A magical extension to a great podcast. While «Song Exploder» has musicians deconstruct their songs and explain how they came about, «Inside Music» lets you virtually step into songs and explore their fabric – the individual sounds and instruments that make it come to life.
The world’s number two exporter of food, second only to the USA, is…the Netherlands. And it’s doing so far more resource-effectively than almost anybody else. A deep dive.
Every forty seconds, somebody, somewhere dies by suicide. What would it take to prevent most of those deaths?
Hadn’t thought about it that way yet: Cities built before the advent of cars might be best equipped for a future with far fewer cars.
Something we as journalists cannot think about enough (and have too little in the past): How do we accurately – yet in a way that’s easy to understand – represent uncertainty in data we report on? Most topical example: hurricane paths.
It’s not that I’ve wondered before, but suddenly, it seems like a pressing matter: What does it feel like to be a cow? So here goes: Three cows, equipped with multiple sensors each. An algorithm to translate signals from those sensors into sentences. And a chatbot to deliver those messages to you (apparently, you can also write back and «chat» with the cows, because…sure). The project starts on September 4th.
It’s all there, in this story from 1.5 years ago: The grave flood risks due to careless urban planning, the dangerous chemicals, the inevitable next big hurricane.
A fine-grained analysis of Roger Federer’s return to greatness. Like a matter-of-factly version of David Foster Wallace’s fabled «Roger Federer as religious experience».
The alt-right is over, at least as we know it. Counterintuitive, but Andrea Nagle makes a solid case for it.
A playful way to experience and learn about cognitive biases. For when you’re a bit too busy to read the complete Kahneman (which I highly recommend, though)