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Their second studio album and the first of three collaborations with Brian Eno, released on this day in 1978, overseeing the shift in focus ... -
Via Marginal Revolution , we’re given a not too nice taste of things to come in the form of a line of apparel that’s basically window-dressi... -
Claiming that the strait separating the Persia from the Omani gulf is open and will “remain” so “with or without Iran,” Trump announced that... -
Via Kottke , we learn of the best and worst paradox, eponym of computer scientist and physicist Edward Fredkin, known for advances in dete... -
Former staunch critic turned ally of Trump, the hawkish long term senator from South Carolina Lindsey Graham dies suddenly after a short u... -
Neatorama contributor Miss Cellania directs us to Randall Munroe’s latest xkcd webcomic ( previously ) comparing the depth of the Earth’s... -
space jam : erythrulose, a simple sugar found in raspberries and fake-tan lotion, detected in an interstellar cloud vindolandia : a Roman... -
To gain purchase on the sophistry of scammers, grifters and gurus and proffer the question on the greater fraud of our time—why isn’t the ... -
Translated as the above, sugoroku (雙六 or 双六) historically referred to two different classes of board game, ban-sugoroku akin to Western ba... -
The US conducts another nighttime wave of strikes against Iranian civilian and military infrastructure and disables two tankers trying to ...