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  • Do your children deserve privacy?

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    Parents worried their children are swapping inappropriate pictures and selfies with friends or even strangers online are being offered a smartphone app to automatically spot suspect images. The firm behind Gallery Guardian says it uses sophisticated image recognition software to… Read More ›

  • The Pessimists Archive Podcast

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    There has only been 5 episodes so far, but the Pessimists Archive Podcast is one of the best I have ever heard. The level of detail and surprise makes each episode worth listening to, especially Episode 3: Recorded Music.

  • Climate change’s worst case scenarios

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    Climate change has become a major focus in recent decades, and while 120 nations across the world ratified the Paris Agreement a year ago, significant challenges remain in the years and decades to come. Which is to say that to… Read More ›

  • Why Are You Always Tired?

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    I tried tracking my sleep, but numbers are merely that and it made no difference to how I felt. I have felt tired for many, many years and have kind of gotten used to the feeling.

  • Watch Advertisements

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    Watch advertisements have always fascinated me. If an ad is clever, funny, or invokes a special feeling within me, I am much more likely to make a purchase. And there is huge money in watch advertising. According to an article… Read More ›

  • Interview with Kate Moore, author of The Radium Girls

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    In the early days of the 20th century, the United States Radium Corporation had factories in New Jersey and Illinois, where they employed mostly women to paint watch and clock faces with their luminous radium paint. The paint got everywhere… Read More ›

  • Online Shopping Makes Suckers of Us All

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    The right price—the one that will extract the most profit from consumers’ wallets—has become the fixation of a large and growing number of quantitative types, many of them economists who have left academia for Silicon Valley. It’s also the preoccupation… Read More ›

  • Apple Watch NikeLab: not quite right

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    John Gruber may have stumbled upon an area that Apple has been criticised for recently and that is ticking every single box when it comes to design. I wouldn’t have thought about it, but he is dead right- New limited edition… Read More ›

  • The scary diner

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    This was a particularly fun assignment. Done for Fantasy Flight Games’ The Investigators of Arkham Horror, Tales of Adventure and Madness rulebook, which is chock full of great illustrations and graphics. Normally I spend a lot of time trying to… Read More ›

  • Earth Between the Rings of Saturn

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    The spacecraft captured the view on April 12, 2017, at 10:41 p.m. PDT (1:41 a.m. EDT on April 13). Cassini was 870 million miles (1.4 billion kilometers) away from Earth when the image was taken. Although far too small to… Read More ›