by | Aug 12, 2021 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from Washington Post via MSN He predicted the dark side of the Internet 30 years ago. Why did no one listen? by Reed Albergotti In 1994 — before most Americans had an email address or Internet access or even a personal computer — Philip Agre foresaw that computers...
by | Aug 11, 2021 | Culture Music Art
from Tablet How Jazz Healed a City A young musician fought back against COVID lockdowns by taking music into the streets of Manhattan and saved us all BY EMILY BENEDEK Last year, a few weeks before COVID-19 descended over the land, I bought tickets to the late show at...
by | Aug 10, 2021 | Culture Music Art
from artnet The Late Artist and Psychic Paulina Peavy Communed With a UFO to Create Her Work. A New Show Revives Her Otherworldly Legacy “The Etherian Channeler” at Beyond Baroque in Venice Beach reintroduces the West Coast to this singular artist. by...
by | Aug 9, 2021 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from BBC How your phone battery creates striking alien landscapes By Richard Fisher and Javier Hirschfeld A wider view of Chile’s brine pools. It can take more than a year to maximise the lithium concentration by this evaporation method (Credit: Ivan...
by | Aug 8, 2021 | Weirdness
from The New Yorker The Lost Canyon Under Lake Powell Drought is shrinking one of the country’s largest reservoirs, revealing a hidden Eden. By Elizabeth Kolbert In 2019, La Gorce Arch could be visited by boat. It’s now a half-mile hike from Lake Powell. The morning...