From 1905 to 1915, the United States entered a golden age of postcards. That coincided with a time when “tall-tale” art also reached its peak—and one of the most popular genres was agricultural goods of fantastic dimensions.
The same person who can’t get through a novel can watch a 3-hour video essay on the decline of the Ottoman Empire. That’s not inferior cognition. It’s different cognition. And the difference isn’t the screen, but the environment.
Do “impossible” colors like reddish green or yellowish blue exist? They may, but we can’t see them because of the way our eyes work. Still, some hacks may make them visible to us, if only momentarily.
Mosaics, art made from tiny, colored tiles, are alive and well at the Vatican. There, a 12-person studio dating back to the 1500s houses a catalog of 27,000 different varieties of tiles stored in a 9,000-drawer filing cabinet. www.reuters.com/lifestyle/in...
You know that screeching sound tape makes when you peel it away from glass? The source of the sound has baffled physicists—until now. Turns out it’s a sonic “whisper,” and it’s surprisingly technical.
I’ve been gone for decades and still track the storms back home, especially the big ones. Was thrilled to visit for one of those Patriots games in January where a 6-inch snowfall satisfied my cravings for now 😉
I know it doesn’t help to hear it if you hate it, but I do wish I was there for it all!
‘78 was, though, more than a prodigious snowfall. It was also botched forecasting that led to so many stranded commuters and a long recovery.
And though I was barely a teenager, I recognized even then that it also engendered massive community spirit to get through, help out, and clean up.
In the days before accurate forecasting, the 1888 Great White Hurricane unexpectedly buried New York in 50 inches of snow. The storm led President Benjamin Harrison to create the Weather Bureau. www.usatoday.com/story/news/w...
It matters not at all whether we are holding our breath for a triumph or bracing for a tragedy. For as long as we are waiting, we are not living. www.themarginalian.org/2026/02/21/h...
Electric eels have long fascinated scientists. Now they’re the inspiration behind flexible batteries that could deliver bursts of power for next-generation soft robotics, implantable biomedical devices, and wearable electronics. connectsci.au/news/news-pa...
For the French and Italians, it’s arts, culture, and food. In Poland it’s heritage. For Australians it’s “mateship.” People of 25 nations of the world say what makes them most proud about their countries. www.pewresearch.org/global/2026/...
Population aging isn’t a forecast, it’s arithmetic. Yet assumptions about business performance haven’t kept pace.
While processing speed declines after early adulthood, many capabilities that are key to complex work continue to improve well into midlife, peaking between ages 55 and 60.
The tiny “talking stamps” of Bhutan, issued in 1972, were actual 33⅓ RPM vinyl records with capsule histories of the country, its national anthem, and its history.
Concrete, essential to construction, is made with sand dug from riverbanks. Desert sand, though wildly abundant, is too fine for that. But mix it with wood powder, and a new material can emerge.
140+ years of climate anomalies in a remarkable visualization. It starts pretty chill and gets...well, you'll see.
Unsinkable? University researchers come up with a process to make ordinary metal tubes unsinkable. They stay afloat no matter how long they are forced into water or how heavily they are damaged. It could have huge nautical applications.
With Bridget Bardot’s death, Bob Dylan, Chubby Checker, and Bernie Goetz are all that remain of Billy Joel’s “Fire”.
Wow! That’s cool 😎
It’s 65°F here. My excuse for staying in is far less reasonable.
I’m an experienced developer. Happy submit crash reports through TestFlight if that’s helpful. Feel free to DM me.
Great start, all the same.
@aeronautapp.com Just downloaded and installed 1.2. Getting “Session Expired” messages every hour or so. Heard you had some issues with this. How can I help you find the issue?
At age 20, Wilson Bentley first discovered under a microscope how each snowflake was a vanishing masterpiece. He didn’t realize then that it would become his life’s work.
“I became possessed with a great desire to show people something of this wonderful loveliness.”
Students studying the arts, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences gain skills that machines will never master, such as critical thinking and collaboration. Judgment will likely never be AI’s strength.
After a tough day of decision-making, we say we’re ‘mentally drained’, as if we’ve used up some internal energy or worn out our willpower muscle. But what if that’s wrong? What if willpower doesn’t really deplete at all?
It’s hard to overstate the celebrity (and tragedy) of the Dionne Quints, five identical sisters born during the Great Depression—and then put on exhibit in an exploitative “baby zoo.”
“Because of the accident of birth, we were not considered people.”
No one loves their mistakes on display, but these famous musicians left theirs in five timeless classics.
