by | Apr 22, 2019 | Weirdness
from Vanity Fair HOW SILICON VALLEY TURNED YOUR BURRITO INTO A CAPITALIST NIGHTMARE The food-delivery industry wasn’t broken, but venture capital set out to disrupt it anyway. The result is overpriced services that frustrate restaurants, are hated by drivers, and...
by | Apr 21, 2019 | Culture Music Art, Literary News, Weirdness
from The Guardian The rise of robot authors: is the writing on the wall for human novelists? Artificial intelligence can now write fiction and journalism. But does it measure up to George Orwell – and can it report on Brexit? by Steven Poole An industrial robot writes...
by | Apr 14, 2019 | Weirdness
from National Geographic Confirmed: New phase of matter is solid and liquid at the same time The mind-bending material would be like a sponge made of water that’s leaking water. BY ADAM MANN SOLID, LIQUID, GAS … and something else? While most of us...
by | Apr 12, 2019 | Weirdness
from Metro UK People are putting cannabis up their bums and vaginas to have better sex by Jasper Hamill This packet contains a cannabis suppositry (Image: Foria) Here in the UK, most cannabis users eat, smoke or vaporize weed to get high. But in US states where it’s...
by | Apr 10, 2019 | Weirdness
from France 24 Mapping Armaggedon: Earth’s looming tsunamis and mega-quakes A landslide from Anak Karkatau triggered a tsunami that killed 437 people and injured 30,000 in December 2018 AFP/File As villagers along the Sunda Strait were finishing their meals on...
by | Apr 6, 2019 | Weirdness
from MSN Deadly germs, Lost cures: A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of Secrecy by MATT RICHTEL and ANDREW JACOBS Last May, an elderly man was admitted to the Brooklyn branch of Mount Sinai Hospital for abdominal surgery. A blood test revealed...
