https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/painting-attributed-to-rembrandt-found-tucked-away-inside-an-attic-in-maine-180985036/
An auctioneer discovered "Portrait of a Girl," which just sold for $1.4 million, during a standard "house call" to an estate
https://bigthink.com/the-future/ai-model-collapse/
Generative AIs start churning out nonsense when trained on synthetic data — a problem that could put a ceiling on their ability to improve.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-08-30/after-swimming-the-seine-take-a-dip-in-london-amsterdam-berlin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmrGnd-5Oe8
https://www.messynessychic.com/2024/09/06/mostly-this-secret-masonic-order-just-wants-to-have-fun/
We do love a good plunge into worlds apart – filled with secret society conspiracies and folks living off-grid or on the fringes of society. The latest curious collective to pique my interest is perhaps the quirkiest of masonic orders, called "The Shriners", formally known as the Ancient Arabic Orde
https://thewalrus.ca/norval-morrisseau/
Norval Morrisseau was one of the most famous Indigenous artists anywhere. Then the fakes of his works surfaced—and kept coming
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-deep-religious-roots-of-american-economics/
Any attempt to understand the complexities of American economic thought without considering the significant role of religious beliefs is incomplete.
https://thewalrus.ca/how-we-treat-bears-in-cities-is-trash/
Too many of them are becoming casualties in the battle of the bins
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/celtic-origins-trick-treating-halloween-180984916/
The spine-tingling roots of a mischievous Halloween tradition
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-09-06/kidney-stones-carbon-dating-health/104217876
Kidney stones are an annoying, painful condition that affects many of us, but it's not easy to tell when they form. A scientist who carbon dates objects for a living decided to work out the age of his kidney stone.
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