https://flipso.com/ Latest posts on Flipso Flipso en-us https://flipso.com/static/img/favicon_rss.png https://flipso.com/ 144 144 Fri, 31 Jul 2026 02:00:36 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 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] 8c1ugy8tf https://flipso.com/p/8c1ugy8tf?ref=rss Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:40:11 GMT Many centuries before the advent of agriculture in Norway, ancient people transported fish into mountain lakes to create a source of food, then built wooden traps to catch them [newscientist.com] w2mfeydrf https://flipso.com/p/w2mfeydrf?ref=rss Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:20:14 GMT A digital tool recreates the Roman Empire’s road network and estimates how long journeys between cities would have taken using historical sources. Built from the Tabula Peutingeriana and other Roman-era data, it lets users plot routes between ancient destinations and see travel times on foot or horseback. [euronews.com] xnwy1k451 https://flipso.com/p/xnwy1k451?ref=rss Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:40:20 GMT Each July, around 2,000 powerful men gather in a private 2,700-acre redwood retreat north of San Francisco for two weeks of rituals, talks, and closed-door socializing. The Grove is known for the Cremation of Care ceremony before a giant owl, and for a 1942 meeting there that helped shape the Manhattan Project. [thedarkatlas.com] tb8i4gxej https://flipso.com/p/tb8i4gxej?ref=rss Wed, 29 Jul 2026 10:40:15 GMT Stories can make vaccine skepticism feel relatable and persuasive, which is why public health advocates need to respond with empathy and clearer narratives rather than facts alone. [theconversation.com] srfo1tpu5 https://flipso.com/p/srfo1tpu5?ref=rss Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:40:11 GMT In 1960, the nuclear-powered USS Triton completed Operation Sandblast, the first fully submerged circumnavigation of the globe. The voyage showed that nuclear submarines could remain underwater for extended patrols and helped reshape undersea warfare. [popularmechanics.com] fme9hfpgf https://flipso.com/p/fme9hfpgf?ref=rss Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:00:14 GMT The Slow Journalism Magazine | Last to breaking news [slow-journalism.com] u3ycoiu5n https://flipso.com/p/u3ycoiu5n?ref=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:00:16 GMT After years of decline, monarch populations have risen for two straight years, offering cautious hope that habitat protection in Mexico, the U.S., and Canada may still help save the migration. The story follows the butterflies’ epic journey, the threats they face, and new tracking technology revealing how they navigate. [theatlantic.com] asunqmf4u https://flipso.com/p/asunqmf4u?ref=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:00:16 GMT A group of obsessive cam-site viewers becomes convinced the young women they follow are being controlled by a violent operator. As they dig through records, contact families, and even confront the man behind the operation, their amateur investigation collides with a human-trafficking case in the Seattle area. [thecut.com] 5h4441ty4 https://flipso.com/p/5h4441ty4?ref=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:20:17 GMT Uzbekistan’s tandoor-baked non are stamped, shaped, and shared in ways that turn a daily staple into a cultural art form. The story follows bakers in Tashkent, Samarkand, and Bukhara, and explores how different regional breads carry ritual, hospitality, and family traditions. [aramcoworld.com] 8htd7agc8 https://flipso.com/p/8htd7agc8?ref=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:20:14 GMT A microbiologist tests whether probiotic tea still contains live Bacillus coagulans after boiling, and finds the spores can survive steeping. The piece uses that result to explore fermentation, pasteurization, and the gap between probiotic marketing claims and actual dose. [taxa.substack.com] nzewqmbrh https://flipso.com/p/nzewqmbrh?ref=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:20:16 GMT Andrew Wiles reflects on his years-long pursuit of Fermat’s Last Theorem, the breakthrough that linked it to the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture, the flaw that briefly derailed his proof, and the eventual repair of the argument. [pbs.org] fwcqgvcpz https://flipso.com/p/fwcqgvcpz?ref=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:00:15 GMT Researchers report an HIV vaccine that generated broadly neutralizing antibodies in rhesus macaques, with about 44% of animals responding in the study. Human trials of the priming immunogen have already started. [lji.org] tt55u06c8 https://flipso.com/p/tt55u06c8?ref=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:40:28 GMT 685 completed tests produced 8,043 head-to-head comparisons. In the initial analysis of 674 ballots, Robert Fagles ranked first in raw matches, the pairwise model, and the scene-adjusted model, and led all 50,000 bootstrap resamples. [homer.scrivium.com] 5hs0jw51q https://flipso.com/p/5hs0jw51q?ref=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:00:33 GMT A selective history of the soda-fountain “suicide,” and a visit to the World of Coca-Cola’s Taste It! room to test what happens when you mix nearly every flavor into one cup. [haterade.substack.com] jf2a7emda https://flipso.com/p/jf2a7emda?ref=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2026 07:00:14 GMT Emily Wilson reflects on Christopher Nolan reading her work, using that moment to explore literary influence, recognition, and the oddness of public acclaim. [lrb.co.uk] mvjscsrnf https://flipso.com/p/mvjscsrnf?ref=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2026 06:00:17 GMT A broader view of antiquity is emerging, one that traces trade, travel, and cultural exchange across Afro-Eurasia rather than centering only the Mediterranean world. [aeon.co] 8mrstz97k https://flipso.com/p/8mrstz97k?ref=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT An argument that the literacy panic confuses basic reading skills, the broader print-based conditions that shaped public reasoning, and the specialized practices of literary study. It challenges decline narratives and argues that literacy is changing with new technologies, institutions, and media ecologies. [trevoraleo.substack.com] j2bn2q8jp https://flipso.com/p/j2bn2q8jp?ref=rss Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:40:30 GMT A Livelymerge note on why Automerge’s convergence guarantees can still break program invariants, with a linked-list example and possible directions for merge-aware datatypes. [inkandswitch.com]