Links van 7 november 2017 tot 9 november 2017

Johnstown Never Believed Trump Would Help. They Still Love Him Anyway. – POLITICO MagazinePolling continues to show that—in spite of unprecedented unpopularity—nearly all people who voted for Trump would do it again. But as I compared this year’s answers to last year’s responses it seemed clear that the basis of people’s support had morphed. Johnstown …

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(112) LEGO RC Motorized AT-M6 First Order Heavy Assault Gorilla Walker 75189 lego tlj – YouTubeMachtig. “What If Orthodox Priests Became Cosmonauts?”: Artist Unites Two Russian Pillars In His PaintingsRussian digital painter Vladimir Malakhovsky has created a series of bold canvases. He’s combined two subjects, both of which are very important in the country: Space …

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Quantifying the Release of Climate-Active Gases by Large Meteorite Impacts With a Case Study of ChicxulubThe asteroid impact roughly 66 million years ago that wiped out three-quarters of plant and animal species, including the dinosaurs, dropped temperatures globally below freezing for several years. The new assessment, reported in the journal Geographic Research Letters, gives scientists …

Links van 24 oktober 2017 tot 31 oktober 2017

Stop doing user interviews. Start having conversations.If you can level up by remembering your user interview skills and also relaxing and having a conversation, the person you’re talking to is going to be that much more engaged. If they’re engaged, what they tell you will be more natural, your insights will be deeper and learnings …

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Mobile First, Desktop Worst – prototyprMobile First should not be taken as an opportunity to over-simplify and, by the same token, Desktop First should not be taken as an opportunity to pile on complexity. Facebook moving non-promoted posts out of news feed in trial | Technology | The GuardianFacebook is testing a major change that …

Links voor 23 oktober 2017

The Mind-Boggling Physics of a Standing Double Backflip | WIREDHumans can do things. Awesome things. Case in point: this human, named Aaron Cook. Cook can do some serious tumbling (just check out his YouTube channel), but he can also do something extremely difficult—a standing double back tuck (backflip). Brexit: deals and no deals | Flip …

Links van 21 oktober 2017 tot 22 oktober 2017

Peter Cook – WikiwandIn 1961, Cook opened The Establishment, a club at 18 Greek Street in Soho in central London, presenting fellow comedians in a nightclub setting, including American Lenny Bruce. Cook said it was a satirical venue modelled on "those wonderful Berlin cabarets … which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler …

Links van 19 oktober 2017 tot 21 oktober 2017

I Am Miko Peled, And I Support Jeremy Corbyn’s Courageous Call to “End the Oppression of the Palestinian People” – American Herald TribuneFor nearly two years Zionist groups in the UK and particularly within the Labor Party have been conducting a witch hunt to rid the Labor party of Corbyn supporters, in the hopes of …

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My Interview With a Rohingya Refugee: What Do You Say to a Woman Whose Baby Was Thrown Into a Fire? – The New York TimesAs I walked out of the refugee camp, my phone rang. The instant I said hello, my wife could hear it in my voice. “What’s wrong?” she asked. “I just finished …

Links van 17 oktober 2017 tot 18 oktober 2017

John McCain’s Final Act Is War Against TrumpWhen he thumbs-downed the Republican health-care plan three months ago, McCain shocked the news media and members of both parties. He had previously displayed barely any interest in the issue at hand, and for more than a decade served as a largely reliable partisan vote that belied his …

Links van 14 oktober 2017 tot 17 oktober 2017

One person’s history of Twitter, from beginning to endTwitter was built at the tail end of that era. Their goal was giving everyone a voice. They were so obsessed with giving everyone a voice that they never stopped to wonder what would happen when everyone got one. And they never asked themselves what everyone meant. …

Links van 12 oktober 2017 tot 13 oktober 2017

Debunking Jimbo: Slippery Google tries to evade European privacy • The Register2014 ondertussen al. Time flies. "Google’s latest celebrity recruit, Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy Wales, recently gave an extraordinary performance on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show. We want to share with you what he said – verbatim – with expert commentary. It’s about the decision of …

Links van 8 oktober 2017 tot 10 oktober 2017

Mensa offers to host IQ test for Trump and Tillerson | TheHillBring on the IQ test — Mensa says it’s willing to host President Trump and secretary of State Rex Tillerson in a battle of the brains. In an interview with Forbes published Tuesday, Trump suggested he and Tillerson — who allegedly once called the commander …

Links voor 6 oktober 2017

Apple gave Uber’s app ‘unprecedented’ access to a secret backdoor that can record iPhone screens | Business Insider IndiaUber's iPhone app has a secret backdoor to powerful Apple features, allowing the ride-hailing service to potentially record a user's screen and access other personal information without their knowledge. The existence of Uber's access to special iPhone functions …

Links van 3 oktober 2017 tot 5 oktober 2017

Humanity Still Producing New Art As Though Megadeth’s ‘Rust In Peace’ Doesn’t Already Exist – The Onion – America’s Finest News SourceThe deluded people churning out this worthless garbage just can’t seem to reconcile themselves to the fact that their pathetic little sculptures and films and novels and whatnot will always pale in comparison to …