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ift.tt/2P5QwVc The History of Philosophy is an interactive tool enabling users to dig into a visual timeline of 2,500 years of philosophical thought and discover lines of agreement and divergence. The project is the brainchild of Deniz Cem Önduygu, who…

ift.tt/35Izmmn In the fall of 2017, Sam Bowman, a computational linguist at New York University, figured that computers still weren’t very good at understanding the written word. Sure, they had become decent at simulating that understanding in certain narrow domains,…

Corporate mega-mergers keep being announced with great hoopla, but – as we’ve learned from promises made by merging airlines, banks, drugmakers, etc. – most are likely to deliver less than nothing. Take 2015’s ballyhooed combine of two food giants, Kraft…

ift.tt/2qkKMMR It may be only 5 square miles in size, but Occidental has a long and fascinating history. Founded in 1876 as a stop on the … via ift.tt/31sZdLX ift.tt/2ALlo82

ift.tt/2MKBYaE As a biological concept, the inheritance of acquired characteristics has had a wild roller coaster ride over the past two centuries. Championed by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck at the beginning of the 19th century, it soared to widespread popularity as a…

ift.tt/33Bykqe Of all the known particles in the universe, only photons outnumber neutrinos. Despite their abundance, however, neutrinos are hard to catch and inspect, as they interact with matter only very weakly. About a thousand trillion of the ghostly particles…

Here’s a recipe for you: Chop up some Oscar Mayer wieners, stir in Heinz ketchup, blend with Cool Whip and Maxwell House Coffee, sprinkle Planters peanuts over the mixture, add A-1 Steak Sauce, then top it with Cheez Whiz and…

ift.tt/33qjLFZ Rome is a cinematic wonderland: a landscape made to be immortalized in photography and film. It’s grandeur lies in the dereliction of empire everywhere you look, the inevitable, inescapable decay of the imperialist impulse. It is pure romance in…

ift.tt/2IExTU3 One of these days we’ll have a spacecraft on a dedicated mission into the interstellar medium, carrying an instrument package explicitly designed to study what lies beyond the heliosphere. For now, of course, we rely on the Voyagers, both…

ift.tt/2IExTU3 One of these days we’ll have a spacecraft on a dedicated mission into the interstellar medium, carrying an instrument package explicitly designed to study what lies beyond the heliosphere. For now, of course, we rely on the Voyagers, both…

ift.tt/2IExTU3 One of these days we’ll have a spacecraft on a dedicated mission into the interstellar medium, carrying an instrument package explicitly designed to study what lies beyond the heliosphere. For now, of course, we rely on the Voyagers, both…

ift.tt/2M6xNaf The equal sign is the bedrock of mathematics. It seems to make an entirely fundamental and uncontroversial statement: These things are exactly the same. But there is a growing community of mathematicians who regard the equal sign as math’s…

Interesting story about someone who is almost certainly cheating at professional poker. But then I start to see things that seem so obvious, but I wonder whether they aren’t just paranoia after hours and hours of digging into the mystery.…

ift.tt/2LSKTb1 Young girl in profile, 1948. Consuelo Kanaga (American, 1894–1978) Photograph, gelatin silver print Madrid, Spain, 1933. Henri Cartier?Bresson (French, 1908–2004) Photograph, gelatin silver print The history of photography is shaped not only by the people ho make the pictures…

ift.tt/2IrOOJE Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2019 October 5 Jupiter and the Moons Image…

Long Twitter thread about the tracking embedded in modern digital televisions. The thread references three academic papers. via ift.tt/2nfMEoX ift.tt/z8dJk0

ift.tt/31MEC66 Two women who vandalized the Dakota Access pipeline in an effort to halt construction have been indicted on charges that carry up to 110 years in prison and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines. They are among the…

ift.tt/31MEC66 Two women who vandalized the Dakota Access pipeline in an effort to halt construction have been indicted on charges that carry up to 110 years in prison and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines. They are among the…

ift.tt/2V9SRPQ Rancor: The Year of The Phish September 22, 2019 Earlier this year, Check Point researchers identified a targeted and extensive attack against Southeast Asian government entities over the span of 7 months. The attackers, which…