it — an email client that actually meets the needs of developers and profess
If you want an overview of everything new in Panther, the best resource I’ve seen, by far, is Mark Pilgrim’s “What’s new in Panther” — 11 pages, 100 screenshots, and pretty much a point-by-point overv
I’ve spent my whole life thinking about dots, largely in the form of on-screen pixels. I remember first seeing a Pac-Man coin-op arcade game, wondering how it worked, and deducing the basic gist: the
Next post Previous post I keep seeing stacked area charts in my travels around the ’net. Horace Dediu at Asymco , for example, seems particularly fond of them. 1 It’s easy to see why. They have big bl
Last month I tried to think this smaller iPad thing all the way through . Didn’t quite make it all the way through, though, so let’s dig deeper. We’ve got the display. 7.85 inches diagonally, 1024 × 7
Medicine has long resisted the productivity revolutions that transformed other industries. But the new chains aim to change this. Illustration by Harry Campbell It was Saturday night, and I was at the
Eurozone Confidence Drops
Italy’s Prime Minister Mario Monti said yesterday that disagreements within the 17-member Eurozone could lead to a break-up. He says the bloc’s inability to come to an understanding is preventing it from taking appropriate action, and he added there were already “signs of…
This could be one of four things A very elaborate hoax. If it’s a hoax, kudos to whoever made it because it would require the same amount of design and engineering effort that would go into an actual smartphone. Not to mention all of the collaboration that would have been needed between the…
The original iPhone was great on day one. It couldn’t do as much as today’s iPhone, but it performed its feature-set extremely well. There were almost no rough edges or unpolished areas in its hardwar
Ten years ago, Apple introduced the flat-panel iMac G4 , a groundbreaking consumer PC that wowed the computer industry and proved that Apple could not only meet, but exceed design innovations that had given the firm a new breath of life just four years prior. With its innovative form factor,…
Dew goes dark. Courtesy dewgothamcity.com. Read Dana Stevens’ review of The Dark Knight Rises . “You think darkness is your ally,” Bane barks at Batman in The Dark Knight Rises . He means to mock, but
We’ve all read stories about and been enthralled by the idea of App Store millionaires. As the story goes… individual app developers are making money hand over fist in the App Store! And if you can ju
I proceeded like this for a good year or more, still bizarrely unaware that I was painfully embodying the raison d’être of Markdown. I even filed a bug report with Squarespace, because the simple proc
One of the pleasures of a recent piece on semicolons by Ben Dolnick, in the Times (“Semicolons: A Love Story”), was his reference to William James, whose deft use of the semicolon to pile on clauses,
In the space of just over a decade, Christopher Nolan has shot from promising British indie director to undisputed master of a new brand of intelligent escapism. Joseph Bevan anatomises his body of wo
Draft is a series about the art and craft of writing. When I was a teenager, newly fixated on becoming a writer, I came across a piece of advice from Kurt Vonnegut that affected me like an ice cube do
The mobile landscape today is all but monopolized by WebKit, as a result, most of the tooling and infrastructure to support mobile web development on the frontend is taking place in the WebKit Inspector, so I’ll focus on it, and take a deep dive into its entire feature-set and how and when to use…
In 1996 I received what was - and probably remains - the most exciting telephone call I have ever had. It was from a man calling himself Tony. "I'm phoning on behalf of Stanley Kubrick ," he said. "I'
I recently bought with my own money a Google Nexus 7 and have so far spent a week with it. I'm trying my very hardest to be objective and ignore all my previous experiences with Android (which go back to the original Nexus phone). Before I received the Nexus 7, I had expected to like the hardware…
boliston/flickr There are two things you need to know right off the bat: Yesterday I ate a huge burrito for lunch, and my family is not very close. We're not un close, I guess. It's just that we have
You and I probably don’t see eye to eye on everything. You may not agree with my taste in music, or my politics, or my positions on the Oxford comma and tucking in of collared shirts (pro, and only when worn with a tie). But regardless of your race, creed, religion, or stance on the iPad, my guess…
To the saccharine rhythm of a Muzak clip, Steve Ballmer crouched into a tackling stance and dashed across a ballroom stage at the Venetian Las Vegas. A 20-foot wall of video screens flashed his name a
Amir D. Aczel ( amirdaczel.com ) writes about mathematics and physics and has published 18 books, numerous newspaper and magazine articles, as well as professional research papers. A Higgs candidate event from the ATLAS detector of the LHC. Courtesy of CERN What made me fall in love with theoretical…
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