by | Jan 27, 2022 | Culture Music Art
from BBC Is the Pilbara the oldest place on Earth? by Dan Avila (Credit: Dan Avila) Dating to around 3.6 billion years ago, the Pilbara region of Western Australia is home to the fossilised evidence of the Earth’s oldest lifeforms.I In recent years, science...
by | Jan 26, 2022 | Weirdness
from WIRED My Family Is Trapped in the Metaverse Virtual reality isn’t great, but it’s a lot better than dealing with everything else out there. by Adrienne So PHOTOGRAPH: VCG/GETTY IMAGES ON A WHIM, I recently started rewatching Ready Player One, the Steven Spielberg...
by | Jan 24, 2022 | Mirth, Weirdness
from c|net Oscar Mayer bologna-inspired face mask hydrates and horrifies My bologna face mask has a first name. by Amanda Kooser Maybe don’t wear this out in public.Oscar Mayer I have no idea what’s in bologna. The off-pink deli meat is something I...
by | Jan 23, 2022 | Culture Music Art
from BBC The forgotten medieval habit of ‘two sleeps’ By Zaria Gorvett (Image credit: Alamy) It was around 23:00 on 13 April 1699, in a small village in the north of England. Nine-year-old Jane Rowth blinked her eyes open and squinted out into the moody...
by | Jan 22, 2022 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from The Conversation The Standard Model of particle physics: The absolutely amazing theory of almost everything The Standard Model of elementary particles provides an ingredients list for everything around us. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, CC BY...
