Category: science and tech

As an unexpected follow-on to today’s earlier post on phishing, another Internet annoyance and issue was discussed in today’s Fresh Air podcast, in which Terry Gross interviews author and law professor Tim Wu.

BuzzFeed reports that the Democratic National Committee was hacked using a simple “phishing” attack.   This is a matter that we preach about a lot (both on a personal level, and when I was working with my former employer, EONI — read articles from its News section here and here and here.)

And review our own WhileBusy posts on this and related topics.

Documenting a far cry from the Iowa family farm of a few hundred acres of my youth, photographer George Steinmetz shows in a photo essay in the New York Times Magazine the incredible scale of modern agriculture.

Quartz has a new series, assembling a number of articles into its Map of the Internet.  Start reading here: 

http://qz.com/se/map-of-the-internet/

Not a political debate, not yet anyway …

Stacey Higginbotham: Yes

Jeff Kunzler: No

In case you weren’t around then (I luckily was in the thick of it — or at least on the edges of it, experimenting with it in our department — while working at UCLA in the 80s and 90s), the World Wide Web (WWW) came to life 25 years ago.

Read an article about it here.

Something brought to our attention by Dennis:  In Scientific American, “Why Walking through a Doorway Makes You Forget“. 

This could explain a lot …

Simone Biles, right up to the news from Rio today, seems to keep on defying the laws of physics.  Here is a piece on those very physics around her incredible gymnastic skills.

And from a year or two ago, a little introduction …

Read more here at Road & Track …