A five minute short documentary on the illustrious career of production designer and illustrator Tom Southwell through the lens of his passion for educating.

Directed by Johan Erik Lallerstedt

Tens of thousands of fires have been scorching Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, proliferating at the fastest rate since the country’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE) started recording such data in 2013. Brazil has weathered 74,155 fires thus far this year, an 80 percent increase compared to the same period in 2018. Nearly 36,000 of them began in the last month, with satellite images indicating that more than 9,500 were ignited in the last week alone.

Aaron Mak | Slate

Available now for pre-order.

Parks, our second title with photographer Brian Kelley, is a collection of over 300 United States national park maps, ephemera, and brochures spanning over 100 years.

Standards Manual

This week, Muller spoke to SYFY WIRE about the task of reimagining the X-Men, the thought process behind House of X and Powers of X and how design, down to creating new typefaces, plays into comic books. On Muller's Tumblr, he wrote of the collaboration "This is what comics can look like when you put two guys who like design systems in the same room."

Dana Forsythe | SyFy Wire

"There’s this old sci-fi movie called 'Quatermass and the Pit.' In the movie, someone says to Professor Quatermass, 'Do you ever find your early career catching up with you?' And he says, 'I never had a career, only work.' I feel like that’s where I’m at now. I never had a career, only work. I’m just going to keep working." –Nicolas Cage

By David Marchese | The New York Times Magazine

The 1985 tv commercial for Tomy's Omnibot 2000.

via Computer Love Records

Here are seven ways of understanding the IPCC’s newest climate warning.

"Climate change requires us to alter the biogeochemical organism that we call the global economy on the fly, in our lifetimes. Such a task should command most of the time and attention of every economist, agriculturalist, investor, executive, and politician — anyone who fancies themselves a leader in the physical workings of the economy, or whatever we call it. It is our shame, and theirs, that they don’t."

Robinson Meyer | The Atlantic

The world’s land and water resources are being exploited at “unprecedented rates,” a new United Nations report warns, which combined with climate change is putting dire pressure on the ability of humanity to feed itself.

The report, prepared by more than 100 experts from 52 countries and released in summary form in Geneva on Thursday, found that the window to address the threat is closing rapidly.

Christopher Flavelle | The New York Times

Editing the epigenome, which turns our genes on and off, could be the “elixir of life”.

Erika Hayasaki | MIT Technology Review

The unmanned spaceplane is shrouded in mystery.

Kyle Mizokami | Popular Mechanics

In a controversial first, a team of researchers have been creating embryos that are part human and part monkey. The idea behind the research is to fashion animals that possess organs, like a kidney or liver, made up entirely of human cells. Such "human-animal chimeras" could be used as sources of organs for transplantation.

MIT Technology Review

Meet the classified artificial brain being developed by US intelligence programs. It’s intended to become an omnivorous analysis tool that can predict the future.

Sarah Scoles | The Verge

20 Minutes Into The Future is a critical look at how technology is shaping our lives today and what actions we can take for a better tomorrow. It is written by Daniel Harvey, a digital product designer currently based in London. But he lived in NYC for 20 years so expect him to say “fuck” an awful lot.

Big tech firms are trying to read people’s thoughts, and no one’s ready for the consequences.

Antonio Regalado | MIT Technology Review

Some people say “the climate has changed before,” as though that should be reassuring. It’s not.

Kate Marvel | Scientific American

Losing the remaining Arctic sea ice and its ability to reflect incoming solar energy back to space would be equivalent to adding one trillion tons of CO2 to the atmosphere, on top of the 2.4 trillion tons emitted since the Industrial Age, according to current and former researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego.

The amount of additional heat introduced into the Earth system because of Arctic melt is equivalent to an increase in CO₂ concentration from 400 to 456.7 parts per million.

Scripps News

Thompson’s Arthur C Clarke winning novel Rosewater, NK Jemisin, Nnedi Okorafor ... the most exciting sci-fi is coming from writers of colour.

Adam Roberts | The Guardian

Dear Tarot-o-bot, mother of tech updates and design trends, what do you foresee for our future?

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