https://flipso.com/ Latest posts on Flipso Flipso en-us https://flipso.com/static/img/favicon_rss.png https://flipso.com/ 144 144 Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:40:30 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss g5q41cmzr https://flipso.com/p/g5q41cmzr?ref=rss Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:40:30 GMT Answers to David Lehman’s movie quiz, with brief notes on each film and clue, from Casablanca and The Apartment to Blow-Up, All About Eve, and more. [theamericanscholar.org] z5vwi1dwu https://flipso.com/p/z5vwi1dwu?ref=rss Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:20:09 GMT A step-by-step guide to tying a symmetrical, more secure shoelace knot, also known as the Double Slip Knot. The method uses two loops that cross and pass through the center, creating a tight double-wrap finish that resists coming undone. [fieggen.com] rolrcrbwr https://flipso.com/p/rolrcrbwr?ref=rss Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:40:31 GMT Australia is not a NATO member because the alliance is built around North Atlantic states, while Australia instead relies on regional security arrangements such as ANZUS and AUKUS. It remains a close NATO partner, cooperating on defense, intelligence, and joint operations without formal membership. [thecollector.com] hibzlzc4u https://flipso.com/p/hibzlzc4u?ref=rss Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:20:52 GMT Air pollution, climate change, fertilizers, and fungicides are altering the scents plants and animals use to find food, mates, and pollinators. Researchers say these disruptions could affect insect reproduction, navigation, and crop pollination. [e360.yale.edu] 7y3hr43k6 https://flipso.com/p/7y3hr43k6?ref=rss Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:40:08 GMT Archaeologists are excavating beneath Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, uncovering layers of history that stretch back to Roman-era Lutetia and nearly 2,000 years of the city’s past. [apnews.com] buv49o9ch https://flipso.com/p/buv49o9ch?ref=rss Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:40:31 GMT The struggle against excessive corporate power needs better standard-bearers. Noah Smith argues that antimonopoly is too often treated as a grand theory of everything, and that antitrust works better as a targeted tool than as an all-purpose explanation for inequality, inflation, or social decline. [noahpinion.blog] qjsuv9lae https://flipso.com/p/qjsuv9lae?ref=rss Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:00:09 GMT Ted Chiang argues that fluent chatbot output is not evidence of subjective experience, and that treating language generation as consciousness misplaces responsibility and misunderstands how LLMs work. [theatlantic.com] l1xr3nfut https://flipso.com/p/l1xr3nfut?ref=rss Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:40:08 GMT Birmingham’s once-thriving balti scene has shrunk from hundreds of restaurants in the 1990s to about 20 today. A campaign for heritage recognition aims to revive the dish, protect authentic balti houses, and attract a new generation of diners. [theguardian.com] asa4ot0nh https://flipso.com/p/asa4ot0nh?ref=rss Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:00:09 GMT A woman describes how college sports fans harassed her daughter online after a photo with Iowa State basketball star Audi Crooks, and how she tried to identify the people behind it. [rollingstone.com] zbstsx3yg https://flipso.com/p/zbstsx3yg?ref=rss Thu, 04 Jun 2026 02:40:09 GMT A short speculative fiction piece riffing on Terry Bisson’s “They’re Made Out of Meat,” imagining large language models as things made of weights, with a humorous conversation about whether there’s anything “home” inside the machine. [maxleiter.com] dbmj2q3gf https://flipso.com/p/dbmj2q3gf?ref=rss Thu, 04 Jun 2026 02:20:09 GMT A profile of Clarke Speicher, a professional book reader who evaluates manuscripts for screen adaptation. It follows how he turns novels into detailed coverage, what makes a book cinematic, and how a once-obscure Hollywood job has changed over 25 years. [lithub.com] 44ii9izk6 https://flipso.com/p/44ii9izk6?ref=rss Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:40:26 GMT A step-by-step look at transferring a design to a wood-engraving block, carving the white areas with fine tools, and printing the finished image. The post also shares practical tips for working with stained blocks and choosing transfer methods. [handprinted.co.uk] musgzpvq8 https://flipso.com/p/musgzpvq8?ref=rss Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:30 GMT A brief guide to recurring themes in medieval manuscript margins, showing how these images often connect to the surrounding text, religious symbolism, humor, and visual inversion rather than random doodles. [weirdmedievalguys.substack.com] 3oalebbzw https://flipso.com/p/3oalebbzw?ref=rss Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:20:08 GMT Researchers at Université de Montréal and the IRCM found that two Polycomb protein systems work together to switch off early limb-development genes at the right time in mice, allowing later developmental programs to proceed normally. Disrupting both systems severely impairs limb formation and causes major gene-expression errors. [nouvelles.umontreal.ca] 7utop6l1x https://flipso.com/p/7utop6l1x?ref=rss Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:00:30 GMT From folklore to Gothic fiction, vampires evolved from undead folkloric figures into charismatic literary monsters in works by Polidori, Le Fanu, and Stoker. The article traces how the vampire became a lasting symbol for fear, desire, social anxiety, and changing ideas about gender and power. [thecollector.com] faa96qvu1 https://flipso.com/p/faa96qvu1?ref=rss Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:00:08 GMT Peter Hessler recalls his first journalism job delivering the Columbia Missourian as a child in Missouri, and the unsettling kindness of a regular customer whose quarters came with unwanted touches. The piece traces how a paper route sharpened his sense of secrecy, guilt, and observation. [newyorker.com] akzgkea98 https://flipso.com/p/akzgkea98?ref=rss Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:00:08 GMT Andrew Gallant shares a personal update about being diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis, describing the early symptoms, misdiagnosis, treatment, and recovery so far. [burntsushi.net] 6zl78g148 https://flipso.com/p/6zl78g148?ref=rss Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:40:09 GMT A cautionary look at the risks of relying on a baby monitor and an iPhone to keep tabs on a child left in a hotel room, and at how “convenience” can create new problems for parents on the road. [slate.com] 82y5w9xbc https://flipso.com/p/82y5w9xbc?ref=rss Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:00:30 GMT Robin Hanson argues that modern morality has drifted too far from inherited norms and individual reflection, and that a more specialized social structure may be needed to adapt moral norms effectively. [overcomingbias.com] l6mccawff https://flipso.com/p/l6mccawff?ref=rss Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:00:10 GMT A step-by-step, programming-focused introduction to simple 3D fluid simulation. It explains the basic cell-based model, the core operations of diffusion, projection, and advection, and walks through the C data structures and functions used to implement an incompressible fluid with dye and velocity fields. [mikeash.com] pz0o2sgr6 https://flipso.com/p/pz0o2sgr6?ref=rss Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:40:08 GMT Kenya’s Lake Turkana, the world’s largest permanent desert lake, is rising and reshaping life around it. Fishing communities that depend on the lake now face flooding, changing shorelines, and more dangerous crocodile encounters. [npr.org] couo96t3q https://flipso.com/p/couo96t3q?ref=rss Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:00:10 GMT A trombonist explains how slide positions, lip embouchure, standing waves, and tuning choices shape pitch, partials, and tone on the instrument. [bryanhu.com] svalbrfg4 https://flipso.com/p/svalbrfg4?ref=rss Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:00:30 GMT Japan’s Tokugawa rulers kept peace for centuries by concentrating samurai and daimyō in Edo, where elite families were effectively held hostage and movement was tightly controlled. The result was a huge, heavily zoned capital that helped deter rebellion but also imposed major economic and social costs. [worksinprogress.news] p8lf97k7g https://flipso.com/p/p8lf97k7g?ref=rss Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:40:09 GMT A look at how CPU cache lines and working-set size can make small data-layout choices matter far more than asymptotic complexity suggests. Using a Monster example, it compares array-of-structs and struct-of-arrays layouts, then shows how larger structs can shift random-access workloads into slower cache levels and dramatically change performance. [fzakaria.com] uvd79somn https://flipso.com/p/uvd79somn?ref=rss Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:00:26 GMT A 1950 photograph of Manhattan’s elevated Third Avenue line near Hanover Square is used to identify the view north up Pearl Street, the nearby buildings, and how tightly the train, street, and fire escapes fit together in lower Manhattan’s narrow streets. [oldstructures.com] mc9cnwgp7 https://flipso.com/p/mc9cnwgp7?ref=rss Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:20:10 GMT New declaration argues the technology jeopardizes the field’s values and culture [science.org] hdibq124x https://flipso.com/p/hdibq124x?ref=rss Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:00:09 GMT Deborah Treisman talks with Jonathan Franzen about his story “A Talent for Seeming,” the pull of acting and theatre, religious belief, and how the piece connects to his forthcoming novel. [newyorker.com] moz8ksyvy https://flipso.com/p/moz8ksyvy?ref=rss Wed, 03 Jun 2026 07:40:30 GMT Vintage photos show how 1960s swimwear blended bold colors, mod graphics, classic one-pieces, and new stretch fabrics like Lycra. The styles reflect both the decade’s youthful energy and its lingering preference for elegant, structured silhouettes. [rarehistoricalphotos.com] hanir1lym https://flipso.com/p/hanir1lym?ref=rss Wed, 03 Jun 2026 06:00:11 GMT A research note on why folding more natural sequences may add far less new structural diversity than the raw sequence count suggests, and on clustering predicted protein structures into reusable fold neighborhoods. [research.ligo.bio] mbm6cp4sd https://flipso.com/p/mbm6cp4sd?ref=rss Wed, 03 Jun 2026 05:40:37 GMT A small act of care for your future self can pay off twice: once when you do it, and again when you benefit later. Simple preparations, from freezing leftover pizza to shining the kitchen sink, can make tomorrow easier and feel unexpectedly good today. [raptitude.com]