Everynoise, the music genre explorer. You click a genre and get a sample. Selections skew electronic, but still fun.
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Everynoise, the music genre explorer
Everynoise, the music genre explorer. You click a genre and get a sample. Selections skew electronic, but still fun.
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Geoguessing
Did you know that there are competitions surrounding identifying a certain geographic, location, a.k.a.geoguessing? Like, could you identify a location in 30 seconds based on a single image?
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Arcade cabinet art
Dan Sinker perused a collection of arcade cabinets, taking the colorful art, design and typography.
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Covid altering immune systems?
One idea is that Covid may be altering our immune systems. Malgorzata Gasperowicz, a Calgary based developmental biologist, says that if immunity debt fully explained rising infection counts we’d expect to see a uniform rebound across all pathogens. But we don’t, she says. For instance, a 2024 study of more than 4000 viral cases from…
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Will o the wisps explained
We may finally have a full explanation into how will ‘o wisps work. We knew methane and other swamp gasses were involved, but how did they ignite? As with the static electricity produced by stroking hair, fur, or carpet in the right conditions, the microlightning results from a buildup of opposing charges until the field…
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AI for science research
Top AI technologists are spurning major offers to start an AI focused company specializing in advancing science Dr. Agarwal is among more than 20 researchers who have left their work at Meta, OpenAI, Google DeepMind and other big A.I. projects in recent weeks to join a new Silicon Valley start-up, Periodic Labs. Many of them…
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Playing SimCity 2000 as adult
SimCity 2000 was a fun sandbox game as a kid, and looking back, building an airport first wasn’t a good choice. Ars Technia played the game with an adult lens. Can I live my values by sparing some money in a tight budget for homeless shelters or anti-smoking initiatives? Should I trust my police captain…
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Closed captions are all the rage
For various reasons is it any surprise closed captioning keeps growing in popularity? The poll suggests many young adults use subtitles because they are watching in noisy environments, whereas older adults choose them to better hear or understand what is being said. That makes sense to David Barber, a sound editor and mixer and president…
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A school in Kentucky banned phones. And the kids started talking to each other
A school in Kentucky banned phones. Unsurprisingly, they interacted more, and surprisingly, library circulation went up. “There is definitely a different feeling,” Neuss said. “It’s hard to quantify something like that. But it’s noticeable when you talk with students, walk through the hallways and go into classes.” What is easier to quantify is the immediate…
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A conservative concentration of media power
Margaret Sullivan with an astute and sobering take on the consolidation of conservative media power: In 2020, only a tiny fraction of Americans got news from TikTok. These days, that number has soared to one in five. For young adults, those figures are much higher, with almost half of adults under 30 getting news there,…