birds, flowers, and physical media's last stand

Friday, October 23, 2026

My brother Lakshmana and I searched every forest for Sita.

1. Birds flee women faster than men — across 37 species and 5 countries, no one knows why
2. Designing flowers that don’t exist in nature — including a paintable petunia
3. Sony exits UHD Blu-ray — Panasonic now stands alone among major manufacturers
4. The same AI request emits 8.5x more CO₂ in Texas than in Sweden
5. James Wall Finn painted Manhattan’s grandest rooms — then vanished from history
6. Why washing machines lagged the vacuum and fridge by decades