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A Maryland couple is reportedly under investigation for allowing their 6- and 10-year-old children to walk around the neighborhood together without an adult. Danielle and Alexander Meitiv, of Silver Spring, say the investigation is an invasion of their privacy and infringes on their rights as parents, a local CBS affiliate reported. “I grew up…
Photo Terry Richardson’s photograph of Miranda Kerr, on the cover of the February issue of Harper’s Bazaar.Credit It’s been a big week for forgiveness in fashion: John Galliano made his reappearance on the runway under the aegis of Maison Margiela, and the American Harper’s Bazaar and Rolling Stone unveiled their latest covers, courtesy of the…
Today the Swiss National Bank shocked the world when it announced it would remove the cap it had in place to prevent the Swiss franc from rising too high against the euro. Here’s what that means and what it’s all about. Switzerland has a long reputation for having an incredibly stable financial system (everyone knows about…
Terry Richardson’s eight-month exile from the covers of mainstream American magazines has come to an end, with his work fronting the February issues of both Rolling Stone and Harper’s Bazaar. The controversial photographer shot at least 10 mainstream U.S. covers in 2013, but work dried up in the spring of 2014, after the latest and…
These 3d-printed zoetrope sculptures were designed by John Edmark, and they only animate when filmed under a strobe light or with the help of a camera with an extremely short shutter speed. He shares about the project: These are 3-D printed sculptures designed to animate when spun under a strobe light….
Once you open a card full of glitter, it’s guaranteed to go everywhere—and from the looks of it, the same thing happens once you open a shop that offers to mail glitter to people’s enemies. Mathew Carpenter, the man behind ShipYourEnemiesGlitter.com is begging people not to use his site the day after it went viral among the Internet’s…
Dots or people—what do you want your readers to think? (Ryan Norton via Flickr.) Jake Harris on data visualization, empathy, and representing people with dots One of my favorite movies is the classic 1949 thriller “The Third Man.” The story is about a writer who arrives in gloomy post-war Vienna on the promise of a job…
Five categories. Thirty-two films. All about science. Today, as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announces the nominations for those coveted Oscar statuettes, WSF launches our first-ever Scio Awards. Vote for your favorite actor in a scientist role or write in your pick. You have until February 22nd, the date of the Academy Awards ceremony,…
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The Spiral 2 prototypeProject Ara, Google’s Google’s effort to bring to life a modular phone that you put together like Lego bricks, is coming to Puerto Rico in a pilot later this year.At its second Project Ara Developer Conference on Google’s campus in Mountain View today, Project Ara director Paul Eremenko discussed Google’s go-to-market plans. Instead of…