by Editor | Jul 23, 2024 | Culture Music Art
from The Wall Street Journal Why America’s Berries Have Never Tasted So Good Driscoll’s had to figure out how to breed, produce and sell its most flavorful strawberries and raspberries. Now the strategy is starting to bear fruit. By Ben Cohen The ultimate goal for the...
by Editor | Jul 22, 2024 | Culture Music Art
from WIRED This Ancient Technology Is Helping Millions Stay Cool Cheap, low-energy evaporative cooling devices are keeping water, food, people, and even whole buildings cool across India. by NADEEM SARWAR & SHREYA FOTEDAR Pal Pillai / Getty Images This summer,...
by Editor | Jul 21, 2024 | Weirdness
from WIRED The Puzzle of How Large-Scale Order Emerges in Complex Systems With a new framework, researchers believe they could be close to explaining how regularities emerge on macro scales out of systems made up of uncountable constituent parts. by Philip Ball CLIP:...
by Editor | Jul 14, 2024 | Culture Music Art
from The New York Times Ruth Westheimer, the Sex Guru Known as Dr. Ruth, Dies at 96 Ruth Westheimer, the grandmotherly psychologist who as “Dr. Ruth” became America’s best-known sex counselor with her frank, funny radio and television programs, died on Friday at her...
by Editor | Jul 13, 2024 | Weirdness
from Metro An epidemic caused people to fall asleep for months – we still don’t know why by Katherine Fidler A ‘sleepy sickness’ patient (Picture: Wellcome Library) One hundred years ago, across the world, people were falling asleep uncontrollably. Not from a hard...
