✨ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Federico García Lorca,Culture,Poetry,Books,Spain,Europe,World news ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: A previously unknown verse attributed to Federico García Lorca has been discovered, 93 years after the famous Spanish poet and playwright wrote it down on the back of one of his manuscripts.Lorca is believed to have written the eight-line poem in 1933 while working on the Diwan del Tamaret, a tribute to Arab poets in his native Granada.The newly discovered verse was found on the back of a manuscript of one of Tamarit's poems – Gacela de la raíz…
🔥 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Louis “Bud” Abernathy, 10, and his brother, Temple, 6, inherited their father’s spirit of adventure and set out in 1910 to ride their horses more than 2,000 miles from Frederick, Oklahoma, to New York City.Sensational accomplishments ran in the Abernathy family. The boys’ father, Texan Jack “Catch ’em Alive” Abernathy, a United States marshal with a leaning toward picturesque behavior, was born in Bosque County in 1876 and grew up punching cows on his father’s ranch. As an adult, he astonished President Theodore Roosevelt by…
🚀 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Music,Stage,Dance,Theatre,Film,Television,Television & radio,Art,Art and design,Games ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Checkout: cinemaLee Cronin The MummyOut nowYou may know what a mummy is, but do you know what Lee Cronin is? Let us help: He's the Irish director responsible for the effective indie horror film The Hole in the Ground and the highest-grossing entry in the Evil Dead franchise, Evil Dead Rises. In his version of this horror classic, journalist (Jack Reynor) and his wife (Laia Costa) reunite with their daughter who went missing in the desert eight years…
✨ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Sixteen bets made $100,000 accurately predicting the timing of the US airstrikes against Iran on 27 February. Later, a single user would make over $550,000 after betting that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would topple, just moments before his assassination by Israeli forces. On 7 April, right before Donald Trump announced a temporary ceasefire with Iran, traders bet $950m that oil prices would come down. They did.These bets and other well-timed wagers accurately predicted the precise timing of major developments in the US-Israel war with Iran, creating…
🚀 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Culture,Madonna,Pop and rock 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: RRecent years have not been particularly kind to Madonna. Her tours have been marred by controversy of a very different kind than the scandal she happily courted: In 2024, some disgruntled fans tried to sue her for showing up on stage two hours later than scheduled.Her albums have met with a noticeably mixed reception, selling in increasingly diminishing quantities, each one altering half of what its predecessor did: she dismisses 2012's MDNA and 2015's Rebel Heart as albums she…
🔥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Amazon is letting users know, via a pop-up message when using Kindle for PC, that it will be discontinued on June 30, 2026. When this date comes, the app will no longer work, even if you download it from another website. The company has disclosed to Good e-Reader that Amazon is developing a new Kindle for PC app, but it will only be compatible with Windows 11. This will be an app available only to download from the Microsoft Store. The Kindle for PC app…
💥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Television,Film,Books,Music 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: televisionIf you only watch one, do it...Grayson Perry has seen the futureChannel 4Summarize in a sentence The artist offers a very insightful - and often terrifying - look at artificial intelligence.What our reviewer said "As always, Perry is the guy you want to question these people." Lucy ManganRead the full reviewFurther reading “World Champion of Personalization” Grayson Perry says he's unfazed by using AI for his businessChoose from the restA Gorilla Story: Told by David AttenboroughNetflixA Gorilla Story: Told by David Attenborough.…
💥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Before GPS, how did aircraft navigate? One important technique was celestial navigation: navigating from the positions of the stars, planets, or the sun. While celestial navigation is accurate, cannot be jammed, and doesn't require any broadcast infrastructure, it is a difficult and time-consuming process to perform manually. In the early 1960s, an automated system was developed for the B-52 bomber to automatically track stars and compute navigation information. Digital computers weren't suitable at the time, so the star tracking system performed trigonometric calculations with…
🔥 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Games 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: I I had a complicated relationship with video games when I was a teenager. I clearly loved the Nintendo games I grew up with, wandering through the primary-colored dreamscapes of Super Mario 64 and having the time of my life. But as I grew up and became an ambitious young man in the early 2000s, I started wanting more games, and I wasn't finding it. Many were reckless, juvenile, or unnecessarily violent. A few of them seem to have any He…
💥 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: In October, an Amazon representative said the company doesn’t have plans to update current Fire OS devices to Vega, German IT publication Heise Online reported. Fire OS blamed for pirating Before Vega, Amazon’s Fire streaming devices all ran Fire OS, an Android fork based on the Android Open Source Project, which often meant Fire devices ran older Android software. Moving to the Linux-based Vega OS makes it easier for Amazon devices to run more modern software. Vega also gives Amazon more control over how people…
