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Rob Beschizza’s Journalist Portfolio

The Mechanism Lost at Antikythera

The Mechanism Lost at Antikythera

The student of history who devotes his attention solely to the most notable events and personae of the Hellen…

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The Lost Decade

The Lost Decade

The Phantom Time Hypothesis, developed by Heribert Illig, proposes that error and falsification have radicall…

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Harvard Medical School to pay $53m after donated body parts sold on black market

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By Rob Beschizza Verified
| Boing Boing Verified
Photo: Jay Yuan (back) and as filed in Suffolk Superior Court (left and right) Many people willed their remains to Harvard Medical School on the understanding they would be used in research and education. But the school's morgue manager sold these body parts on the black market, was caught, and now Harvard has agreed to pay $53m to settle class action lawsuits filed by 47 grieving families.
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Anti-AI fonts considered harmful

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By Rob Beschizza Verified
| Boing Boing Verified
Bizarre or misshapen typefaces designed to confuse or stymie AI (previously and previously at Boing Boing) regularly go viral. But they're works of art making a point rather than something to actually use in production. "Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful," writes Andrew Yaros, not least because they are inaccessible. They are hard to read by humans and while actual AI platforms soon defeat them anyway, everyday screen-reading and OCR software will remain at a loss.
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The latest HTML trickery for web designers

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By Rob Beschizza Verified
| Boing Boing Verified
Photo: Inside Creative House / Shutterstock HTML Can Do That is a pleasantly minimal website by Chris Burnell, explaining some of the interesting tricks you can do without javascript or even styles. Did you know you can do popover modals now just with markup? Isn't that wonderful.
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