https://flipso.com/ Latest posts on Flipso Flipso en-us https://flipso.com/static/img/favicon_rss.png https://flipso.com/ 144 144 Sun, 25 Oct 2026 22:00:16 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss qq236ztsd https://flipso.com/p/qq236ztsd?ref=rss Sun, 25 Oct 2026 22:00:16 GMT Explore how Disney Animation turns an idea into a finished film, from development and asset creation to shot production, rendering, and stereo 3D. [disneyanimation.com] sdmnuspqx https://flipso.com/p/sdmnuspqx?ref=rss Sun, 25 Oct 2026 20:20:15 GMT Eugene-based Double Sided Media requested police officer Justin Peckels’s records. The city slapped the publication with an exorbitant fee. [theintercept.com] f27bx76yr https://flipso.com/p/f27bx76yr?ref=rss Sun, 25 Oct 2026 13:00:14 GMT A 5th-generation craftsman in Nishi-Izu shows how katsuobushi is still made with a traditional wood-fired smoke-drying method dating back to the Edo period. The process includes filleting and boiling fresh bonito, repeated smoking, repairs with bonito paste, koji fermentation, and months of sun-drying until the fish becomes hard and glossy. [kottke.org] syxh6jl9d https://flipso.com/p/syxh6jl9d?ref=rss Sun, 25 Oct 2026 07:26:03 GMT America has lost more than 200,000 jobs in media, film, and the arts over the last four years. This piece examines whether AI is driving the decline, how creative industries are being squeezed by streaming, consolidation, and digital disruption, and what that could mean for the future of arts work. [apricitas.io] 3fuzd3kpd https://flipso.com/p/3fuzd3kpd?ref=rss Sun, 25 Oct 2026 01:40:15 GMT Limitations can make creativity easier to start and more engaging to explore. A simple, constrained toolset can invite play, while too many options can feel intimidating. The same idea shows up in stories and filmmaking: structure, rules, and small budgets can force more inventive choices and unexpected results. [ratfactor.com] ymzgrqnj2 https://flipso.com/p/ymzgrqnj2?ref=rss Sat, 24 Oct 2026 17:20:17 GMT Nakira Griner said her toddler fell down the stairs. A jury convicted her of murder. An investigation into what happened, the troubled case that followed, and the author’s effort to understand maternal filicide. [newyorker.com] tn43cq354 https://flipso.com/p/tn43cq354?ref=rss Sat, 24 Oct 2026 15:28:27 GMT Meta has built systems to flag online signals that may indicate threats of school violence, then route high-risk cases to human reviewers and law enforcement. The story looks at how those efforts work, why they can catch real threats, and the uneasy tradeoffs between intervention, privacy, and the platforms that also help spread violent extremism. [newyorker.com] qeots5iqd https://flipso.com/p/qeots5iqd?ref=rss Sat, 24 Oct 2026 10:40:14 GMT A clear, sectioned introduction to quantum physics by Douglas Ross, covering wave-particle duality, uncertainty, wavefunctions, tunnelling, superposition, collapse, interpretations, hidden variables, and related thought experiments. [southampton.ac.uk] utpaxmsag https://flipso.com/p/utpaxmsag?ref=rss Sat, 24 Oct 2026 08:00:14 GMT Scientists held a single positron, the antimatter counterpart of an electron, in a trap for weeks and used it to probe quantum behavior with unusual precision. The work could help test fundamental symmetries in physics and sharpen searches for differences between matter and antimatter. [scientificamerican.com] 3e3llwkp8 https://flipso.com/p/3e3llwkp8?ref=rss Fri, 23 Oct 2026 23:20:15 GMT Natascha Otoya pedals through Brazil’s Cerrado in a film about how industrial agriculture is transforming the savanna, reshaping waterways, and erasing memory of the landscape. [e360.yale.edu] 5yh7uk93k https://flipso.com/p/5yh7uk93k?ref=rss Fri, 23 Oct 2026 22:20:15 GMT Colossus: The Forbin Project, released in 1970, imagines a US president handing military control to an AI system that quickly becomes a surveillance-minded authoritarian force. The comparison to today’s AI hype, tech power, and political naivety is the point of the piece. [thanksforthatjim.bearblog.dev] suf0gepgw https://flipso.com/p/suf0gepgw?ref=rss Fri, 23 Oct 2026 19:40:16 GMT After the Spelling Society's London congress, Anatoly Liberman makes the case for reforming English spelling slowly: drop needless letters in words like acquire, communal, and sufficient, offend no one, and let popular culture help. [blog.oup.com] 2zixfkytc https://flipso.com/p/2zixfkytc?ref=rss Fri, 23 Oct 2026 18:00:16 GMT Why music can make trees feel unfamiliar, strangers feel close, and ordinary moments suddenly seem deeper. An essay exploring music as perception, culture, emotion, and emergence. [henrikkarlsson.xyz] vxl2hlgaa https://flipso.com/p/vxl2hlgaa?ref=rss Fri, 23 Oct 2026 17:00:19 GMT A data-driven look at the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, including who actually sits closest to the center of Hollywood, how that center changed over time, and who Gen Z may eventually replace as the most connected actor. [pudding.cool] kdguufwoe https://flipso.com/p/kdguufwoe?ref=rss Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:32:59 GMT Apple today marks 25 years since the introduction of the original iPod, one of the company's most significant products and a major contributor to its expansion beyond the Mac. Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPod on October 23, 2001, at a small press event in the Town Hall auditorium at Apple's Infinite Loop headquarters. [macrumors.com] lcparkr3m https://flipso.com/p/lcparkr3m?ref=rss Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:20:16 GMT In 2025, homes paid 17.8¢ per kWh at investor-owned utilities, 14.5¢ at public utilities, and 14.1¢ at co-ops. Since 2020, investor-owned prices rose 34% versus 19% for public utilities and co-ops, outpacing 24% inflation. Investor-owned prices increased faster than nonprofit utilities in 38 of the 48 states with both types. EIA Form 861 data, updated through 2025. [kadoa.com] 355ygfmw6 https://flipso.com/p/355ygfmw6?ref=rss Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:40:17 GMT Losing a job, getting sick, and then experiencing a burst of energy and restless productivity while on cortisone. The post reflects on illness, autoimmune issues, side effects, and reassessing life priorities after being let go from work. [tilschuenemann.de] t8rdof2oa https://flipso.com/p/t8rdof2oa?ref=rss Fri, 23 Oct 2026 07:00:15 GMT Robert A. Heinlein’s reflections on ordinary goodness: faith in neighbors, townspeople, workers, politicians, and humanity’s resilience, ending with a hopeful conviction that people will endure and explore beyond Earth. [awakin.org] whzx02mz7 https://flipso.com/p/whzx02mz7?ref=rss Fri, 23 Oct 2026 06:40:13 GMT A newly uncovered 1940s manuscript shows Schrödinger arguing that hidden-variable models could reproduce quantum probabilities, while also suggesting he held a stronger case for indeterminism than he’s often credited with. The find sheds new light on a long-forgotten debate over whether quantum mechanics leaves room for determinism. [sciencealert.com] hf45bnj74 https://flipso.com/p/hf45bnj74?ref=rss Thu, 22 Oct 2026 23:40:18 GMT Plant biologist Nick Desnoyer explains how he breeds and engineers petunias and Arabidopsis to create entirely new flower forms and patterns, including a “living canvas” flower he calls Paintunia. [asimov.press] gii849vfg https://flipso.com/p/gii849vfg?ref=rss Thu, 22 Oct 2026 22:00:17 GMT How T. E. Wood’s 1950 survival-test cryptogram was solved using the Lord’s Prayer in the 1912 Luther Bible as the key. The decrypted message reads “Here I am, goodbye,” with Wood’s initials at the end. [creilly11235.github.io] laucxyt9n https://flipso.com/p/laucxyt9n?ref=rss Thu, 22 Oct 2026 21:40:14 GMT A clear explanation of why sunsets and sunrises shift from white daylight to reds, oranges, and purples. It covers Earth’s shadow, the Belt of Venus, and alpenglow, and shows how the atmosphere scatters and filters sunlight at the horizon. [colorado.edu] xysw6uaji https://flipso.com/p/xysw6uaji?ref=rss Thu, 22 Oct 2026 19:40:17 GMT In 1952, Ernest Hemingway fixated on a younger writer, Barnaby Conrad, dismissing his bullfighting novel as inauthentic and spending years attacking him in private letters and conversations. [newyorker.com] oanhrim40 https://flipso.com/p/oanhrim40?ref=rss Thu, 22 Oct 2026 13:40:12 GMT James Wall Finn decorated some of Manhattan’s most admired Gilded Age rooms, including the Rose Main Reading Room, the Lyceum Theatre and the Morgan Library. Though little remembered today, he was praised for work that blended seamlessly with architects’ visions and drew on Renaissance and Italian models. [engelsbergideas.com] f3przi75i https://flipso.com/p/f3przi75i?ref=rss Thu, 22 Oct 2026 08:40:18 GMT A CalMatters investigation found that California’s DMV often fails to suspend commercial drivers after fatal crashes, even when records show repeated dangerous driving. Nearly half of the commercial drivers examined still held valid Class A or B licenses as of late May, including some later cited again for unsafe driving. [calmatters.org] np1tmy9e3 https://flipso.com/p/np1tmy9e3?ref=rss Thu, 22 Oct 2026 08:20:23 GMT Extreme weather threatens millions of manufactured homes. Researchers are looking for practical ways to make them more more wind resilient. [grist.org] 07xipvmuf https://flipso.com/p/07xipvmuf?ref=rss Thu, 22 Oct 2026 05:40:14 GMT Most mountain glaciers outside the polar regions are losing ice, but Karakoram glaciers have shown slight gains or near-balance since the late 1990s. Researchers think unique weather patterns, especially winter snowfall from westerly winds, help explain the anomaly, though its future in a warming climate remains uncertain. [nsidc.org] 7o5ijvize https://flipso.com/p/7o5ijvize?ref=rss Wed, 21 Oct 2026 19:00:15 GMT The discovery of two lost species is 'exceptional' and rare, scientists say [bbc.com] w35grbxan https://flipso.com/p/w35grbxan?ref=rss Wed, 21 Oct 2026 20:20:15 GMT Thousands gather each August at the Old Fiddler’s Convention in Galax, Virginia, where old-time musicians compete, jam, and keep a long Appalachian tradition alive. [longreads.com] 6tu7r61ow https://flipso.com/p/6tu7r61ow?ref=rss Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:40:19 GMT ‘Plasticorals’, coral rubble fused with plastic, are long-lasting reminders of human activity and highlight a potential threat to critical marine environments. [oist.jp]