AvatarEMSJAvatarAvatar‘Her eyes stay shut. She doesn’t respond. But nothing feels real until I tell her’: visiting my mother’s care home after a yearverified_publisherThe Guardian - Katherine HeinyFor the past year, the pandemic stopped novelist Katherine Heiny from seeing her mother. Now that she can, where will she start?
AvatarEMSJFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoNew warp drive research dashes faster than light travel dreams – but reveals stranger possibilitiestheconversation.com - Sam BaronIn 1994, physicist Miguel Alcubierre proposed a radical technology that would allow faster than light travel: the warp drive, a hypothetical way to …
AvatarEMSJFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoNew Trevor Paglen Documentary Peers Inside Artist’s Attempts to Watch the Watchersartnews.com - Alex GreenbergerTechnically, you can’t photograph something that’s nearly invisible, but that hasn’t stopped a number of artists from trying. During the 1960s, …
AvatarEMSJAvatarAvatarWild myths I believed about white people: Notes on race, American ignorance and the Capitol riotsverified_publisherSalon - By Darryl RobertsonThe Greyhound bus was quiet. The day was dreary. And I was madly uncomfortable. "What time is it?" I asked a guy sitting across the aisle. "It's 2 p.m.," he said. After nearly four years, I had finally been released from Mississippi State Prison at Parchman. The Greyhound bounced over bumps, wrapped …
AvatarEMSJAvatarAvatarMy Fourth-Grade Teacher Taught Me a Relaxation Technique That My Kids and I Use to This Dayverified_publisherPOPSUGAR - Katy AndersonThe best relaxation techniques I've ever learned were taught to me by my fourth-grade teacher. She would turn off the lights, instruct us to sit with both feet planted to the floor, with our arms to our sides. Then, she would turn on a CD (yes, I'm aging myself) that would play soft music and a …
AvatarEMSJAvatarAvatarFrom chaos to free willAeon Media - George EllisThe French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827) believed that the Universe was a piece of machinery, and that physics determines …
AvatarEMSJAvatarAvatarHerd Of Fuzzy Green 'Glacier Mice' Baffles Scientistsverified_publisherNPR - Nell GreenfieldboyceIn 2006, while hiking around the Root Glacier in Alaska to set up scientific instruments, researcher Tim Bartholomaus encountered something unexpected. "What the heck is this!" Bartholomaus recalls thinking. He's a glaciologist at the University of Idaho. Scattered across the glacier were balls of …
AvatarEMSJAvatarAvatarWhy are liberals more afraid of the coronavirus than conservatives?verified_publisherVox - Ezra KleinCovid-19 and the complex politics of fear. In recent years, there’s been an explosion of academic work on the psychological foundations of our politics. The basic theory goes like this: Some people are innately more suspicious of change, of outsiders, of novelty. That base orientation will nudge …
AvatarEMSJAvatarAvatarThe Prophecies of Qverified_publisherThe Atlantic - By Adrienne LaFranceAmerican conspiracy theories are entering a dangerous new phase. If you were an adherent, no one would be able to tell. You would look like any other American. You could be a mother, picking leftovers off your toddler’s plate. You could be the young man in headphones across the street. You could be …
AvatarEMSJAvatarAvatarSince I Met Edward Snowden, I’ve Never Stopped Watching My Backverified_publisherThe Atlantic - By Barton GellmanAfter receiving a trove of documents from the whistleblower, I found myself under surveillance and investigation by the U.S. government. “What time exactly does your clock say?” asked the voice on the telephone, the first words Edward Snowden ever spoke to me aloud. (Our previous communications had …
AvatarEMSJAvatarAvatarOpinion | What Liberals Don’t Get About Trump Supporters and Pop Cultureverified_publisherPOLITICO - Opinion by Derek RobertsonThe seemingly bizarre pop culture takes emanating from MAGA world are just reflections of its core philosophy. When President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign manager, Brad Parscale, triumphantly invoked the “Star Wars” universe to liken the president’s reelection effort to the “Death Star,” all but …
AvatarEMSJAvatarAvatarThere’s A Billion Dollar Monster Hiding In Those Covid-19 Student Class-Action LawsuitsForbes - Derek NewtonColleges and universities closing their campuses and shifting to online programs, was certain to end poorly. And it’s about to, and maybe even far worse than anyone imagined. That’s because now the lawsuits have started. And that could be a very big deal – not just for the colleges, but for the …