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Author: Patrick

  • Being social alone on the rise

    In the UK, there is a rise in people going to social events solo.

    “If I go to an event with someone else, I can very much spend the night doing their night, as they would want it,” says Anaïs Espinosa, a 26-year-old from London. “When I’m alone, I get to do whatever I want in the moment, whether that’s going to get a drink or being right at the front where the DJ is. You just act on pure instinct. I feel like a little video game character in a funny story.”

    I never had a problem going to an event solo. Yeah, it’d be cool to share the experience with a friend, but I wouldn’t let that stop me from checking out a movie, concert, or restaurant.

  • 80-year-old grandmother becomes oldest woman to finish the Ironman World Championship

    80-year-old grandmother becomes oldest woman to finish the Ironman World Championship

    Grabow, who lives in Mountain Lakes, N.J., plunged into the ocean water of Kailua Bay on Saturday morning. She swam 2.4 miles and then hopped on her bike to cycle 112 miles on a highway twisting through lava fields and notorious coastal crosswinds. She then ran the 26.2-mile road course — the length of a marathon — where steep stretches contribute to an elevation gain of more than 1,000 feet. She finished the unforgiving course well within the race’s 17-hour cutoff time, at 16:45:26, on a day when more than 60 other athletes in the field of more than 1,600failed to finish.

  • David Hockney Xerox prints

    For a period of time, David Hockney created collages using Xerox machines.

    In 1986 Hockney produced Home Made Prints,a series created entirely with the Xerox copier. As the title of the series would suggest, the Xerox machine allowed Hockney to create his prints in the comfort of his own home, rather than the often constrictive environment of the professional printing studio. Many of the prints in this series, like Living Room and Terrace, capture the interiors of Hockney’s house on the outskirts of LA. This invigorated focus on his own home in Home Made Prints reveals the more relaxed approach to printmaking that the Xerox copier afforded Hockney.

  • Chasing auras

    Dennis Lehtonen has dedicated his life to photographing auras.

    One night in 2018, I was viewing the international space station through a telescope in the observatory of Helsinki. Suddenly, I looked into the opposite direction and there, for the first time ever, I would see the northern lights dancing over the city below. The experience was otherworldly and I wanted to see them again and again.

    To do so, for nearly five years, I have lived in the small remote corner of the Finnish Lapland, above the artic circle. Since 2021, I have lived in a total of three different locations in Finnish Lapland in order: Salla, Sodankylä and Kilpisjärvi. I have also worked in a total of seven different Greenland-based fish factories all in different, mostly small and remote, locations, despite hating fish.

  • The Oatmeal on AI art

    The Oatmeal on AI art. Astute and poignant.

  • The craze of 6 7

    most previous Internet meme trends were based in some grounding of logic. 6 7, however, has become a prime example of how brain rot can ascend into pop culture.

    Now teachers avoid breaking kids into groups of six or seven, or asking them to turn to page 67, or instructing them to take six or seven minutes for a task. Six is a perfect number, and seven is a prime number, but only a glutton for punishment would put them together in front of a bunch of 13-year-olds.

  • Adopting a coffee name

    There are lots of different reasons to adopt a coffee name, giving a barista a name other than your own.

  • Climate change, creating hybrid species

    One of the consequences of climate change is the creation of hybrid species.

    Hybrid species are surprisingly common in the plant kingdom, but less so among animals, with around 10 to 15 percent of bird species known to hybridize. But as the ranges of animals shift due to changes in global climate, the likelihood of encounters between species that have never interacted before increases, which may lead to new ecological communities. “It’s an interesting sign of what is potentially to come in climate change and biodiversity shifts,” Stokes says.

  • Lost albums

    Steve Hyden goes long on lost albums:

    These are the three kinds of “lost” albums I am interested in:

    1. Albums that remain unreleased, either by artist’s choice or record-label maleficence.

    2. Albums that were unreleased for a time but then came out after they achieved iconic
    “lost” status, to the point where even now they still seem “lost” even though they technically aren’t anymore.

    3. Albums that might not actually exist.

  • Hampsters getting an MRI

    Veterinary medicine has to get creative to provide treatment. Here’s a video of a hampster getting an MRI.