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- Out of thin air: the mystery of the man who fell from the sky - ”In 2019, the body of a man fell from a passenger plane into a garden in south London. Who was he?” Sirin Kale on the quest to identify the stowaway.
- Legends and science of bottomless pits, bogs, and lakes - ”There are countless holes in the ground. Some have water. Some are just open void and darkness. The most important thing one might ask about a hole is how deep it is. When we can’t readily discern the depth, the hole begets additional legendary characteristics.” All kinds of examples of spooky holes in the ground
- Mathematicians Settle Erdős Coloring Conjecture - ”Fifty years ago, Paul Erdős and two other mathematicians came up with a graph theory problem that they thought they might solve on the spot. A team of mathematicians has finally settled it.”
- Lena - A short story by qntm, written in the form of a Wikipedia entry: ”MMAcevedo (Mnemonic Map/Acevedo), also known as Miguel, is the earliest executable image of a human brain. It is a snapshot of the living brain of neurology graduate Miguel Álvarez Acevedo (2010–2073), taken by researchers at the Uplift Laboratory at the University of New Mexico on August 1, 2031. Though it was not the first successful snapshot taken of the living state of a human brain, it was the first to be captured with sufficient fidelity that it could be run in simulation on computer hardware without succumbing to cascading errors and rapidly crashing.”
- Escape from White City - ”Romania's star runner, a cast of 25,000, and a plot fo flee the Iron Curtain.” The story of Ion Opris, a champion runner who wanted to defect during the 1956 Amateur Athletic Association Championships in London.
- The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme - A large collection of links to various intriguing matters relating to computers and security, among other things: ”this is not a hall of shame. the intent is to awaken you to many of the peculiarities and weirdness of computers. hopefully, after reading these articles, you will have learned a lot and will embrace chaos.”
- A Kidnapping Gone Very Wrong - ”In 1974, John Patterson was abducted by the People’s Liberation Army of Mexico—a group no one had heard of before. The kidnappers wanted $500,000, and insisted that Patterson’s wife deliver the ransom.”
- Wings of exploration: reflecting on the 40th anniversary of the space shuttle - A look back at the history of the Shuttle: ”It began as a humble idea for an ambitious new future of space exploration in the age of Apollo. A bright age of lunar and space exploration cut short by political motives, slashed budgetary constraints, and leadership changes, the mission to find America’s next venture into spaceflight after Apollo was well underway in the 1960s. This program developed under NASA’s Space Shuttle Task Group, stemming off decades of research, would ultimately become the Shuttle Transportation System.”
- Yamauchi No.10 Family Office - Who needs Flash?
”Hiroshi Yamauchi was the third president of Nintendo Co., Ltd. He was one of those people who possessed truly unique creativity and a pioneering mindset, along with foresight and the understanding of what users wanted… Drawing inspiration from Hiroshi Yamauchi’s journey and achievement, we at Yamauchi No.10 Family Office are determined to create a society that encourages people to nurture their unique creativity, pioneering mindsets, and passion, while making sure that we retain our foresight as well as understanding of users’ perspectives.” - Minuscule Scenes Appear Against the Backdrop of Used Tea Bags in Watercolor Paintings by Ruby Silvious - ”From her studio in Coxsackie, New York, Ruby Silvious repurposes the thin paper pouches holding her beverage of choice into miniature canvases. Sometimes strung together or ripped to remove the leaves, Silvious’s tea bags depict the quiet, unassuming moments of everyday life.”
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