"Actually having a yard that gives you something back when you take care of it." Homeowner sparks envy after sharing photos of 'gorgeous' strawberry yard: 'This should be the goal' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
In another major step towards making more IEA data freely available and accessible, the IEA has upgraded the Countries and Regions section of its website by adding a comprehensive range of statistics and information at the global, regional and national levels. The revamped countr … | Continue reading
Marathon Des Sables Athletes – Complete in high temps with higher fat oxidation Recent research has revealed that high-dose anthocyanins naturally extracted from blackcurrants significantly improve performance in ultra-marathon. A… The post Marathon Des Sables Athletes – Complete … | Continue reading
In 1989, Craig Hickman released a drawing program called Kid Pix for the Macintosh. Hickman said that his son inspired him to create it after struggling with MacPaint and he wanted something that was simpler to use for all children. Naturally, you can’t get it nowadays but we now … | Continue reading
I put my thinking cap on this afternoon and came up with 50 Ideas for Blog Posts. Hopefully, some of y’all will get some use from them. | Continue reading
Tesla released its second quarter delivery data a few days ago, and Tesla stock went a bit wild afterward. Apparently, deliveries were higher than the market expected. They were still down year over year, but the Wall Street consensus was that they would be down much more than th … | Continue reading
A road trip you've taken that was memorable On what subjects are you outspoken and on what subjects are you mostly mute? Why do you like your favorite restaurant? What woman in your family do you most admire and why? What is the most memorable job you've held? What is or was your … | Continue reading
A recent study utilized museum collections to chart global ammonite diversity prior to their complete extinction. The findings reveal that ammonites were not declining before... | Continue reading
After some cancelled attempts to get it on the table, some of my game group managed to sit down last night and play Voidfall. I will come out and say that I was not entirely excited about playing the game. It seemed overly complex and the reputation of it was a long game that too … | Continue reading
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Wishing I had just taken this job instead of joking about it. Today's News: | Continue reading
The reason that side stitches occur is not well understood. Créé par les auteurs, CC BY Imagine you’re running with your friends in a park. You’re in good shape, smiling and feeling strong. But suddenly you feel a sharp pain in your right side, just below the ribs. You find it ha … | Continue reading
Rhett Allain, writing for Wired, looks at the physics of this important question. If humanity is ever to establish bases on the Moon, ways of keeping occupants fit in the low lunar gravity need to be worked out. A wall of death sort of gizmo, that’s a little like a stationary ham … | Continue reading
"We need more rangers writing more tickets to people destroying the natural resources in our national parks." Photographer shares upsetting scenes after tourists blatantly ignore safety signs and disrespect wildlife: 'This is so sad' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
This week on MPU, David and I are joined by Sigmund Judge to discuss Apple TV hardware, tvOS, Apple TV+ content, and more. | Continue reading
GSoC 2024: Week 3-4 Report Project Add support for the latest GIR attributes and GI-Docgen formatting to Valadoc Mentor Lorenz Wilderg Week 1 : default-value attribute for property Parsing "default-value" into a member access: In continuation of the work done previously, we tried … | Continue reading
A lovely and very restorative week off for Anna's birthday We didn't get as much done around the house as we'd hoped, but we ended up really switching off and having a lot of nice time on the sofa together with a mix of fur babies Got a lot of Ratchet and Clank and New Amsterdam … | Continue reading
An overconfident genius personal assistant in my pocket | Continue reading
The article is in Japanese, but you should be able to get an idea of what's going on from the videos and stills. iPad書道はいいぞ pic.twitter.com/P4hregIAl1 — 書きちらし (@kakichirashi) June 29, 2024 As we would say in Japanese: 珍しい【めずらしい】 (mezurashii) ("amazing!)! The app used is this. It … | Continue reading
New findings indicate East Antarctica began glaciating 34 million years ago, unlike West Antarctica which remained ice-free longer. The study emphasizes regional differences in Antarctica’s... | Continue reading
Our cookbook club recently took a world tour, exploring the flavors of the globe with The Global Pantry Cookbook: Transform Your Everyday Cooking with Tahini, Gochujang, Miso, and Other Irresistible Ingredients. In it, authors Scott Mowbray and Ann Taylor Pitman assemble a divers … | Continue reading
The two X-Men actors sit down to remind you what happened in the previous Deadpool movies before FX inevitably can. | Continue reading
The Onyx Boox Go 7 Color is a brand-new e-reader for 2024. This model is a dedicated book reader with the latest generation of e-paper, Kaleido 3. The screen can display over 4,000 different colours, which makes it ideal for reading digital content such as comics, magazines, webt … | Continue reading
A. S. Hamrah in Bookforum: EMILY NUSSBAUM, THE PULITZER-WINNING television critic and New Yorker staff writer, ends her well-researched, somewhat grueling book on the history of reality television, Cue the Sun!, with a reminder that critics have historically dismissed reality TV … | Continue reading
The idea is fully expressed somewhere inside the network of links and discussions between people. Not anywhere in particular. The post Somewhere Inside The Network appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
The crypto market anticipates big gains in the coming weeks, with experts predicting that MoonBag, a new trending meme coin… Continue reading Will This Trending Meme Coin Presale Achieve a 20x Increase at Launch? The post Will This Trending Meme Coin Presale Achieve a 20x Increas … | Continue reading
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Recent research highlights sex differences in brain pathways linked to reward behaviors, showing distinct molecular mechanisms in males and females that could influence the treatment... | Continue reading
After beating his rogues gallery in the first film, Batman now has to fight an evil Justice League with some sick new designs. | Continue reading
Lois Parshley at The Lever: In early May, Google announced it would be adding artificial intelligence to its search engine. When the new feature rolled out, AI Overviews began offering summaries to the top of queries, whether you wanted them or not — and they came at an invisible … | Continue reading
Transform your home into a more inviting and attractive place with these budget-friendly, totally doable tricks. | Continue reading
The truth The Reality What happens and how Interpret, try to translate or just appreciate In the moment’s […] | Continue reading
Chris was inpired to make his game library page by me. Then he went and added PSN trophy details so I became inspired to do the same - and also do Xbox achievements. I don't tend to chase getting trophies or achievements but it's nice to be able to see them all in one place anywa … | Continue reading
I won’t get tired of telling you about why events like Berlin Letters and in-person events in general are worth attending. Next to the talks – which where excellent – this one has proven once more, that the human interaction at this kind of events is the actual reason to attend. … | Continue reading
Mushrooms are natural recyclers that break down organic materials like dead trees, leaves, roots, and other plant parts and recycle the nutrients for living growing plants. Startup uses fungi to turn construction waste and old tires into new kind of plastic: 'We train mushrooms t … | Continue reading
Ted Olson in The Conversation: In early 1824, 30 members of Vienna’s music community sent a letter to Ludwig van Beethoven petitioning the great composer to reconsider his plans to premiere his latest work in Berlin and instead debut the symphony in Vienna. Beethoven had lived in … | Continue reading
The results offer a better understanding of how employees and employers can collaborate to mitigate job-related stress. Mindfulness, the practice of focusing on the present... | Continue reading
Better Siri might be here by the spring. | Screenshot: YouTube Siri will finally get better in spring 2025 when Apple makes its Apple Intelligence AI system available to everyone via its iOS 18.4 update, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in the latest Power On newsletter. That … | Continue reading
A recent study found that eating ultraprocessed plant-based foods was linked to heart attack and stroke risk. But the devil is in the details. | Continue reading
"You just won't find anything like this anywhere else." Massive sustainable property with one-of-a-kind features hits market — here's what's behind its $5 million price tag first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Today's Knowledge Drop is a first attempt at helping me avoid doomscrolling by using AI to summarize missed socmed content. Perplexity successfully generates accurate summaries; and local LLM/GPT Gemma v2 27b also provides fast summarization (on Apple Silion, anyway). There's eve … | Continue reading
Loyal readers may remember my proposal to Save lives by limiting cars to 35 mph? (apply coronalogic to other situations in which human lives are at risk) Maybe European readers can tell us if this is the month when Europeans begin to follow the Science. Back in 2022, Autoweek sai … | Continue reading
Luke Harding in The Guardian: For four years, the Ukrainian writer Oleksandr Mykhed lived in the town of Hostomel, not far from Kyiv. Weekends were idyllic. He and his wife, Olena, would have brunch in a cafe, walk their dog, Lisa, in the forest, and eat prawn curry for dinner. O … | Continue reading
Louie Mantia: Qualifying Art We are all too different from each other and it is not sustainable for every piece of artwork or every product to reach 100% market saturation . Appealing to a global palate is a surefire way to make the blandest art. Yes, yes, yes! Add this to | Continue reading
June saw plugin EVs take 19.8% share in Germany, down YoY from 24.6%, as macroeconomic woes, stubbornly high entry EV prices, and incentive cancellation, all took their toll. Overall auto volume was 297,329 units, up by some 6% YoY, but still at least 10% below 2017–2019 seasonal … | Continue reading
The Chevron deference was an essential legal precedent that conferred upon federal agencies the capacity to interpret and to make laws more explicit. The Supreme Court’s recent overturning of Chevron has placed the future of many regulations on clean water and clean air in the ha … | Continue reading
An international research group utilized the James Webb Space Telescope to witness the dramatic interaction between a quasar inside the PJ308–21 system and two massive... | Continue reading
Reasons to use your shell's job control Julia Evans summarizes an informal survey of useful things you can do with shell job control features - fg, bg, Ctrl+Z and the like. Running tcdump in the background so you can see its output merged in with calls to curl is a neat trick. | Continue reading
Killing a fan favorite character is always a calculated risk, and in AMC's case, it may have been bad at math. | Continue reading