Links vom 25. Mai 2014 bis 1. Juni 2014

Und hier sind wieder interessante Links, die mir letzte Woche begegnet sind:

• 13 words Germans think are English

When their daughters grow up and start taking roadtrips, German mothers might beg them not to tramp, because that’s dangerous. After all, who knows who could pick them up? But no, they don’t mean…

• Snowden-Interview bei NBC: Verblüffung über einen jungen Mann

© AP Snowden (rechts) im Interview mit dem NBC-Journalusten Brian Williams

• Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours

Republished by Slate. Translations available in French (Français), Spanish (Español), Chinese (中文) For almost 15 years, I have run my own email server which I use for all of…

• What’s Up With That: How a Swinging Pendulum Proves the Earth Rotates

Foucault’s Pendulum at Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe in Valencia (Spain). Photo: Manuel M. Vicente/Wikimedia Commons Once upon a time, you were probably on an elementary…

• The lighter side of open source

In a recent post I talked about the apolitical, amoral nature of open source software and how it puts the interests of a small programming class before the interests of the broad collection of people…

• Europawahl 2014: „Die Partei“ im Europaparlamaent

© dpa Mit Gaga-Themen ins Europaparlament: Martin Sonneborn So viele deutsche Parteien saßen noch nie im Europaparlament. Bei der Europawah

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