Collaborate Disseminate
The New York Times tells the story of crop circles, “the mysterious patterns that regularly intrigued people around the world in the 1980s and ’90s, prompting speculation about alien visitors, ancient spiritual forces, weather anomalies, secret weapons… Continue reading Crop Circles – and Why People Believed in Them
In 1972, photo prints that developed before your eyes were “downright magical,” argues Fast Company — “and still meaningful today.”
A new article at Fast Company points out that while Polaroid went bankrupt twice, and stopped making cameras in 2… Continue reading 50 Years Later: a Rebirth for Polaroid’s ‘Instant Cameras’?
Slashdot reader alaskana98 writes: In what has become a stubborn sibling to the ‘Face on Mars’ phenomenon, the legend of the Dark Knight alien satellite has persisted for years and is the fascinating story of a seemingly mundane NASA photo tied togethe… Continue reading The Exotic Legend of the Dark Knight Alien Satellite Meets Mundane Reality
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln pardoned a soldier in the Civil War, and in 1998 that document was re-discovered. But “It was the date that made the document significant,” writes Ars Technica: April 14, 1865, “meaning the pardon was likely one of the la… Continue reading X-ray Analysis Confirms Forged Date On Lincoln Pardon of Civil War Soldier
Slashdot reader ellithligraw brings the news that the oldest person on earth has died in the Philippines this week at age 124.
CNN Philippines reports:
Susano was born on Sept. 11, 1897, which was before the country became independent from Spanish … Continue reading World’s Oldest Person Dies at Age 124
xanthos (Slashdot reader #73,578) writes: Our friends over at The Register are reporting a zero day vulnerability for one of the earliest modern computer architectures.
Pontus Johnson, a professor at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm… Continue reading Zero Day Found for Universal Turing Machine (CVE-2021-32471)
A Utah newstation interviewed the men claiming responsibility for removing the original monolith in Utah, who reveal where, why, and how they took it:
Homer Manson described how they brought tools, but in the end they were able to simply push the mono… Continue reading The Further Adventures of that Monolith Stolen in Utah
A Reddit user found Google Earth photos showing the Utah monolith may have appeared in its canyon up to five years ago, according to The Daily Beast. But it’s gone now:
Last week, a team of four people removed the Utah obelisk. One of them, a Utah adv… Continue reading All Three Monoliths Gone — Two Removed By Activist Vandals
Thursday Tesla’s web site began selling $250 bottles of Tesla-branded tequila, describing it as a “small-batch premium 100% de agave tequila anejo made from sustainably sourced highland and lowland agaves.”
Electrek explores the frenzy that followed:… Continue reading Tesla Tequila Sells Out Within Hours, Triggers Bidding Wars on eBay
Sam Baron, associate professor at Australian Catholic University, focuses on the connection between key topics in the philosophy of mathematics and the philosophy of time concerning temporal ontology.
In a recent article in Gizmodo, he answers the ul… Continue reading Could Our Entire Reality Be Part of a Simulation Created by Some Other Beings?