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August 25, 2014 Sophie Weiner

Ima, Caleb, Asha and Joshua Christian (ages 16, 14, 15 and 10, respectively) have responded to nationwide police brutality, the shooting of Michael Brown and the protests in Ferguson in a way that is more pragmatic than most authority figures. The siblings, who say they frequently discuss issues of law enforcement and media bias with their parents, have created an […]

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August 21, 2014 Sophie Weiner

The phenomenally successful game Minecraft is unique in that it allows players to build things in much the same way that they are built in real life — brick by brick. Among its tons of projects, people have built the entire world of Star Wars, a replica of Manhattan and several art works. Using the in-game material “redstone,” players can […]

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August 18, 2014 Sophie Weiner

Many of late comedian Mitch Hedberg’s jokes have an air of succinct obviousness. Hedberg exceeded in casually pointing out what was right in front of us, to hilarious effect. Due, in part, to the universality of his weirdo observational humor, his jokes have had a long shelf life. Recently, this one was making the rounds on Reddit: “La Quinta […]

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June 6, 2014 Sophie Weiner

Julian Oliver, an artist based in Berlin, has created a script that will boot anyone wearing Google Glass off the WiFi in a given location. He was inspired by a comment by Omar Shapira at the ITP show that the presence of a person wearing Glass made him feel uneasy. The code is up on […]

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August 28, 2013 Kyle Chayka

The unique iPad app Planetary has just been added to the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum’s collection. The institution has gone one step further by acquiring the app’s source code as well. This is the first time the Smithsonian has attained a piece of code. The institution has also made this code available to everyone, in an attempt to preserve software as […]

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July 2, 2013 Julia Dawidowicz

While coding is the backbone of our digital life as we know it, only a small portion of the population actually has a grasp of the complex world of computer languages. Which is why the sneaky language-creators behind the scenes can get away with discrete mischief, like naming a coding language Linda… after porn star […]

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