Cloud Chambers and Cosmic Rays: The Quest to Unravel One of the Most Dazzling Mysteries of the Universe
When the trays of alcohol are heated, the vapor sinks because alcohol molecules are heavier than…
MLB All-Star Game 2022: How to Watch Tonight Without Cable – CNET
For the American League, the starters are: Jose Altuve of the Astros was elected to start…
Potemkin U. (guest post)
Philosophy is not (inherently) at some remove from the hard, unyielding stuff of material reality, stuff…
2023 Ford F-150 Raptor R Uses the Shelby GT500’s V8 to Make 700 Horsepower – CNET
Ford on Monday unveiled the 2023 F-150 Raptor R. Under the hood is a 5.2-liter supercharged…
Carrots and the Roots of Kindness
Gay writes: Complement this fragment of his wholly delightful Book of Delights with Lucille Clifton’s kindred…
iOS 16 Public Beta: New iPhone Features You’ll Love to Use – CNET
This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers…
What We Keep in Loss: William Blake’s Stirring Letter to a Bereaved Father
“Our deceased friends are more really with us than when they were apparent to our mortal…
Your Phone’s Lock Screen Is Changing, Will Become Way More Useful – CNET
What’s happening Regardless of the implementation, these expected changes prove the lock screen is in need…
2023 Toyota Crown Is Part Sedan, Part SUV With 340-HP Hybrid Power – CNET
Two powertrain options are available to Crown buyers, and both are hybrids with standard electronic all-wheel…
With Flight Cancellations on the Rise, Is Travel Insurance Worth the Cost? – CNET
If you’re specifically concerned about contracting COVID, or if you’re at high risk and concerned about…
The Third Thing: Poet Donald Hall on the Secret to Lasting Love
For Hall and Kenyon, the third thing was the pond near their home. He writes: We…
Chance, Choice, and the Avocado: The Strange Evolutionary and Creative History of Earth’s Most Nutritious Fruit
After describing his “new and improved variety of avocado which has certain characteristics that are highly…
Two Webb Space Telescope Images of Jupiter You Might Have Missed – CNET
Maybe it doesn’t stack up with the bounty of images released over the past 48 hours…
Games People Play: The Revolutionary 1964 Model of Human Relationships That Changed How We (Mis)Understand Ourselves and Each Other
His great and then-radical insight was that true intimacy requires room for spontaneity, without the freedom…
Intergroup Dialogue in the Philosophy Classroom (guest post)
If you’re interested in adding dialogue groups to a class covering the philosophy of race or…
Someone Lost $6.5M Trying to Claim $2K of ‘Free’ Crypto – CNET
Uniswap is a central institution of decentralized finance, or “DeFi”, as it allows punters to trade…
‘Stranger Things’ Fans on TikTok Have an Interesting Eddie Munson Theory – CNET
On TikTok, user @.dizay posted an idea that sounds somewhat plausible, which was then expanded on…
The Bittersweet Story of the Real-Life Peaceful Bull Who Inspired Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson’s Ferdinand
That year, the pioneering X-ray crystallographer, Quaker, and peace activist Kathleen Lonsdale wrote in her quiet…
‘Thor: Love and Thunder’: Post-Credits Scenes and Marvel Cameos, Explained – CNET
Valhalla is also likely just a dimension in the MCU, and it may be possible to…
‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ Review: A Disappointingly Shallow Marvel Encore for Taika Waititi – CNET
Surprisingly, the 29th MCU movie, which arrived in theaters Friday, misses the mark. In trying to…
What Makes Great Art: The Single Most Important Element in Creative Work
Complement with Virginia Woolf’s literary ecstasy, then revisit the story of how Beethoven made the lawless…
A Penguin’s Antidote to Abandonment
One definition of love may be that the world becomes unimaginable without the person you love….
Another Pokemon N64 Game Is Coming to Nintendo Switch Next Week – CNET
The Switch Online plus Expansion Pack plan is a premium tier of Nintendo’s online service. Along…
Improvisation and the Quantum of Consciousness
She writes: In improvisation, the generation of material is spontaneous, but it’s never random. This in…
Crypto Contagion Continues as Lender Voyager Digital Files for Bankruptcy – CNET
The cold winds of crypto winter keep blowing. On Tuesday cryptocurrency lender Voyager Digital filed for…
The Story of the Stunning Victorian Algae Herbarium and the Eccentric Balloonist Who Awakened the Terrestrial Imagination to the Enchanted Forest of the Sea
Seaweed. With our tendency to frame the unknown by the known and to discount the unfamiliar,…
‘Lightyear’: Why Tim Allen Isn’t the Voice of Buzz in the Toy Story Spin-Off? – CNET
“It has no relationship to Buzz … It’s just no connection, I wish there was a…
Cancel Culture: A Cross-Generational Dialogue (guest post)
ITAMAR: If, as your sources suggest, the impacts of cancel culture on academia include: a White…
The Best Sci-Fi Movies on HBO Max – CNET
This sci-fi mystery from one half of the duo that created Westworld (Lisa Joy) is pure…
Keith Haring on Our Resistance to Change, the Dangers of Certainty, and the Root of Creativity
or misinterpreted A century and a half after Emerson lamented that “people wish to be settled…