Technology After tweeted rape threats, Twitter promises change Taking pride in fighting prejudice Editorial: " Technical tweaks won't stop online abuse " Twitter has turned nasty. Rape threats, death threats and bomb threats have been sent to high profile women in the UK over the past week. One of those who received rape threats was UK politician Stella Creasy . Creasy put herself … 51¶¯Âþ
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Earth Ballooning size of world's second-largest refugee camp (Image: Mandel Ngan/AP/Press Association Images) THIS is now Jordan's fourth-biggest city. In just one year, the population of Zaatari refugee camp has grown from almost nothing to more than 140,000 – and nearly all of the residents are refugees from neighbouring Syria. Since the uprising began in 2011, some 1.6 million Syrians have fled the … Regulars
Technology Not like us: Artificial minds we can't understand We have created a completely new form of intelligence, though no human can fathom how it thinks and reasons Features
Physics The making of Niels Bohr Niels Bohr motorcycling with his wife, Margrethe, in around 1930 (Image: Uhlenbeck Collection/American Institute Of Physics/Science Photo Library) Art's effect on science isn't always clear, shows Love, Literature, and the Quantum Atom by Finn Aaserud and J. L. Heilbron NIELS BOHR was one of the most profound thinkers of the early quantum pioneers. He was the … CultureLab
Enigma Number 1761 Clock work The clock in Simpson Mall has hour, minute and second hands. Little Esu climbs onto the hour hand at 12.01 pm, and stays on it until the minute and hour hands are aligned. At that instant, Esu jumps on to the minute hand and rides on it until the hour and minute hands … Regulars
Feedback: Pink quinine mystery solved Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more Pink quinine mystery solved MODERN information technology is a great boon – although Feedback sometimes suspects that its main function is settling pub arguments. We recently mentioned an extremely bored afternoon whiled away reading the UK Post Office Guide , … Regulars