On May 4th, HMAS Hobart was conducting routine surveillance operations in international waters as part of Operation Argos, which supports the enforcement of United Nations Security Council sanctions against North Korea.
Twitch app moves into news coverage, redefining journalism (press release) University of Oregon
X launches Stories, delivering news summarized by Grok AI TechCrunch. The creators will, naturally, be compensated?
One Place to Begin
You need a reason, any reason—skiing, a job in movies,
the Golden Gate Bridge.
Take your reason and drive west, past the Rockies.
When you're bored with bare hills, dry flats, and distance,
stop anywhere.
Forget where you thought you were going.
Rattle through the beer cans in the ditch.
If there's a fence, try your luck—they don't stop cows.
Follow the first hawk you see, and when the sagebrush
trips you, take a good look before you get up.
The desert gets by without government.
Crush juniper berries, breathe the smell, smear your face.
When you wonder why you're here, yell as loud
as you can and don't look behind.
Walk. Your feet are learning.
Admit you're afraid of the dark.
Soak the warmth from scabrock, cheek to lichen.
The wind isn't talking to you. Listen anyway.
Let the cries of coyotes light a fire in your heart.
Remember the terrible song of stars—you knew it once,
before you were born.
Tell a story about why the sun comes back.
Sit still until the itches give up, lizards ignore you,
a mule deer holds you in her eyes.
Explain yourself over and over. Forget it all
when a scrub jay shrieks.
Imagine sun, sky, and wind the same, over your
scattered white bones.
Two lifeforms merge into one organism for first time in a billion years The Independent
How Whales Could Help Us Speak to Aliens Nautilus
Sierra Nevada wins $13B contract to build Air Force ‘doomsday plane’ Defense News
How Did Ötzi the Iceman Get His Tattoos? Archaeologists and Tattoo Artists Unravel the MysterySmithsonian Magazine
Swimming and spinning aquatic spiders use slick survival strategies Ars Technica
Bodies Don’t Decompose as Normal in This Colombian Town, And Nobody Knows Why Science Alert
Essays & Opinions
As you navigate the cul-de-sacs of modern coupledom, Laura Kipnis has some advice: Don’t divorce a memoirist... more »
BONUS: Batman and aggregation