Evangelicals Who Link Evolution and Racism Forget Christianity Was Used to Defend Slavery and Segregation

If racism stemmed from evolution, we should not see Christians base racist ideas on the Bible long before the birth of evolutionary science. “Evolution is also the basis of racism, [and] many assert that racism played a role in the motivation for this murder,” Whitney said. “You see, evolution is essentially racist. So where did Sean Urbanski learn racism? He learned it in his classes on evolution at the local public high school that his parents sent him to and his parents funded that school by the payment of their property taxes.”
Read more: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/lovejoyfeminism/2017/06/evangelicals-link-who-evolution-and-racism-forget-christianity-was-used-to-defend-slavery-and-segregation.html?source=Snapzu

Police in Oklahoma Have Cracked Hundreds of People's Cell Phones

Usage logs obtained by Muckrock show departments are cracking phones hundreds of times a year
Read more: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/police-oklahoma-cell-extraction-usage-logs?utm_source=mbtwitter?source=Snapzu

Escher Relativity in 360 interpretation

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Rise of the machines: who is the ‘internet of things’ good for?

Interconnected technology is now an inescapable reality – ordering our shopping, monitoring our cities and sucking up vast amounts of data along the way. The promise is that it will benefit us all – but how can it?
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/06/internet-of-things-smart-home-smart-city?source=Snapzu

The Chinese Factory Workers Who Write Poems on Their Phones

“An unprecedented opportunity in the history of working class literature.” By Megan Walsh. (May 1, 2017)
Read more: http://lithub.com/the-chinese-factory-workers-who-write-poems-on-their-phones/?source=Snapzu

These 3D-Printed Objects Are Actually 4D

So much to think about when designing.
Read more: https://futurism.com/videos/these-3d-printed-objects-are-actually-4d/?src=featured?source=Snapzu

Why the Internet Tilde Is the Most Perfect Piece of Snark We Have

The tilde is 3,000 years old, but is there any grapheme that’s more ~of the times~? The little traveling worm, originally designed to convey approximation (and used in Spanish and Portuguese to denote certain sounds), expresses so much more: strangeness, emotional and physical distance — but perhaps most importantly, sarcasm.
Read more: http://nymag.com/scienceofus/article/why-the-internet-tilde-is-our-most-perfect-tool-for-snark.html?source=Snapzu