A convenient extinction countdown
Stark, black, and changing fast: a description both of mankind’s future and Bloomberg’s brilliant climate change tracking dashboard. CO2, the most polluted city in the world each day (Kabul happens Continue Reading
Ye olde Chaucer
I have a terrible confession to make: I’ve never read Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales looms over me like a black crow, cawing cruelly, but flying away whenever I approach. (I Continue Reading
Their favourite tools
I’m loving the Global Investigative Journalist Network’s current series, My Favourite Tools, in which (as you may have ascertained already) investigative journos share their best apps, gadgets, and software. Lionel Continue Reading
Hack of the Year
The ICFJ Knight International Journalism Award is open for nominations, and the good news is that you can nominate yourself, should you feel deserving. It doesn’t matter if you’re a Continue Reading
A damming report (of the good kind)
I vaguely recall lessons featuring the Aswan High Dam from high school. Vaguely, because our geography teacher was famous for making even the most scintillating of subjects a chore, so Continue Reading
The case against eating local
Avoiding “food miles” – ie. trying to buy food that isn’t imported – has been long been a thing for the environmentally conscious. Over at Oxford University’s Our World in Continue Reading
Brain abuse for $5 a day
Much has been written about the appalling conditions that social media moderators are forced to work under, watching the evil on the internet so you don’t have to (without things Continue Reading
Not the strong silent type?
Is Geralt as taciturn as you think? Apparently not. Ol’ closed lips has considerably more lines than any other character in Netflix’ The Witcher, even if his most common one Continue Reading
D3, from scratch (almost)
Yeah, we all use D3 by going to the gallery, finding the graph closest to what we want, and C&P’ing it. But what if what you want hasn’t been done before? Continue Reading
On design error
I first came across the story of Alphonse Chapanis in Matthew Syned’s excellent Black Box Thinking. Quick precis: Chapanis revolutionised industrial design while investigating the question of why American bomber pilots Continue Reading