Avete presente quegli impallinati che parlano delle scie chimiche? Ecco, forse almeno una volta tanto impallinati non sono stati...
https://www.techinsider.io/the-military-tested-bacterial-weapons-in-san-francisco-2015-7
https://www.techinsider.io/the-military-tested-bacterial-weapons-in-san-francisco-2015-7
Tech Insider
'One of the largest human experiments in history' was conducted on unsuspecting residents of San Francisco
For 20 years, the military secretly tested biological agents on the American public.
Crisi del giornalismo sulla carta stampata -l'unica assieme alla TV a dare stipendi medio-alti ai giornalisti. Un amico che lavora in consulenza mi chiedeva, con i costanti tagli economici a parità di contenuti da produrre, com'è che i migliori non se ne vanno. Se ne sono andati già da un po', gli ho risposto.
Money quote: "Space in newsprint papers can be filled. The end result is something that looks like a paper, but the content lacks any real value. It is not journalism. It is pointless material without any public benefit.
Keep in mind the scenario outlined by Nick Davies in Flat Earth News about “churnalism”, a mixture of agency stories and PR-generated “oven-ready copy”. It will get much worse as newsroom numbers are reduced".
https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/may/27/suddenly-national-newspapers-are-heading-for-that-print-cliff-fall
Money quote: "Space in newsprint papers can be filled. The end result is something that looks like a paper, but the content lacks any real value. It is not journalism. It is pointless material without any public benefit.
Keep in mind the scenario outlined by Nick Davies in Flat Earth News about “churnalism”, a mixture of agency stories and PR-generated “oven-ready copy”. It will get much worse as newsroom numbers are reduced".
https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/may/27/suddenly-national-newspapers-are-heading-for-that-print-cliff-fall
the Guardian
Suddenly, national newspapers are heading for that print cliff fall
As advertisers turn their backs on newsprint, publishers who have been in denial about the digital revolution are confronted by an uncomfortable reality
Un po’ di tempo fa ho visto una mostra del fotografo giapponese Daido Moriyama alla galleria Sozzani di Milano. Era una mostra di “Moriyama a colori”, come dire l’eccezione che conferma la regola del più noto fotografo in bianco e nero del Giappone.
È rimasto il più famoso e popolare esponente della Provoke Era, il movimento culturale che caratterizza gli anni Sessanta del secondo dopoguerra giapponese (una cosa un po’ diversa dai nostri baby boomers, perché a Berkeley e a Parigi non hanno tirato due bombe atomiche). Moriyama può non piacere e sicuramente rafforza l’idea che molti fotografi e molti giapponesi abbiano bisogno di andare in cura da uno bravo. Però però guardate che questo è uno bravo per davvero.
Un documentario lo racconta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foWAs3V_lkg
È rimasto il più famoso e popolare esponente della Provoke Era, il movimento culturale che caratterizza gli anni Sessanta del secondo dopoguerra giapponese (una cosa un po’ diversa dai nostri baby boomers, perché a Berkeley e a Parigi non hanno tirato due bombe atomiche). Moriyama può non piacere e sicuramente rafforza l’idea che molti fotografi e molti giapponesi abbiano bisogno di andare in cura da uno bravo. Però però guardate che questo è uno bravo per davvero.
Un documentario lo racconta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foWAs3V_lkg
YouTube
Artist Daido Moriyama – In Pictures | Tate
Daido Moriyama uses an ordinary compact camera and never stops shooting. The artist is the most celebrated photographer to emerge from the Japanese Provoke movement of the 1960s.
In this film Moriyama invites us into his studio and takes us on a walk around…
In this film Moriyama invites us into his studio and takes us on a walk around…
The Night Manager e Happy Valley: il New Yorker scopre il bello degli sceneggiati in sei puntate (attenzione:spoiler).
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/30/the-night-manager-and-happy-valley
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/30/the-night-manager-and-happy-valley
The New Yorker
Six Episodes of Sinister
Both shows have short seasons, but “Happy Valley” does precisely what “The Night Manager” doesn’t—it finds something original to say about evil.
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Se siete a New York la notte notte fra sabato e domenica, è tempo di Manhattanhenge
Money quote: "For Manhattan, a place where evening matters more than morning, that special day comes twice a year, when the setting Sun aligns precisely with the Manhattan street grid, creating a radiant glow of light across Manhattan's brick and steel canyons, simultaneously illuminating both the north and south sides of every cross street of the borough's grid. A rare and beautiful sigh".
https://www.amnh.org/our-research/hayden-planetarium/resources/manhattanhenge/
Money quote: "For Manhattan, a place where evening matters more than morning, that special day comes twice a year, when the setting Sun aligns precisely with the Manhattan street grid, creating a radiant glow of light across Manhattan's brick and steel canyons, simultaneously illuminating both the north and south sides of every cross street of the borough's grid. A rare and beautiful sigh".
https://www.amnh.org/our-research/hayden-planetarium/resources/manhattanhenge/
American Museum of Natural History
Manhattanhenge 2023: Where & How to See It | AMNH
New York City's rectangular street grid - and clear views to the horizon, east and west - are a perfect setting for this special event.
Ken Loach si ritira e mette gratuitamente i suoi film su YouTube?
https://www.telerama.fr/cinema/ken-loach-aucun-film-ne-devrait-etre-plus-long-qu-un-match-de-football,114192.php
https://www.telerama.fr/cinema/ken-loach-aucun-film-ne-devrait-etre-plus-long-qu-un-match-de-football,114192.php
www.telerama.fr
Ken Loach : “Les médias contrôlent notre culture d'une manière très pernicieuse”
En salles ce mercredi 2 juillet, “Jimmy's Hall” sera peut-être le dernier film de Ken Loach. Entretien avec un réalisateur militant qui...
Il funerale perfetto, progettato dal defunto. Il leggendario designer Massimo Vignelli. Eseguito superbamente. Sarebbe stato entusiasta, se avesse potuto partecipare in modo più "vivo".
Money quote: "For many years, Vignelli developed the vision for his funeral—his final design production—carefully choosing the location, the program, the music, the speakers, the guest list, and of course, an impeccable custom-made crematory urn."
https://qz.com/692791/design-legend-massimo-vignellis-last-grand-project-was-his-own-funeral/
Money quote: "For many years, Vignelli developed the vision for his funeral—his final design production—carefully choosing the location, the program, the music, the speakers, the guest list, and of course, an impeccable custom-made crematory urn."
https://qz.com/692791/design-legend-massimo-vignellis-last-grand-project-was-his-own-funeral/
Quartz
A legendary Italian designer designed his own funeral, and he didn’t miss a detail
Most funerals are modest, hastily planned events left to mourning family members to put together. But for design legend Massimo Vignelli, who passed away two years ago today (May 27), it was a farewell that he personally designed down to the last detail,…
Ok, il mondo non sta per finire perché ci sono batteri diventati resistenti agli antibiotici. Almeno, non ancora.
Fate un respiro di sollievo, stiratevi le braccia, magari bevete un bicchiere d'acqua. Adesso potete leggere o saltare a pie' pari il noioso ma scientificamente corretto e informato articolo di Ars Technica e rimanere sui terroristici Corriere e Repubblica. Your (informed) choice...
https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/05/everybody-be-cool-a-nightmare-superbug-has-not-heralded-the-apocalypse-yet/
Fate un respiro di sollievo, stiratevi le braccia, magari bevete un bicchiere d'acqua. Adesso potete leggere o saltare a pie' pari il noioso ma scientificamente corretto e informato articolo di Ars Technica e rimanere sui terroristici Corriere e Repubblica. Your (informed) choice...
https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/05/everybody-be-cool-a-nightmare-superbug-has-not-heralded-the-apocalypse-yet/
Ars Technica
No, this isn’t the start of the antibiotic apocalypse, just bad reporting
New drug-resistant infection is cause for measured concern, but let’s get the facts straight.
Una sola parola: Motorpsycho!
(c’è vita (elettrica) a Trondheim)
https://www.radiopopolare.it/2016/05/motorpsycho-ce-vita-elettrica-a-trondheim/
(c’è vita (elettrica) a Trondheim)
https://www.radiopopolare.it/2016/05/motorpsycho-ce-vita-elettrica-a-trondheim/
RADIO POPOLARE
Motorpsycho: c’è vita (elettrica) a Trondheim
Il nuovo disco dei norvegesi Motorpsycho, "Here be monsters", nasce da un lavoro commissionato dal Norsk Teknisk Museum di Oslo. La nostra intervista
Il titolare del canale va in trasferta alcuni giorni. Gli aggiornamenti per questo motivo saranno sporadici. Ma non preoccupatevi, seguiranno sorprese. Buon fine settimana!
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Tutto molto imteressante e hi-tech. Il problema è che poi di solito il libro è brutto...
The Montecristo project | Officine Mutanti
https://www.officinemutanti.it/content/montecristo-project
The Montecristo project | Officine Mutanti
https://www.officinemutanti.it/content/montecristo-project
www.officinemutanti.it
The Montecristo project | Officine Mutanti
“Poiché la storia è molto complessa e intricata”, mi racconta Kellermann, “sono arrivato a un punto nel quale la ‘sindrome degli sceneggiatori di Lost’ faceva pericolosamente capolino. Quindi sentivo il bisogno di un sistema informatico che mi aiutasse a…
Ebbene sì, c'è gente che colleziona orologi da campanile. Una storia ben raccontata con questa intervista di Giulio Passerini
https://www.dailybest.it/lifestyle/orologi-da-campanile-collezione/
https://www.dailybest.it/lifestyle/orologi-da-campanile-collezione/
DAILYBEST
Hobby impossibili, collezionare orologi da campanile
E noi abbiamo incontrato uno dei pochissimi che conserva e ricerca ancora oggi queste meraviglie di un altro tempo
L'era del Selfie. Adesso ci si mettono anche le banche, che lo stanno prendendo in seria considerazione. Peccato sia sempre meno cool e forse vietato per i Millennials
Money Quote: "MasterCard is at the helm of the selfie pay movement, with security head Ajay Bhalla convinced that the “selfie generation” will think that it is “cool”."
https://www.thememo.com/2016/05/26/mastercard-selfie-payments-amazon-alibaba-atom-bank/
Money Quote: "MasterCard is at the helm of the selfie pay movement, with security head Ajay Bhalla convinced that the “selfie generation” will think that it is “cool”."
https://www.thememo.com/2016/05/26/mastercard-selfie-payments-amazon-alibaba-atom-bank/
The Memo
Banks are obsessed with selfie payments | The Memo
Young people like taking selfies, it’s a fact. Well lots of us do anyway. But that doesn’t mean it’s the best way to sign into your bank. Why oh why, are banks so obsessed with the idea of selfie payment? Selfie pay is not cool or hip MasterCard is at the…
Asus lancia la sfida a MacBook Air e Surface (ma c’è anche un robot) - il sottoscritto da Taipei per Il Sole 24 ORE
https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/tecnologie/2016-05-30/asus-presenta-robot-la-casa-e-lancia-sfida-macbook-air-e-surface-123034.shtml
https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/tecnologie/2016-05-30/asus-presenta-robot-la-casa-e-lancia-sfida-macbook-air-e-surface-123034.shtml
Il Sole 24 ORE
Asus lancia la sfida a MacBook Air e Surface (ma c’è anche un robot)
Un robot per la casa, che guarda anche bambini e anziani. Una nuova generazione di smartphone per tutte le tasche (soprattutto le dimensioni, con un
Lo so che ogni tanto ve lo siete chiesti: perché c'è tanta differenza tra sitcom britanniche e statunitensi? Sintesi estrema ma interessante risposta...
The difference between the UK and the US in one paragraph about 'The Office'
https://indy100.independent.co.uk/article/the-difference-between-the-uk-and-the-us-in-one-paragraph-about-the-office--W1l60pQ6vXb
Money quote: "UK sitcoms tend to be darker than American ones, encouraged by a powerful public broadcasting system whose aim is to serve the varying tastes of taxpayers, not the upbeat preferences of advertisers, and by a national psyche fixated on the immutability of the class system, not on a dream of self-improvement. Americans believe that things will get better. Brits laugh at how things stay the same. To become a hit in the United States, The Office not only had to transform the tragic, grating boss into a less tragic, less grating, more well-meaning boss; it had to cast off the message, central to the British original, that work is where you go to waste your life."
The difference between the UK and the US in one paragraph about 'The Office'
https://indy100.independent.co.uk/article/the-difference-between-the-uk-and-the-us-in-one-paragraph-about-the-office--W1l60pQ6vXb
Money quote: "UK sitcoms tend to be darker than American ones, encouraged by a powerful public broadcasting system whose aim is to serve the varying tastes of taxpayers, not the upbeat preferences of advertisers, and by a national psyche fixated on the immutability of the class system, not on a dream of self-improvement. Americans believe that things will get better. Brits laugh at how things stay the same. To become a hit in the United States, The Office not only had to transform the tragic, grating boss into a less tragic, less grating, more well-meaning boss; it had to cast off the message, central to the British original, that work is where you go to waste your life."
indy100
The difference between the UK and the US in one paragraph
Despite a shared language and the cross-pollination of popular culture, the UK and the USA are not as similar as they can appear on the surface.
Wallpaper storici per chi ha usato il Mac una ventina di anni fa. Attenzione, qui ci ho visto piangere nerd della mela apparentemente imperturbabili...
The Classic Mac Wallpaper Pack
https://zookeeny.com/8j66g853b3gj4
The Classic Mac Wallpaper Pack
https://zookeeny.com/8j66g853b3gj4
Zookeeny
Zookeeny | The Classic Mac Wallpaper Pack
Zookeeny - The Internet's Image Garden
Giornalismi sotto assedio. Ci lamentiamo in Italia del rapporto contrastato fra stampa e potere, ma in Giappone chi canta fuori dal coro lo impallinano subito...
Money quote: "“I couldn’t believe it,” he recalls. “I had become a symbol of the right’s hatred of the Asahi.”"
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/28/national/media-national/shooting-messenger-journalism-siege-japan/#.V0z8zsjt-01.twitter
Money quote: "“I couldn’t believe it,” he recalls. “I had become a symbol of the right’s hatred of the Asahi.”"
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/28/national/media-national/shooting-messenger-journalism-siege-japan/#.V0z8zsjt-01.twitter
The Japan Times
Shooting the messenger: journalism under siege in Japan | The Japan Times
Journalists who refuse to toe the official line are under pressure, experts say
Tra i tanti progetti di Google c'è questo chip con un radar dentro che permette di capire il movimento, la forma e il materiale degli oggetti. Il video è breve e vale la pena
https://futurism.com/videos/googles-tiny-chip-could-revolutionize-gesture-control
https://futurism.com/videos/googles-tiny-chip-could-revolutionize-gesture-control
Futurism
Google's Tiny Chip Could Revolutionize Gesture Control
It can determine an object's shape, orientation, and even its material.
Entro il 2020 - dice la UE - la scienza dovrà diventare libera. Ricerca non più pubblicata su riviste a pagamento.
https://www.sciencealert.com/europe-announces-that-all-scientific-articles-should-be-freely-accessible-by-2020
https://www.sciencealert.com/europe-announces-that-all-scientific-articles-should-be-freely-accessible-by-2020
ScienceAlert
Europe Announces That All Scientific Papers Should Be Free by 2020
This week was a revolutionary week in the sciences - not because we discovered a new fundamental particle or had a new breakthrough in quantum computing - but because some of the most prominent world leaders announced an initiative which asserts th
Terrorismo, disservizi, scioperi, manifestazioni e scontri. Parigi adesso è nei guai con un calo sensibile del turismo.
Money quote: "Under grey skies at the Eiffel Tower in central Paris, Mayor Anne Hidalgo and Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault announced an advertising campaign, jointly funded by City Hall and the state, to lure visitors back to the City of Light.
“The objective is to reassure both visitors and professionals [in the city] about the security situation in Paris and to project a positive and enthusiastic message that makes Paris a desirable destination again".
https://www.france24.com/en/20160530-france-paris-launches-bid-lure-frightened-tourists-november-13-2015-strikes-protests
Money quote: "Under grey skies at the Eiffel Tower in central Paris, Mayor Anne Hidalgo and Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault announced an advertising campaign, jointly funded by City Hall and the state, to lure visitors back to the City of Light.
“The objective is to reassure both visitors and professionals [in the city] about the security situation in Paris and to project a positive and enthusiastic message that makes Paris a desirable destination again".
https://www.france24.com/en/20160530-france-paris-launches-bid-lure-frightened-tourists-november-13-2015-strikes-protests
France 24
Paris launches drive to lure visitors as tourism plummets - France 24
Paris launched a major drive to attract tourists to the city on Monday following an alarming drop in visitor numbers after the November 2015 Paris attacks, compounded by a wave of protests and transport strikes.