https://flipso.com/ Latest posts on Flipso Flipso en-us https://flipso.com/static/img/favicon_rss.png https://flipso.com/ 144 144 Mon, 31 Aug 2026 13:20:38 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 9llycngzj https://flipso.com/p/9llycngzj?ref=rss Mon, 31 Aug 2026 13:20:38 GMT Tanya Sichynsky, editor of NYT Cooking’s The Veggie, discusses her path from sports media to food editing, the challenge of curating 24,000 recipes, and her new book Veg Everything, which gathers 100 vegetable-forward recipes for weeknights and entertaining. [tastecooking.com] r5gz9ek8s https://flipso.com/p/r5gz9ek8s?ref=rss Mon, 31 Aug 2026 10:40:33 GMT A history of how beardless men were viewed in early modern and Victorian Britain, from insults like “smock-faced” and “imperbicke” to the rise of false beards and moustaches. The post traces how facial hair became tied to masculinity, status, and military appearance, and how men who could not grow beards tried to keep up with changing fashions. [dralun.wordpress.com] cys5d6gh4 https://flipso.com/p/cys5d6gh4?ref=rss Mon, 31 Aug 2026 10:00:03 GMT Christine Lemmer-Webber argues that taste comes from practice, experimentation, and repeated failure—not from passively relying on generative AI. The post suggests that using AI too much can blunt judgment and that keeping taste sharp means making weird work, learning your own style, and using these tools sparingly. [dustycloud.org] fzrjkoapt https://flipso.com/p/fzrjkoapt?ref=rss Mon, 31 Aug 2026 09:00:18 GMT Researchers buried cotton underwear and tea bags at 1,000 sites across Switzerland to compare soil biological activity. Private gardens showed the fastest decomposition, while lawns ranked lowest. The results suggest simple buried-cotton tests can give a quick, accessible snapshot of soil fertility and underground life. [studyfinds.com] e1bxi3w2w https://flipso.com/p/e1bxi3w2w?ref=rss Mon, 31 Aug 2026 06:40:16 GMT A harrowing account of a deadly Atlantic migration voyage from West Africa to the Canary Islands, based on survivors, families of victims, and others connected to the journey. [irishtimes.com] 3xb276faj https://flipso.com/p/3xb276faj?ref=rss Mon, 31 Aug 2026 03:20:15 GMT Commercial bike generators waste a lot of pedal power through batteries, electronics, and friction-drive losses, making them far less efficient and less sustainable than direct mechanical alternatives. [solar.lowtechmagazine.com] yd2zvzwq9 https://flipso.com/p/yd2zvzwq9?ref=rss Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:17 GMT A look at how to tell whether an ancient number system used zero, including why sparse inscriptions make it hard to distinguish a true positional base from a bijective system and why context is usually the key clue. [johndcook.com] 2u42e0olr https://flipso.com/p/2u42e0olr?ref=rss Sun, 30 Aug 2026 23:02:30 GMT Tiny rain droplets can gain charge as they slide over smooth surfaces, creating electric fields strong enough to pit copper and damage protective coatings. The effect may help explain why some corrosion-resistant materials still fail when exposed to rain. [scientificamerican.com] d1by5cdyi https://flipso.com/p/d1by5cdyi?ref=rss Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:02:25 GMT An emoji flipbook presentation by Alex Komoroske on how well-behaved individuals can still create dysfunctional organizational dynamics. [komoroske.com] awwrvk77r https://flipso.com/p/awwrvk77r?ref=rss Sun, 30 Aug 2026 19:00:28 GMT Kandinsky’s Russian upbringing, folk art, Orthodox icons, and lubki prints helped shape his move toward abstraction. Travel in rural Russia, especially Vologda, sharpened his sense of ornament, color, and spiritual imagery, which later carried into his early abstract works and Saint George paintings. [thecollector.com] 11hg5d008 https://flipso.com/p/11hg5d008?ref=rss Sun, 30 Aug 2026 18:00:28 GMT How gold functioned as currency, tribute, and stored wealth in Ethiopia from Aksum to the 19th century, including its role in trade, taxation, and royal treasuries. [africanhistoryextra.com] w67cpvstq https://flipso.com/p/w67cpvstq?ref=rss Sun, 30 Aug 2026 10:16:26 GMT Anonymous handwritten notes about people’s relationship with AI, collected as an anthropological art project tracing how it has entered the most intimate details of everyday life. [whatwetellai.com] 81pegya95 https://flipso.com/p/81pegya95?ref=rss Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:00:30 GMT Excavated four-room houses, household tools, grains, and ritual objects shed light on everyday life in ancient Israel: housing, bread-making, labor, sanitation, and domestic worship. [thecollector.com] nu7miracn https://flipso.com/p/nu7miracn?ref=rss Sun, 30 Aug 2026 15:22:30 GMT Bearded capuchins in northeastern Brazil mostly eat plants, but they also hunt small vertebrates when fruit is scarce. Researchers say the pattern may offer clues about how early humans shifted toward eating more meat, possibly as a response to seasonal food shortages. [smithsonianmag.com] chtskzx1f https://flipso.com/p/chtskzx1f?ref=rss Sun, 30 Aug 2026 11:02:26 GMT Einstein and Leo Szilard designed a safer refrigerator in the 1920s with no moving parts and a sealed pump, but depression-era финансing, political upheaval, and Freon’s arrival kept it from reaching market. The concept was later revisited when CFCs’ environmental harms became clear. [invention.si.edu] ptb7bflan https://flipso.com/p/ptb7bflan?ref=rss Sun, 30 Aug 2026 04:42:25 GMT Silence Dogood, Richard Saunders, Benevolus, and Sidi Mehemet Ibrahim were among Franklin’s many personas, letting him challenge authority, satirize public folly, and argue for reform with more freedom than he could under his own name. [smithsonianmag.com] cuognp1r9 https://flipso.com/p/cuognp1r9?ref=rss Sun, 30 Aug 2026 01:22:28 GMT What began as an anarchistic collaboration of equals has become a commercialized escape hatch for the wealthy. [sfstandard.com] rqqcdqi43 https://flipso.com/p/rqqcdqi43?ref=rss Sat, 29 Aug 2026 20:00:17 GMT Women who worked in Antarctica say sexual harassment and assault were widespread, and Jane Willenbring’s account helped bring the issue into public view. A government investigation and congressional scrutiny later followed as more women described abuse at U.S. research stations. [wired.com] d9c0hx2nr https://flipso.com/p/d9c0hx2nr?ref=rss Sat, 29 Aug 2026 19:14:12 GMT A sharp essay arguing that modern platforms have turned the internet into an engine for exploiting human vulnerability, where feeds, influencer culture, and crypto-style grifts blur the line between user and mark. [stephendiehl.com] ecw1nh7a9 https://flipso.com/p/ecw1nh7a9?ref=rss Sat, 29 Aug 2026 19:20:15 GMT How Front Range cities moved from sparse tree cover to today’s urban forests, and why hotter, drier conditions make tree diversity, drought tolerance, and smarter planting choices increasingly important. Includes recommendations from Colorado tree experts on resilient species and practices for a changing climate. [coolboulder.org] 562p4k1w0 https://flipso.com/p/562p4k1w0?ref=rss Sat, 29 Aug 2026 11:40:15 GMT Colonies of moss found on some glaciers and nearby ecosystems. Glacier mice can host other small organisms, including nematodes, springtails, and water bears. They have been observed in places such as Alaska, Chile, Greenland, Iceland, Svalbard, Uganda, Venezuela, and several Subantarctic islands. Some appear to reproduce asexually, and they are known for a slow, non-random movement across the ice that is still not fully explained. [en.wikipedia.org] nn6w9xno8 https://flipso.com/p/nn6w9xno8?ref=rss Sat, 29 Aug 2026 08:40:15 GMT A box of more than 300 wartime love letters from Louis “Speedy” Weber turned up at a USO office in 2022. After years of searching, researchers identified living relatives who could fill in details about the Bronx soldier, his wife Frances, and the life behind the correspondence. [smithsonianmag.com] uwvp1g3hg https://flipso.com/p/uwvp1g3hg?ref=rss Sat, 29 Aug 2026 06:40:15 GMT Caroline’s use of Arthurian iconography sought to promote a shared British identity at a time of political uncertainly. [theconversation.com] m0fztvz4w https://flipso.com/p/m0fztvz4w?ref=rss Sat, 29 Aug 2026 02:20:14 GMT An exploratory statistical test finds no significant alignment between the Sumerian King List’s antediluvian reign boundaries and paleoclimate events. The page compares fixed and sliding anchor models, multiple event catalogs, and several chronologies, but none of the tested results survives multiple-comparison adjustment. [vectorian.be] s468ij9bm https://flipso.com/p/s468ij9bm?ref=rss Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:21 GMT The psychologist taught us that what we remember is not fixed, but her work testifying for defendants like Harvey Weinstein collides with our traumatized moment. [newyorker.com] lp8nsctvs https://flipso.com/p/lp8nsctvs?ref=rss Fri, 28 Aug 2026 19:40:14 GMT Global demand for construction sand has fueled illegal mining, environmental damage, and violent criminal conflicts in places like India, Indonesia, and Morocco. [wired.com] pe7vrq9s3 https://flipso.com/p/pe7vrq9s3?ref=rss Fri, 28 Aug 2026 18:00:17 GMT A conservation team is relocating African wild dogs across reserves in South Africa and Mozambique to build genetically diverse packs, expand their range, and help a severely endangered species survive alongside people who often view them as pests. [smithsonianmag.com] 5v7654t5y https://flipso.com/p/5v7654t5y?ref=rss Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:40:14 GMT An investigation into the state of corvid–human relations. [audubon.org] dhluc8e86 https://flipso.com/p/dhluc8e86?ref=rss Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:20:14 GMT Fossilized Galápagos corals suggest recent El Niño events are stronger than those in the preindustrial record, adding evidence that climate change is amplifying the Pacific cycle and its weather impacts. [science.org] jqeyr39wg https://flipso.com/p/jqeyr39wg?ref=rss Fri, 28 Aug 2026 09:43:48 GMT A string of robot failures has shaken confidence in pizza kitchens’ automation push, showing how hard it is to make reliable, restaurant-ready pizza robots. [bbc.com]