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Phish are bringing their New Year’s run back to NYC to close out 2023, happening on December 28-31 at Madison Square Garden. A ticket request period is underway now through Monday, September 25 at noon ET, and tickets go on sale to the general public starting on Friday, September 29 at noon ET.
Phish also recently announced the return of their multi-night camping festival in 2024 for its first edition since 2015, happening in Dover, DE on August 15-18 at The Woodlands. They have shows lined up before that in Nashville, Dayton, Chicago, and Mexico (their 2024 Riviera Maya concert vacation). See all dates below.
PHISH: 2023-2024 TOUR DATES
Oct 6 2023 Bridgestone Arena Nashville, TN
Oct 7 2023 Bridgestone Arena Nashville, TN
Oct 8 2023 Bridgestone Arena Nashville, TN
Oct 10 2023 Wright State University Nutter Center Dayton, OH
Oct 11 2023 Wright State University Nutter Center Dayton, OH
Oct 13 2023 United Center Chicago, IL
Oct 14 2023 United Center Chicago, IL
Oct 15 2023 United Center Chicago, IL
Dec 28 2023 Madison Square Garden New York, NY
Dec 29 2023 Madison Square Garden New York, NY
Dec 30 2023 Madison Square Garden New York, NY
Dec 31 2023 Madison Square Garden New York, NY
Feb 21 2024 Moon Palace Cancun Quintana Roo, Mexico
Feb 22 2024 Moon Palace Cancun Quintana Roo, Mexico
Feb 23 2024 Moon Palace Cancun Quintana Roo, Mexico
Feb 24 2024 Moon Palace Cancun Quintana Roo, Mexico
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Have you ever thrown a handful of raisins into a tub of sparkling water? Or peanuts into beer? It seems like an altogether strange thing to do, but if you’ve tried it, you’ll have seen the way the raisins dance and tumble in the fluid. As it turns out, there’s some really interesting science at play when you dive into the mechanics of it all. [Saverio Spagnolie] did just that, and even went as far as publishing a paper on the topic.
The fundamental mechanism behind the dancing raisins is down to the bubbles in sparkling water. When dropped into the fluid, bubbles form on the raisins and attach to them, giving them additional buoyancy. They then float up, with some of the bubbles shedding or popping on the way, others doing so at the fluid surface. This then causes the raisins to lose buoyancy, rotate, flop around, and generally dance for our amusement.
[Saverio] didn’t just accept things at face value though, and started taking measurements. He used 3D-printed models to examine bubble formation and the forces involved. Along with other scientists, models were developed to explore bubble formation, shedding, and the dynamics of raisin movement. If you don’t have time to dive into the paper, [Saverio] does a great job of explaining it in a Twitter thread (Nitter) in an accessible fashion.
It’s a great example of cheap kitchen science that can teach you all kinds of incredible physics if you just care to look. Video after the break.
It turns out that sparkling water and raisins are *fascinating*. My daughter and I happened upon this effect playing together in the kitchen a long time ago, and I couldn't help but explore the system more deeply… 1/n https://t.co/wNBX7nnGJS pic.twitter.com/BVmVOeHvrP
— Saverio Spagnolie (@SaverioIV) September 13, 2023
Birkenstock is proudly ‘anti-trend,’ but shareholders influence could change that.
Birkenstock, the German sandal brand that generated $1.22 billion in revenue last year, is going public after more than 240 years in business.
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People keep telling me how email is a great federation success story. The DNA Lounge store has a simple spell checker attached to the email field that knows about the 30 or so most popular domains, and valid TLDs. Every few years, I update the list of domains based on how many orders came in to our store with those domains.
Here's the current top ten from the last ~2 years since our post-lockdown re-opening:
| 67% | gmail.com |
| 13% | yahoo.com |
| 4% | hotmail.com |
| 2% | icloud.com |
| 1.2% | aol.com |
| 0.8% | comcast.net |
| 0.6% | sbcglobal.net |
| 0.6% | me.com |
| 10.8% | everything else |
I'm slightly surprised that the gmail number isn't even higher, but how in the absolute fuck is AOL still on that list??
Also, my spell checker thingy won't let you hit "Purchase" with an invalid TLD, and yet, I have 56 orders from gmail.con. There is no .con TLD yet, I checked, though I would not have placed bets on that. So how did those get through? JavaScript turned off? Nope. Every one of them was via Apple Pay, which does not do the typo check as Apple tells us the email directly.
That means these people have Apple IDs in the CON domain. I'm sure that's working out really well for them.
There may not yet be civilization on the moon, but that doesn’t mean there’s no culture up there. We’ve previously featured the tiny ceramic tile, smuggled onto the Apollo 12 lunar lander, that bears art by the likes of Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol. “Fallen Astronaut, an aluminum sculpture by the Belgian artist Paul van Hoeydonck, was left on the lunar surface by the Apollo 15 crew in 1971,” writes the New York Times‘ J. D. Biersdorfer. “The Arch Mission Foundation has sent Isaac Asimov’s Foundation trilogy and millions of Lunar Library pages into space,” and artists like Jeff Koons and Sacha Jafri are among the artists currently aiming to install their own work on the moon’s surface.
The Lunar Codex has grander ambitions, having assembled works from “over 30,000 artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers, from 158 countries, in four time capsules launched to the moon.” You can browse their contents at the project’s official web site, which breaks it all down into not just eight “galleries” of visual art, but also sections dedicated to film, television, music, and poetry, among other forms and media. There’s even a section for books and novels (as well as another, oddly, for novels and books), which includes a large number of curious titles to represent the achievements of human civilization: Kamikaze Kangaroos, Goofy Newfies, Don’t Taco ‘Bout Murder, In Bed with Her Millionaire Foe.
Also among all these books, stored on either digital memory cards or a nickel-based medium called NanoFiche, is The Zoo at the End of the World by one Samuel Peralta, who also happens to be the mastermind of the Lunar Codex project. “A semiretired physicist and author in Canada with a love of the arts and sciences,” Peralta has selected for preservation on the moon everything from “prints from war-torn Ukraine” to “more than 130 issues of PoetsArtists magazine” to images like “New American Gothic, by Ayana Ross, the winner of the 2021 Bennett Prize for women artists; Emerald Girl, a portrait in Lego bricks by Pauline Aubey; and the aptly titled New Moon, a 1980 serigraph by Alex Colville.”
All the work to be placed on the moon through the Lunar Codex was created by artists who are now active, or have been active in the past decade or two. As such, it reflects a particular moment in the cultural history of humanity, constituting what Peralta calls “a message in the bottle for the future that during this time of war, pandemic and economic upheaval people still found time to create beauty.” They also found time to create podcasts, as will be evidenced by the inclusion of a quarter-century-long archive of Grace Cavalieri’s interview show The Poet and the Poem, which has reached a new audience in recent years through that relatively new format — one that, to future generations of spacefarers making a stop on the moon, will offer as good a representation as any of life on Earth in the twenty-first century.
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Based in Seoul, Colin Marshall writes and broadcasts on cities, language, and culture. His projects include the Substack newsletter Books on Cities, the book The Stateless City: a Walk through 21st-Century Los Angeles and the video series The City in Cinema. Follow him on Twitter at @colinmarshall or on Facebook.