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Accessibility Advances for EPUB in InDesign
Accessibility updates to InDesign version 20.4: Improvements for EPUB files, including MathML. The Accessible EPUB Expert Group is making a difference.
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Hiné Mizushima’s Sea Creature Dioramas
These Fibre Art dioramas and sculptures by Vancouver artist Hiné Mizushima are vibrant, fun, and crafted using a blend of techniques to bring them to life.
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“It’s a gut punch. It’s a kind of dying.”
A mathematician employs a brilliant metaphor to describe his existential crisis upon learning of Chat GPT’s success at a math competition.
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New Rabbit Hole: Interactive Explainer for Watch Mechanisms
Simple explanations accompany interactive 3D illustrations in Bartosz Ciechanowski’s Mechanical Watch explainer.
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Explainer video as an irresistible force of forward momentum
synthet presents fun tutorials for digital audio workstation (DAW) FL Studio, but what got me was this vocoder explainer video. It’s its own kind of music.
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Illustrator Takashi Mifune’s drawings may look familiar
Takashi Mifune’s illustrations are free to use, and used freely, throughout Japan. Often seen on signage and advertisements, in educational materials, on websites, and in various forms of digital content, their approachable and playful style is unmistakable.
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Shazam Surveillance: Bop Spotter
A solar-charging phone, on a pole, in an urban area, listening for music and quietly cataloguing what it finds.
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Hydrogels can learn to play Pong | Ars Technica
“The findings provided some evidence that neural networks formed from actual neurons spontaneously develop the ability to learn. And that could explain some of the learning capabilities of actual brains, where smaller groups of neurons are organized into functional units.” “Our research shows that even very simple materials can exhibit complex, adaptive behaviors typically associated…
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Biophilic Farmhouse, Wrapped Around a Small Mango Grove
This place gives me Studio Ghibli Museum vibes.
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What Could Explain the Gallium Anomaly? | Quanta Magazine
I love these photos. I want to spend a lot of time in both of these places. Physicists have ruled out a mundane explanation for the strange findings of an old Soviet experiment, leaving open the possibility that the results point to a new fundamental particle. Source: What Could Explain the Gallium Anomaly? | Quanta…
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‘What goes up, must come down:’ Junk satellites are a looming hazard | Popular Science
What happens when thousands of old satellites are out of order? Source: ‘What goes up, must come down:’ Junk satellites are a looming hazard | Popular Science
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Manifest sticky notes in a browser tab
Manifest is a grid-based pinboard for note taking. Kind of like in-browser sticky notes app. It feels like the kind of thing that would appeal to a minimalist bullet journaler. This has been extremely sticky for me. There is zero learning curve: click and drag a box into existence on the grid and start typing.…
