Topic: CARS - on August 2, 2016 at 4:19:00 PM CEST
Aristotle at the Gigafactory: Why Physics Is a Philosophy
On Friday, in Storey County, Nevada, a woman at Tesla’s Gigafactory inauguration hollered, “Beam me up, Elon!” Elon Musk, the electric car company’s chief executive officer, had just taken the stage along with J.B. Straubel, Tesla’s chief technical officer. “Okay, we’re working on that one,” Musk gamely replied before saying: “Alright—welcome everyone to the Gigafactory launch party! I hope you’re having a good time.”
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Topic: History - on August 2, 2016 at 3:41:00 PM CEST
The Alarming Aesthetics of Jazz Age Perm Machines
The perm may be the unofficial hairstyle of the '80s, but the perming process originated many decades earlier—and involved machines that resembled medieval torture devices rather than sleek salon appliances. “Science has pronounced straight hair to be freakish,” declared a haircare ad in a 1922 issue of Harper's Bazaar. “Just think of the great improvement a permanent wave makes in appearance. Close your eyes and imagine fairy fingers transforming your lank strands into lovely, lasting curls, as natural looking as if you were born with them.”
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Topic: CARS - on August 2, 2016 at 3:38:00 PM CEST
The Jeep Hackers Are Back to Prove Car Hacking Can Get Much Worse
Almost exactly a year ago, Chrysler announced a recall for 1.4 million vehicles after a pair of hackers demonstrated to WIRED that they could remotely hijack a Jeep’s digital systems over the Internet. For Chrysler, the fix was embarrassing and costly. But now those two researchers have returned with work that asks Chrysler and the automotive industry to imagine an alternate reality, one where instead of reporting their research to the automaker so it could be fixed, they had kept working on it in secret—the way malicious hackers would have. In doing so, they’ve developed a new hack that offers a sobering lesson: It could have been—and still could be—much worse.
wired.com Achtung Canvas-Fingerprinting
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Topic: SCIENCE - on August 2, 2016 at 3:37:00 PM CEST
MIT made a movie screen that brings 3D to all seats – without the glasses
Seeing 3D movies in theaters isn’t my preferred choice for a bunch of reasons, but the glasses definitely rank among its most annoying features. The cheap plastic things always have to ride atop my existing, actual vision glasses, for one, and they also always seem to be scratched or otherwise marked up. Which is why news that MIT has developed a glasses-less 3D display tech suitable for use in movie theater settings – even if it’s only a prototype – is so welcome.
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Topic: DRUGS - on August 2, 2016 at 3:34:00 PM CEST
A ketamine-themed musical is coming to New York
In the last ten years, ketamine has become intrinsically linked with nightlife, while also being developed as a drug to aid depression and PTSD. Now, it’s the subject of a new musical debuting in Brooklyn, New York, later this month. Ketamine: The Musical will open 17-19 August at House of Yes, an art space and club in Bushwick, Brooklyn. It’s been described as “an immersive, participatory, psychoactive and dissociative spectacle”.
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Topic: DRUGS - on August 2, 2016 at 3:29:00 PM CEST
More American high school students smoke pot than binge drink
In 2014, 44.1 million Americans reported using illicit drugs over the past year. One tragic result of the widespread use of drugs and alcohol is its impact on youth. In the United States alone, 7% of youth aged 12–13 took an illicit substance in the past year, while 5.6% reported drinking alcohol. Early use of drugs or alcohol has been linked to a several times greater risk of developing substance dependence, as the majority of Americans aged 18–30 admitted for substance abuse treatment initiated alcohol or drug use before the age of 18.
The use of alcohol and illicit drugs by teenagers and youth is a serious issue. With a problem this widespread, we wanted to find out where youth drinking and drug use is most prominent. So, we compared data from the United States and European nations to find out just how many high school students are engaging in binge drinking and marijuana use. Read on to learn more about patterns of youth drinking and drug use around the globe.
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