Pleistocene Couture

from Smithsonian Evidence of Fur and Leather Clothing, Among World’s Oldest, Found in Moroccan Cave Humans likely sported clothes made of jackal, fox and wildcat skins some 120,000 years ago by Brian Handwerk A bone tool from Contrebandiers Cave likely used for making...

The Troubled Teen Machine

from The New Yorker The Shadow Penal System for Struggling Kids By Rachel Aviv In the spring of her freshman year of high school, in 2011, Emma Burris was woken at three in the morning. Someone had turned on the lights in her room. She was facing the wall and saw a...

The Dreamverse

from Nautilus Weird Dreams Train Our Brains to Be Better Learners BY JIM DAVIES Photo Illustration by MDV Edwards / Shutterstock For many of us over the last year and more, our waking experience has, you might say, lost a bit of its variety. We spend more time with...

Metaverse Emerging

from The Wall Street Journal THE AMAZING THINGS YOU’LL DO IN THE ‘METAVERSE’ AND WHAT IT WILL TAKE TO GET THERE Tech visionaries foresee a vast, immersive world that mirrors and extends the real one, allowing people to do and be what previously could only be imagined...

Cultural Karens Killing Comedy

from the New York Post ‘Airplane!’ creator slams joy-killing threat: ‘Twitter 9 percent’ By David Zucker Last year marked the 40th anniversary of the release of “Airplane!,” the comedy I wrote and directed with my brother Jerry and our friend Jim Abrahams. Just before...