https://flipso.com/ Latest posts on Flipso Flipso en-us https://flipso.com/static/img/favicon_rss.png https://flipso.com/ 144 144 Sun, 20 Sep 2026 18:35:20 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss foqzseiwx https://flipso.com/p/foqzseiwx?ref=rss Sun, 20 Sep 2026 18:35:20 GMT ChatGPT and other AIs use a flood of facts, and the occasional lie, to persuade humans [science.org] 41u3m0agt https://flipso.com/p/41u3m0agt?ref=rss Sun, 20 Sep 2026 18:40:13 GMT Danny Bate traces how W emerged from post-Roman Latin and Germanic writing, from doubled U to Old English wynn, and explains how the letter came to shape modern English spelling and pronunciation. [lithub.com] izikw6d5m https://flipso.com/p/izikw6d5m?ref=rss Sun, 20 Sep 2026 18:00:34 GMT Reflections on how small setbacks can turn into unexpected good outcomes, from bike repairs to family logistics, and on making the best decisions with the information available in the moment. [jeanhsu.substack.com] ooznypfs0 https://flipso.com/p/ooznypfs0?ref=rss Sun, 20 Sep 2026 15:00:18 GMT Portugal’s remarkable public health strides after changing its approach to drugs may not be replicable in other countries absent broader systemic reforms. [theconversation.com] xxvwt0clm https://flipso.com/p/xxvwt0clm?ref=rss Sun, 20 Sep 2026 14:00:15 GMT Birdsong can vary by region, with birds in different places learning slightly different versions of the same calls. Researchers compare these patterns to human accents and dialects, showing how environment and learning shape animal communication. [theconversation.com] iatxuvorc https://flipso.com/p/iatxuvorc?ref=rss Sun, 20 Sep 2026 11:20:16 GMT A look at when English uses “a” versus “an,” including why pronunciation matters more than spelling and how often exceptions occur in a large word list. [redblobgames.com] e4g0tosv7 https://flipso.com/p/e4g0tosv7?ref=rss Sun, 20 Sep 2026 09:00:17 GMT An interactive introduction to digital signal processing and the Discrete Fourier Transform, using visualizations, animations, and sound to build intuition before rigor. [jackschaedler.github.io] elmi1f9ab https://flipso.com/p/elmi1f9ab?ref=rss Sun, 20 Sep 2026 07:40:21 GMT Researchers documented a humpback whale mother remaining with her stillborn calf for hours, showing prolonged attentive behavior that may help explain how baleen whales respond to neonatal death. [phys.org] u30xz0d2a https://flipso.com/p/u30xz0d2a?ref=rss Sun, 20 Sep 2026 07:20:22 GMT A profile of Mark Zuckerberg, from his early obsession with computers and Roman history to his rise as Meta’s founder and the vast influence of his company today. [colossus.com] w4k8bpbnx https://flipso.com/p/w4k8bpbnx?ref=rss Sun, 20 Sep 2026 07:00:32 GMT A remote alpine lake in the Sierra Nevada turned into a bucket-list visit and an attempt to answer its long-standing depth mystery. The post reports a measured depth of about 117 meters, placing Tulainyo Lake among the deepest natural lakes in North America for its size. [caseyhandmer.wordpress.com] oezaoinec https://flipso.com/p/oezaoinec?ref=rss Sat, 19 Sep 2026 22:20:14 GMT Deodands put a price on objects that caused death, sometimes providing compensation to bereaved families. [daily.jstor.org] 8c8bh7bi3 https://flipso.com/p/8c8bh7bi3?ref=rss Sat, 19 Sep 2026 15:00:14 GMT James Webb is spotting mysterious “little red dots” throughout the early universe. Some astronomers think they’re supermassive black holes; others argue for a new kind of object: a black hole star, with a black hole buried inside a massive hydrogen envelope. [quantamagazine.org] 6qgma9158 https://flipso.com/p/6qgma9158?ref=rss Sat, 19 Sep 2026 12:00:16 GMT Comb jellies are helping answer fundamental questions in biology, from how the earliest nervous systems evolved to how bioluminescence works. [quantamagazine.org] my9zqd9p1 https://flipso.com/p/my9zqd9p1?ref=rss Sat, 19 Sep 2026 08:20:14 GMT Thomas W. Laqueur traces the many dogs in Paolo Veronese’s paintings, showing how they shape composition, guide the viewer’s eye, and bring a note of attentiveness and tenderness to scenes of love, devotion, and feast. The essay also recalls Veronese’s 1573 Inquisition hearing, where a dog in one painting became part of the controversy. [publicdomainreview.org] t8ftouvx4 https://flipso.com/p/t8ftouvx4?ref=rss Fri, 18 Sep 2026 23:20:13 GMT The front and back parts of our brain come from different progenitor cells in embryos, which suggests they evolved as separate entities [newscientist.com] 62z1ov9ka https://flipso.com/p/62z1ov9ka?ref=rss Fri, 18 Sep 2026 21:00:16 GMT A Los Angeles Times investigation examines why restraining orders often fail to protect women from abusive former partners in L.A. County. Using Nora Villanueva Campanor’s killing as a case study, the story looks at gaps in enforcement, law enforcement response, and court protections, and finds former partners or close relatives were charged in more than 60 women’s deaths in 2024 and 2025. [latimes.com] 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]