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Baltimore Police officers in riot gear on April 27. Drew Angerer / Getty Images As Edward Ransford, a sociologist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, listened to reports from his car radio of the rioting in Baltimore this week, he was transported back to the summer of 1965. Then a young graduate…
Kevin Moore, the man who filmed 25-year-old Freddie Gray‘s arrest, was reportedly arrested in Baltimore on Thursday night, according to a Facebook post from “We Cop Watch,” a group that routinely films police activity. Moore, who is said to have cooperated with police and turned over the video, claimed he was targeted after the police…
BALTIMORE—Sinai Hospital in Northwest Baltimore received no credible threats in the wake of violent clashes between residents and police on Monday. So there were no National Guard soldiers or armored vehicles stationed out front, like there were at Johns Hopkins Hospital in East Baltimore. But it was far from business as usual at Sinai. Things…
I was asleep when I heard the door rattle against the frame. My eyes flashed open and I sprung upright in my under-desk sleep space. Was it all over? Had someone come to work early? I peered over my desk, afraid of what I might see. The morning sun burned through the chicken-scratch graffiti of…
*That is to say, its ruthless efficiency as an engine of inequality This Chart WIll Restore Your Faith in Capitalism* — The Nib — Medium.
The future is looking bright The Sharing Economy is Extremely Good — The Nib — Medium.
So Joss Whedon, TV cult hero and creator of the Buffyverse, has spent most of the last five years engaged in immensely lucrative struggle with a Marvel Comics mashup franchise. Toward what end, I am genuinely not sure. I have tried to take the question seriously: I went back and watched “The Avengers” again, and…
Quantum computing could make complex calculations trivial—but it’s currently fraught with problems. Now, though, IBM has solved one of the biggest, allowing it to detect the internal errors that could otherwise render quantum calculation useless. One of the many problems exhibited by the breed of future computers is that they exist in the delicate and…
Updated on April 30, 2015 As protests formed in a handful of major American cities on Wednesday night, a leaked police document offered a new and controversial theory as to what might have happened to Freddie Gray, the black Baltimore man who died in police custody last week. What the Document Says The document, obtained…
Last year, NASA’s advanced propulsion research wing made headlines by announcing the successful test of a physics-defying electromagnetic drive, or EM drive. Now, this futuristic engine, which could in theory propel objects to near-relativistic speeds, has been shown to work inside a space-like vacuum. Illustration: “Dreamscape IV,” by jamajurabaev, via Deviantart NASA Eagleworks made the…