https://flipso.com/ Latest posts on Flipso Flipso en-us https://flipso.com/static/img/favicon_rss.png https://flipso.com/ 144 144 Fri, 26 Jun 2026 19:00:26 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 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] j1597jybi https://flipso.com/p/j1597jybi?ref=rss Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:20:09 GMT Every society depends on violence workers, from soldiers and police to gang members and hitmen. Drawing on interviews with young men in Mexico, this essay explores why some choose organised violence for money, prestige, and purpose — and how legal and illegal violence often draw from the same labour market. [aeon.co] k38pqy8h8 https://flipso.com/p/k38pqy8h8?ref=rss Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:00:09 GMT A major new result claims deterministic polylogarithmic-time parallel algorithms for bipartite matching, resolving a long-open problem in parallel algorithms and derandomization. Scott Aaronson summarizes the paper, explains the background, and notes that the key ideas appear to derandomize the classic randomized matching approach. [scottaaronson.blog] 02x5f1knr https://flipso.com/p/02x5f1knr?ref=rss Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:20:09 GMT Springer Nature has retracted two Max Planck papers, and investigators suspect a bot may be involved. [science.org] o9legxhxl https://flipso.com/p/o9legxhxl?ref=rss Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:25:18 GMT As if we'd ever really give them a test run. [substack.com] 4p3k3sc21 https://flipso.com/p/4p3k3sc21?ref=rss Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:00:09 GMT Analysis of Wuhan market map suggests China has not disclosed some of the earliest infections in animals and people [science.org] widw2i532 https://flipso.com/p/widw2i532?ref=rss Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:40:32 GMT A collection of letters about extreme heat from writers including Jane Austen, E. B. White, Hemingway, Woolf, Fitzgerald, and Steinbeck. [news.lettersofnote.com] qs31tdvla https://flipso.com/p/qs31tdvla?ref=rss Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:00:36 GMT Magritte used text to unsettle the link between words, images, and objects, showing that language and depiction don’t map cleanly onto reality. His work explores how labels, images, and meaning can conflict, especially in pieces like The Treachery of Images and Words and Images. [thecollector.com] rrcomx3pr https://flipso.com/p/rrcomx3pr?ref=rss Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:58:48 GMT A 248-year-old manuscript notebook kept by 22-year-old Mozart in Paris has been identified in France’s National Library. It contains teaching exercises and several flute-and-harp pieces linked to the Duke of Guines’s family, and was authenticated after comparison with other Mozart manuscripts. [classicfm.com] aymagxqwv https://flipso.com/p/aymagxqwv?ref=rss Fri, 26 Jun 2026 08:20:11 GMT A survivor of the South Park attacks testifies in court about the night she was attacked, the killing of her partner Teresa Butz, and the love and ordinary life they shared before it happened. [thestranger.com] krqkg3wxf https://flipso.com/p/krqkg3wxf?ref=rss Fri, 26 Jun 2026 07:40:09 GMT Scientists are racing to learn how Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica is changing, what could trigger its collapse, and how much time remains before its retreat accelerates. The glacier’s fate could have major implications for global sea-level rise, making it one of the most closely watched places on Earth. [newscientist.com] xdbzx3x54 https://flipso.com/p/xdbzx3x54?ref=rss Fri, 26 Jun 2026 07:20:08 GMT A look at how lawns became a status symbol, from 18th-century landscape gardens to the invention of the lawn mower, their spread through suburbia, and the environmental concerns that now complicate the ideal. [gardensillustrated.com] rckutipqx https://flipso.com/p/rckutipqx?ref=rss Fri, 26 Jun 2026 05:40:09 GMT Second edition of a comprehensive handbook on automatic memory management, covering traditional, parallel, concurrent, incremental, and real-time garbage collection. Includes updates for modern hardware and software, plus an online bibliographic database of related research. [gchandbook.org] 3e2iewt7c https://flipso.com/p/3e2iewt7c?ref=rss Fri, 26 Jun 2026 04:20:08 GMT Age verification is increasingly being used as a proxy for identity verification, with new rules in Australia, the UK, and U.S. states pushing platforms to collect more personal data and raising privacy, security, and free-speech concerns. [expression.fire.org] p89yscw12 https://flipso.com/p/p89yscw12?ref=rss Thu, 25 Jun 2026 23:40:09 GMT The Pentagon reinstated flu-shot requirements for military recruits after a flu outbreak at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland sickened nearly 300 people, reversing the earlier move to make the shot optional. [arstechnica.com] fcds75ve3 https://flipso.com/p/fcds75ve3?ref=rss Thu, 25 Jun 2026 23:20:31 GMT The Bataan Death March followed the surrender of Bataan in April 1942, when tens of thousands of American and Filipino prisoners of war were forced to march to camps under brutal conditions. Many died from abuse, exhaustion, disease, and starvation, and the march became one of the most notorious atrocities of World War II. [thecollector.com] plzuuyfoz https://flipso.com/p/plzuuyfoz?ref=rss Thu, 25 Jun 2026 23:00:08 GMT A deep dive into the proprietary Python-like systems used at big investment banks, including bank-wide object stores, dependency tracking for financial models, job runners, and table libraries. [calpaterson.com] cyl9gg68o https://flipso.com/p/cyl9gg68o?ref=rss Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:40:34 GMT A framework for understanding chaos through five forces: self-organization, diffusion and concentration, incentives that shift costs and risks onto the many, the ratchet effect, and semi-chaotic shocks that test system stability. The piece argues these dynamics can drive institutional sclerosis, rising extraction, and eventual collapse. [charleshughsmith.blogspot.com] yeeponvxz https://flipso.com/p/yeeponvxz?ref=rss Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:20:09 GMT A reflective essay on bread-baking, arguing that exact measurements can be less important than intuition. The author contrasts modern recipe precision with older, more flexible cooking traditions, then connects that idea to learning challah with his mother and trusting sensory judgment in the kitchen. [iza.ac] 3r11zpejg https://flipso.com/p/3r11zpejg?ref=rss Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:00:37 GMT The Story Behind the Parthenon Marbles [classicalwisdom.substack.com] iv9zkl2vj https://flipso.com/p/iv9zkl2vj?ref=rss Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:00:09 GMT An unidentified whale detected in the North Pacific that calls at 52 hertz, far higher than typical blue or fin whale vocalizations. First recorded in the late 1980s, it has become famous as the “world’s loneliest whale,” though later recordings suggest there may be more than one 52-hertz caller. [en.wikipedia.org] vrz1wgfm0 https://flipso.com/p/vrz1wgfm0?ref=rss Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:00:08 GMT The hunt for these ghostly particles has required some of the most audacious experimental setups ever built. [quantamagazine.org] n9ydhibn3 https://flipso.com/p/n9ydhibn3?ref=rss Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:20:08 GMT PHerc. 1667, sealed since the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, has been virtually unwrapped and read from beginning to end. The breakthrough reveals the preserved text of a Herculaneum scroll for the first time and points to a Stoic treatise on ethics. [scrollprize.org] 7abz8dpol https://flipso.com/p/7abz8dpol?ref=rss Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:40:07 GMT A book review and historical essay on Lianda, the wartime Chinese university formed by merging three elite schools as they relocated to Kunming during the Japanese invasion. It connects the university’s evacuation, campus life, and political tensions to broader questions about modernization, education, and China’s future. [blog.georeactor.com] t36dhvphl https://flipso.com/p/t36dhvphl?ref=rss Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:00:08 GMT Ford Motor Co. took an unusually human approach to fixing its stubborn quality problems: It brought back what it calls “gray beard” engineers to help train younger staff and to reprogram the artificial intelligence tools that weren’t getting the job done. [bloomberg.com] 22o7dpkft https://flipso.com/p/22o7dpkft?ref=rss Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:40:09 GMT Tim Pughsley built Red44 into a massive offshore sports-betting operation with thousands of bettors and hundreds of bookies, until tax problems and federal investigators brought it down. The story traces how an old-school bookie scaled gambling online, then ran into the legal gray area between illegal bookmaking and the modern sports-betting boom. [newyorker.com] bs1morkhj https://flipso.com/p/bs1morkhj?ref=rss Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:20:32 GMT A 1951 view of Flatbush Avenue shows the Williamsburg Bank tower standing alone before Brooklyn’s downtown spread caught up. A modern view from the same angle shows the area far denser, with multiple high-rises nearby and continued growth in office and apartment development. [oldstructures.com] 8v7qqgpaa https://flipso.com/p/8v7qqgpaa?ref=rss Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:40:38 GMT Ambergris is a rare substance produced by sperm whales after they digest squid. Though it starts with a foul smell, it develops a prized fragrance as it ages at sea. The article traces ambergris from its mysterious origins and early medicinal uses to its role in perfumes, incense, rituals, and elite cuisine across different cultures. [thecollector.com] zg4jvtzxk https://flipso.com/p/zg4jvtzxk?ref=rss Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:20:32 GMT A speech celebrating the Knicks’ championship becomes a reflection on how shared joy can bring a city together, turning sports fandom into a lesson in civic life and collective belonging. [commonedge.org]