A list of intriguing things
One: Light therapy glasses cast a blue light over your eyes and on to your face—and they are the new hot accessory for celebs. What they do: help manage problems in your circadian cycles, mood and sleep disorders like seasonal affective disorder (SAD), insomnia, and jet lag. The only reason anyone is talking about them: Mick Jagger was recently photographed wearing one. This Tech Insider vid has more on the glasses. We offer you Mick looking a little insane instead.
Two: Ai-Da is the world’s first robot artist—who recently exhibited her work at the Great pyramid of Giza, Egypt. Her latest gig: giving performances of her AI-written poetry—after being trained on 14,233 lines of Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’. The result is something like this. Hmm. (Gizmodo)
Three: Bet you never knew that tough guy Sylvester Stallone is also an accomplished painter—and 50 of them will be exhibited at Germany’s Osthaus Museum. Artsy has a collection of his prints if you want to see more. (Variety)
Four: Cough syrups from the good old days are likely to invite a raid from the Narcotics Control Board today. But “the mother of all dangerous cough syrups” was called ‘One Night Cough Syrup’—which was sold in the late 1800s. The list of ingredients: alcohol, cannabis, chloroform, and morphine. It finally ran into trouble thanks to a legal case in 1934 when the Food and Drug Administration declared the drug’s “claims of its therapeutic properties” were, umm, misleading—as in, it was more likely to kill than cure you?
