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Marzo 2018 archivio

La bolla del bike sharing in Cina

Res publica   27.03.18  
Un immenso cimitero di bici a Shanghai
Un immenso cimitero di bici a Shanghai
Pile di bici abbandonate a Xiamen
Pile di bici abbandonate a Xiamen

L'esplosione del fenomeno del bike sharing in Cina raccontato attraverso gli scatti fotografici dei cimiteri di biciclette abbandonate o sequestrate.

La bolla delle bici condivise è esplosa quando decine di aziende di hanno rapidamente invaso le strade delle città con numeri di gran lunga superiori alla domanda reale. Le città cinesi, impreparate per infrastrutture non adeguate, scarso senso civico e regolamenti lacunosi, sono state sommerse da milioni di biciclette a noleggio, incapaci di gestire il fenomeno.
Oggi i cimiteri di bici sono diventati l'ennesimo monito; una crescita sostenibile non può più essere ignorata. Neppure in Cina.

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Il logo della mela morsicata raccontato dal suo designer

Wow   26.03.18  

Il designer Rob Janoff si racconta in un'intervista su 9To5Mac svelando la genesi dell'iconico logo di Apple.
Spesso rivisitato, ma mai sostituito, il logo della mela morsicata è stato utilizzato continuativamente sin dal 1977, capace di superare decenni di evoluzioni e rivoluzioni rimanendo straordinariamente persistente.

I worked with drawings of a bunch of apples for a couple of weeks, getting an easily recognizable silhouette. From there the bite came out of it, so that it would look like a piece of fruit and not a tomato or cherry. When I was that far with it, my creative director, who knew computer terms, said 'You know, this bite you have, there's a computer word b-y-t-e.' So that was just a happy accident.

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Wes Anderson classificato

Multimedia   21.03.18  

Vulture ha provato a stilare una classifica di tutti i film diretti da uno dei miei registi preferiti, Wes Anderson.

Ranking the films of Wes Anderson feels like a fool’s game, because he's an auteur's auteur, with a sensibility so rigorously defined and articulated that you're either inclined to embrace it fully or reject it completely. He doesn't do failed experiments or gun-for-hire studio projects or one-offs in a minor key. And though his commercial fortunes have waxed and waned, there's no evidence that he's ever cared to fit into the marketplace — or even would know how to do so if he could.

His debut feature, Bottle Rocket, could be called a blueprint of things to come, but beyond that, every moment in his films has been completely thought through and fussed over, which explains why the frame-by-frame arduousness of stop-motion animation was such a good fit for Fantastic Mr. Fox and his superb new comedy, Isle of Dogs. Missteps are rare to nonexistent. Every film is exactly as Anderson intended it to be, without the hit-or-miss or ebb-and-flow nature of most directorial careers.

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Gli appartamenti delle serie televisive

Multimedia   19.03.18  

John Shaffner è lo scenografo responsabile della creazione dei set di Friends, come l'iconico appartamento di Monica Geller, con le sue pareti violi e la grande terrazza con accesso dalla finestra, e il più spartano trilocale di Chandler e Joey.
Come scenografo, Shaffner ha lavorato su 68 pilot e 44 serie diverse, tra cui Dharma e Greg, Due uomini e mezzo, The Drew Carey Show e The Big Bang Theory.

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Il fiore cadavere

Geek   15.03.18  

L'aro titano è una delle piante più insolite e belle del mondo. Questa erbacea perenne presenta un'infiorescenza a spadice che può raggiungere i 3 metri di altezza.
Durante la sua fioritura emana un penetrante e particolarmente sgradevole odore che ricorda della materia organica in putrefazione.

KQED ha filmato l'interno dell'infiorescenza rivelando la sua strategia di sopravvivenza e di impollinazione.

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Il trionfo della mente sulla materia

Res publica   14.03.18  

Stephen Hawking ricordato dal New York Times.

He went on to become his generation's leader in exploring gravity and the properties of black holes, the bottomless gravitational pits so deep and dense that not even light can escape them.

That work led to a turning point in modern physics, playing itself out in the closing months of 1973 on the walls of his brain when Dr. Hawking set out to apply quantum theory, the weird laws that govern subatomic reality, to black holes. In a long and daunting calculation, Dr. Hawking discovered to his befuddlement that black holes — those mythological avatars of cosmic doom — were not really black at all. In fact, he found, they would eventually fizzle, leaking radiation and particles, and finally explode and disappear over the eons.

Nobody, including Dr. Hawking, believed it at first — that particles could be coming out of a black hole. "I wasn't looking for them at all," he recalled in an interview in 1978. "I merely tripped over them. I was rather annoyed."

That calculation, in a thesis published in 1974 in the journal Nature under the title "Black Hole Explosions?," is hailed by scientists as the first great landmark in the struggle to find a single theory of nature — to connect gravity and quantum mechanics, those warring descriptions of the large and the small, to explain a universe that seems stranger than anybody had thought.

The discovery of Hawking radiation, as it is known, turned black holes upside down. It transformed them from destroyers to creators — or at least to recyclers — and wrenched the dream of a final theory in a strange, new direction.

"You can ask what will happen to someone who jumps into a black hole," Dr. Hawking said in an interview in 1978. "I certainly don't think he will survive it."

"On the other hand," he added, "if we send someone off to jump into a black hole, neither he nor his constituent atoms will come back, but his mass energy will come back. Maybe that applies to the whole universe."

Dennis W. Sciama, a cosmologist and Dr. Hawking's thesis adviser at Cambridge, called Hawking's thesis in Nature "the most beautiful paper in the history of physics."

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