Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Terry Richardson’s eight-month exile from the covers of mainstream American magazines has come to an end, with his work fronting the February issues of both Rolling Stone and Harper’s Bazaar. The controversial photographer shot at least 10 mainstream U.S. covers in 2013, but work dried up in the spring of 2014, after the latest and…
These 3d-printed zoetrope sculptures were designed by John Edmark, and they only animate when filmed under a strobe light or with the help of a camera with an extremely short shutter speed. He shares about the project: These are 3-D printed sculptures designed to animate when spun under a strobe light….
Once you open a card full of glitter, it’s guaranteed to go everywhere—and from the looks of it, the same thing happens once you open a shop that offers to mail glitter to people’s enemies. Mathew Carpenter, the man behind ShipYourEnemiesGlitter.com is begging people not to use his site the day after it went viral among the Internet’s…
Dots or people—what do you want your readers to think? (Ryan Norton via Flickr.) Jake Harris on data visualization, empathy, and representing people with dots One of my favorite movies is the classic 1949 thriller “The Third Man.” The story is about a writer who arrives in gloomy post-war Vienna on the promise of a job…
Five categories. Thirty-two films. All about science. Today, as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announces the nominations for those coveted Oscar statuettes, WSF launches our first-ever Scio Awards. Vote for your favorite actor in a scientist role or write in your pick. You have until February 22nd, the date of the Academy Awards ceremony,…
About The Transcript Player (tplayer) plays audio accompanied by an autoscrolling transcript. Embeddable transcripts allow your audience to engage with your audio through both text and sound. They also allow you to embed specific sections of your audio by using the embeddable snippets feature (see Usage Notes). There are three ways you can embed them…
The Spiral 2 prototypeProject Ara, Google’s Google’s effort to bring to life a modular phone that you put together like Lego bricks, is coming to Puerto Rico in a pilot later this year.At its second Project Ara Developer Conference on Google’s campus in Mountain View today, Project Ara director Paul Eremenko discussed Google’s go-to-market plans. Instead of…
Target to close all 133 Canadian stores; 17,600 employees will lose jobs Target says it will close its stores in Canada, a market that it entered only two years ago. Image: AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Ryan Remiorz/Associated Press By Anita Li2015-01-15 17:18:19 UTC TORONTO — Target is closing all of its stores in Canada, less…
I was introduced to Janet a couple of years ago by a friend; we shared her blog posts from Musings On Love with each other, a blog where Janet wrote about her life in love and lamented her struggles. I was struck by the way she talked about love and loss, or even herself—there was…
Photo A convention for fast-food workers last July in Addison, Ill., called for higher minimum wages. Credit Nathan Weber for The New York Times close shareTools All eyes are on wages. For workers who have faced six years of stagnant pay, Federal Reserve officials trying to decide when they can safely raise interest rates, or…