Tag Archives: Slippery

For over a hundred years, schoolchildren around the world have learned that ice melts when pressure and friction are applied. When you step out onto an icy pavement in winter, you can slip up because of the pressure exerted by your body weight through the sole of your (still warm) shoe. But it turns out that this explanation misses the …

It isn’t pressure or friction that makes ice slippery, but hidden forces at the molecular level. New findings show that dipole interactions disrupt ice’s structure in unexpected ways. Credit: Shutterstock For nearly two centuries, scientists believed that ice becomes slippery because pressure or friction melts its surface. New research from Saarland University overturns this idea. For more than a century, …

Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it’s a slippery slope  Hacker News Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games from Steam  PC Gamer Adult games are forcing the game industry into a spiritual crisis  Polygon Steam and Itch.io Are Pulling ‘Porn’ Games. Critics Say It’s a Slippery Slope to More Censorship  WIRED Credit Card Companies Are Hurting …

Late in the evening on July 23, developers with games tagged as NSFW on Itch.io, a digital marketplace, began to notice something strange. Their work—whether it was a game about navigating disordered eating as a teenager, or about dick pics—no longer appeared in search results. “No notification or anything,” says former NYU Game Center educator and developer Robert Yang, whose …