I’m holed up in the corner of the café where my daughters work – surrounded by a coffee, half a sausage roll, a chromebook, and a rag-tag band of people from all walks of life – either stopping by during their day to catch up with each other, or escaping from the rest of their [… … | Continue reading
It’s a heavy day, and I’m sad to write this. Not sure where to start. In 2022, a lawyer recruited two people who took care of my Mom—an assistant and one of her dozen nurses—to resign and demand a million dollars each, or they would publish horrible things about her in a lawsuit. … | Continue reading
School-aged kids will learn how to create blackout poetry in this easy project. This basic technique can easily be used… The post Blackout Poetry Art Project for Kids appeared first on Kids Activities Blog. | Continue reading
by Vianna Davila and Lexi Churchill, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune, James Barragán, The Texas Tribune, and Natalia Contreras, Votebeat ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our b … | Continue reading
American electricity consumption is growing for the first time in generations. And though low-carbon technologies such as solar and wind have scaled impressively over the past decade, many observers are concerned that all this new demand will provide “a lifeline for more fossil f … | Continue reading
In NoteCards, Text cards are rectangular windows with proportions similar to a post-it note. The Web card type of WebCard inherits from Text, including the default window size. Since a Web card needs only display a URL, the default shape leaves most of the text area blank. To ma … | Continue reading
There are more than a few of us who’d enjoy the opportunity to live in a house that appears in Blade Runner; there are rather few of us who would value that opportunity at $23 million, the asking price given in the 2019 Architectural Digest video on Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1924 Enni … | Continue reading
Cooler weather means one thing: cozy soups on repeat! Our new go-to is this Thai-inspired noodle soup with coconut milk, curry paste, veggies, and your choice of chicken or tofu. It’s creamy, gingery, spicy, nourishing, and SO satisfying! Bonus? It’s versatile, working well with … | Continue reading
Source-code flexibility goes hands in hands with maintainability and testability. The Java language benefits not only from its maturity but also from the fact that it is one of a strongly typed language. This may initiate possible discussion topics, as ... The post Exploring New … | Continue reading
Huh. As you may have heard from the news, there's been a huge uptick reported by the CDC of whooping cough (pertussis). Okay. When this first appeared on Google News' Top Stories main page a few days ago as it was served to me, almost all the coverage was from conservative news o … | Continue reading
A new Destiny game is announced and it’s on mobile and developed and published by NetEase Games under license by Bungie. Destiny Rising, as it’s called, is a new game based on “an alternate Destiny timeline”. The reveal trailer shows familiar elements of Destiny, the Guardians ar … | Continue reading
In 1958, Merle Haggard saw Johnny Cash play in San Quentin, and went on to sing honest country songs for country outlaws. In 1982, future Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello saw Joe Strummer play with The Clash in Chicago and went on to play angry righteous rock for an … | Continue reading
Ben Jongbloed, senior researcher at the Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS) at the University of Twente. Photo credits: University of Twente As university to-do lists expand inexorably, with new societal and labour challenges to tackle, experts believe this is ushe … | Continue reading
Photo credits: zverge / BigStock Last Thursday was World Mental Health Day, an event dedicated to raising awareness about mental health that dates back to 1992. The EU too has a… Subscribe to read more | Continue reading
Photo credits: digitalista / BigStock CEPI and the Gates Foundation are building a network of infectious disease modellers in the Global South. As a first step, they’re looking for experts to train the future networks of researchers. Subscribe to read more | Continue reading
“As open as possible, as close as necessary” is the mantra for international collaboration under Horizon Europe. And looking at the participation of international partners, it seems that the EU has indeed become more selective. <… Subscribe to read more | Continue reading
EIB Group president Nadia Calviño before the Eurogroup meeting. Photo credits: Liam McEvoy / EIB The European Investment Bank (EIB) has proposed new measures to support companies in scaling up, to ensure that technologies developed in Europe remain here. At a meeting with… Subscr … | Continue reading
The Tech Europe Foundation will be based at Milan’s Parco dei Gasometri, currently being redeveloped as an innovation hub for the Politecnico di Milano. A plan to build up Milan’s innovation ecosystem unveiled in September spans basic research, entrepreneurship and company innova … | Continue reading
Photo credits: Thijs ter Haar / Flickr Recently released data from the European Commission has shone a light on which countries do particularly well or poorly at winning grants from the European Research Council (ERC) and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), compared to their… … | Continue reading
By fabricating semiconductor-free logic gates, which can be used to perform computation, researchers hope to streamline the manufacture of electronics. | Continue reading
We have created a society of professionals who are experts within their narrow specialties. Those are not the people who get great things done. | Continue reading
A rocket took off, came back to Earth—and restored faith in the American Dream. | Continue reading
I can’t shield my daughter from negativity. But I can continually redirect her attention to the rocket—showing her all the ways our species is incredible. | Continue reading
I went to one of the country’s most segregated cities to find out what should be done to fix racial disparities in America. | Continue reading
Cars with internal combustion engines have been declining since 2016. Today, they are down almost 20 percent from their peak. The post Sales Of 100% Fossil-Fueled Cars Are Declining In US appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Can I Trust This App - Learning how to determine whether software is trustworthy is a 21st century survival skill. - linkage.lol/can-i-tru… | Continue reading
We have a large batch of our new Exeter furniture-maker’s hammers for sale in our store now. These hammers are perfectly sized for people who build casework and chairs. They are the ideal weight for driving in 4d and 6d nails, smacking wedges in place and adjusting bench planes. … | Continue reading
How do you make a busy metropolitan airport function more sustainably? In an Australian first, Brisbane Airport is installing “a common-use ground support equipment charging system in an airside environment.” Initially, 35 chargers will be installed, with plans to install over 10 … | Continue reading
It’s time for a new season in Sky: Children of the Light. This is another tie in season like the Season of the Little Prince and Season of Aurora. This time around the world of Moomin and Moominvalley with the Season of Moomin. So, in case you are like me, and in the US and (prob … | Continue reading
DHH claims to be an expert on open source, but his toxic personality and inability to scale teams means that although he has invented about half a trillion dollars worth of good ideas, most of the value has been captured by others. Let’s look at 37signals portfolio: I genuinely h … | Continue reading
In the past couple of months, an idea has been percolating through Washington and entities dependent on the United States’ good will that the US should reach back into history and create a Clean Energy Marshall Plan for developing countries. This idea is US economic wunderkind Br … | Continue reading
The power needs of Google’s insatiable data centers might eventually be met by small modular nuclear reactors — emphasis on might and eventually . Search giant Google and startup Kairos Power have signed what looks to be the first corporate agreement to develop a fleet of small m … | Continue reading
This year’s Economics Nobel is not a climate prize — that happened in 2018, when Yale economist William Nordhaus won the prize for his work on modeling the effects of climate change and economic growth together, providing the intellectual basis for carbon taxation and more genera … | Continue reading
Even with less time at my disposal, I figured out a way to put this ephemeral scrapbook edition! I hope you enjoy. | Continue reading
Starting this month, the tens of millions of Americans who browse the real-estate listings website Zillow will encounter a new type of information. In addition to disclosing a home’s square footage, school district, and walkability score, Zillow will begin to tell users about its … | Continue reading
I’ve been sailing west for so long that I’ve woken up in the Far East. I’m awake early on my first morning in Indonesia, looking forward to exploring the town of Tual and trying some local food. But first I have to clear boat and crew through Quarantine, Immigration, Customs and … | Continue reading
Indigenous Peoples’ Day recognizes the contributions and legacy of those who have lived in North America long before Christopher Columbus landed on its shores and conveniently claimed its discovery. President Joe Biden formally recognized Indigenous Peoples’ Day in 2021 by signin … | Continue reading
You cannot make friends with the rock stars...if you're going to be a true journalist, you know, a rock journalist. First, you never get paid much, but you will get free records from the record company. [There’s] fuckin’ nothin' about you that is | Continue reading
The secrets of tidal energy are finally beginning to crack open, as demonstrated by an ambitious 200-megawatt tidal project in the Faroe Islands featuring new "Dragon Class" kite-style underwater turbines. The post Majestic Underwater Dragon Kites To Harvest Tidal Energy appeared … | Continue reading
In Penn & Teller’s Masterclass (no. 12 “Principles of Performing”) they explain how one of their favorite ways to design a magic trick is to come up with an idea and then act it out as if they already know how to do it. Here’s Penn: We still start with an idea for a trick, how we … | Continue reading
MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2024 So suggests Charlie Warzel: Why are so many people going to vote for Candidate Trump? Over here in Blue America, inquiring minds do—but also don't—seem to want to know. Back in 2020, 74.2 million people did vote for Candidate Trump. That's a very large nu … | Continue reading
A choice of two or more functors gives rise to a functor. An article for object-oriented programmers. This article is part of a series of articles about functor relationships. In this one you'll learn about a universal composition of functors. In short, if you have a sum type of … | Continue reading
I’ll just remind everyone at the start that this a respectful debate, and DHH and I tried to get on a call but couldn’t because we were both traveling. However, “Automattic is doing open source dirty” is an abomination of a headline, and David’s second post Open source royalty an … | Continue reading
Oil giants Exxon and Chevron are among a group of energy companies that could receive up to $1.2 billion in federal funding to make so-called “clean” hydrogen in Texas. Their proposal to produce the clean-burning fuel using natural gas and carbon capture, in addition to other met … | Continue reading
Introduction In this article, we are going to analyze how the RESOURCE_LOCAL JPA transaction type works. Since this is the default transaction type when using Spring Boot or Spring Data JPA, it’s very important to understand how transactions are managed when using the RESOURCE_LO … | Continue reading
Allan has recently retired from his position as the Chief Information Officer at Isuzu Ute Australia. He knows about motor vehicles and he is dead set on value for money. He is in the market for an electric vehicle, and I asked him to share his shopping-for-value experience. When … | Continue reading
Milton’s impacts still keep coming, and will be for weeks. Tampa dodged the potential catastrophic storm surge, but nearby Pasco County was among (already-saturated before Milton) communities drenched with huge rain totals, and the water will take weeks to work thru the river sys … | Continue reading
The Bureau of Land Management is considering allowing e-bikes on more mountain bike trails in the deserts surrounding Moab, Utah. While it’s good that the Moab Field Office is considering this, there’s one problem: officials are only considering Class 1 e-bikes. There are good re … | Continue reading