The digital library was taken offline by multiple cyberattacks last month and had been operating in read-only mode until Monday. | Continue reading
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images A shorter-than-usual US presidential election season comes to a head. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Researchers have found that gut bacteria influence stress by interacting with circadian rhythms, offering new treatment possibilities for stress-related mental health issues. This discovery reveals that specific bacteria help control stress hormones and underscores the value of a … | Continue reading
As the capital of Scotland, Edinburgh has a lot going on. The city is home to two UNESCO World Heritage Sites (the combined Old and New Towns site in the central city, and the Forth Bridge in the suburb of South Queensferry), and it has been recognized as a City of Literature. It … | Continue reading
MIT engineers’ new model could help researchers glean insights from genomic data and other huge datasets. | Continue reading
The Universe seems to be eternal — or close enough. For nearly 14 billion years, stars have lived and died, galaxies have spun, and matter has moved in stately ways throughout the cosmos. That might not seem remarkable at first — until you realize that this stability requires ord … | Continue reading
Royal Enfield’s famed 650 twin platform has been a big hit ever since the Interceptor and Continental GT came out. With the Shotgun 650 launching at the turn of the year, rumors were rife of upcoming models on this platform. Lo and behold, the Classic 650 and the Bear 650 are her … | Continue reading
Google is depleting its inventory; there won't be any remaining by the end of the month. | Continue reading
The votive plaque was found amid the ruins of an ancient Roman fortress. Researchers think a temple dedicated to the mysterious deity may have stood nearby | Continue reading
I don’t know how popular games proved to be back in the iPod days, but according to Kyle Orland at Ars, there are some folks out there who really care about them, and want to see them live on. We need more of this sort of thing in the world. | Continue reading
After years of growing concern about its poor condition, the Arecibo telescope's famed reflector was suddenly ruined by the collapse of its receiver into the dish in 2020. Engineers have completed their report into the disaster and its causes: Failure Analysis of the Arecibo 305 … | Continue reading
If you thought herding cats was hard, try herding libertarians | Continue reading
TIL about argonaut octopuses. “Although most octopuses live near the ocean floor and its ample hiding places, argonauts spend their entire lives sailing in the open ocean, just below the surface.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org → | Continue reading
Announced back in May, the tinyPod is a plastic case that turns your strapless Apple Watch into an iPod-like phone. The company claims the case can make a cellular Apple Watch your “phone away from phone” with core apps like Messages, Phone, Music, Maps, and more. You can even us … | Continue reading
While sheetrock is the incumbent wall and ceiling material, there's a lot of reasons not to like it. It's heavy, difficult to transport and fragile in transit. Cutting it is messy. Installing it is a multistep process consisting of screwing, spackling the screw heads, taping and … | Continue reading
Most furniture restoration shops contain a fireproof cabinet and a lidded metal pail. That's where they store all the nasty chemicals required for stripping finishes off of furniture pieces, and the oily rags such work generates. But perhaps in time, those items will all be repla … | Continue reading
"Blind as a bat" is a cute but zoologically inaccurate simile. All bats have some vision, and some can even perceive ultraviolet light. A new study investigated whether "blind" bats could still find their way back home. Bats have visual, magnetic, and olfactory senses in addition … | Continue reading
This drawing machine uses the properties of crystalline structures as the drawing unit, and the dynamic staggered arrangement of controlled crystalline structures to create a miniature landscape, attempting to strike a balance between the properties of natural materials and human … | Continue reading
This drawing machine uses the properties of crystalline structures as the drawing unit, and the dynamic staggered arrangement of controlled crystalline structures to create a miniature landscape, attempting to strike a balance between the properties of natural materials and human … | Continue reading
Amanda Taub in the New York Times: Adam Przeworski, a political scientist, left his native Poland a few months before the 1968 Prague Spring uprising and found he could not return home. To avoid being arrested as a dissident by the Communist government, he accepted a job abroad a … | Continue reading
This is a story we've been following for well over a decade (see "Selected readings"). Improbable as it may seem that the Korean alphabet might be adaptable for writing an Austronesian language of Indonesia, there are some promoters of this idea who continue to push it enthusiast … | Continue reading
Emulator designers spend years creating an environment where you can enjoy games you can't buy anymore. That doesn't mean they're legal. | Continue reading
The U.S.'s rail system lags far behind other countries when it comes to both scale and speed, but strides are being made across the country to play catch-up. 5 high-speed rail projects in the US that have the potential to change transportation as we know it first appeared on The … | Continue reading
La Guerre Humanity i love you because you would rather black the boots of success than enquire whose soul dangles from his watch-chain which would be embarrassing for both parties and because you unflinchingly applaud all songs containing the words country home and mother when su … | Continue reading
The court is still in session on Election Day with oral arguments this morning in Advocate Christ Medical Center v. Becerra and E.M.D. Sales v. Carrera. Security has been increased around the building. Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary... The po … | Continue reading
Scott Alexander at Astral Codex Ten: Tomorrow – if we are so lucky – there will be a result. The great function that has consumed us for so long will return 0 or 1. The pundits who guessed 51-49 will be hailed as prophets; the pundits who guessed 49-51 will get bullied out of pub … | Continue reading
Hi. I’m stressed, too. Here are random thoughts on this from the beginning of November 5th, 2024 — election day: Today, a convicted felon and failed businessman (six bankruptcies!) slash narcissist slash twice impeached politician who does not believe in democracy, who called for … | Continue reading
When Cassius — the world's largest captive crocodile — died in Australia, his keepers thought he could be over 120 years old. Now, a necropsy could reveal his true age. | Continue reading
Canadian authorities have arrested a man suspected of having stolen the data of hundreds of millions after targeting over 165 organizations, all of them customers of cloud storage company Snowflake. [...] | Continue reading
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For fans eager for more Scavengers Reign, we have good news and bad news... | Continue reading
It feels like everything is on the line for the billionaire playboy. | Continue reading
Over coffee this morning, browsing my unreads in NetNewsWire, I stumbled on Simon Willison’s mention of Alex Chan’s “Using static websites as tiny archives” post. And then I saw Jeremy Keith also mention it. So I thought I’d mention it to! There’s no web server, no build system, … | Continue reading
On November 13, 2024, The Citizen Lab’s director Ron Deibert will deliver a keynote titled “Digital parasites: Mapping the new frontiers of espionage, subversion, and Dark PR” at The Hague Program’s 2024 Conference on International Cyber Security. Visit the The Hague Program to l … | Continue reading
The British Heart Foundation’s Reflections of Research competition showcases beautiful images captured by researchers studying heart and circulatory disease | Continue reading
Image: Nintendo Listening to Nintendo music isn’t easy. It’s not available on streaming platforms, so I usually end up scouring YouTube for songs from Animal Crossing and Metroid. Because of this, I was hoping that Nintendo Music, a new app that surprise-launched last week, would … | Continue reading
Mountain worship is a major aspect of traditional Japanese beliefs, most notably practiced in the Mount Fuji area. In the city of Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, it can be found at Mount Iwaki, which rises to a summit elevation of 1,625 meters (5,331 feet). The whole mountain is reg … | Continue reading
It will warm you up — no heat required. READ MORE... | Continue reading
Thanks everyone who has supported Micro.blog, whether you tried it only briefly, or stuck with it for years, or came back again later to rediscover it. As the United States votes today, still no politics in Discover this week, except this one thing: go vote! 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
The 2024 election is all-hands-on-deck for American newsrooms. And student reporters are helping plug the gaps at local news outlets across the country. The Center for Community News at the University of Vermont is leading what it calls “the first nationally coordinated effort to … | Continue reading
Feeling a bit reflective on this election day morning. 8 years ago, I had already been working on Micro.blog, but the presidential election results pushed me to get my act together so I could hit the ground running at the beginning of the new year. January 2nd, launched the Kicks … | Continue reading
Continuing our election-eve counterprogramming, here’s another post with no political content. It comes from Constantine Frangakis, who writes: I think I have found something new and interesting. In studying the topic of “evidence” for my class, where the typical principles … Con … | Continue reading
Pardoning the Turkey The United States has many strange practices, but one of the oddest is surely the annual ritual of “pardoning” a turkey before Thanksgiving. Although President Abraham Lincoln is said to have spared a live turkey who had been brought home for Christmas dinner … | Continue reading
Issue 58 of the Nautilus print edition combines some of the best content from our September andOctober 2024 online issues. It includes contributions from quantum gravity physicist Fotini Markopoulou, geoscientist Marcia Bjornerud, anthropologist Harvey Whitehouse, and more. This … | Continue reading
The homeowner did almost everything herself. READ MORE... | Continue reading
The Ray-Ban Meta glasses are fine, but Apple needs to craft something that won't drag my face down to the floor like the Vision Pro. | Continue reading
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2024 Did Yeats get it right? No one can say that this incomparable site isn't shaping the national discourse. This very morning, Morning Joe began with a reading from The Making of the President 1960, the iconic book by Theodore White. We're forced to tell yo … | Continue reading
Artistic representation of Lignosat wooden satellite. | Art: KyotoU/Gakuji Tobiyama In a first for the world, scientists launched a satellite made from wood into space. As it orbits the planet from some 250 miles away, researchers will study whether wood is sturdy enough for spac … | Continue reading