by | Jul 16, 2020 | Weirdness
from Yahoo! News Closest pictures of sun ever taken reveal mysterious ‘campfires’ by Connor Parker One of the closest images ever taken of the sun. (BEIS via PA) The closest-ever images taken of the sun have revealed mini solar flares called “campfires”...
by | Jul 15, 2020 | Literary News
from The New York Times Montaigne Fled the Plague, and Found Himself As disease and war ravaged the nation, he left town and invented the essay. By Robert Zaretsky In the summer of 1585, the mayor of Bordeaux learned, from the comfort of his nearby chateau, that the...
by | Jul 14, 2020 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from Brixton Blog Top literature prize for Linton Kwesi Johnson Linton Kwesi Johnson Linton Kwesi Johnson has been awarded this year’s PEN Pinter Prize. Judges praised his work, saying: “Few post-war figures have been as unwaveringly committed to political...
by | Jul 13, 2020 | Culture Music Art
from The Guardian ‘Everyone wants to get outside’: boom in camping as Americans escape after months at home by Miranda Bryant in NEW YORK A campground at Joshua Tree national park in southern California. The National Park Service said 330 of its 419 sites...
by | Jul 12, 2020 | Culture Music Art
from STAT Gene-editing discovery could point the way toward a ‘holy grail’: cures for mitochondrial diseases By SHARON BEGLEY Cells with mitochondria, in red / COURTESY TSLIL AST MOOTHA LABORATORY Biologist David Liu was in the middle of his morning commute to the...
