https://flipso.com/ Latest posts on Flipso Flipso en-us https://flipso.com/static/img/favicon_rss.png https://flipso.com/ 144 144 Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:20:30 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss nkhv4ymz3 https://flipso.com/p/nkhv4ymz3?ref=rss Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:20:30 GMT Steven Novella examines the viral claim that a cluster of dead or missing scientists points to something sinister, and argues the apparent pattern is better explained by base rates, loose definitions, and confirmation bias than by a real connection. [theness.com] bqzvr9844 https://flipso.com/p/bqzvr9844?ref=rss Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:54:16 GMT How Authentic Brands Group turns bankrupt or struggling brands into licensing machines: buy the intellectual property, shed the design and manufacturing, and collect royalties while third-party operators make the products. The result is the same logo across wildly different quality tiers, from Brooks Brothers and Eddie Bauer to Forever 21, Champion, Dockers, and Sports Illustrated. [worseonpurpose.com] a8wm9q2m1 https://flipso.com/p/a8wm9q2m1?ref=rss Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:00:09 GMT How Leonardo da Vinci, Cesare Borgia, and Niccolò Machiavelli intersected during a 1502 military campaign in northern Italy—and how Borgia’s ruthlessness shaped Machiavelli’s thinking and Leonardo’s work. [historytoday.com] a5dtj1sq1 https://flipso.com/p/a5dtj1sq1?ref=rss Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:20:10 GMT A detailed build log about getting a 1960s UNIVAC 1219B to run a Minecraft server, a NES emulator, OCaml programs, a web server, encryption, and other code by compiling C to RISC-V and emulating it on the machine. [farlow.dev] tl1n6ajkl https://flipso.com/p/tl1n6ajkl?ref=rss Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:40:35 GMT Conservation International’s Indigenous Women’s Fellowship supports three Peruvian Amazon conservationists working to defend territory, revive an Indigenous language, and restore a native potato. [conservation.org] q6il6ek3m https://flipso.com/p/q6il6ek3m?ref=rss Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:00:11 GMT Great white sharks and other warm-blooded fish may face dangerous overheating as climate change raises ocean temperatures, narrowing their suitable habitat and adding to pressure from declining prey and overfishing. Researchers say the warming seas could force these species into cooler waters and disrupt marine ecosystems. [e360.yale.edu] mkkstaxan https://flipso.com/p/mkkstaxan?ref=rss Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:40:46 GMT Quanta Magazine’s Natalie Wolchover examines whether recent bootstrap results strengthen the case for string theory, and how they fit into decades of debate over whether strings can describe the universe. [quantamagazine.org] g2i2josus https://flipso.com/p/g2i2josus?ref=rss Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:20:29 GMT A critique of how car-dependent, isolated neighborhoods can let people avoid encounters with neighbors in need, and how concentrated poverty and separated land uses make compassion harder to practice in everyday life. [strongtowns.org] bu9zy4au3 https://flipso.com/p/bu9zy4au3?ref=rss Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:20:09 GMT First study of how drugs affect behavior of fish in the wild adds to concerns about chemical exposure [science.org] zku5wjimi https://flipso.com/p/zku5wjimi?ref=rss Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:00:26 GMT Patrick Kurp reflects on Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet, comparing it with Leopardi’s Zibaldone and arguing that books should be well-written and teach something. He quotes Pessoa on reading, writing, and literature’s relation to life, while noting both insight and pretension in the passages he cites. [evidenceanecdotal.blogspot.com] paa3t131h https://flipso.com/p/paa3t131h?ref=rss Tue, 21 Apr 2026 06:00:10 GMT Bonsai styles reflect how trees grow in nature, shaped by wind, light, cliffs, storms, and competition. This Longwood Gardens guide explains the five basic styles—formal upright, informal upright, slanting, cascade, and semi-cascade—along with related forms like broom, literati, forest, and raft. It shows how each style balances horticulture, aesthetics, and the tree’s natural character. [longwoodgardens.org] 8xquan17n https://flipso.com/p/8xquan17n?ref=rss Tue, 21 Apr 2026 05:00:08 GMT Subsea cable repairs start by locating the fault, usually from outages and cable testing. Fiber-optic data cables are then pinpointed with light pulses, while power cables may need fault-detection instruments or an ROV. A cable ship retrieves the damaged section, engineers splice in replacement cable on board, and the repaired line is lowered back to the seabed. The article also explains why cables fail, how ships and fishing gear damage them, and the protections used to reduce future breaks. [onesteppower.com] hifxessbj https://flipso.com/p/hifxessbj?ref=rss Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:40:09 GMT A 1,200-year Kyoto cherry blossom record, long used as a climate signal, will continue after climate scientist Yasuyuki Aono’s death. Environmental biophysicist Genki Katata has agreed to take over the historic dataset, which documents how bloom dates have shifted earlier as temperatures have warmed. [nytimes.com] ilni4llih https://flipso.com/p/ilni4llih?ref=rss Tue, 21 Apr 2026 03:20:44 GMT AI can produce fast, cheap approximations, but the author prefers durable, repairable work with quality and longevity over disposable, particle-board-like output. [nazhamid.com] hanym2mjv https://flipso.com/p/hanym2mjv?ref=rss Tue, 21 Apr 2026 01:40:31 GMT A refurbished iPhone worked for a couple of months before the back shattered and the phone was later blacklisted by its original carrier, leaving calls and texts unusable. The upside was an accidental break from phone addiction, though the experience was still frustrating and came with a dead-end support saga. [atvbt.com] aasfvjwen https://flipso.com/p/aasfvjwen?ref=rss Mon, 20 Apr 2026 23:00:08 GMT A practical guide to using octopus merge commits in Jujutsu to keep many branches, WIP changes, and dependent PRs organized in a single working merge while minimizing conflicts. [isaaccorbrey.com] 13o3vgpx5 https://flipso.com/p/13o3vgpx5?ref=rss Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:00:09 GMT The F-35 excels at penetrating defended airspace and coordinating strikes, but the article argues a force built around it is too costly, fragile, and hard to sustain for a long war against China. It calls for a smaller F-35 fleet paired with more unmanned systems that are cheaper to produce, easier to disperse, and better suited to attrition and contested logistics. [warontherocks.com] 1p6306mrw https://flipso.com/p/1p6306mrw?ref=rss Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:40:09 GMT AES-128 remains secure against practical quantum attacks, and post-quantum migration does not require increasing symmetric key sizes. The real transition priority is asymmetric cryptography vulnerable to Shor’s algorithm, not 128-bit symmetric ciphers or hashes. [words.filippo.io] 4f2soisxl https://flipso.com/p/4f2soisxl?ref=rss Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:40:09 GMT A history of how ad-tech, third-party cookies, and browser design turned the web into a surveillance system by default. Traces the rise of DoubleClick, the normalization of tracking, the compliance theater around cookie banners, and the physical cost of the tracker economy. Argues that default-on surveillance was an architectural choice, not an inevitability. [vivianvoss.net] 0be9ama3a https://flipso.com/p/0be9ama3a?ref=rss Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:40:10 GMT https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000sri7/ [earthquake.usgs.gov] bzmpl9ux6 https://flipso.com/p/bzmpl9ux6?ref=rss Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:20:08 GMT Serhiy and Iryna married 40 years ago, unaware that a reactor at Chernobyl had exploded less than 3 miles away, with the disaster unfolding around them. [bbc.com] qexkn52mb https://flipso.com/p/qexkn52mb?ref=rss Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:40:31 GMT Australia’s boat-arrival crackdown is widely credited to offshore processing, but the bigger effect came from navy turnbacks. The article compares two policy waves and argues that turning boats back, not sending asylum seekers to Nauru, was what actually reduced arrivals. [worksinprogress.news] 0ngh5jhr7 https://flipso.com/p/0ngh5jhr7?ref=rss Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:40:30 GMT Scientists are exploring ways to regrow limbs and organs, including gene therapy, stem cells, transplants, and bioengineered replacements. New research suggests some regeneration pathways are shared across animals such as axolotls, zebrafish, and mice, raising cautious hope that human regeneration may eventually become possible — though likely only after major technical hurdles are solved. [theness.com] os7zigsmt https://flipso.com/p/os7zigsmt?ref=rss Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:40:42 GMT A meditation on how the push toward single-family homeownership can erode walkability, spontaneity, and close social ties, even as renting offers a different kind of good life. [commonedge.org] 76wri1pvs https://flipso.com/p/76wri1pvs?ref=rss Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:20:09 GMT Learn how researchers in Ithaca, New York, uncovered one of the largest known aggregations of ground-nesting bees, revealing a hidden network beneath the grass. [discovermagazine.com] sq9udorea https://flipso.com/p/sq9udorea?ref=rss Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:00:24 GMT Sean Carroll talks with philosopher Peter Singer about utilitarianism, animal rights, effective altruism, and the ethical questions raised by how we treat sentient beings and make end-of-life decisions. [preposterousuniverse.com] cgv8fyc6n https://flipso.com/p/cgv8fyc6n?ref=rss Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:40:28 GMT Robin Craig explores food and kink through personal scenes, shame, control, care, and the erotic charge of being fed or feeding someone else. Illustration by Olivia Sterling. [vittlesmagazine.com] 6h96z79q3 https://flipso.com/p/6h96z79q3?ref=rss Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:20:31 GMT Noah Smith revisits industrial policy and argues the term has become too broad to be useful. He contrasts developing-country FDI promotion with rich-country technology policy, then examines China’s heavy subsidy model and its risks, including price wars, margin compression, and bad debt. [noahpinion.blog] 9dudhq5e8 https://flipso.com/p/9dudhq5e8?ref=rss Mon, 20 Apr 2026 07:40:09 GMT Kevin Lozano interviews Ben Lerner about his new book Transcription, a hybrid work shaped by an interview gone wrong, and the themes of fatherhood, memory, and middle age that run through it. [vulture.com] o1fvut03h https://flipso.com/p/o1fvut03h?ref=rss Mon, 20 Apr 2026 07:00:25 GMT A reflective post on death, memory, and the odd comedy in human mortality, moving from a brother’s hospice death to passages from Jules Renard and Sir Thomas Browne. [evidenceanecdotal.blogspot.com]