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
Oddities
The Curious Case of the Ancient Brain
In 2008, archaeologists examining the University of York discovered something strange: the decapitated head of an Iron Age man and his very shrivelled but very much intact brain. How a centuries-old brain was preserved is still unknown, but research suggests that it could have been because of brain diseases like dementia. The Yorkshire man’s brain’s proteins were bunched up together, much like how dementia causes brain proteins to bunch up into plaques. This bunching up, or aggregation, could continue even after death, turning regions of the brain into hard masses. Read full article here
Merv
September 30, 2022
