MIT Scientists Turn Amino Acids Into Music

Expanding upon previous projects that laid the foundation for making music from amino acid chains, MIT scientists can now use their process to create never-before-seen proteins—especially ones with beneficial properties. Using amino acids as notes, and artificial intelligence to turn them into chords, scientists can craft proteins based on frequencies and patterns that they can hear, and lean into rhythms or loops that lend proteins …

A Refined Point of View: Nany Ramirez + Gabe Sanchez’s Miami

From architecture to verdant spaces, characters, culture and so much more in the multifaceted city

Presented in partnership with Land Rover

Authorities on all things Miami, Nany Ramirez and Gabe Sanchez guide us through their city of never-ending contrasts and charisma—and do so in the all-new 2020 Range Rover Evoque from Land Rover. (A car that’s perfect for these self-described “all-terrain parents.”) Best-known for its beaches and Art Deco buildings, Miami is anything but predictable. As Ramirez says, “When we moved here, Miami wasn’t what it is …

Brian Blomerth’s Graphic Novel Tells the Tale of the First Acid Trip

By Brooklyn-based artist Brian Blomerth, Bicycle Day documents the day LSD was discovered by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann. As the story goes: he ingested the experimental compound and then set off on the first documented trip, which culminated in a peak while he was riding home on his bicycle. Hofmann’s book LSD: My Problem Child, affords only a few paragraphs about the first encounter. As …