The space telescope created by NASA and ESA has taught us countless things about the universe that surrounds us, and its breathtaking images have inspired a whole new generation of scientists. (And yes, they also make great computer wallpapers.) For much of Hubble’s early life in space, however, it was easy to look at the […]
Monthly Archives: April 2015
Girl, 8, strikes blow for equality over ‘boys only’ books
An eight-year-old who asked, “What if a girl wanted a pirate book?” has won a victory for equality, after children’s publisher Scholastic stopped labelling books as “for girls” or “for boys”. Els, from Bounds Green school in London, decided to get in touch with the publisher after spotting the title, Amazing Things for Boys to […]
Discovered this in the bargain bin at Tesco. Iced tea beer. I now know why it was there. It’s rank.
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Exercising equality: The story of the sports bra
Pamela Anderson, in her Baywatch role as lifeguard CJ Parker, would patrol the beaches of Los Angeles County, spot a swimmer in distress and spring into action – sprinting across California’s golden sands and into the glittering sea. So quick was her reaction to danger, that viewers needed slow motion to watch their big-bosomed hero […]
Skipping the web
“The web is great. I love the web. I continue to publish my life’s work on the web. But what the web is great for is only what it was designed for: publishing HTML pages. For everything else, the web is a kludge, and native apps provide a superior experience.” Read the full story here
I am a cook in the US Senate but I still need food stamps to feed my children
Every day, I serve food to some of the most powerful people on earth, including many of the senators who are running for president: I’m a cook for the federal contractor that runs the US Senate cafeteria. But today, they’ll have to get their meals from someone else’s hands, because I’m on strike. Read the […]
Disappearing Glasgow: documenting the demolition of a city’s troubled past
He was one of the tens of thousands of Glaswegians who were uprooted from the worst slum conditions in Europe to a “completely new life”. “There is an old saying in Glasgow that went: ‘We never knew how poor we were until someone told us.’ It was only then, when we entered our new home […]
Madonna’s Thatcher gaffe is a warning – quote at your peril
Anyone worried that pop stars have become too cautious, overprotected and media-trained to say anything interesting should be cheered up by the way that Madonna has entered social media like a drunk driver. Read the full story here
Everything wrong with Game of Thrones Monopoly
There’s free parking — probably because there are no cars. In lieu of murder and / or mutilation, a grump, blue uniform-clad cop will put you in jail. No nudity, a Game of Thrones staple. The dragon egg token lands on House Targaryen but never turns into a dragon. … on a related note, the […]
Can the internet of things save us from traffic jams?
Once computers are in full control of our cars, do we even need traffic lights at intersections? That’s the idea behind AIM – autonomous intersection management – at the artificial intelligence laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin. Rather than stop at red lights, self-driving cars would schedule a slot through an intersection in […]