-
+23 +1
9 Things Tokyo’s New Disaster Guide Can Teach You About Survival
Knowing how to survive in the wild isn't the same thing as knowing how to survive in the big city when an earthquake or tsunami strikes. Wherever you live, Japan's new survival manual may save your life. Unlike most survival manuals, this is realistic advice for real people in plausible situations. By Wes Siler.
-
+14 +1
Astronautica "Los Angeles"
Astronautica will launch the Gemini LP on January 29, 2016 with Alpha Pup Records, piecing together 12 new tracks that bridge the gaps between sultry R&B, uptempo club rhythms and future electronica.
-
+22 +1
Check Out a Medical Pop-Up Book From the 17th Century
Early movable books were geared towards informing adults not entertaining children. By Marissa Fessenden. (Jan. 13)
-
+19 +1
Birth of the moralizing gods
“The gods of today’s major religions are moralizing gods, who encourage virtue and punish selfish and cruel people after death. But for most of human history, moralizing gods have been the exception. If today’s hunter-gatherers are any guide, for thousands of years our ancestors conceived of deities as utterly indifferent to the human realm, and to whether we behaved well or badly.” By Lizzie Wade.
-
+30 +1
How I got duped by crop circle science. Nancy Talbott vs. Matt Williams
Nancy Talbott claims to have unlocked crop circle science. Matt Williams is a crop circle maker encountering the paranormal in his circles. Why are they at odds? By Alex Tsakiris.
-
+24 +1
Museum of Lost Objects: The Winged Bull of Nineveh
One year ago a man took a pneumatic drill to the statue of a winged bull at the gates of the ancient city of Nineveh, near Mosul in modern Iraq. It's one of countless treasures destroyed by vandals, militants or military action in the region in the last 15 years. Kanishk Tharoor and Maryam Maruf tell the first of 10 stories about ancient objects that have now been lost.
-
+6 +1
Museum of Lost Objects: The Temple of Bel
When the so called Islamic State group took control of Palmyra, it destroyed the 2,000-year-old Temple of Bel and executed the man who looked after it.
-
+23 +1
There’s A New Gay Cowboy In Town, And His Name Is Buck
Hear the amazing “Faces” and “Tuesday Night Lights," which was mixed by Rostam Batmanglij.
-
+6 +1
Transmission Releases Long-Awaited BitTorrent Client For Windows
Transmission, one of the most used BitTorrent clients, is now available for Windows. The community driven application has had a dominant presence on OS X and Linux distributions for more than a decade, and brings a "fast, easy and free" experience to the Windows platform with its first official release.
-
+26 +1
Ubisoft turns 30! Get "Prince of Persia: Sands of Time" FREE
To celebrate Ubisoft's 30th anniversary, The Ubisoft Club is offering you seven digital PC games. Every month a new game will be revealed and free to download. Then its yours to keep! Hurry up, the game is available for a limited time. Just register here with your Uplay account.
-
+2 +1
8 Best Android Emulators for Windows 10 to Run Android Games & Apps
We’re all about Windows 10 Mobile here, but the fact is that a lot more users use Android. However, a lot of Android users are also using Windows 10-powered computers, so we’re going to combine these two things, and present you the best Android emulators for Windows you can find. Droid4x Droid4x is a relatively …
-
+28 +1
The new Google Arts & Culture [Site & App], on exhibit now
Just as the world’s precious artworks and monuments need a touch-up to look their best, the home we’ve built to host the world’s cultural treasures online needs a lick of paint every now and then. We’re ready to pull off the dust sheets and introduce the new Google Arts & Culture website and app, by the Google Cultural Institute… (July 19, 2016)
-
+14 +1
The 1990 U.S. Pledge to the Soviet Union on NATO Expansion
I speak with Joshua Itzkowitz Shifrinson, an assistant professor at Texas A&M’s Bush School of Government and Public Service and author of “Deal or No Deal? The End of the Cold War and the U.S. Offer to Limit NATO Expansion,” published in the current edition of International Security. By Micah Zenko.
-
+8 +1
Miette’s Bedtime Story Podcast
Curl up and fall asleep to the world’s greatest short stories, the known treasures and the once-forgotten, purred to you as only Miette can.
-
+8 +1
Invisibilia
Invisibilia (Latin for invisible things) is about the invisible forces that control human behavior – ideas, beliefs, assumptions and emotions. Co-hosted by Lulu Miller, Hanna Rosin and Alix Spiegel, Invisibilia interweaves narrative storytelling with scientific research that will ultimately make you see your own life differently.
-
+2 +1
Missed in History
Holly and Tracy bring you the greatest, strangest, most underappreciated stories from the past in Stuff You Missed In History Class.
-
+6 +1
The Allusionist
Small Adventures in Language with Helen Zaltzman.
-
+9 +1
Overinvested with Morgan and Gavia
Episode 17: America, Season 240: Election 2016: This week, Morgan and Gavia finally go deep on their favorite show, the long-running America, in its historic 240th and final season. They discuss the surprising twist in this season's Republican primary, how the internet fueled Trump and Sanders fandom, perennial representation issues, and what the last few months of the most popular TV show in the country might have in store.
-
+8 +1
Mystery Show
A podcast where Starlee Kine solves mysteries.
-
+5 +1
Radio War Nerd, Episode #44 — Nukes
Reposting our fascinating and interview with physicist Sunil Sainis in Boston, who has spent much of his life growing up around the world of nuclear weapons, nuclear proliferation, and nuclear physics...
Submit a link
Start a discussion