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April 2, 2016
Zaha Hadid Gone
from WIRED Superstar Architect Zaha Hadid Is Dead at 65 Zahad Hadid in her London office in 1985. CHRISTOPHER PILLITZ/GETTY IMAGES ZAHA HADID, ONE of architecture’s biggest stars, has passed away at age 65. According to the website of the Iraqi-born, London-based designer, she suffered a heart attack in a Miami hospital while being treated for bronchitis. Hadid, who is […]
April 1, 2016
Invisible Oort Cloud Coming To Kill Us All
from New Scientist The Oort cloud surrounds our solar system – why can’t we see it? It’s a giant sphere of a trillion rocks encircling us that occasionally sends comets slinging our way. That’s a convincing story – but we’d love some direct evidence Oort cloud: out of the darkness Credit: Jon Lomberg/SPL You’ll find […]
Invisible Oort Cloud Coming To Kill Us
from New Scientist The Oort cloud surrounds our solar system – why can’t we see it? It’s a giant sphere of a trillion rocks encircling us that occasionally sends comets slinging our way. That’s a convincing story – but we’d love some direct evidence Oort cloud: out of the darkness Credit: Jon Lomberg/SPL You’ll find […]
March 31, 2016
SANDALS On The Moon
from The Mirror Online Tourist resort on the MOON will let brave holidaymakers bask in constant sunshine BY JASPER HAMILL Sun, sand and spacesuits: Would you fancy a holiday on the moon? The European Space Agency has claimed its incredible “moon village” will one day allow tourists to stay on the moon. Johann-Dietrich Wörner, ESA […]
March 30, 2016
Simonoff Wins Maxwell E. Perkins Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Field of Fiction
from Booktrade Eric Simonoff Winner Of Center For Fiction’s Maxwell E. Perkins Award ERIC SIMONOFF NAMED WINNER OF THE 2016 MAXWELL E. PERKINS AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT IN THE FIELD OF FICTION Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times March 29th, 2016, New York, NY — The Center for Fiction is pleased to announce that literary agent Eric […]
March 29, 2016
We Shall Be Superheroes
from The Guardian Science and superheroes: how close are we to creating real superpowers? As Marvel’s Deadpool hits screens we ask: with three out of five fictional superheroes owing their powers to science, will we ever have real superpowers? by Damien Walter Deadpool: an assassin with accelerated healing powers. Seems plausible, right? Photograph: Allstar/20th Century Fox […]
March 28, 2016
Adult Diapers Explode
from Bloomberg Business The Adult Diaper Market Is About to Take Off Sales of adult incontinence garments in the U.S. could equal those of baby diapers in a decade. by Carol Hymowitz, Lauren Coleman-Lochner Source: Depend Thanks to the endless determination of parents to keep baby bottoms dry, Kimberly-Clark’s Huggies diapers brand has become a global powerhouse, […]
March 27, 2016
Take That, Salad-eaters
from The LA Times How raw meat — and our ancestors’ inability to chew it — changed the course of human evolution by Deborah Netburn A new study suggests that neither we nor our ancestors were capable of eating raw meat without some form of processing. (Randy Leffingwell / Los Angeles Times) Paleoanthropologist Daniel Lieberman chewed raw […]
March 26, 2016
Patternizing Primes (or, Re-defining Random)
from Quanta Magazine Mathematicians Discover Prime Conspiracy A previously unnoticed property of prime numbers seems to violate a longstanding assumption about how they behave. By Erica Klarreich Zim + Teemo for Quanta Magazine Two mathematicians have uncovered a simple, previously unnoticed property of prime numbers — those numbers that are divisible only by 1 and […]
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