Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Curiouser And Curiouser

The calf is estimated to have been 1 year old, and was found Friday on Marajó Island.
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BIG MYSTERIES
THE WEIRD WHALE OF FORTUNE
There's A Dead Humpback Whale In The Amazon Jungle And Nobody Knows Why
motherboard.vice.com
The calf is estimated to have been 1 year old, and was found Friday on Marajó Island.
WHAT'S THE (DARK) MATTER?
Have Dark Forces Been Messing With The Cosmos?
nytimes.com
Axions? Phantom energy? Astrophysicists scramble to patch a hole in the universe, rewriting cosmic history in the process.
I'M SORRY DAVE, I'M AFRAID I CAN'T DO THAT
Why Are Bots Unable To Check 'I Am Not A Robot' Checkboxes?
mentalfloss.com
How complicated can one little checkbox be? You can't even imagine.
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ALL TALK, LITTLE ACTION
OBSERVATION WITHOUT THE OBSERVER EFFECT
Studying An Emerging Sign Language Won't Kill It — So What Are Linguists Scared Of?
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Emerging sign languages could reveal how all language evolved, but keeping these fragile languages isolated for research may mean the people who rely on them lose out.
BEAR MARKET
Elon Musk's High-Speed Chicago Tunnel Project Is In Trouble
theverge.com
Politics, red tape and scandal threaten to derail Musk's promise of a 150-mile-per-hour transit system.
NEW NEW HUMANISM
The Philosophy Of Creative Writing
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Every year, 20,000 aspiring writers applying to MFA programs at colleges and universities across the United States. What exactly do they seek to learn?
VIDEO OF THE DAY
THE MALTESE FALCON
This Gymnast's Backflip-To-Handstand Trick Will Make You Gasp
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Alexander Didenko could beat your dad in an arm wrestling contest, we guarantee it.
IN THE NEWS
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Alabama Newspaper Publisher Who Praised The KKK Replaced By Black Woman
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