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The new smartphone game, Pokemon Go, is stirring controversy for its lack of data privacy. But that isn't slowing down its growth.
Pokemon Go has become a smartphone gaming sensation, generating $1.6 million in daily revenue by one estimate and boosting the market value of Nintendo. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to writer Glen Weldon about the hit game and the playing experience.
And they're not unplugging from email and text messages when they do get away, an NPR poll finds. "So they're taking their stress along with them wherever they go," says a Harvard scientist.
Researchers fed a program 600 hours of videos and TV shows to see if it could learn about and predict human interactions — hugs, kisses, high-fives and handshakes. It was right nearly half the time.
Pokemon Go is the latest game to use something called augmented reality which combines virtual and real worlds on a smartphone screen. Released only last week by Nintendo, it is a runaway success.
Every time you visit a website, companies you've never heard of are collecting data about you and selling or sharing it with other companies. You can opt out, but few consumers are aware of that.
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Ted Boutrous embarrassed himself in Huffington Post this week in an apparent attempt to "up the crazy" as the trial to seize Chevron's assets in Canada looms. It appears the "Big Lie" sickness of Donald Trump-ism continues to grow in America. The lawyer for Gibson Dunn, a firm known for its corporate attack dog efforts, has taken lying and slander to a new level. To Boutrous, giant fossil fuel corporations are the victims of legal attacks by environmental and human rights groups and the actual human rights violations or environmental destruction is either insignificant, or nonexistent in Ted's view. To top it off, Boutrous defender of Chevron worst global polluter ever is lecturing that "the ends don't justify the means." It's not a coincidence that Chevron will find itself in court once again in a matter of weeks trying to justify the unjustifiable - dumping 18 billion gallons of toxic waste into the Ecuadorian Amazon over the course of decades.
Boutrous has now tagged himself as the kind of lawyer who blames the rape victim for dressing the "wrong way". Or the kind of lawyer who blames the black man shot by police for being where he shouldn't have been and "looking like a threat." He has the audacity to blame the people Chevron deliberately poisoned by intentionally dumping billions of gallons of toxic waste in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Despite the fact that it is the largest oil-related disaster in history, which remains yet today in the form of almost 1,000 toxic waste pits, Boutrous claims there's "a lack of evidence."
To the families of the over 1,400 people who have already died of cancer in the Amazon Boutrous denies your suffering. To the indigenous communities wiped out by Chevron's operations (and Texaco) over decades, Boutrous never believed in you in the first place. To any environmental or human rights advocates who denounced the environmental "crime of the century" Boutrous says you are criminals.
For the record, here are but a few of the incontrovertible facts to which Texaco has already confessed and to which any non-corrupted lawyer would concede:
In fact, Chevron videos taken in 2005 and leaked by a whistleblower prove even the few pits Texaco claimed to have cleaned were still toxic years after the alleged "remediation".
Texaco argued for a decade in US Federal Court in New York that Ecuador was the proper venue for the case and agreed that it would honor the decisions of the Ecuadorian court system. However, on the first day of the new trial in Ecuador, Texaco insisted that the case should not be heard in Ecuador either.
Chevron's RICO trial specifically excluded any evidence of the contamination in Ecuador and in no way exonerated nor even suggested that Chevron/Texaco was not responsible for the contamination in Ecuador.
Chevron's key witness in its RICO case, disgraced ex-judge Alberto Guerra, received over $2 million from Chevron for his testimony, admitted to lying about alleged bribes from lawyers for the Ecuadorians, and admitted that he embellished his story to get Chevron to pay him more.
Forensic evidence obtained by analysts of the presiding judge's computer disprove any allegation of "ghost-writing" as the verdict was a document saved hundreds of times over a four month period and no external devices were attached (as Guerra claimed at one point).
In 2013, a US District Court found that Chevron had not shown that Amazon Watch had done anything wrong in relation to the Chevron litigation or that Amazon Watch had engaged in fraudulent conduct or furthered a conspiracy against Chevron. In an 11-page order, Judge Cousins quashed Chevron's attempts to open up Amazon Watch's files, and threatened sanctions against Gibson Dunn and Chevron if they reissued subpoenas unless they were "significantly narrower in scope to seek only highly relevant information and more carefully tailored to avoid infringing upon the organization's First Amendment rights."
None of this can be contested by Boutrous, no matter how much he may wish he could. And every single one of these facts are ones Chevron and Gibson Dunn hopes desperately that the public (and justices in Canada) will ignore or forget. Yet despite knowing them, and all those ethical guidelines Ted theoretically understands, he is willing to write that there's a "lack of evidence" against his client Chevron and the environmental NGOs asserting otherwise are criminals for doing so.
Like Chevron executives, who have spent billions to try to escape justice in Ecuador, Boutrous is impervious to shame. His firm has harassed people, threatened judges, bribed witnesses, falsified evidence (not the first, or second time), hidden information from the Ecuadorian court, and even admitted to opposing counsel in the U.S. that their motions were improper, yet filed them anyway. And it's within this context that Boutrous writes: "the ends don't justify the means."?!?
It's unclear which is a greater danger to our society, the ability for oil companies to intentionally and catastrophically pollute, or the willingness of large law firms like Gibson Dunn to cheat, lie and generally abuse the legal system in order to deny the existence of the continuing suffering of tens of thousands of people. Add to that the vilification and intimidation of anyone who dares to speak against them. Sounds like Donald Trump's ideal America to me.
Ted Boutrous is not an idiot, but he has demonstrated absolutely no moral compass whatsoever. In the fever to defend his client a company that admitted to the deliberate pollution in the first place he has gone completely off the deep end. And he has embarrassed himself in the process. That's probably why he (or his staff) have obsessively deleted every comment to his post on Huffington a delicious irony from a "First Amendment lawyer."
The notion that anyone would accept his premise when Chevron has lost every legal contest apart from Kaplan's (which is still under appeal, and was just handed another major blow by a recent SCOTUS decision about the use of RICO in such circumstances) is frankly preposterous.
No, we can't afford to sue Ted and Gibson Dunn for their acts of libel and intimidation, and they know it. The system of justice here completely favors the Chevrons of our society. That's why they are infuriated that the people of Ecuador actually persevered. Despite all Chevron and Gibson Dunn did to prevent it, they couldn't stop the $9.5 billion judgement against them. They won't be able to stop the action to enforce that verdict in Canada to seize Chevron's assets there, but Ted Boutrous and his buddies intend to get much richer trying.
Ted's post is a sign that the Chevron attack dogs are foaming at the mouth the closer we get to a trial in Canada (it begins in September). Last year, when the Supreme Court of Canada sided unanimously with the Ecuadorians to allow them to sue to enforce their verdict, it sent shock waves through Chevron's board room. The phone calls to Gibson Dunn have probably been non-stop ever since.
Ted Boutrous is using Huffington Post to spread more lies that Chevron hopes will sow more doubt about this case. "Perhaps there is no evidence in Ecuador after all." That's what they hope journalists or justices in Canada will think. Perhaps global warming is a hoax, too. "I read on the internet," says Donald Trump. That is the era we live in.
Anyone can appreciate the irony when Ted Boutrous calls Trump out for his racist comments about a judge while he dismisses Ecuador's entire judicial system, local communities and indigenous peoples as either too corrupt or too "unsophisticated" to make a just ruling based on the overwhelming evidence in the Amazon. Trump doesn't appear embarrassed, but Ted certainly has been.
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NATO political and military leaders are intent on bolstering the alliance's presence in the Baltic states and Poland. But does doing so actually improve European security? There is plenty of room for doubt. fb81 posted a photo:
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From the hidden colours of the moon to Bonnie Doon, and Tarantula Nebula to Saturn, these spectacular images of the universe are the finalists in the 2016 CWAS ‘David Malin' awards. The annual competition, which celebrates the best astronomy images taken by Australian photographers, is part of AstroFest 2016. The winners will be announced on 16 July. An associated exhibition opens the following day at the CSIRO Parkes Observatory visitors centre, and a second exhibition will also travel to selected venues around Australia
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A dwarf planet half the size of Britain has been found tumbling through space in the most distant reaches of the solar system.
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In symbolic terms, the completion of the brilliant architectural transformation of Governors Island could not have come at a more opportune moment. During a season when mindless hatred against immigrants runs rampant in our land, the vista from Outlook Hill offers an instructive panorama. With the view comes an implication of how the lives of the twelve million women, men, and children who passed through Ellis Island were immeasurably improved by American citizenship, to say nothing of those of their hundreds of millions of descendants.![]("http://chimpfeedr.com/img/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fnybooks%2F%7E4%2FcIYE6_Q80pc&width=540&mix=42dfe-culture")
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The iPhones snapped away at the pair presenting onstage. Every few seconds, another hand shot up from the hundreds of people packing the audience and captured the blocks of text that danced, shimmied, and shaked across the screen. At times the squiggles, waves, and strands of type popped out of the screen in 3D animation, causing the person sitting next to me to nod to himself and say, “These guys are insane. So good it hurts.” It was a rock star reception for designers Kjell Elkhorn and Jon Forss, better known as Non-Format. The duo have developed a passionate, “hurts so good” following thanks to their ability to use all elements of graphic design to construct images that both challenge conventions and look harmonious.
Kjell Elkhorn and Jon Forss met in London in the 1990s and formed their studio in 2000. But then a girl from Minnesota came along and, as happens, Forss reconsidered his living arrangements. Smitten, Forss followed her to Minnesota in 2007 and Elkhorn ultimately moved back to his native Norway. However, they have continued to collaborate from separate offices seven time zones apart. Their work across a range of medias and subjects has led to jobs for the likes of Uniqlo, ESPN The Magazine, Warner Music, and Wieden and Kennedy. We caught up with Elkhorn and Forss to discuss how Non-Format operates despite the distance, why it's important for creatives to needle the status quo, and how they design their typefaces.
Jon Forss: It was a bit of a perfect storm really. We had started working together on a few freelance projects, which we both enjoyed. These were mostly music packaging projects for The Leaf Label and Lo Recordings. We knew the working chemistry was good and we were pleased with the way our work seemed to be going, but we weren't too sure about how to take the next step.
Kjell Elkhorn: And then Tony Herrington paid us a visit.
JF: Yes, Tony was the Editor-in-Chief of The Wire, which is a monthly music magazine. It's been going since the very early 1980s. In 2000, or thereabouts, the editors of the magazine bought the title from its owner. It was a bit of a bold move on their part, but it meant they would have complete control over the magazine. It could remain independent and they really wanted to make a go of it.
EK: So, the reason Tony paid us a visit was to offer us the job of art directing the magazine. Another bold move because, well, we hadn't designed a magazine before. According to Tony, this was one of the reasons he wanted us to work on it. To breathe some new life into it. This was right at the beginning of a new century so I guess they were all feeling quite optimistic.
JF: Of course we could see that this was likely to be a big challenge for us, but we jumped at the chance. I think we said we'd do it if we could completely redesign the magazine. I don't think there was much hesitation. They agreed, so we jumped at it. It seemed like just the nudge we needed to start up a new business together and make a clean break of it. The next thing we knew, we were officially Non-Format.
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JF: I'd met a girl who lived in Saint Paul, Minnesota and, after a few years of traveling back and forth between the UK and the U.S., I ended up emigrating to Minnesota. Big move, obviously, and potentially disastrous to the business. But by this time Kjell and I had been working together for seven years and there was some interesting new technology that seemed to offer the chance of keeping the working relationship going despite the six time zones between London and Minnesota. Skype had been going for a few years. We were used to working with clients from all over the world, so email was our main method of corresponding. It was business as usual, except for the actual sitting next to each other part.
KE: This was in 2007. The same year Die Gestalten Verlag published our monograph, Love Song, which certainly helped to boost business during the first few years. In 2009, I decided that I probably didn't really need to be based in London, so my family and I packed up everything and we moved to my native Norway, bringing the total number of time zones between Jon and me up to seven. Between 2009 and 2015 we continued to work together as a two-man team and then we found ourselves in negotiations with the Norwegian design firm ANTI. They're a much bigger agency than Non-Format, with something like 70 or more employees. In October of 2015 we merged with ANTI, so now I work from the ANTI office in central Oslo, but Jon still works from his studio in the U.S.
JF: Before the merger, Kjell and I were being offered projects that we simply couldn't handle as a two-man team. We had to turn down some incredible opportunities, but now that we're partnered with ANTI we know we have the kind of creative and professional support and expertise needed to handle any kind of project that comes our way. It's exciting.
KE: Generally speaking, both of us try to work a normal eight-hour day, starting in the morning. Sometimes we have to work longer days though, when it gets really busy. There's usually an overlap of a few hours towards the end of my day and the beginning of Jon's day when we can catch up on projects and hand things over.
JF: When I start at 8 a.m. in Minnesota, it's 3 p.m. in Oslo. This works out pretty well for the most part but sometimes Kjell will work really late so that we can both work on something face-to-face, with Skype on in the background. On other occasions I'll work really late so that I'm still up when Kjell starts his day. I can't say I enjoy pulling an all-nighter but sometimes it's simply the only way. We often joke that we need someone based in Tokyo or Melbourne to cover the other third of the globe while we're trying to have a life. Maybe there are some amazing designers on the other side of the world that want to pitch for ANTI Oceana. Only kidding. Mostly.
KE: It's really not as challenging as it might seem. Sure, it's a pain not being in the same room sometimes but Skype pretty much solves that problem. The time zone difference is more of an issue, but even that has its advantages sometimes. There's nothing quite like waking up in the morning and finding that there's been some real progress on a project during the night. A lot can be achieved in two shifts.
JF: From a creative standpoint it all comes down to its purpose, but from a technical point of view everything starts in Adobe Illustrator. We've always regarded custom typography as a great way to inject our own personality into a project. There's a real sense of ownership if a piece of design features a typeface that no one else has. It's often the case that a new typeface is needed for a specific task, like an advertising headline, or a logotype, or some other application that requires certain words to be created. As a result, we have a lot of typefaces where we've only created the characters needed for a specific task. Like on music packaging, for example. We'll create a new typeface for the band name, or the title and nothing else, which means we can concentrate on just the letters we need, which frees us up to be quite experimental knowing we don't have to worry about creating, say, a ‘G' or a ‘Q' that works within the character of our new typeface.
KE The problems start when a client sees a particular typeface of ours out in the wild and requests something similar for a new project. We often go back to the original files and realize we don't have the letters we need. That can be a challenge. But we like a challenge.
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JF As a boy when I was thumbing through Letraset typeface catalogues, my father, a sculptor and furniture designer, was instilling in me the idea that part of the responsibility of designing, or creating anything, is to strive for something new. It's always been second nature to me to think of design as an opportunity to be experimental and to challenge preconceptions. I don't regard design as merely a problem solving exercise. I think of it as a problem seeking exercise.
You've submitted concepts to clients like ESPN: The Magazine that you felt the editors were going to think is too edgy — and they did. Do you always take such risks in similar scenarios or do you also evaluate which client is worth the risk and which isn't?
KE: Well, we certainly don't want any of our clients to feel we haven't pushed far enough. We assume they all want to be surprised by something new and you can't deliver that unless you're constantly pushing beyond expectations. We'd rather a design solution was rejected for being too avant garde than too conservative.
JF: With the ESPN example, I think we sent over quite a few options. Sometimes a really unusual solution can make a slightly less unusual solution seem quite conservative by comparison. Including ideas we know will be rejected has a way of shifting the yardstick in our favor.
What city in the world has the strongest vibe and inspiration for you today?
JF: I do love Tokyo. It's one of those places that seems so crazy to me that it sort of makes sense. I think there's quite a bit of an overlap between the Japanese psyche and my version of a British psyche. We're both quite reserved and introspective but at the same time we have a voracious appetite for the new and the slightly eccentric. The Japanese approach to graphic design and typography, in particular, is hugely influential, as I mentioned earlier. There's a certain sensibility that rings true with me. I think it's the way they balance expression, emotion, and minimalism.
KE: I'll have to add Hong Kong too. Both Tokyo and Hong Kong are cities that are quite familiar to me by now, yet they always feel completely alien at the same time. In so many ways these two cities exemplify the difference between Japanese and Chinese culture, yet as a designer, it's the way they've merged together with western culture that makes them so special. They both provide amazing visual feasts, but where Tokyo feels refined and sophisticated, Hong Kong imbues a raw brutality; from the skyscrapers that are clinging to the rugged hillside to the intoxicating street markets. Never a dull moment.
KE: I think it's a bit of a chicken and egg situation. Actually, we did start off designing music packaging, so I suppose it was inevitable that our work would naturally attract similar arts and culture work. It was only after we became known for expressive typography that we started to get advertising work for industries outside of arts and culture. We started to open up into more of a fashion and lifestyle arena. Now we're handling projects for a much more diverse set of clients. We have ANTI to thank for that.
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KE: We've worked quite closely with a few photographers over the years, but we're quite fond of using stock library shots too when it feels appropriate.
JF: What's nice about stock photos is that we don't have to worry about being precious with them. They're ripe for experimentation. Corruption. On their own they're often a bit cheesy or clichéd so you're sort of forced to use them as very basic raw material. A starting point for something more interesting.
KE: I guess you can say we approach image-making in much the same way as we approach typography in that we search for interesting expressions that might suit a particular project we're working on. Sometimes that ends up as traditional commissions, sometimes full-on collaborations with photographers, and sometimes we simply use what we have at hand and work the problem until we arrive at something that excites us on some level or other.
JF: The more our job resembles play, the happier we are.
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Vampires are on the loose and at a time when most things are being blamed on either climate change or the EU (not anymore…), it's been suggested that a combination of both may have caused the uprising. But the rise of the tick is not sexy news fodder, and tick diseases only affecting dogs even […] President Obama has tried to diversify the federal judiciary by appointing more black judges. Data show black federal district judges are overturned on appeal 10 percent more often than white judges.
Designed by committee, this year's biennial can feel cluttered and overwhelming. But it's worth fighting to find the good stuff amid the piles of rubbish
Was there ever a biennial or a triennial, a Manifesta, Documenta or any other big art shindig that made total sense, whose art was at perfect pitch, whose catalogue was a joy, the theme transparent?
Stupid question. There's rubbish everywhere in the latest Liverpool Biennial; strewn about the floor, swept into corners, accumulated at the foot of pillars and left on windowsills. Old tissues, nasal sprays, bits of packaging, beer cans, fag-ends, soiled receipts and shopping lists for the chemist and forgotten dinners you name it. Someone said they found a $5 bill on the floor of Tate Liverpool. It's probably worth about 50 quid by now.
Related: 'We took on the Tories and won!' … why Liverpool's striking schoolkids are back
Related: How Mark Leckey became the artist of the YouTube generation | Charlotte Higgins
Continue reading...Designed by committee, this year's biennial can feel cluttered and overwhelming. But it's worth fighting to find the good stuff amid the piles of rubbish
Was there ever a biennial or a triennial, a Manifesta, Documenta or any other big art shindig that made total sense, whose art was at perfect pitch, whose catalogue was a joy, the theme transparent?
Stupid question. There's rubbish everywhere in the latest Liverpool Biennial; strewn about the floor, swept into corners, accumulated at the foot of pillars and left on windowsills. Old tissues, nasal sprays, bits of packaging, beer cans, fag-ends, soiled receipts and shopping lists for the chemist and forgotten dinners you name it. Someone said they found a $5 bill on the floor of Tate Liverpool. It's probably worth about 50 quid by now.
Related: 'We took on the Tories and won!' … why Liverpool's striking schoolkids are back
Related: How Mark Leckey became the artist of the YouTube generation | Charlotte Higgins
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with each passing hour of the day, the project reveals different aspects of its sand flats location, that serves as a meeting location illuminated by the sun.
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on the grounds surrounding a former aviation school in the netherlands, the dutch artist has erected a 13-meter-tall bear called 'conibeer'.
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inside terrell place, ESI design has realized a 1,700 square foot reactive installation that captures the bustling pulse of the building.
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Goshka Macuga's uncanny android is just the latest in an army of artist's robots that began invading 100 years ago with one question: what is it to be human?
The androids have arrived, at least a century after modern art prophesied them. Artificial humans are advancing from the screens and pages of science fiction into our art galleries to look their flesh and blood cousins eerily in the eye.
Artist Goshka Macuga, shortlisted for the Turner prize in 2008, has created a talking android for her latest exhibition at the Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin. It has black hair and bushy beard and talks philosophy: an intellectualtake on the Action Man toys I used to play with as a child. Macuga's robot has all the spooky uncanniness of a synthetic person with a realistically moulded face and bionic arms. Most robots have futuristic names, or cosy ones to suggest they are cute and friendly. Macuga's creation is called To the Son of Man Who Ate the Scroll.
Continue reading...Goshka Macuga's uncanny android is just the latest in an army of artist's robots that began invading 100 years ago with one question: what is it to be human?
The androids have arrived, at least a century after modern art prophesied them. Artificial humans are advancing from the screens and pages of science fiction into our art galleries to look their flesh and blood cousins eerily in the eye.
Artist Goshka Macuga, shortlisted for the Turner prize in 2008, has created a talking android for her latest exhibition at the Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin. It has black hair and bushy beard and talks philosophy: an intellectualtake on the Action Man toys I used to play with as a child. Macuga's robot has all the spooky uncanniness of a synthetic person with a realistically moulded face and bionic arms. Most robots have futuristic names, or cosy ones to suggest they are cute and friendly. Macuga's creation is called To the Son of Man Who Ate the Scroll.
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the living breathing bubble responds with light and sound when touched.
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Network Rail has published an inclusive design strategy in a bid to make Britain's rail network more accessible for disabled people.
The Spaces and Places for Everyone initiative is a commitment to making sure that design thinking is “deeply embedded within Network Rail as an organisation” according to its chief executive Mark Carne.
A built environment accessibility panel has been set up. It uses co-design principals and is made up of disabled passengers who are also experts in inclusive design and can provide technical and strategic advice to project teams.
The new inclusive design thinking has been prompted by Network Rail-commissioned research, which finds that 67% of disabled people who travel, chose to travel by rail. Of these, 24% felt their journey would not be an easy one and 33% said they would use the train more if it were more accessible to them.
Carne says: “Most of today's railway was designed during the Victorian era when attitudes towards disability were very different. Since then, access for disabled people has been tagged on at a later stage, rather than being part of the initial design strategy for our railway. We know it has not been good enough in the past, and we need to make it easier for disabled people to plan journeys and travel by rail.
“We are committed to changing this, and doing what is necessary to make sure that inclusivity is deeply embedded in our culture. Only then will our railway be a place where everyone can travel equally, confidently and independently.”
Some of the changes have already begun to roll out. At Birmingham New Street an area for guide dogs to go for a wee has been created, while at Reading station an audio guide has been created by Microsoft so that visually impaired people can find their way out of the station and around the town.
Meanwhile at London Bridge lifts and escalators are being redeveloped to improve access and these are expected to open to passengers this summer.
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Dutch consultancy Tinker Imagineers has designed a new exhibition space for Nestlé, 150 years after the food company was founded.
To coincide with the anniversary, Nest is located in founder Henri Nestlé's first factory from 1866 in Vevey at Lake Geneva, Switzerland.
The factory, which opened in June, has been renovated by Switzerland-based Concept-Consult Architectes, which has added a glass roof and steel construction to the building as part of the €45m (£38m) project.
Tinker Imagineers, who became involved with the project two years ago, hoped to balance the industrial design of the factory space with more “organic” interiors, according to partner and founder, Erik Bär.
Beneath the glass roof sits a hovering platform covered in white fabric that overlooks the rest of the exhibition, “reflecting an almost timeless world”, says Bär.
The white stretched fabric installation is made up of ten different exhibits, including a 3D body scanner that shows what happens to different food types inside the body using an avatar.
Nest is split into past, present and future zones, where visitors can do everything from look at a prototype of the first Nespresso machine to try out an interactive table, known as the “forum”.
“Since Nestle is criticised quite a lot in the media I thought the best thing they could do was something they didn't have in the original concept…to dedicate a zone completely the challenges in producing food for eight billion people,” says Bär.
The forum is designed to explore global issues, such as agriculture, sustainability, water and food production, as well their potential solutions, he explains.
Each theme is represented by a different icon and colour, which light up trails on the table and provide information about the selected topic on a screen.
Tinker Imagineers has also explored the artistic side of exhibition design with the project. In the middle of the central atrium is a life-sized tree decorated with more than 1,200 flowers handmade from different Nestlé product packaging, such as Nescafé.
The most important element of the exhibition for Bär was to make each zone look and feel completely different, he says.
“In the past zone we looked back at early cinema techniques which worked quite well…and then gradually things get lighter and more modern. It's the variety that I am happiest with.”
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An exhibition exploring the work of dyslexic designers will open next month, with the aim of presenting dyslexia as an alternative way of thinking rather than a health condition.
Dyslexic Design is part of this year's Designjunction, the annual design exhibition which takes place in London, Milan and New York.
The exhibition will show the work of designers with dyslexia from disciplines including product, fashion, illustration, home décor and fine art, such as Sebastian Bergne, Kristjana S Williams, Terence Woodgate and Tina Crawford.
It aims to explore the “connection between dyslexia and the creative industries”, says Designjunction, looking at the positives as well as the challenges that can come from working with the learning difference.
The exhibition's main goal is to “take away the stigma of dyslexia and reveal it as a gift”, say the organisers.
For example, it will look at how dyslexia affects a person's lateral and visual thinking, and therefore creativity, and how the learning difference can prescribe “unusual three-dimensional thinking”.
The exhibition's founder, and one of the exhibitors, Jim Rokos, says: “It is my belief that I am able to design the way I do, because of my dyslexia and not despite it,” he says.
“I [want] to remove the unwanted and unwarranted stigma sometimes associated with dyslexia and in doing so change perceptions of it. We believe dyslexia is something that drives and inspires creative thought and design,” he adds.
Debates will also take place in the exhibition space, around how dyslexia is perceived in design education, whether it should no longer be classed as a disability and seen rather as an alternative brain structure, and how it affects a person's lateral and visual thinking.
Deborah Spencer, designjunction's managing director, says: “I had grown up with dyslexia and I believe it played an integral part in leading me down the path of art and design.”
Dyslexic Design takes place 17-25 September, as part of Designjunction, which runs from 22-25 September 2016. Tickets to Designjunction are £12 in advance or £15 on the door, and will grant access to the dyslexia exhibition. A percentage of ticket sales will be donated to the British Dyslexia Association. Find out more about the exhibition here.
Designjunction, now in its sixth year, is part of the London Design Festival, and takes place at a new venue in King's Cross this year, based around the theme of Immersed in Design.
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London sunset, with a view towards the Shard.
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Assassin bug (Fitchia aptera) collected in Kouchibouguac National Park, New Brunswick, Canada, and photographed at the Centre for Biodiversity Genomics (sample ID: BIOUG21781-C02; specimen record: http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Public_RecordView?processid=SSKOA2054-15; BIN: http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Public_BarcodeCluster?clusteruri=BOLD:ACV2565)
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The iridescent wings of our blue morpho (Morpho peleides) #SensationalButterflies use the phenomenon of structural colour and up to a million tiny, overlapping scales to create this beautiful #Blue. #ColourAndVision #RainbowNature ![]("http://chimpfeedr.com/img/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fs-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com%2F236x%2Faa%2F9d%2F8d%2Faa9d8de4e6a8b36ab71049acfdfa7d77.jpg&width=540&mix=0385d-pin-gifs")
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Space Science image of the week is this striking view of Comet 67P/ChuryumovGerasimenko that reveals portions of both comet lobes, with dramatic shadows on the 'neck' region between them. It was taken by Rosetta's navigation camera (NavCam) on 30 June 2016, from a distance of 25.8 km, and measures about 2.3 km across.
Since reaching the comet on 6 August 2014, Rosetta has extensively mapped its surface. The comet nucleus has a curious shape consisting of two lobes that are often referred to as the 'head' and the 'body'.
Depicted in the lower right part of the image is the region Hathor, a very intriguing portion of the comet head, named after the ancient Egyptian deity of love, music and beauty. In this region, the head declines steeply towards the neck and body of the comet.
This view shows a good fraction of the 900-m high cliff that forms Hathor, with marked linear features crossing the region from left to right. Perpendicular to these, additional streaks and even small terraces can be seen.
Beyond the cliff of Hathor, on the right, are hints of the Ma'at region, named after the ancient Egyptian goddess of truth and balance.
In the upper right corner, smoother patches of the large comet lobe, or body, are visible, covered in dust and boulders. The large lobe casts its shadow on the comet's neck, which separates the two lobes and is hidden from view in this image.
You can use the comet viewer tool to aid navigation around the comet's regions.
Currently, Rosetta is on a 27 km x 9 km elliptical orbit around the nucleus; this weekend, it will move to a less eccentric, 9 km x10 km orbit, ahead of entering the end-of-mission orbit. The mission will continue its close-up investigation of the comet environment until the grand finale, a controlled descent of the spacecraft to the surface of the comet on 30 September.
This image is featured today on the ESA Rosetta blog: CometWatch 30 June.
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Research published in April provided "slam dunk" evidence of two prehistoric supernovae exploding about 300 light years from Earth. Now, a follow-up investigation based on computer modeling shows those supernovae likely exposed biology on our planet to a long-lasting gust of cosmic radiation, which also affected the atmosphere.
"I was surprised to see as much effect as there was," said Adrian Melott, professor of physics at the University of Kansas, who co-authored the new paper appearing The Astrophysical Journal Letters, a peer-reviewed express scientific journal that allows astrophysicists to rapidly publish short notices of significant original research. "I was expecting there to be very little effect at all," he said. "The supernovae were pretty far way -- more than 300 light years -- that's really not very close."
According to Melott, initially the two stars that exploded 1.7 to 3.2 million and 6.5 to 8.7 million years ago each would have caused blue light in the night sky brilliant enough to disrupt animals' sleep patterns for a few weeks.
But their major effect would have come from radiation, which the KU astrophysicist said would have packed doses equivalent to one CT scan per year for every creature inhabiting land or shallower parts of the ocean.
"The big thing turns out to be the cosmic rays," Melott said. "The really high-energy ones are pretty rare. They get increased by quite a lot here -- for a few hundred to thousands of years, by a factor of a few hundred. The high-energy cosmic rays are the ones that can penetrate the atmosphere. They tear up molecules, they can rip electrons off atoms, and that goes on right down to the ground level. Normally that happens only at high altitude."
Melott's collaborators on the research are Brian Thomas and Emily Engler of Washburn University, Michael Kachelrieß of the Institutt for fysikk in Norway, Andrew Overholt of MidAmerica Nazarene University and Dimitry Semikoz of the Observatoire de Paris and Moscow Engineering Physics Institute.
The boosted exposure to cosmic rays from supernovae could have had "substantial effects on the terrestrial atmosphere and biota," the authors write.
For instance, the research suggested the supernovae might have caused a 20-fold increase in irradiation by muons at ground level on Earth.
"A muon is a cousin of the electron, a couple of hundred times heavier than the electron -- they penetrate hundreds of meters of rock," Melott said. "Normally there are lots of them hitting us on the ground. They mostly just go through us, but because of their large numbers contribute about 1/6 of our normal radiation dose. So if there were 20 times as many, you're in the ballpark of tripling the radiation dose."
Melott said the uptick in radiation from muons would have been high enough to boost the mutation rate and frequency of cancer, "but not enormously. Still, if you increased the mutation rate you might speed up evolution."
Indeed, a minor mass extinction around 2.59 million years ago may be connected in part to boosted cosmic rays that could have helped to cool Earth's climate. The new research results show that the cosmic rays ionize the Earth's atmosphere in the troposphere -- the lowest level of the atmosphere -- to a level eight times higher than normal. This would have caused an increase in cloud-to-ground lightning.
"There was climate change around this time," Melott said. "Africa dried out, and a lot of the forest turned into savannah. Around this time and afterwards, we started having glaciations -- ice ages -- over and over again, and it's not clear why that started to happen. It's controversial, but maybe cosmic rays had something to do with it."
NASA's Exobiology and Evolutionary Biology program supported the research, and computation time was provided by the High Performance Computing Environment at Washburn University.
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The end of the federal government's War On Weed is approaching fast. No matter how the details work out, that much seems pretty clear at this point. What began roughly 100 years ago as a racist legislative overreaction to Latino workers' preferred method of relaxing -- and was then ramped up (under Richard Nixon) to punish hippies and minorities and college students -- could once again become sane governmental policy, ending almost a century's institutional demonization of a fairly harmless natural substance. When it happens, it will be the most significant governmental shift on a pointless and endless social "war" since the end of Prohibition. The only remaining questions are how the mechanics of the war's end will work out, and how fast it'll happen. But whether it ends with a bang or a whimper, that end is definitely now in sight.
Consider the following developments (some very recent and some ongoing):
DEA about to report
The Drug Enforcement Agency is going to announce any day now their completion of a review of the status of marijuana under federal drug law. They had promised it'd be done by the end of June, so it's already overdue. No matter what their review recommends, it may spur fundamental change in the legal status of marijuana.
Suppose the D.E.A. actually applies common sense and science to the federal classification of marijuana. If they do so, they will recommend a downgrade from Schedule I to at least Schedule II (although a strong case could be made for Schedules III through V just as easily, depending on how you interpret the concept of "abuse" of marijuana). If the D.E.A. leads the way, the process will be fairly smooth and fairly quick. But even if they dig in their heels (they are the nation's drug warriors, after all) and refuse to recommend any change, they might just spark a backlash from other parts of the government.
Obama could act on his own, after the election
One of President Obama's campaign promises was to stop letting politics trump science in federal policy. He has had a very mixed record on this issue, however, as evidenced by the long (and pointless) battle his administration fought against allowing over-the-counter sales of the "Plan B" emergency contraceptive. Obama also consistently treated any suggestion of changes in federal marijuana policy as a joke to be laughed off, for pretty much his entire first term in office. His first attorney general sent some awfully conflicting guidelines out to federal prosecutors on marijuana policy -- first seeming to relax enforcement and then to tighten it back up. This confusion did eventually end, and the Department of Justice has now (mostly) taken a hands-off stance to states with legalized medical and/or recreational marijuana.
This is important, because it is not ultimately the D.E.A.'s decision how marijuana is classified -- it is instead the attorney general's decision. Congress doesn't even need to be involved with any shift in policy, because the attorney general can change the federal government's classification with her signature alone. So even if the D.E.A. review refuses to recognize that "the times they are a changin'," the Justice Department can easily overrule them and go ahead and reschedule marijuana. President Obama might just order this to happen on his way out of office, during the lame-duck period after the election, no matter what the D.E.A. has to say about it. What would a self-described former member of the "Choom Gang" have to lose, at that point?
Congress could act as well
Even if the D.E.A. proves recalcitrant and the Obama administration isn't bold enough to reschedule on their own, Congress may get involved. A bill which will remove all the needless red tape from medical research on marijuana is working its way through the House right now, and it is notable for who has sponsored it -- not just pro-marijuana congressmen, but also some of the most avidly anti-marijuana congressmen as well. It is no longer a politically acceptable stance to deny doctors from even studying marijuana's benefits anymore -- another measure of how the War On Weed is winding down.
For years, marijuana research was only allowed if the hypothesis was some version of: "Marijuana's bad for you... mmm-kay?" No science was permitted with the aim of proving any benefits at all -- and then politicians and the medical establishment could sanctimoniously fight against legalizing medical marijuana with the Catch-22 excuse of "no solid research has been done, therefore marijuana can't be considered a medicine." As Doc Daneeka might have explained to Yossarian: "Doctors say medical marijuana isn't a proven medicine until they see studies scientifically showing the benefits, but research showing any beneficial uses doesn't actually exist -- because any researcher who tries to prove beneficial uses is denied the permission to conduct such research by the government -- so this scientific evidence will never actually be allowed to exist." That was then, but now even the most strident anti-drug congressmen are working to remove this enormous Catch-22 situation, forever.
Democratic Party officially calls for change
This one has a worrisome undertone to it, because of the way it happened. Still, it's a positive development any way you look at it. This weekend, in a showdown between Bernie Sanders supporters and Hillary Clinton supporters, a plank was inserted in the Democratic Party platform document that called for a "path to legalization" for marijuana. This is stunning, because the subject hasn't been addressed by either party in such a direct fashion since at least the 1970s. Sanders, in his campaign, called for "descheduling" marijuana -- treating it like alcohol, essentially, and moving its regulation over to the folks who now oversee tobacco and alcohol (instead of the drug warriors). This was proposed by the Sanders supporters at the platform committee meeting, but the idea was voted down. Compromise language was offered instead (with the "path to legalization" language) which called for at least rescheduling marijuana down from Schedule I. This passed by only one vote (out of over 150 cast). The worrisome aspect was that the Clinton people fought so hard against it -- fighting for timidity rather than leadership, as Democrats have been regularly doing on the issue ever since they were badly spooked by Republican charges of being "soft on crime," back in the 1980s and 1990s.
A platform document fight doesn't guarantee how Hillary Clinton will treat the matter once in the Oval Office, however. Both Clinton and Obama, if you'll remember, were publicly against gay marriage in the 2008 campaign (timidity ruled the day on the issue among Democratic leadership, back then). But look where we are now -- Obama realized that he needed to "evolve" on the issue and politically it has done him a lot of good. He'll go down in history as the boldest president on gay rights of all time, in fact. Clinton could wind up doing the same on marijuana, too, no matter how timidly she's approached the issue so far during this year's campaign.
Legalize it
Even though the federal government states (as part of the Schedule I definition) that marijuana has "no accepted medical use," half of the United States have now legalized such medical use. Half. Depending on how you count, the number of such states is now at least 25 (some states have severe restrictions, red tape, and other hoops such as only allowing CBD oils and other non-euphoric forms, to treat diseases such as epilepsy). The tide on medical use has already turned and nobody will ever force this genie back into the bottle again.
The voters of four states -- and the District of Columbia, the seat of our national government -- have completely thrown in the towel altogether and just legalized adult recreational use of marijuana. The sky has not fallen in any of these jurisdictions. The sun rises, the sun sets, and the hellscape predicted by those against legalization has not materialized at all. This year, California voters will get a chance to vote on recreational legalization in November. California is the biggest market in the entire country -- if the state were its own country, it would have the sixth largest economy in the world. And California won't be alone. Seven other states may also have the opportunity to vote to legalize this November. Which means by the end of this year, marijuana may be fully legal for any adult to buy openly in over 10 states. This isn't quite the tipping point that medical marijuana has already reached, but it may be the biggest step towards such a tipping point yet taken.
Double the budgetary impact
Once other states see how much tax revenue is generated by states who have legalized recreational use, it's going to be pretty hard to argue against allowing such taxes to be collected. But marijuana legalization actually has a two-fold impact on state budgets. First, there's the tax revenue to be collected -- and marijuana smokers are just about the only political group in the country who are currently actually begging to be taxed. Think about that, especially seen through the eyes of a conservative politician. Who else is not going to complain about paying new taxes, after all?
But it gets even better, because the secondary budget impact is that millions of dollars (billions, when all states are added together) in law enforcement funds will be saved by not having to hassle with low-level pot busts anymore. Cops will be freed up to concentrate on other things, and new tax revenue will flow in at the same time. That is a double benefit to any state trying to put together a yearly budget -- and it's going to become more and more irresistible over time, especially to those who profess themselves to be fiscal conservatives.
War On Weed's end
In conclusion, although it is impossible to see precisely which path we'll take at this point, the federal government's War On Weed is almost over. Its days are numbered. The end is in sight.
It won't happen overnight, of course. Even it the D.E.A. gives its approval and Loretta Lynch acts immediately, rescheduling marijuana on the Controlled Substances list isn't going to be the last gasp. The war won't truly be over until the last vestiges of the federal government's wrongheaded policies have been reversed entirely. What would this look like? It would have many facets, because the idiocy behind the policy has become so ingrained in federal law.
First and foremost, federal officials would not be strangled by gag laws which now prevent them from even publicly admitting that marijuana is not as dangerous as heroin. This has got to be the biggest piece of idiocy in the entire misguided War On Weed, but it'll be the easiest to change.
More concretely, marijuana businesses need to stop being persecuted for what they sell. Right now, it is impossible for many of these businesses to use the banking system. The federal penalties for laundering money from drug trafficking are so severe that the banks refuse to allow marijuana businesses -- completely legal ones, in states where they are allowed -- from opening an account. That has got to change. Marijuana businesses should not be forced to operate on a cash basis (what other business is?) and instead should be treated like any other wholesaler or retailer in the country. Tax laws also need to reflect this normalization. As of now, marijuana businesses can't legally claim common business expenses like employee salaries or rent -- again, like every other business in operation is allowed to. This will require a shift in the federal tax code.
Medical research on marijuana should be approved just like research on any other substance. Marijuana supplies for such research should be allowed from anywhere, instead of one government farm being a bottleneck for such research supplies. No extra approvals by a multitude of departments should be necessary any more (the hoops that such research has to jump through are still on the order of Catch-22, even after some recent improvements have been made). Doctors should be able to get solid scientific studies which show effectiveness and which also start to break down the dozens of chemicals in the plant to more accurately prescribe their use for different medical conditions.
Marijuana should really become legal on federal property, so that campers in a National Park aren't at risk of punishments they wouldn't face if they stepped outside the park's boundaries. But this brings up a much wider point -- what I see as the real end of the road for the fight to dismantle the federal War On Weed. Prohibition required a constitutional amendment to end, and at least we won't have that hurdle to get over. But the War On Weed's end is going to look a lot like how Prohibition ended in one enormous way.
The states have to be given full control -- up to a point -- over how marijuana will be treated. The end to the federal War On Weed won't mean marijuana will be legalized in all 50 states the next day, but that's actually OK. Indeed, Prohibition hasn't actually ended yet in many counties across America. "Dry" counties still exist in plenty of states, where the sale of alcohol is absolutely forbidden. Alcohol can't be sold on Sundays in lots of other places (so much for separation of church and state). In some places "near beer" is the only thing you can buy (which is pretty horrendous stuff to drink, it should be mentioned). In other places, Everclear (190-proof grain alcohol) is illegal, but Bacardi 151 can be purchased. Laws still differ everywhere, in other words, concerning the legal purchase of alcohol. But here's the crucial footnote to this patchwork of alcohol laws across America: you can buy a bottle of liquor legally (in a "wet" county, of course) and then get in your car and legally drive to any place in America, wet or dry -- without having to worry about getting busted by the cops for having an unopened bottle of hooch in your car. As long as you consume it in private, mere possession of alcohol is not banned by law anywhere in America.
That is the real end of the road for marijuana, as well. No matter how all the rest of the details are worked out, this is when the war will fully be over. It's a monumental shift in federal policy, so it'll likely happen incrementally, but even so it may happen a lot sooner than you might think. These things have a way of steamrolling, in politics. The first step is taken (boldly or timidly), and then the next steps become easier because the logic supporting the entire War On Weed will begin to fall apart. "Why do we bother to still ban this, when we are now allowing that to take place?" becomes the question with no defensible answer (other than the wholly-inadequate: "Well, because we've always done it that way"). The framework will collapse of its own weight, and sometimes these collapses happen very swiftly. If 40 million Californians can enjoy the same freedom that citizens of Colorado and Oregon now enjoy, then the federal government is going to look pretty silly trying to turn back this tide. To some, the federal War On Weed won't be over until everyone affected receives an apology for all the idiocy (a full presidential pardon for Tommy Chong, perhaps?), but realistically speaking the end will happen when the government does exactly what Bernie Sanders boldly called for during his campaign -- the federal government treating marijuana not the same way it treats heroin or crystal meth, but the same way it treats alcohol and tobacco.
That was once a pipe dream, if you'll excuse the stoner-joke metaphor. For anyone who has lived through the War On Weed era, it seemed at times that the federal government was going so far backwards that such an end could not even realistically be conceived. But times are changing fast. The once-inconceivable hasn't quite become inevitable yet, but even so the end of the War On Weed is definitely now on the political horizon. Politicians should really take note, because they're now at risk of being on the wrong side of history. The old movement slogan has never seemed more appropriate, in fact: "Lead, follow, or get out of the way." Those are really the only choices left for the politicians, as the people in state after state jettison the War On Weed on their own, at the ballot box.
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The Lumo Lift is a tiny clip that you attach to your clothing like a Fitbit One, but in addition to counting your steps, distance, and calories burned, it'll also start vibrating whenever you slouch. Assuming you heed its warnings and start sitting or standing up straight, this has the potential to meaningfully improve your life in a way that counting steps might not.
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Your next TV really should have HDR support, and this 2016 Samsung 4K fits the bill for $590.
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That's still a little expensive (though not too extravagant for a 50" set), but it gets you a great upscaling engine, local dimming, smart apps, Samsung Smart View, and yes, HDR. Today's price is the best we've ever seen, and about $60 less than Amazon's current price (which is itself Amazon's all-time low).
$175 is a fair amount of cash for a single floorstanding speaker, even one that has dual subwoofers built right in, but $175 is the best deal Amazon's ever listed on the Klipsch R-26F by over $100, and it's only half its usual price, meaning you can buy a pair for the price of one.
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At $180, the FLIR ONE thermal imager is undoubtedly a luxury. But still, it's predator vision for your phone! It also normally sells for $250, and today's extended Lightning deal price is the best Amazon's ever listed.
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French press is your favorite way to make coffee, and it'll be an even more aesthetically pleasing process with this 100% stainless steel press for just $24.
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We've seen less expensive french presses before, but if you prefer this model's shiny and simple design, $24 is a fine price.
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The Logitech G502 was your choice for best gaming mouse (though you don't need to be a gamer to appreciate its benefits), and the upgraded Proteus Spectrum model (which includes fully adjustable backlighting) is on sale for an all-time low $60 today.
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The marquee spec here is the DPI range of 200-12,000, adjustable on the fly. There are also five easily movable and removable weights, and 11 customizable buttons, along with the classic Logitech dual-mode scroll wheel. Mechanical microswitches and a braided cable are also nice touches.
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Ready to get swole? Today only, Amazon's offering big discounts on performance nutrition products from the likes of BSN, EAS, Clif, and more, for Prime members only.
Inside, you'll find dozens of powders, shakes, bars, and more in a variety of flavors and formulas. Just note that the big red price listed is not the deal price in most cases. Look a little below that for the Prime price to see what you'll actually pay.
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Amazon's virtual shelves are awash in $20 Bluetooth earbuds, but if you're willing to pay a bit more for superior sound quality, Jaybird's Wirecutter-recommended X2 sport earbuds have never been cheaper. Just note that this deal is only available today, and only for Prime members.
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If wall-mounting your TV has been on your to-do list, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better deal on a mount. This model holds TVs up to 55", can extend up to 15" away from the wall, and can swivel and articulate in any direction, all for just $21.
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These $6 deals from Andake can support your neck, your back, and your senses while sleeping on a plane. If you have any long trips on the horizon, these are no-brainers.
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Few activities will give you as much self-satisfaction making some fuckin' pasta from scratch, and this discounted roller makes it (relatively) easy to spin out both thin spaghetti and wide fettucini noodles. Plus, your friends will see it sitting out on your counter and think you're some kind of culinary savant.
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We love shining a spotlight on good mini flashlight deals, and at $6 for a two-pack, you could scatter these all around your home. They're even zoomable, so you can focus or widen the beam depending on the situation.
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If you've got the space for it, this feature-packed NordicTrack treadmill is marked down to $449 on Amazon today as part of a Gold Box deal. That's the best price ever listed, and a great deal for any treadmill that inclines up to 10%, and includes 20 built-in workouts, a space-saving fold-up design, and a lifetime frame warranty, and a 25 year motor warranty.
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LOFT wants to play a game, to solve “mystery” if you will, with their Mystery Flash Sale. Lucky for you, you don't need to sign up for emails to get any discount; that's what we're here for. Use the code LUCKY50 to get 50% off your entire regular-priced purchase.
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Anker, purveyor of your favorite battery packs, charging cables, Bluetooth speakers, earbuds, and more, just released a deluge of promo codes and discounts on dozens of products in preparation for Prime Day.
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$10 is a great price for any 32GB microSD card, but it's basically unheard of for an 80MB/s model from a reputable manufacturer like Samsung.
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Sugru is right up there with binder clips and the Raspberry Pi in Lifehacker's pantheon of must-have gear, and you can stock up today with 8-packs from Amazon for just $18 each.
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We've seen plenty of deals on “premium” Google Cardboard-compatible VR headsets, but this is one of the only ones we've seen that includes a magnetic button on the side, which means you won't have to pair an external Bluetooth remote to navigate within VR apps. Seriously, if you haven't played with Google Cardboard yet, you'll have so much fun.
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If you still enjoy the feel of an old-fashioned paper magazine, Amazon's selling 6-month subscriptions to dozens of popular titles today, including Vanity Fair, Wired, Popular Science, and a lot more. Just note that this is a Gold Box deal, meaning it's only available today.
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Need a way to dramatically improve your living space? How about robotic furniture? No, it's not some far-off dream for the future. It's a collaboration between MIT Media Lab spin-off Ori with designer Yves Béhar. This article originally appeared in Vulture.
When Marvel Comics announced that a 15-year-old black girl named Riri Williams would be taking over as Iron Man later this year, the company was prepared for an attack from the right. Indeed, Brian Michael Bendis—the veteran scribe who introduced Riri in an Iron Man comic a few months ago and who will be writing her upcoming adventures—sounded a bit cocky about the high ground he held against his potential critics.
“Some of the comments online, I don't think people even realize how racist they sound,” he told Time in the article unveiling the move, referring to past assaults on Marvel for replacing traditionally white characters with nonwhite ones. “All I can do is state my case for the character, and maybe they'll realize over time that that's not the most progressive thinking.” Ironically, progressive thinking is what fueled the most pointed backlash to the news. The new Iron Person was emblematic of Marvel's efforts to become more representative of marginalized groups, but she also prompted a difficult question: What does progress really look like in superhero fiction?
The geek commentariat on Twitter swiftly and collectively reached two incriminating realizations about Riri. First, this black female character was created by and will be written by a white man. The contrast irked some on a creative level: “You can't call these diverse stories without diverse voices,” tweeted writer Carly Lane. Others looked at the problem from a financial standpoint: As pseudonymous blogger theblerdgurl put it, “I am happy to c a girl who looks like me as a lead in a #Marvel comic. I just wish someone who looks like me cld profit from it. #IronMan.”
That pecuniary line of criticism led to the second, more startling realization: Not only was this black female not being written by a black female, Marvel has no black female writers. Indeed, experts struggled to name a single black woman to have ever written a Marvel comic during the company's 77-year history. “Still can't think of a Sister who ever wrote for Marvel,” tweeted columnist Joseph P. Illidge. “Q for the superhero comics historians: has a black woman ever written an ongoing series for Marvel?”tweeted podcaster Al Kennedy, and when no one could come up with one, he followed up by saying, “Jeez. Feel like an prime idiot for not picking up on this before now. Easy to be in a cocoon as a white dude.”
Indeed. For much of the history of superhero fiction, the genre lived in that cocoon—white men paid other white men to write stories targeted at white men. As such, the most important characters were, themselves, white men: Batman, Superman, Captain America, Spider-Man, and the like. This is, of course, not unique to comics; it's true of all entertainment. But in the past few years, superhero comics have been morphing into something more multifaceted and representative, and they've been doing it in a way that movies and television can't.
Marvel has taken the lead on this front, using a fascinating tactic to get attention for their diversity pushes. Instead of trying to sell readers on new characters who aren't lily-white dudes, they simply rebrand their intellectual property. There's a long tradition of different people taking on the monikers of existing superheroes after the originals die or retire, so why not use that trope in a way that pushes the envelope on identity politics? You're not going to get much mainstream media attention by pitching the idea of a black girl who uses a robot suit. But if you say she's Iron Man—a name familiar to anyone who's purchased a movie ticket in the past eight years—all of a sudden, you've got yourself a Time headline. It's much harder to do those kinds of swaps in film and TV. Doing an all-female reboot of Ghostbusters or theoretically casting a person of color as James Bond is an exceedingly costly gamble; comics are cheap to make, so you can go back on your experiment with little risk.
The experiments have thus been plentiful. First came the 2011 introduction of Miles Morales, an Afro-Latino kid from Brooklyn who took up the role of Spider-Man during a period when Peter Parker was out of commission. Then came the 2012 shift in which Captain Marvel was recast as a woman. The next year, a new Ms. Marvel was introduced who, unlike her predecessor, was Pakistani-American and Muslim. There were twin announcements in 2014 that there would be a new, female Thor and a black man wielding the shield of Captain America. Last year brought yet another surprise: White-bread Bruce Banner would no longer be the Hulk—that emerald mantle would be held by a Korean-American kid. Now, we've got Riri.
All of those changes are pretty inarguably positive. It's hard to claim that making marginalized identities more prominent is anything but a step in the right direction. But how far does that step really stretch? To be sure, it's important for fans of the insanely lucrative and ever-growing superhero genre to see people like themselves on the page and on the screen. If you thrill to the antics of spandex-clad do-gooders, you deserve to not feel invisible, especially if you're a young person whose notion of identity and self-worth are still being formed.
And yet, Marvel has been undermining its own efforts in a number of ways. First of all, a lot of the changes have felt decidedly impermanent. The original Thor is still stomping around in the cosmos, waiting in the wings if and when his corporate overlords ever want to bring him back into the spotlight. The same goes for the Hulk. Puny Bruce Banner can go green whenever Marvel needs him to. Even more odd are the situations of Spidey and Cap. In each case, the replacement and the original are still operating in the Marvel universe under the name “Spider-Man” and “Captain America,” respectively. If there are two superheroes with the same name, and one's had that name since your grandfather was a kid—and has that name in a multibillion-dollar film franchise—why would you ever assume the nonwhite newbie will outlast him?
Luckily, there are no signs that Ms. Marvel or Captain Marvel will revert to their original statuses—no one is sharing their mantles. Even better, those two characters, in their new incarnations, have repeatedly interrogated race and gender (and, in the case of Ms. Marvel, faith). The rest have touched on identity politics only lightly, though often memorably. Thor has struggled with the fact that no one seems to take her as seriously as her predecessor, the black Captain America has dealt with racist hate groups, the Korean-American Hulk has challenged Asian-nerd stereotypes, and Miles has wrung his hands over whether he feels comfortable with people talking about his ethnicity.
The issue being addressed in the past 24 hours is the fact that four of the most lucrative and famous of these characters—Spider-Man, Iron Man, Thor, and Captain America—are being narratively stewarded by people who don't share their ethnic or gender identities. Their solo titles are all being written by white men. That's certainly not to say white people can't write about race or men can't write about gender. Of course they can. And Bendis is a very talented writer—his stories about Riri could be dazzling and groundbreaking.
But the post—Riri outcry is about matters that are larger than any one story decision: Why should we be prioritizing white, male creators' takes when a nonwhite, non-male character is put in the foreground? Aren't we losing a tremendous opportunity by not having people who look like those characters tell their stories? And isn't it frustrating that, as theblerdgirl noted, a black woman won't pick up the paycheck for a story about a black girl, especially after Marvel has reaped so much goodwill and praise for introducing one?
All of that said, it would be a shame to look at the critiques that progressive nerds are making about the Iron Man news and conclude that they're calling for a kind of identity siloing, in which only black people can write black characters, only women can write women, and so on. Marvel just needs more black creators and women creators, period, doing all kinds of series. Things are getting better, as of late. According to industry analyst Tim Hanley, nearly 19 percent of the company's creators are female, a number that's been generally rising in recent years. Last year, there was an outcry over the paucity of black creators on Marvel titles; there are a few more now, including none other than Ta-Nehisi Coates.
However, looking at the backlash to the Riri announcement, one is reminded of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's oft-quoted line about gender on the Supreme Court: “People ask me sometimes, ‘When do you think it will it be enough? When will there be enough women on the court?' And my answer is when there are nine.” If a black girl can dream of flying as high as Tony Stark, it's perfectly reasonable for geeks to dream of a superhero-comics publisher whose staff is as diverse as its characters.
See also: Ta-Nehisi Coates Annotates His Black Panther Debut
Hey, Robot-heads and Robot-head-ettes! For the next few hours, you can see the Season Two premiere of Mr. Robot, the USA show from Sam Esmail, on your choice of social networks. It's on Twitter right here:
It's also available on YouTube and the show's homepage, although it's broadcasting live there, while the Twitter version lets you start from the beginning. This season, is Mr. Robot machine or mannequin? Watch and find out!
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Felt so lucky to catch these guys doing bubbles with this amazing sunset behind them in Southbank. I was inside of a pub on Saturday when I noticed the pink hues in the sky and ran away quickly to photograph. Took a bunch of shots to capture this. Hope you like it as much as I did. :)
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