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ift.tt/3fUMF6X “The first written record of shochu was actually graffiti on a temple,” Rule of Thirds partner George Padilla told me. “In the 1400s, some builders working on a temple had scrawled, in the wood, a snide comment about the…

ift.tt/2DPZ0wo David Lehman’s "Talking Pictures" column for The American Scholar is devoted this month to "Home of the Brave," Mark Robson’s 1949 movie. Here is the opening paragraph: < Much of my early education in film history I owe to…

ift.tt/3gUfMZB Astrophotography You can attach a smartphone to most backyard telescopes using a simple adapter to hold your phone’s camera lens in front of the eyepiece. This works best for bright objects like the Moon or Jupiter and its moons.…

ift.tt/31NVSJp The aging, bright-red supergiant star Betelgeuse has captivated sky watchers since antiquity. The ancient astronomer Ptolemy was one of the first to note the monster star’s red color. It is one of the brightest stars in the night sky…

ift.tt/3gTUwTV Jared Kushner, the second-most-powerful man in the White House, is quite a bit smarter than the most powerful man, his father-in-law, the president. Donald Trump possesses a genius for the jugular, but he evinces few other signs of intelligence.…

ift.tt/31KUnM5 Energy drives the planet; it’s the currency that all living things use to grow, develop and function. But just how little energy do cells need to get by? Sediment-dwelling microbes below the seafloor — which may outnumber the microbial…

Previously in web history… Sir Tim Berners-Lee creates the technologies behind the web — HTML, HTTP, and the URL which blend hypertext with the Internet — with a small team at CERN. He convinces the higher-ups in the organizations to…

ift.tt/2F9KRKH Scientist Dan Munro partnered with filmmaker Jin Angdoo to create a short but adorable animation that visualizes how a string of amino acids come together in order to sequence a protein. A short film made with a scientist Dan…

Yesterday I wrote a new Bloomberg column in which I took Trump seriously when he repeated for the nth time that our problem is that we do too many tests, which thus shows too many confirmed COVID-19 cases. And when…

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ift.tt/3iAKozH before it was announced that the 2020 edition of burning man will be held virtually, architect john marx and artist absinthia vermut were working on a unique concept for the event — the ‘museum of no spectators’. marx, who…

ift.tt/2DSbhA6 You know those fake virus messages that pop up when you’re browsing a website? Obviously they’re scams, but this is a 20 minute video of internet hero Jim Browning calling and exposing them. He reverses the connection when they…

ift.tt/33Z864q “It still takes a lot of self-confidence to make your way as a woman in architecture,” said renowned English architect Alison Brooks recently. “We grow up with heroes and gods, and they’re all male.” Brooks is the only British…

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ift.tt/2XP0FsH Thirty-six hours after his last broadcast began, Derrick Ingram took to Instagram Live once again to address his friends. The activist, a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter-linked Warriors in the Garden, was understandably tired after the last day…

ift.tt/2PXo47j At the end of May, as protests against the police killing of George Floyd got under way, reports started to circulate that the shadowy hacker group Anonymous was back. The rumors began with a video depicting a black-clad figure…

ift.tt/2ChhULO Liana Finck for Man Repeller draws out the new timeline. I’m a couple of decades removed from this timeline, but it doesn’t look very fun. I’m always down to plant some scallions though. [via swissmiss] Tags: coronavirus, dating, humor…

ift.tt/3gJciJg In the 1960s, Japanese automakers were beginning to export their economy cars around the world. Fuel-efficient and tiny, these econoboxes were difficult for American consumers to take seriously. However, the folks over at Nissan (then known as Datsun) were…

ift.tt/31F0PUU Enlarge / Admit it, you’ve always wondered if Goku could beat Ronald McDonald in a fight. Elecbyte The question, “Who would win in a fight?” is the root of many fierce debates throughout the history of pop culture. The…

ift.tt/30BJVag At first glance, it looks like something from an alien autopsy. A strange organ cut from a xenomorph’s thorax, under the flickering lights of an operating room in a top secret government facility, with venous tendrils dangling down to…

ift.tt/3ipCLvJ In 1950, Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi sat down to lunch with some of his colleagues at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he had worked five years prior as part of the Manhattan Project. According to various accounts, the…