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The artist duo Jodi unleashes three sinister browsers on the PCs of Internet users

Believe that your computer is a rational machine? A number cruncher that automatically does what you tell it to do? Jodi want to prove the opposite. The computer art that the Dutch-Belgian art duo has created since 1995 transforms the PC into an unpredictable, frightening machine with a sinister life of its own.

When one views their website or downloads any of the software work they have produced in recent years, the art immediately begins to wreak havoc on the desktop. You see bits of text flying around. Fragments of the computer interface, which look as if they have been put through a meat grinder, float across the screen. Windows flickering around as if they wanted to play tag with the user. If the computer blows up? No, just a few lines of code running amok, don’t worry.

What comes after climate change? – Part 3

Those who say that climate change has always existed on Earth and that people have had to adapt to changing climatic conditions for as long as they have existed mean a very slow process that is hardly noticeable to the individual person. Change can be so gradual that in retrospect of each life lived, the climate in one place appears stable. We do not want to talk about the fact that people remember more extreme events than the average, normal weather of most years and therefore think that winters used to be colder and summers warmer and sunnier.

The climate change that is happening all the time

Nature and human culture can automatically adapt to the normal, quite natural climate change. This is due to the fact that both the animal and plant world, as well as the human community, are to a certain extent constantly adapting to climate change "experiment"Animals and plants "dare" spread to other areas, people grow foreign grains and fruits, change their preferences for certain clothing and building styles, and so on. Some of it has success and remains, other fails and disappears again. This is how people and the environment react to gradual changes without realizing it.

Since 2010, the production of CFCs is prohibited, which destroys the ozone layer, but there are exceptions

Since the 1970s, it has been found that the release of fluorochlorocarbons (CFCs) is responsible for destroying the ozone layer in the atmosphere. It took some time until the use of CFCs reduced and finally banned after the Montreal Protocol since 2000 and has been prohibited since 2010. Thus, the World Society responds once to prevent its self-destruction. If the ozone layer is destroyed, hard UV radiation can be reached on the earth’s surface and the DNA of plants, animals and, of course, people harmful.

British Science of the University of East Anglia Under the direction of Johannes Laube, four new people made by people discovered in the atmosphere, which in turn devotes the life-protecting ozone layer. As you report in Nature Geoscience, 74.000 tonnes of three new CFCs and a new H-CFCC accumulated. So far, seven CFCs and six H-CFCs were known, which attack the ozone layer. Compared to emissions in the 1980s, which amounted to a million tonnes, the amount is relatively low.

German Filmstitut presents censorship project to the Weimar Republic

An interesting insight into the cultural policy of the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich allows the German FilmStitut (DIF). After completion of his project "Forbidden pictures, manipulated films" It is now present on the Internet its edition of the censorship decisions of the Berlin Film Supporting site from the years 1920 to 1938.

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