https://flipso.com/ Latest posts on Flipso Flipso en-us https://flipso.com/static/img/favicon_rss.png https://flipso.com/ 144 144 Sun, 26 Jul 2026 20:40:17 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss i0kaqn1n6 https://flipso.com/p/i0kaqn1n6?ref=rss Sun, 26 Jul 2026 20:40:17 GMT Jimothy’s compact shape likely comes from short spine syndrome, a rare genetic condition that compresses the spine. Experts say raccoons can still live normally, but the bigger risk is people feeding or approaching him. [popsci.com] nbr4usix0 https://flipso.com/p/nbr4usix0?ref=rss Sun, 26 Jul 2026 18:49:17 GMT AI can speed up individual tasks, but it can also tempt us into starting too many projects. The real advantage is using that speed to go deeper on fewer things, finish what matters, and avoid turning efficiency into burnout. [rickmanelius.com] ut306f7vy https://flipso.com/p/ut306f7vy?ref=rss Sun, 26 Jul 2026 18:20:14 GMT David Bentley Hart argues that good English prose depends on balancing the beautiful and the sublime, and illustrates the point with passages from Sir Thomas Browne, the King James Bible, and other writers. He then turns to several modern examples to show what he sees as the loss of nuance, elegance, and expressive range in contemporary prose. [thelampmagazine.com] pb2nwpnaf https://flipso.com/p/pb2nwpnaf?ref=rss Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:00:15 GMT A tour of the hidden infrastructure beneath New York City, from water mains and underground power networks to steam, gas, telecom ducts, sewers, storm overflows, and the subway system. [practical.engineering] huzh0tt5f https://flipso.com/p/huzh0tt5f?ref=rss Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:20:31 GMT NYC’s Office of Technology and Innovation updates its building-footprint dataset weekly, tracking more than 1 million structures across the five boroughs. The post explores how the data is collected, what kinds of structures it includes, and how the footprints reveal the city’s constant churn, from new construction to demolished buildings. [beautifulpublicdata.com] i67lrwrkn https://flipso.com/p/i67lrwrkn?ref=rss Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:17:32 GMT Stanford SIEPR policy brief arguing that AI’s current effect on overall employment appears small, while young white-collar workers may be seeing some weaker demand. It finds productivity gains from AI are generally positive but uneven, and says firm adoption is rising yet still uneven across the economy. [siepr.stanford.edu] yjrcm6kom https://flipso.com/p/yjrcm6kom?ref=rss Sun, 26 Jul 2026 11:06:39 GMT AI companies play a cat-and-mouse game, trying to boost the capabilities of their creations while scrambling to block answers to dangerous queries. [wsj.com] fzhm6vkc2 https://flipso.com/p/fzhm6vkc2?ref=rss Sun, 26 Jul 2026 11:40:13 GMT A 1524–1525 popular uprising in German-speaking Central Europe, driven by economic and religious grievances and shaped by the Protestant Reformation. The revolt spread across parts of present-day Germany, Alsace, Switzerland, and Austria, but was suppressed by aristocratic forces with heavy casualties among the rebels. [en.wikipedia.org] lu61b315e https://flipso.com/p/lu61b315e?ref=rss Sun, 26 Jul 2026 06:40:16 GMT Scientists say a meteorite that crashed through a Hillsborough, New Jersey home in 2024 contained rare salt-rich fragments, amino acids, and other prebiotic compounds. The findings suggest parts of its parent asteroid were altered by concentrated briny fluids, offering clues about water, organic chemistry, and the ingredients that may have helped seed life in the early solar system. [seti.org] otiz7gqgn https://flipso.com/p/otiz7gqgn?ref=rss Sun, 26 Jul 2026 04:00:14 GMT Harvard scientists identify hundreds of genes under selective pressure. [harvardmagazine.com] m2uukfj62 https://flipso.com/p/m2uukfj62?ref=rss Sun, 26 Jul 2026 01:00:18 GMT Clinical Failure Rates Over the Decades: Yikes [science.org] a7m1ogtwk https://flipso.com/p/a7m1ogtwk?ref=rss Sat, 25 Jul 2026 22:40:23 GMT Esther Perel argues that America’s sex recession is really an eroticism shortage—driven less by a lack of opportunity than by fear, vigilance, and discomfort with uncertainty. Faith Hill explores how Perel’s ideas have aged, why they still resonate, and what they suggest about intimacy, pleasure, and modern life. [theatlantic.com] kinyivujp https://flipso.com/p/kinyivujp?ref=rss Sat, 25 Jul 2026 18:20:31 GMT A comparison of essential English vocabulary lists from 1953 and 2023 shows a shift away from concrete, everyday words toward more abstract, institutional, and system-level language. [pudding.cool] vvk13o1nb https://flipso.com/p/vvk13o1nb?ref=rss Sat, 25 Jul 2026 01:20:13 GMT MIT CSAIL researchers revived a 1985 three-sided zipper concept and built software that lets users customize and 3D-print the “Y-zipper.” The fastener can switch objects between flexible and rigid states, with potential uses in camping gear, wearables, robots, and art installations. [news.mit.edu] w4arg9cyd https://flipso.com/p/w4arg9cyd?ref=rss Sat, 25 Jul 2026 01:00:13 GMT Researchers found that sperm whales use gas bubbles to regulate buoyancy and remain nearly motionless just below the ocean surface during vertical sleep. Tags and movement data from whales off Norway showed that the animals release bubbles while resting, helping offset their naturally positive buoyancy. [news.st-andrews.ac.uk] i5ek5z8sq https://flipso.com/p/i5ek5z8sq?ref=rss Fri, 24 Jul 2026 23:20:14 GMT Interactive simulation of global crude oil trade and supply-chain network dynamics, with shock scenarios, flow losses, price, and stockpile drawdown based on UN Comtrade flow data and an associated arXiv paper. [globaloilnetwork.staffinganalytics.io] h4c8wk7nz https://flipso.com/p/h4c8wk7nz?ref=rss Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:00:17 GMT Barbara Bradley Hagerty revisits the wrongful conviction of Benjamine Spencer and the murder of Jeffrey Young, focusing on the victim’s family and the parallel trauma they endured as the case unraveled. [archive.ph] 9mvfc61kl https://flipso.com/p/9mvfc61kl?ref=rss Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:20:14 GMT Characterizing the factors that have shaped linguistic diversity is fundamental for understanding human history, culture, and cognition. In this study, we combined statistical and social computational modeling, ethnographic data, and paleodemographic ... [science.org] 24o39r23x https://flipso.com/p/24o39r23x?ref=rss Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:20:12 GMT An enthusiastic defense of the em dash as a flexible, expressive punctuation mark for clarifications, asides, dramatic pauses, and smoother sentence flow. [psychotechnology.substack.com] kwzdblpng https://flipso.com/p/kwzdblpng?ref=rss Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:40:16 GMT A personal reflection on losing sustained focus in an attention-fragmented routine: phone checks, web rabbit holes, Slack, and LLMs make it harder to work through boredom and difficult tasks. The author describes how these distractions changed over time and experiments with habits to reclaim deeper concentration. [glyphack.com] 6zeyy7znh https://flipso.com/p/6zeyy7znh?ref=rss Fri, 24 Jul 2026 03:20:13 GMT NBC’s “To Catch a Predator” sting in Murphy, Texas, takes a fatal turn when the man inside the house is found dead by gunshot. Luke Dittrich’s piece examines the operation, the aftermath, and the events that led to the killing. [esquire.com] gg5u4szj4 https://flipso.com/p/gg5u4szj4?ref=rss Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:00:25 GMT SFPD’s rape case clearance rate fell to 14% last year, about half the national rate. Although rape kits are now tested in weeks, many cases are later left inactive or shelved instead of fully investigated. [sfstandard.com] ocl6tjsfv https://flipso.com/p/ocl6tjsfv?ref=rss Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:20:13 GMT ESO’s Very Large Telescope has found evidence for a moon-like object in the CD-35 2722 system. The object orbits a brown dwarf rather than a planet, making it hard to classify and raising questions about what counts as a moon. If confirmed, it would be the first plausible exosatellite detected outside our Solar System. [eso.org] bsfmsaoq6 https://flipso.com/p/bsfmsaoq6?ref=rss Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:00:15 GMT The Carr family took in Steven Judy as a foster brother, hoping to save a troubled teen. Decades later, his siblings reflect on the shock, grief, and stigma left behind after he became a notorious murderer and was executed in Indiana. [theguardian.com] 3kt0b307k https://flipso.com/p/3kt0b307k?ref=rss Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:00:15 GMT Neal Stephenson argues that handwriting recruits more of the brain and shares practical tips for making it comfortable: use a good pen, choose paper that works well with your pen, don’t obsess over legibility, and write by hand for notes, lists, and ideas—not just novels. [nealstephenson.substack.com] a7aj56sgy https://flipso.com/p/a7aj56sgy?ref=rss Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:40:20 GMT Corporate autopsies on the brands you trust: who bought them, who gutted them, and what’s still worth buying. Investigative essays on how quality gets degraded, plus a brand ledger and free newsletter. [worseonpurpose.com] he1xs7kze https://flipso.com/p/he1xs7kze?ref=rss Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:00:17 GMT A pattern of alleged child abuse, health-and-safety violations, and regulatory action has damaged Bright Horizons’ reputation in New York. Yet parents keep enrolling, drawn by the brand, employer subsidies, and extended hours. [thecut.com] 2liskqgn2 https://flipso.com/p/2liskqgn2?ref=rss Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:40:14 GMT After his daughter Hannah died in a crash involving a defective guardrail, Steve Eimers began investigating guardrail failures across the U.S. His campaign has turned him into a relentless watchdog, documenting dangerous installations and pressing officials and manufacturers to fix them. [newyorker.com] 3i8xi014x https://flipso.com/p/3i8xi014x?ref=rss Thu, 23 Jul 2026 03:40:16 GMT A dentist in Pakistan describes how extreme heat, dehydration, and worsening water quality are contributing to severe tooth decay among outdoor laborers. In a study of climate-exposed patients, many showed acidic saliva and rapid dental deterioration, with broader effects on work, income, and daily life. [thexylom.com] 1in2uwrid https://flipso.com/p/1in2uwrid?ref=rss Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:40:21 GMT After her son disappears, Isabel Miranda de Wallace takes on Mexico’s kidnapping machinery and becomes a national symbol of defiance. But the case around her crusade raises hard questions about evidence, due process, and how far justice can go. [theguardian.com]