https://flipso.com/ Latest posts on Flipso Flipso en-us https://flipso.com/static/img/favicon_rss.png https://flipso.com/ 144 144 Mon, 07 Sep 2026 20:00:18 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 6gmqy5dj3 https://flipso.com/p/6gmqy5dj3?ref=rss Mon, 07 Sep 2026 20:00:18 GMT Interactive 3D map of Los Angeles buildings, with one box per structure colored by the decade it was built. Watch the city fill in from 1880 to today, and switch between decade and height views. [lax-skyline.parcelscope.net] jk5234zii https://flipso.com/p/jk5234zii?ref=rss Mon, 07 Sep 2026 19:00:36 GMT Sean Carroll talks with Jared Diamond about how geography, environment, and individual leaders shape historical outcomes — from empires and institutions to companies, religions, and sports teams. They discuss Diamond’s new book, Profits, Prophets, Coaches, and Kings, and when leaders matter most. [preposterousuniverse.com] zhxswlb5j https://flipso.com/p/zhxswlb5j?ref=rss Mon, 07 Sep 2026 17:00:35 GMT Ancient Hebrew texts, Greek translations, and later Jewish traditions help explain the biblical Nephilim, including the main interpretations of who they were and why they appear in Genesis and Numbers. [thecollector.com] 5cej1fnip https://flipso.com/p/5cej1fnip?ref=rss Mon, 07 Sep 2026 16:40:30 GMT A reflection on bucket lists as a record of passing fancies rather than fixed life plans. The author revisits an old list, notes how many goals have been completed or outgrown, and argues that long-term goals work better when they’re tied to current commitments and values instead of photogenic peak experiences. [raptitude.com] vrue6si62 https://flipso.com/p/vrue6si62?ref=rss Mon, 07 Sep 2026 15:40:18 GMT Researchers designed urinals using fluid physics and differential equations to reduce splashback. Experiments found the new designs cut splash to 1.4% of a common commercial urinal, with the potential to improve hygiene, lower cleaning costs, reduce water and chemical use, and make public restrooms more accessible. [academic.oup.com] 2d3gthvet https://flipso.com/p/2d3gthvet?ref=rss Mon, 07 Sep 2026 14:02:03 GMT Wendell Berry’s life in Kentucky points to a broader lesson: choosing a life on purpose over prestige, distraction, and default paths. His decision to leave an elite academic career and return to his family’s farm became a model for living with intention, rooted in place, work, and conviction. [calnewport.com] yr73x198l https://flipso.com/p/yr73x198l?ref=rss Mon, 07 Sep 2026 08:00:16 GMT Emma Adler argues that many novels only become compelling after a subjective turning point she calls the “volta,” and suggests that understanding this pattern could help readers persist through slow starts. [publicbooks.org] 9nk7yiqqz https://flipso.com/p/9nk7yiqqz?ref=rss Sun, 06 Sep 2026 23:00:18 GMT Former surplus store for Los Alamos National Laboratory equipment, from vintage oscilloscopes and liquid-nitrogen dewars to obscure research hardware. The business is no longer operating, but the Atlas Obscura entry preserves its history. [atlasobscura.com] cfehuaek5 https://flipso.com/p/cfehuaek5?ref=rss Sun, 06 Sep 2026 20:20:14 GMT Modern recreations and ancient Babylonian recipes, including a lamb stew with beets and a barley-and-bread stew, with ingredients and step-by-step instructions. [babylonian-collection.yale.edu] li9xkbxv9 https://flipso.com/p/li9xkbxv9?ref=rss Sun, 06 Sep 2026 12:40:34 GMT A thrift-store find of old O-Pee-Chee hockey cards becomes a nostalgic look at the surprise and thrill of opening packs, with Gretzky, Ron Francis, and other 1980s players turning up along the way. [somenice.com] 8ji1ophdk https://flipso.com/p/8ji1ophdk?ref=rss Sun, 06 Sep 2026 18:00:37 GMT How African empires governed conquered regions through a mix of direct rule and local “native” rulers, with examples from Songhai, Ethiopia, Lunda, and ancient Nubia. The piece traces how imperial administrations balanced tribute, appointed officials, and inherited local offices across different periods and regions. [africanhistoryextra.com] gqgprs0l5 https://flipso.com/p/gqgprs0l5?ref=rss Sun, 06 Sep 2026 16:40:16 GMT A British Museum exhibition explores the 1,000-year-old Bayeux Tapestry, its uncertain origins, and what it reveals about the Norman Conquest and medieval life. [economist.com] giml56cs8 https://flipso.com/p/giml56cs8?ref=rss Sun, 06 Sep 2026 15:20:33 GMT An accessible look at electric fields, locality, and why “touching” is less straightforward than it seems at the microscopic scale. The post argues that charges influence one another through fields, then connects that picture to quantum field theory, where empty space is not truly empty but filled with underlying fields. [quantumfrontiers.com] mgrrnmi5c https://flipso.com/p/mgrrnmi5c?ref=rss Sun, 06 Sep 2026 11:40:18 GMT Roopika Risam’s new book shows how various data regimes, from clay tablets in ancient Mesopotamia to today’s biometric databases, shaped human lives. [lareviewofbooks.org] i1s0zmyer https://flipso.com/p/i1s0zmyer?ref=rss Sun, 06 Sep 2026 06:00:20 GMT Calibrite is celebrating 50 years of the ColorChecker with a virtual museum, timeline, fun facts, and a quiz exploring the chart’s history and uses in photography. [dpreview.com] rhepup6ny https://flipso.com/p/rhepup6ny?ref=rss Sat, 05 Sep 2026 18:20:17 GMT For years, the winter destination of rare red-footed falcons was unknown. GPS tracking led ornithologist Péter Palatitz to a massive communal roost in central Angola, where hundreds of thousands gather each year in a place the team nicknamed Falcopolis. [nationalgeographic.com] x4hp7d051 https://flipso.com/p/x4hp7d051?ref=rss Sat, 05 Sep 2026 18:00:15 GMT UC Berkeley’s Laura Schmidt traces how tobacco companies expanded into food, helping popularize hyperpalatable, chemically engineered products that became ultra-processed foods. The discussion links that shift to rising obesity, diabetes, and other chronic diseases in the U.S. [vcresearch.berkeley.edu] 5dz0hsxtt https://flipso.com/p/5dz0hsxtt?ref=rss Sat, 05 Sep 2026 17:40:27 GMT Neal Ascherson’s life in journalism ranged from colonial Malaya and Cold War Berlin to Poland, Chile, and South Africa, while his writing kept circling Europe’s upheavals, nationalism, and the legacy of empire. The profile traces a reporter who tried to stay intellectually engaged with history as it was unfolding. [newyorker.com] d2wknzics https://flipso.com/p/d2wknzics?ref=rss Sat, 05 Sep 2026 06:40:16 GMT Judy Brady’s 1971 feminist essay contrasts the expectations placed on wives with the freedom husbands often take for granted. Through a sharp, ironic list of domestic and emotional labor, Brady exposes the imbalance in traditional marriage roles and the assumptions behind them. [sevanoland.com] oqp8jfpmh https://flipso.com/p/oqp8jfpmh?ref=rss Sat, 05 Sep 2026 02:20:13 GMT A look at the claim that guitar frets line up with slide-rule multiplication, and why that resemblance works only up to a point. The post compares fret spacing with logarithmic scales, tests the idea on acoustic and electric guitars, and then explains how real slide rules actually use logarithms to turn multiplication into addition. [charlespetzold.com] ma3kxqv54 https://flipso.com/p/ma3kxqv54?ref=rss Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:40:15 GMT A psychologist and longtime meditation teacher set out to study meditation’s benefits and instead found that intensive practice can sometimes worsen sleep, trigger dissociation, and cause other serious side effects in some people. [theatlantic.com] p7azjkxzw https://flipso.com/p/p7azjkxzw?ref=rss Fri, 04 Sep 2026 22:00:29 GMT A reflection on two neighbors who were kind, helpful, and politically opaque, followed by a broader argument for treating neighbors and casual acquaintances as people first instead of demanding public alignment on every issue. [marco.org] 1kwuy5vb7 https://flipso.com/p/1kwuy5vb7?ref=rss Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:20:12 GMT Examples of people who iterated on the same idea for years or decades before arriving at their best-known work, from information retrieval and BM25 to Hokusai’s long path to The Great Wave. [nityasnotes.com] fbn5qzeyq https://flipso.com/p/fbn5qzeyq?ref=rss Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:20:35 GMT Pim Techamuanvivit shares how she moved from a Silicon Valley career into restaurants, eventually helping open a now-legendary spot and later leading Michelin-starred kitchens in San Francisco and Bangkok. She also discusses her new book, Cooking Thai, and how she adapted her restaurant dishes for home cooks. [tastecooking.com] 4qo3sdi2y https://flipso.com/p/4qo3sdi2y?ref=rss Fri, 04 Sep 2026 10:00:31 GMT The Teutonic Order began as a German crusader brotherhood in Acre, then shifted to the Baltic, where it built a theocratic state in Prussia and Livonia, fought Lithuania and Poland, and declined after the defeat at Grunwald. [thecollector.com] srp1zvdbd https://flipso.com/p/srp1zvdbd?ref=rss Fri, 04 Sep 2026 05:00:16 GMT CKDu, or Mesoamerican nephropathy, is appearing in Texas among laborers from Mexico and Central America, with heat stress and other workplace exposures suspected as contributors. Physicians and researchers are trying to track the disease while immigration fears and enforcement make it harder for patients to come forward and get care. [texasmonthly.com] fle2ngb5g https://flipso.com/p/fle2ngb5g?ref=rss Thu, 03 Sep 2026 23:00:32 GMT Tracking data from Iceland show a juvenile Oystercatcher making its first southbound journey just weeks after fledging, including a nonstop flight to Islay and onward to wintering grounds in Wales. The post also compares early movements in tagged Black-tailed Godwits and Whimbrels as part of a longer-term study of how young waders begin migration. [wadertales.wordpress.com] v03rmucg6 https://flipso.com/p/v03rmucg6?ref=rss Thu, 03 Sep 2026 22:20:15 GMT Damien Echols reflects on life after death row, the psychological aftermath of prison, and how martial arts, sword training, meditation, and spiritual practice helped him rebuild a sense of presence and purpose. He also discusses the themes behind his new book, The Alchemy of the Broken Blade. [chronogram.com] yqow7bapn https://flipso.com/p/yqow7bapn?ref=rss Thu, 03 Sep 2026 21:20:16 GMT Emily Ogden traces how Edgar Allan Poe turns confession, self-sabotage, and perverseness into the real source of horror in stories like “The Black Cat” and “The Imp of the Perverse.” [yalereview.org] xx90lvvoe https://flipso.com/p/xx90lvvoe?ref=rss Thu, 03 Sep 2026 21:00:18 GMT Climate change is reshaping summer traditions across the U.S., from Arizona’s erratic monsoons and El Paso’s relentless heat to crowded, smoky mountain escapes in Colorado and shrinking river floats in Montana. [grist.org]