Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Friday, March 28, 2025
A guide to the Unknown Other, Damien Cifelli
The landscapes are as diverse and enigmatic as its inhabitants, who commune with bodies of water, traverse the desert in a suit, and size up an enigmatic object on a dinner plate.
Cifelli’s stylish figures investigate their environment to try to understand their place within it.
Many of the paintings shown here were recently exhibited at Spinello Projects in Miami, emphasizing the artist’s recent focus on analyzing what life is like in this fictive world.
Magnitude-7.7 earthquake hits Myanmar
People take pictures of the site where the building collapsed. Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP/Getty Images
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
$1.4m for a human life.
The former boxer, now 89, was exonerated in 2024 of a 1966 quadruple murder after a tireless campaign by his sister and others.
The Shizuoka District Court, in a decision dated Monday, said that “the claimant shall be granted 217,362,500,000 yen”, a court spokesperson told AFP.
The same court ruled in September that Hakamada was not guilty in a retrial and that police had tampered with evidence.
Huge screw-up
According to reporting in the Atlantic, the editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, was accidentally invited into a Signal chat group with more than a dozen senior Trump administration officials including Vice-President JD Vance, the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, national security adviser, Mike Waltz, secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, and others.
The reporting exposes not only a historic mishandling of national security information but a potentially illegal communication chain in which sensitive military plans about airstrikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen were casually shared in an encrypted group chat with automatic delete functions.
Monday, March 24, 2025
Where Flowers May Grow, Azuma Makoto
Friday, March 21, 2025
Shopping for Superman
Shopping for Superman is a 50-year story of the neighborhood comic shops that are tragically dying off even though we need them more than ever.
Why Your Brain Blinds You For 2 Hours Every Day
Reality is not real. Your world is a prediction. Every sight, sound, and touch you experience is the result of calculations your brain makes before reality even reaches you.
It fills in gaps, fabricates details, and even alters time itself so you feel like you’re in control.
But if everything you know is an illusion… what does that say about you?
What does it mean for your choices? Is there even free will?
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Sunset on the Moon
Nasa has released the first high-definition images of a sunset on the moon, two striking photographs taken by the private lander Blue Ghost that could offer scientists further clues to the mysterious phenomenon known as lunar horizon glow.
Home at Last
Saturday, March 15, 2025
Oddly catchy remix of Hootie & the Blowfish singing to The Smiths' music
Musical mashup maker William Maracni created this curious remix of Hootie & the Blowfish
singing their two hits—"I Only Wanna Be With You" and "Hold my Hand"—to the music of The Smiths' "Cemetery Gates."
Pop Group Analog Society Performs Live Song Mashups
Analog Society is a British vocal group that performs covers and original songs, but has become known for their clever musical mashups, when they combine two songs that may be from different decades but sound good together.
The video above has them mashing up "Somebody That I used to Know" from Gotye and "Dreams" by Fleetwood Mac.
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