https://flipso.com/ Latest posts on Flipso Flipso en-us https://flipso.com/static/img/favicon_rss.png https://flipso.com/ 144 144 Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:40:30 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 663ggcplm https://flipso.com/p/663ggcplm?ref=rss Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:40:30 GMT A critique of urban planning through the lens of SimCity and a college seminar with a former mayor, arguing that the field has become far more complicated in practice than it needs to be. [slowboring.com] 1zkiz141p https://flipso.com/p/1zkiz141p?ref=rss Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:20:24 GMT Anniversaries are chosen milestones: occasions to recommit to a relationship, job, practice, or project, and to celebrate what you’ve agreed to keep doing. They mark both the past and the next chapter. [seths.blog] 9ipcjvjm0 https://flipso.com/p/9ipcjvjm0?ref=rss Mon, 22 Jun 2026 09:20:27 GMT Sean Carroll discusses why the accelerating universe is most naturally explained by vacuum energy, tracing the idea from Einstein to modern cosmology. He covers the cosmological constant problem, the coincidence problem, and why dark energy remains one of physics’ biggest open questions. [preposterousuniverse.com] i9b5wdg6h https://flipso.com/p/i9b5wdg6h?ref=rss Mon, 22 Jun 2026 08:20:27 GMT Sharanya Deepak reflects on how romance can suppress appetite, connecting crushes, long relationships, family meals, and the politics of women’s desire through food, memory, and restraint. Illustrated by Lisa Carpagnano. [vittlesmagazine.com] igj08ttnf https://flipso.com/p/igj08ttnf?ref=rss Mon, 22 Jun 2026 08:00:11 GMT https://lmao.center/blog/wiggle-accidents/ [lmao.center] 1999dufr1 https://flipso.com/p/1999dufr1?ref=rss Mon, 22 Jun 2026 06:40:30 GMT Elizabeth Gaskell used social realism to challenge Victorian assumptions about class, poverty, and women’s lives. Drawing on her Unitarian beliefs and experience in industrial Manchester, she wrote novels that portrayed mill workers, “fallen women,” and family loss with unusual sympathy and blunt realism. [thecollector.com] pnif3ezld https://flipso.com/p/pnif3ezld?ref=rss Mon, 22 Jun 2026 04:00:09 GMT A clear, intuition-first guide to Japanese verb conjugation that reframes stems, suffixes, and verb groups with a small set of patterns instead of memorizing many exceptions. It also argues for using romaji to make the vowel changes easier to see, while still thinking in Japanese syllables. [underreacted.leaflet.pub] 5mq7b8xtg https://flipso.com/p/5mq7b8xtg?ref=rss Mon, 22 Jun 2026 03:40:11 GMT A rare Canadian-only Commodore VICModem phone bundle from 1983, made by Northern Telecom and sold with a VIC-1605 adaptor to work around hardwired handset rules and Bell Canada’s telecom restrictions. [oldtelephoneroom.ca] zcd0i5hg1 https://flipso.com/p/zcd0i5hg1?ref=rss Mon, 22 Jun 2026 03:20:09 GMT A Queen Mary University of London study finds HPV vaccination in early adolescence almost eliminates cervical-cancer deaths before age 30, but researchers warn falling vaccine uptake could reverse the gains. [theguardian.com] auhohgfki https://flipso.com/p/auhohgfki?ref=rss Mon, 22 Jun 2026 01:20:29 GMT So why do Americans use the former and not the latter? [noahpinion.blog] isobbqrv5 https://flipso.com/p/isobbqrv5?ref=rss Sun, 21 Jun 2026 23:20:10 GMT A former software engineer revisits his early startup days at GenieDB, later acquired by Frost VP, and examines whether the company’s existence was tied to alleged VC fraud. He weighs SEC and arbitration allegations, internal emails about fees and new portfolio companies, and concludes that while the fund may have siphoned value, the startup itself still had a real technical idea and real people trying to build it. [david.newgas.net] w8prwo8fy https://flipso.com/p/w8prwo8fy?ref=rss Sun, 21 Jun 2026 22:40:10 GMT An essay drawing parallels between logarithms, vectors, and partial derivatives, using a “baseless logarithm” idea to reinterpret change-of-base as a unit conversion. It also connects logarithmic decompositions to p-adic valuations and factorization. [alexkritchevsky.com] l34d1wek6 https://flipso.com/p/l34d1wek6?ref=rss Sun, 21 Jun 2026 21:00:08 GMT Integer programming can solve a cocktail-shopping optimization problem far faster than a custom branch-and-bound approach, even with 30 ingredients. The post compares the results and shows how modern solvers find the optimum in milliseconds. [bunkum.us] s0k26qcst https://flipso.com/p/s0k26qcst?ref=rss Sun, 21 Jun 2026 20:20:27 GMT A survey of Egypt’s pre-dynastic and Neolithic development in Northeast Africa, from desert and Nile Valley farming communities to Naqada-era social stratification, early kingship, and the emergence of the first territorial state. [africanhistoryextra.com] ov64mcetc https://flipso.com/p/ov64mcetc?ref=rss Sun, 21 Jun 2026 19:40:09 GMT LymeAlert is a new at-home test that lets people check ticks for Lyme disease bacteria in about 15 minutes, potentially avoiding an unnecessary ER visit. The startup says the test will go on sale in August for $40 and is designed for ticks found on the body, not for humans. [bostonglobe.com] 64zbliw6h https://flipso.com/p/64zbliw6h?ref=rss Sun, 21 Jun 2026 19:20:11 GMT Fossil fuel cargo makes up about 40% of maritime tonnage but roughly half of shipping’s fuel demand, because coal, oil, and gas move long distances in bulk. That means the shipping transition is shaped not just by replacing bunker fuel, but by the decline of long-haul fossil cargo and the growth of electrifiable short-sea and inland routes. [cleantechnica.com] gv9f3hlpf https://flipso.com/p/gv9f3hlpf?ref=rss Sun, 21 Jun 2026 18:14:47 GMT Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show. [nature.com] m8vc6r7xs https://flipso.com/p/m8vc6r7xs?ref=rss Sun, 21 Jun 2026 18:40:27 GMT “PowerPoint makes us stupid,” Gen. James N. Mattis said, echoing the long-running critique of slideware captured in the New York Times’ 2010 piece “We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint.” [ma.tt] ds69u4sox https://flipso.com/p/ds69u4sox?ref=rss Sun, 21 Jun 2026 16:40:14 GMT A philosophical critique of tourism arguing that travel often turns into performative locomotion, distances us from real experience, and leaves us largely unchanged. [newyorker.com] 9yb46lxch https://flipso.com/p/9yb46lxch?ref=rss Sun, 21 Jun 2026 16:20:10 GMT Monocle surveys seven recent recruitment campaigns from France, Sweden, Russia, Singapore, the UK, Ukraine and the US, showing how militaries are trying to appeal to younger audiences with messaging centered on adventure, purpose, pay, identity and resilience. [monocle.com] ovgyibhqh https://flipso.com/p/ovgyibhqh?ref=rss Sun, 21 Jun 2026 14:40:28 GMT Five art exhibitions across Japan offer a good reason to travel beyond Tokyo this summer, from Tsubaki Noboru’s large-scale works in Aomori and Sachiko Kazama’s first major solo show in Tohoku to a full survey of Takehisa Yumeji in Niigata, a 40th-anniversary Rojo Society exhibition in Kanazawa, and a Jiro Taniguchi exhibition in Tottori. [spoon-tamago.com] soc7jzcgp https://flipso.com/p/soc7jzcgp?ref=rss Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:40:09 GMT A rare early-15th-century rotating parchment bookmark sold at a Dorset auction for £7,000, far above its £800–£1,200 estimate. Only about 36 examples of this type are known, and its numbered turning disc likely helped a medieval scribe mark a stopping point on the page. [thehistoryblog.com] 8oowgplt9 https://flipso.com/p/8oowgplt9?ref=rss Sun, 21 Jun 2026 12:40:30 GMT How Carthage survived in Roman literature, art, and later historical memory, from Dido and Hannibal to the idea of a “Carthaginian peace,” and what traces of Punic culture remained after the city’s destruction. [worldhistory.substack.com] 437l9nsru https://flipso.com/p/437l9nsru?ref=rss Sun, 21 Jun 2026 06:00:21 GMT Photographs from 1976 capture daily life in Cuba across streets, schools, beaches, farms, and Havana neighborhoods, alongside the era’s rationing, Soviet alignment, and socialist street life. [rarehistoricalphotos.com] po3voe3bt https://flipso.com/p/po3voe3bt?ref=rss Sun, 21 Jun 2026 05:40:07 GMT Finland’s libraries are evolving into community hubs that lend far more than books, from sewing machines and other everyday tools to spaces and services that support learning, access, and civic life. [bbc.com] 72oi8um79 https://flipso.com/p/72oi8um79?ref=rss Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:00:08 GMT A data story about how Americans’ relationships changed before and during the pandemic, using Stanford survey responses from more than 1,000 people to explore relationship quality, breakups, and what helps couples endure stress. [pudding.cool] tsfuf4tla https://flipso.com/p/tsfuf4tla?ref=rss Sat, 20 Jun 2026 22:00:30 GMT Cicero’s skepticism offers a useful counterpoint to today’s pressure to pick sides and defend certainty. The discussion explores how questioning, rather than rigid conviction, can help us navigate a divided world. [classicalwisdom.substack.com] zfdt02iw7 https://flipso.com/p/zfdt02iw7?ref=rss Sat, 20 Jun 2026 21:40:08 GMT Pointe shoes have changed only slowly because innovation is expensive, ballet is tradition-bound, and unconventional designs can be hard to sell in a market where aesthetics, fit, and dancer preferences matter. Recent efforts include synthetic, hybrid, and 3-D-printed shoes, but broader adoption remains limited by cost, gatekeeping, and the small size of the dance retail industry. [dancemagazine.com] ykqfayg4f https://flipso.com/p/ykqfayg4f?ref=rss Sat, 20 Jun 2026 20:40:09 GMT With Washington pulling back from its traditional role as an arms supplier, South Korea is positioning itself to sell more weapons and expand its global defense industry. [politico.com] 4d495baaq https://flipso.com/p/4d495baaq?ref=rss Sat, 20 Jun 2026 20:00:28 GMT A physics post explaining weak localization in disordered electronic systems: how time-reversed electron paths interfere constructively, why a magnetic field suppresses that back-scattering, and how the effect is used to probe coherence lengths in metals and semiconductors. [nanoscale.blogspot.com]