https://flipso.com/ Latest posts on Flipso Flipso en-us https://flipso.com/static/img/favicon_rss.png https://flipso.com/ 144 144 Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:40:14 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss dxkebyibb https://flipso.com/p/dxkebyibb?ref=rss Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:40:14 GMT A study of Bronze Age and Early Iron Age iron objects from Greek museums found 13 likely meteoritic items, with the strongest evidence concentrated in finger rings from richly furnished elite tombs. The findings suggest meteorite-iron rings were status symbols in the Late Bronze Age and fell out of fashion as smelted iron became more common. [phys.org] x6wc01808 https://flipso.com/p/x6wc01808?ref=rss Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:00:19 GMT David Samson, an evolutionary anthropologist and author of The Sleepless Ape, on why human sleep is shorter, more fragmented, and more tied to light, temperature, and social safety than modern habits assume. [nautil.us] ueqqugg02 https://flipso.com/p/ueqqugg02?ref=rss Wed, 19 Aug 2026 05:40:17 GMT Archaeological analysis of a late 9th-century shipwreck off Binh Chau, Vietnam, comparing its ceramics, ship structure, epigraphic evidence, and possible role in Tang maritime trade networks. [koh-antique.com] ifbc46b67 https://flipso.com/p/ifbc46b67?ref=rss Wed, 19 Aug 2026 04:20:18 GMT A study suggests children's lung capacity in the London ULEZ caught up with that of peers in less-polluted areas after the clean-air zone was introduced. [bbc.com] 15tk5mfez https://flipso.com/p/15tk5mfez?ref=rss Wed, 19 Aug 2026 03:20:15 GMT Florence Hazrat traces the history of the parenthesis from Renaissance punctuation and rhetoric to Philip Sidney’s exuberant use of brackets in Arcadia, showing how digressions can shape meaning, rhythm, and intimacy in prose. [lithub.com] wfxdkvntr https://flipso.com/p/wfxdkvntr?ref=rss Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:40:21 GMT Balancing ambition with fatherhood can feel like a zero-sum tradeoff, but the author argues both can be part of the same definition of success. He reflects on how having children changes time, productivity, and priorities, and on the challenge of staying focused while making room for family. [nicholascharriere.com] u5sfk3j2j https://flipso.com/p/u5sfk3j2j?ref=rss Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:40:15 GMT Let's shield the astronauts instead of the spacecraft. [arstechnica.com] 8e1c4wri9 https://flipso.com/p/8e1c4wri9?ref=rss Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:40:13 GMT Britain’s postwar sugar rationing was an accidental experiment. Decades on, it’s revealing how early diet shapes cancer risk, ageing and eating habits for life. [theconversation.com] cwlfo9r6y https://flipso.com/p/cwlfo9r6y?ref=rss Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:40:20 GMT A deadly 2018 limousine crash in upstate New York killed 20 people and exposed a long trail of safety failures. The driver and the company behind the vehicle soon became part of a wider story about the owner’s past as an FBI informant and the extraordinary influence that came with it. [nymag.com] g4by4jjw7 https://flipso.com/p/g4by4jjw7?ref=rss Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:00:15 GMT Finding beautiful birds with data, and the ethics of converting preferences into math [moultano.wordpress.com] 4skxeftpz https://flipso.com/p/4skxeftpz?ref=rss Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:40:14 GMT Archaeologists say a 14th-century warrior found at a Scottish castle shows injuries consistent with a deadly trebuchet strike, offering rare physical evidence of siege warfare. [science.org] 8a74mw4tf https://flipso.com/p/8a74mw4tf?ref=rss Tue, 18 Aug 2026 04:20:15 GMT Book Haven in Wellington’s Newtown was suddenly receiving more orders than it could handle, prompting questions about where they were coming from and why demand had spiked so sharply. [rnz.co.nz] whl3jre6f https://flipso.com/p/whl3jre6f?ref=rss Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:20:13 GMT Photographs of Chilean Patagonian puesteros—solitary ranch hands who spend weeks or months at a time in isolated cabins—reveal the harsh beauty of their landscape and the precarity of their work. [newyorker.com] ynj59edhb https://flipso.com/p/ynj59edhb?ref=rss Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:00:19 GMT Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel Prize for his work on kuru in Papua New Guinea, but he also brought dozens of children from the region to live with him in the United States. Rachel Aviv examines the scientist’s legacy through the life of Luwi Ikabala, one of the children who grew up in his orbit. [newyorker.com] 0ae0he9ob https://flipso.com/p/0ae0he9ob?ref=rss Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:40:15 GMT After nearly two decades of searching, physicists in China report strong evidence for a glueball — a particle made entirely of gluons, the force-carrying particles that hold quarks together. [nature.com] ue0ryqt2w https://flipso.com/p/ue0ryqt2w?ref=rss Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:20:14 GMT Mark Dominus discusses Julian Jaynes’ The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, outlining the bicameral-mind theory and its claim that modern consciousness emerged relatively recently. He also connects the book to later work on auditory hallucinations and related neurological cases. [blog.plover.com] 11bdu0yd8 https://flipso.com/p/11bdu0yd8?ref=rss Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:00:20 GMT People with schizophrenia face a dangerous mix of heat vulnerability, medication side effects, and barriers to care as temperatures rise. [wired.com] nazr19aoj https://flipso.com/p/nazr19aoj?ref=rss Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:00:15 GMT You might already know that atoms are mostly empty space. Physical size behaves a bit weirdly at the atomic scale, but essentially the radius of an atom’s nucleus is tens of thousands of times smal… [signoregalilei.com] xguukwpzm https://flipso.com/p/xguukwpzm?ref=rss Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:20:24 GMT How Wootton Bassett became a place of national mourning as repatriated British soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan were brought through the town, and how that ritual became politically charged. [newstatesman.com] v5429vo77 https://flipso.com/p/v5429vo77?ref=rss Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:00:17 GMT Taking a Tip From Plants - For the Eyes? [science.org] czxnevuak https://flipso.com/p/czxnevuak?ref=rss Mon, 17 Aug 2026 06:00:20 GMT A tribute to Sonny Rollins and the restless creativity that made him one of jazz’s defining innovators. Moving from the author’s first encounter with Rollins to a career-spanning portrait, it traces his sound, his improvisational imagination, and the long gaps and reinventions that shaped his legacy. [nplusonemag.com] 8cgmrmagu https://flipso.com/p/8cgmrmagu?ref=rss Sun, 16 Aug 2026 21:40:31 GMT A meditation on ignorance, survivor bias, and how complex systems like markets, firms, and institutions let us act without fully understanding them. It argues that civilization depends on decentralized error correction, and extends that idea to AI and future governance. [strangeloopcanon.com] 4y9v89j2m https://flipso.com/p/4y9v89j2m?ref=rss Sun, 16 Aug 2026 20:20:15 GMT A Boston Globe series on the trial of Latarsha Sanders, a Brockton mother convicted of killing her two young sons after her defense argued she was psychotic at the time. The reporting examines the insanity defense, the prosecution’s strategy, and what the jury was asked to decide. [archive.ph] toj2el5se https://flipso.com/p/toj2el5se?ref=rss Sun, 16 Aug 2026 19:40:15 GMT A quarter-mile tunnel in western North Carolina ends where pavement gives way to dirt, leaving an unfinished road that has become a local landmark. The story traces the Road to Nowhere in Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the fraught history behind its creation. [wunc.org] nbh7p3ct9 https://flipso.com/p/nbh7p3ct9?ref=rss Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:20:18 GMT A close reading of Anton Chekhov’s life and love letters, especially his marriage to Olga Knipper, questions the familiar image of him as detached or chaste and examines how biography, omission, and literary myth shape what we think love and artistic humanity mean. [commonreader.wustl.edu] pwzybsk4j https://flipso.com/p/pwzybsk4j?ref=rss Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:40:14 GMT In 1926, Henry Ford helped normalize the five-day working week, turning Saturday and Sunday into a shared two-day break. A century later, hybrid work, early-Friday drift and constant after-hours contact are blurring where the weekend begins and ends. [theguardian.com] k0xvqo92g https://flipso.com/p/k0xvqo92g?ref=rss Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:59:49 GMT Adding a small amount of salt can reduce coffee’s bitterness and make sweetness more noticeable, especially in darker roasts, overextracted brews, or lower-quality beans. But it can also flatten the delicate flavors in higher-quality coffees, so the best approach depends on the coffee and your taste preferences. [perfectdailygrind.com] gxk3kn6sf https://flipso.com/p/gxk3kn6sf?ref=rss Sat, 15 Aug 2026 21:40:13 GMT An essay on how solitude, self-trust, and sustained attention help fragile ideas survive long enough to become original work, drawing on Alexander Grothendieck and Ingmar Bergman. [henrikkarlsson.xyz] uwl68kn7c https://flipso.com/p/uwl68kn7c?ref=rss Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:20:16 GMT LymeAlert is a new at-home test that checks whether a tick carries Lyme-causing Borrelia burgdorferi, with results in about 15 minutes. The kit is set to launch in August for about $50 and includes an app that can read the strip and connect users to telehealth if needed. [smithsonianmag.com] sr2s8o9qi https://flipso.com/p/sr2s8o9qi?ref=rss Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:40:15 GMT Spectrogram-based look at how different light sources shape perceived color, comparing LEDs, incandescent and halogen bulbs, daylight, neon, mercury vapor, metal halide, xenon flash, fluorescent lamps, and white LEDs. [ludens.cl]