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One of my favorite “never thought of that, but makes sense” facts is that the moon looks upside-down if you see it from the other hemisphere. 

When my friend from Brazil landed in the US for the first time, she stepped off the plane and saw an upside-down moon, which is more than a little alarming when you’re jetlagged and nervous about moving to a new country.

Tide app had a great quote today.

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when simone de beauvoir said “i’m reliving it, neutralizing it, and transforming it into an inoffensive past that i can keep in my heart without either disowning it or suffering from it. that’s not easy. it’s at once painful and poetic.”

Visionary Brain Genius Elon Musk Has Invented The World's Worst And Most Expensive Subway

If you are anything like me, many times you have been riding the subway and have had the thought, “What is wrong with this dang subway is that it is not exponentially more expensive and slower than this.” Many times you have seethed, through clenched teeth, “Goddammit, it just churns my guts that this subway does not require me to own and bring along—and also to have outfitted with a special set of retractable sideways wheels that serve no other purpose—my own Tesla-brand autonomous electric car.” If you are anything like me, when you get off the accursed normal subway and do not have to then hunt for a place to park your Tesla-brand autonomous electric car, it fucking burns you up inside. It makes you sick! You have had it up to here with these goddamn cheap, fast, mass-transit options that do not require each rider to have brought along an entire specially outfitted self-driving electric car.

Holy shit

No. 447 

A new geometric design every day 

Do you know that as a PhD student at my university they let you check out books for 4 months?

Here I am, I become the hoarder of books that I was always meant to be

The deadly truth about a world built for men – from stab vests to car crashes (Caroline Criado-Perez, The Guardian, Feb 23 2019)

“The formula to determine standard office temperature was developed in the 1960s around the metabolic resting rate of the average man.

But a recent Dutch study found that the metabolic rate of young adult females performing light office work is significantly lower than the standard values for men doing the same activity.

In fact, the formula may overestimate female metabolic rate by as much as 35%, meaning that current offices are on average five degrees too cold for women. (…)

Over the past 50 years, breast cancer rates in the industrialised world have risen significantly – but a failure to research female bodies, occupations and environments means that the data for exactly what is behind this rise is lacking.

“We know everything about dust disease in miners,” Rory O’Neill, professor of occupational and environmental policy research at the University of Stirling, tells me.

“You can’t say the same for exposures, physical or chemical, in ‘women’s work’.” (…)

All Tufekci’s photos from the event were unusable, she wrote, and “for one simple reason: good smartphones are designed for male hands”.

Voice recognition could be one solution to a smartphone that doesn’t fit your hands, but voice-recognition software is often hopelessly male-biased. (…)

When Apple launched its health-monitoring system with much fanfare in 2014, it boasted a “comprehensive” health tracker.

It could track blood pressure; steps taken; blood alcohol level; even molybdenum and copper intake.

But as many women pointed out at the time, they forgot one crucial detail: a period tracker. (…)

When Apple launched their AI, Siri, users in the US found that she (ironically) could find prostitutes and Viagra suppliers, but not abortion providers.

Siri could help you if you’d had a heart attack, but if you told her you’d been raped, she replied “I don’t know what you mean by ‘I was raped.’”

From smartwatches that are too big for women’s wrists, to map apps that fail to account for women who may want to know the “safest” in addition to “fastest” routes; 

to “measure how good you are at sex” apps called “iThrust” and “iBang” the tech industry is rife with other examples.

While there are an increasing number of female-led tech firms that do cater to women’s needs, they are seen as a “niche” concern and often struggle to get funding. (…)

Women tend to sit further forward when driving. This is because we are on average shorter. 

Our legs need to be closer to reach the pedals, and we need to sit more upright to see clearly over the dashboard.

This is not, however, the “standard seating position”, researchers have noted. Women are “out of position” drivers.

And our wilful deviation from the norm means that we are at greater risk of internal injury on frontal collisions. (…)

Designers may believe they are making products for everyone, but in reality they are mainly making them for men. It’s time to start designing women in.”