SeĂĄn Doran, who Iâve featured here many times before for his remastered astronomy photos & videos, has taken photographs captured by a Japanese weather satellite of Typhoon Sinlaku in April 2026 and â
Interesting thread about why rural towns donât vote blue: they donât have to because small towns âactually operate very similarly to the âsocialist agendaâ they pretend to be so afraid ofâ and âtheyâv
How jellyfish in bycatch yield collagen for skin care, drug capsules, and nutritional supplements
The post The Healing Powers of an Accidentally Caught Jellyfish appeared first on Nautilus.
Alan Michael Parker at the Virginia Quarterly Review: In 2021, after forty adult years of study, practice, and teaching, and nine published volumes, I gave up poetry. In 2022, with no formal training,
Aardmanâs official Wallace & Gromit YouTube channel is livestreaming what appears to be the four shorts featuring the duo: A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers, A Close Shave, and A Matter of Loaf or D
Carlo Rovelli at Noema: The consciousness debate is often formulated in terms used in an influential talk given by a young David Chalmers in Tucson in 1994. Chalmers, a philosopher, distinguished two
âWeâre really going into what we believe is the early chapters of an investment supercycle in the US for electricity growth,â Scott Strazik, CEO of GE Vernova, told during an at the World Economic F
People Who Donât Like People Are Making All of Our Decisions. âWe are living in the ultimate revenge of the nerds, driven by a crew of socially awkward tech bros who wonât stop until the society that
Anyone of any age can stop by the Grandma Stand in New Yorkâs Central Park to shoot the breeze with a grandmother. The concept has spread around the US and is now the subject of an hour-long document
This election cycle, fresh off Zohran Mamdaniâs victory in the mayoral race, the New York City chapter of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is running its largest-ever slate of legislative insurg
Where are the public benches on the internet? âLike cities that have prioritized cars, visiting the Internet now entails controlled apps and search engines, designed for extraction. Thereâs nowhere to
If the current state of the world economy is marked by stark cognitive dissonance, if what is not sustainable cannot be sustained, then what comes next?
Kiran Kumbhar at Aeon: South Asia, or the Indian subcontinent, or âIndiaâ in its pre-nation-state meaning, boasts a remarkable diversity in ethnicities, cultures and languages. For more than two centu
Now open in NYC: a pop-up called The Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room, which consists of âall 3.5 million pages, 3,437 volumes, and 17,000 pounds of the released and partially
In 1991, I sat in front of the television and wept as Sgt Slaughter beat Hulk Hogan with a chair. My brother and I had watched in horror for months as Slaughter and his cronies brutalized Hogan in the
Deep beneath the volcanic island, scientists are trying to predict the next big one
The post âIceland Is Going to Erupt Again Very Soonâ appeared first on Nautilus.
The Hidden Cassettes. âThis is going to sound insane, but when I was a kid I found out my dad secretly recorded our phone calls.â (Be sure to read the âWhat?!â link.)
A graduate student recently harnessed the complexity of mathematical proofs to create a powerful new tool in cryptography.
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Almost four years after taking power, Giorgia Meloniâs Fratelli dâItalia is still Italyâs largest party. Yet in recent months, the polling lead for Meloniâs right-wing coalition has been steadily erod
I Studied Translation Theory at Columbia. Hereâs why itâs difficult to translate Dostoyevskyâand why you shouldnât read Pevear and Volokhonsky.
Turn it up for what?! Prettying the plumage on your stochastic parrot via the âsecretâ work of the LLM âcreativityâ dial. Behind the paywall because I am not at all sure that this is right. But I...
Lawrence Weschler at Wondercabinet: One of Tina Brownâs most striking innovations during her tenure at the New Yorker across the first half of the nineties was naming Richard Avedon as staff photograp
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