Inspired by ships that were painted in camouflage colours to confuse enemy surveillance at sea, Dazzle Walks takes advantage of the “invisibility” of middle age to confuse city surveillance. Fiona Cullinan is one of many who walks at night after “beige-ing” herself, wearing monotone off-white outfits and painting her face to be as white as possible to make it more difficult for cameras to detect her. AI already has trouble seeing middle-aged people in images, so she’s embraced this invisibility as an exercise in freedom and privacy. Read full article here
Science
‘Ghostly’ neutrinos provide new path to study protons
In groundbreaking research, an international collaboration of scientists from the University of Rochester have used a beam of neutrinos to measure the size and shape of the protons that make up the nuclei of atoms. This feat, once thought impossible, provides scientists with a new way of looking at the small components of an atom’s nucleus and opens up a wealth of new information about the structure of an atom’s nucleus and the dynamics of the forces that affect neutrino interactions. The researchers solved the challenge of harnessing neutrinos in large numbers by using a neutrino detector containing a target of both hydrogen and carbon atoms, and over nine years of data collection at Fermilab’s accelerator. Read full article here
Merv
March 25, 2023
