People with allergies or asthma have more diverse fungal communities thriving in their noses, according to new research. | Continue reading
"These are two incredible yet very different bikes." Segway steps back into the spotlight with two game-changing bike models: 'This is only the beginning' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Use your digital camera to take photos through a spotting scope, and you can capture up-close images of faraway subjects (without having to break the bank). | Continue reading
Megan Clement in The New York Times: At first it seemed that we were doomed to bear witness to a grim spectacle, a media frenzy over the appalling details of a nauseating crime that left its victim, in her own words, “a field of ruins.” But there was one more extraordinary elemen … | Continue reading
Michelle Goldberg in The New York Times: It has been a ghastly year for American women — at least those of us who are not looking forward to being ruled by a claque of cartoon chauvinists — but a pretty rich year for women in the movies. One of 2024’s biggest hits featured an unf … | Continue reading
It's holiday time, and that means that the annual shelter-dogs-picking-out-their-holiday-toys videos are dropping! One of the best this year is the video posted recently by the Humane Educational Society, which features over a dozen of the adorable pooches entering one by one int … | Continue reading
Over a hundred new e-readers were released in 2024, and it can be daunting to figure out which is best for your needs. Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Onyx Boox, and others prioritize marketing their most expensive units, citing all available features. However, there are tons of … | Continue reading
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Comedian Conan O'Brien lost both his parents with three days of each other; his father passed away on December 9, and his mother on December 12. His parents were exceptionally accomplished. In addition to raising their family of six children in Brookline, Massachusetts, Dr. — Rea … | Continue reading
These homemade Eggnog Cookies are super chewy, soft, perfectly spiced, and topped with a creamy, buttery frosting. Perfect for Christmas! The post Eggnog Cookies appeared first on Budget Bytes. | Continue reading
"Death is self-surrender... Love is the consciousness of survival in the act of self-surrender." | Continue reading
Non Sequitur for 12/19/2024: A prohibition against phishing would be covered by a small extension of the commandments against stealing, false witness, and coveting — probably it already is, even if the word is new. And even a few thousand years ago, there was a version of "trolli … | Continue reading
No telling what will happen to US climate science under a new regime of lawless, oil funded oligarchs, so we may want to pay attention to the high quality data and images that the European Space Agency is giving us. Livescience: A disturbing new video shows 13 years of melt at th … | Continue reading
A Google Nest doorbell camera. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Apple is working on a new smart doorbell camera that uses Face ID to unlock your door, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter. The camera could be released by the end of 202 … | Continue reading
Purge The Aryan Jesus, in Hitler’s painting Madonna and Child, is, I trust, a Jew, however blond, beneath a firmament whose children are not yet children, but calm, sententious, and removed, steadfast as the precious metal in their hair. Doubtless our little savior is feeling ove … | Continue reading
Hosting brunch will be a breeze with this hack. READ MORE... | Continue reading
BTW Twitter is innovating in ways that it never has. People not staying on Twitter would have no way of knowing. Another reason why, for software developers, quitting Twitter is stupid. As quitting Facebook was ten years ago. Great, now you have no idea what features your users a … | Continue reading
No, this isn't the return of Marvel's Iron Man; Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) has announced plans to build the world's first grid-scale fusion power plant near Richmond, Virginia. Continue Reading Category: Energy, Technology Tags: Nuclear Fusion, Nuclear, Electricity | Continue reading
In 2024, biomedical technology really got to our heads—or more specifically, our eyes and brains. Some of Spectrum’s most popular articles this year were about technology assisting our vision, with stories of retinal implants and smart contact lenses drawing your eye. You dug dee … | Continue reading
We all know—and love—that cats make biscuits, and we even have archaeological evidence that such feline biscuit making occurred 1200 years ago! But I bet you didn't know that binturongs—those adorable creatures that WIRED describes as having "a face like a cat, a body like a smal … | Continue reading
Do we really need all this? | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The grid is a comfortable place to live. The app grid, I mean: the rows and rows of app icons on your iPhone’s homescreen. It’s familiar. Safe. It’s how I’ve lived with my various phones over the past decad … | Continue reading
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Our staff writes about the best books they read over the course of the year. Read the full story at The Verge. | Continue reading
Even if the railway promoters win, here's why the train won’t get built. | Continue reading
Egads, can you believe Christmas is this Wednesday?! Don't focus on all that stuff you still have to do and buy and organize, though. Instead, let's just take a mini vacation, right here in this post. So, take a deep breath, clear your mind... (By Vaganova Alina) AND LOOK HOW CUT … | Continue reading
"It's inspiring to see how some of these early interventions can be both simple and impactful." Prominent hospitals are making a radical change to their newborn care units — and it's about time first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
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Expedition 72 crew members aboard the International Space Station (ISS) wrapped up their week with key science hardware installations. Meanwhile, the cosmonauts enjoyed a well-deserved late start on Friday, recovering from a spacewalk the day before. Science Hardware Updates NASA … | Continue reading
It’s a special way to celebrate the holidays and remember my dad. READ MORE... | Continue reading
Very cold and still. Over by the springhouse, juncos are making their happy sounds. A mourning dove moans. | Continue reading
Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears. | Continue reading
What we need, now, is a system to compete with Twitter. The only thing that can counteract the new direction we're going in, is a system as capable as Twitter. It has to be privately held by a group that can be trusted not to interfere with democratic use of the system. This can' … | Continue reading
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Photo Friday by Stacie Joy Joe Strummer (aka John Graham Mellor) died on this day in 2002 at age 50. As always, a photo of Dr. Revolt's mural — the first iteration created in 2004 — outside Niagara on Seventh Street and Avenue A. And now, enjoy this "Fantastic" video... | Continue reading
The technology is simple and inexpensive compared to other methods. Scientists discover innovative light solution to fend off major threat to our food supply — here's how it could impact global crops first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
If federal stream gages were bolstered by networks of cheaper monitors run by communities, the results could save lives. | Continue reading
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Following on from yesterday’s song, here is another record I loved that had a cover version by The Beatles. Yet again often described as a ‘Beatles’ Song’, and later covered by the Carpenters with some claiming it to be a ‘Carpenters’ Song’, this is the original that I owned at t … | Continue reading
Yesterday we had a lot of fun exploring the derivation of Italian "Panettone: augmentative of the diminutive" and beyond. Another Yuletide cake I'm eating these days is German stollen, but its etymology is not so exciting: Middle High German stolle < Old High German stollo ("post … | Continue reading
Valkyrie Profile is one of the most imaginative RPGs Square Enix has ever created, and 25 years later it's time for the series to have a proper comeback. | Continue reading
This rare feature, found only in North Holland, has left archaeologists baffled as to why someone would choose such a morbid material. | Continue reading
An open-source database made by MIT engineers houses over 8,000 aerodynamic car designs and could train future AI models to design EVs in the future. | Continue reading
"This efficiency translates to significant savings." Researchers develop AI-powered prediction tech that could optimize a clean energy source — here's how it works first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 65, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, get ready to take up all your phone’s storage space, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This is the last Installer … | Continue reading
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"All you need is list, set and dict" Write HTML with Python Python Hiccup is a library for representing HTML using plain Python data structures. It's a Python implementation of the Hiccup syntax. You create HTML with Python, using list or tuple to represent HTML elements, and dic … | Continue reading
New simulation methods reveal insights into the Earth’s core and promise advances in neuromorphic computing for artificial intelligence. How Does Earth Generate Its Magnetic Field? While scientists understand the basic process behind Earth’s magnetic field, many details remain un … | Continue reading
I go to lots of theatre performances, shows, and events. I am constantly baffled by how poorly thought out the pre- and post-show experiences are. From the moment you enter the theatre, you are having "an experience". The atmosphere created within the venue all adds up to how muc … | Continue reading