by | Dec 30, 2020 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from Vox The year reality collapsed into pixels What I learned from spending 2020 working, learning, and entertaining on the same screen. By Alissa Wilkinson By the time the friendly robot Wall-E makes it to outer space in the Pixar movie that bears his name, the...
by | Dec 27, 2020 | Mirth, Weirdness
from The Drive Video Taken By Pilots Of What Could Be The Elusive Los Angeles Jet Pack Guy Emerges (Updated) Flight school pilots were on a training flight off the coast when they were surprised to see what appeared to be a guy in a jet pack whizzing by. BY TYLER...
by | Dec 16, 2020 | Culture Music Art, Mirth, Weirdness
from WIRED The WIRED Guide to Memes Everything you ever wanted to know about Nyan Cat, Doge, and the art of the Rickroll. by ANGELA WATERCUTTER & EMMA GREY ELLIS MEMES AND THE internet—they’re made for each other. Not because they’re digital visual...
by | Dec 13, 2020 | Weirdness
from Thomson-Reuters Giant iceberg on course to collide with south Atlantic penguin colony island By Cassandra Garrison An enormous iceberg is heading toward South Georgia Island in the southern Atlantic, where scientists say a collision could devastate wildlife by...
by | Dec 10, 2020 | Weirdness
from WaPo via Greenwich Time Amazon’s new health band is the most invasive tech we’ve ever tested by Geoffrey A. Fowler and Heather Kelly, The Washington Post Amazon has a new health-tracking bracelet with a microphone and an app that tells you everything...
by | Dec 2, 2020 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from Smithsonian Magazine Decoding the Mathematical Secrets of Plants’ Stunning Leaf Patterns A Japanese shrub’s unique foliage arrangement leads botanists to rethink plant growth models By Maddie Burakoff The spiral pattern of an Aloe polyphylla plant at the...
