A plastic spoon's worth of tiny fragments, quietly accumulating inside the human brain. That image is no longer science fiction....
Ghost orchid in the machine
Vacuum cleaners, personal massagers, electronic baby rockers, and walking pads: These are the secondhand machines Rachel Youn sources to create their kinetic sculptures. Made with artificial flowers, metal hardware, and these used electronic components, each one possesses a humanlike presence. Slow Burn is made from an artificial orchid, a neck massager, bits of metal that […]
The South Korean president is doing quote-post diplomacy
“This is no different from Comfort Women or the Holocaust,” wrote South Korean President Lee Jae-myung on X last week, quoting a post with a video of Israeli Defense Forces soldiers throwing a body off a rooftop in Gaza. The president’s post kicked off an internet firestorm for a thousand different reasons, not least because […]
The Destroyed Remnants of a Lost World Are Falling to Earth, Scientists Discover
A rare class of meteorites called angrites likely come from a strange protoplanet that was catastrophically destroyed in the early solar system, leaving only fragmentary remnants.
America’s True Fascist Architectural Legacy
Kate Wagner
It’s not the kitschy White House ballroom—it’s logistics warehouses converted to ICE detention centers.
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Entire Animal Kingdom Communicates at the Same Tempo
Species from fireflies to humans communicate at a shared tempo of 2 hertz. This “universal beat” matches the natural processing speed of animal brains.
FTC pushes ad agencies into dropping brand safety rules
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and a group of eight states have announced a proposed settlement with big ad agencies that will prevent them from working together to avoid certain platforms like X based on their political viewpoints. In a complaint, the FTC argues that ad agencies violated antitrust rules by agreeing to a common […]
