Jonathan Franzen has a hard hitting message in his article in The New Yorker, if we admit that we can't stop climate change, we will start doing more to slow it down and ensure we can survive it.
Motion Designer Christian Stangl and Composer Wolfgang Stangl used the 400,000 images released by the ESA of the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko taken by the Rosetta spacecraft to make a short film. The footage uses digitally enhanced real footage from the probe.
Eric Sorenson has a fantastic post about how you can build a DIY setup with Airspy mini and 2m dipole antenna to pull full disk earth images from the GOES-17 weather satellite.
Update: Aug 13, 2020 - Another post on Public Lab with other instructions.
The New York Times have made public the data training material they provide to their journalists. Their three week internal course starts ar data handling from surveys and works up to creating data stories combining multiple data sources.
Tim Nolet of Checkly published a helpful case study on how he captures feedback from his constumers on the SaaS product Checkly. The post describes their eperiences at using Hotjar to capture bugs from users, Drift chat to communicate with users, deploying a survey and a public roadmap of features.
Mazda are removing touchscreens from their car interiors following a study on driver safety and comfort. The foudn that a swipe-n-swerve that happens when a driver reaches to interact with a touchscreen and inadvertently applies pressure to the steering wheel at the same time.
In the next step in the war against TV motion smoothing, top filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese and James Cameron have worked with the UHD Alliance to petition and work with TV manufacturers to create a Filmmaker mode, which removes all post processing to keep the image as close to the source as possible.
