In case you didn’t realize, we live in a multiverse1 of global street maps. It all started back in the early 1980s in the offices of two startups who were both based in Sunnyvale, California. One was Etak, the original pioneer of in-vehicle navigation systems. The other was a little company called…

This willingness to reconsider tele skiing is encouraging. It bodes well for the sport, but more importantly, it may signal a return to thoughtfulness more generally. This will take some time. Apart from emotional dimensions, an institutional understanding of telemark has been eroded. The crowd…

I have never written about my chest, which seems bizarre given that I’m a writer and I process everything by writing about it. I’ve been living in this body for 34 years, and had the tissue I’m having removed for roughly 21 of them. During those 21 years I’ve taken dozens of workshops and written…

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Es gibt zwei Kategorien von Frauen, die man nicht gerne sieht, schreibt die französische Philosophin Elisabeth Badinter: jene, die keine Kinder wollen, und jene, die sie um jeden Preis wollen. Kinder kriegen: natürlich, aber macht bitte kein grosses Ding daraus. Besonders stark zu spüren bekommen…

Photo by Zhen Hu on Unsplash “Are you sure?” he says. That’s the director of my daughter’s preschool, trying to graciously decline my offer to install another air purifier. I insist. It’s based on a n

In vielen Ländern sind Gummi­geschosse verboten. Nicht aber in der Schweiz. Warum nicht? Wie, wo und warum werden sie eingesetzt? Und was sind die Folgen? Fachleute erklären. Und sieben Menschen erzählen ihre Geschichte. «Mir wurde übel vor Schmerz» Claudio Massoni Claudio Massoni hasst es, wenn er…

This a guest blog post featuring OpenStreetMap community member and OSM US board member, Brian Sperlongano. Do you have a story to tell? OpenStreetMap US news or info to share? Message us at team@openstreetmap.us and we’ll work with you to craft a blog post to share with the community! We started…

Rechtsextremismus: Die Schwiegersohn-Neonazis Nr. 50 – 15. Dezember 2022 Die Junge Tat versucht ihre Themen in die Mitte der Gesellschaft zu tragen. Woher die Gruppe kommt, wie sie sich verorten lässt, wer die Köpfe dahinter sind. Von , Anna Jikhareva und Jan Jirát (Text) und Stephan Schmitz…

Als Elon Musk im April 2022 ankündigte, die Aktienmehrheit bei Twitter zu übernehmen, tat er das mit einem starken Bekenntnis zu „free speech“. Unter anderem drückte er klar seine Erwartung darüber aus, dass doch auch seine Kritiker auf der Plattform bleiben sollen. Tweet vom 25.4. Und auch nachdem…

On Sunday, June 21, 1970, in an office building on Great Portland Street in London, a teletype sprang to life. Under the heading “HAPPY FAMILIES,” the machine rattled out a sequence of English sentences, such as “THE DOG SITS ON THE BABY” and “UNCLE TED PLAYS WITH SISTER.” The “Happy Families”…

James Scott Geras can still remember the day he got the voicemail: If I ever catch you near my wife again, I am going to slit your throat. It was 2015, the same year Geras had relocated to Palm Springs, California, about 480 miles south of his former home in San Francisco. He was alone in his art…

We are digital hoarders. Some of us make plans for the custody of our accounts after death, but our online legacy is mostly trash. It’s decades’ worth of political rants and throwaway jokes on social media; a lifetime of purchase receipts on Amazon; and a Gmail account overflowing with promotional…

Die "Anastasia-Bewegung" ist eine völkisch-religiöse Sekte, die in Brandenburg und im Harz Häuser und Grundstücke aufkauft. Nach außen hin geben sie sich harmlos. Doch ihre Ideologie ist gefährlich. Wer steckt dahinter und wie reagieren die Bewohner der betroffenen Dörfer? SPIEGEL TV Facebook:…

::: BG :: BLR :: CN :: DE :: EN :: ES :: FR :: HI :: HU :: IT :: BR-PT :: RO :: RU :: SK :: SRB-HR :: UA ::: :::::::::::::::::: contact: little.prince@custodians.online In solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub In Antoine de Saint Exupéry's tale the Little Prince meets a businessman who…

I don't know who this person is, but I totally want to be friends with them! Watch this video, where they imagine how a bunch of different pastas and other foods would walk. I've never pondered this before, but now I won't be able to stop thinking about how the burrito I just ate would walk, or the…

A few years ago, I lost my dad to a kitesurfing accident. Beyond losing one of the most important people in my life, the most painful thing I had to “survive” was how people reacted around me. It was even featured in the local newspaper; there was no way to keep what happened totally private. Most…

Update: this post was written in November, 2022. It’s now March, 2023. My family member ended up making pretty much a full recovery, which has shocked everyone. He is almost back to his old self. Also, if you visited this post before, you’d notice I took it down. That was after it received a lot…

Nachdem sich die Neonazis der Jungen Tat Anfang Jahr immer mehr an die Spitze der Coro­na­pro­teste gedrängt haben. Nachdem sie im Juni einen Pride-Gottes­dienst in Zürich störten, Anfang Oktober vor einer Schule im schaff­hausi­schen Neuhausen mit isla­mo­phoben Parolen prote­stierten und erst…

The Leaning Tower of Pisa has a foundational problem. It’s 186 feet tall and weighs 14,500 tons. But its foundation is only 10 feet deep and built into silt and clay. Five years after construction (~1178 A.D.), the foundation shifted and the tower famously “leaned.” Oops. Every building needs a…

Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded. Yogi Berra, et al Well, it looks like it's finally happened. As news sites began reporting that Elon Musk had finalised his purchase of Twitter, the fediverse's Eternal September — hoped for and feared in equal numbers amongst its existing user base —…

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Gav and Dan have never been immensely happy with the kind of break a pool cue can provide, so they try something a little more serious. Thank you to Amazon Shopping App for sponsoring this video. Download the Amazon Shopping App today! - https://amzn.to/3E8YN3H #amazonshoppingapp Instagram -…

Long into the year’s shortest night, muted light plays tricks on heavy eyes, and repetition can deceive a tired mind. Six times this group has completed the 12.29-mile counterclockwise loop: always south alongside the Willamette River, east past the pumpkin patch, north along the Columbia River…

On a snowy January morning in 2022, I walk into Duo, an exclusive little restaurant in the heart of the southern Italian town of Lecce, carrying a polystyrene box filled with two frozen plate-sized jellyfish. Antonella Leone, a senior researcher at the Italian National Research Council’s Institute…

Scenes from an imagined life: The baroness and her mother in Manhattan.Credit...Rutu Modan The Great Read Birgit Thyssen-Bornemisza led a life of eccentric anonymity and shabby gentility. Then her money got cut off. Then she had a stroke. Scenes from an imagined life: The baroness and her mother in…

Personal History More than anything, Diana had wanted to be a mother. Now my three-year-old daughter and I had to find a way to live without her. August 22, 2022 Illustration by Holly Stapleton A dusting of frost coated Fourteenth Street; the taxi continued driving away from the hospital, crossing…

As I'm moving all my online assets to a VPS (Virtual Private Server) I wanted to share my current setup. I also want to emphasise that I've been able to set this all up with decent technical knowledge and an understanding of how the internet works, but far from adept developer skills or any…

(To receive weekly emails of conversations with the world’s top CEOs and business decisionmakers, click here.) As Twitter changed hands at the end of October, another very similar social media site was experiencing something of an influx. Mastodon, a decentralized microblogging site named after an…

When SpaceX deploy batches of Starlink satellites they drop them off in lower orbits and expect the satellites themselves to navigate towards their final operational orbits. This is quite a complex process and one that's worth discussing, the satellites need to be able to reach the target orbital…

As you may have noticed, mosquitoes don’t attack everyone equally. Scientists have known that the pests are drawn to people at varying rates, but they have struggled to explain what makes certain people “mosquito magnets” while others get off bite-free. In a new paper published on October 18 in the…

Ska Music is eternal, whether you're listening to the 1st, 2nd or 3rd wave, There's just something about it that's super fun and makes you wanna dance, and in this little love letter I'm gonna tell yo

The Gotthard Base Tunnel in Switzerland is 57km long: and I think its greatest piece of safety equipment is nowhere near the tunnel itself. ■ Thanks to Swiss Federal Railways https://www.sbb.ch/ - drone filming near the tracks was specially approved with railway staff. ■ For tours into the Gotthard…