Daily Digest
- • Oct. 27, 1931: Killer Fungus Spreads, Dutch Elm Disease Hits
Dutch elm disease spreads and starts an inexorable killer march across much of the United States.
- • Taking Earth’s Temperature With a 30-Mile Thermometer
Technology originally created to monitor oil wells is now being used by scientists to study some of Earth’s most inaccessible places, from desert pools to Antarctic ice.
- • Playlist: The Pixies, Bar Bingo, The Visual Miscellaneum
What’s wired this month? A tricked-out atlas of world trivia, a generative art app for your iPhone. a Pixies box set as monumental as the band’s music and Bar Bingo.
- • 8 Best Ways to Share ‘Mix Tapes’
A new crop of mix-sharing sites lets you put together your own mixes quicker, easier and in a more shareable way than cassette decks ever did. Just a year after the popular Muxtape music mix-sharing site was driven offline by the RIAA, there are many new contenders.