by | Dec 31, 2019 | Culture Music Art
from Are Technica The surprisingly complicated physics of why cats always land on their feet Ars chats with physicist Greg Gbur about his book, Falling Felines and Fundamental Physics by JENNIFER OUELLETTE A cat being dropped upside down to demonstrate a...
by | Dec 30, 2019 | Weirdness
by | Dec 29, 2019 | Culture Music Art
from SPIN Girly Show: The Oral History of Liz Phair’s ‘Exile In Guyville’ How a suburban Chicago songwriter wandered out of a John Hughes script and recorded one of the decade’s masterpieces by Jessica Hopper In 1993, no rock record was as divisive as Liz...
by | Dec 28, 2019 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from The New Yorker The Histories Hidden in the Periodic Table From poisoned monks and nuclear bombs to the “transfermium wars,” mapping the atomic world hasn’t been easy. By Neima Jahromi As element hunters have become element makers, the periodic table’s meaning has...
by | Dec 27, 2019 | Culture Music Art
from Showbiz 411 RIP The Great Radio and (Sometimes) TV Broadcaster Dom Imus: Controversial, Crazy, Completely Brilliant and Loyal to a Fault by Roger Friedman Don Imus has passed away at age 79. This was a brilliant, complicated man who had legions of fans and drove...