What are the hidden messages in the storybooks we read to our kids? That’s a question that may occur to parents as their children dive into the new books that arrived over the holidays.
Monthly Archives: January 2018
This stunning NASA video shows Ozone layer is healing due to human efforts
Scientists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California have managed to show via direct satellite observations that the worrisome ozone hole in the Antarctic region is slowly healing back to suggest that the ozone-depleting chlorine levels are slowly declining.
Is Your Child Lying to You? That’s Good
Should parents be troubled when their kids start to deceive them? Odds are, most of us would say yes. We believe honesty is a moral imperative, and we try to instill this belief in our children.
Revealed: Self-styled ‘grammar vigilante’ corrects badly punctuated shop signs in dead of night
Wielding an ‘apostrophiser’ – a broom handle laden with two sponges and a number of stickers – the man has corrected tens of missing and misplaced apostrophes on shop banners across Bristol over the past 13 years.
Orange County (FL) Public Art Secret Caches from 2012
A Pixel-Perfect CodePen logo
This is a guest post by David DeSandro. You might know David from his work at Metafizzy or right here on CodePen. We’ve worked with David in the past on code and UI work, and now he’s at it again with some branding work! Here’s David: SVG has renewed my love of viewing source.
The State of Apple’s Design Mojo
For many Apple critics, the story ends right here. Siri’s not great, the Touch Bar’s kind of a mess, the operating systems are pretty but somewhat confusing, and the reassuring Home button has been killed … the list goes on. Apple’s far from perfect. Point made.
Apple leads race to become world’s first $1tn company
Tech giants likely to pass record valuation if share price rises echo 2017 performance with Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Facebook in with a chance The race is on to become the world’s first trillion-dollar company, with all eyes fixed on tech giants such as Apple, Amazon, Facebook
Humans can spot small signs of sickness at a glance, research suggests
Humans may use a host of facial cues – visible just hours after an infection starts – to avoid contracting illnesses from others, study indicates Coughing, sneezing and clutching the stomach might be obvious signs of sickness, but humans can also spot if someone is healthy simply
Woman receives bionic hand with sense of touch
Scientists in Rome have unveiled the first bionic hand with a sense of touch that can be worn outside a laboratory. The recipient, Almerina Mascarello, who lost her left hand in an accident nearly a quarter of a century ago, said “it’s almost like it’s back again”.
Streaming surge electrifies music industry
Streaming services such as Spotify and Apple Music now account for the majority of music consumption, according to industry figures that also show a continuing vinyl revival.
Why A Third Of Antidepressants Are Prescribed For Something Else
Doctors often use medicines “off-label” to treat people with conditions that these drugs haven’t been tested on. Leah Shaffer explores how uncovering the secret life of antidepressants in particular could open up a host of new treatments.
Voice interfaces beginning to find their way into business
Imagine attending a business meeting with an Amazon Echo (or any voice-driven device) sitting on the conference table. A question arises about the month’s sales numbers in the Southeast region.
2018 Is the Last Year of America’s Public Domain Drought
Happy Public Domain Day, every-some of you! In New Zealand and Canada, published works by artists who died in 1967—Rene Magritte, Dorothy Parker, John Coltrane, and many others—have entered the public domain; Kiwis and Canadians can now freely distribute, perform, and remix a wealth o
Fingerprinting with Zero-Width Characters
Journalists watch out—you may be unintentionally revealing sources. In early 2016 I realized that it was possible to use zero-width characters, like zero-width non-joiner or other zero-width characters like the zero-width space to fingerprint text.
China’s Tiangong-1 space station is out of control and will soon fall to Earth
The tail end of 2017 was packed with interesting asteroid sightings and near-misses that gave skywatchers a reason to look up, but the biggest threat from above in 2018 might be manmade.