quote [ The technical term for this phenomenon is "lethologica". ]

quote [ A sense of wonder, he says, leads us to change. It leads us to expanding our imagination, and it leads us to a space of creativity where we can, maybe, you know, devise things that can make life sweeter for us in the future. ]

quote [ Beyond the wonders of a quickly developing art form and technology lay widespread lack of control over one’s own image, perverse incentives to make a quick buck, and generalized fear at the prospect of humiliation and the invasion of privacy. ]

quote [ Chile is so long, it's curved. How long is it? Why not longer? Why is no other country as thin? How does that make Chileans incomprehensible? ]

quote [ Named after the famous 1953 war film and originally released in 1973 on the prolific Techniques label, “Stalag” carries a heavyweight legacy in the genre. It was born in an era when Jamaican music was going through a significant transformation, blending Roots Reggae with emerging Dub mixing techniques pioneered by the likes of King Tubby and Lee Scratch Perry. ]

quote [ For Landers, the true value of the emergence of the term gamification is in the way it affected the conversation around labor. “Talking about things like fun in the context of work has been a desperately needed change,” he says. ]

quote [ According to the analysis, audio recorders detected a drop in bird calls two days before the storm hit, adding evidence that some animals — from warblers to sharks — may be able to detect incoming storms days in advance and flee the area. “In this time of rapid environmental change,” Gottesman and his coauthors wrote, “soundscapes can signal the ways in which altered disturbance regimes are transforming ecosystems.” ]

quote [ How a Bicycle is Made showcases the design and manufacture of Raleigh bicycles, as told by a designer to a father and son. ]

quote [ When I called Hansen about my conversation with Johnson, she grew angrier than I’d ever heard her. “He knew the whole time!” she said. Then she had to get off the phone for an appointment. “So glad I’m going to see my therapist,” she added, and hung up. ]

quote [ It’s a comparison to the equally elusive dark matter and dark energy that permeate the universe. ]