April 14, 2016
Fight Like Hell.
DOOM [Campaign Trailer] As the iconic DOOM Marine, you wake to learn that the Union Aerospace Corporation’s facility on Mars has been decimated and overrun by hordes of demons. Humanity’s survival rests in your hands – and your hands alone. [more inside]
Roll the Old Chariot Around
Roll the Old Chariot - David Coffey leads an entire festival's worth of sea-shanty enthusiasts into far more than the sum of their whole.
Doctors Strange
Just in time for it's series finale on Friday, Wired presents an oral history of Childrens Hospital.
Cars' tailpipes are nearly as deadly to cyclists as their fenders
Work by University of Toronto researcher Marianne Hatzopoulou "shows cyclists are particularly vulnerable to the risks posed by air pollution — higher levels of breast and prostate cancer being among them. Cyclists, she said, 'tend to have higher breathing rates than other pedestrians, so whatever they’re inhaling is going deeper into their lungs.'" And some of the most popular routes she studied were also the most polluted. [more inside]
Provably 4.416 times more complete than your favorite musician
Sean Archibald makes electronic music using microtonal scales, rather than the typical 12-tone temperament, as both Sevish and himself . Droplet is a neat starting point. If you're a sucker for strange harmonics, also check out his blog, in which he gets geeky about xenharmonic music and his favorite microtonal bands. Happy listening.
"I had to tell the truth"
Twenty-five years ago, Anita Hill stood before 20 million people and testified that then Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had sexually harassed her while she’d worked for him at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. [more inside]
Johnson & Johnson Has a Baby Powder Problem
More than 1,000 women and their families are suing J&J and Imerys, claiming the companies have known of the association with ovarian cancer for years and failed to warn them. The next trial is scheduled to begin on April 11 in a St. Louis circuit court. “Whether or not the science indicates that Baby Powder is a cause of ovarian cancer, Johnson & Johnson has a very significant breach of trust,” says Julie Hennessy, a marketing professor at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management. “In trying to protect this one business, they’ve put the whole J&J brand at risk.”
I can do something that no one else on a planet of 7 billion people can.
Inside the studio of the “micro-engraver” who works between heartbeats to keep his hand steady. Graham Short carves using “a needle pushed into a wooden engravers’ handle,” along with a microscope to see his work and a strap to keep his arm steady. His portrait of Queen Elizabeth II “is carved onto a speck of gold stuffed into the eye of a needle.”
Our long matza nightmare is over
Are you a Conservative Ashkenazi Jew dreading Passover next week, not because you miss bread but because you miss legumes and rice? Good news! Kitniyot are now kosher for Passover. [more inside]
50 shades of pray
Perhaps the only kink you might not find in San Francisco, Christian Domestic Discipline is a community of women looking for a theological reading of sex and submission. [more inside]
Center for Corporate Studies
Welcome to the future you.
The Center for Corporate Studies is a best-of-breed, high-level institute with a core competency in leveraging the power of language to develop personal, synergistic paradigm shifts within each of our students. You’ll learn how to champion mission-critical learnings across all verticals resulting in high-yield growth, for both your organization and your personal brand.
Join us. And in just eight weeks, you too will be able to write barely decipherable paragraphs that put your career in the fast lane. [via]
Les Américains souhaitent se faire plaisir et ne pas se limiter
Do You Speak Touriste? [PDF, 3 MB, in French] and the accompanying website is the Parisian tourism board's guide for workers in the Parisian tourism sector on traveler preferences from 17 different countries on subjects such as their habits, preferences for transportation, views on quality and price, dining times and specific cultural tics -- for instance, the fact that Americans "are hoping to have fun and not limit themselves"* or that the Japanese "won't complain about anything immediately, at least until they return home."** [more inside]
scanlime: hacking hardware and software for art and human connections
Micah Elizabeth Scott, or scanlime, is an artist and engineer who focuses on "the boundaries between technology, society, and creative expression". Recently, she has taken from writing cool software like Zen Photon (previously) and constructing open source hardware to creating videos documenting some of her work. These videos offer insight not only into the "what'" and "how" of some of her projects, but also her thought process and dead ends, as well as guest appearances by her lovely cat. For example: coastermelt part 1 and part 2. Additionally, you can check out her art or read her technical blog. [more inside]
Former Day Saints
Students at Brigham Young University, the private Provo-based university owned by the LDS church, have alleged that the school’s Honor Code Office investigates and sometimes penalizes victims who report sexual crimes. Honor Code investigations were launched even when the accused assailants were not BYU students, and when the attacks occurred off campus and away from campus housing. Ostensibly this is to punish violations of the school's honor code that may have given rise to the situation where the assault occurred. [more inside]
Obscura Day 2016
This Saturday (April 16) is Obscura Day 2016. Billed as a day to "celebrate the world's most obscure and awe inspiring places," there will be events taking place all around the world (although, mostly in the US, with some in Europe). [more inside]
Always ahead of the curve
What is it to know your time is up when nothing in your body has betrayed you? "Wasn't Born Hustlers: The Aging of Jay-Z", by Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib for MTV. [more inside]
This massive bookcase is hinged and hides a secret closet...
Joe Patten was born in 1927, and he lived until his death last week inside Atlanta's Fox Theatre, which opened in 1929. Over 35 years ago Joe, who was instrumental in saving the theater in 1974, was granted rent-free, lifetime occupancy of a deluxe Moorish-style apartment in a space that used to belong to the Shriners. This is that apartment. [via]
Do the Kenyan hustle and the Nigerian hip twirl
“Many of the Africans entrepreneurs I encounter represent the elite of their society,” Burfield told me. “They have received world-class educations, but aren’t interested in following in the family business. When combined with members of the African diaspora starting to return home, and ex-pats looking for the big new problems to tackle, most people would be amazed by how many entrepreneurs I encounter in Africa did their undergrad in great institutions around the world, or are self-taught from online courses and hackathons here. These are world-class entrepreneurs.”
That is a big stone sphere!
Dr Osmanagic, known as "the Bosnian Indiana Jones," has made interesting claims in the past...he has now found and enormous stone sphere buried in the earth...(YT) [more inside]
You can’t know you’re missing something if you can’t see it.
Not For Publication (2016) – 210x291mm, Mixed Materials on Card
A few weeks ago, Popbitch published a guide to spotting clues to celebrity superinjunctions. Unfortunately, a law firm, believing that this guide affected the superinjunction case currently in the media, decided to send them a stern legal letter - which they have reproduced on their site in line with current copyright restrictions. [more inside]
"Clark's Place"
Ninjas Mapping the Rabbit Hole
THE SECRET RULES OF THE INTERNET: The murky history of moderation, and how it’s shaping the future of free speech [Potentially NSFW - language & content]
Substitute "baseball" with any sport, really
When the sport you love doesn't love you back.
If Gibbons’ “dresses” comment was just one isolated incident, it wouldn’t deserve a second thought, but that’s not the situation we face. We are not talking about one off-color remark or even a handful of off-color remarks. We are talking about a sport-wide culture which permits casual sexism and reinforces over and over and over again to its female fans that their involvement in the sport is not as valid as that of their male counterparts.
Scrape it off, I scrape it off...
Take a large wheel of cheese. Cut it. Melt an edge of it under a grill. Scrape, scrape, scrape and pour over potatoes. Enjoy. [more inside]
How the UK's Boots went rogue
Britain’s biggest pharmacy used to be a family business, dedicated to serving society. Now, many of the company’s own staff believe that its relentless drive for profit is putting the public at risk.
Gareth Thomas (1945-2016)
Welsh actor Gareth Thomas, best known for starring as Roj Blake in the BBC's 1970s science fiction drama Blake's Seven, has died aged 71. [more inside]
The Raw Appeal Of Game Of Thrones
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