In 1959, nine experienced Russian skiers died under mysterious circumstances, referred to as the Dyatlov Pass incident. Bodies found in different locations with varying amounts of clothing and an array of injuries. The facts made for ripe speculation: stumbling on a secret government project, a sadistic murderer, American spies, and the supernatural.
In 2021, Douglas Preston covered the history of the investigations, and modern science may have solved it. The likeliest culprit? An Avalanche.
In 1959, nine experienced Russian skiers died under mysterious circumstances, referred to as the Dyatlov Pass incident. Bodies found in different locations with varying amounts of clothing and an array of injuries. The facts made for ripe speculation: stumbling on a secret government project, a sadistic murderer, American spies, and the supernatural. In 2021, Douglas…
A hill that I will die on: accessible seating tickets for events should not be available to the general public. These areas or sections are already scarce and by making them generally available increases the likelihood of scalpers buying them. Recently, I attempted to purchase Nine Inch Nails tickets for a show. And due to…
Stratechery with the best DeepSeek AI explainer. It’s broad in describing the general applications and industry impacts, as well as parsing the technical bits of what they did.
Texas blade shop owner refuses to add Nazi symbol to knife. What stands out about this incident: The shop, https://www.thebladebartx.com/, is located in Edom, TX, and one of the owners, Jonathan Sibley, competed on Forged in Fire.
A fun way to explore Wikipedia: The Wiki Game. Click article links to navigate from one article to another. It’s timed and scored like golf.
Nieman Labs reports that “a network of AI-generated newsletters targeting “small town America.” All run by one person. It turns out Good Day Fort Collins is just one in a network of AI-generated newsletters operating in 355 cities and towns across the U.S. Not only do these hundreds of newsletters share the same exact seven…
Here’s some good background on those red envelopes, Hongbao, shared on Lunar New Year The modern concept of hongbao emerged in early 20th-century China. Elders would give money wrapped in red paper to children during the Lunar New Year as a talisman against evil spirits, known as sui (祟). But the gift giving traditions go…
If this isn’t infectious, I don’t know what is. Questlove drops a trailer for a documentary about 50 years of SNL musical guests.
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg, at Life is Sacred, found research on non-violent resistance campaigns. Chenoweth and Stephan even discovered something so important here that it gets a name: the 3.5 Percent Rule. Everywhere they looked where a nonviolent resistance campaign engaged the “active and sustained participation” of at least 3.5% of that nation’s population: they won.…
And it’s happened once againI’ll turn to a friendSomeone that understandsAnd sees through the master planBut everybody’s goneAnd I’ve been here for too longTo face this on my ownWell, I guess this is growing upWell, I guess this is growing up Sometimes a cover takes an original in a new direction or changes the weight…
