https://flipso.com/ Latest posts on Flipso Flipso en-us https://flipso.com/static/img/favicon_rss.png https://flipso.com/ 144 144 Fri, 30 Oct 2026 10:20:14 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss ukizu9v2s https://flipso.com/p/ukizu9v2s?ref=rss Fri, 30 Oct 2026 10:20:14 GMT Astrophysicist Shep Doeleman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope linked observatories around the world to produce the first images of supermassive black holes — and why the next frontier may be filming them. [quantamagazine.org] 9r7b5isbh https://flipso.com/p/9r7b5isbh?ref=rss Fri, 30 Oct 2026 07:20:15 GMT A personal essay about how a dementia diagnosis complicates memory, blame, and forgiveness, and whether illness can retroactively change how we understand a parent’s behavior. [chengela.substack.com] vc7thy5me https://flipso.com/p/vc7thy5me?ref=rss Fri, 30 Oct 2026 02:00:16 GMT Five thieves, a fake hostage crisis, and a tunnel that let them vanish from a surrounded bank with loot from hundreds of safe-deposit boxes. The true story of Argentina’s legendary “Robbery of the Century.” [gq.com] qkrooww38 https://flipso.com/p/qkrooww38?ref=rss Fri, 30 Oct 2026 01:40:16 GMT A visit to Harvard’s Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, including a black uranium cube from the German wartime reactor project and the Koenig Analyzer, an 19th-century acoustic waveform device. [nealstephenson.substack.com] mj37porhp https://flipso.com/p/mj37porhp?ref=rss Thu, 29 Oct 2026 23:20:19 GMT An essay on The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, arguing that Twain’s mischievous boy hero became a distinctly American archetype—part prankster, part brave “knight in a scoundrel’s clothing.” [claremontreviewofbooks.com] xonoeaeb2 https://flipso.com/p/xonoeaeb2?ref=rss Thu, 29 Oct 2026 16:00:15 GMT Researchers have identified the first known stenciled rock art in southern Africa at La Rochelle rock shelter in South Africa’s Mpumalanga province. The figures, likely made with a template and sprayed or blown pigment onto the rock, are unusual both regionally and globally. The finding adds a rare stencil tradition to an already rich record of southern African rock art. [phys.org] is7duajvv https://flipso.com/p/is7duajvv?ref=rss Thu, 29 Oct 2026 14:40:14 GMT A newly surfaced unredacted FBI letter, sent to Martin Luther King Jr. in 1964, appears to threaten and intimidate him by highlighting surveillance and his private life. The piece also explains how FBI officials targeted King after his rise as a national civil rights leader and why the letter was viewed as an attempt to pressure him into suicide. [vox.com] zb27yfdl0 https://flipso.com/p/zb27yfdl0?ref=rss Thu, 29 Oct 2026 13:55:01 GMT An IEEE Spectrum experiment tested whether free AI tools could produce a convincing fake research paper and slip it past journal checks. The paper was flagged for fabricated or unverifiable references, revealing both the limits of current safeguards and the growing challenge AI-generated slop poses to academic publishing. [spectrum.ieee.org] 0gdiazxc3 https://flipso.com/p/0gdiazxc3?ref=rss Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:00:15 GMT A story for my grandchildren about oxygen, evolution, and our planet’s fate. [lede-v2.nautil.us] lri4id1zk https://flipso.com/p/lri4id1zk?ref=rss Wed, 28 Oct 2026 22:40:13 GMT Biologists are uncovering how spider silk dope reorganizes into condensates and then a strong, flexible fiber. New work on black widow silk points to weak interactions between specific amino acids that help guide the material’s remarkable transformation. [quantamagazine.org] jheodvfvh https://flipso.com/p/jheodvfvh?ref=rss Wed, 28 Oct 2026 19:40:18 GMT A new study finds colorectal cancer incidence is rising across younger and older age groups, with increases now extending to nearly all ages up to 65–69. Researchers say the trend could increase demand for treatment and survivorship care, while screening remains the best way to detect disease early. [uchicagomedicine.org] zu7kxwyse https://flipso.com/p/zu7kxwyse?ref=rss Wed, 28 Oct 2026 16:40:13 GMT News of Wedgewood’s admission was quickly amplified and recast into multiple rumors and narratives, revealing how a single claim can evolve as people contest its meaning and frame its implications. [cip.uw.edu] r0tmullq9 https://flipso.com/p/r0tmullq9?ref=rss Wed, 28 Oct 2026 10:00:14 GMT Ancient Mediterranean blockades—from Samos and Syracuse to Rhodes and Lilybaeum—show that maritime superiority is not enough on its own. The real challenge is sustaining control of the sea long enough to deny supplies, hold pressure, and achieve a political or military objective. [maritime-executive.com] r90qgl6uo https://flipso.com/p/r90qgl6uo?ref=rss Wed, 28 Oct 2026 06:40:14 GMT A 25-year-old German experimental photographer won the 2026 Nikon Small World photomicrography competition with a microscopic image of inkjet droplets mid-flight. He beat 1,802 entries from 69 countries and captured the shot by modifying a printer and using flash to freeze the action. [arstechnica.com] mai1bi6fc https://flipso.com/p/mai1bi6fc?ref=rss Tue, 27 Oct 2026 21:00:14 GMT An examination of U.S. and Canadian firefly species that may be lost, overlooked, or misclassified, with implications for documenting biodiversity loss. [journaloflostspecies.org] 13kcg3sxb https://flipso.com/p/13kcg3sxb?ref=rss Tue, 27 Oct 2026 23:20:14 GMT Researchers are tagging Monarch butterflies with tiny solar-powered BluMorpho tags to learn more about fall migration patterns and follow their journeys across the landscape. The project uses Apple’s Find My technology and a free app so people can track the butterflies’ movements. [blog.cwf-fcf.org] a66rpt979 https://flipso.com/p/a66rpt979?ref=rss Tue, 27 Oct 2026 22:40:15 GMT Cicero’s ideal of manly virtue stressed self-control, courage, and public service rather than boastful domination. In late republican Rome, masculinity was a political performance shaped by rhetoric, dress, and public conduct, and Cicero’s exile and the republic’s collapse exposed how fragile that ideal could be. [aeon.co] cx7yh5jdf https://flipso.com/p/cx7yh5jdf?ref=rss Tue, 27 Oct 2026 02:20:15 GMT In Switzerland, Thomas Rau offers treatments that many conventional doctors would question. Now he’s accused of lethally negligent care. [newyorker.com] uc614z07g https://flipso.com/p/uc614z07g?ref=rss Tue, 27 Oct 2026 01:40:12 GMT After defying early projections, solar has grown into a major global power source and is now overtaking nuclear in capacity. The piece looks at the forces behind solar’s rise and where the technology may go next. [bbc.com] 4bl48o250 https://flipso.com/p/4bl48o250?ref=rss Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:16 GMT Motor imagery activates many of the same brain systems as real movement, so mental practice can support motor learning and performance. Studies cited here suggest it can improve tasks like putting and even modestly increase finger strength, though it works best as a supplement to physical practice, not a replacement. [nautil.us] 2b62bseak https://flipso.com/p/2b62bseak?ref=rss Mon, 26 Oct 2026 20:40:16 GMT A long read on the unidentified young woman found hanging near Portbou in 1990, and the decades-long effort to learn who she was. The case later shifted from a presumed suicide to a deeper investigation that connected the body to a missing Italian teenager. [theguardian.com] incogpy5q https://flipso.com/p/incogpy5q?ref=rss Mon, 26 Oct 2026 14:13:44 GMT Ben Thompson argues that the old open web—where anyone could host a server and build an audience—has been steadily eroding through advertising pressure, platform centralization, and now AI-driven security and content risks. He also suggests the next phase of software and online communities will be smaller, more trusted, and more private. [stratechery.com] mmpttos11 https://flipso.com/p/mmpttos11?ref=rss Mon, 26 Oct 2026 07:00:45 GMT Amazon’s new kids tablets are pitched to parents of children as young as 3, with features like an all-day battery, kid-proof case, and generative AI tools. The post argues the marketing clashes with pediatric research linking heavy early screen use to poorer emotional regulation, learning outcomes, sleep, and eyesight concerns. [oligarchwatch.substack.com] snr8s37v5 https://flipso.com/p/snr8s37v5?ref=rss Mon, 26 Oct 2026 14:00:18 GMT Blaise Pascal invented fixed-route public transport in Paris in 1662: the carrosses à cinq sols, an early network of horse-drawn carriages running on predictable routes and frequencies. The post argues that this was more than a bus line; it was the ancestor of modern bus, tram, and rail networks, and a model of how transit geometry can connect a city efficiently and affordably. [humantransit.org] 9fsm2zzjw https://flipso.com/p/9fsm2zzjw?ref=rss Mon, 26 Oct 2026 12:40:18 GMT Tinder-dry stretches of untended forest and shrubland served as the perfect fuel for Spain’s biggest wildfire in recent history. [reuters.com] 5fqzm5tgm https://flipso.com/p/5fqzm5tgm?ref=rss Mon, 26 Oct 2026 11:12:51 GMT AI panic echoes the anxieties of early mercantilism: a world where wealth seemed finite, elites sought to hoard it, and most people were treated as passive laborers. Venkatesh Rao argues that today’s fears about intelligence may reflect a similar mindset, and that cheaper AI could instead unlock a broader “cognitive industrious revolution” of new demand, new ambitions, and wider participation in intellectual work. [contraptions.venkateshrao.com] w1wwuo9ge https://flipso.com/p/w1wwuo9ge?ref=rss Mon, 26 Oct 2026 10:00:14 GMT Birdwatching can help slow brain ageing and is increasingly being used as therapy for dementia patients. [bbc.com] 5jtiyxfdb https://flipso.com/p/5jtiyxfdb?ref=rss Mon, 26 Oct 2026 07:20:18 GMT Ingram, Texas, was rebuilding after a devastating flood when its police department joined ICE’s 287(g) task-force program. Within a year, local officers had handed over roughly 10% of the town to immigration agents, with one officer becoming the face of the crackdown. [propublica.org] ajfghj6pj https://flipso.com/p/ajfghj6pj?ref=rss Mon, 26 Oct 2026 05:00:18 GMT Archaeologists have uncovered a network of Iron Age salt-mining chambers beneath Hallstatt that stretches at least 300 meters. The deposits preserve tools, textiles, wooden bowls, food remains and even DNA, offering a rare look at daily work inside a prehistoric mine. [archaeologymag.com] rawhwpr9b https://flipso.com/p/rawhwpr9b?ref=rss Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:20:17 GMT Getty conservators and the State Museum of Turkmenistan are using 3D scanning, digital modeling, and careful stabilization to restore and reassemble the fragments of a 5th–6th century Buddha head from Merv, a rare Silk Road-era artifact. [getty.edu]