https://flipso.com/ Latest posts on Flipso Flipso en-us https://flipso.com/static/img/favicon_rss.png https://flipso.com/ 144 144 Sun, 05 Jul 2026 07:00:10 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss z2kc2lrxn https://flipso.com/p/z2kc2lrxn?ref=rss Sun, 05 Jul 2026 07:00:10 GMT Scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratory are studying how Clytia hemisphaerica medusae close small wounds within minutes and heal larger ones in less than an hour without forming scar tissue. The work may offer clues to how epithelial wound repair works across species. [mbl.edu] ai9sohmb3 https://flipso.com/p/ai9sohmb3?ref=rss Sun, 05 Jul 2026 06:00:11 GMT A comparison of photo-rotation controls on iPhone and Nothing Phone/Android, arguing that interfaces should buffer repeated taps or otherwise avoid forcing users to wait for animations to finish. [unsung.aresluna.org] el8tfzltt https://flipso.com/p/el8tfzltt?ref=rss Sun, 05 Jul 2026 05:40:10 GMT A Smithsonian collection spotlight featuring cat-themed art and artifacts from across the museum network, spanning paintings, prints, photographs, decorative arts, stamps, and archival materials. [si.edu] 9zt0j0nz0 https://flipso.com/p/9zt0j0nz0?ref=rss Sun, 05 Jul 2026 04:20:29 GMT A playful meditation on watermelon’s geometry, yield, price, and sheer eating pleasure—arguing that it offers exceptional volume for the money, a satisfying texture, and unusually little waste compared with other fruit. [benn.substack.com] npaupxmv3 https://flipso.com/p/npaupxmv3?ref=rss Sun, 05 Jul 2026 03:40:09 GMT A Smithsonian explainer on how historical timelines can feel much shorter or longer than they really are, using Oxford, the Aztec Empire, Cleopatra, and other examples to reset your sense of time. [smithsonianmag.com] 7wmst8gie https://flipso.com/p/7wmst8gie?ref=rss Sun, 05 Jul 2026 03:20:17 GMT A Washington Post investigation follows the FBI’s years-long search for the online network that manipulated a 13-year-old boy into dying on a live stream, and the challenge of identifying the users behind it. [washingtonpost.com] gw9sq0ouc https://flipso.com/p/gw9sq0ouc?ref=rss Sun, 05 Jul 2026 02:40:09 GMT Albert Camus’s 1957 essay argues against capital punishment, challenging claims that executions deter crime and exposing the euphemisms that hide the reality of state killing. [theanarchistlibrary.org] qwmytmosa https://flipso.com/p/qwmytmosa?ref=rss Sun, 05 Jul 2026 01:40:09 GMT How Constance Marten and Mark Gordon’s relationship spiraled into instability, a police manhunt and the death of their baby daughter. [bbc.co.uk] h3v20dm2y https://flipso.com/p/h3v20dm2y?ref=rss Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:20:09 GMT Texas A&M researchers report that a nasal spray carrying extracellular vesicles sharply reduced inflammation in aged brains, restored memory-related function, and improved mitochondrial activity in animal models. The team says the two-dose treatment worked within weeks and lasted for months, though further research is still needed. [stories.tamu.edu] w6kfo4u74 https://flipso.com/p/w6kfo4u74?ref=rss Sat, 04 Jul 2026 23:40:09 GMT William Langewiesche examines the killing of four Iraqi prisoners, the Army’s response, and the soldier who tried to stop it and later came forward. [vanityfair.com] tefv816np https://flipso.com/p/tefv816np?ref=rss Sat, 04 Jul 2026 23:20:30 GMT Number 4 may surprise you! [weirdmedievalguys.substack.com] 1y9au79pj https://flipso.com/p/1y9au79pj?ref=rss Sat, 04 Jul 2026 20:20:09 GMT John Waters recounts his 1987 Playboy interview with his hero, Little Richard — a meeting that began with admiration, touched on faith and fame, and nearly turned into a fistfight. [theguardian.com] adatf3oh3 https://flipso.com/p/adatf3oh3?ref=rss Sat, 04 Jul 2026 20:00:12 GMT ESO says proposed satellite megaconstellations could severely harm ground-based astronomy by increasing trails and overall sky brightness. Its study estimates that, to keep impacts near the level of other technical losses, the total number of satellites should be limited to about 100,000 and kept faint enough to remain below naked-eye visibility. [eso.org] y11ghn0ij https://flipso.com/p/y11ghn0ij?ref=rss Sat, 04 Jul 2026 19:20:11 GMT Downtown Seattle’s office vacancy has climbed to roughly 37%, far above the 22% peak after the Great Recession, and the market is still struggling to absorb empty towers. [seattletimes.com] velkjyhb5 https://flipso.com/p/velkjyhb5?ref=rss Sat, 04 Jul 2026 18:40:10 GMT Verizon is migrating Gizmo watch users from Gizmohub to Verizon Family, but the new app still doesn’t support watch-only accounts. The old app is scheduled to be turned off on July 6, which would cut off texting, location sharing, and contact management for affected families. [jefftk.com] dl9m3ltic https://flipso.com/p/dl9m3ltic?ref=rss Sat, 04 Jul 2026 17:40:11 GMT Chris Duncan’s death sentence, built on testimony from two discredited forensic experts, shows how Louisiana’s capital punishment system can go wrong as the state moves to restart executions. [boltsmag.org] 4yg7lp3i7 https://flipso.com/p/4yg7lp3i7?ref=rss Sat, 04 Jul 2026 16:40:27 GMT A 1958 promotional comic from Buster Brown Shoe Company, distributed through shoe stores and printed by Western Publishing. Buster Brown visits Mars, meets a space dog, and returns with a story no adult at home quite believes. [dreamsofspace.blogspot.com] 7uhv8neth https://flipso.com/p/7uhv8neth?ref=rss Sat, 04 Jul 2026 11:40:28 GMT Why we sometimes work to like things, how taste is formed, and why acquired preferences can be a form of self-cultivation rather than pretension. [ian-leslie.com] euwgj9kfz https://flipso.com/p/euwgj9kfz?ref=rss Sat, 04 Jul 2026 11:20:09 GMT Ann Woodward’s 1955 shooting of her husband set off decades of scandal, gossip, and social exile. Though cleared by a coroner’s jury, she was haunted by Truman Capote’s savage retellings and by a reputation that never recovered. [observer.com] 2s0pr06ku https://flipso.com/p/2s0pr06ku?ref=rss Sat, 04 Jul 2026 11:00:30 GMT Hydrogen has important industrial uses, but for most transportation it remains limited by storage, distribution, and efficiency. Fuel cells are more efficient than hydrogen combustion, yet battery EVs are still far more practical for cars and likely to keep that advantage. The strongest near-term use cases for green hydrogen are heavy industry and some heavy transport, not a broad passenger-car hydrogen economy. [theness.com] kzuuviiik https://flipso.com/p/kzuuviiik?ref=rss Sat, 04 Jul 2026 10:40:10 GMT James Webb Space Telescope observations are upending ideas about the early universe, revealing unexpectedly massive black holes, strange “little red dots,” and galaxies that appeared far earlier and brighter than theories predicted. Researchers are testing competing explanations, from rapid black hole growth to direct-collapse seeds and unusually efficient early star formation. [quantamagazine.org] 3vbeo6ltm https://flipso.com/p/3vbeo6ltm?ref=rss Sat, 04 Jul 2026 07:20:11 GMT https://blog.archive.org/2026/04/23/gone-but-not-forgotten-recovering-the-dead-web/ [blog.archive.org] f587gq71c https://flipso.com/p/f587gq71c?ref=rss Sat, 04 Jul 2026 06:40:10 GMT New skills are worth making time for, whether it’s touch typing, 3D modeling, music, calligraphy, woodworking, knitting, or a language. Learning takes patience and deliberate practice, but it can make life richer, build confidence, and give you something useful to keep improving over time. [marginalia.nu] be4qu0875 https://flipso.com/p/be4qu0875?ref=rss Sat, 04 Jul 2026 06:00:30 GMT A July 4 reflection on the Declaration’s radical language and global significance, arguing that its claims about equality, unalienable rights, consent of the governed, and the right to alter or abolish unjust government helped reshape modern politics far beyond the United States. [acoup.blog] rehfqnwig https://flipso.com/p/rehfqnwig?ref=rss Sat, 04 Jul 2026 05:00:11 GMT Columbia Engineering researchers say early visual cortex does more than relay signals: inhibitory neurons appear to help pass task context from higher-level brain regions into sensory processing, shaping what the brain sees based on what it needs to do. [engineering.columbia.edu] gflneqwqy https://flipso.com/p/gflneqwqy?ref=rss Sat, 04 Jul 2026 03:00:31 GMT A Letters of Note roundup of letters written on July 3 across different years, featuring Simone de Beauvoir, D.H. Lawrence, May Sarton, Spike Milligan, J.R.R. Tolkien, and George Bernard Shaw. It closes with Shaw’s 1905 complaint to The Times after an opera performance, in which he objects to a woman’s extravagant hat. [news.lettersofnote.com] en2sj628j https://flipso.com/p/en2sj628j?ref=rss Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:20:10 GMT Researchers studying tall Dipterocarp trees in Malaysian Borneo found that height does not impair their hydraulic systems. The trees appear to compensate for the challenges of moving water upward with adaptations in their vessels and leaves, and they showed no height-related loss of growth during a severe drought. [news.exeter.ac.uk] r0pklb110 https://flipso.com/p/r0pklb110?ref=rss Fri, 03 Jul 2026 23:40:09 GMT Steve Earle recounts his letters and prison visits with Jonathan Wayne Nobles, a convicted murderer he met only weeks before Nobles’s execution. The piece follows their final days together, from strained conversations in prison to the witnesses gathered for the lethal injection. [theguardian.com] 744xj7h3n https://flipso.com/p/744xj7h3n?ref=rss Fri, 03 Jul 2026 20:00:11 GMT A California farmer is giving away more than 100,000 pounds of white nectarines amid a legal battle with a marketer that claims exclusive rights to the variety. The dispute centers on whether the fruit should have been sold through the company under a licensing and marketing agreement, with a trial scheduled later this month. [apnews.com] p308wi2gw https://flipso.com/p/p308wi2gw?ref=rss Fri, 03 Jul 2026 19:40:11 GMT Sartre’s 1945 lecture defended existentialism after World War II, arguing that people are free, responsible for their choices, and condemned to invent their own values. It became one of the most famous lectures of the 20th century and still speaks to questions of meaning, morality, and bad faith. [aeon.co]