A curious app that captures your unfiltered life
Minutiae, an app designed to document life’s less glamorous moments.
Inside the chaotic battle to be the top reply to a Trump tweet
The area below the president’s tweets is the most valuable real estate on the internet.
How Pixar lost its way
For 15 years, the animation studio was the best on the planet. Then Disney bought it.
Trump’s lies
The Definitive List.
A shocking state of affairs – how crises are exploited by politicians and corporations
Political shocks, security shocks, climate shocks – however unstable the world seems now, things could get a lot worse. But we can unite for a better future
Inside the quietest place on Earth
Microsoft has built a chamber so quiet, you can hear the grind of your bones – and it’s helping to fine-tune the next-generation of electronic goods.
20 million starving to death: inside the worst famine since World War II
The worst humanitarian disaster since World War II will have been one that was caused by, and therefore could have been prevented by, humans.
This is what happens when you get struck by lightning
Only by piecing together the bystander reports, the singed clothing and the burnt skin can survivors start to construct their own picture of the possible trajectory of the electrical current, one that can approach 200 million volts and travel at one-third of the speed of light.
Why we lie: The science behind our deceptive ways
Honesty may be the best policy, but scheming and dishonesty are part of what makes us human.
The world is running out of sand
It’s one of our most widely used natural resources, but it’s scarcer than you think.
Why it’s so hard to admit you’re wrong
Our confirmation bias kicks in, causing us to seek out evidence to prove what we already believe.
Insecurity Questions
Liana Finck in The New Yorker comes with a list of “insecurity questions” for lost password recovery 🙂
Mindfulness – The Japanese skill copied by the world
Mindfulness has become trendy around the world in recent years – but in Japan, it’s been ingrained into the culture for centuries.
Her husband was dying from a superbug. She turned to sewer viruses collected by the navy
Bacteriophages — viruses found in soil, water and human waste — may be the cure in a post-antibiotic world.
There are diseases hidden in ice, and they are waking up
Long-dormant bacteria and viruses, trapped in ice and permafrost for centuries, are reviving as Earth’s climate warms.
You’re not going to believe what I’m about to tell you
A comic that is particularly relevant in these deeply divided times.
Virtual Reality might actually be able to break the opioid epidemic
With the failure of a drug-centric approach to treating chronic pain, doctors desperately need alternative ways to fight a condition that blights millions of lives. One seemingly unlikely technological solution: virtual reality.
The FBI translator who went rogue and married an ISIS terrorist
An FBI translator with a top-secret security clearance traveled to Syria in 2014 and married a key ISIS operative she had been assigned to investigate.
Bangalore is dying of thirst
An ominous look at Bangalore’s present and what could be the future in many places.
Love wildlife photos? There’s a good chance they weren’t shot in the wild
Those wildlife photos you shared on Facebook? They might have been staged at “photography game farms.”
People think juice is good for them. They’re wrong.
Our perception of juice needs a radical makeover.
The race to build the world’s first sex robot
The $30bn sex tech industry is about to unveil its biggest blockbuster: a $15,000 robot companion that talks, learns, and never says no.
What bullets do to bodies
The gun debate would change in an instant if Americans witnessed the horrors that trauma surgeons confront every day.