by | Apr 28, 2022 | Culture Music Art, Literary News, Weirdness
from National Geographic These green books are poisonous—and one may be on a shelf near you A toxic green pigment was once used to color everything from fake flowers to book covers. Now a museum conservator is working to track down the noxious volumes. BY JUSTIN...
by | Apr 18, 2022 | Bright Shiny News, Culture Music Art
from WIRED A Million Little Pieces: The Race to Rebuild the World’s Coral Reefs Nearly half of these ocean ecosystems have been wiped out since 1950. One man is on a mission to reverse that—by speed-growing coral in hyperefficient nurseries. by ROWAN MOORE GERETY LISA...
by | Apr 14, 2022 | Culture Music Art
from Vanity Fair Will This Warhol Become the Most Expensive Artwork Ever Sold? When one of the pop artist’s famed portraits of Marilyn Monroe goes to auction next month, some observers think it could fetch up to half a billion dollars. What is it about this particular...
by | Apr 9, 2022 | Culture Music Art
from The Wall Street Journal David Mamet Is a Defiant Scribe in the Age of Conformity The playwright won’t play along with woke signaling, talismanic masking or deference to petty tyrants. By Barton Swaim ILLUSTRATION: KEN FALLIN Back in the 1980s and ’90s,...
by | Apr 8, 2022 | Culture Music Art
from People Magazine Michelle Pfeiffer Bought Her Iconic Scarface Sunglasses for Just $3 By Bianca Brutus Who says timeless style has to cost a mint? Not Michelle Pfeiffer! The Scarface star told Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest on Friday morning that her says her iconic...
by | Apr 7, 2022 | Culture Music Art
from Nautilus The Genius of Fishing with Tidal Weirs Native and non-native scientists have come together to counter overfishing with an ancient practice. BY KATA KARÁTH GONE FISHING: A fishing weir in the Micronesian state of Yap. The “arrow” of stone walls traps fish...
