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The Death Of Poe

from The Daily Beast Edgar Allan Poe’s Final Macabre Mystery: His Own Death On Oct. 7, 1849, Edgar Allan Poe died under mysterious circumstances at the age of 40. Alcoholism was listed as the cause of death, but what really killed him remains a mystery. by Allison McNearney Imagine a 19th century mystery that begins […]

Invincible Stonehenge

from artnet Scientists Have Conducted Tests That Reveal Stonehenge Is Made From a Nearly Indestructible Ancient Material A rare core sample, removed years ago, contains a form of quartz that doesn’t erode or crumble. by Sarah Cascone A long lost piece of England’s Stonehenge monument is helping experts understand the mysterious prehistoric structure. Analysis of […]

The Adolescents of NFT

from The New York Times Teens Cash In on the NFT Art Boom Forget mowing lawns and bagging groceries. Some Gen Z kids are finding other ways to make money this summer. By Steven Kurutz Last fall, Randi Hipper decided to, as she put it recently, “go in-depth with the crypto space.” After hearing about NFTs […]

Finding Home

from The Atlantic Faraway Planets Don’t Seem So Distant Anymore Astronomers are stepping up their attempts to unravel the mysteries of exoplanets. By Marina Koren One of astronomy’s most exciting discoveries began, as did many things in the 1990s, with a fax. Didier Queloz, then an astronomer at the University of Geneva, spent the summer of […]

Stuck In The Middle

from Deadline Quentin Tarantino’s Tribute To Late EMI Music Exec Pat Lucas; She Took Chance On Him & OK’d Use Of ‘Reservoir Dogs’ Tune That Launched His Career By Mike Fleming Jr Pat Lucas, the former EMI Music executive who was a longtime friend to filmmakers she licensed songs to for their films, has died after […]

Agre’s Prophecy

from Washington Post via MSN He predicted the dark side of the Internet 30 years ago. Why did no one listen? by Reed Albergotti In 1994 — before most Americans had an email address or Internet access or even a personal computer — Philip Agre foresaw that computers would one day facilitate the mass collection […]

Evan Sherman Rocks

from Tablet How Jazz Healed a City A young musician fought back against COVID lockdowns by taking music into the streets of Manhattan and saved us all BY EMILY BENEDEK Last year, a few weeks before COVID-19 descended over the land, I bought tickets to the late show at New York’s temple of jazz, the […]

The Etherian Channeler

from artnet The Late Artist and Psychic Paulina Peavy Communed With a UFO to Create Her Work. A New Show Revives Her Otherworldly Legacy “The Etherian Channeler” at Beyond Baroque in Venice Beach reintroduces the West Coast to this singular artist. by Katie White Many artists throughout history have claimed some sort of otherworldly inspiration […]

Lithium Landscapes

from BBC How your phone battery creates striking alien landscapes By Richard Fisher and Javier Hirschfeld A wider view of Chile’s brine pools. It can take more than a year to maximise the lithium concentration by this evaporation method (Credit: Ivan Alvarado/Reuters) Beneath the screen that you are reading this on, there could be the […]

Hidden Eden Exposed

from The New Yorker The Lost Canyon Under Lake Powell Drought is shrinking one of the country’s largest reservoirs, revealing a hidden Eden. By Elizabeth Kolbert The morning after I arrived in Bullfrog, I went back to the marina to meet up with Eric Balken, the executive director of the Glen Canyon Institute. The institute, whose […]