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As we head into the final days of October, the Chicago Public School strike continues. The Chicago Teachers Union is fighting for the addition of nurses and social workers and against overcrowded classrooms. We’d like to lend our support! Here are…

ift.tt/34kXQAJ In this week’s live QA, we talked about rotating space stations, the materials that can be made in space, what telescopes and binoculars I use. And there were a lot of questions about James Webb. 04:15 When will we…

ift.tt/2WrdOGE In the lowlands of Bolivia, the most isolated of the Tsimané people live in communities without electricity; they don’t own televisions, computers or phones, and even battery-powered radios are rare. Their minimal exposure to Western culture happens mostly during…

ift.tt/2NAVyXx I am currently living in a zone with regular multi-day power outages in California. I have already experienced three multi-day power outages in the last month and will likely have another one later this week. Any time there…

ift.tt/2ouGuC8 VIDEO How well do you deal with sudden and unexpected change? If you want to learn more about coping with uncertainty and dealing with stress, discover our range of tools here. The world is an uncertain place. Things change…

ift.tt/2MainCQ Partner 4 Working Designers Share Advice on How to Turn Your Side Interest Into a Career You have a vision board for every room, an eagle eye for telling Eames knock-offs from the real deal, and strong opinions about…

ift.tt/2BPwarn The all electric MINI Cooper SE will be in US showrooms in March starting at $29,900. Driving fun with zero emissions awaits. via ift.tt/2Nmm2vp ift.tt/1Ka26ov

ift.tt/2JvtjIx Sim-Plex Design Studio blew our minds earlier this year with a family apartment whose compact spaces were flexible to accommodate three people and their pets. The design studio recently completed another apartment in Hong Kong with clever storage solutions,…

ift.tt/2WqF4F9 Nowadays almost anything and everything is eco-friendly and sustainable, so why not our vacation getaways? Inspired by this ideology, Finnish designer Robin Falck created an A-frame mirrored holiday house, ‘Nolla’. Literally meaning ‘zero’ in Finnish, Nolla was designed by…

ift.tt/2BRYTMe the louvre has partnered with HTC VIVE arts to create its first virtual reality experience. called ‘mona lisa: beyond the glass,’ it uses infrared, x-ray and refractive data to render the iconic portrait in 3D and deduce what she…

ift.tt/2NlMmG7 Each year since 2014, a group in Japan holds a Halloween event where people come dressed not as witches, Avengers, or zombies but in everyday “mundane” costumes. This year’s costumes include “woman who forgot to take out the trash”…

ift.tt/2WpmxJl Every October, the country of Peru becomes fixated on the color purple in preparation for one of its most important religious events: El Señor de los Milagros, or the Lord of Miracles. Catholic Peruvians all over celebrate this feast…

ift.tt/2JtJFBa Chaat comes from the Hindi word chaatna, which means “to lick.” Culinarily, it’s an umbrella term for a group of snacks that are predominantly sold as street food throughout India. Two features bind chaat dishes: 1) a host of…

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ift.tt/2BT1DJj The universe is a bubbling cauldron of matter and energy that have mixed together over billions of years to create a witches’ brew of birth and destruction. Firestorms of star birth sweeping across the heavens. Dying stars rattling the…

ift.tt/2JptDbF Magnetars have long been an astrophysical mystery. These compact hunks of nuclear matter — the ultradense remnants of supermassive stars — generate the most extreme magnetic fields in the universe. Researchers have debated exactly how these magnetic fields come…

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ift.tt/2MIZx4T Colin Dickey | Longreads | October 2019 | 14 minutes (3,729 words) “The daimyō’s wife was dying, and knew that she was dying.” So begins Lafcadio Hearn’s uneasy and unsettling ghost story, “Ingwa-Banashi,” gathered first in his 1899 collection, In…