https://flipso.com/ Latest posts on Flipso Flipso en-us https://flipso.com/static/img/favicon_rss.png https://flipso.com/ 144 144 Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:20:16 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 8r983ckea https://flipso.com/p/8r983ckea?ref=rss Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:20:16 GMT A Yale-led study suggests global linguistic diversity peaked 1,000 to 3,000 years ago, when tens of thousands of languages may have been spoken worldwide. The researchers say language loss accelerated with the rise of states and empires, challenging the idea that widespread extinction mainly began with European colonialism. [news.yale.edu] 3hadndq6z https://flipso.com/p/3hadndq6z?ref=rss Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:40:27 GMT Commodus was poisoned at a New Year’s Eve banquet, then strangled in a bathhouse by his wrestler Narcissus. His death ended a turbulent reign, triggered a succession crisis, and helped plunge Rome into the Year of the Five Emperors. [thecollector.com] tux8uywe3 https://flipso.com/p/tux8uywe3?ref=rss Sat, 01 Aug 2026 13:20:16 GMT https://paulgraham.com/greatwork.html [paulgraham.com] ye5mbqe7c https://flipso.com/p/ye5mbqe7c?ref=rss Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:20:15 GMT The small five-story holdout building at the northwest corner of 34th Street and Sixth Avenue is coming back into view as Macy’s billboard facade is dismantled. Long obscured by advertising, the building’s brick, limestone, and terra cotta details are visible again for the first time in decades, revealing a vivid remnant of the retailer’s old real-estate battle in Herald Square. [ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com] 4ztr1elnl https://flipso.com/p/4ztr1elnl?ref=rss Sat, 01 Aug 2026 11:40:31 GMT In 1960, comedian Terry-Thomas discovered his diamond-studded cigarette holder had vanished after a Liverpool performance. Police traced the missing piece, set with 42 diamonds and a gold spiral band, to unemployed comedian Jimmy Tarbuck, whose run-in with the item led to a theft trial and guilty pleas. [flashbak.com] fvdxyk4ta https://flipso.com/p/fvdxyk4ta?ref=rss Sat, 01 Aug 2026 11:00:18 GMT Albert Camus’ philosophy of the absurd shaped his views on literature, rebellion, and history. This essay traces his friendship and eventual split with Jean-Paul Sartre, and explains why Camus rejected revolutionary certainty in favor of solidarity, moral clarity, and resistance to injustice. [historytoday.com] y40frg31m https://flipso.com/p/y40frg31m?ref=rss Sat, 01 Aug 2026 03:40:17 GMT The international standard water used to calibrate precision measurements is Vienna Standard Mean Ocean Water (VSMOW). Because the supply is limited, a 5 ml ampoule costs about $159, which works out to roughly $120,000 per gallon. It’s used as a reference for isotope measurements and high-precision thermometry. [signoregalilei.com] lq0yfdrq4 https://flipso.com/p/lq0yfdrq4?ref=rss Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:20:30 GMT Eccentricity in books is a tricky quality. It can be charming and inspire lifelong devotion. Take Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy ... [evidenceanecdotal.blogspot.com] okj01xa1u https://flipso.com/p/okj01xa1u?ref=rss Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:40:11 GMT evidence and argument for a developing world [indevelopmentmag.com] 34z2iwj75 https://flipso.com/p/34z2iwj75?ref=rss Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:00:18 GMT A joint investigation found that Red Bull funded scientists whose studies usually concluded that mixing energy drinks with alcohol was not harmful, while many independent studies found the opposite. Those findings were cited in policy debates in the U.S. and Europe, helping blunt age-limit and warning-label efforts. [theexamination.org] 5sdh5ssv8 https://flipso.com/p/5sdh5ssv8?ref=rss Fri, 31 Jul 2026 20:20:18 GMT In 2002, Leslie Buck died under mysterious circumstances in Mystic, Connecticut. Two decades later, I went back to find out who she was. [rollingstone.com] xf2maq6b3 https://flipso.com/p/xf2maq6b3?ref=rss Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:12:20 GMT Lighthouse Reports investigates how visa outsourcing giant VFS Global turned mandatory visa processing into a lucrative add-on business, using sales pressure, premium services, and fees that hit travelers from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East especially hard. [lighthousereports.com] l8khpux7o https://flipso.com/p/l8khpux7o?ref=rss Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:20:15 GMT An investigative collaboration mapping 239 lawsuits filed between 2010 and 2025 against public health policies on food labeling, advertising restrictions, soda taxes, and other nutrition rules across Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, the US, the UK, and India. [lighthousereports.com] qty81huwg https://flipso.com/p/qty81huwg?ref=rss Fri, 31 Jul 2026 17:00:13 GMT Ugliness may not be the main force behind opposition to new housing, but it can still fuel wider anti-development sentiment. The bigger argument here is that beautiful design could soften some resistance—especially to redevelopment of older neighborhoods—though it is unlikely to solve NIMBYism on its own. [worksinprogress.news] cyd23uugj https://flipso.com/p/cyd23uugj?ref=rss Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:00:14 GMT Probe the Milky Way’s rotation with a DIY radio telescope and measure hydrogen clouds to infer dark matter’s influence. [spectrum.ieee.org] tv6tq67v4 https://flipso.com/p/tv6tq67v4?ref=rss Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:40:25 GMT A survey of weird fiction’s origins and defining traits, tracing the genre from Gothic and Poe through Lovecraft, Blackwood, Machen, and related modern critical and anthology revivals. [clereviewofbooks.com] mf1rb5jl5 https://flipso.com/p/mf1rb5jl5?ref=rss Fri, 31 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT A reflective essay on the grilled cheese sandwich as a small, perfect comfort food, weaving together joy, simplicity, and literary praise, with excerpts from the author’s “Notable Sandwiches” column. [buttondown.com] stlzlipnt https://flipso.com/p/stlzlipnt?ref=rss Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:00:36 GMT Balaji says a Wall Street Journal reporter moved from San Francisco to Singapore too, and that their conversation turned into a broader argument about migration, diaspora, and why people leave the U.S. [balajis.com] cqjnveydb https://flipso.com/p/cqjnveydb?ref=rss Fri, 31 Jul 2026 02:00:36 GMT A personal, first-principles approach to supporting fertility through diet, movement, sleep, and avoiding smoking, excess alcohol, and heat around the testicles. [mrdbourke.com] lvt6kprva https://flipso.com/p/lvt6kprva?ref=rss Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:20:16 GMT A former intensive care anesthesiologist built a viral “tayyibat” diet around Quranic language and anti-science claims, urging diabetics to stop insulin and eat sugar. The regimen spread across the Arab world, drew government warnings, and has been linked to hospitalizations and deaths. [newlinesmag.com] lpqtfq29z https://flipso.com/p/lpqtfq29z?ref=rss Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:40:13 GMT You face certain challenges [dynomight.net] p32a1yrde https://flipso.com/p/p32a1yrde?ref=rss Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:20:12 GMT New calculations largely resolve the long-running muon g–2 puzzle, but they also deepen a separate disagreement between different experimental and lattice-based results for the strong force. [quantamagazine.org] z3waqyajc https://flipso.com/p/z3waqyajc?ref=rss Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:40:24 GMT Scientists have found the first direct evidence of the powerful role our genetic makeup plays in influencing our risk of cancer, with inherited genes interacting with acquired genetic mutations to shape how tumours evolve. [cam.ac.uk] kimq2re6b https://flipso.com/p/kimq2re6b?ref=rss Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:57:14 GMT Novelists, journalists, and LinkedIn power posters are leaning into first-person voice, rough edges, and deliberate quirks to keep their writing from sounding machine-made. [wired.com] fb40chbt1 https://flipso.com/p/fb40chbt1?ref=rss Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:20:18 GMT How Britain’s wartime shortage of optical glass led to a secret 1915 attempt to buy binoculars from Germany, and how taxes and policy helped shift the glass industry’s center of gravity to Germany before the UK rebuilt production during World War I. [edconway.substack.com] vl7c84bnb https://flipso.com/p/vl7c84bnb?ref=rss Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:40:14 GMT The Greene Man on Euston Road comes closest to being fair for all 33 London boroughs: no borough needs more than 70 minutes, and the spread between the fastest and slowest journeys is 47 minutes. No London pub is within an hour of every borough. [equidistance.io] t85oy0d8g https://flipso.com/p/t85oy0d8g?ref=rss Thu, 30 Jul 2026 05:10:06 GMT The collapsed wreckage of the Oryoku Maru has long made it impossible to recover the remains of hundreds of Americans killed when the ship sank off the Philippines. Now the U.S. military is mounting a complex underwater mission in hopes of bringing them home. [wsj.com] tm7frp099 https://flipso.com/p/tm7frp099?ref=rss Wed, 29 Jul 2026 23:00:16 GMT A personal essay tracing bamya from Baghdad to India and Singapore, and how each migration reshaped the stew’s ingredients, labor, and meaning. Calamansi, okra, and mint become part of a broader story about diaspora cooking, adaptation, and what authenticity really means. [iza.ac] pozk1um0e https://flipso.com/p/pozk1um0e?ref=rss Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:40:16 GMT Advanced economies did not simply abandon capital controls after the 1944 Bretton Woods Agreement. Martino Comelli and Pedro Perfeito Da Silva show that welfare states quietly took over their job. Countries that protect workers can afford open financial borders. Countries that spend mainly on pensioners still police the movement of money [theloop.ecpr.eu] zxdgvig4k https://flipso.com/p/zxdgvig4k?ref=rss Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:00:13 GMT In 1914 Hamburg built a park for people to use rather than admire, and more than a century later that is still what it is. [alsterrunde.com]