by | Jun 1, 2021 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from Fox 5 NY Piano prodigy practices for Carnegie Hall performance By Stacey Delikat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV7raoa7FWU GREENWICH, Conn. – Her fingers may be small, her tiny feet far from the pedals, but Brigitte Xie has some massive talent....
by | May 31, 2021 | Culture Music Art
from The LA Times via MSN The world’s greatest cardsharp reveals all by Kevin Pang Fremont Street, once the world capital of swank, used to be Steve Forte’s turf. But on a spring day, he was just another face in a crowd, snaking through two relics of downtown...
by | May 30, 2021 | Culture Music Art
from TIME Melting Butter, Poisonous Mushrooms and the Strange History of the Invention of the Thermometer BY PHIL JAEKL Placement of a thermometer on an outside wall. Figure 1 from ‘Traittez de barometres, thermometres, et notiometres, ou hygrometres’ by...
by | May 29, 2021 | Culture Music Art
from WIRED One Man’s Amazing Journey to the Center of the Bowling Ball Mo Pinel spent a career reshaping the ball’s inner core to harness the power of physics. He revolutionized the sport—and spared no critics along the way. by BRENDAN I. KOERNER PHOTOGRAPH: ELIZABETH...
by | May 27, 2021 | Culture Music Art
from DNYUZ In Australia, Births of Tasmanian Devils Are a Milestone After 3,000 Years MELBOURNE, Australia — Pink, hairless, deaf and blind, the roughly month-old joeys were but the size of a shelled peanut. Yet they were a momentous discovery for the conservationists...
by | May 25, 2021 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from The Spectator The sexual counterrevolution is coming America’s young elite is turning against free love by Mary Harrington Charlotte is a 23-year-old Harvard graduate. Beautiful and willowy, she grew up in — her words — ‘a super-liberal environment’. You might...
