by | Dec 28, 2019 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from The New Yorker The Histories Hidden in the Periodic Table From poisoned monks and nuclear bombs to the “transfermium wars,” mapping the atomic world hasn’t been easy. By Neima Jahromi As element hunters have become element makers, the periodic table’s meaning has...
by | Dec 14, 2019 | Culture Music Art, Mirth, Weirdness
from WIRED Revolt! Scientists Say They’re Sick of Quantum Computing’s Hype A Twitter account called Quantum Bullshit Detector reflects some researchers’ angst about overhyped claims and other troubling trends. by SOPHIA CHEN PHOTOGRAPH: GETTY IMAGES...
by | Nov 9, 2019 | Weirdness
from The Next Web Meet the scientist who thinks we all exist in multiple universes by CARA CURTIS Have you ever laid wide-awake in the late hours of the night wondering what your life would look like if you took that other job, moved countries, or ended up with...
by | Nov 1, 2019 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from Greenwich Time How the Internet lost its soul by Janet Abbate, The Washington Post https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVX4Rix0l68 This week, we celebrate what many consider the 50th birthday of the Internet. The underpinnings of the World Wide Web originated in an...
by | Oct 29, 2019 | Weirdness
from AFP via Yahoo! News 50 years after internet conception, dark side stirs fear by Glenn CHAPMAN The internet has grown to connect billions of users around the world, as seen in this Facebook map from 2010, but has also allowed malicious actors to operate on a wide...
by | Oct 20, 2019 | Weirdness
from The Guardian What happens if your mind lives for ever on the internet? by Michael Graziano FacebookTwitterPinterest The Lawnmower Man (1992) stars Pierce Brosnan as an unethical scientist who traps the consciousness of his gardener (Jeff Fahey) inside a computer....
