Nuclear fission's rival, fusion, is considered the "holy grail" of clean energy for scientists. Resident sparks debate online after discussing major issue in America's use of nuclear energy: 'All people remember is Chernobyl' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
15 years old (1896) It’s possible to look at Pablo Picasso’s many formal experiments and periodic shifts of style as a kind of self-portraiture, an exercise in shifting consciousness and trying on of new aesthetic identities. The Spanish modernist made a career of sweeping dramat … | Continue reading
NGC 2090, featured in this latest Hubble Space Telescope image, is a key galaxy in recalibrating the Hubble constant. Positioned 40 million light-years away, its unique spiral structure and ongoing star formation provide insights into galaxy evolution, enhanced by observations fr … | Continue reading
Everyone has some idea of how much energy an ICE vehicle uses. After all, if you’re putting fuel in and then seeing how much you can drive before it needs fuel again, you know that you’re pumping a certain amount in. Add in the knowledge of other things a gallon ... [continued] T … | Continue reading
Conservative poll shift; Democratic machine politics; science and politics; some good news; better teachers; the AI slowdown; consumer confidence | Continue reading
'The Agency,' the Showtime adaptation of the French spy series 'The Bureau,' is thoughtful and thrilling in equal measure. | Continue reading
So far, the system has successfully kept every drop of floodwater out of homes in the area. City officials partner with company to battle disastrous flooding — here's how it could impact local storm response first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
James sits down with Jon Galloway to talk about his journey from submarine office to software developer and community advocate. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Merge Conflict: Twitter, Facebook, Website, Chat on Discord Music : Amethyst Seer - … | Continue reading
I was going to write about how much I've enjoyed "tinkering" with the HIBP API, but somehow, that term doesn't really seem appropriate any more for a service of this scale. On the contrary, we're putting in huge amounts of effort to | Continue reading
You can stack some monads in such a way that the composition is also a monad. This article is part of a series of articles about functor relationships. In a previous article you learned that nested functors form a functor. You may have wondered if monads compose in the same way. … | Continue reading
"What an awesome project." Proud resident shares before-and-after photos after participating in city planting program: 'I need to see about something like this in my area' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Power use in two in-core performance tests, by number of threads run, leading to estimates of total energy used by P and E cores running the same code, at high frequencies. How efficient are the CPU cores in the M4? | Continue reading
"Throw that ... in the trash." Homeowner sparks debate after sharing photos of problematic landscaping technique: 'I detest that stuff' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
There are many goals of science, but they all fall into the broad category of how to understand and describe our reality as accurately as possible. If you give us a setup — and tell us what the initial conditions of that physical system are — then so long as our best scientific t … | Continue reading
I had some ground beef that needed using the other day and whilst looking for a tasty way to use it, I discovered this Chili-in-a-Bowl recipe in a small Grocery store Pillsbury cookbook I had entitled Country Cooking from their Home Cooking Library. It was published in 1994 and i … | Continue reading
On the fiftieth anniversary of Nick Drake's death, Rob Chapman argues that his legacy has been let down by a culture that allows his mental health struggles to overshadow his art, and that turns his songs into fodder for wellness-adjacent twee whimsy Photo: Wikimedia Commons 50 y … | Continue reading
I couldn’t sleep this morning, so I got up sometime, ate, exercised, showered and finished my ATProto/Bluesky integration in GoBlog. You can now follow me there too: @jlelse.blog. But I think I will only use it very passively and only post my links there automatically. | Continue reading
Researchers have made a significant breakthrough by observing how light can block other light, creating a visible shadow. This remarkable phenomenon, seen for the first time in their experiments using a green laser and a ruby crystal, suggests new methods for manipulating light t … | Continue reading
"You know they made at least 4 million of those." Shopper raises concerns over bizarre Advent calendar found on store shelf: 'Breaks my heart' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
I’m accessing my Nextcloud, Linkding, Calibre e-book server, and other “cloud” services hosted on the NAS in the other room via their online domain and a Cloudflare tunnel. That means traffic essentially needs to be routed from my Mac, through Cloudflares servers online, and then … | Continue reading
"This was less than the power company quoted us just to run wiring." Viewers stunned after homeowner goes off grid with surprisingly cheap solar setup: 'I'm so jealous' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Whether you are receiving a burst of requests, or parallelizing a huge batch job into smaller jobs, the too many requests to your datastore (or any upstream service) arriving at the same time will invariably bring it to its knees. This issue, commonly called the thundering herd p … | Continue reading
The return of Trump to the United States presidency raises legitimate concerns for both the European Union and the Balkans. These concerns primarily revolve around national dynamics, economic implications, and the solidification of nationalist attitudes and inter-political combus … | Continue reading
"Where we're going we won't need eyes" In this month's podcast, Luke Turner and John Doran fire up the gravity drive to head back to 1997 space horror film, Event Horizon As regular listeners to The Quietus’ Low Culture Podcast might be aware, our Luke Turner doesn’t really cope … | Continue reading
Papa M Ballads Of Harry Houdini Having worked with Slint, Tortoise, and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Dave Pajo is still searching for new paths through the guitar Ballads of Harry Houdini by Papa M David Pajo has remained a relatively cult figure and that seems to have been quite inten … | Continue reading
"It's good companies are trying to make it safer in the car, but what about the people out of the car." Pedestrian sparks discussion after sharing photo of dangerous trend impacting US vehicles — here's what's happening first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
I had my release party for Transitions today. It went pretty well! Around a dozen folks attended in VRChat, and another half-dozen tuned in to the stream. Everyone who came enjoyed it and had nice things to say. | Continue reading
Astronomers have clocked a cosmic collision at 3.2 million km/h (2 million mph). A new instrument has spotted a galaxy crashing through a group of others at incredible speeds, creating a shock wave that’s changing the region completely. Continue Reading Category: Space, Science T … | Continue reading
Amphibians are not the only group of species at risk as the planet heats up beyond its natural level. Scientists sound the alarm after uncovering major threat to frog survival — here's why it's important first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
NASA harnesses the power of supercomputing to advance our understanding of the universe, from redesigning launch pads for Artemis II to developing AI for climate modeling. These innovations are showcased at the International Conference for High Performance Computing, where resear … | Continue reading
You know you love it. When those red bumpy mountains erupt out of the ground called Your Face, you suddenly notice them in the mirror and cast an evil eye. “Bastard, I’m gonna get you,” you say out loud with vengeance, startling the girls putting mascara on beside you at the bath … | Continue reading
Geneticists have studied the distribution of Y-chromosome haplogroups on the Faroe Islands, known to have been colonized by Vikings around the year 900 CE, and compared these to distributions of haplogroups in today's Scandinavia. | Continue reading
The declaration draws inspiration from preexisting initiatives. Group of 56 nations sign treaty agreeing to protect our oceans: 'A line in the sand' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Viviënne Wormsbecher from Blue Umbrella presents this comprehensive guide to help you determine if you are truly self-employed according to Dutch labour laws. Starting January 1... | Continue reading
Germany’s Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) has announced that the country’s economy grew less than expected in the third quarter of 2024. German GDP grew by 0,1 percent... | Continue reading
"It starkly contrasts hectic rush hours in major U.S. cities and elsewhere. " Footage highlights enviable difference between walkable communities and sprawling cities: 'What a dream' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
I’m pretty good at a few things. You have a technical system you need described and documented? A complex application with a database, load balancers, and caching you need help installing, configuring, or pushing from dev to production? You need to migrate between providers, or f … | Continue reading
Researchers at the University of Vienna have developed gut-stable oxytocin analogues designed for targeted treatment of chronic abdominal pain. A research team at the University of Vienna, led by medicinal chemist Markus Muttenthaler, has developed a new class of oral peptide the … | Continue reading
CBS News: Climate scientists say this will be the hottest year on record, for a second year in a row. It will also exceed a worldwide pledge to keep global warming under 34.7 degrees Fahrenheit. A recent poll found that 74% of Minnesotans want schools to teach about the causes of … | Continue reading
"Our model reduces human error, accelerates analysis, and quantifies rapid reactions." Researchers develop bold new process to examine materials at atomic level — here's how it could boost the energy sector first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Statistics Netherlands (CBS) has reported that October 2024 saw the largest increase in house prices in two years. Bringing the cost of Dutch housing to a new record high, homes... | Continue reading
Are you looking to refinance your mortgage but unsure where to start? Nick Mulder from mortgage broker Hypofriend explains how the system works in Germany. Refinancing your... | Continue reading
"No other material has been shown to perform like that." Scientists invent 'yellow powder' that could help solve major global issue: 'It performs beautifully' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Made-in-Malaysia desktop pet game Weyrdlets is getting a bit sus its new limited-time event. This time, the indie developers Weyrdworks are collaborating with fellow indie devs Innersloth to bring Among Us in Weyrdlets. This is a free update, no purchase necessary, but it’s also … | Continue reading
Emily Cataneo in Undark: When the Godwin sisters would visit their grandmother Jeanne in Carson City, Nevada when they were growing up in the 1970s, Jeanne would pull out the dreaded juicer. She’d pulverize a mixture of carrot, celery, and spinach juice for the girls, then coax t … | Continue reading
I was driving past a grocery store and noticed they had a station to test drive the Nissan Ariya a little north of Denver, Colorado. I stopped by and took it for a spin. I drove the top-of-the-line all-wheel-drive Platinum trim. This has the power liftgate, heated and cooled leat … | Continue reading
Daniel Chandler in The New York Times: The election victory by Donald Trump and his Republican Party was a rebuke of a Democratic Party that has positioned itself as protector of a despised status quo, rendering it unable to connect with an electorate desperate for change. Defeat … | Continue reading
In the second episode of 'Dune: Prophecy,' Sister Lila has to undergo "The Agony," which leads to a massive twist. Here's what this deep-cut Bene Gesserit superpower is all about. | Continue reading