Dolphins Caught Plotting Together (Yes, Really)

“Bottlenose dolphins have been observed chattering while cooperating to solve a tricky puzzle – a feat that suggests they have a type of vocalisation dedicated to cooperating on problem solving. … Importantly, the researchers were able to show that the increase in chatter was directly related to the canister-opening task as opposed to social interactions between the dolphins.”

Remember Black Light Posters?

“For a magical time in the 1960s and ’70s, your wood-paneled basement hideaway wasn’t worth its weight in cheap weed and questionable acid without a collection of psychedelic blacklight posters. Combining Art Nouveau, Surrealism, Pop Art, and countless other artistic styles with the relatively new (commercially anyway) phenomenon of fluorescence, these glow-in-the-dark posters became an icon of the Summer of Love and its youth culture. Here’s where they came from and how they worked.”

NPR’s ‘On The Media’ Asks Public Radio Station Execs About The Network’s Looming Challenges

“There are myriad issues – the shift toward digital streaming, an aging listenership, the rise of commercial podcasting – plaguing public radio, and more specifically, NPR. Bob [Garfield] takes a hard look at how NPR member stations and the mothership are dealing with this tangled web of challenges, and considers what the future might hold for the public media institution.” (audio)

How U.S. Coastal Cities Left The Middle States Behind

“The relative decline of St. Louis—along with that of other similarly endowed heartland cities—is therefore not simply, or even primarily, a story of deindustrialization. The larger explanation involves how presidents and lawmakers in both parties, influenced by a handful of economists and legal scholars, quietly altered federal competition policies, antitrust laws, and enforcement measures over a period of thirty years.”