by | May 10, 2020 | Culture Music Art, Literary News, Weirdness
from The Guardian The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months When a group of schoolboys were marooned on an island in 1965, it turned out very differently from William Golding’s bestseller, writes Rutger Bregman by Rutger...
by | May 7, 2020 | Mirth, Weirdness
from NBC News Stormtrooper trying to get customers’ attention taken down by officers in Canada Callers reported seeing a weapon being carried by an employee who had been trying to drum up business for a restaurant hit hard by the coronavirus. by Tim Stelloh A...
by | May 6, 2020 | Weirdness
from The Hollywood Reporter Was Sundance a “First Petri Dish” of Coronavirus in the States? by Tatiana Siegel Getty Images; Courtesy of SubjectAshley Jackson at a Sundance premiere and, later, in a mask while sick. A swath of attendees suffered harsh...
by | May 4, 2020 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from The Atlantic Being a Parent Has Made My Pandemic Life Simpler, If You Can Believe It Hear me out. by Tom McTague Jonas Bendiksen / Magnum Perhaps it’s the strange effect of being forced to slow down, to spend all of one’s time outside work pootling and pottering...
by | Apr 30, 2020 | Weirdness
from The Guardian Silence is golden for whales as lockdown reduces ocean noise Curtailing of shipping due to coronavirus allows scientists to study effects of quieter oceans on marine wildlife by Karen McVeigh In cities, human lockdowns during the coronavirus pandemic...
by | Apr 29, 2020 | Weirdness
from c|net Scientists pinpoint ‘most dangerous place in the history of planet Earth’ A paleontologist says time travelers would not survive long in this predator-packed area of Africa 100 million years ago. by Amanda Kooser...
