It’s 2017, and a thunderstorm shoots off a lightning bolt. What’s so special about that, you ask? Well, the bolt is an astonishing 515 miles (829 kilometers) long. Using archival satellite data, researchers just officially confirmed the length of this … Read more
You’ve probably wondered where these otherworldly pixel-art images seen across the web are coming from. The answer is the PC-98. Ubawareta Houkago – PC-98 (1995) Pastel cities trapped in a timeless future-past. Empty apartments drenched in nostalgia. Classic convertibles speeding … Read more
I turned a forest trail near my apartment into a playable neural world.You can explore that world in your web browser by clicking right here: By “neural world”, I mean that the entire thing is a neural network generating new … Read more
Walk around in the average parking lot, and you’ll find yourself in a sea of black, white, and silver vehicles. Watch Netflix at home or catch a film in the theaters, and you’ll get the same washed-out color grade on … Read more
You are receiving this email because you are a subscriber to Charles Hugh Smith / Of Two Minds. I ask the question, “is the world becoming uninsurable?” not as an expert on the insurance industry but as a homeowner who … Read more
Progress used to be glamorous. For the first two thirds of the twentieth-century, the terms modern, future, and world of tomorrow shimmered with promise. Glamour is more than a synonym for fashion or celebrity, although these things can certainly be … Read more
Go to the poetry section of any reasonably well-stocked bookstore, and you will find Dante’s Divine Comedy represented in a number of translations of widely varying vintages and styles. Over the last two centuries and especially in the last three … Read more
A projection of the Global Electrical Grid as originally conceived by Buckminster Fuller. “People have lived and died, businesses have prospered and failed, and nations have risen to world power and declined, all over energy challenges.” Richard Rhodes | Energy: … Read more
Up to $41 billion in World Bank climate finance —nearly 40 percent of all climate funds disbursed by the Bank over the past seven years— is unaccounted for due to poor record-keeping practices, reveals a new Oxfam report published today … Read more
