https://flipso.com/ Latest posts on Flipso Flipso en-us https://flipso.com/static/img/favicon_rss.png https://flipso.com/ 144 144 Sun, 01 Nov 2026 07:00:20 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss ksmkmzp8c https://flipso.com/p/ksmkmzp8c?ref=rss Sun, 01 Nov 2026 07:00:20 GMT Nearly 450 years ago, an unnamed Ñudzahui painter mapped his community’s history and land claims for a Spanish king — on his own terms. [thereader.mitpress.mit.edu] hq1dnhr7n https://flipso.com/p/hq1dnhr7n?ref=rss Sun, 01 Nov 2026 05:20:15 GMT Not Mark Twain, not Herman Melville, not F. Scott Fitzgerald. Poe helped invent the modern detective story, shaped horror fiction, and left a deep mark on short fiction and poetry. [slate.com] 9zwa7areg https://flipso.com/p/9zwa7areg?ref=rss Sun, 01 Nov 2026 01:20:14 GMT Claudio Grossi found an old sack of unidentified seeds in his family’s attic and planted them on a whim. The wheat that grew was unusually tall, with seven ears per stem, and later testing identified it as an ancient heritage grain, Triticum turgidum. Researchers found it hardy, drought-tolerant, and nutritionally distinct from modern wheat, helping revive interest in traditional grains. [smithsonianmag.com] irjjf2fav https://flipso.com/p/irjjf2fav?ref=rss Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:40:14 GMT University of Sheffield researchers developed a workable version of the ancient dichroic glass recipe, and glass artist Elliot Walker used it to create a new sculpture that shifts from green in reflected light to red when backlit. [arstechnica.com] 72pdqwkkg https://flipso.com/p/72pdqwkkg?ref=rss Sat, 31 Oct 2026 21:40:15 GMT Dustin Hoffman recalls how he was cast as Benjamin Braddock, the insecurities he brought to the role, and the anxious, funny, and often tense experience of filming The Graduate. [newyorker.com] yyljyn7d3 https://flipso.com/p/yyljyn7d3?ref=rss Sat, 31 Oct 2026 20:00:16 GMT William Nordhaus ‘63, Sterling Professor of Economics who won a Nobel Prize in 2018 for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis, died Oct. 30 at age 85. [news.yale.edu] 891tlqu7u https://flipso.com/p/891tlqu7u?ref=rss Sat, 31 Oct 2026 19:40:15 GMT A personal essay on the ethical duty to share knowledge responsibly, from security disclosure to engineering practice and scholarship. It argues that scholars and researchers should actively bring important truths to the people who can use them, not just publish and move on. [daemonology.net] 3pyqf9j44 https://flipso.com/p/3pyqf9j44?ref=rss Sat, 31 Oct 2026 17:40:12 GMT Voyager 1 is about to become the first human-made object to reach one light-day from Earth—about 16 billion miles away. NASA explains what that distance means and why it’s a notable milestone for the long-running mission. [science.nasa.gov] v695vin8m https://flipso.com/p/v695vin8m?ref=rss Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:20:16 GMT A deep dive into Medieval Times’ feudal-themed dinner show and the labor, safety, and harassment allegations surrounding it, including unionization efforts, lawsuits, and a long strike. [vanityfair.com] on2c2st40 https://flipso.com/p/on2c2st40?ref=rss Sat, 31 Oct 2026 08:16:02 GMT Will Manidis and Joe Roberts explore how AI may shift economic power toward scarce chokepoints that capture value as intelligence becomes more capable and widely diffused. [commanding-heights.com] it4j4uivw https://flipso.com/p/it4j4uivw?ref=rss Sat, 31 Oct 2026 04:20:16 GMT Patrick Stewart’s portrayal of Jean-Luc Picard made the Star Trek captain a model of moral clarity, vulnerability, and dignified leadership for generations of fans. [bostonglobe.com] c92i5tl97 https://flipso.com/p/c92i5tl97?ref=rss Sat, 31 Oct 2026 02:40:15 GMT An essay on how the 1607 Bristol Channel flood was read as divine warning in seventeenth-century Britain, and how pamphlets, broadside print, and popular fascination with prodigies turned extreme weather into moral and political commentary. [publicdomainreview.org] yuuyzifqs https://flipso.com/p/yuuyzifqs?ref=rss Sat, 31 Oct 2026 01:40:19 GMT Archaeologists working in Norway’s Innlandet mountains are finding older and older artifacts as ice patches shrink, including arrowheads and shafts dated to the Stone Age and Bronze Age. After 20 years of work, the team says most ice patches with archaeological remains may disappear within two decades, revealing both rare finds and the scale of rapid melting. [sciencenorway.no] btzaiw3nr https://flipso.com/p/btzaiw3nr?ref=rss Fri, 30 Oct 2026 21:20:14 GMT An investigative feature tracing the murder of Philippine real-estate broker Catherine Lee and the clues that link it to Paul Le Roux, a shadowy international criminal figure. [magazine.atavist.com] 82jphwns0 https://flipso.com/p/82jphwns0?ref=rss Fri, 30 Oct 2026 20:40:14 GMT Jules Verne’s long-lost novel predicted a mechanized future with uncanny accuracy, especially in its vision of 1960s-era technology. Its real surprise is less the machinery than the melancholy mismatch between modern progress and Paris’s older literary soul. [blue-continuum.com] lsnq0qaet https://flipso.com/p/lsnq0qaet?ref=rss Fri, 30 Oct 2026 15:40:14 GMT The guidelines have finally caught up to the evidence supporting coronary artery calcium scans [medpagetoday.com] ukizu9v2s https://flipso.com/p/ukizu9v2s?ref=rss Fri, 30 Oct 2026 10:20:14 GMT Astrophysicist Shep Doeleman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope linked observatories around the world to produce the first images of supermassive black holes — and why the next frontier may be filming them. [quantamagazine.org] 9r7b5isbh https://flipso.com/p/9r7b5isbh?ref=rss Fri, 30 Oct 2026 07:20:15 GMT A personal essay about how a dementia diagnosis complicates memory, blame, and forgiveness, and whether illness can retroactively change how we understand a parent’s behavior. [chengela.substack.com] vc7thy5me https://flipso.com/p/vc7thy5me?ref=rss Fri, 30 Oct 2026 02:00:16 GMT Five thieves, a fake hostage crisis, and a tunnel that let them vanish from a surrounded bank with loot from hundreds of safe-deposit boxes. The true story of Argentina’s legendary “Robbery of the Century.” [gq.com] qkrooww38 https://flipso.com/p/qkrooww38?ref=rss Fri, 30 Oct 2026 01:40:16 GMT A visit to Harvard’s Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, including a black uranium cube from the German wartime reactor project and the Koenig Analyzer, an 19th-century acoustic waveform device. [nealstephenson.substack.com] mj37porhp https://flipso.com/p/mj37porhp?ref=rss Thu, 29 Oct 2026 23:20:19 GMT An essay on The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, arguing that Twain’s mischievous boy hero became a distinctly American archetype—part prankster, part brave “knight in a scoundrel’s clothing.” [claremontreviewofbooks.com] xonoeaeb2 https://flipso.com/p/xonoeaeb2?ref=rss Thu, 29 Oct 2026 16:00:15 GMT Researchers have identified the first known stenciled rock art in southern Africa at La Rochelle rock shelter in South Africa’s Mpumalanga province. The figures, likely made with a template and sprayed or blown pigment onto the rock, are unusual both regionally and globally. The finding adds a rare stencil tradition to an already rich record of southern African rock art. [phys.org] is7duajvv https://flipso.com/p/is7duajvv?ref=rss Thu, 29 Oct 2026 14:40:14 GMT A newly surfaced unredacted FBI letter, sent to Martin Luther King Jr. in 1964, appears to threaten and intimidate him by highlighting surveillance and his private life. The piece also explains how FBI officials targeted King after his rise as a national civil rights leader and why the letter was viewed as an attempt to pressure him into suicide. [vox.com] zb27yfdl0 https://flipso.com/p/zb27yfdl0?ref=rss Thu, 29 Oct 2026 13:55:01 GMT An IEEE Spectrum experiment tested whether free AI tools could produce a convincing fake research paper and slip it past journal checks. The paper was flagged for fabricated or unverifiable references, revealing both the limits of current safeguards and the growing challenge AI-generated slop poses to academic publishing. [spectrum.ieee.org] 0gdiazxc3 https://flipso.com/p/0gdiazxc3?ref=rss Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:00:15 GMT A story for my grandchildren about oxygen, evolution, and our planet’s fate. [lede-v2.nautil.us] lri4id1zk https://flipso.com/p/lri4id1zk?ref=rss Wed, 28 Oct 2026 22:40:13 GMT Biologists are uncovering how spider silk dope reorganizes into condensates and then a strong, flexible fiber. New work on black widow silk points to weak interactions between specific amino acids that help guide the material’s remarkable transformation. [quantamagazine.org] jheodvfvh https://flipso.com/p/jheodvfvh?ref=rss Wed, 28 Oct 2026 19:40:18 GMT A new study finds colorectal cancer incidence is rising across younger and older age groups, with increases now extending to nearly all ages up to 65–69. Researchers say the trend could increase demand for treatment and survivorship care, while screening remains the best way to detect disease early. [uchicagomedicine.org] zu7kxwyse https://flipso.com/p/zu7kxwyse?ref=rss Wed, 28 Oct 2026 16:40:13 GMT News of Wedgewood’s admission was quickly amplified and recast into multiple rumors and narratives, revealing how a single claim can evolve as people contest its meaning and frame its implications. [cip.uw.edu] r0tmullq9 https://flipso.com/p/r0tmullq9?ref=rss Wed, 28 Oct 2026 10:00:14 GMT Ancient Mediterranean blockades—from Samos and Syracuse to Rhodes and Lilybaeum—show that maritime superiority is not enough on its own. The real challenge is sustaining control of the sea long enough to deny supplies, hold pressure, and achieve a political or military objective. [maritime-executive.com] r90qgl6uo https://flipso.com/p/r90qgl6uo?ref=rss Wed, 28 Oct 2026 06:40:14 GMT A 25-year-old German experimental photographer won the 2026 Nikon Small World photomicrography competition with a microscopic image of inkjet droplets mid-flight. He beat 1,802 entries from 69 countries and captured the shot by modifying a printer and using flash to freeze the action. [arstechnica.com]