https://flipso.com/ Latest posts on Flipso Flipso en-us https://flipso.com/static/img/favicon_rss.png https://flipso.com/ 144 144 Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:00:19 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 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] 11bdu0yd8 https://flipso.com/p/11bdu0yd8?ref=rss Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:00:20 GMT People with schizophrenia face a dangerous mix of heat vulnerability, medication side effects, and barriers to care as temperatures rise. [wired.com] nazr19aoj https://flipso.com/p/nazr19aoj?ref=rss Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:00:15 GMT You might already know that atoms are mostly empty space. Physical size behaves a bit weirdly at the atomic scale, but essentially the radius of an atom’s nucleus is tens of thousands of times smal… [signoregalilei.com] xguukwpzm https://flipso.com/p/xguukwpzm?ref=rss Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:20:24 GMT How Wootton Bassett became a place of national mourning as repatriated British soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan were brought through the town, and how that ritual became politically charged. [newstatesman.com] v5429vo77 https://flipso.com/p/v5429vo77?ref=rss Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:00:17 GMT Taking a Tip From Plants - For the Eyes? [science.org] czxnevuak https://flipso.com/p/czxnevuak?ref=rss Mon, 17 Aug 2026 06:00:20 GMT A tribute to Sonny Rollins and the restless creativity that made him one of jazz’s defining innovators. Moving from the author’s first encounter with Rollins to a career-spanning portrait, it traces his sound, his improvisational imagination, and the long gaps and reinventions that shaped his legacy. [nplusonemag.com] 8cgmrmagu https://flipso.com/p/8cgmrmagu?ref=rss Sun, 16 Aug 2026 21:40:31 GMT A meditation on ignorance, survivor bias, and how complex systems like markets, firms, and institutions let us act without fully understanding them. It argues that civilization depends on decentralized error correction, and extends that idea to AI and future governance. [strangeloopcanon.com] 4y9v89j2m https://flipso.com/p/4y9v89j2m?ref=rss Sun, 16 Aug 2026 20:20:15 GMT A Boston Globe series on the trial of Latarsha Sanders, a Brockton mother convicted of killing her two young sons after her defense argued she was psychotic at the time. The reporting examines the insanity defense, the prosecution’s strategy, and what the jury was asked to decide. [archive.ph] toj2el5se https://flipso.com/p/toj2el5se?ref=rss Sun, 16 Aug 2026 19:40:15 GMT A quarter-mile tunnel in western North Carolina ends where pavement gives way to dirt, leaving an unfinished road that has become a local landmark. The story traces the Road to Nowhere in Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the fraught history behind its creation. [wunc.org] nbh7p3ct9 https://flipso.com/p/nbh7p3ct9?ref=rss Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:20:18 GMT A close reading of Anton Chekhov’s life and love letters, especially his marriage to Olga Knipper, questions the familiar image of him as detached or chaste and examines how biography, omission, and literary myth shape what we think love and artistic humanity mean. [commonreader.wustl.edu] pwzybsk4j https://flipso.com/p/pwzybsk4j?ref=rss Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:40:14 GMT In 1926, Henry Ford helped normalize the five-day working week, turning Saturday and Sunday into a shared two-day break. A century later, hybrid work, early-Friday drift and constant after-hours contact are blurring where the weekend begins and ends. [theguardian.com] k0xvqo92g https://flipso.com/p/k0xvqo92g?ref=rss Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:59:49 GMT Adding a small amount of salt can reduce coffee’s bitterness and make sweetness more noticeable, especially in darker roasts, overextracted brews, or lower-quality beans. But it can also flatten the delicate flavors in higher-quality coffees, so the best approach depends on the coffee and your taste preferences. [perfectdailygrind.com] gxk3kn6sf https://flipso.com/p/gxk3kn6sf?ref=rss Sat, 15 Aug 2026 21:40:13 GMT An essay on how solitude, self-trust, and sustained attention help fragile ideas survive long enough to become original work, drawing on Alexander Grothendieck and Ingmar Bergman. [henrikkarlsson.xyz] uwl68kn7c https://flipso.com/p/uwl68kn7c?ref=rss Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:20:16 GMT LymeAlert is a new at-home test that checks whether a tick carries Lyme-causing Borrelia burgdorferi, with results in about 15 minutes. The kit is set to launch in August for about $50 and includes an app that can read the strip and connect users to telehealth if needed. [smithsonianmag.com] sr2s8o9qi https://flipso.com/p/sr2s8o9qi?ref=rss Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:40:15 GMT Spectrogram-based look at how different light sources shape perceived color, comparing LEDs, incandescent and halogen bulbs, daylight, neon, mercury vapor, metal halide, xenon flash, fluorescent lamps, and white LEDs. [ludens.cl] naoqmm37m https://flipso.com/p/naoqmm37m?ref=rss Sat, 15 Aug 2026 08:40:14 GMT Heinz Krug helped source parts for Egypt’s missile program while former Nazi rocket scientists worked behind the scenes. In 1962, he vanished after leaving his office, and historians still debate whether he was abducted or assassinated. [popularmechanics.com] 7u5q9lpkd https://flipso.com/p/7u5q9lpkd?ref=rss Fri, 14 Aug 2026 23:20:26 GMT On the passage of seasons, in nature, life, and work. [jeanhsu.substack.com] ey3b42tkd https://flipso.com/p/ey3b42tkd?ref=rss Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:40:16 GMT The jadeite cabbage is a tiny but iconic National Palace Museum treasure in Taipei, carved from white and green jadeite and famous for its lifelike leaves, insects and natural flaws. Its popularity has made it a museum star, appearing on stamps, merchandise and plush toys, and it even has its own dedicated room. [cnn.com] p7fhtj4cw https://flipso.com/p/p7fhtj4cw?ref=rss Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:20:15 GMT Mark Dominus reflects on seven books on the shelf by his elbow and why he keeps them close for inspiration, from Roget’s Thesaurus and Sir Thomas Browne to Boccaccio’s Decameron. [blog.plover.com] eldiiic83 https://flipso.com/p/eldiiic83?ref=rss Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:20:32 GMT Marco Arment launches Unforgetful, an iOS and Mac reminders app built around ADHD-friendly task capture. It keeps notifications repeating until tasks are completed, supports generous snoozing, uses Reminders data directly, and is available with a $19.99/year subscription plus a one-month free trial. [marco.org] jzoeugxiw https://flipso.com/p/jzoeugxiw?ref=rss Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:44:04 GMT Four improv habits for product leaders in Japan: listen for what’s unsaid, replace “yes, but” with collaboration, make others look good, and treat failure as usable feedback. [tokyodev.com] 3mmgwemio https://flipso.com/p/3mmgwemio?ref=rss Fri, 14 Aug 2026 07:20:13 GMT Ashurbanipal’s seventh-century BC library at Nineveh preserved thousands of clay tablets on religion, literature, magic, medicine, and royal history. Rediscovered in the 19th century, it helped reveal Assyria’s power, the breadth of Mesopotamian learning, and key texts such as the Flood story later identified with the Epic of Gilgamesh. [historytoday.com] u1xpfmtcj https://flipso.com/p/u1xpfmtcj?ref=rss Fri, 14 Aug 2026 01:40:16 GMT The Persian Gulf’s wealthy city-states rely on migrant labor under restrictive sponsorship rules, with many workers facing severe exploitation and little legal protection. Bernard Freamon argues that these conditions fit Moses Finley’s definition of a genuine slave society. [aeon.co] miwrnxsdb https://flipso.com/p/miwrnxsdb?ref=rss Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:00:18 GMT The long read: Given the size and age of the universe, it should be full of species with technology far more advanced than our own. But so far there is no trace [theguardian.com] q68qv1vyn https://flipso.com/p/q68qv1vyn?ref=rss Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:40:17 GMT A clear explainer of Gödel’s incompleteness theorems, showing how he encoded statements as numbers, built self-referential formulas, and proved that any consistent axiomatic system must leave some truths unprovable. [quantamagazine.org] yi9kbbjav https://flipso.com/p/yi9kbbjav?ref=rss Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:00:33 GMT A reflective essay on lying on the grass and looking straight up at the sky, finding that the view feels different, deeper, and more vivid than ordinary horizon-gazing. The piece argues that the sky’s scale and motion are easy to overlook until you give it deliberate attention. [raptitude.com] 6hhk3fcrk https://flipso.com/p/6hhk3fcrk?ref=rss Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:40:14 GMT Early cave paintings suggest art was not a late human invention but something that helped shape human self-understanding. The essay argues that artworks reveal a deeper truth and beauty beyond mere facts, and that our capacity for meaning may emerge through images rather than precede them. [aeon.co] kxvywdh1g https://flipso.com/p/kxvywdh1g?ref=rss Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:00:19 GMT A mother describes how a seemingly minor cold triggered a sudden psychiatric and neurological crisis in her 8-year-old daughter, and the difficult search for a diagnosis and treatment for PANS. [thecut.com]