https://flipso.com/ Latest posts on Flipso Flipso en-us https://flipso.com/static/img/favicon_rss.png https://flipso.com/ 144 144 Sun, 28 Jun 2026 16:00:08 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss k53czmwds https://flipso.com/p/k53czmwds?ref=rss Sun, 28 Jun 2026 16:00:08 GMT Browse the Buttolph Collection of historic restaurant menus from the New York Public Library, spanning 1880 to 1920. [pudding.cool] edfd87lmt https://flipso.com/p/edfd87lmt?ref=rss Sun, 28 Jun 2026 16:40:13 GMT Two hundred years ago, Wilhelm von Humboldt created the education system as we know it today. At the heart of his philosophy of education was the concept of Bildung — reaching one's inner potential. Yet over the years, as his public education system was adopted, Bildung may well have been the critical piece left out. *This is a two-part series. [cbc.ca] k9m5kdfgr https://flipso.com/p/k9m5kdfgr?ref=rss Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:40:09 GMT New ECB data show Greek household wealth has recovered to about €117,936 on average, but the gains have been uneven. Property and market rebounds have helped wealthier families, while many households still struggle with high housing costs, weak wages, and persistent inequality. [dnews.gr] 6232dgsti https://flipso.com/p/6232dgsti?ref=rss Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:00:12 GMT NASA researchers have found what they describe as the strongest evidence yet for possible past life on Mars, but it still falls short of proving life existed there. [cbc.ca] jk246hbbc https://flipso.com/p/jk246hbbc?ref=rss Sun, 28 Jun 2026 12:40:11 GMT ProPublica investigates why carbon capture and storage, often presented as a climate solution, faces huge scaling, cost, transport, and storage challenges. The piece argues that current deployment falls far short of what climate models assume and that the technology has repeatedly underdelivered in practice. [projects.propublica.org] nqnjgb1if https://flipso.com/p/nqnjgb1if?ref=rss Sun, 28 Jun 2026 09:40:54 GMT A short photo essay pairing Kodak Kodacolor 100 with a Nikon FM and Nikkor 35mm and 135mm lenses. The author reflects on returning to color film after years of shooting black and white, discusses exposure choices and lens character, and shares a handful of summer images from Vancouver. [somenice.com] 3rofghclq https://flipso.com/p/3rofghclq?ref=rss Sun, 28 Jun 2026 09:00:09 GMT A tongue-in-cheek sleep podcast from Marfa Public Radio’s fall membership drive, featuring staff reading the station’s dry, behind-the-scenes documents and regulations. [marfapublicradio.org] 61lbyf1f7 https://flipso.com/p/61lbyf1f7?ref=rss Sun, 28 Jun 2026 07:00:09 GMT A practical guide to the regex subset that tends to work across sed, awk, grep, and Emacs, with notes on the syntax differences and caveats that still matter. [johndcook.com] 02ub51yzt https://flipso.com/p/02ub51yzt?ref=rss Sun, 28 Jun 2026 05:20:09 GMT The California Science Center has started the multi-phase process of moving and lifting Space Shuttle Endeavour’s components into place for its future vertical display in the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center. [californiasciencecenter.org] pzo9ajh1c https://flipso.com/p/pzo9ajh1c?ref=rss Sun, 28 Jun 2026 01:40:09 GMT Recent research suggests GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic may influence mood by changing gut microbes rather than directly acting as antidepressants. The article highlights a mouse study linking the effect to Lactobacillus delbrueckii and notes that higher fiber intake and live fermented foods may support some of the same gut pathways. [psychologytoday.com] 1b5u6329b https://flipso.com/p/1b5u6329b?ref=rss Sat, 27 Jun 2026 22:40:09 GMT Why physical media still matters: discs, books, and cartridges can be owned, resold, lent, archived, and used offline, while digital purchases can disappear through delistings, licensing changes, service shutdowns, and remote edits. It also compares streaming and disc quality, including bitrate, audio, and the risk of later alterations. [dervis.de] jc6cgc7bl https://flipso.com/p/jc6cgc7bl?ref=rss Sat, 27 Jun 2026 22:20:08 GMT Examples of sharp thresholds and cliff effects in policy, markets, education, and sports, including taxes, subsidies, admissions, election data, p-values, exam scores, and auction bids. [danluu.com] 5ojhj53g4 https://flipso.com/p/5ojhj53g4?ref=rss Sat, 27 Jun 2026 21:20:08 GMT John Graham-Cumming rescans and excerpts a 1967 Life Magazine feature on computers, including a section that speculates about whether machines can be taught to think and learn. The post pairs the vintage text with full-page scans and a nostalgic programming aside. [blog.jgc.org] pu2ai6wvq https://flipso.com/p/pu2ai6wvq?ref=rss Sat, 27 Jun 2026 20:00:08 GMT Physicists disagree on the count: a simple Standard Model tally gives 17, but more expansive conventions can push the number far higher depending on whether you count antiparticles, color states, handedness, and other degrees of freedom. [quantamagazine.org] bp71kkwo2 https://flipso.com/p/bp71kkwo2?ref=rss Sat, 27 Jun 2026 18:00:09 GMT Mark Zuckerberg’s attempts to silence Sarah Wynn-Williams, author of Careless People, have escalated into a continuing legal fight over nondisclosure, nondisparagement, and arbitration clauses. The post argues that Meta’s response is backfiring by drawing more attention to the book while intimidating current and former employees from speaking out. [pluralistic.net] 8b550fuy9 https://flipso.com/p/8b550fuy9?ref=rss Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:40:25 GMT RICE-style confidence scores are often noisy and misleading. A better approach is to make decisions under uncertainty by focusing on universally valuable improvements, fast validation, customer impact, leverage, optionality, and a portfolio of bets. [longform.asmartbear.com] swzkj79gt https://flipso.com/p/swzkj79gt?ref=rss Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:20:09 GMT Sally Hayden visits a rural Japanese post box where people write letters to the dead, and traces how Yuji Akagawa created it after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Through grief, memory, and collective mourning, the piece shows how the drifting post became a place for people to speak to those they lost. [lithub.com] 2jat25eyr https://flipso.com/p/2jat25eyr?ref=rss Sat, 27 Jun 2026 07:20:09 GMT Robert J. Sawyer argues that WordStar remains ideal for creative writing because of its home-row control-key commands, flexible block editing, and manuscript-like workflow. [sfwriter.com] c21i1ledz https://flipso.com/p/c21i1ledz?ref=rss Sat, 27 Jun 2026 06:00:09 GMT John Gruber remembers Om Malik as a sharp, generous, fiercely perceptive tech journalist and friend, reflecting on his career from fast-moving blogger to thoughtful essayist, his love of the Yankees, and his recent hospitalization and death after heart problems. [daringfireball.net] wad7m7uwo https://flipso.com/p/wad7m7uwo?ref=rss Sat, 27 Jun 2026 03:20:09 GMT Aleph shares a milestone in transcranial ultrasound: a detailed vascular image of a living human brain captured through the intact skull, plus the microbubble-processing pipeline behind it and the case for future contrast-free neurovascular imaging. [alephneuro.com] ljlf13rpt https://flipso.com/p/ljlf13rpt?ref=rss Sat, 27 Jun 2026 01:40:09 GMT BBC campaigners want the Worcestershire long-wave masts to be given listed status before the transmitter is switched off. [bbc.com] tlju8zhwy https://flipso.com/p/tlju8zhwy?ref=rss Sat, 27 Jun 2026 01:20:28 GMT A critique of common vegan ethical arguments, focusing on environmental claims, animal welfare, and the role of moral intuition in how people form beliefs. [map.simonsarris.com] c3wmqpaes https://flipso.com/p/c3wmqpaes?ref=rss Sat, 27 Jun 2026 01:00:08 GMT Why does kinetic energy scale as v² instead of v? Why does it take much more energy to raise an object’s speed from 1 m/s to 2 m/s than from 0 m/s to 1 m/s? I’m looking for an intuitive explanation of why kinetic energy depends on the square of speed. [physics.stackexchange.com] l13hxrn3q https://flipso.com/p/l13hxrn3q?ref=rss Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:40:09 GMT California lawmakers advanced AB 2047, a bill that would require 3D printers to include surveillance and censorship software. EFF says the mandate is technically unworkable, threatens privacy and speech, and could chill open-source development and legitimate uses by creators, hobbyists, and businesses. The bill now heads to the state senate, where opponents are urging lawmakers to reject it. [eff.org] 8vm1xf5lm https://flipso.com/p/8vm1xf5lm?ref=rss Fri, 26 Jun 2026 22:40:10 GMT A guide to how pre-modern states actually funded armies and military infrastructure: redistribution through palaces or households, taxation and coinage, in-kind obligations, and the administrative limits that shaped each system. [acoup.blog] ymdjotrlc https://flipso.com/p/ymdjotrlc?ref=rss Fri, 26 Jun 2026 22:20:28 GMT A developer explains how local dictation has become their default for email, Slack, commit messages, and other text, after years of worse speech-to-text tools. They also describe the habit change, why code still feels better to type by hand, and a simple desk setup that makes dictation feel instant. [abeautifulsite.net] wmn7el1i0 https://flipso.com/p/wmn7el1i0?ref=rss Fri, 26 Jun 2026 22:00:10 GMT A photo-rich tour of the Sam Noble Museum’s temporary “Bizarre Headgear” exhibit, featuring ceratopsian skulls and skeletons alongside a wide range of mammals and other animals used to put dinosaur headgear in evolutionary context. The post highlights standout specimens, sculptures, signage, and the exhibit’s dense, cabinet-of-curiosities feel. [svpow.com] wtac0plna https://flipso.com/p/wtac0plna?ref=rss Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:40:10 GMT Sixty-nine images of kites spanning five centuries and a dozen countries, from medieval manuscripts and Japanese prints to early scientific photography. The collection traces kite flying as play, ritual, warfare, and a precursor to flight and transport. [publicdomainreview.org] vgevn1lct https://flipso.com/p/vgevn1lct?ref=rss Fri, 26 Jun 2026 19:00:26 GMT A reflection on reading Proust’s The Guermantes Way in the new Oxford World’s Classics translation, and on how notes, context, and literary criticism can both illuminate and distance the experience. The essay contrasts worldly signs, love, sensuous signs, and art to explain why some novels resist easy attention while still revealing time, memory, and the pleasures of rereading. [this-space.blogspot.com] hjjezyoau https://flipso.com/p/hjjezyoau?ref=rss Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:00:09 GMT America once reclaimed major stretches of coastal city land from tidal flats and shallow water, but urban land reclamation largely vanished after the 1970s. The piece argues that environmental permitting, not geography or transportation alone, explains why projects stopped even where reclaimed land would still be valuable. [worksinprogress.co]