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Smart Forest Management

from AP For tribes, ‘good fire’ a key to restoring nature and people By JOHN FLESHER WEITCHPEC, Calif. (AP) — Elizabeth Azzuz stood in prayer on a Northern California mountainside, arms outstretched, grasping a handmade torch of dried wormwood branches, the fuel her Native American ancestors used for generations to burn underbrush in thick forest. […]

Cosmic Pit Stops

from Defense One The Military is Preparing for a ‘Space Superhighway,’ Complete with Pit Stops Those hubs would do more than refuel spaceships; they are seen as key to staying ahead of China. BY TARA COPP Like any family road trip, future missions to the moon and beyond may require a few pit stops.  U.S. […]

The Troubled Teen Machine

from The New Yorker The Shadow Penal System for Struggling Kids By Rachel Aviv In the spring of her freshman year of high school, in 2011, Emma Burris was woken at three in the morning. Someone had turned on the lights in her room. She was facing the wall and saw a man’s shadow. She […]

The Dreamverse

from Nautilus Weird Dreams Train Our Brains to Be Better Learners BY JIM DAVIES For many of us over the last year and more, our waking experience has, you might say, lost a bit of its variety. We spend more time with the same people, in our homes, and go to fewer places. Our stimuli […]

Metaverse Emerging

from The Wall Street Journal THE AMAZING THINGS YOU’LL DO IN THE ‘METAVERSE’ AND WHAT IT WILL TAKE TO GET THERE Tech visionaries foresee a vast, immersive world that mirrors and extends the real one, allowing people to do and be what previously could only be imagined by SARAH E. NEEDLEMAN Since the dawn of […]

Cultural Karens Killing Comedy

from the New York Post ‘Airplane!’ creator slams joy-killing threat: ‘Twitter 9 percent’ By David Zucker Last year marked the 40th anniversary of the release of “Airplane!,” the comedy I wrote and directed with my brother Jerry and our friend Jim Abrahams. Just before the world shut down, Paramount held a screening at the Egyptian […]

Prince William Jealous He Didn’t Get To Go To Space

from Entertainment Tonight William Shatner Reacts to Prince William’s Disapproval of Space Race By Paige Gawley‍ William Shatner is responding to Prince William‘s criticism of space travel. ET’s Nischelle Turner spoke with the 90-year-old actor on Thursday, one day after he traveled to space, and Shatner was quick to defend his journey, and space travel as a whole. “He’s a […]

Chasing Caravaggio

from The Wall Street Journal How the Chase for the Latest ‘Lost’ Caravaggio Has Captivated Europe’s Art World If authenticated, a painting by the Baroque master—initially listed at auction this past spring for around $1,800 and potentially worth millions—could become one of the most valuable old master artworks in the world. By Willem Marx Late this […]

Don Brando

from Vanity Fair “Marlon Was as Dead as Could Be”: How Brando Beat the Odds and Became the Godfather He was the only actor Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola could imagine as Mafia patriarch Don Corleone in The Godfather. There were just two problems: The studio didn’t want Brando, and Brando didn’t want the […]

Cosmic Fireball, cool

from Study Finds Fire and brimstone: Sodom and Gomorrah perhaps destroyed by ‘cosmic fireball,’ evidence shows SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — The biblical “sin cities” of Sodom and Gomorrah could have been destroyed by a meteor “cloudburst” that incinerated all 8,000 inhabitants, a fascinating new study suggests. The giant space rock exploded over the town 3,650 years […]