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bit.ly/2ULaDHr Monica Ramirez tried her hand with modeling deaths on Game of Thrones and trying to predict the next ones: Since the series is so famous for killing principal characters (It’s true! Yu can’t have a favourite character because he/she…

bit.ly/2IR8o3W “A writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.” “Mankind is challenged, as it has never been challenged before, to prove its maturity and its mastery — not…

bit.ly/2Ld5Hvp Lyrical reflections at the crossroads of truth and meaning. In her haunting ode to the Hubble Space Telescope, Adrienne Rich serenaded “the ex-stasis of galaxies / so out from us there’s no vocabulary / but mathematics and optics /…

To better understand influence attacks, we proposed an approach that models democracy itself as an information system and explains how democracies are vulnerable to certain forms of information attacks that autocracies naturally resist. Our model combines ideas from both international…

bit.ly/2GM9cDH California state funding has created a harvest cornucopia of clean energy programs ranging from solar energy for low income housing to familiarization test drives of electric vehicles. But each state agency has its own set of rules about who…

f52.co/2Wnvi5K Good food is worth a thousand words—sometimes more. In My Family Recipe, a writer shares the story of a single dish that’s meaningful to them and their loved ones. Standing in my parents’ kitchen, I slipped the white chef’s…

bit.ly/2GRVy2W Martine Gutierrez, Girl Friends (Rosella & Palma 4), 2014.  Martine Gutierrez, Line Up 5, 2014.  Martine Gutierrez, Girl Friends (Anita & Marie 3), 2014.  Martine Gutierrez is a star, restoring performance art to its rightful place in the pantheon.…

bit.ly/2Y0GupD Researchers in Copenhagen have discovered a catalog containing thousands of summaries of books from 500 years ago, many of which no longer exist: The Libro de los Epítomes manuscript, which is more than a foot thick, contains more than 2,000…

bit.ly/2ZJ0HSt In the film The Wizard of Oz, the scarecrow famously pines for a brain but eventually comes to realize that he already possesses all the smarts he needs. Similarly, acellular slime molds—strange, gelatinous organisms that consist of a single…

bit.ly/2PASOda There is a black hole 8,000 light years away that is acting weird, even for a black hole, scientists say. Called V404 Cygni, the system contains a black hole and a star like our Sun. The hole is tearing…

bit.ly/2UIB8NH As for most ancient philosophers, Lucretius saw no boundary between his scientific interests and his ethical claims By James Hannam Read at Aeon via bit.ly/2Py0Mnp aeon.co

bit.ly/2XPOR7e From a jumble of confusing clues in Hubble observations of interstellar space, scientists have picked out evidence of a celebrity molecule: ionized Buckminsterfullerene, or buckyballs. Artist’s illustration of Buckminsterfullerene, a molecule that consists of 60 carbon atoms. Recent…

bit.ly/2GS8N3L The galactic center shines too brightly, like the glow of a metropolis at night where maps show only a town. To mend their cosmic cartography, astrophysicists have spent years debating what could be powering this excess of energetic light.…

bit.ly/2UOyUMx 3 with 3 posters participating The existence of what’s colloquially known as “bullshit”—a combination of lies, exaggerations, and inaccuracies that makes it hard to figure out what the truth is—is familiar to all of us. Most of us have…

bit.ly/2Xce8J8 Ep. 527: Ancient Astronomy of the American Southwest VIDEO Ancient peoples had no light pollution, and they knew the night skies very well. In fact, they depends on them to know when to plant and when to harvest. Today…

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bit.ly/2V0BRil A still from Melodysheep’s Timelapse of the Future. This much is certain: The sun, like all stars, will one day die. Its demise will begin five billion years from now, when it starts running out of fuel. It will slowly…

bit.ly/2dXExVR “Lay hold of to-day’s task, and you will not need to depend so much upon to-morrow’s. While we are postponing, life speeds by. Nothing… is ours, except time.” “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend…

bit.ly/2IVH43E A gigantic pie is split amongst 100 guests. The first guest gets 1% of the pie. Then the second guest gets 2% of the remaining pie. Then the third guest gets 3% of the remaining pie, and so on,…

bit.ly/2GMt3Ue Don’t tell the Commander-in-Chief, but a massive wave of floating offshore wind turbines — and thousands of new jobs — are coming to California via bit.ly/2Gvjwzy bit.ly/1Ka26ov

bit.ly/2INE3D1 “Polo” is the most confusing word in men’s fashion. When Brooks Brothers put their new button-down collar on sport shirts in the early 1900s, they marketed them as polo shirts. The tan, double-breasted overcoat popular with Ivy Style aficionados…