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A Million Little Corals

from WIRED A Million Little Pieces: The Race to Rebuild the World’s Coral Reefs Nearly half of these ocean ecosystems have been wiped out since 1950. One man is on a mission to reverse that—by speed-growing coral in hyperefficient nurseries. by ROWAN MOORE GERETY LISA CARNE WAS swimming through a bed of seagrass in northern Belize […]

Boom Montana

from Washington Post via MSN The nuclear missile next door by Eli Saslow WINIFRED, Montana — Ed Butcher, 78, tied up his horse, kicked mud off his cowboy boots and walked into his house for dinner. He’d been working on the ranch for most of the day, miles away from cellphone range. “What did I […]

Move Over Mundi

from Vanity Fair Will This Warhol Become the Most Expensive Artwork Ever Sold? When one of the pop artist’s famed portraits of Marilyn Monroe goes to auction next month, some observers think it could fetch up to half a billion dollars. What is it about this particular work that gives it such potential to break […]

The Lonely Hole

from Astronomy Astronomers detect first potential ‘rogue’ black hole We’ve seen plenty of black holes tearing material off a companion, but not sitting alone in space. Now, we might have spotted one. By Ashley Balzer Each second, a brand new baby black hole is born somewhere in the cosmos as a massive star collapses under its […]

Scaryverse

from Yahoo! Finance Metaverse without regulation would be a ‘very scary prospect,’ experts warn by Alexis Keenan Meta Platforms (FB), formerly known as Facebook, lost an attempt last week to quash a proposal from shareholders who want to know whether its planned virtual world will cause real-world harm. The question comes as critics of the metaverse voice […]

Mamet Uncensored

from The Wall Street Journal David Mamet Is a Defiant Scribe in the Age of Conformity The playwright won’t play along with woke signaling, talismanic masking or deference to petty tyrants. By Barton Swaim Back in the 1980s and ’90s, innumerable films, TV documentaries and history textbooks instructed us that the 1950s were years of conformity […]

Bet on Ice Cream in the first.

from People Magazine Michelle Pfeiffer Bought Her Iconic Scarface Sunglasses for Just $3 By Bianca Brutus Who says timeless style has to cost a mint? Not Michelle Pfeiffer! The Scarface star told Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest on Friday morning that her says her iconic cat eye sunglasses from the film cost only a few dollars.  The actress, 63, posted a still from the film […]

Trapping Fish With Giant Penises

from Nautilus The Genius of Fishing with Tidal Weirs Native and non-native scientists have come together to counter overfishing with an ancient practice. BY KATA KARÁTH Seen from the air, the Micronesian state of Yap is a jewel-green archipelago of dense forests patched with taro fields, fringed by mazes of mangroves, and trimmed by coral […]

Burritoverse

from The U.S. Sun Inside Chipotle in the metaverse where users can roll virtual burritos they can never eat by Charlotte Edwards CHIPOTLE is entering the metaverse and encouraging Roblox players to roll virtual burritos they can’t eat. Although a virtual burrito is pretty useless, some lucky users will be able to exchange their virtual […]

The New Unreal

from TIME Inside Epic’s Unreal Engine 5—and What It Means for the Future of Gaming, Movies, and the Metaverse BY ANDREW R. CHOW For years, the 3D software development tool Unreal Engine has powered some of the biggest video games on the market—from Fortnite to Valorant—as well as television shows like The Mandalorian and even Porsche engineering. On Tuesday, Epic Games showed off the […]