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I’d thought about this sometimes in a vague way, but never crystallized the theory the way it’s done here. Nice to have all the work done and just read it and enjoy. I’ll be watching for more squares in the wild from here on out.

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Batteries for electrical vehicles. The first EVs of the modern era use scaled-up batteries designed for consumer electronics. But new types of batteries are about to bring a great leap in improvement – safer and faster charging thanks to the past decade of advances and development.

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Cream cheese only came to be an ingredient in cheesecake in the 1920s to 1930s. In fact, cheesecake didn’t always have cheese in it.

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“So ingrained are [mobile containers] to our present lifeways that their importance in human evolution has been somewhat overlooked. […] Why are mobile containers used universally by humans, and what cognitive processes precipitated their invention?’

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Silicon

Locked in rock and sand,/ age upon age awaiting/ the digital dawn.

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Share these poems and add your own on Twitter with hashtag #ChemHaiku.          

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The lost art of letterlocking – physical encryptation that reveals tampering

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Never have I witnessed more unselfconscious bodily expression than decades spent at Friday rec-center DJ nights with [my sister] and her community’s peers. The electricity and abandon overflow, the given soundtrack merely secondary – any tune will do. The group expressiveness puts drug-fuelled ravers in Ibiza or disco-era Studio 54 to shame.

For the past decade I have travelled the world – from Malawi to South Sudan, Romania to Cambodia – with my wife, the photographer and film-maker Marilena Umuhoza Delli, making field recordings and producing albums that provide a platform for original music from under-represented regions and languages. We often work with persecuted or ostracized populations, including those with albinism in Tanzania, elderly women accused of witchcraft in Ghana, and Tuareg rockers Tinariwen (an LP we recorded in the Algerian desert won a Grammy for best world music album).

Not long afterwards [after the album was recorded] my father began to fade and I organised Jane a ride over to see him one last time. The reunion took place just hours before he passed. Immediately after Jane’s visit, the nurse said my father grew solemn and, after a few contemplative moments, began to transition from this life. There is a certain poetry in a daughter – who was sent home to die as an infant (at the doctor’s direction) – being the one who 55 years later helped her father make peace with his own death.

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Hundreds of fans have attended a special kind of musical happening at a church in Germany: a chord change in an organ piece that is supposed to last for an entirety of 639 years.The performance of the Organ/ASLSP (As Slow As Possible) composition began in September 2001 at the St Burchardi church in the eastern town of Halberstadt and is supposed to end in 2640 — if all goes well.

The next chord change is planned for 5 February 2022, the German news agency DPA reported.

When the piece officially started on 5 September 2001, it began without any sound. It was only on 5 February 2003, the day of the first chord change, that the first organ pipe chords could actually be heard inside the church.

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#pyrosomes Amazing structures that look look a giant sea worm, but are actually a colony of tiny cooperating zooids

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Sleeping sickness is caused by the #parasite trypanosome.