The Etherian Channeler

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...

Lithium Landscapes

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...

Spelling Infidelity Explained

from Nautilus What Misspellings Reveal About Cultural Evolution BY HELENA MITON Illustration by VectorMine / Shutterstock Something about me must remind people of a blind 17th-century poet. My last name, Miton, is French, yet people outside of France invariably...

Musical Vocabularies

from InsideHook The Musicians With the Biggest (And Smallest) Vocabularies A new study determined which artists use the most unique words in their songs BY BONNIE STIERNBERG We all know that when it comes to song lyrics, some artists are more verbose than others. Some...

River Dave Burned Out

from AP Fire destroys cabin of New Hampshire man forced out of woods By KATHY McCORMACK Jodie Gedeon via AP CANTERBURY, N.H. (AP) — For almost three decades, 81-year-old David Lidstone has lived in the woods of New Hampshire along the Merrimack River in a small cabin...

Playing To The Gallery Gone

from UnHerd How artists lost their courage Keeping silent is the price of a successful career BY JESS DE WAHLS In 2013, Grayson Perry became the first crossdresser to give the BBC’s annual Reith Lectures. I loved them. Wearing his usual colourful attire,...