https://flipso.com/ Latest posts on Flipso Flipso en-us https://flipso.com/static/img/favicon_rss.png https://flipso.com/ 144 144 Fri, 18 Sep 2026 20:00:16 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss bsec82k6n https://flipso.com/p/bsec82k6n?ref=rss Fri, 18 Sep 2026 20:00:16 GMT A tiny, spotted wild cat from Bolivia has been confirmed as a new species, Leopardus tilcayo, and the finding may point to more undiscovered small cat species. [nationalgeographic.com] 3cw5zd935 https://flipso.com/p/3cw5zd935?ref=rss Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:20:17 GMT A reported look at sorority rush culture and the pressure to be thin, including college women using GLP-1 weight-loss drugs to try to gain an edge in highly competitive southern Greek life. [thecut.com] u14ufxjdd https://flipso.com/p/u14ufxjdd?ref=rss Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:40:19 GMT Dan Luu argues that LLM-assisted work still fails when people stop verifying results, especially on coding tasks with hidden edge cases, unclear requirements, or out-of-distribution problems. Even as models improve, he says reliable outcomes still require human judgment, review, and correction. [danluu.com] 512dg669b https://flipso.com/p/512dg669b?ref=rss Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:40:14 GMT Seismic activity around the Punggye-ri test site has increased since a large nuclear explosion in 2017 [science.org] pjpgy2z0r https://flipso.com/p/pjpgy2z0r?ref=rss Fri, 18 Sep 2026 10:20:25 GMT Driscoll’s spent years building China’s blueberry market, but local rivals copied its growing methods and, a Chinese court ruled, its patented varieties. The company’s expansion helped spark a boom that turned into intense competition, with undercover investigators probing nurseries and state-backed loans fueling the rush. [wsj.com] 9xz0rbzxq https://flipso.com/p/9xz0rbzxq?ref=rss Fri, 18 Sep 2026 06:00:17 GMT Around 1,000 Ancient Greek words and names have no clear Indo-European etymology, including words like labyrinth, olive, and Ares. Linguists use those survivals to infer a lost substrate language that influenced Greek before the Greeks arrived in the Aegean. [linguisticdiscovery.com] yff0elmd7 https://flipso.com/p/yff0elmd7?ref=rss Fri, 18 Sep 2026 05:20:16 GMT A centuries-old apple tree in Maine led researchers and amateur apple hunters on a years-long search that identified a lost progenitor of many U.S. apple varieties. The discovery also points to genetic traits that could help breeders protect apples from disease and climate stress. [scientificamerican.com] 8z90qknt1 https://flipso.com/p/8z90qknt1?ref=rss Fri, 18 Sep 2026 01:20:17 GMT Archived New York Magazine story about Jamison Bachman, a serial squatter who allegedly posed as a prospective roommate, moved in with victims, and turned tenancy law into a weapon. [archive.ph] bl5udoe53 https://flipso.com/p/bl5udoe53?ref=rss Thu, 17 Sep 2026 23:40:16 GMT Paleontologists from Fundación Dinópolis have identified the first confirmed fossils of the genus Diplodocus found outside North America. [sci.news] gi7chupu6 https://flipso.com/p/gi7chupu6?ref=rss Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:20:13 GMT Why are we so obsessed with putting our belongings in metal boxes and then never looking at them again? [newyorker.com] 8980hp90x https://flipso.com/p/8980hp90x?ref=rss Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:40:15 GMT Monica Dirac’s remembrance of her father, physicist Paul Dirac, focusing on his character, family life, interests outside physics, and personal memories from home and travel. [damtp.cam.ac.uk] ykbx5kp1i https://flipso.com/p/ykbx5kp1i?ref=rss Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:20:18 GMT Trump’s push to lease Pacific seafloor around Guam and other U.S. territories is drawing local opposition and lawsuits, with territorial leaders saying they were not consulted and have little power over decisions that could affect their waters and marine life. [grist.org] 683neem71 https://flipso.com/p/683neem71?ref=rss Thu, 17 Sep 2026 02:00:16 GMT For more than a century, commercial shipping steadily moved away from sails. Now they are coming back. Across the global fleet, shipowners are installing towering rotor sails, rigid wings and... [gcaptain.com] tgj8sh159 https://flipso.com/p/tgj8sh159?ref=rss Thu, 17 Sep 2026 01:40:14 GMT A long essay arguing that standard cosmology explains the universe’s expansion with ad hoc patches, and proposing a different symmetry-breaking view in which expansion follows from the underlying motion of matter and light. [cosmicave.org] 70ddgvyzw https://flipso.com/p/70ddgvyzw?ref=rss Wed, 16 Sep 2026 22:40:14 GMT Small local libraries in Japan are becoming community hubs and travel destinations, with curated shelves, cafés, and bookstore integrations drawing visitors beyond the neighborhood. [untranslatedjp.substack.com] 7l924e5mb https://flipso.com/p/7l924e5mb?ref=rss Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:20:13 GMT A look at the young woman buried in the Altai Mountains, her preserved tattoos and grave goods, and the wider Iron Age Scythian and Pazyryk world that shaped her life and death. [patrickwyman.substack.com] ifywi2k7k https://flipso.com/p/ifywi2k7k?ref=rss Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:40:19 GMT University of Washington researchers are working with the Samish Indian Nation to help restore sunflower sea stars, a critically endangered Pacific species that can grow to 24 arms, back to the ocean. [npr.org] 7yd6uvnv4 https://flipso.com/p/7yd6uvnv4?ref=rss Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:00:18 GMT An Illinois Answers Project analysis revealed that 63 people who died in jails were missing from state data on in-custody fatalities. Now the state is auditing its records. [illinoisanswers.org] ep2jascdj https://flipso.com/p/ep2jascdj?ref=rss Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:40:18 GMT A clear explanation of how to estimate the number of digits in n! using Stirling’s approximation, with a worked example for 52! and a short derivation from the Gamma function. [eli.thegreenplace.net] z1u5gik1h https://flipso.com/p/z1u5gik1h?ref=rss Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:20:19 GMT A former top dressage trainer shot a student in 2019, was later found not guilty by reason of insanity, and now insists he was the one wronged in the feud that followed. [newyorker.com] 1mvv8f7z0 https://flipso.com/p/1mvv8f7z0?ref=rss Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:00:15 GMT Marcus Hearn recalls family stories about a lost Doctor Who story that was filmed in Cambridge before a BBC strike led to it being abandoned. [bbc.co.uk] acv2u7y4y https://flipso.com/p/acv2u7y4y?ref=rss Wed, 16 Sep 2026 01:20:18 GMT A reflection on why roundabouts feel elegant: they avoid many of the tradeoffs of traffic lights, don’t need active control or electricity, and can create pleasant public space through the often-unused center island. [gruhn.me] owb87nxzh https://flipso.com/p/owb87nxzh?ref=rss Wed, 16 Sep 2026 03:20:20 GMT Negativland, the experimental sound collage collective, reflects on more than four decades of remix-driven work, culture jamming, and clashes over copyright and media. The Internet Archive post also highlights the group’s upcoming live performance at its San Francisco headquarters and its long-running freeform radio archive. [blog.archive.org] i4e9x2trr https://flipso.com/p/i4e9x2trr?ref=rss Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:40:23 GMT Bex Heimbrock’s essay traces the rise of Cowboy Christianity in eastern Washington, using one congregation to explore how cowboy imagery, evangelical faith, and right-wing populism intertwine in contemporary American politics. [parapraxismagazine.com] 9igxbrybx https://flipso.com/p/9igxbrybx?ref=rss Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:20:18 GMT A playful guide to splitting oversized paperback or hardcover books into smaller, easier-to-hold volumes by finding natural breakpoints, cutting the spine, and adding simple new covers. [attainablefelicity.mattkirkland.com] etadi5uq3 https://flipso.com/p/etadi5uq3?ref=rss Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:00:27 GMT Medieval castles were often whitewashed or plastered on the outside, with bright, decorated interiors, wooden hoardings, and busy courtyards full of buildings and activity. The gray, empty ruins seen today are a much later result of decay, demolition, and romanticized preservation. [thecollector.com] s7tuiyfpo https://flipso.com/p/s7tuiyfpo?ref=rss Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:00:17 GMT Trevor 7oaks has spent years digitising and preserving recordings from Kool FM, the influential London pirate station that helped document the rise of jungle and drum & bass. His archive now holds more than 9,000 recordings and has passed 500,000 downloads, capturing a vital slice of London music history. [londonist.com] t9igimb53 https://flipso.com/p/t9igimb53?ref=rss Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:40:18 GMT Illinois county jails report thousands of “extraordinary or unusual” incidents every year, but the state doesn’t keep track. So we stepped in to shed light on what’s happening inside. [projects.illinoisanswers.org] redindv89 https://flipso.com/p/redindv89?ref=rss Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:00:33 GMT Rats have conquered nearly every place on earth where humans live. Only Alberta soldiers on. [worksinprogress.news] mm7sx37jq https://flipso.com/p/mm7sx37jq?ref=rss Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:20:16 GMT A fascinating account of Papua New Guinea’s New Guinea highlands: their long isolation, first contact with outsiders in 1930, and the surprising ways geography, agriculture, warfare, shells, and trade shaped one of the world’s most diverse societies. [notnottalmud.substack.com]