https://flipso.com/ Latest posts on Flipso Flipso en-us https://flipso.com/static/img/favicon_rss.png https://flipso.com/ 144 144 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:40:29 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss ncei12eme https://flipso.com/p/ncei12eme?ref=rss Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:40:29 GMT No gloves, no steroids, no optimization [slowboring.com] 1zexdymdl https://flipso.com/p/1zexdymdl?ref=rss Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:00:26 GMT A Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic posted on April 17, 2026, centered on internet video clickbait and exaggerated promises. [smbc-comics.com] a8nr24drl https://flipso.com/p/a8nr24drl?ref=rss Sat, 18 Apr 2026 11:20:09 GMT Israeli mathematician and computer scientist Michael Oser Rabin (1931–2026) co-received the 1976 ACM Turing Award with Dana Scott for work on computational complexity. He is also known for the Rabin cryptosystem, Rabin fingerprinting, the Miller–Rabin primality test, and the Rabin–Karp string search algorithm. [en.wikipedia.org] lbvnat5ks https://flipso.com/p/lbvnat5ks?ref=rss Sat, 18 Apr 2026 08:11:34 GMT A curated archive of graphics made for the Commodore Amiga, including artwork from games, magazines, logos, demos, and artist collections. Recent updates add new image sets, comparisons, and color-cycling animations, with source notes where available. [amiga.lychesis.net] tspc54lo7 https://flipso.com/p/tspc54lo7?ref=rss Sat, 18 Apr 2026 08:20:08 GMT A practical geometry walkthrough for building roads from profiles using only lines and circular arcs. It explains why a single arc is often not enough, how a two-step fillet construction connects endpoints with matching tangents, and how an intermediary profile helps handle S-shaped transitions and other edge cases. [sandboxspirit.com] 5mxeayc1g https://flipso.com/p/5mxeayc1g?ref=rss Sat, 18 Apr 2026 07:00:29 GMT V&A East opens today in London’s East Bank, marking another major step in the long-running Stratford Waterfront development. The post looks back at the site’s transformation and tours the new cultural quarter, including the Thomas J Price statue, public art, food outlets, and the surrounding buildings from UAL, Sadler’s Wells East, and the BBC’s future music studios. [diamondgeezer.blogspot.com] 0icif8pfn https://flipso.com/p/0icif8pfn?ref=rss Sat, 18 Apr 2026 05:40:25 GMT Debt and long-term obligations become dangerous when credit tightens, because recessions can turn gradually and then shut the door fast. The author argues that borrowers and owners should reduce leverage before weakening conditions make refinancing, selling, or adjusting course much harder. The central warning is to pay attention to credit conditions and act before fear and falling prices force worse decisions. [charleshughsmith.blogspot.com] 08bdfp7ji https://flipso.com/p/08bdfp7ji?ref=rss Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:00:08 GMT Lunar dust can irritate astronauts’ eyes and throats, and ESA is studying how its sharp, abrasive particles may affect human health. The article explains why Moon dust is so persistent and potentially hazardous, from its jagged shape to its electrostatic charge, and how researchers are testing the risks for future lunar missions. [esa.int] vt8tox8sb https://flipso.com/p/vt8tox8sb?ref=rss Sat, 18 Apr 2026 01:20:10 GMT Data from more than 15,000 ancient people reveal natural selection of hundreds of genes linked to immunity, skin tone, behaviour and other traits. [nature.com] l66gf3hxm https://flipso.com/p/l66gf3hxm?ref=rss Fri, 17 Apr 2026 23:20:26 GMT A discussion of how historians handle limited, hostile evidence for Carthage, contrasting more source-trusting and more skeptical approaches, with brief recommendations on film criticism, a Roman history podcast, a Punic coin essay, and a book on the making of early modern Europe. [acoup.blog] ifpypnpq2 https://flipso.com/p/ifpypnpq2?ref=rss Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:00:27 GMT Joseph Rodriguez’s 1980s photographs of El Barrio capture everyday life in Spanish Harlem with warmth, grit, and dignity, while also reflecting the neighborhood’s poverty, drugs, and gentrification pressures. [flashbak.com] z3po0bqpn https://flipso.com/p/z3po0bqpn?ref=rss Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:20:08 GMT She wrote striking, ahead-of-their-time songs in the 1950s but remained little known. Now, a new re-release is bringing renewed attention to the singer-songwriter who disappeared at age 50. [bbc.com] zz6i72s03 https://flipso.com/p/zz6i72s03?ref=rss Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:00:11 GMT As humanity’s energy needs grow across epochs, successive supercomputers are asked whether entropy can be reversed, and the search for an answer eventually spans galaxies and the end of the universe itself. [hex.ooo] q8zry7mbb https://flipso.com/p/q8zry7mbb?ref=rss Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:40:09 GMT https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/75848 [thehistoryblog.com] c3c681obn https://flipso.com/p/c3c681obn?ref=rss Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:40:20 GMT A 1952 photo of the Brooklyn Heights Esplanade and lower Manhattan frames the newly redesigned Remsen Street circle and traces how the waterfront promenade emerged alongside Robert Moses-era highway planning. [oldstructures.com] g5g4qbi0i https://flipso.com/p/g5g4qbi0i?ref=rss Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:39:04 GMT After Mythos, a laissez-faire approach is no longer politically tenable or strategically wise [economist.com] 0wf4wtkcf https://flipso.com/p/0wf4wtkcf?ref=rss Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:40:28 GMT Families and human rights groups are urging the African Union to push Zambia to clean up Kabwe’s long-shuttered Broken Hill lead mine, where toxic waste has continued to expose children to dangerous lead levels for decades. The complaint calls for a permanent cleanup, an end to artisanal mining at the site, and testing and health care for affected children. [e360.yale.edu] mdfu3den6 https://flipso.com/p/mdfu3den6?ref=rss Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:00:09 GMT A Citizen Lab report on Webloc argues that widely available mobile geolocation data poses serious privacy and national security risks, and says the U.S. should restrict the collection and sale of precise location data. [lawfaremedia.org] dnoi091nj https://flipso.com/p/dnoi091nj?ref=rss Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:20:29 GMT Rare photographs of Ainu women and communities in northern Japan capture a culture marked by lip tattooing, animist traditions, trade networks, and the pressures of forced assimilation. [rarehistoricalphotos.com] 1qq0mr6jz https://flipso.com/p/1qq0mr6jz?ref=rss Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:00:28 GMT Poet Edward Case’s work, long little known, is newly collected in The Business of the Dancer. The post reflects on his formal, compact verse, quotes several poems, and traces the book’s publication by his son after Case’s death in 1985. [evidenceanecdotal.blogspot.com] 9uz00ai0y https://flipso.com/p/9uz00ai0y?ref=rss Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:00:10 GMT A segment of the human genome on chromosome 20 that contains the overlapping long non-coding RNA genes HAR1A and HAR1B. HAR1A is expressed during cortical development and has been studied for its rapid evolution in humans. [en.wikipedia.org] x6m4swquw https://flipso.com/p/x6m4swquw?ref=rss Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:20:09 GMT Environmental footprint of Europe's data centres kept secret after industry lobbying in a move legal experts warn could violate transparency rules. [investigate-europe.eu] ps4xwwleo https://flipso.com/p/ps4xwwleo?ref=rss Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:20:28 GMT Bayesian analysis of General Social Survey responses suggests opposition to doctor-assisted death and related suicide scenarios has generally declined across cohorts, with much of the change driven by generational replacement rather than short-term period effects. The post compares five questions, including an incurable-disease doctor-assisted death item, and separates cohort and period trends over time. [allendowney.com] 7qtbjphxf https://flipso.com/p/7qtbjphxf?ref=rss Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:00:31 GMT A guide to Rome’s tailors, shoemakers, shirtmakers, cloth merchants, eyewear shops, and menswear stores, with suggestions for a walking route through the city’s most interesting sartorial addresses. [permanentstyle.com] w314idq0a https://flipso.com/p/w314idq0a?ref=rss Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:20:09 GMT On Ada, the DoD language whose packages, strong typing, generics, and built-in concurrency anticipated features later rediscovered across modern programming languages. [iqiipi.com] qqfj28ph6 https://flipso.com/p/qqfj28ph6?ref=rss Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:20:09 GMT Škoda’s DuoBell is a bicycle bell tuned to be more audible to pedestrians wearing noise-cancelling headphones. The project pairs acoustic design with live street safety testing and open documentation. [welovecycling.com] 6jl9tsst6 https://flipso.com/p/6jl9tsst6?ref=rss Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:09 GMT California officials say newly unredacted court records show Amazon pressured third-party sellers to keep prices on rival sites from undercutting Amazon, using Buy Box suppression and other tools. Amazon denies the allegations and calls the claims false. [theguardian.com] koypq72bc https://flipso.com/p/koypq72bc?ref=rss Fri, 17 Apr 2026 04:20:19 GMT A critique of the passive-income mindset that pushed many would-be founders toward dropshipping, affiliate SEO, and course-selling instead of building real businesses. The piece argues that optimizing for income without ongoing involvement often produces low-value, customer-agnostic ventures and a lot of internet noise. [joanwestenberg.com] m8ub6o7c8 https://flipso.com/p/m8ub6o7c8?ref=rss Fri, 17 Apr 2026 04:40:30 GMT A meditation on “minor” poetry, from Wordsworth and Landor to Robert B. Shaw’s essay on Ralph Hodgson. The post argues that literary reputation is often shaped by fashion as much as criticism, and closes by recommending Humbert Wolfe’s delicate, nostalgic verse, including “In the Street of Lost Time.” [evidenceanecdotal.blogspot.com] g17dlvbrg https://flipso.com/p/g17dlvbrg?ref=rss Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:00:47 GMT A new Conservation International and IUCN study warns that one in five assessed soil-dependent species are threatened with extinction, with land-use change and soil chemistry shifts among the main drivers. The findings highlight how little is known about underground biodiversity and the risk it poses to farming, climate resilience and ecosystem health. [conservation.org]