Willie

from The Wall Street Journal Why Willie Nelson Is America’s Favorite Outlaw At 88, Willie Nelson is still singing, writing, championing the causes he believes in—and staying true to his renegade Texas roots By Alan Light PHOTO: MARK SELIGER Being stuck at home has...

Even Cooler Than NFT

from HypeBeast Italian Artist Salvatore Garau Has Just Sold an Invisible Sculpture for $18,000 USD Made from “air and spirit.” By Ambrose Leung Italian artist Salvatore Garau has just sold an invisible sculpture for $18,000 USD. The Io Sono (I am) sculpture, as the...

Super-prodigy

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....

Steve Forte Shows His Hand

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...

Thermometer Fun

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...

Mo Spin

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...