dark universe: Euclid space mission to map the Cosmos and glean insights into the mysterious majority of matter and energy composing it
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go fish: the (possibly apocryphal) origin of the name of the city of Slow Low, Arizona
qr-monster: the artistry of AI prompters—see previously
๐: a teaser for a Backrooms-like game taking place in the Tokyo metro Shinjuku station
lignum vitae: looted leaves of the Golden Tree of Lucignano recovered
purity pals: new US Speaker of the House of Representative announces that he and his seventeen year old son monitor each other’s web consumption
future imperfect: a strangely engaging 1974 series of filmstrips warning against the utopian novel and utopian-thinking orbital plane: an exoplanet’s singular path around a binary star system—via Damn Interesting’s Curated Links
synchronoptica
one year ago: Operation Able Archer (1983), Ukraine to change the date on which Christmas is observed plus a gallery of bad Jane Austen book covers
two years ago: a documentary on picking the wrong venue, a bombing in the US capitol plus the Riace bronzes
three years ago: your daily demon: Bifrons, awaiting US election results, the collection point for cataloguing art looted by the Nazis plus the first female US vice-presidential candidate announced
four years ago: an unused deck of tarot cards by Salvatore Dalรญ
five years ago: assorted links to revisit, Nixon’s concession speech (1962) plus more from the Center for American Politics and Design