The Deadly Results of Flawed Design
From automobiles to software, poorly designed products just might kill you.
From automobiles to software, poorly designed products just might kill you.
Digg may seem like a cold, faceless company, but underneath the ever-shifting grid of content, lies humans who make it work. This week, we chat with software engineer and really great chef Jon Ferrer.
If you look at maps of US presidential election results by county over the past 40 years, you'll notice a consistent pattern throughout Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South and North Carolina: a blue swoosh. Latif Nasser traces the roots of this phenomenon back over 100 million years in a viral Twitter thread.
Could "Stargate Origins" be the beginning of a new era for the sci-fi franchise, or will it take more than a web series to make a splash big enough to bring it back? Let Fan Service take you on a trip to the gate's real origins.
Two American sailors claim they faced a ferocious storm, ravenous sharks and an attempted murder by a Taiwanese fishing vessel while sailing in the Pacific. But their story is full of inconsistencies and apparent falsehoods.
Hot on the heels of his El Capitan triumph, Honnold is currently taking a crack at another daunting climb, the 5,250-foot Wine Bottle Tower route up Alaska's Mt. Dickey. Men's Journal is documenting the climb as it happens.
In Iceland, teenage smoking, drinking and drug use have been radically cut. Why aren't other countries following its lead?
From automobiles to software, poorly designed products just might kill you.