https://flipso.com/ Latest posts on Flipso Flipso en-us https://flipso.com/static/img/favicon_rss.png https://flipso.com/ 144 144 Sat, 31 Oct 2026 04:20:16 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 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] mai1bi6fc https://flipso.com/p/mai1bi6fc?ref=rss Tue, 27 Oct 2026 21:00:14 GMT An examination of U.S. and Canadian firefly species that may be lost, overlooked, or misclassified, with implications for documenting biodiversity loss. [journaloflostspecies.org] 13kcg3sxb https://flipso.com/p/13kcg3sxb?ref=rss Tue, 27 Oct 2026 23:20:14 GMT Researchers are tagging Monarch butterflies with tiny solar-powered BluMorpho tags to learn more about fall migration patterns and follow their journeys across the landscape. The project uses Apple’s Find My technology and a free app so people can track the butterflies’ movements. [blog.cwf-fcf.org] a66rpt979 https://flipso.com/p/a66rpt979?ref=rss Tue, 27 Oct 2026 22:40:15 GMT Cicero’s ideal of manly virtue stressed self-control, courage, and public service rather than boastful domination. In late republican Rome, masculinity was a political performance shaped by rhetoric, dress, and public conduct, and Cicero’s exile and the republic’s collapse exposed how fragile that ideal could be. [aeon.co] cx7yh5jdf https://flipso.com/p/cx7yh5jdf?ref=rss Tue, 27 Oct 2026 02:20:15 GMT In Switzerland, Thomas Rau offers treatments that many conventional doctors would question. Now he’s accused of lethally negligent care. [newyorker.com] uc614z07g https://flipso.com/p/uc614z07g?ref=rss Tue, 27 Oct 2026 01:40:12 GMT After defying early projections, solar has grown into a major global power source and is now overtaking nuclear in capacity. The piece looks at the forces behind solar’s rise and where the technology may go next. [bbc.com] 4bl48o250 https://flipso.com/p/4bl48o250?ref=rss Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:16 GMT Motor imagery activates many of the same brain systems as real movement, so mental practice can support motor learning and performance. Studies cited here suggest it can improve tasks like putting and even modestly increase finger strength, though it works best as a supplement to physical practice, not a replacement. [nautil.us] 2b62bseak https://flipso.com/p/2b62bseak?ref=rss Mon, 26 Oct 2026 20:40:16 GMT A long read on the unidentified young woman found hanging near Portbou in 1990, and the decades-long effort to learn who she was. The case later shifted from a presumed suicide to a deeper investigation that connected the body to a missing Italian teenager. [theguardian.com] incogpy5q https://flipso.com/p/incogpy5q?ref=rss Mon, 26 Oct 2026 14:13:44 GMT Ben Thompson argues that the old open web—where anyone could host a server and build an audience—has been steadily eroding through advertising pressure, platform centralization, and now AI-driven security and content risks. He also suggests the next phase of software and online communities will be smaller, more trusted, and more private. [stratechery.com] mmpttos11 https://flipso.com/p/mmpttos11?ref=rss Mon, 26 Oct 2026 07:00:45 GMT Amazon’s new kids tablets are pitched to parents of children as young as 3, with features like an all-day battery, kid-proof case, and generative AI tools. The post argues the marketing clashes with pediatric research linking heavy early screen use to poorer emotional regulation, learning outcomes, sleep, and eyesight concerns. [oligarchwatch.substack.com] snr8s37v5 https://flipso.com/p/snr8s37v5?ref=rss Mon, 26 Oct 2026 14:00:18 GMT Blaise Pascal invented fixed-route public transport in Paris in 1662: the carrosses à cinq sols, an early network of horse-drawn carriages running on predictable routes and frequencies. The post argues that this was more than a bus line; it was the ancestor of modern bus, tram, and rail networks, and a model of how transit geometry can connect a city efficiently and affordably. [humantransit.org]