Petervan's Delicacies - Issue #144

The very best

This careful emphasis on the small scale, and the slower dynamic, suggests an engagement with the most potent of spaces that surround us. As suggested previously, the street is the basic unit of…

Matt Webb wrote this post yesterday about Ben Hammersley’s new startup, and in it he articulates a perspective on collaborative AI I’ve been thinking about for a while, and I’m excited to see more…

Consuming media is as much about managing feeling as accessing information

In the 14th century, around the time of the Black Death, citizen explorers like Ibn Battuta and Petrarch planted the…

From Directors Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer, Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds explores how meteorites have impacted our planet’s landscapes and c...

The imagination, ingenuity and dedication behind the century-long endeavour to detect Einstein’s gravitational waves

Data and Society

We all know the scene. Two detectives on a cop show stand in a dimly lit room filled with monitors, reviewing surveillance images. A tech guy (yes, it’s almost always a guy) queues up image after…

Xi delivers keynote speech at China-Asean Expo in Nanning, saying the regional bloc is a priority for Beijing.

Zeitgeist

He is the king of the Hollywood underground. So why has he made a mini-series for Gucci? The film-maker talks about life in isolation, his gay president project and the big screen’s demise

Innovation

Source: Futurism. “2116: A look into the future [infographic]” is published by David Alayón in Future Today.

Nearly all of China’s largest internet firms have established a presence in online grocery. Just this week, news arrived that Alibaba co-led the $196 million C3 funding round of Nice Tuan, the two-year-old grocery group-buying firm’s fourth round year to date. People in China shop online for almost everything, including groceries. At first, grocery e-commerce […]

Future of work

In an excerpt from his book 'No Rules Rules,' Reed Hastings explains how Netflix uses the 'Keeper Test' to only retain the best employees

Indies should be like Sherlock Holmes

FinTech

As news leaks out about a possible 2021 launch for Facebook's digital currency Libra, a senior European Central Bank official warns: "What is at stake is nothing short of the future of money".

AI, Robots, Algorythms

Microsoft has applied for a patent on technology that would score meetings based on body language and facial expressions.

Reimagining Amsterdam’s Canals How can we re-imagine urban infrastructures with cutting-edge technologies? Listen to this webinar from Ger Baron, Amsterdam’s...

Digital Ethics

More than 1,000 researchers also sign letter after Black expert on ethics says Google tried to suppress her research on bias

Masks/Defence/Hiding

With mortgage rates at historic lows and hordes of mostly urban, stir-crazy Americans desperate for more space, The Great Housing Boom of 2020 has been one of the hottest pandemic-fueled market…

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

Post Capitalism

Listen now (26 min) | Welcome back. The Breaking Smart newsletter and podcast is starting up again after a very refreshing 6-week break. I want to kick off the post-break programming with a podcast on a big question: if we are headed at least partially towards a post-scarcity world, as we seem to be, does it look more like the Star Trek universe, or the universe in Iain M. Banks Culture novels? Both are varieties of something I call

Strelka Mag — Exploring new urban conditions. The online magazine of Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design.

Weird (Cyber)Space

We asked a film scholar and astrophysicist who explores the potential for extraterrestrial life about who could have put this piece of art in the Utah desert and what it means.

Amateur astronomer and YouTuber Alberto Caballero, one of the founders of The Exoplanets Channel, has found a small amount of evidence for a source of the notorious Wow! signal. In his paper uploaded to the arXiv preprint server, Caballero describes searching the Gaia database for possible sun-like stars that might host an exoplanet capable of supporting intelligent life.

Online events and meetings done well

On Friday, November 20, 2020 at 8:30a PST, Voices of VR podcast host Kent Bye presented some lessons learned his exploration of the virtual conferences in VR...

I get a guided tour of the Mozilla Hubs space created by Paradowski Creative for the 25th Annual AIGA St. Louis Design Show. Tour Guides were James Kane, She...

Art related

Prelude: Melancholy of the Future is a charity exhibition, with all the works for sale for the benefit of MDD

Axel, Boris, and Anne-Sophie Dusselier guide you personally through Kanaal’s revitalised industrial architecture and detail the company’s diverse activities ...

FOREWORD Pieter Bruegel the Elder is considered to be one of the most important painters of his time. His works were already highly sought after during h...

Friends from Academy

Aesthetics

Concevoir pour les interactions entre les personnes, le monde construit (conçu), les systèmes informatiques omniprésents, les médias en réseau et le monde naturel (également social). Je suis le…

"TERRAIN is an expanded cinema project which brings together dance, documentary film, 360-degree immersive video, virtual interactivity and spatial design in...

“Snowy Evening” is our limited edition for the Winter of 2020. Each book in the run has its own unique cover design. https://fieldnotesbrand.com/products/snowy-evening

The 12th edition of Taipei Biennial will open to the public from November 21, 2020 and run through March 14, 2021.

Balenciaga Summer 21 Pre-collection "Sunglasses at Night" Video by Walter Stern Original song by Corey Hart Cover by BFRND

Masterclass #48 about grass sculptures by Kris Vanhemelrijck. Also featuring Fran Van Coppenolle, Leroy Meyer and Idris Sevenans.

Music/Sound

Provided to YouTube by BMG Rights Management (US) LLC Bread And Circus · Puscifer Existential Reckoning ℗ 2020 Puscifer, LLC under exclusive license to Alche...

“Speed Kills” taken from the debut album ‘Speed Kills.’ Listen here: chubby.lnk.to/listen Pre-order vinyl from Partisan Records here: chubby.lnk.to/speedkill...

I just added some sounds to accenting the "Techno-Spirit" ;-)

Tens of thousands of YouTube creators have covered Billie Eilish’s “Bad Guy.” What if those fans could play together? One song. Thousands of covers. The world’s first infinite music video.

Another way of looking at the Xmass hype

For real nerds

With a real plane, you would be intercepted or shot out of the sky.

Other

On a remote peninsular in the Arctic circle, enormous wounds are appearing in the permafrost – as something that is worrying scientists bursts out from underground.