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  • Clive Thompson
    10:19 am Fri, Aug 30, 2019
    Gorgeous photos of undersea life, in black and white Black and white photo of jellyfish, by Christian Vizl

    Typically, marine photography is done in rich, saturated color — the better to show off the riot of life beneath the waves. But the photographer Christian Vizl has done it… Read the rest of the article: Gorgeous photos of undersea life, in black and white

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  • Clive Thompson
    4:00 pm Thu, Aug 29, 2019
    Why hurricane maps do a terrible job of communicating the danger of a hurricane Screenshot of a hurricane map, with a caption on it, from the New York Times

    Hurricane maps, like the ones created by the National Hurricane Center, tend to show a cone that indicates the predicted path of the hurricane. But it turns out those maps… Read the rest of the article: Why hurricane maps do a terrible job of communicating the danger of a hurricane

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  • Clive Thompson
    9:59 am Thu, Aug 29, 2019
    Apple tech, jewelry, guns: Dataviz of what Americans pawn Dataviz of which items are disproportionately likely to be pawned, state by state in the US

    I'm coming late to this one, because it was posted last year — but hey, better late than never: Behold this fascinating set of Pricenomics graphics about what types of… Read the rest of the article: Apple tech, jewelry, guns: Dataviz of what Americans pawn

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  • Clive Thompson
    9:11 am Thu, Aug 29, 2019
    YouTube removed battlebot videos because its system thought they contained "animal suffering" Photo by Jason Scott of a battlebot

    Apparently YouTube has been removing videos of battlebots, after their system flagged the videos for containing "animal suffering".

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  • Clive Thompson
    7:01 am Thu, Aug 29, 2019
    AI increases the resolution of emoji, turning them into horrifying creatures Screenshot of twitter emoji with their resolution increased by an AI algorithm

    There's an AI algorithmic technique known as "Progressive Face Super-Resolution", which can take low-rez photos of people's faces and enhance them into higher-rez versions. It's actually a rather unsettling development… Read the rest of the article: AI increases the resolution of emoji, turning them into horrifying creatures

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  • Clive Thompson
    6:34 am Thu, Aug 29, 2019
    How to Capitalize Headlines, Codified in a Flowchart A photo of a flowchart that illustrates the rules of capitalization

    I am a sucker for a good flowchart; furthermore, a fan of hand-drawn infographics; and also a partisan of overly-systematized grammatical guides. So this chart on how and when to… Read the rest of the article: How to Capitalize Headlines, Codified in a Flowchart

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  • Clive Thompson
    6:30 am Wed, Aug 28, 2019
    Inside NYC's slowly-vanishing repair shops Photo of a camera repair shop in NYC, by Stan Horaczek

    For Popular Science, the photographer and journalist Stan Horaczek took a deep dive into NYC's repair shops — places that repair cameras, musical gear, lighting fixtures and even jeans. Horaczek… Read the rest of the article: Inside NYC's slowly-vanishing repair shops

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  • Clive Thompson
    11:51 am Tue, Aug 27, 2019
    StoryAI, a bot that autocompletes a story for you Closeup photo of an old manual typewriter

    Behold StoryAI: Type in a few sentences, and the model autocompletes your story, writing a few hundred more words that, by its calculations, could plausibly follow.

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  • Clive Thompson
    10:34 am Tue, Aug 27, 2019
    Photos of creatures created by tossing sand in the air Image of a

    Photographer Claire Droppert experiments with using gravity as a mechanic for art, tossing natural objects in the air and snapshotting how they fly and fall.

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  • Clive Thompson
    10:32 am Tue, Aug 27, 2019
    The GENIAC, a narrative interactive game from 1955 Picture of the GENIAC

    GENIAC: The Uranium Shipment and the Space Pirates (1955) v2Watch this video on YouTube Hackaday has a great post about a recreation of the GENIAC, an electric toy from 1955… Read the rest of the article: The GENIAC, a narrative interactive game from 1955

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  • Clive Thompson
    11:11 am Sat, Aug 24, 2019
    How coconut crabs may have absconded with Amelia Earhart's skeleton Coconut crab

    So, there's a new theory about what happened to Amelia Earhart: She crash-landed on a Pacific island, and after death, her body was slowly eaten and pulled apart by coconut… Read the rest of the article: How coconut crabs may have absconded with Amelia Earhart's skeleton

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  • Clive Thompson
    9:37 am Fri, Aug 23, 2019
    Dataviz of burger-satisfaction rankings

    The market-research firm Market Force Information surveyed 7,600 people to find out which burger chains the liked the most and least, ranking them by eight attributes, like "food quality", "speed… Read the rest of the article: Dataviz of burger-satisfaction rankings

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  • Clive Thompson
    9:35 am Fri, Aug 23, 2019
    The "One HTML Page Challenge", a great example of view-source culture Image of the

    Behold the "One HTML Page Challenge" — to build a one-page site using just the code in a single html file: "Practice your skills with no assistance from libraries, no… Read the rest of the article: The "One HTML Page Challenge", a great example of view-source culture

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  • Clive Thompson
    9:30 am Fri, Aug 23, 2019
    Rochester, Buffalo: My band The Delorean Sisters plays your cities this weekend PIcture of the Delorean Sisters playing live at the Wayback Station in Brooklyn NY

    Hey upstate NY state folks: My band The Delorean Sisters is in your neck of the woods, tonight and tomorrow! We're a country-Americana band — our first album was a… Read the rest of the article: Rochester, Buffalo: My band The Delorean Sisters plays your cities this weekend

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  • Clive Thompson
    9:30 am Thu, Aug 22, 2019
    Aerial photos of sea-salt flats aerial image of sea-salt flats

    Tom Hegen (previously) is a photographer who specializes in aerial photography of landscapes, often with a focus on mass industrial activity that reshapes the natural world. His latest work is… Read the rest of the article: Aerial photos of sea-salt flats

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  • Clive Thompson
    9:27 am Thu, Aug 22, 2019
    Gorgeous seven-segment display that depicts numbers by heating and cooling

    thermochromic temperature & humidity displayWatch this video on YouTube Thermochromic materials change color as they heat or cool. You know the mood ring? Like that!

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  • Clive Thompson
    4:30 pm Fri, May 25, 2018
    Collaborating in Fortnite

    Fortnite is popular for tons of reasons, but chief among it is the "battle royale" style of combat — 100 random players dropped on an island, foraging for defenses and… Read the rest of the article: Collaborating in Fortnite

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  • Clive Thompson
    4:58 am Thu, May 24, 2018
    Interactive animation of why NYC's subway is so slow

    In the last few years, the subway in New York has become clotted with delays. For just as long, the MTA — the agency that runs the subway — has… Read the rest of the article: Interactive animation of why NYC's subway is so slow

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  • Clive Thompson
    4:30 am Thu, May 24, 2018
    Analyzing mouse-movement to see if you're lying

    Here's an interesting experiment: Using mouse-movement as a lie-detection technique. Cognitive psychologists and neuroscientists have long noted a big "tell" in human behavior: Crafting a lie takes more mental work… Read the rest of the article: Analyzing mouse-movement to see if you're lying

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  • Clive Thompson
    6:45 pm Wed, May 23, 2018
    Age Gate With Attitude

    Damjanski, a really witty digital artist, has released his latest work — "The Age Gate". I won't give any spoilers, but it's pretty funny.

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