https://flipso.com/ Latest posts on Flipso Flipso en-us https://flipso.com/static/img/favicon_rss.png https://flipso.com/ 144 144 Fri, 01 May 2026 14:20:28 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 1ih0l8qfb https://flipso.com/p/1ih0l8qfb?ref=rss Fri, 01 May 2026 14:20:28 GMT Genetic testing suggests that wolf-dog hybridization is widespread in central and southern Italy, with researchers finding hybrids in 47% of sampled wolves. Scientists warn the trend could threaten the future of Italy’s wolves through genetic swamping and may alter behavior, hunting, and pack structure. [e360.yale.edu] zww2l7hqd https://flipso.com/p/zww2l7hqd?ref=rss Fri, 01 May 2026 14:00:31 GMT A reflection on Neil Postman’s argument that each dominant medium reshapes what people value and how culture works, extending that idea from television to the internet and asking what the new medium is doing to us. [atvbt.com] lzb7t082j https://flipso.com/p/lzb7t082j?ref=rss Fri, 01 May 2026 13:40:31 GMT A detailed history of the 1886 Haymarket affair in Chicago, from the campaign for an eight-hour workday and the McCormick Reaper strike to the bombing, trial, executions, and the later international adoption of May 1 as Labor Day. [lflank.wordpress.com] nvdp8wza4 https://flipso.com/p/nvdp8wza4?ref=rss Fri, 01 May 2026 11:53:33 GMT Most people I know in the A.I. industry think the median person is screwed, and they have no idea what to do about it. I live in San Francisco, among the young researchers earning million-dollar salaries and the start-up founders competing to build the next unicorn. While Silicon Valley has long warned about the risk of rogue A.I., it has recently woken up to a more mundane nightmare: one in which many ordinary people lose their economic leverage as their jobs are automated away. [nytimes.com] bubnrw826 https://flipso.com/p/bubnrw826?ref=rss Fri, 01 May 2026 10:00:33 GMT Alicia Kennedy joins TASTE to discuss her memoir On Eating: The Making and Unmaking of My Appetites, her newsletter, and her new magazine project Tomato Tomato. The episode also includes a conversation about how a Starbucks strawberry-açai drink became a status symbol among New York teens. [tastecooking.com] x606k8q9c https://flipso.com/p/x606k8q9c?ref=rss Fri, 01 May 2026 08:40:10 GMT Trinity researchers identified an early 9th-century manuscript in Rome containing the Old English version of Caedmon’s Hymn, making it the third oldest surviving copy of the poem. The find was enabled by digitisation and sheds new light on how early readers valued English poetry. [tcd.ie] vjquwvf9e https://flipso.com/p/vjquwvf9e?ref=rss Fri, 01 May 2026 08:20:29 GMT Walter Rudolph’s 1976 color photographs show Ibiza before mass tourism, with quiet beaches, narrow lanes, and early holidaymakers on the island. [flashbak.com] l0nezeh40 https://flipso.com/p/l0nezeh40?ref=rss Fri, 01 May 2026 08:00:33 GMT A DOJ indictment of a nonprofit tied to financial-intelligence work raises questions about how banks, compliance systems, and regulators share information. The piece uses white-collar prosecutions to explain why bank-fraud charges can be effective and examines the role of SARs, BSA/AML reporting, and related enforcement tools. [bitsaboutmoney.com] 7u7d3vryc https://flipso.com/p/7u7d3vryc?ref=rss Fri, 01 May 2026 06:00:31 GMT A reflection on Joseph Addison’s prose, with excerpts from Johnson’s “Life of Addison” and Addison’s essay on cheerfulness in The Spectator. The post argues that Addison’s clear, balanced style and calm humor make him a model of English prose. [evidenceanecdotal.blogspot.com] fbcw2v7px https://flipso.com/p/fbcw2v7px?ref=rss Fri, 01 May 2026 03:00:30 GMT A short firsthand note on trying Da Hong Pao tea at Auntea Jenny, with a focus on the drink and the experience. [rubenerd.au] sctwb2520 https://flipso.com/p/sctwb2520?ref=rss Fri, 01 May 2026 02:20:09 GMT A reflection on when saving money stops being useful and starts costing time, energy, and better decisions. The piece uses a broken iPhone, AppleCare, and childhood lessons about spending to show how frugality can become self-defeating when it turns into procrastination, guilt, or reflexive cheapest-option thinking. [herbertlui.net] 3cssod06k https://flipso.com/p/3cssod06k?ref=rss Fri, 01 May 2026 01:00:31 GMT Maryland’s new anti-surveillance-pricing law is full of loopholes, narrowing the ban to groceries while exempting consent-based collection, promotional offers, temporary discounts, loyalty cards, and subscription pricing. It also leaves out wage discrimination and gives consumers no private right of action, making enforcement dependent on the attorney general. [pluralistic.net] 14bse5rng https://flipso.com/p/14bse5rng?ref=rss Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:00:09 GMT An unexpected visitor gave my team the evidence we needed to prove that the government was secretly wiretapping Americans. [thereader.mitpress.mit.edu] v7p0umy6n https://flipso.com/p/v7p0umy6n?ref=rss Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:20:08 GMT A 1964 study of art students found that the most original and successful artists spent less time executing a plan and more time discovering the problem to solve. The research helped establish “problem-finding” as a core part of creativity. [thereader.mitpress.mit.edu] vzc31byvj https://flipso.com/p/vzc31byvj?ref=rss Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:40:09 GMT Cook County prosecutors under State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke are objecting to most certificate-of-innocence petitions filed by people who have already been exonerated, creating long fights over whether the court will formally clear their names. The disputes matter for more than money: the certificates can help remove records, support job and housing searches, and offer an official acknowledgment that the conviction was wrong. [boltsmag.org] 3nquq17t1 https://flipso.com/p/3nquq17t1?ref=rss Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:40:19 GMT Migrants from Cameroon, Pakistan, and other countries traverse the Darién Gap, a roadless rainforest border zone between Colombia and Panama, as part of the long journey toward the United States. The route is notorious for its extreme danger, including rugged terrain, trafficking networks, and armed groups. [story.californiasunday.com] zho3lrw08 https://flipso.com/p/zho3lrw08?ref=rss Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:20:33 GMT A decade of satellite tracking across 13 countries and the high seas is revealing where whale sharks feed, travel, and may reproduce — and why protecting them will require coordination beyond national borders. [conservation.org] tahnywyk6 https://flipso.com/p/tahnywyk6?ref=rss Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:00:08 GMT A slew of factors—its acidity, its lack of water and the presence of hydrogen peroxide—work in perfect harmony, allowing the sticky treat to last forever [smithsonianmag.com] gj2s4uglh https://flipso.com/p/gj2s4uglh?ref=rss Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:00:33 GMT A clear explainer on how refineries turn crude oil into usable fuels and petrochemical feedstocks, covering distillation, cracking, reforming, hydrotreating, and the layout and scale of a real refinery. [construction-physics.com] hg4kwapg4 https://flipso.com/p/hg4kwapg4?ref=rss Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:00:10 GMT A free, interactive online book on the mathematics and programming of Bézier curves, covering everything from basic construction and de Casteljau’s algorithm to derivatives, intersections, bounding boxes, arc length, offsets, curve fitting, and more. [pomax.github.io] mya47ztvn https://flipso.com/p/mya47ztvn?ref=rss Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:00:29 GMT Multitasking is mostly an illusion: we’re really switching attention between tasks. That constant context-switching hurts productivity and peace of mind, so it’s better to focus on one thing at a time. [seths.blog] xjrx799dg https://flipso.com/p/xjrx799dg?ref=rss Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:40:34 GMT Black lung cases are rising again in Appalachian coal country as miners cut through more silica-rich rock and a long-delayed federal rule to limit respirable silica remains stalled in legal and regulatory limbo. The story follows miners in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, the clinics treating advanced disease, and the fight over whether stronger protections will ever take effect. [e360.yale.edu] nj4xf0i49 https://flipso.com/p/nj4xf0i49?ref=rss Thu, 30 Apr 2026 01:40:31 GMT A photo collection of unusual vintage vehicles from the 1900s through the 1960s, including experimental, amphibious, streamlined, three-wheeled, solar-powered, and other unconventional car designs. [rarehistoricalphotos.com] 2pa1havyg https://flipso.com/p/2pa1havyg?ref=rss Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:00:26 GMT A tasting at Food by Fanta in Langley highlights Thai dishes with refined, modern touches at a more approachable price than higher-end Thai dining. Standout bites include miang kham, tuna tartare in pastry cups, yum som with pomelo and toasted coconut, and seared scallop bites with tom kha flavors. [shermansfoodadventures.com] r15ko3y4k https://flipso.com/p/r15ko3y4k?ref=rss Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:40:30 GMT A reflection on modernity’s tendency to dismiss the past, using Nicholas Tate, Edward Gibbon, Evelyn Waugh, and A.E. Housman to argue that history still matters and that great writing is shaped by what came before. [evidenceanecdotal.blogspot.com] pb4wa5lhb https://flipso.com/p/pb4wa5lhb?ref=rss Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:20:32 GMT Rose Agar is a York-based printmaker who balances part-time retail work with carving and printing lino blocks. She sketches designs first, transfers them to soft-cut lino, and tests details before printing. She learned printmaking through college and an evening screen-printing class, then taught herself lino cutting. She values the meditative process and how different papers and ink colors change the final print. [handprinted.co.uk] jtdq7vqyc https://flipso.com/p/jtdq7vqyc?ref=rss Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:00:11 GMT A mother recounts the sudden death of her adult daughter, the immediate shock that follows, and the long bureaucratic and emotional aftermath of grief. [theatlantic.com] lq2toxpwv https://flipso.com/p/lq2toxpwv?ref=rss Thu, 30 Apr 2026 06:20:09 GMT In the late 1950s and early 1970s, passengers could board long-distance buses in London and travel overland to Calcutta in about 50 days. The route crossed Europe and Asia through cities and landscapes including Istanbul, Tehran, the Khyber Pass, and Kabul. The original service, ‘The Indiaman,’ made a 20,300-mile round trip in 1957 and inspired later copycat routes, including trips as far as Sydney. [amusingplanet.com] 92zevyhti https://flipso.com/p/92zevyhti?ref=rss Thu, 30 Apr 2026 06:00:11 GMT Bill Hayes reflects on Oliver Sacks’s habit of annotating the books he read, revealing marginal notes that range from philosophical arguments to personal insights and traces of how he thought on the page. [theamericanscholar.org] vhyefnruc https://flipso.com/p/vhyefnruc?ref=rss Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:20:10 GMT Numbers and mathematics reveal how densely packed, fast, and chaotic cells really are — and why a microscopic bacterium can hold so much DNA, protein, and life inside such a tiny volume. [burrito.bio]