by | Aug 12, 2021 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from Washington Post via MSN He predicted the dark side of the Internet 30 years ago. Why did no one listen? by Reed Albergotti In 1994 — before most Americans had an email address or Internet access or even a personal computer — Philip Agre foresaw that computers...
by | Aug 11, 2021 | Culture Music Art
from Tablet How Jazz Healed a City A young musician fought back against COVID lockdowns by taking music into the streets of Manhattan and saved us all BY EMILY BENEDEK Last year, a few weeks before COVID-19 descended over the land, I bought tickets to the late show at...
by | Aug 10, 2021 | Culture Music Art
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...
by | Aug 9, 2021 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
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...
by | Aug 6, 2021 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
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...
by | Aug 5, 2021 | Culture Music Art
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...
