Future fireworks

Future fireworks

It won’t be long until we see droneworks in Hong Kong, I should think. These were a little underwhelming, if I’m honest, but I can see how they’d become extraordinary over time.

Unexpected modern sports

Two lovely new sports that I’ve come across by accident. Competitive freestyle indoor skydiving (kind of unconstrained overhead gymnastics). Classical vs Pop full orchestral mash ups (Brahms vs Radiohead and Bartók vs Björk in this post). Indoor skydiving...
US election maps

US election maps

I’ve found the county level US election maps fascinating. Here are some more goodies. The purple linear cartogram of the election results looks like a phoenix decaying. Discuss. Source: Election maps

Blame yourself, not the media

Another from the “I didn’t expect that” list. The written news media is reporting reasonably effectively, we just don’t use old media any more. The two most newsworthy things that Donald Trump did in the last two days were these: He gave a...
Why people join Daesh

Why people join Daesh

Must read article on new research into Daesh. Really not what I thought at all. “…young people adrift in a globalized world find their own way to ISIS, looking  to don a social identity that gives their lives significance. Groups of dissatisfied young...

Scheisse

Astonishing, horrific, must read. tl;dr Stanford rape case