Seen in → No.63
- The Embroidered Computer by Irene PoschIrene Posch. Lovely. “Solely built from a variety of metal threads, magnetic, glas and metal beads, and being inspired by traditional crafting routines and patterns, the piece questions the appearance of current digital and electronic technologies surrounding us, as well as our interaction with them.”
- Project Alias hacks Amazon Echo and Google Home to protect your privacy. Nice project.
- 🌺 Plants Use Flowers to Hear the Buzz of Animals
- 😰 Insect collapse: ‘We are destroying our life support systems’. In the Luquillo rainforest in Puerto Rico, “the insect population that once provided plentiful food for birds throughout the mountainous national park had collapsed. On the ground, 98% had gone. Up in the leafy canopy, 80% had vanished. The most likely culprit by far is global warming.”
- 🤔 Earth’s magnetic field is acting up and geologists don’t know why
- How Beauty Is Making Scientists Rethink Evolution. Pretty long read (29 min) I didn’t have the chance to finish but looks quite good.
- “This horrible, miserable exhibition by the @MuseumModernArt showcases everything that is wrong with the elite world of design-as-fashion - a slap to the face of millions of humans who’ve lived and toiled in conditions of poverty, precarity and abjection.”
- 🇫🇷 Ahhhh, Paris! Edited Film Footage from 1890’s Paris Explores Some of the Everyday Thrills of Late 19th-Century Life. Be sure to make it to the moving walkway at 5 mins. I had no idea this existed then. It's the Rue de l’avenir at the 1900 expo (fr).
- 🌑🌱 Giant leaf for mankind? China germinates first seed on moon. But then, not so much. Bad News: That Moon Plant Everybody Was Talking About Is Dead.
- 🇨🇳 Telling the China Story: The Rise and Rise of Chinese Science Fiction. Header image from the trailer for The Wandering Earth teaser trailer, based on a story by Liu Cixin.
- 🌍 I have a problem with Black Panther