Door stop books. Baby booster seat books. Boat anchor books. Whatever you want to call them, gargantuan novels have their weighty charms, especially now, as we're all looking for distracting… Read the rest of the article: Get lost in one of 50 contemporary books over 500 pages long
The gorgeous and enchanting Bran Castle in Bran, Romania has long been associated with Bram Stoker's Dracula. There is no evidence to support any association with the novel and the… Read the rest of the article: More virtual tourism: Take a tour of beautiful Bran Castle in Romania
Renowned mathematician and beloved Princeton University professor, John Horton Conway, died this week (April 11) of COVID-19. He was 82. Conway is best known as the inventor of the hugely… Read the rest of the article: Renowned mathematician and "Game of Life" inventor, John Conway, died this week of COVID-19
Our friend, Lea Redmond, she of the World's Smallest Post Service, has a number of fun little Print + Play paper projects on her website. One of them is a… Read the rest of the article: Send inner-home post cards to fellow family shut-ins
The Microsetta Initiative at UC San Diego School of Medicine, McGill University, Massively Multiplayer Online Science, Gearbox, and 2K have teamed up to create a clever way for players of… Read the rest of the article: Play Borderlands 3 and help map the foreign microbes found in human poop
The #WrightVirtualVisits initiative is a social media collaboration between the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy, the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, and Unity Temple Restoration Foundation. Over the coming weeks, every… Read the rest of the article: Pandemic tourism: Take virtual tours of 12 Frank Lloyd Wright buildings
Last week, we lost famed music impresario, Hal Willner, likely to COVID-19. Willner was a beloved figure throughout the music community, and in the wake of his death, there have… Read the rest of the article: Tom Waits pens touching letter to beloved, eccentric music producer, Hal Willner
Speaking of one of the Internet's coolest music teachers, Rick Beato… in the most recent episode of his "What Makes This Song Great?," he breaks down Led Zeppelin's rock classic,… Read the rest of the article: Led Zeppelin's "Ramble On" — what makes this song great?
In a perfect follow-up to Mark's post yesterday about expiration dates on food packaging, here's a piece from The Washington Post on how long it's safe to keep various condiments… Read the rest of the article: How long can you safely keep condiments in your pantry and fridge?
In their upcoming study, so far published on the preprint server arXiv and submitted to Physical Review Letters, Linden and his colleagues examined a decade’s worth of data from NASA’s… Read the rest of the article: Here comes the sun — our closest star is spitting out mysterious gamma rays
Crazed, cooped up children, tightly-wound parents at their wit's end, lighter fluid, baking soda, and burning sugar — what could go wrong? Image: YouTube
David Bowie's Let's Dance was released 37 years ago today. His 15th studio record, Let's Dance would become his most commercially successful album but it was not well-received by critics… Read the rest of the article: Shut in sounds: Bowie's "Let's Dance" turns 37 today
As part of Rolling Stone's "In My Room" series, the legendary UK singer-songwriter, Nick Lowe, and his son, Roy, play a number of Lowe's recent compositions and his classic "(What’s… Read the rest of the article: Shut in sounds: Nick Lowe and his son perform "(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding" from their living room
Good news, everyone!
From Just Security: What follows is a comprehensive timeline of major U.S. policy events related to the novel coronavirus pandemic. We’ve focused on the U.S. government’s preparation for a pandemic,… Read the rest of the article: The most comprehensive timeline to date of coronavirus and US government’s response
There are little lights in this darkness that shine through and make, for a brief moment, the invisible zombie apocalypse seem a bit less horrifying. One of these for me… Read the rest of the article: Robert Fripp in a bee suit and black stockings? Signs of the apocalypse for sure!
Pandemic tourism is all the rage! Take a virtual tour of the tomb of Ramesses VI in the Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Egypt. نقدم لكم اليوم جولة افتراضية داخل… Read the rest of the article: Take a virtual tour of Ramesses VI tomb
A recent piece in the journal Scientific Reports claims that remnants of twisted fiber found on a flint tool are between 42,000 – 52,000 years old and may have been… Read the rest of the article: 41,000+ year old string may have been made by Neanderthals
There has probably never been a better time to cajole your family members and far-flung friends into playing D&D. It's a great escape from the strange world we now find… Read the rest of the article: Wizards of the Coast's "Stay at Home, Play at Home" page of free D&D materials and resources
Who knew that THIS was the sound of one hand clapping? And as if that wasn't enough delight for the day: Image: YouTube
