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WEB“Milton Is the Hurricane That Scientists Were Dreading” Zoë Schlanger writes about the potentially dangerous and incredibly powerful hurricane now bearing down on Florida’s Gulf Coast and how it’s been supercharged in several ways by climate change.. As Hurricane Milton exploded from a Category 1 storm into a Category 5 storm over the course of 12 hours yesterday, climate scientists ...
The Surprising Ages of the Founding Fathers on July 4, 1776
WEBAug 13, 2013 — The Surprising Ages of the Founding Fathers on July 4, 1776. For the Journal of the American Revolution, Todd Andrlik compiled a list of the ages of the key participants in the Revolutionary War as of July 4, 1776.Many of them were surprisingly young: Marquis de Lafayette, 18
“What My Adult Autism Diagnosis Finally Explained” - kottke.org
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The Art of Work in the Age of AI Production - kottke.org
WEBMay 3, 2024 — The Art of Work in the Age of AI Production. I enjoyed Ezra Klein’s podcast conversation with Nilay Patel, the editor of The Verge.They talked about media and AI mostly. (First of all, anyone who says they’re trying to “revolutionize the media through blog posts” is a-ok in my book.). Anyway, here’s Patel on …
Ta-Nehisi Coates & Jon Stewart: Understanding the Humiliation of …
WEBOct 3, 2024 — I got a lot out of this interview with The Message author Ta-Nehisi Coates by Jon Stewart for The Daily Show. Best-selling author Ta-Nehisi Coates sits down with Jon Stewart to talk about his latest book, “The Message,” and reconciling past and present vestiges of oppression. They discuss his ...
Listen to a Performance of Some New Mozart Music
WEBSep 25, 2024 — Researchers say the music fits stylistically with other works from the 1760s, when Mozart was between the ages of 10 and 13. Ulrich Leisinger, head of research at the foundation, tells Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) that the young composer was no longer creating pieces that sounded like this one by the time he was in his late teens.
Public Work: A Fast Search Engine for Public Domain Images
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Is My Blue Your Blue? A visual perception test that judges w...
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Is this a photo of Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday, Jesse James?
WEBMay 8, 2013 — Is this a photo of Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday, Jesse James? This is purported to be a photo of (from l to r) Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday, Jesse James, and Charlie Bowdre. The story goes that the photo was taken in 1879 in Las Vegas, New Mexico, at a time when each of the men may have been in town. It’s entirely plausible that these men all met and posed for a photo, but as there doesn’t ...
An online collection of high-res scans of M.C. Escher’s prints
WEBMay 8, 2018 — The Boston Public Library has digitized their collection of M.C. Escher prints; browse the whole collection here. The level of zoom you can get to with these images is amazing. Traveling to Spain in 1936, Escher visited the Alhambra for the second ti