by | Jan 23, 2022 | Culture Music Art
from BBC The forgotten medieval habit of ‘two sleeps’ By Zaria Gorvett (Image credit: Alamy) It was around 23:00 on 13 April 1699, in a small village in the north of England. Nine-year-old Jane Rowth blinked her eyes open and squinted out into the moody...
by | Jan 22, 2022 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from The Conversation The Standard Model of particle physics: The absolutely amazing theory of almost everything The Standard Model of elementary particles provides an ingredients list for everything around us. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, CC BY...
by | Jan 21, 2022 | Culture Music Art
from The New York Times How A.I. Conquered Poker Good poker players have always known that they need to maintain a balance between bluffing and playing it straight. Now they can do so perfectly. By Keith Romer Illustration by Patricia Doria Last November in the...
by | Jan 20, 2022 | Culture Music Art
from City Journal Enter the Metaverse Unlike the Internet, the dawning digital environment promises autonomy from the physical world. by Bruno Maçães MIGUEL CANDELA/ANADOLU AGENCY/GETTY IMAGES It is no coincidence that the metaverse as a practical project emerged out...
by | Jan 19, 2022 | Culture Music Art
from The Observer Microsoft to Purchase Activision Blizzard for $68.7 Billion Microsoft says the acquisition will help “provide building blocks for the metaverse.” By Isabella Simonetti Activision is currently implicated in a workplace sexual misconduct...
by | Jan 18, 2022 | Culture Music Art
from TMZ ANDRE LEON TALLEY DEAD AT 73 Fashion icon Andre Leon Talley has died at 73 … TMZ has learned. A source with direct knowledge tells us Vogue’s former creative director and one-time editor-at-large passed away Tuesday at a hospital in White Plains,...
