Archives

A new study from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University is making headlines for projecting that Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’s “Medicare for All” bill is estimated to cost $32.6 trillion — a number that’s entirely in line with 2016 projections,…

ift.tt/2uZ772b This wonderful series of medieval cosmographic diagrams and schemas are sourced from a late 12th-century manuscript created in England. Coming to only nine folios, the manuscript is essentially a scientific textbook for monks, bringing together cosmographical knowledge from a…

ift.tt/2K4HUrv Two out-of-control wildfires burning in rugged terrain of Mendocino County pushed into Lake County Saturday, leading…

ift.tt/2vfIuNV The first time I encountered Michael Laufer, he was throwing thousands of dollars worth of homemade medicine into a packed audience at Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE), a biennial conference in New York City. “Does anyone here suffer from…

ift.tt/2OmT3HH The voice of the man on Abdel Azim El-Siddig’s answering machine was calm and measured. The message he left, though, was chilling. “We are going to kill you, and we are going to cut your neck,” the voice said.…

ift.tt/2JX1RAR On Wednesday, a team of European scientists announced it had found strong evidence of a vast reservoir of liquid water hiding under the ice cap on the south pole of Mars. As detailed in Science, the buried lake was…

ift.tt/2uN7soi Vintage and antique tool collection. via ift.tt/2LIz1pv ift.tt/2zWzpuR

ift.tt/2LvAF0K 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. 2018 July 23 Fermi Science Finals Illustration Credit:…

ift.tt/2Odgjbe Looking to the future of exploration of the Jovian moon Europa, radiation mapping is key. The top picture is a fun thought experiment. Both images are from NASA of course. So how far below the surface does the…

ift.tt/2uXYEv5 Scotch eggs are a traditional British picnic food made by coating a hard-boiled egg in sausage meat and breadcrumbs, then baking or deep-frying the lot. The decadent morsels are a common sight at British-style pubs around the world. But…

ift.tt/2r8XpIL (Reuters) – The criminal trial of President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was delayed on Monday by one week, with a U.S. judge making public the names of five witnesses granted immunity to testify. Manafort’s trial on…

ift.tt/2LGIrBD siouxsieshit-blog: gorgonetta via ift.tt/2uIbb6u ift.tt/1b8W9aj

ift.tt/2uMtPu1 A popular Sicilian legend tells of an 11th-century count’s attempts to cure his wife’s depression. As saffron was considered to be a stimulant and antidepressant, he tasked a cheesemaker with blending the spice into local pecorino. The result was…

ift.tt/2OdzVM7 What’s a water drum? The water drum is a very old percussion instrument, traditionally played in African tribes. The bottom half of a large hollow gourd is filled with water. Another half, smaller, is placed open end down on…

ift.tt/2NEAihF This design will forever change the way you think about public art. Designed by the Colombian duo Rafael Sánchez Herrera […] via ift.tt/2OfRpHY ift.tt/V0OJ4k

ift.tt/2v0beu5 The dot-com bubble was a historic economic bubble ran from 1997 to 2001. It was a period of extreme growth in the usage and adaptation of the Internet. Between 1995 and 2000, the Nasdaq Composite stock market index rose…

ift.tt/2mw6dW3 Cirrhosis deaths were falling in the US until the financial crisis hit in 2008, but have sharply risen since then, especially among young people via ift.tt/2JzswU7 ift.tt/1Sl3dlX

ift.tt/2LySqJ7 Get Email Updates from ProPublica Illinois Dive deeper into our reporting. Our newsletter is written by a ProPublica Illinois journalist every week. I’m Celeste LeCompte, and today I work on the business team at ProPublica in New York. But…

ift.tt/2uzV5vE Take 4D printing, an emerging technology being pioneered at MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab. As its creators described to Fast Company last week, the “4D” refers to the fourth dimension–time–and describes objects that adapt or self-assemble when exposed to particular environmental…

ift.tt/2LAiunt If Dyson Swarms are the physical limit for an advanced civilization and the expansion of the universe is a real problem for those super-aliens then we could see them gathering stars and galaxies. The presence of dark energy in…