by | Aug 14, 2021 | Weirdness
from The Atlantic Faraway Planets Don’t Seem So Distant Anymore Astronomers are stepping up their attempts to unravel the mysteries of exoplanets. By Marina Koren NASA; Paul Spella / The Atlantic One of astronomy’s most exciting discoveries began, as did many...
by | Aug 12, 2021 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from Washington Post via MSN He predicted the dark side of the Internet 30 years ago. Why did no one listen? by Reed Albergotti In 1994 — before most Americans had an email address or Internet access or even a personal computer — Philip Agre foresaw that computers...
by | Aug 9, 2021 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from BBC How your phone battery creates striking alien landscapes By Richard Fisher and Javier Hirschfeld A wider view of Chile’s brine pools. It can take more than a year to maximise the lithium concentration by this evaporation method (Credit: Ivan...
by | Aug 8, 2021 | Weirdness
from The New Yorker The Lost Canyon Under Lake Powell Drought is shrinking one of the country’s largest reservoirs, revealing a hidden Eden. By Elizabeth Kolbert In 2019, La Gorce Arch could be visited by boat. It’s now a half-mile hike from Lake Powell. The morning...
by | Aug 7, 2021 | Weirdness
from National Geographic Rare chunks of Earth’s mantle found exposed in Maryland The set of rocks strewn throughout Baltimore likely represent a slice of prehistoric seafloor from a now-vanished ocean. BY MAYA WEI-HAAS Katie Armstrong, NG Staff. Sources:...
by | Aug 6, 2021 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from Nautilus What Misspellings Reveal About Cultural Evolution BY HELENA MITON Illustration by VectorMine / Shutterstock Something about me must remind people of a blind 17th-century poet. My last name, Miton, is French, yet people outside of France invariably...
