September 16, 2021
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Tweet from Matthew Hockenberry
“What’s going on with global supply chains? (aka “why are we running out of everthing,” “why is shipping so slow,” “why are things more expensive”). A link…”
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Improving saves from Twitter and YouTube
“Being able to save tweet threads has been a top feature request this year, and we’re excited to be introducing full support for tweets–and tweet threads–on…”
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Shaken and Stirred: Welcome to the Fall Movie Death March
“One of the many brilliant conceits of The Office was that Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant set the whole thing at a paper company. All the corporate…”
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A Steamy French Thriller Is a ‘Sleeper Smash Hit’
“The 1969 film “La Piscine” was supposed to run for two weeks at New York’s Film Forum, but it’s been extended to the fall. Romy Schneider, top, and Alain Delon…”
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Science Fiction Was My Mid-Life Crisis
“I always knew that guys did strange things in their 40s. In fact, I’d seen it—but only from afar, like those accidents you view through the window of your…”
September 11, 2021
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‘Havana syndrome ’ and the mystery of the microwaves
“By Gordon Corera Security correspondent, BBC News Published 1 hour ago Share page About sharing Doctors, scientists, intelligence agents and government…”
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“These sticks, cones, coils and papers can help you clear your head, define a space and even rediscover a sense of time. Incausa Elbow smudge pot and palo santo…”
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Kacey Musgraves Is Here to Help You Through Your Divorce
“Share Comment In 1990, when Kacey Musgraves was two years old, her songwriting hero-to-be John Prine drawled to a U.K. Channel 4 audience , “Seems like some of…”
September 10, 2021
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Study links too much free time to lower sense of wellbeing
“The lesson of Goldilocks, that one can have too much of a good thing, even when it comes to the size of a chair, has applied in fields from astrobiology to…”
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Apple Music is using Shazam to solve the streaming industry’s problem with DJ mixes – TechCrunch
“Apple Music announced today that it’s created a process to properly identify and compensate all of the individual creators involved in making a DJ mix. Using…”
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“Allegra Hobbs traces Ted Lasso back to his sanitized American sitcom roots. Time critic Judy Berman recently described Ted Lasso as an attempt to craft the…”
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Can People Still Play the Same Games as They Get Older?
“Action genre veterans may struggle with the pace and complexity of modern games, but they have no intention of hanging up their controllers. Veli-Juhani Antero…”
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At The Turtle Club In The Shadow Of 9/11 | Defector
“This year marks the 20th anniversary of—as you are no doubt fully aware, especially this week—the making of The Master of Disguise. On the off-chance you don’t…”
September 5, 2021
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“in Biology, Health | September 2nd, 2021 Leave a Comment Facebook Reddit Whatsapp Digg Vk Print Delicious Buffer Pocket Xing Tumblr Mail Yummly Telegram…”
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Why CAPTCHA Pictures Are So Unbearably Depressing
“They force you to look at the world the way an AI does Clive Thompson 2 hours ago · 7 min read I hate doing Google’s CAPTCHAs. Part of it is the sheer hassle of…”
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The animals changed by proximity to humans
“It’s not just domestication that has changed animals – simply sharing their environment with humans has radically altered the behaviour of some species. A…”
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Flora, Fauna, and … Funga? The Case for a Third ‘F.’
“I n 1999, Giuliana Furci developed a profound interest in fungi. They were everywhere, and the 20-year-old took particular joy in the multiformity of mushrooms:…”
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The Art of Pondering Earth’s Distant Future
“Credit: Getty Images The word has been out for decades: We were born on a damaged planet careening toward environmental collapse. Yet our intellects are poorly…”
September 4, 2021
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The Most Unread Book Ever Acclaimed
“Like the holy books, long novels are more often maligned than read. Critics complain that they’re exasperating or impossible or not worth the time. But in the…”
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Billie, Lorde, Lizzo: has being a female pop star in 2021 become unbearable?
“T he mechanisms of pop stardom have never been subject to as much scrutiny as they are now. Britney Spears’ conservatorship struggle exposed their potential for…”
September 1, 2021
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An accidental discovery hints at a hidden population of cosmic objects
“This mosaic shows the entire sky imaged by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). Infrared light refers to wavelengths that are longer than those…”
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Starting Tomorrow, ‘Roe v. Wade’ Will Functionally Cease to Exist in Texas
“An exam room at a Whole Woman’s Health clinic. (Scott Olson / Getty Images) I feel like people are waiting for the headline “Roe v. Wade Overturned” to appear…”
August 29, 2021
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The reasons humans started kissing
“Lip-on-lip kissing is not nearly as universal as we might think it is, so can the diverse number of ways that humans kiss reveal what it is about this intimate…”
August 21, 2021
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A Big Study About Honesty Turns Out To Be Based On Fake Data
“Renowned psychologist Dan Ariely literally wrote the book on dishonesty. Now some are questioning whether the scientist himself is being dishonest. BuzzFeed…”
August 19, 2021
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“TOKYO, JAPAN – JULY 27: Naomi Osaka of Team Japan reacts after a point during her Women’s Singles Third Round match against Marketa Vondrousova of Team Czech…”
August 17, 2021
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The Best Sites, Apps, and YouTube Channels to Learn Music
“Modern technology makes studying to play a new instrument easier than ever. And the best part? Most of these tools are free or affordable. Two decades ago, my…”
August 16, 2021
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‘The White Lotus’ Finale Didn’t Need a Dead Body—But It Picked the Perfect One
“HBO/Getty Images/Ringer illustration Mike White is well aware The White Lotus is not a murder mystery at heart. “You know, it’s such a trope at this point. All…”
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Mike White Accepts the Criticism
“Photo: TODD MIDLER/The New York Times/Redux The White Lotus is a show born out of necessity, an HBO series that creator Mike White could produce quickly and…”
August 14, 2021
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How Data Science Pinpointed the Creepiest Word in “Macbeth”
“It’s not the word you’d expect — and it appears in this very sentence Clive Thompson 21 hours ago · 7 min read “Shakespeare”, by Ungry Young Man Macbeth is a…”
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“Steve Zahn in The White Lotus . Photo: Courtesy of HBO This summer, television became preoccupied with a question: What should happen to men? Not all men — TV…”