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In a race for your life from a belligerent madman, there is no worse getaway vehicle than a recumbent bicycle. Particularly on any sort of climb. At least that’s what Alan* and I discovered as we crept up a desolate stretch of Arizona highway, necks craning behind us to see if the knife-wielding…

Seth Hettena, of Rolling Stone, on Twitter: Erik Prince’s latest venture is the Unplugged phone, an $850 standalone mobile device with its own app suite that’s being developed in Israel and will allow “patriots to communicate securely.” Unplugged says it is based in Cyprus. Prince is best known for…

Archaeologists excavate the remains of friars buried at the former Augustinian friary in central Cambridge. Cambridge Archaeological Unit The Augustinian friars of medieval Britain pledged themselves to a life of poverty, but their friaries offered a pretty high standard of communal living. The…

Like what you’re reading? Subscribe to The Atavist Magazine today for access to our full archive. Follow the Leader In the waning days of the Cold War, Rainer Sonntag helped fuel a neo-Nazi movement that still plagues Germany today. He was also a Communist spy—and worked for Vladimir Putin. By Leigh…

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Bronsch­hofen, Kanton St. Gallen, Studio von Stricker-TV: Rechnen mit Daniel Stricker. Das ist gar nicht so einfach. Denn wenn es um seine Ein­nahmen geht, wird der Mann, der den Medien vorwirft, gekauft zu sein, plötzlich sehr wortkarg. Wir sagen, wir vermuten, dass er eigentlich ziemlich viel Geld…

It's not "ego." It's a claim that you encounter a lot—an insult really—that people are buying bigger and bigger trucks to compensate for… something. Here's one particularly cringeworthy example, because the person making it doesn't seem to realize the go-kart he's praising doesn't meet US emissions…

Story by Visuals by Stephen Lam | Updated: May 12, 2022 2:19 p.m. From the moment he applied for his job at the warehouse two years ago, Hamid Hayat worried that his co-workers would find out about hi

Good Gaming – Well played, Democracy: Die rechtsalternativen Verschwörungsfantasien von „Call of Duty“ Die erfolgreiche Shooter-Serie ist mit ihrem aktuellen Teil „Cold War“ von mal mehr, mal weniger cleverer Provokation endgültig in Revisionismus und rechtsalternatives Verschwörungsraunen…

April 26, 2017 What Bullets Do to Bodies x x x By Jason Fagone x x x April 26, 2017 The gun debate would change in an instant if Americans witnessed the horrors that trauma surgeons confront every day. Photographs by Finlay Mackay 1 The first thing Dr. Amy Goldberg told me is that this article would…

This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? . None of them noticed the fall. One moment, Adam Rawski was with them on the mountain. The next, he was gone. It was May 24, 2021, around Day 15 of their trek up Denali,…

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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In June of 2022, the level in Lake Mead, the largest water reservoir in the United States formed by the Hoover Dam, reached yet another all-time low of 175 feet or 53 meters below full, a level that hasn’t been seen since the lake…

This story is adapted from The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media, by Kevin Driscoll. For more than two decades, dial-up bulletin board systems, or BBSs, were a primary form of popular networked computing in North America. The creators and maintainers of BBSs, known as system operators or…

This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? . On a balmy Thursday in March 2020, just before the coronavirus pandemic upended the world, a 911 call came into the Palo Alto Police Department. The caller told the…

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I’m lying on a table in Istanbul and a doctor I’ve never met is about to cut 4,250 holes in my head. He might be a doctor. I think he’s a doctor? The procedure will take six hours. I have no friends or family within 5,000 miles. But in other ways I’m not alone. Thousands have joined me. We’re from…

Share Published Jul. 13, 2022 • 4:03pm When Ryan Eastman was growing up in Petaluma, transfixed by the Tour de France on television, he never dreamed that his love of bicycles would lead him to a career partly spent scrounging for stolen two-wheelers in less-than-savory locales across San Francisco.…

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Correction note (12/23/22): A case has been corrected in this report. Key Findings The Citizen Lab, in collaboration with Catalan civil society groups, has identified at least 65 individuals targeted or infected with mercenary spyware. At least 63 were targeted or infected with Pegasus, and four…

Comment We are entering an era not just of unsafe abortions but of the widespread criminalization of pregnancy. June 24, 2022 Illustration by Chloe Cushman In the weeks since a draft of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization—a case about a Mississippi law that…

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In-depth introduction to 3Dscript for the I2K 2022 https://www.i2kconference.org/. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:00:35 User interface walk-through 00:18:35 Creating animations 00:51:01 Multi-channel / Multi-panel rendering 00:53:20 Batch version / Macros 00:56:51 Render remotely from Fiji 01:09:01 Render…

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If the role of art is to interrogate civilization, the Eurovision song contest asks the one question that actually matters. The one question that’s still relevant after six savage centuries of slaughter and conquest in the notionally democratic West. It’s a question that’s usually posed in the dark…

One late spring evening in 2018, Justo Gallego Martínez said he would show me his grave. The old man was warming his hands by a stove in the dim back room of his cathedral. A dusty film coated the concrete floor. The shelves and tables were full of relics, screws, chipped wood, crushed glass,…

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Photo: Martin Schoeller This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. When Marjorie Dannenfelser first came to Capitol Hill, before she became the most politically relevant voice of the anti-abortion lobby, before she…

The leap of a frog is a quintessential evolutionary feat. The critter’s girthy gams thrust from behind to springboard the body up and out; a pair of acrobatic arms stretch forward to seamlessly break the fall. The landing is “very precise, very controlled,” says Richard Essner, a biologist at…

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Amsterdam, 2020. Fair­phone hat laut dem firmen­ei­genem Impact Report 18 soge­nannte „Indu­strie-Einfluss-Punkte“ dazu­ge­wonnen. Ihr Einfluss auf die Branche und auf einen „syste­mi­schen Wandel“ inner­halb dieser hat sich demnach in nur einem Jahr mehr als verdop­pelt. Ausschlag­ge­bend für…

In French, the word for potato is pomme de terre. This literally translates to apple of the earth. By this logic, potatoes are the lowest-hanging fruit of all. More seriously: We keep getting more and more interested in the all-potato diet. This is a diet where you eat nothing but potatoes (and…

Was ist das Problem? Ein großer Teil unseres Plastikmülls landet im Meer. Im Nordpazifik treibt eine Müllinsel, die viermal so groß ist wie Deutschland. Das kann verheerende Auswirkungen haben: Meerestiere wie Delfine oder Robben verfangen sich im Plastik und ersticken. Oder sie sterben, weil ihre…

Researchers used CT scans to figure out why these pumpkin toadlets are just no good at jumping. The inner ear system of these frogs is so tiny that they lose balance midair. Fortunately their main survival tactic to avoid being eaten doesn’t involve high-speed getaways, but rather staying in one…

A funnel for collecting urine in the home of Kate Lucy and Jon Sellers in Brattleboro, Vt.Credit...John Tully for The New York Times The Great Read A shortage of chemical fertilizer, worsened by the war in Ukraine, has growers desperate. It just so happens that human urine has the very nutrients…