by | Sep 10, 2020 | Culture Music Art
from OBSERVER John Cage’s 639-Year-Long Organ Concert Attracts a Crowd in Germany By Helen Holmes Artists of many different mediums have always loved to play with the concepts of time and duration, and legendary composer and conceptualist John Cage is no different. On...
by | Sep 9, 2020 | Weirdness
from NAUTILUS Welcome to the Next Level of Bullshit The language algorithm GPT-3 continues our descent into a post-truth world. BY RAPHAËL MILLIÈRE One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit.” These are the opening words of the...
by | Sep 8, 2020 | Weirdness
from BBC The weird space that lies outside our Solar System By Patchen Barss Voyager 1 crossed over into interstellar space in 2012 100 Astronomical Units from the Sun but it still has the vast Oort Cloud ahead of it (Credit: Nasa/JPL-Caltech) The mysterious dark...
by | Sep 7, 2020 | Weirdness
from Science One of quantum physics’ greatest paradoxes may have lost its leading explanation By George Musser Gravity is unlikely to be the cause of quantum collapse, suggests an underground experiment at Italy’s Gran Sasso National Laboratory. TOMMASO...
by | Sep 6, 2020 | Weirdness
from LIVE SCIENCE Zombie wildfires are blazing through the Arctic, causing record burning By Stephanie Pappas “Zombie” wildfires that were smoldering beneath the Arctic ice all winter suddenly flared to life this summer when the snow and ice above it...
