Meet the Product Designer Who Made Mid-Century America Look Clean and Styli

From refrigerators to cars to Air Force One, Raymond Loewy's distinctive "cleanlining" sold products

Why I Traveled the World Hunting for Mutant Bugs - Issue 73: Play

A researcher who works through painting tells her story.

Zdog · Round, flat, designer-friendly pseudo-3D engine for canvas and SVG

Round, flat, designer-friendly pseudo-3D engine for canvas and SVG

Meet the Carousing Texan Who Won a Nobel Prize

Jim Allison is an iconoclastic scientist who toiled in obscurity for years. Then he helped crack a mystery that may save millions of lives: Why doesn’t the immune system attack cancer?

Why Would Anyone Choose to Run 100 Miles Through the Desert?

The Oman Desert Marathon was my first ultra marathon. It was just over 100 miles (165km) across the baking sand. I didn’t really want to do it. It only came up as an idea when an editor from The Fi…

The Secret Oral History of Bennington: The 1980s' Most Decadent College

Bennington College in the 1980s was a hothouse of sex, drugs, and future literary stars--among them, Donna Tartt, Bret Easton Ellis, and Jonathan Lethem. Return to a campus and an era like no other.

Outlaw Country — The Atavist Magazine

Klamath County, Oregon, is the perfect place to go if you don't want to be found—and the worst place to be if someone threatens your life.

https://www.cooper.com/journal/2017/7/people-dont-buy-your-product-they-buy-your-story?fbclid=IwAR1rUFitdD2nini8CDh8aNepkqFEOBCQ5yy1gJoMO-XR…

A student in Boston wrote ‘I am from Hong Kong.’ An onslaught of Chinese anger followed.

As China tightens its hold on Hong Kong, battles flare over identity and the special status of the former British colony.

Antonio Salieri’s Revenge

He was falsely cast as Mozart’s murderer and music’s sorest loser. Now he’s getting a fresh hearing.

The inherent value of identifiable store traffic

Many attributes of the customer journey are very predictable and can be planned for to create and convert inbound store footfall.

Dynamic pricing: Using digital and analytics to take value pricing in the c

Rapid, customer-tailored dynamic pricing adjustments being made possible by new digital and advanced-analytics capabilities can generate substantial margin improvement for chemical companies.

Thai cave rescue: Inside the near-impossible mission to save the 12 trapped boys

The inside story of an improbable team of divers, a near-impossible plan and the rescue of a Thai junior football team from a cave in Thailand

The Undercover Fascist

A young Englishman got mixed up in a white-supremacist movement. Then he learned of a plot to kill a politician.

Airstream launches millennial-friendly e-commerce shop

The iconic brand is digging deep to provide local intel and gear marketed to a younger fan base.

Shovel, Knife, Story, Ax

When you live with animals, you collect killing stories.

The Wealth Detective Who Finds the Hidden Money of the Super Rich - Bloombe

Thirty-two-year-old French economist Gabriel Zucman scours spreadsheets to find secret offshore accounts.

Kinds of truth

“Gravity’s not just a good idea, it’s the law.” A truth is a useful, reliable statement of how the world is. You can ignore it, but it will cost you, because the world won&#…

A Memory Called Empire is a brilliant blend of cyberpunk, space opera, and

Keikai Blog

A collection of spreadsheet examples for turning Excel to web, editing online and building spreadsheet applications using Keikai.

Milk Carton - ImageChef

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Feature Extraction

168 votes, 13 comments. 2.2M subscribers in the datascience community. A space for data science professionals to engage in discussions and debates on…

30 Days Timelapse at Sea | 4K | Through Thunderstorms, Torrential Rain & Busy Traffic

Follow my adventures on Instagram! http://instagram.com/Jeffrey.hk Dropped new timelapse! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JBMpzW_B58 Hi all, i built a 24K resolution 360 camera specifically for upcoming 360 timelapse project. Check it out…

I Played Meat Bingo at a Century-Old Oregon Dive Bar

Founded in 1926 by Russian socialists, Workers Tavern is the perfect place to win bratwursts and talk to whiskey-swilling grandmas.

Cython

Build software that combines Python’s expressivity with the performance and control of C (and C++). It’s possible with Cython, the compiler and hybrid programming language used by foundational packages such … - Selection from Cython [Book]

World's Oldest Terrarium / Sealed Bottle Ecosystem by David Latimer

Checkout one of the oldest terrarium gardens in the world! Read the story of David Latimer's sealed bottle ecosystem from the 1960's.

Nothing But Solitude | Lapham’s Quarterly

When Renaissance explorers went north, they found a lunar landscape here on earth.

The Chinese village that kept a courtesan’s secret for centuries

One of China’s great beauties, Chen Yuanyuan was born to a peasant family, orphaned and sold as a prostitute, later becoming the consort of general and despised traitor, Wu Sangui. What eventually became of her was never known, until now.

I Entered the World’s Longest, Loneliest Horse Race on a Whim, and I Won

Somehow, implausibly, against all the odds, I became the youngest person and first woman ever to win the Mongol Derby. What made me so sure I was ready, when I was totally unprepared?

https://datawhatnow.com/things-you-are-probably-not-using-in-python-3-but-should/

Feature design checklist – UX Collective

Questions that ensure you consider e̶v̶e̶r̶y̶t̶h̶i̶n̶g̶ a few things when designing a new feature.

Joe Exotic

A dark journey Into the world of a man gone wild.

Adventures in the Ransom Trade

On the revolutionaries, highly-paid negotiators, former spies, foreign businessmen and their families, who all played roles in the massive Colombian kidnap and ransom industry during its 1990s heyday.

The case for general excellence

In his new book, Range, David Epstein argues that although specialization has its virtues, businesses need people with wide horizons and ranges of interests in order to succeed.

LisaDziuba/Awesome-Design-Tools: The best design tools for everything ?

The best design tools and plugins for everything 👉 - goabstract/Awesome-Design-Tools

Designing Data-Intensive Applications (DDIA) — an O’Reilly book by Martin Kleppmann (The Wild Boar Book)

https://aux.avclub.com/ted-chiang-the-mind-behind-arrival-returns-with-anoth-1834449060

The Camera as the App Layer

Your phone increasingly knows what you’re taking a picture of. And which apps you have installed. So…

How the Hell Has Danielle Steel Managed to Write 179 Books?

The author works a 20-hour shift, loves chocolate, and writes best in her cashmere nightgown.

Buy Me a Coffee

Buy Me a Coffee is the best way for creators and artists to accept support and membership from their fans.

Squirrel King

The city didn’t put stop signs at our suburban corner until I was thirteen. Despite the reckless driving, no one was ever killed. Pet dogs and stray cats weren’t so lucky. Neither were the squirrels.

During the Cold War, the CIA Secretly Plucked a Soviet Submarine From the Ocean Floor Using a Giant Claw

The International Spy Museum details the audacious plan that involved a reclusive billionaire, a 618-foot-long ship, and a great deal of stealth

Hundreds of Bodies, One Nurse: German Serial Killer Leaves as Many Question

A nurse, Niels Högel, admitted to dozens of murders but might have killed as many as 300 patients. So what prevented colleagues from stopping one of the world’s deadliest serial killers?

MIT CSAIL details technique for shrinking neural networks without compromis

Researchers at MIT's CSAIL have developed a new technique that identifies high-performance subnetworks within neural networks.

China’s rust belt cities shrouded in uncertainty as exhausted natural resou

As the natural resources that gave rise to heavy industries in China’s northeast run dry, the cities that developed around coal mines are struggling to modernise.

Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail

During a month hiking Muir's "Range of Light," three young women traversed snowy mountain passes, ran out of food, confronted a gendered wilderness, and learned to deal with each other.

Average Cost: One Ounce of High Quality Marijuana

This is not surprising, but still kind of interesting: The three least expensive states for marijuana, however, are all in the West region and all allow for legal recreational use: Oregon ($210.75), Washington ($232.90), and Colorado ($241.74). The national average is $326.06…

An Airplane’s Extraordinary Story Recalls Bygone U.S.-Russian Amity

Abandoned in the Arctic for seven decades, the last remaining Lend-Lease Douglas airplane in Russia is museum-bound, at a time of tensions with the United States.

Amazon and Target race to revolutionize the cardboard shipping box

The box has never looked better.

The Mystery of the Millionaire Hermit

He spent years scrimping and saving. But without a will, where’s his money going?