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Photographers: Petr Horálek; Lars L. Christensen

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"Once you start thinking about large web platforms as governments, the logical question is what kind of government are they. One thing is for sure – none of these platforms are democracies. They are oligarchies controlled by founders, investors or shareholders."

Know your audience and your goals.
Stop formatting everything to death. Use white space. Learn your tools. Pay attention to sequencing and order. It's not a murder mystery. Give people wayfinding. Ask answerable questions. Close by reiterating your mission and goals.

How to Spot a Bad Study, 2019: "On a basic level, the study has flaws, namely that it makes written claims that are not supported by the numbers, images and other data reported in the study itself. This isn’t a situation where a research group made a controversial discovery, and other scientists simply disagree."

From 2019: "The screening was meant to identify those patients who would most benefit from the program. But the white patients flagged for enrollment had fewer chronic health conditions than the black patients who were flagged.
In other words, black patients had to reach a higher threshold of illness before they were considered for enrollment. Care was not actually going to those people who needed it most. Alarmingly, the algorithm was performing its task correctly. The problem was with how the task was defined."

Antarctica, total eclipse at the horizon with someone in the distance standing directly in front of it. Fred Bruenjes (moonglow.net)

Photo by Petr Horálek.
"The full Moon's nearly vertical descent results from the observer being near Earth's equator." Soneva Fushi Island in Maldives, bioluminescent plankton.

Found in 2018, dated to more than 2,400 years ago at the bottom of the Black Sea.
"Oxygen levels in the depths of the Black Sea are so low that marine life is virtually nonexistent, keeping the ship preserved."

Vintage Computer Festival. Website is designed to look like an old 8-bit menu screen.