quote [ Satoshi Nakamoto disappeared shortly after publishing bitcoin's white paper in 2008 and the name has since been linked to various coders, developers and so-called cyberpunks—with Australian computer scientist Craig Wright orchestrating an elaborate but unconvincing demonstration that he is Nakamoto in 2016.

Now, after Wright has spent years claiming to be Nakamoto and dragging naysayers through the courts, a leaked email has suggested one of his biggest backers has lost faith. ]

quote [ The truth was, in fact, out there, as "Staring At The Stars" got a full release less than a week after internet detectives put themselves on the case ]

quote [ A term which I've encountered quite a bit on Japanese personal sites is "検索避け". The translation for this term is simply "search avoidance". ]

quote [ In an era when the Enlightenment’s orderly vision of the natural world began to unravel, Anna Atkins produced the world’s first photography book: a collection of cyanotypes, created across a decade beginning in 1843, that captured algal forms in startling blue-and-white silhouettes. Paige Hirschey situates Atkins’ efforts among her naturalist peers, discovering a form of illustration that, rather than exhibit an artist’s mastery over nature, allowed specimens to “illustrate” themselves. ]

quote [ Laine, who sang Go Now and co-wrote Mull of Kintyre, had suffered lung disease in recent years ]

quote [ The story of a legless mystery man known as “Jerome” who turned up one day in 1863 in Sandy Cove is well-known in Nova Scotia. He was found one morning, perhaps in September, by two fishermen on the beach by the Bay of Fundy sitting up against a large rock. ]

quote [ Stand Together Music, part of rightwing billionaire Charles Koch’s advocacy network, collaborates with Pitbull, Machine Gun Kelly and others ]

quote [ Earth looked very different long ago. Search for addresses across 750 million years of Earth's history. ]

quote [ if you've ever thought about this stuff you may be glad to hear it's not just the kind of obligatory small talk you have to make at the local Opium Den ]

quote [ How a whip-wielding butcher became St. Nick's sidekick. ]