Nothing brings up memories as smells do. In my case, it’s the smell of plastic. Thousands of little colourful plastic pieces in cardboard boxes. Literally, all those memories live in a secure, temperature- and humidity-controlled, fireproof archival vault in Denmark.
The size and quality of digital photographs has exploded over the last 10 years. So, we asked our friend and war photographer, Teru Kuwayama, how his storage and backup system has changed to accommodate the data boom.
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It’s easy to claim that the stuff you liked as a kid was way better than the crap kids watch today, because you haven’t seen it in years. But now you can, in better quality, even. Does it hold up?
Talking with Bill Nye the Science Guy is like meeting your favourite HS science teacher in a bar – the conversation might flail wildly, but you learn something at every twist. This week, I picked his brain about, well, brains.
Dave Pell, on what it means to have our heads in the cloud, as he puts it:
There’s something to be said for watching a concert with your own eyes, not mediated by the lens of a camera or the fuzzy screen of a mobile phone, trying to capture it forever, like an arsehole.
