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The set of all four Neapolitan novels from Elena Ferrante are somehow on sale for only $4.99 for the Kindle. If you’ve never read these amazing books, now’s your chance.
404 Media on The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine (to get around prohibitively high drug costs). For instance, Sovaldi cures hepatitis C and costs $84,000…but you can make it at home for about $70.
TIL that bananas emit antimatter (because they are slightly radioactive).
Tom Gauld (and Richard Scarry) on cars of the future.
The Art Institute of Chicago has three copies of Katsushika Hokusai’s iconic work The Great Wave Off Kanagawa in its collection and one of them has been removed from storage and is back on display in the museum until Jan 6, 2025.
The Great Wave has not been on view in the Art Institute galleries for five years because, like all prints, it is susceptible to light damage and must rest a minimum of five years between showings to preserve its colors and vibrance.
Here’s a video of the print being removed from storage as well as a brief comparison of their three prints:
For other places you can see The Great Wave on display, check out Great Wave Today.
Tags: art · Art Institute of Chicago · Katsushika Hokusai · museums · video
“Harris and Walz, intentionally or not, are projecting something different: a sitcom vibe. And not just any sitcom — the multi-camera family shows of the 1980s.” Blended families, cool woman/dorky guy, and woman in charge were all 80s sitcom staples.
I know some of you are K-12 educators — the excellent The Kid Should See This is holding a free virtual workshop on how to integrate their library of 7000+ engaging and educational videos into your lesson plans.
For his 2012-13 piece The Obstruction of Action by the Existence of Form, artist R. Eric McMaster built a hockey rink less than 1/10th the size of a regulation rink and had two full hockey teams play what has to be the most frustrating game of hockey ever. This is definitely a metaphor for something but I don’t quite know what.
Tags: art · hockey · R. Eric McMaster · sports · this is a metaphor for something · video
“Dark energy, which most physicists have long held to be unchanging, may in fact be weakening.” And now cosmologists are trying to figure out what this means for our conceptions of the universe.
The Harris campaign posted a TikTok of Donald Trump talking about his stance on abortion in a split-screen next to a gameplay clip of Subway Surfer for low-attention-span viewers. This is genius. “Top-tier information conveyance.”