Caren Alpert takes gorgeous microscope photographs of food. Above, cake sprinkles at 85x magnification. Caren Alpert Fine Art (via Ariel Waldman)
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12:40 pm Tue
Jul 19, 2011
Microscope photography of food
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Podcast: Zuck's Empire of Oily Rags
Here's my reading (MP3) of Zuck's Empire of Oily Rags, a Locus Magazine column about the corruption implicit in surveillance capitalism, which creates giant risks to users by collecting sensitive information about them in order to eke out tiny gains in the efficacy of targeted advertising. The commercial surveillance industry may not be very good […]
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More than a million Europeans spoke out to stop internet-destroying censorship rules, but the fight's not over
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Portuguese translation of Zuck's Empire of Oily Rags
Brent Longborough did me the enormous favor of translating my latest Locus column, Zuck's Empire of Oily Rags, into Portuguese, and sent it to me to publish.
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These indestructible flashlights are designed to smash through obstacles
It’s good to be proactive, but when it comes to preparing for an emergency situation, one of the most important items you can pack is a flashlight. After all, whatever else you include in your kit won’t be of much use if you can’t see what you’re doing. The Viper 1000-Lumen Tactical Flashlights not only […]
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How Mondly's language-learning AI helps you speak like a true native
Chances are you took a handful of language classes in high school, and aside from a smattering of conjugations and vocabulary words, the only things you likely remember are the dry, rehearsed sentences that did little to make you speak like a true native. If you’re still hoping to learn a new language but want […]
