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nprplays: From Polygon: Escape from Woomera still highlights Australia’s shame 11 years on Escape from Woomera, a first-person point-and-click game in which players tried to break out of the Woomera Immigration Reception and Processing Center (better known as the Woomera Detention Center), made its way around the world, and the Australian government – despite its best…
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ted: Every week, cartoonist / math nerd / former NASA roboticist Randall Munroe tries to answer the weird questions that keep people up night. How? Math, science and comics, obviously. The guy behind the webcomic xkcd, Munroe has tackled a lot of weird questions — involving dinosaurs, soda, and expanding clouds of plasma. But one question…
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prostheticknowledge: xNT NFC chip hand implantation – first-person view A demonstration of inserting an NFC chip into a hand taken by Charlotte M. Ellett. It should be stressed and noted why care should be taken while doing the procedure, and the professional in the video explains the process in it’s course – video embedded below:…
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Climate Change Deemed Growing Security Threat by Military Researchers
technoccult: Klint Finley The New York Times reports: The accelerating rate of climate change poses a severe risk to national security and acts as a catalyst for global political conflict, a report published Tuesday by a leading government-funded military research organization concluded. The CNA Corporation Military Advisory Board found that climate change-induced drought in the…
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Artist Daniel Temkin has been creating and discussing glitch art for over seven years. In that time, he’s exhibited in solo and group shows, and had his work featured in Rhizome and Fast Company, amongst other publications. For Temkin, glitch art is about the disruption of algorithms, though algorithmic art is a bit of a…