01
Vox Ex Machina
  "In 1939, an astonishing new machine debuted at the New York World’s Fair. It was called the “Voder” and looked sort of like a futuristic church organ. An operator — known as a “ Voderette ” — sat at the Voder’s curved wooden console with a giant speaker behind her. She placed her hands on a keyboard and then played something the world had never heard before.
A synthesized voice. "
Another brilliant episode of the Podcast "99% invisible". It will teach you the beginnings of synthesized voice, how it helped to win the second world war and, why without it, we probably couldn't watch funny cat movies on youtube.
—>  Vox Ex Machina

02
All the ships of the world
  An astonishing piece of information, visualizing all the ship movements in 2012 across the world. Zoom in by yourself and click the plus button to guide you through.
—>  Ship Map

03
How to make friends
  We're constantly shredding our friends, growing in opposite directions, not heaving much in common anymore. "Most children have no trouble walking up to another kid on the playground and asking if they want to be friends. Imagine doing that at Starbucks."
So, how do you make a friend now?
—>  The Science of Making Friends

04
Hail the maintainers
  thought provoking and important.
"Innovation is a dominant ideology of our era. As the pursuit of innovation has inspired technologists and capitalists, it has also provoked critics. What happens after innovation, they argue, is more important. Maintenance and repair, the building of infrastructures, the mundane labour that goes into sustaining functioning and efficient infrastructures, simply has more impact on people’s daily."
—>  Is Innovation overrated?

05
Prank Time
  This animated short is nothing for the faint-hearted of you.
—>  JamieR

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01
Art, WU-TANG and Shaolin
  This article is a beast.
"On November 24, 2015, the Wu-Tang Clan sold its most recent album, "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin," through an online auction house. It would exist as only one copy—as an LP. This album would have only one owner, and thus, perhaps, only one listener. By legal agreement, the owner would not be allowed to distribute it commercially until 88 years from now." The man who bought the LP was Martin Shkreli, referred to by media as the "most hated man in America". He got arrested, and the album is probably still sitting on his shelf. But was that the idea Wu-Tang Clan had? What was their plan and why should this album be considered as an Art Piece?
A brilliant review, going deep with the Art of conceptual artists.
—>  A Review of the Wu-Tang Clan’s “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin

02
The Future of VR from a Secret Company
  Wired’s Kevin Kelly wrote a massive piece
on Magic Leap, the unknown company building VR Headsets and new Software for hyper-realistic fictional experiences. "The beginning of nothing less than a new kind of internet." It is very optimistic and infectiously energetic, still, some questions remain unanswered.
—>  Hyper Vision

03
Poets and Designers
  The Washington Post asked ten poets for poems and ten Designers to put them in motion.
—>  10 Poets and 10 Designers

04
100 movies in 6 minutes
  A video compilation of the 100 best shots in 100 years of film history. Stunning.
—>  100 Years/100 Shots

05
The secret rules of the Internet
  "The murky history of moderation, and how it’s shaping the future of free speech."
—>  Internet Moderation
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01
No Memories
Susie McKinnon is happily married, working full time and living a good life. But one thing sets her apart. She has no memories of her life. She hasn't lost her memory; She’s never been able to have one. McKinnon is the first human ever identified with a condition called "severely deficient autobiographical memory."
“I don’t remember being shorter or smaller or having to reach up for things. I have no images or impressions of myself as a kid.”
Similar to the Pixar Movie Inside Out, where the main character loses her core memories and collapses into nothingness. What happens to a real person, if you've never been able to collect any core memories at all?
—>  In A Perpetual Present

02
Minecraft Generation  
The New York Times with a great Article on how a clunky Swedish computer game is teaching millions of children to master the digital world.
"For one thing, it doesn’t feel like a game. It’s more like a destination, a technical tool, a cultural scene, or all three put together: a place where kids engineer complex machines, shoot videos of their escapades, make art. It’s a world of trial and error and constant discovery, obscure text commands and hidden recipes. And it runs completely counter to most modern computing trends."
—>  Minecraft

03
Can You Draw a Bicycle?
Before you click on the link, grab a pen, some paper and draw a bicycle using only your memory.
Gianluca Gimini did this activity with more than 500 people. With the results in hand, he created digital renderings of some of the weirdest, impractical designs. Welcome to the fabulous project Velocipedia . (You need to scroll a bit to see the renderings).
—>  Velocipedia

04
Riding Turtles And Zebras In London  
A rather funny biography of a very, very rich man. "Some men shoot tigers. Some men love bears. Walter Rothschild, heir to one of the greatest banking fortunes in history, had the largest zoological collection ever amassed in private hands.
—>  zoological obsessions

05
How Stuff Works
I've never thought to learn so much by looking at Gifs. How loudspeakers, car engines, the moonwalk or tarantulas work. Explained by impressively designed Gifs.
—>  Animagraffs
 
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01 Money, Money, Money
Germany's Süddeutsche Zeitung, Fusion, and 400 Journalists released the biggest Data leak in the history of journalism last week. 11.5 million documents and 2.6 terabytes of information from one Offshore Company, Mossack Fonseca, show us how banks, legal firms and others secretly manage and hide the estates and money of the world's richest. But it's not just about hiding money, they help drug dealers, criminals and terrorists finance their activities.
Learn about the who, what and when here: —>  Video Introduction —>  English Articles (Fusion) —>  German Articles (Süddeutsche Zeitung) What do offshore bank accounts of the international elite have to do with violent extremism and terrorism?
—>  Corrupt Roots Behind the scenes: the Story about the Panama Papers. How everything came together. —>  About the papers

02 Flag Stories
This site explores all the flags of our world in every possible way and presents the results and beautiful and interesting infographics. "We started looking at all the flags in the world and squeezed all the data we could gather into a blank spreadsheet. The more we dug into it, the more stories we managed to reveal." —>  Flag Stories

03 How observant are you?
Who Killed Lord Smithe? Test your awareness, can you spot the changes? —>  Whodunnit

04 Who is John Baldessari?
Tom Waits will tell you in this 6min. short. —>  A Brief History of the artist John Baldessari

05 New Week, New Art
Shawn Hucking paints traditional oil paintings. Once finished, he slams modern texts on top of it. I can't stop browsing his Instagram feed. —>  Shawn Huckins
+ New Week, New Music —>  Clap! Clap! - Playfulness
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01 Every Musical Genre of the World
You will spend a lot of time on this site. It lists almost all music genres and connects them to each other, to create a musical map of our world. Click on any style to hear samples and go deeper by clicking on the arrow next to the name. 
—>  Every Noise

02 Hacking Political Elections
Enrique Peña Nieto was elected Mexico’s president in 2012. “The Mexican people have given our party a second opportunity,” Peña Nieto said during an interview. The Same day, but two thousand miles away, "Andrés Sepúlveda began destroying evidence. "He drilled holes in flash drives, hard drives, and cell phones, fried their circuits in a microwave, then broke them to shards with a hammer. He shredded documents and flushed them down the toilet and erased servers in Russia and Ukraine." 
With a budget of $600,000, he and his team stole campaign strategies and manipulated social media to help Peña Nieto to victory. 
Now, he tells his story for the first time.
—>  How to Hack an Election

03 Do You Trust the Police? Test Yourself!
Because people are increasingly frustrated with the police, they have to wear body cameras now. But what can a Body Camera reveal and when could it even be misleading? The NYT made a quiz for you with interesting outcomes. 
—>  Police Body Cameras

04 Mosh Pit Paintings
Yes - Hyper-realistic paintings of Moshpits. That's it.
—>  Mosh Pits

05 Generation Fucked?
Vice magazine went on a quest around the world, to interview Millenials (Generation Y) about their personal stories.
—>  Speaking to Millennials from Around the World
 

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01 What is wrong with Brussels and how to fight terrorism
"What we feared has happened." That was Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel as he the condemned the latest terrorist attack in Europe. The fight against terrorism seems hopeless. But maybe, we should just fight them in the same way we fight other criminals. A retired Navy Seal officer wrote a short piece on how to beat terrorism. "Take Afghans, for example. When the Taliban detonates a bomb on the streets of Kabul, the mess is cleaned up, windows are repaired that same day, and business resumes with a stunning reset to normalcy."
"The most important step is to deny them the political change they seek. In this context of the Islamic State group, it means rejecting their narrative of a pending clash of civilizations. It can be counterintuitive, particularly in the emotional wake of tragedy, but the most effective antidote to jihadist terrorism is to police them as criminals, assimilate minorities and get back to business."
—>  How the Terrorists Lose
++ The real problem isn't radical Islamists. It's "Islamized" radicals. How Belgium’s jihadism problem got so bad —>  Things to read to understand how Belgium became a terrorism hub  
++ Refugee children offer their sympathies to Brussels —>  Sorry for brussels

02 The parrot in a witness protection program
Echo, the parrot, was owned by a New Orleans crime boss and he’d been at the wrong place at the wrong time, seen something he wasn’t supposed to, and wouldn’t stop talking about it. All this chatter meant he was making himself into a potential target.
A crime story.
—>  The Strange Tale of Echo, the Parrot Who Saw Too Much

03 Design in Tech Report
John Maeda doubles down by delving deep into design trends. For all of us who use a computer or mobile device, great design is changing how we live and work. This report helps explain why.
—>  Design in Tech Report 2016

04 Skateboard !
Richie reminds us that there are no rules in skateboarding.
—>  death skateboards

05 Why Didn’t People Smile in Old Photos?
Black and white pictures from way back, in which the subjects are somberly staring into space. The expressions are expressionless. Ever wondered why?
— >  Why Didn’t People Smile in Old Photos?
 

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