Category: Lifestyle
‘Invasion of Monkeys This Morning’
Where is this?Banani DOHS, adjacent to Kurmitola golf course (Dhaka).Omg…Playing golf?Where is it? So many?See…
Future of Food: Four Myths About Vertical Farming Debunked by an Expert
by Zoe Harris at Singularity Hub: Vertical farms look high-tech and sophisticated, but the premise…
A Doctor Told the Truth. The Feds Showed Up at His Door.
by Emily Yoffe at The Free Press: Eithan Haim, 34, is at the beginning of…
What We Can Learn From the Decadent Movement
by Kate Hext at Aeon: At its most extreme, Decadence is a reckless pursuit of…
Tolstoy’s Grave
By Stefan Zweig at Poetic Outlaws: For I saw nothing more magnificent, nothing more moving…
Bizarre Bacteria Defy Textbooks by Writing New Genes
Ewen Callaway in Nature: Genetic information usually travels down a one-way street: genes written in DNA…
Does Sleep Really Clean the Brain? Maybe Not, New Paper Argues
Sara Reardon in Science: We all need sleep, but no one really knows why. For the…
How the Murder of a Black Grocery Store Owner and His Colleagues Galvanized Ida B. Wells’ Anti-Lynching Crusade
From Smithsonian: Coppery like a penny, thick like bad molasses, even a little gamey like a…
Real Learning Has Become Impossible in Universities: DIY Programs Offer a Better Way
William Deresiewicz at Persuasion: Higher ed is at an impasse. So much about it sucks,…
Last Three Wishes of Alexander The Great
Shared by Masroor Ali, NJ: On his death bed, Alexander the Great summoned his generals and…
Where am I?
From the MIT Press Reader: When Daniel Dennett’s essay collection “Brainstorms” was published in 1978,…
Records of Pompeii’s Survivors Have Been Found – and Archaeologists are Starting to Understand How They Rebuilt Their Lives
by Steven L. Tuck at The Conversation: On Aug. 24, in A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius…