Categorie: Links
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Links van 21 tot 28 november 2024
The meme-ification of the “Demon Core” The strange transformation of a criticality accident into dark Internet humor meme, ongeluk, plutonium How animals learned to hibernate and why we can’t do it (yet) | Aeon Essays The conventional view is that humans and other creatures around us live between periods of waking and sleeping. But it…
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Links van 15 tot 20 november 2024
There’s a ‘climate bomb’ ticking beneath the Arctic ice. How can we prepare? | Aeon Videos Dramatic images of massive ice shelves breaking off into the ocean and the emaciated bodies of starving polar bears are often used to illustrate the impact of climate change on Arctic landscapes. However, as this short film explores, perhaps…
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Links van 6 tot 13 november 2024
Carl Sagan’s scientific legacy extends far beyond ‘Cosmos’ On what would’ve been the astronomer’s 90th trip around the Sun, here’s a look at his legacy as a scientist, advocate and communicator. wetenschap, Carl Sagan Solving the Siberian Crater Mystery In the northern reaches of Russia, enigmatic craters have begun appearing in broad expanses of windswept…
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Links van 30 oktober tot 3 november 2024
How the U.S. military lost a $250 million war game in minutes – The Washington Post As a U.S. Navy carrier battle group entered the Persian Gulf, it came under surprise attack by adversaries launching missiles from commercial ships and radio-silent aircraft that quickly overwhelmed its missile defense systems. Nineteen U.S. ships, including the aircraft…
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Links van 27 tot 30 oktober 2024
Why ghosts wear clothes or white sheets instead of appearing in the nude Why aren’t ghosts naked? This was a key philosophical question for Cruikshank and many others in Victorian Britain. Indeed, stories of naked or clothesless ghosts, especially outside folklore, are exceedingly rare. Sceptics and ghost-seers alike have delighted in thinking about how exactly…
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Links van 21 tot 25 oktober 2024
Journal of Digital History (wel geen RSS-feed, grr) As an international, academic, peer-reviewed and open-access journal, the Journal of Digital History (JDH) will set new standards in history publishing based on the principle of multi-layered articles. geschiedenis Tog’s paradox Tog’s Paradox (also known as The Complexity Paradox or Tog’s Complexity Paradox) is an observation that…
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Links van 15 tot 20 oktober 2024
Trapped in a Company Town Why is it so hard for mass media, corporations, and millions of Americans to address the threat of Trumpism? Traditionally, the interviewer strikes the “reasonable person” pose and treats the interviewee as similarly reasonable—just two reasonable people having a discussion, in which the interviewer tries to get the interviewee to…
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Links van 11 tot 15 oktober 2024
The life-changing magic of Japanese clutter | Aeon Essays In the late 20th century, Japan was known for its minimalism: its Zen arts, its tidy and ordered cities, its refined foods and fashions. But Tsuzuki peeled away this façade to reveal a more complicated side to his nation. And Tokyo was the perfect setting for…
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Links van 8 tot 10 oktober 2024
The Disappearance of an Internet Domain When the British government announced last week that it was transferring sovereignty of an island in the Indian Ocean to the country of Mauritius, Gareth immediately realized its online implications: the end of the .io domain suffix. In this piece, he explores how geopolitical changes can unexpectedly disrupt the…
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Links van 4 tot 8 oktober 2024
US man, 81, sentenced to six months for creating giant hybrid sheep for hunting | Montana | The Guardian An 81-year-old Montana man was sentenced on Monday to six months in federal prison for illegally using tissue and testicles from large sheep hunted in central Asia and the US to create hybrid sheep for captive…
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Links van 30 september tot 4 oktober 2024
Normans and Slavery: Breaking the Bonds | History Today If you’ve never encountered this aspect of Anglo-Saxon England before, there is a ready explanation. To the founding fathers of academic history – the scholars of late Victorian and early 20th-century England – the Anglo-Saxons were ‘us’, and it was from them that we derived much…
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Links van 26 tot 30 september 2024
XKCD 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today One of the all-time great XKCDs. It’s amazing that “check whether the photo is of a bird” has gone from PhD-level to trivially easy to solve (with a vision LLM, or CLIP, or ResNet+ImageNet among others). AI, XKCD How to Make Viral 1950’s Super Panavision 70 Videos…
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Links van 23 tot 25 september 2024
transparent like frosted glass • Buttondown /insert discussie over mentaal model en hoe de interface u daarbij moet helpen, en dat het hoegenaamd niet uitmaakt of het mentaal model al dan niet de échte waarheid weergeeft. A good interface is a locus. It is usually where our explanation ends, but always where it begins. It…
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Links van 18 tot 22 september 2024
Fable at 20: a uniquely British video game with a complex legacy | Games | The Guardian In 2004, Fable was as famous for what it didn’t deliver as for what it did. But this Python-esque fantasy game deserves to be remembered for more than that. games, Peter Molyneux Trove of dinosaur fossils found high…