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- How period tracking apps helped me regain control after going off the pill
- Celebrated artist Richard Serra has been making Goatses his entire career
- Films like The House With a Clock In Its Walls are poisonous to kids’ cinema
- Deezer researchers developed an AI system that detects a song’s musical mood
- Porsche says that it will no longer make diesel vehicles
- The secret life of teen scooter outlaws
- Serial’s third season is a return to form
- NASA tech is in your everyday life — find out where with this interactive tool
- Forward this or you’ll die in seven days: On the persistence of chain letters
| How period tracking apps helped me regain control after going off the pill Posted: 23 Sep 2018 12:00 PM PDT  I am most tired during my period on Thursdays. It's random fact, but one that I never confidently knew about myself until recently. When I was a teenager, my periods were agonizing; they were painful, unpredictable, difficult to track, and basically debilitating. The intense cramps and dizziness caused me to frequently miss school, so much so that my doctor recommended I skip periods altogether and start birth control to regulate my cycles. I didn't look back for a decade. But before I knew it, 114 months had gone by, and now as a grown woman, I realized I didn't know my body at all. Aside from the occasional breakthrough bleeding, I had no concept of what a real period felt like. The pill, with its notorious side effects, had taken it... |
| Celebrated artist Richard Serra has been making Goatses his entire career Posted: 23 Sep 2018 11:00 AM PDT  The above photo is of Backdoor Pipeline, an installation piece by the famous artist Richard Serra. Like most of Serra's work, the picture doesn't really do it justice. It's enormous, designed to be walked through, and the sheer weight of the bent steel is tangible when you're in the room with it. It shapes the space around it, remaking the relationship between the viewer and the piece. The pink lines aren't part of the piece; I've added them to drive home how much it looks like Goatse. (Quick note: I'm not going to link to Goatse or describe it in any way because it's gross and awful. If you don't already know what it is, please just close this tab, do not google it, and forget this ever happened.) Turns out, a lot of Serra's work bears... |
| Films like The House With a Clock In Its Walls are poisonous to kids’ cinema Posted: 23 Sep 2018 10:51 AM PDT  Film is an expressive medium — at least as flexible as books are, in terms of the potential for variety and nuance. So how to explain the way cinema processes so many diverse, nuanced books into generic, nearly identical hunks of cookie-cutter product? And the problem seems particularly pronounced with books aimed at younger readers. When novels as tonally and creatively wide-ranging as Bridge to Terabithia, The Dark is Rising, the first five Spiderwick Chronicles novels, and Cirque du Freak all enter the screen-adaptation machine and come out looking and feeling nearly identical, it's clear that the problem isn't with the source material, it's with filmmakers who are suffering a lack of imagination. Or maybe it's just a lack of freedom... |
| Deezer researchers developed an AI system that detects a song’s musical mood Posted: 23 Sep 2018 10:00 AM PDT  Researchers at Deezer have developed an AI system capable of associating certain songs with moods and intensities, as spotted by VentureBeat. The work is described in a newly published paper on Arxiv.org titled "Music Mood Detection Based on Audio Lyrics With Deep Neural Nets." To determine a song's musical mood, the team considered both the audio signal and the lyrics. To start, they fed audio signals into a neural network, along with models that reconstruct the linguistic contexts of words. Then, to teach it how to determine the mood of a song, they used the Million Song Dataset (MSD), which is a collection of metadata for over 1 million contemporary songs. In particular, they used Last.fm's dataset, which assigns identifiers to tracks... |
| Porsche says that it will no longer make diesel vehicles Posted: 23 Sep 2018 09:18 AM PDT  Porsche says that it's getting out of the diesel business — for good. In a release this morning, it explains that amidst falling demand for diesel vehicles, and a growing interest in hybrids, it "has decided to no longer offer diesel propulsion in future." Porsche CEO Oliver Blume notes that his company isn't "demonising diesel" with the announcement, and says that the fuel still important worldwide, even though it's never been a huge part of the company's offerings. There's been indications of this attitude in recent months: the German automaker has been increasingly interested in electric and hybrid vehicles. Last year, the company unveiled the 2019 Cayenne SUV , which was notably missing a diesel version, and later unveiled an updated... |
| The secret life of teen scooter outlaws Posted: 23 Sep 2018 09:00 AM PDT  Teenagers are flocking to electric scooter services like Bird and Lime, ignoring requirements that riders be age 18 or older |
| Serial’s third season is a return to form Posted: 23 Sep 2018 08:00 AM PDT  There are a ton of podcasts out there, but finding the right one can be difficult. In our column Pod Hunters, we cover what we've been listening to that we can't stop thinking about. The third season of Serial starts off with host Sarah Koenig introducing the place where the podcast listener will reside for the duration of its run. It's a stunning, almost cinematic monologue. Koenig takes the listener through Cleveland's Justice Center Complex, explaining that the "hideous but practical," complex is an entire justice system, housing courts, jails, offices for state prosecutors and sheriffs, and city police. If this were a film, it would be one of those single-shot takes, taking you from the basement of the building, up the elevator, to... |
| NASA tech is in your everyday life — find out where with this interactive tool Posted: 23 Sep 2018 07:00 AM PDT  NASA technology is usually associated with the far reaches of space, but research from the government agency is surprisingly close at hand: hair dryers, water softeners, skin cream, landmine removal! NASA even has a cool interactive tool called NASA Home and City to showcase all the ways space research affects us back here on Earth. In the city, we learn that software first designed for NASA robots helps Earth robots with manufacturing: And NASA's extra rocket fuel can burn away mines: In the home, NASA's aerogels are making their way into hairstyling tools and even warm clothing: Who says space... |
| Forward this or you’ll die in seven days: On the persistence of chain letters Posted: 23 Sep 2018 06:00 AM PDT  If you have an email inbox, you've probably received a message that promises money or luck if you share it and unspecified misfortune if you don't. "Please do not throw this letter away until you have carefully considered what I am about to tell you," it might begin. "This can be the most important communication you will ever receive if you can understand and act upon this incredible opportunity." (Emphasis theirs.) But if you've received one of these messages more recently, it probably arrived on a smartphone and read a little differently. Say, like this: " It's moday ✌️the start↗️of a new✅ week mondays✏️are✏️HARD ‼️send this↗️▶️▶️to 6 HOMIES to make them have a GOOD Monday. DON'T BREAK THE CHAIN or else you'll have a BAD... |
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