by Editor | Aug 31, 2024 | Weirdness
from WIRED AI’s Energy Demands Are Out of Control. Welcome to the Internet’s Hyper-Consumption Era Generative artificial intelligence tools, now part of the everyday user experience online, are causing stress on local power grids and mass water...
by Editor | Aug 30, 2024 | Weirdness
from Phys.org ‘A history of contact’: Geneticists are rewriting the narrative of Neanderthals and other ancient humans by Princeton University Detecting modern human–to-Neanderthal gene flow (H→N) and its consequences. Credit: Science (2024). DOI:...
by Editor | Aug 29, 2024 | Culture Music Art
from The Atlantic WHAT THE FRESHMAN CLASS NEEDS TO READ It is no small part of a liberal education to show students the broad range of meaningful lives they might aspire to lead. By Niall Ferguson and Jacob Howland Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani You’re...
by Editor | Aug 28, 2024 | Mirth
from NBC News After 4-year-old accidentally smashes ancient jar, museum invites him back. The 3,500-year-old artifact, on display in a museum in Haifa, Israel, predated the Biblical kings Solomon and David. By Charlotte Kwan A Bronze Age jar, dating from 2200 to 1500...
by Editor | Aug 27, 2024 | Culture Music Art
from NME Laura Dern was forced to quit college over ‘Blue Velvet’: “You are no longer welcome” “Pisses me off” By Chris Edwards Laura Dern has revealed she was forced to drop out of college after landing the role of Sandy Williams in David Lynch’s 1986...
