by | May 2, 2022 | Culture Music Art
from InsideHook This Is the Simplest Way to Explain the Metaverse We can do it in three words — while some experts provide larger context and clear up some major misperceptions. BY KIRK MILLER The “metaverse” will not be confined to bulky headsets, say the...
by | Apr 29, 2022 | Culture Music Art
from PC Magazine Nintendo Reminds Us Not to Hit People, Smash TVs When Playing Switch Sports Joy-Con wrist straps are an essential accessory for this game, as is lots of free space. By Matthew Humphries Wii Sports caused many an injury to bodies and televisions back...
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,...
