AvatarGo Luckflipped into FunAvatarAvatar4 days agoThe Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: Uncommonly Lovely Invented Words for What We Feel but Cannot NameThe Marginalian - Maria Popova“Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it,” Ursula K. Le Guin wrote in her exquisite manifesto for the magic of real human conversation. …
AvatarGo Luckflipped into FunFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoAnnie Dillard’s “Total Eclipse” is the best thing you can read about the eclipse today.lithub.com - Emily TempleFor obvious reasons, today is an excellent day to read Annie Dillard’s 1982 masterpiece “Total Eclipse,” in which she describes seeing a solar …
AvatarGo Luckflipped into FunAvatarAvatarOver 13 Million People Watched This Guy Unbox One Of Amazon's $19,999 Tiny Homes, And The Reactions Are BleakBuzzFeed - Alexa LisitzaUnfortunately, this may be the only home I can ever afford. I'm sure I don't have to tell you how messed up the housing market feels right now. According to Bankrate, the average home price in the US hovers around $387,600. This means buyers should make around $106,000 annually, have $50,000 for a …
AvatarGo Luckflipped into FunAvatarAvatarNew staggering losses and increasing mayhem are rocking the Russian ArmyKyiv Post - Jason Jay SmartChuck Pfarrer, a former squadron leader of SEAL Team 6, explains why Russia, despite having substantially more troops than Ukraine, is failing to …
AvatarGo Luckflipped into FunAvatarAvatar3 Body Problem: Does The 'Dark Forest' Theory Solve The Fermi Paradox?verified_publisherScienceAlert - Tony MilliganWe have no good reason to believe that aliens have ever contacted Earth. Sure, there are conspiracy theories, and some rather strange reports about …
AvatarGo Luckflipped into FunFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoIn Iceland, Jan Erik Waider Captures Voluminous Bubbles Locked in a Frozen Glacial Lake — Colossalthisiscolossal.com - Kate MothesDecaying organic matter settled on the floor of a lake—or in the case of arctic regions, emerged from the ancient depths of melting glaciers—can …
AvatarGo Luckflipped into FunAvatarAvatarIn His Garage, an Untrained Artist Created a Work of Sublime DivinitySmithsonian Magazine - Jeff MacGregorFor some 14 years he labored in solitude. Lovingly. Obsessively. Every night after work, in a rented garage on 7th Street NW in Washington, D.C., …
AvatarGo Luckflipped into FunFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoTrump Challenged to 100K Golf Match - With USGA Officials Watchingpolitizoom.com - Denis ElliottI don’t know if there’s a hashtag for Trump’s cheating overall, or if there are specific ones. I’m admittedly not that savvy in social media stuff. …
AvatarGo Luckflipped into FunFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoHow to Avoid The New iPhone Phishing Attackgeeky-gadgets.com - Roland HutchinsonA recent analysis reveals a phishing attack targeting Apple ID passwords through misleading systemwide alerts. It’s essential to understand this …
AvatarGo Luckflipped into FunAvatarAvatarThe Nuclear Explosion That Makes US Aid to Israel IllegalThe Nation - James BamfordIsrael’s nuclear program has been in violation of international law for decades, rendering it ineligible for American assistance. The researchers were …
AvatarGo Luckflipped into FunFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoNobelist Daniel Kahneman, a pioneer of behavioral economics, is dead at 90wsoctv.com - DAVID HAMILTON(AP) — Daniel Kahneman, a psychologist who won a Nobel Prize in economics for his insights into how ingrained neurological biases influence decision …
AvatarGo Luckflipped into FunAvatarAvatarHere’s How Nuclear War Could “Destroy Civilization” in Just a Few Hoursverified_publisherVanity Fair - By Jon SkolnikAnd why Putin and Trump present major danger to the United States’ nuclear paradigm. Twenty-four minutes. That’s how long it would take—just 1,440 seconds—for a nuclear warhead to travel from North Korea to the largest nuclear power plant in California, where it could set off a chain reaction of …