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...
by | May 24, 2021 | Culture Music Art
from WaPo via San Francisco Chronicle The rivalry between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos already was intense. Now it’s extending to the moon. by Christian Davenport Washington Post photo by Jonathan Newton WASHINGTON – In a flyer distributed on Capitol Hill last...
by | May 23, 2021 | Culture Music Art
from WIRED Gaming Influencers Are the Future of Esports Top players have left pro leagues to pursue streaming full-time as the industry veers more toward content creators. There’s a reason esports pros are called athletes: It’s a tough job, mentally and...
