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ift.tt/34ffWVm Researchers have gained control of the elusive “particle” of sound, the phonon. Although phonons—the smallest units of the vibrational energy that makes up sound waves—are not matter, they can be considered particles the way photons are particles of light.…

ift.tt/2ZzyBYs Joseph Pisenti of RealLifeLore (previously) offers a “brief overview” of the longest pedestrian distance between two points on the Earth’s surface. This 14,334 mile trek, which commences at L’Agulhas, South Africa and terminates in Magadan, Russia, takes about three…

ift.tt/32esgUg Welcome to day 90 of "Let’s Stitch – A Block a Day with Natalia Bonner Today Natalia will walk you step by step through the process of machine quilting a Planetoid motif on a  quilt block. You can check…

ift.tt/2PpiVau One would think that at the end of a long day perfecting recipes in Bon Appétit’s test kitchen, the last thing that Food Director Carla Lalli Music would want to do is go home and cook dinner — but…

ift.tt/30H4xvm The tiny community of Asti, sandwiched in between Cloverdale and Healdsburg, was once home to a population of Italian Swiss immigrants who helped to popularize … via ift.tt/2ZyvnIT ift.tt/2ALlo82

ift.tt/30H4xvm The tiny community of Asti, sandwiched in between Cloverdale and Healdsburg, was once home to a population of Italian Swiss immigrants who helped to popularize … via ift.tt/2ZyvnIT ift.tt/2ALlo82

ift.tt/2NyqmJM Beneath the green vegetable world we see is a dark microbial world we don’t. The crops we eat, the forests that sustain us and most other life forms, even the regulation of Earth’s climate — all benefit from a…

ift.tt/2ZmwBaE “We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.” —from Seduction of the Minotaur, by Anaïs Nin (1961) On the 10th of April this year Pope Francis, President Salva Kiir…

ift.tt/2NB8HkF We learn from our personal interaction with the world, and our memories of those experiences help guide our behaviors. Experience and memory are inexorably linked, or at least they seemed to be before a recent report on the formation…

1. You never shower without an audience. 2. The person who refused to wear sunscreen or drink water is now having a meltdown, and it’s your job to chase them around brandishing pickles and Gatorade until they chill out. 3.…

ift.tt/2zjBkKZ On the southwestern end of the Tohono O’odham Nation’s reservation, roughly 1 mile from a barbed-wire barricade marking Arizona’s border with the Mexican state of Sonora, Ofelia Rivas leads me to the base of a hill overlooking her home.…

ift.tt/2zjBkKZ On the southwestern end of the Tohono O’odham Nation’s reservation, roughly 1 mile from a barbed-wire barricade marking Arizona’s border with the Mexican state of Sonora, Ofelia Rivas leads me to the base of a hill overlooking her home.…

ift.tt/326WQ21 Each week, we spotlight a cool innovation recommended by some of the industry’s top tech writers. This week’s pick is a wearable tail. Japanese researchers designed a wearable robotic tail that could help humans keep better balance, said Jessie…

ift.tt/2Zj2n8R Food52 is 10 years old! To celebrate a decade of all things kitchen and home, we’re rolling out our top recipes, tips, and stories for another victory lap, along with some of our very favorite memories over the years.…

ift.tt/2MDmnvN An exhibition now at the New York Historical Society features six women photographers who contributed to America’s first successful image-based magazine, and how these women’s work “contributed to LIFE’s pursuit of American identity through photojournalism.” One of the most…

ift.tt/2Zu3Sju The Goal of Gateway Foundation Von Braun Station is to build a dual-use station that is economically self-sustaining. This space station would have 11 million cubic meters of pressurized volume versus 931 meters for the International space station.…

ift.tt/33RYsOB “What an artist has to offer is obvious to just about anyone else but the artist him- or herself.” “The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious, and the best…

ift.tt/33RYsOB “What an artist has to offer is obvious to just about anyone else but the artist him- or herself.” “The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious, and the best…

ift.tt/2Z4T9wy ©Jack Latham Once a year, the enigmatic redwood forests of Monte Rio in Northern California host some of the most powerful people in the world, who meet for reasons nobody knows for sure. The secrecy surrounding this bizarre frat…

ift.tt/2ZbFFiL When AIs and humans work together they discover superior solutions to the world’s problems that would elude either working alone. Together, they will change the very process of thinking via ift.tt/2HlEzWD ift.tt/2JJBK25

ift.tt/30mC91n A mini ice age that lasted 125 years started in the 6th century. Now we may have identified the volcano that kicked it all off via ift.tt/2TOY1QL ift.tt/2JJBK25

ift.tt/2ZdIJWN During an estate sale in the late 1990s, Geoff Story was sifting through one of the grand old houses across from Forest Park when he discovered an intriguing canister of 8mm film. It was titled "A Gay Party." Story…