https://flipso.com/ Latest posts on Flipso Flipso en-us https://flipso.com/static/img/favicon_rss.png https://flipso.com/ 144 144 Tue, 07 Jul 2026 11:49:17 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss h302nxe14 https://flipso.com/p/h302nxe14?ref=rss Tue, 07 Jul 2026 11:49:17 GMT Noto Airport has reopened as “Noto Satoyama Pokémon With You Airport,” featuring a giant Pikachu balloon, Pokémon installations across the terminal, interactive exhibits, Poké Lids, and airport-exclusive food and merchandise. The rebrand is part of efforts to help revitalize Ishikawa’s Noto Peninsula after the 2024 earthquake. [tokyoweekender.com] duvccxjdv https://flipso.com/p/duvccxjdv?ref=rss Tue, 07 Jul 2026 09:40:10 GMT Observational evidence can sometimes answer real-world questions more efficiently than randomized trials, especially in public health and medicine where RCTs are impractical, unethical, or too costly. [asteriskmag.com] u8dxummrw https://flipso.com/p/u8dxummrw?ref=rss Tue, 07 Jul 2026 08:00:10 GMT Dolosse are concrete wave-break blocks used in coastal management to protect breakwaters, harbour walls and other shoreline structures from erosion. Invented in South Africa, they’re designed to let water flow through and around them, dissipating wave force, and they can be placed randomly or stacked neatly. [thisbugslife.com] 6fhw6nshx https://flipso.com/p/6fhw6nshx?ref=rss Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:40:09 GMT A detailed walkthrough of sequencing a cheek-swab sample with an Oxford Nanopore MinION, including the hardware, consumables, wet-lab steps, and downstream analysis used to turn raw reads into a queryable genome. [bradleywoolf.com] ogeshkx33 https://flipso.com/p/ogeshkx33?ref=rss Tue, 07 Jul 2026 07:20:13 GMT A Rotman lens is a passive RF beamforming component that can form multiple antenna beams without phase shifters. Signals applied to different beam ports produce different phase shifts across the array ports, letting an antenna array steer beams by switching inputs. The design can include dummy ports to absorb stray fields and reduce reflections. Rotman lenses are used in radar and can be built in waveguide, stripline, or microstrip form. [en.wikipedia.org] v55xm7aes https://flipso.com/p/v55xm7aes?ref=rss Tue, 07 Jul 2026 07:00:11 GMT GLM 5.2 looks like a strong open-weights alternative to Opus and GPT for agentic work, especially on cost. The post argues that inference margins at frontier AI labs are likely to compress as cheaper models become easier to swap in, with part 2 to follow. [martinalderson.com] 6yeiczr5w https://flipso.com/p/6yeiczr5w?ref=rss Tue, 07 Jul 2026 05:40:09 GMT A reflective essay on David Hockney that traces his life and art through recurring obsessions with vision, light, place, and attention. It links his early years in Bradford, his Los Angeles pool paintings, his experiments with photography and iPad drawing, and his return to the Yorkshire landscape. [reddit.com] mjjsdx9lw https://flipso.com/p/mjjsdx9lw?ref=rss Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:40:11 GMT Egypt is reclaiming desert west of the Nile with a massive water-recycling and irrigation system. The project is already turning sand into farmland, but its long-term success is uncertain because of groundwater depletion, evaporation losses, and Egypt’s wider water and food security pressures. [theb1m.com] 13xfdegpc https://flipso.com/p/13xfdegpc?ref=rss Tue, 07 Jul 2026 02:00:10 GMT A time-multiplexed Ising machine built with two serial bulk acoustic wave delay lines supports 2,048 spins, all-to-all connectivity, and 15-bit coupling resolution. The authors report approximate MAX-CUT solutions in 341 ms, with potential sub-ms scaling using higher-frequency delay lines, and demonstrate number partitioning and Sudoku. They also report much higher thermal stability than state-of-the-art coherent Ising machines. [arxiv.org] 6d4giy55l https://flipso.com/p/6d4giy55l?ref=rss Mon, 06 Jul 2026 23:20:10 GMT Scientists have, for the first time, used an extremely precise genome editing technique called base editing to study gene function in human embryos. They found that a gene called NANOG is essential for forming the future body from an embryo. [cam.ac.uk] sqqve0gbx https://flipso.com/p/sqqve0gbx?ref=rss Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:20:28 GMT Benson Leyian, CEO of Big Life Foundation, describes how conservation efforts near Amboseli aim to keep elephant corridors open as land subdivision and development increase pressure on Kenya’s grasslands. He reflects on Maasai traditions, changing attitudes toward wildlife, and the hope that future generations will still see elephants here. [conservation.org] 29e9aqdps https://flipso.com/p/29e9aqdps?ref=rss Mon, 06 Jul 2026 19:20:30 GMT How to discount your expectations [dynomight.net] hetlx0ytv https://flipso.com/p/hetlx0ytv?ref=rss Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:14:57 GMT Kevin Kelly argues that always-on AI will become an intimate “exoself”: a companion that remembers, advises, and extends our minds so closely it feels neither fully separate nor fully us. He explores possible relationships with it, from twin and tutor to counselor and friend, and the risks of dependence, identity shifts, and losing it. [kevinkelly.substack.com] vlsoqnr8r https://flipso.com/p/vlsoqnr8r?ref=rss Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:00:10 GMT ... [astralcodexten.com] lcskb06ac https://flipso.com/p/lcskb06ac?ref=rss Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:40:09 GMT Automakers often prefer touchscreens and capacitive controls because they reduce parts, simplify assembly, and can help cut costs. They can also make interiors feel modern and enable software-driven features, but the post argues the biggest driver is cost-cutting rather than usability. [ben.stolovitz.com] 0uz1sph12 https://flipso.com/p/0uz1sph12?ref=rss Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:32:23 GMT A NASA-funded spacecraft has launched to rendezvous with the Swift telescope in orbit and raise it before the observatory reenters Earth’s atmosphere and burns up. [bbc.com] ffi4j5sdh https://flipso.com/p/ffi4j5sdh?ref=rss Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:40:10 GMT In Whittier, Alaska, American Samoans have been prosecuted for voting in local elections despite being misled about their eligibility. The story traces how confusion over U.S. national status, state registration errors, and uneven guidance turned a small community into a target for voter-fraud enforcement. [boltsmag.org] l8e12lxxk https://flipso.com/p/l8e12lxxk?ref=rss Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:20:10 GMT Thousands of accidental portraits of lost items, scraped from the archives of stadiums, airports, universities, and other venues that use the same lost-and-found software. [walzr.com] 216wrkzsg https://flipso.com/p/216wrkzsg?ref=rss Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:20:31 GMT Psychologist Marc Berman discusses environmental neuroscience and evidence that time in nature can improve attention and working memory, not just mood. He explains why natural settings may help restore cognitive performance and how urban and built environments can shape the brain. [preposterousuniverse.com] 7axlxw3zi https://flipso.com/p/7axlxw3zi?ref=rss Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:00:10 GMT A comprehensive free guide to designing and sewing juggling beanbags and footbags, with ready-to-print patterns, scaling formulas, assembly instructions, and geometry notes for multiple panel designs. [joshuaclifton.com] 0qdn3e5od https://flipso.com/p/0qdn3e5od?ref=rss Mon, 06 Jul 2026 04:20:09 GMT A short-lived Swedish settlement along the Delaware helped shape early American history, even though it is now little known. The colony was small, sparsely populated, and eventually absorbed by the Dutch, but its legacy still appears in the region’s history and identity. [bbc.com] 55sohxttf https://flipso.com/p/55sohxttf?ref=rss Mon, 06 Jul 2026 02:40:10 GMT A clear explanation of why a digit sequence can look statistically random yet still be generated by a tiny program. It contrasts Shannon entropy with Kolmogorov complexity, shows why π is compressible in one sense but not the other, and ends with a counting argument for why most strings are incompressible. [stillthinking.net] njfbr3mpl https://flipso.com/p/njfbr3mpl?ref=rss Mon, 06 Jul 2026 09:00:11 GMT Why trying to build customer loyalty through detailed support responses often backfires, and when support actually helps. [uncommonapps.nyc] zmy5zzl9j https://flipso.com/p/zmy5zzl9j?ref=rss Mon, 06 Jul 2026 03:20:09 GMT An essay tracing how Bell Labs’ monopoly-era research model and today’s AI training pipelines both transform broad public knowledge into privately captured value, with AT&T’s 1956 patent decree as the historical anchor. [wysr.xyz] skipyy5n5 https://flipso.com/p/skipyy5n5?ref=rss Mon, 06 Jul 2026 01:40:09 GMT A post highlighting secret wartime diaries kept by Katrin Janecke in Berlin while she worked at die neue linie and within the Nazi Propaganda Ministry, along with links to Amherst’s related archives and transcripts. [consecratedeminence.wordpress.amherst.edu] tvmiqs7si https://flipso.com/p/tvmiqs7si?ref=rss Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:40:10 GMT Building Mr. Baby Paint, a radically simple co-op drawing app for toddlers, and the unexpected side effects: a flood-fill cellular automaton plus a set of scripts for thickening bitmap fonts. [tekstien-marginaalien-keskus.aalto.fi] 6nquua6xp https://flipso.com/p/6nquua6xp?ref=rss Sun, 05 Jul 2026 23:20:11 GMT A technical dive into why static NES images can look wobbly over composite video. It traces the effect to NTSC timing, colorburst alignment, and the NES PPU’s unusual scanline behavior, then compares the result with other systems and edge cases like rendering-disabled frames. [nicole.express] 0q6kgak4k https://flipso.com/p/0q6kgak4k?ref=rss Sun, 05 Jul 2026 23:00:11 GMT A practical guide to setting up a personal webring, from the simplest manual loop of site links to a small Cloudflare Worker that handles prev/next/random navigation. [shub.club] 2h90mnd5v https://flipso.com/p/2h90mnd5v?ref=rss Sun, 05 Jul 2026 20:20:32 GMT A hand-quilted and hand-embroidered linen lilypad made during a road trip and recovery from surgery, finished with bias tape and stitched vein details. It was made as a resting place for a Frinos plush from Hades II. [lizdenys.com] 6acq0lqxa https://flipso.com/p/6acq0lqxa?ref=rss Sun, 05 Jul 2026 19:40:09 GMT Nearly 500 years ago, a Moroccan man traveled from Florida to the Pacific Coast, becoming the first known outsider to see the American West. [bbc.com]