The insightfulness of musical dissonance, intuition and quantum physics
‘Intuition isn’t something granted only to geniuses or only to be trusted by the chosen few Einsteins of the world.’
Here are some facts about Uranus you might not have known
Get to know Uranus a little better. Knowledge is power!
.blue is a search engine trying to restore and preserve the ocean
Save the ocean with a search!
A floppy disk with 512GB of storage inside?
Where were you when I needed you, beefed up floppy?
Dan Appelquist and Lola Odelola on privacy and the Web
Keep safe out on these internet streets!
Tired: laptop. Wired: tabletop
Typewriter-style computers are back in style. Didn’t you get the memo?
DALL-E 2 but every image is a variant of the original
OpenAI’s latest image AI system, DALL-E 2, is picking up in popularity. It allows users to create realistic images from natural language prompts. Alan Resnick decided to use it but with a unique idea: Every single image in this video was created by the AI called DALL·E 2 from OpenAI from just one initial text …
BookNLP is a natural language processing pipeline for books
Learn more about your favourite books with this NLP pipeline.
The case for HCL (Hue-Chroma-Luminance)
So many colours to choose from.
The Czech Republic: home of the longest suspension bridge in the world
The competition for the longest suspension bridge has a new champion. It’s Czech, mate.
The science behind carnival scams
Seriously, buy that big cuddly toy on the internet if you really need it.
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Pick Locks with Forks
No brute forks necessary.
The Anom and ArcaneOS: built by the FBI to catch criminals
The best or worst burner in the world, depending on who you are.
The uniqueness of Puente Laguna Garzón
Bridges go in a straight line, right? Well, not all of them.
Old Tamagotchi, new hardware
Breathing new life into an old classic.
Is 'decolonisation' anything more than a buzzword in science?
It’s provocative. It gets the people going!
Why do gamblers risk it all on longshots?
How do you like your odds in the morning?
Thunder Roads: visualising the 2021 Formula One racing season
Joey Cherdarchuk created an interactive data viz site for the 2021 Formula One racing season, using lightning plots to visualise the races and sounds playing in the background to add to the ambience. You’ll enjoy it if you’re a Verstappen fan. Not so much if you’re a Hamilton fan.
Halt and Catch Fire text posts memes
It’s not the meme. It’s the meme that gets you to the meme.
Look, it's a black hole!
That is the first ever photo of a black hole, Sagittarius A* (or Sgr A* for short). It’s 25,800 light-years away, not very active, and if it were a person, “it would only consume the equivalent of a grain of rice every million years”. Phew!