quote [ When they were still in arts school in Seattle in the early 1990s, Jesper Myrfors and Sandra Everingham would sometimes look for inspiration by exploring Fort Worden, an abandoned 19th-century military base at the entrance of the Puget Sound. To them, it felt like a dwarven ruin. One day they found a trap door hidden […] ]

quote [ Beyond misunderstanding its iPad consumer base, Apple’s infamous “Crush” ad deeply misunderstands the role of the hydraulic press in meme culture. ]

quote [ While Friedrich Nietzsche popularised the notion of an “eternal return” — in which one’s life would occur again, forever, exactly as it did before — the concept was itself a repetition. Claire Hall explores various shades of this idea in ancient philosophy, from Pythagorean metempsychosis to Stoic predictions about a cosmological reset. ]

quote [ From 1998 to 2018, the CDC documented more than 200 illness outbreaks traced to raw milk, which sickened more than 2,600 people and hospitalized more than 225. ]

quote [ What does it feel like to lose, and then rediscover, the game of tennis? Photographer Josh Skinner takes the shots. Writer Peter Short returns the serve. ]

quote [ A new course at University of Hawaii at Manoa rethinks historic preservation, having enrollees design digital twins of notable structures so that people can experience them virtually ]

quote [ From the Midwest to a tiny town in Italy, the tradition of weather-predicting onions lives on. ]

quote [ The experiment takes so long, two of the people running it died before seeing a drop. ]

quote [ It's unclear what caused the retraction or how many threads have become displaced. ]

quote [ Inside the hunt for habitable planets. ]