AccuWeather and Spotify Launch “Climatune”

AccuWeather and Spotify have teamed up to make playlists that match the weather, no matter if you’re schvitzing or stomping through snow. The two companies undertook a year-long study comparing “85 billion anonymized streams on Spotify in over 900 cities” across the USA and analyzed that data to create the playlists. Evidently, sunny days encourage higher energy music, while (interestingly) snowy days seem to warrant …

Forgotten Black American Fashion Designers

Prompted by a Twitter thread from Claude Hector, Quartz has delved into the history of many forgotten black designers—and the iconic looks they’re responsible for. Like so much black history around the world, significant stories are simply not known. For example: Ann Lowe created Jacqueline Bouvier’s wedding dress when she married JFK, and Zelda Wynn Valdes designed the blue satin Playboy “bunny suit.” Read more …

Scientists Have Found Evidence of a Lost Continent of Mauritia

The lost continent of Mauritia is believed to have been pulled apart by geological forces and sunk to the bottom of the sea long, long ago and scientists have just found evidence that might prove that theory. When studying volcanic rocks on the island of Mauritius, scientists found some with zircon crystals embedded in them. The remarkable thing here is that the crystals are some …