Outdated lightning safety advice is making the rounds again, prompting experts to speak up about what actually keeps you safe in a storm. | Continue reading
Woot is running its Spring Video Game Sale. The weather's warming up, but we're going to stay inside and play games. | Continue reading
A lawn may be traditional, but it barely scratches the surface of the gorgeous possibilities for your yard. Homeowners ditch traditional grass for unexpected upgrades — and the results are next-level first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Australia is hurtling towards a federal election in one month’s time. The twin issues of cost of living and the price of energy are being constantly thrust in our faces on social media and prime time TV advertising. The contrast is strong. The current government is offering an in … | Continue reading
Warning! This interview contains spoilers for “The Shadow of the Night”—season three, episode six of The Wheel of Time. Liandrin does quite a bit in the third season of Prime Video’s The Wheel of Time, and we as viewers learn more about her, especially in cold open for the latest … | Continue reading
It wasn't that long ago that the only way to test for Alzheimer's disease was to perform an autopsy on someone who had been suffering from dementia to look for the telltale tangles of tau and amyloid proteins in the brain. While these tangles are not necessarily the cause of Alzh … | Continue reading
Today, we have a guest post from Hüseyin Akdoğan, an Expert Software Engineer and a Foojay author. | Continue reading
Mouse gaming is back on consoles, baby. | Continue reading
We are so back! Please keep making smaller, original movies so that we get new franchises A puzzle with all edge pieces that looks fun but also very hard Every font is free…as long as you remake it yourself Fellow olds, if you haven't seen this, | Continue reading
Jupiter got body-slammed by the solar wind, and scientists have finally caught it in action. A massive solar event compressed Jupiter’s protective magnetic field, causing a dramatic temperature spike across half the planet. Using data from telescopes and spacecraft, researchers s … | Continue reading
The rare event revealed never-before-seen behaviors of a planetary atmosphere. | Continue reading
The value proposition of the Nintendo Switch 2 may seem pretty clear, but it’s much more obvious when you use one. Nintendo’s new console is the Switch but slightly bigger and slightly better, and that has been apparent since the device was first revealed in January in a most … | Continue reading
A new Mario Kart is usually built around some kind of notable feature. Double Dash added co-op play, while the DS iteration let you play other people online. With Mario Kart 8, it was gravity-defying tracks and, later, the idea of expanding the game through DLC courses. With Mari … | Continue reading
We’ve been longtime fans of Cameron Reed’s iconic 1996 science fiction novel The Fortunate Fall, a story about AI, surveillance, and queerness. In 2010, Jo Walton called it “one of the most important books of the last twenty years”, and in 2018, Bogi Takács praised the novel for … | Continue reading
The team used a surprising ingredient to replace platinum as a catalyst. Scientists unveil MacGyver-like energy breakthrough with unexpected materials: 'Materials ... have garnered considerable attention' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
I recently had the joy of interviewing one of my favorite modern business minds (and creative philosophers): Seth Godin. In our Q&A for The Long Game on Big Think, Seth took a lightsaber to short-term thinking and made the case for a more resilient, long-term approach to work, li … | Continue reading
With a topic as seemingly complicated as quantum physics, where can you start if you want to build your understanding? In just 22 minutes, physicist and professor Brian Cox unpacks the subatomic world, beginning with the theories as we understand them today. This video Physicist … | Continue reading
Nintendo is using multiplayer to jump ahead in the handheld market. | Continue reading
In the Mississippi Delta, hot tamales are almost as iconic as the blues. They’ve grown up together, intertwined in the region’s culture. Tamales have appeared in songs since the 1920s, and their origins are the subject of much debate. Some believe Mexican laborers brought them to … | Continue reading
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About programming, AI and devops | Continue reading
Perhaps the most noticeable difference between the original Nintendo Switch and the Switch 2 — besides the more expensive price — is the new Joy-Con controller and its come-out-of-nowhere mouse functionality. I got the chance to demo them at a hands-on event, and damn are my … | Continue reading
One of the most exciting parts of Nintendo’s new console is, well, an old console. GameCube games are coming to the Switch 2 for Nintendo Online subscribers, and it’s starting off with a pretty killer trio of releases: The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (which somehow was ne … | Continue reading
We have tried and tested dozens of air purifiers over the years, measuring their accuracy and speed in removing airborne pollutants — here's everything we found. | Continue reading
Though it may take longer. Usually does. I say some stuff I trust will eventually prove true in Pew's Imagining the Digital Future report on being human ten years from now. Be theres. In The False Intention Economy: How AI Systems Are Replacing Human Will with Modeled Behavior, K … | Continue reading
Current conditions: A heat wave triggered power cuts in Kuwait as electricity demand exceeded capacity • Australia just rounded out its 12 hottest months ever recorded • Temperatures in New York City are forecast to reach 73 degrees Fahrenheit today, nearly 30 degrees higher than … | Continue reading
Marcel Theroux in The Guardian: Ben Markovits’s quietly excellent new novel begins with the most mundane of middle-class crises. The book’s narrator, 55-year-old law professor Tom Layward, is taking his youngest child to university. For Tom and his wife Amy, the major tasks of pa … | Continue reading
Jenny Lehmann in Discover: While a drop in libido is often associated with aging in women, it’s not just a female issue. Around 26 percent of men over 70 report a loss of sexual desire as well. Sex isn’t just about reproduction — physical intimacy fosters emotional connection, re … | Continue reading
Who wants to meet at Sun ‘n Fun tomorrow? I’m flying into Bartow tonight (I have some commitments here in Palm Beach County and wasn’t sure that I could make the 8 pm cutoff for Lakeland) and will ignominiously approach the event in an Avis Toyota Camry. Fly the mighty Cirrus bac … | Continue reading
The quantum double-slit experiment, in which objects are sent toward a wall with two slits and then recorded on a screen behind the wall, creates an interference pattern that builds up gradually, object by object. And yet, it’s crucial that the path of each object on its way to t … | Continue reading
We are excited to announce that EnduroSat has been awarded Investor of the Year in Innovative Business. This recognition marks a whole decade of dedicated efforts and investments in building a sustainable and profitable space business. Today, EnduroSat … The post EnduroSat Awarde … | Continue reading
Chcesz wzbogacić swoją codzienną pielęgnację o naturalny kosmetyk? Dowiedz się, jak w prosty sposób przygotować domową wodę kwiatową, znaną również jako hydrolat lub hydrosol. Odkryj, co to jest hydrolat, jak zrobić hydrolat w domu i poznaj różnorodne zastosowania tego wszechstro … | Continue reading
"My theory is that the archons were controlling the weather machine in order to keep me in my zone." Individual faces backlash after floating wild weather conspiracy: 'That's a far too sensible scenario' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Amazon's 25% off deal makes that ridiculously low price for a workout watch from one of the world's top manufacturers a reality. | Continue reading
The European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Association is proud to announce the publication of its Annual Report 2024, highlighting a year of successful scientific cooperation across Europe. The report shows how COST Actions – collaborative research networks – are … | Continue reading
The company claims the issue has been fully resolved. | Continue reading
Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, James Lawless TD, has today announced a €17.7 million investment in nine research infrastructure projects through Research Ireland’s Research Infrastructure Programme. Three UCD projects… Read more here | Continue reading
If Need 4 Speed can do it, I guess Nintendo can too. Mario Kart 9 was finally properly revealed as a launch title for the Nintendo Switch 2, albeit rebranded to Mario Kart World. That change in name aligns with a change in design policy: Mario Kart World will be an open-world gam … | Continue reading
Peter Brooks at The Paris Review: When Henry James decided to come to America in 1904 and 1905, his elder brother, William James, was not immediately pleased. William said that while his wife, Alice, would welcome his visit (she and Henry had a firm bond), he felt “more keenly a … | Continue reading
In today’s snapshot, we bring start improving the look of our Windows install and add support for import of tabs from Firefox. | Continue reading
Super Mario Odyssey is one of the best 3D platformers of all time – I'm not sure I'd find anyone who disagrees with that opinion if I tried. Naturally, with the advent of the Switch 2 fast approaching, fans were eager to see what Nintendo had cooking with the next 3D Mario game, … | Continue reading
Don’t forget: the employees are a huge part of what made the company attractive in the first place. | Continue reading
These nightmare neighbor stories will make you rethink your own neighborly conduct. 5 infuriating stories of neighbors taking things way too far first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Originally made up of two distinct herds, researchers now believe the Yellowstone bison should be managed as a single, interbreeding population. Researchers from the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (VMBS) have found that the bison in Yellowstone N … | Continue reading
Being ugly on the inside correlates with what Mother Jones calls the "brutal aesthetics of MAGA," which include "Mar-a-Lago face" (described succinctly in The Guardian as consisting largely of "fillers and aggressive fake tan") along with other makeup choices seemingly preferred … | Continue reading
A month ago, my book Tiny Experiments finally made its way into the world after years of work. Launch day brought a flurry of notifications and messages of support, along with that strange feeling of seeing something that existed only in my mind now in other people’s hands. There … | Continue reading
Lately, I've been given a lot of thought to shutting down my blog. I haven't felt compelled to write much and I feel a bit disconnected from the BearBlog/IndieWeb community. But I've learned over the years, that making rash decisions rarely works out, so I've been sitting with th … | Continue reading
In the Light of Dreaming Rinny She was a lens in the sun in a corner fitting into herself settling in like batter. Smooth and easy. And music. Oh, the music everywhere. Romantic Russian anguish splaying loud— like hearing your dreams turned up loud for all to read. At night in a … | Continue reading