https://flipso.com/ Latest posts on Flipso Flipso en-us https://flipso.com/static/img/favicon_rss.png https://flipso.com/ 144 144 Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:20:19 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss mx7wj9lfw https://flipso.com/p/mx7wj9lfw?ref=rss Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:20:19 GMT A richly detailed biography that uses Berger’s archive and life to illuminate the critic’s influence, contradictions, and enduring ideas about art, politics, and looking. [theguardian.com] c6fyirnjb https://flipso.com/p/c6fyirnjb?ref=rss Fri, 21 Aug 2026 01:40:19 GMT Smarter people are no happier than everyone else, the essay argues, because intelligence helps with well-defined problems, while living a good life is a poorly defined problem with shifting rules and unclear goals. [experimental-history.com] 7nof8j0p4 https://flipso.com/p/7nof8j0p4?ref=rss Fri, 21 Aug 2026 06:40:19 GMT A ProPublica and Washington Post investigation found that Texas volleyball coach Ryan Richardson kept coaching teenage girls even after SafeSport deemed him permanently ineligible over sexual misconduct and other abuse allegations. The story examines how USA Volleyball, SafeSport, and regional officials failed to stop him from continuing to work with youth athletes. [propublica.org] wpid2gt32 https://flipso.com/p/wpid2gt32?ref=rss Thu, 20 Aug 2026 13:38:12 GMT A retrospective on Netscape Navigator 3.0’s release anniversary, recounting how an intended bugfix update became a feature release after the planned rewrite faltered, and how that detour fed into the troubled 4.0 effort. [jwz.org] 3a3y7cvdq https://flipso.com/p/3a3y7cvdq?ref=rss Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:40:19 GMT Biology classes often flatten the subject into memorizing names and pathways, instead of showing the questions, experiments, and physical mechanisms that make living systems fascinating. James Somers argues that biology comes alive when it’s taught as a search for how cells, embryos, and immune systems actually work. [jsomers.net] igzrkgyin https://flipso.com/p/igzrkgyin?ref=rss Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:00:19 GMT A meditation on what makes art and writing feel “thick” rather than thin: works that reward close attention, reveal hidden structure, and keep unfolding the more time you spend with them. It uses Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights, children’s books, Shakespeare, and even fire-eating to explore how depth emerges from choices, omissions, and the human cost of making art. [experimental-history.com] i3wdatf90 https://flipso.com/p/i3wdatf90?ref=rss Thu, 20 Aug 2026 13:36:41 GMT Handmade paper sculptures by Manabu Kosaka, built entirely from paper through cutting, assembling, and refining into detailed sculptural forms. [coca11272000.wixsite.com] be02p7tz9 https://flipso.com/p/be02p7tz9?ref=rss Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:20:21 GMT A young activist believed her father’s disapproval of her politics was the source of their rift. A chance family moment upended that story and set her on a search that revealed a far darker history — and, possibly, a different identity altogether. [theguardian.com] mqi54yukw https://flipso.com/p/mqi54yukw?ref=rss Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:20:18 GMT From Tokyo egg sandwiches to Greek dairy aisles, supermarkets are emerging as one of travel’s most revealing and unexpectedly beloved experiences. [bbc.com] 5szdyd89z https://flipso.com/p/5szdyd89z?ref=rss Thu, 20 Aug 2026 01:38:13 GMT Derek Sivers describes building his off-grid home by deferring decisions, trying things in real life, and adding only what proved necessary. The result is a home shaped by actual use rather than forecasts. [sive.rs] tf5z1ovhq https://flipso.com/p/tf5z1ovhq?ref=rss Wed, 19 Aug 2026 22:00:21 GMT https://liamrosen.com/2025/07/24/33-rules-of-good-social-skills/ [liamrosen.com] qa6u3cdxw https://flipso.com/p/qa6u3cdxw?ref=rss Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:20:22 GMT Afghan women and girls are being denied realistic paths out of abusive or unwanted marriages under a Taliban decree that tightens divorce rules and legalises child marriage. Families describe desperate, often costly attempts to secure separations, with husbands’ consent still required in practice. [theguardian.com] 66k8y4098 https://flipso.com/p/66k8y4098?ref=rss Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:00:24 GMT A study of 7,704 employees at a large healthcare organization found fully remote workers reported the highest well-being, followed by hybrid workers and then onsite employees. The research also found little evidence that remote workers felt less connected to coworkers or workplace culture, and higher well-being was linked to lower turnover. [colorado.edu] ijzmq6189 https://flipso.com/p/ijzmq6189?ref=rss Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:20:19 GMT A short essay arguing that activation energy is a useful lens for habits, relationships, motivation, and social dynamics — from starting a fire to getting exercise, having hard conversations, and making momentum easier to sustain. [homosabiens.substack.com] dxkebyibb https://flipso.com/p/dxkebyibb?ref=rss Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:40:14 GMT A study of Bronze Age and Early Iron Age iron objects from Greek museums found 13 likely meteoritic items, with the strongest evidence concentrated in finger rings from richly furnished elite tombs. The findings suggest meteorite-iron rings were status symbols in the Late Bronze Age and fell out of fashion as smelted iron became more common. [phys.org] x6wc01808 https://flipso.com/p/x6wc01808?ref=rss Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:00:19 GMT David Samson, an evolutionary anthropologist and author of The Sleepless Ape, on why human sleep is shorter, more fragmented, and more tied to light, temperature, and social safety than modern habits assume. [nautil.us] ueqqugg02 https://flipso.com/p/ueqqugg02?ref=rss Wed, 19 Aug 2026 05:40:17 GMT Archaeological analysis of a late 9th-century shipwreck off Binh Chau, Vietnam, comparing its ceramics, ship structure, epigraphic evidence, and possible role in Tang maritime trade networks. [koh-antique.com] ifbc46b67 https://flipso.com/p/ifbc46b67?ref=rss Wed, 19 Aug 2026 04:20:18 GMT A study suggests children's lung capacity in the London ULEZ caught up with that of peers in less-polluted areas after the clean-air zone was introduced. [bbc.com] 15tk5mfez https://flipso.com/p/15tk5mfez?ref=rss Wed, 19 Aug 2026 03:20:15 GMT Florence Hazrat traces the history of the parenthesis from Renaissance punctuation and rhetoric to Philip Sidney’s exuberant use of brackets in Arcadia, showing how digressions can shape meaning, rhythm, and intimacy in prose. [lithub.com] wfxdkvntr https://flipso.com/p/wfxdkvntr?ref=rss Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:40:21 GMT Balancing ambition with fatherhood can feel like a zero-sum tradeoff, but the author argues both can be part of the same definition of success. He reflects on how having children changes time, productivity, and priorities, and on the challenge of staying focused while making room for family. [nicholascharriere.com] u5sfk3j2j https://flipso.com/p/u5sfk3j2j?ref=rss Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:40:15 GMT Let's shield the astronauts instead of the spacecraft. [arstechnica.com] 8e1c4wri9 https://flipso.com/p/8e1c4wri9?ref=rss Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:40:13 GMT Britain’s postwar sugar rationing was an accidental experiment. Decades on, it’s revealing how early diet shapes cancer risk, ageing and eating habits for life. [theconversation.com] cwlfo9r6y https://flipso.com/p/cwlfo9r6y?ref=rss Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:40:20 GMT A deadly 2018 limousine crash in upstate New York killed 20 people and exposed a long trail of safety failures. The driver and the company behind the vehicle soon became part of a wider story about the owner’s past as an FBI informant and the extraordinary influence that came with it. [nymag.com] g4by4jjw7 https://flipso.com/p/g4by4jjw7?ref=rss Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:00:15 GMT Finding beautiful birds with data, and the ethics of converting preferences into math [moultano.wordpress.com] 4skxeftpz https://flipso.com/p/4skxeftpz?ref=rss Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:40:14 GMT Archaeologists say a 14th-century warrior found at a Scottish castle shows injuries consistent with a deadly trebuchet strike, offering rare physical evidence of siege warfare. [science.org] 8a74mw4tf https://flipso.com/p/8a74mw4tf?ref=rss Tue, 18 Aug 2026 04:20:15 GMT Book Haven in Wellington’s Newtown was suddenly receiving more orders than it could handle, prompting questions about where they were coming from and why demand had spiked so sharply. [rnz.co.nz] whl3jre6f https://flipso.com/p/whl3jre6f?ref=rss Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:20:13 GMT Photographs of Chilean Patagonian puesteros—solitary ranch hands who spend weeks or months at a time in isolated cabins—reveal the harsh beauty of their landscape and the precarity of their work. [newyorker.com] ynj59edhb https://flipso.com/p/ynj59edhb?ref=rss Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:00:19 GMT Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel Prize for his work on kuru in Papua New Guinea, but he also brought dozens of children from the region to live with him in the United States. Rachel Aviv examines the scientist’s legacy through the life of Luwi Ikabala, one of the children who grew up in his orbit. [newyorker.com] 0ae0he9ob https://flipso.com/p/0ae0he9ob?ref=rss Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:40:15 GMT After nearly two decades of searching, physicists in China report strong evidence for a glueball — a particle made entirely of gluons, the force-carrying particles that hold quarks together. [nature.com] ue0ryqt2w https://flipso.com/p/ue0ryqt2w?ref=rss Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:20:14 GMT Mark Dominus discusses Julian Jaynes’ The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, outlining the bicameral-mind theory and its claim that modern consciousness emerged relatively recently. He also connects the book to later work on auditory hallucinations and related neurological cases. [blog.plover.com]