Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images TikTok announced on Sunday that it’s “in the process of restoring service,” but the app is still unavailable in the App Store and Google Play. If you search for TikTok on the App Store, you’ll see a message saying, “TikTok and other … | Continue reading
From Mark Sundaram and Aven McMaster at The Endless Knot, 50 minutes on "The Scandalous History of the Manhattan Cocktail": Mark Sudaram describes himself as …an interdisciplinarian, medievalist, philologist, linguist, academic, musician, and philosophical layabout. He is the co- … | Continue reading
America has seen rabble-rousers before—and not all of them were bad. | Continue reading
TikTok is back up in the United States after Trump announced today that he would extend a 90-day deadline for the company to find a U.S. purchaser. [...] | Continue reading
'This will be fixed.' | Continue reading
The Justice Department will 'go after any university that looks like the other way' on antisemitism, says Sen. Ted Cruz. | Continue reading
A wide-ranging conversation live in Washington, D.C., on the eve of Trump's inauguration. | Continue reading
Upcoming changes to Meta’s fact checking and content moderation policies might precipitate greater free speech in some parts of the world. But the removal of these checks and balances could trigger unrest and violence in other regions, say Libby Hogan and Natasya Salim, writing f … | Continue reading
During the past 13 years, the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) has awarded US $4.6 million in scholarships to undergraduate students in North America studying power engineering as part of its Scholarship Plus Initiative. PES has increased the scholarship amount this year to $10, … | Continue reading
Michael Kay at Undark: In December, 37 colleagues and I published a paper in Science arguing that mirror bacteria — self-replicating, synthetic cells whose every component exists in its mirror-image form — could indeed pose incredibly grave dangers if successfully created. First, … | Continue reading
Blogging or not? A game caught my attention. A personal letter to Zuck. I like poems. Pixelfed, Pixelfed, Pixelfed! Apple is clever about Severance. I bought a keyboard. And so much more. | Continue reading
Trump says he wants the U.S. to have a "50% ownership position" in TikTok. | Continue reading
"I was very surprised." Scientists discover unusual 'blob-headed' species in threatened habitat: 'The function ... remains a complete mystery' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
A team of researchers has developed a miniature, energy-efficient device capable of creating photon pairs that maintain quantum entanglement across any distance. Utilizing innovative materials and methods, this achievement marks a major step forward in quantum technology, with po … | Continue reading
The college has been the site of ongoing protests related to its ties to Israel. | Continue reading
Two men stabbed, one fatally, on Manhattan’s Lower East Side https://t.co/HnEwCOIeoW — New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) January 19, 2025 Two young men were stabbed on a Lower East Side street last night, leaving one dead, according to police sources and media accounts. A 20-yea … | Continue reading
I visited TikTok.com at 11 pm Eastern time last night: I wasn’t a regular TikTok user, but I don’t remember any education- or work-related content there. If Americans aren’t viewing TikTok anymore will there be a huge boost in American productivity and GDP as a result of all the … | Continue reading
New automatic emergency braking requirements are set to go into effect in 2029. | Continue reading
If you've needed some creepy animated body horror since Owl House ended, Knights of Guinevere might be your jam. | Continue reading
Anti-establishment since at least the 1980s... | Continue reading
Steve Jobs: “When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For y … | Continue reading
People were impressed with this money-saving hack. Mom shares brilliant hack to make the most out of old party decorations: 'I definitely did not know this!' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
A helmet up for auction in London is a well-preserved example of the "Corinthian" helmets used by many hoplite warriors. | Continue reading
It’s not composting. READ MORE... | Continue reading
About programming, AI and devops | Continue reading
By some accounts, India surpassed China as the most populous country on Earth in April of 2023. Yet it does not have quite the intensely focused economic agenda of the Chinese government, which is why the shelves at Walmart are not laden with goods labeled “Made In India.” There … | Continue reading
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images TikTok has announced it’s returning to US users. The company posted on X that it is “in the process of restoring service” after reaching an “agreement with our service providers.” Some of us at The Verge are seeing the app fully back … | Continue reading
"It smells great." Off-grid homeowner reveals secret to making powerful all-purpose cleaner: '[It] only costs pennies on the dollar' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
The Airwing rigid sail from GT Wings harvests wind energy to reduce the use of maritime bunker fuel in cargo ships. The post Wind Energy To Push Dirty Bunker Fuel Overboard, Trump Or No Trump appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Drafts and Obsidian When using a Mac for writing, I'm all in on the notes app Obsidian, a plain text/Markdown editor. With it, I use various plugins to create a personalized workspace that provides me with all the tools I want. I use The editing toolbar Better word count Reading … | Continue reading
From the New York Times, immediately before the election, “Biden Wanted to Fix Immigration, but Leaves Behind a System That Is Still Broken”: President Biden’s legacy will largely be limited to his success in lowering border crossings. But his approach has drawn criticism, and so … | Continue reading
New research uncovered hidden passages under Sforza Castle, potentially confirming legends linked to Leonardo da Vinci’s designs. As part of a PhD thesis, the Politecnico di Milano conducted an advanced technological survey in collaboration with the Sforza Castle, with technical … | Continue reading
Twenty-third in the News Commons series Disaster coverage tends to go through four stages: Live reporting. TV stations stop all advertising and go into round-the-clock coverage. Radio stations drop the feeds from elsewhere and go wall-to-wall with live reports. Newspapers drop th … | Continue reading
A climactic mystery about a year that gave summer a deadly pass may have been solved. Using new ice core techniques, scientists have concluded that the dark, chilly year of 1831 was due to the massive eruption of a volcano north of Japan. Continue Reading Category: Science Tags: … | Continue reading
"We will be able to deliver even greater value to a wider customer base." Honda and Nissan plan new supercompany to rival Toyota and Volkswagen — here's how it could benefit you first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
How does creeping stress ignite a cataclysmic earthquake? A new study has answers. | Continue reading
TikTok shut down in the U.S. late Saturday night following the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the law that banned the company over national security concerns. [...] | Continue reading
This is not likely to be useful to anyone beyond a tiny core group of eccentrics: film photographers are a tiny minority to begin with, and I understand most Y/N (young/new) film photographers have their negatives scanned and then go... Related Stories Film Friday(?): Film Simula … | Continue reading
Christoph Heine at Psyche: We found that people varied meaningfully in the strength of their self-insight motive. While it seems to matter a great deal to some people, others do not care about it that much at all. Perhaps you have noticed this among your friends and colleagues, w … | Continue reading
The final weekend of my sabbatical was spent, like the first one, at a Three Rings event. As a side activity to the volunteer work, everybody was asked to put their name on a paper plate and leave it on a particular table, allowing others to semi-anonymously add compliments, than … | Continue reading
Sometimes, chimney smoke can rise up in a perfect-looking, unbroken, straight line, high into the sky above. When this happens, it looks as if a white rope is dangling into the chimney from the atmosphere above. This cool phenomenon can happen with the right combination of weathe … | Continue reading
Voicesofjake participated in the "Wet Hair Challenge" by soaking his hair in -20°F Minnesota weather and lying down to make it freeze upright. | Continue reading
Posts this past week included (with a David Lynch tribute on Canal Street via Matt Geo LES) • Man pleads guilty to Tompkins Square Park shootings, D.A. Bragg announces (Wednesday) • This is the date for the next informational session about the former P.S. 64/Charas/El Bohio Commu … | Continue reading
"My freezer is always full." Home cook shares ingenious hack to turn stale bread into mouthwatering treat: 'It's an easy way to save money' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
We all know that corporations do weird shit. In their never-ending quest to maximise profits, they’re happy to exploit us and try all sorts of wacky shenanigans. We’re all aware of this. We all know that they try to use all the weaknesses of our monkey brains against us. And that … | Continue reading
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Quarter of English councils may have to sell homes to balance books, study finds: As part of other efforts to balance budgets, 28% of councils said they expected to sell off existing housing stock, while 45% are already using reserves to cover day-to-day spending. Of the 76 counc … | Continue reading