Who was the real Robert Oppenheimer? (www.bbc.com)
'Lost in Translation' at 20: A Tokyo perspective (www.japantimes.co.jp)
I must rewatch this....
Do Men Enter Bathtubs on Hands and Knees So Their Balls Hit the Water Last? (www.thecut.com)
The bathroom is a mysterious place. What goes on inside varies for everyone, or maybe it doesn’t; we simply do not know. The question has prompted some discussion in the past, and I suspect it will continue to do so until we are all under 24-hour government surveillance, at which point the answers will be known by those with...
How To Get Away With (the Perfect) Murder (www.gq.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/1607271...
How Plastics Are Poisoning Us (www.newyorker.com)
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Requiem for a railway (and others) from 2009~, discussing the economic downfall of the forgotten places of Japan (spikejapan.wordpress.com)
The Strange & Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit (www.gq.com)
For nearly thirty years, a phantom haunted the woods of Central Maine. Unseen and unknown, he lived in secret, creeping into homes in the dead of night and surviving on what he could steal. To the spooked locals, he became a legend—or maybe a myth. They wondered how he could possibly be real. Until one day last year, the...
‘Drought is on the verge of becoming the next pandemic’ (www.theguardian.com)
Wired: The Race to Put Silk in Nearly Everything (www.wired.com)
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/5890785...
Zweig: The writer who dreamed of a world without borders (www.bbc.com)
A special writer with special dreams.
Zebrafish avatars can help tailor glioblastoma therapies (medicalxpress.com)
The Unlikely Struggle Of The Family Whose Neighbor Is Area 51 (2015) (jalopnik.com)
Worth noting there were more developments since 2015 that are worth looking up on this story (wikipedia has a pretty collection of references)
Travelogue: From Vienna to Pyongyang by rail (vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com)
I hope a blog-style journal is acceptable in this community rather than an essay....
Initial Two Years of Oral Contraceptive Use Could Heighten Depression Risk (www.theinnovativehorizon.com)
The ‘Titan’ Submersible Disaster Was Years in the Making, New Details Reveal (archive.ph)
Garlic: The Natural Cure for Erectile Dysfunction? (www.theinnovativehorizon.com)
How Pottery Offers Glimpses Into Ancient Foodways (www.sapiens.org)
Study finds SARS-CoV-2-associated sepsis was more common, deadly than previously thought (medicalxpress.com)
Do Insects Feel Joy and Pain? (www.scientificamerican.com)
How Millions Of Secret Silk Maps Helped POWs Escape Their Captors in WWII (www.atlasobscura.com)
The Free Soloist Who Fell to Earth (www.outsideonline.com)
University of Exeter research indicates that hydrogen sulfide may boost elderly cellular health (www.theinnovativehorizon.com)
According to research, when small doses of this gas were introduced in certain parts of the cells of adult worms with the help of a molecule called AP39, it showed considerable improvement in their health and activity.
New Study: How Often Should You Exercise for Optimal Benefits? (www.theinnovativehorizon.com)
Edith Cowan University research revealed that muscle strength benefits are seen with consistent, short exercise sessions. Participants performing a three-second eccentric bicep contraction thrice weekly saw strength improvements. Daily 20-minute exercises might be more beneficial than a single 2-hour weekly session. Regularity,...
The meticulous, ruthless preparations for a second Trump term (www.economist.com)
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