https://flipso.com/ Latest posts on Flipso Flipso en-us https://flipso.com/static/img/favicon_rss.png https://flipso.com/ 144 144 Sat, 06 Jun 2026 07:40:09 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss z876kqvbl https://flipso.com/p/z876kqvbl?ref=rss Sat, 06 Jun 2026 07:40:09 GMT A broken Sigma 45mm f/2.8 lens is torn down, diagnosed, and repaired with a focus on the rear control PCB and power circuitry. The writeup walks through disassembly, tracing the lens’s flex cables and terminals, finding an open fuse on the board, replacing it, and verifying that autofocus and manual controls work again. [salvagedcircuitry.com] 909jn14xm https://flipso.com/p/909jn14xm?ref=rss Sat, 06 Jun 2026 07:00:30 GMT A reflective review of Jon Bois’s sprawling piece, focusing on its inventive form, its meditation on sports and meaning, and why it lingers even if it isn’t an easy recommendation. [atvbt.com] q143vmeis https://flipso.com/p/q143vmeis?ref=rss Sat, 06 Jun 2026 06:20:30 GMT IEEE’s member publication marks 50 years with a look back at its evolution, from a four-page insert in IEEE Spectrum to a standalone monthly and now a mix of online and print coverage of IEEE people, programs, standards, and milestones. [spectrum.ieee.org] lbe100ylx https://flipso.com/p/lbe100ylx?ref=rss Sat, 06 Jun 2026 04:20:28 GMT Jason Blum built Blumhouse around tiny budgets, final cut for filmmakers, and a bet that low-cost horror could produce outsized hits. [readtrung.com] crtwmc82x https://flipso.com/p/crtwmc82x?ref=rss Sat, 06 Jun 2026 01:20:09 GMT When their parents suddenly uprooted them, gave them fake names, and put them on the lam, two sisters thought it was because their father was in trouble with the IRS. Years later, they uncovered the full story behind their family’s flight and the crimes that forced them to disappear. [magazine.atavist.com] sgq54mvhp https://flipso.com/p/sgq54mvhp?ref=rss Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:00:28 GMT A residence in Quito by Estudio Felipe Escudero, Casa TA pairs a folded white-concrete roof with transparent living spaces and framed gardens. The project explores the contrast between visual weight and lightness while blurring the boundaries between architecture, landscape, and furniture. [archinect.com] nyr2kknpc https://flipso.com/p/nyr2kknpc?ref=rss Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:20:07 GMT Nasa had directed five of the seven astronauts to shelter inside the docked SpaceX Crew Dragon "Freedom" spacecraft while two Russian cosmonauts attempted an urgent repair. [bbc.com] a5195maf5 https://flipso.com/p/a5195maf5?ref=rss Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:20:26 GMT Patsy Clarke, grieving the death of her son Mark from AIDS, writes to Senator Jesse Helms to urge compassion, reject judgment, and support AIDS research. [news.lettersofnote.com] kvlfys8mk https://flipso.com/p/kvlfys8mk?ref=rss Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:00:10 GMT archived 3 Jun 2026 05:09:42 UTC [archive.ph] 8kuhc26zp https://flipso.com/p/8kuhc26zp?ref=rss Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:20:32 GMT Robin Hanson argues that world fertility decline may reflect a cultural-evolution process that has become much weaker in recent centuries, allowing maladaptive norms to persist longer and spread more easily. He lists several possible misfiring mechanisms, from contraception and status competition to pensions, media, urban life, and weakened kin networks, and says the correction timescale may now be far slower than in the past. [overcomingbias.com] ivtfywbo0 https://flipso.com/p/ivtfywbo0?ref=rss Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:00:29 GMT Multiple myeloma is one of the most painful cancers, and CAR-T therapy may be turning it from a relapsing disease into one with durable remissions. The article traces how a Chinese trial of Carvykti moved faster than its U.S. counterpart, and what that says about the pace of drug development. [worksinprogress.news] j4adva8yr https://flipso.com/p/j4adva8yr?ref=rss Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:20:08 GMT Researchers at the University of Rochester developed a solar-thermal desalination process that makes fresh water from seawater without chemical pretreatment, while collecting salts instead of producing brine waste. The system also shows promise for recovering lithium and other useful minerals from seawater. [rochester.edu] f5hnektf3 https://flipso.com/p/f5hnektf3?ref=rss Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:00:09 GMT A study suggests a random-looking 176-bit field in public GPS broadcasts has been carrying encrypted traffic tied to the U.S. military’s over-the-air key distribution network, hidden in plain sight for years. [404media.co] v855m5et5 https://flipso.com/p/v855m5et5?ref=rss Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:40:32 GMT Former crew members describe environmental destruction, bycatch of dolphins and turtles, shark finning, and forced-labor abuses tied to a largely unregulated global squid fleet. [e360.yale.edu] sails77y3 https://flipso.com/p/sails77y3?ref=rss Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:00:09 GMT Lee Kuan Yew’s rise from colonial Singapore to founding prime minister shaped the city-state’s path from wartime occupation and merger with Malaysia to independence and rapid economic transformation. [historytoday.com] kztdwttm6 https://flipso.com/p/kztdwttm6?ref=rss Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:40:27 GMT A sharp critique of modern vexillology and the push to simplify city flags, arguing that “better design” can erase local character and make distinct places look interchangeable. [worksinprogress.co] 57zz9mxa3 https://flipso.com/p/57zz9mxa3?ref=rss Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:00:09 GMT Sidewinder is a new DNA synthesis method that can assemble dozens of sequences at once with very high precision, using cheap raw materials. The approach could make it much faster and cheaper to build AI-designed DNA, enabling larger genetic systems, engineered microbes, and other synthetic biology applications. [spectrum.ieee.org] z292s1s31 https://flipso.com/p/z292s1s31?ref=rss Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:00:30 GMT How the telegraph shaped email: instant messaging, terse shorthand, delivery receipts, mailing lists, and the habits that made digital communication feel natural long before the modern inbox. [buttondown.com] v633s55rd https://flipso.com/p/v633s55rd?ref=rss Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:20:09 GMT A Sun Sentinel investigation reveals how Florida family courts use no-contact orders to strip custody from parents never charged with abuse, abandonment or neglect. [sun-sentinel.com] 4xzljbrum https://flipso.com/p/4xzljbrum?ref=rss Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:40:10 GMT FIFA’s powerful president is remaking global soccer in his own image. Can the sport survive him? [newyorker.com] kc0gaiv7u https://flipso.com/p/kc0gaiv7u?ref=rss Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:20:27 GMT A skeptical look at the idea that extreme wealth is necessary for a healthy economy, using Reagan-era economics and historical U.S. billionaire data to question the claim that prosperity depends on creating more billionaires. [bjhess.com] fntwi16y8 https://flipso.com/p/fntwi16y8?ref=rss Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:00:09 GMT Scott H. Young argues that big-school reforms usually disappoint because effective learning still depends on direct instruction, careful sequencing, and lots of practice. He also argues that ed-tech and AI can help around the margins, but are unlikely to produce a radical overhaul of educational outcomes. [scotthyoung.com] jyu94t17n https://flipso.com/p/jyu94t17n?ref=rss Fri, 05 Jun 2026 02:00:28 GMT A critique of how low-rate, credit-fueled markets and investor demand have turned housing into a speculative asset, squeezing out people looking for a place to live. [charleshughsmith.blogspot.com] gqji8geep https://flipso.com/p/gqji8geep?ref=rss Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:10 GMT Queen cells use chemically and physically distinct wax, and that specialized cradle may help determine whether a honeybee larva develops into a queen or a worker. [cen.acs.org] jwm86hy7a https://flipso.com/p/jwm86hy7a?ref=rss Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:40:08 GMT ProPublica reports that child sexual abuse has gone unreported and quietly handled within Old Apostolic Lutheran Church congregations across several states, with victims in some families spanning multiple generations and church leaders often discouraging police involvement. [propublica.org] v3jxgql65 https://flipso.com/p/v3jxgql65?ref=rss Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:20:30 GMT Why mathematics is so effective in physics, using three angles: we only model the parts of reality we can grasp, anthropic selection may favor universes compatible with science and life, and a simplicity prior could explain why our laws are so compact. [invertedpassion.com] yswx16r8b https://flipso.com/p/yswx16r8b?ref=rss Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:00:08 GMT A parent-leaning guide to using older, more controllable technologies—CDs, DVDs, landline phones, and a locked-down family computer—to give kids more independence while avoiding the worst parts of modern ad-driven platforms. [havenweb.org] zi3fpq08n https://flipso.com/p/zi3fpq08n?ref=rss Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:20:31 GMT A reflection on Pope St. Gregory the Great’s distinction between coerced power and true authority grounded in conscience and lived witness, echoed by Pope St. Paul VI’s insight that people respond first to witnesses, not teachers. [rhystranter.com] s0zok7hua https://flipso.com/p/s0zok7hua?ref=rss Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:00:12 GMT A working hydraulic scale model of the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta, built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. It is still operational but now serves the public at the Bay Model Visitor Center in Sausalito, where exhibits explain Bay hydrology. [en.wikipedia.org] q6vk2prng https://flipso.com/p/q6vk2prng?ref=rss Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:40:08 GMT Studio Darius Ou and Benson Chong’s Manual is a fully 3D-printed, fully bound book made in one printing sequence. Its pages, binding, and raised text are formed from the same material, with the lettering carrying a fragment of the printer code used to make it. [designboom.com]