Kia Design Center America unveiled a funky concept EV van at this week's SEMA show. This PV5 WKNDR is intended to be "an ideal escape pod for extended weekends in nature." Among its unusual features are a steering wheel that pivots out of the way (sort of), a pivoting passenger s … | Continue reading
Freya Johnston at Literary Review: Does anything ever truly happen in the Messiah? This extraordinarily popular tripartite choral work, first performed in Dublin in 1742, consists almost entirely of saying rather than of doing. Circling around the redemptive power of Christ, it c … | Continue reading
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Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge A collection of fun, affordable, and unique gifts fit for everyone on your list. Continue reading… | Continue reading
A consultant working for the EPA identified numerous scenarios in which the public — particularly road-construction workers — would be exposed to cancer risk. EPA sparks outrage with new approval for Florida road project: 'Disregarding its own science' first appeared on The Cool … | Continue reading
For decades, TV weather reporters have not done a good job linking the effects of climate change to the specific weather disasters that they are describing for their audience.That’s starting to change – and the ramifications are not just on the news. Bloomberg: The World Weather … | Continue reading
Looking for loungewear? Over in Ask MetaFilter, phunniemee is seeking suggestions, so if you have any or want see what's been recommended, come on over! | Continue reading
Hurricane Rafael, intensifying to a Category 3, hit western Cuba, bringing extensive power outages and halting flights. It weakened after landfall but remains potent as it moves through the Gulf, with uncertain forecasts. The latest major storm in 2024’s active hurricane season b … | Continue reading
Mike Davis, an adviser to Donald Trump who is said to be in the running to serve as his U.S. attorney general, has issued a violent threat against New York Attorney General Letitia James.In an ... | Continue reading
Support for electric vehicles in America is expected to decline sharply under the next administration as tariffs go up. The post The US Votes For Fewer Electric Vehicles, More Gas Guzzlers appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Rains in Valencia, Spain last week were catastrophic for a number of reasons. More moisture in the air, a hotter Mediterranean, greater development in the affected areas with more impermeable concrete roads, parking lots and structures shedding water.The pictures are similar to w … | Continue reading
Calibre ebook manager, converter, and reader is out with a new update, and it adds an enticing sounding new feature. For a while now Calibre has offered a ‘read aloud’ feature that does exactly what you think it does: a computer voice reads the text of an ePUB book. Calibre 7.2.1 … | Continue reading
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read: US Supreme Court mulls Facebook bid to escape securities fraud suit (John Kruzel, Reuters) Trump will name more conservative judges. He may even... T … | Continue reading
There are a lot of takes going around that try to explain why Donald Trump — despite all of this — won the election against Kamala Harris. Some of it has validity around the edges. Some of it definitely doesn’t. But when it comes down to it, this was a ... [continued] The post Th … | Continue reading
The Latvian artist's latest release is a combination of granular synthesis and coding-produced sounds sofi, one of the figures on the 2024/25 SHAPE+ rosters of artists, has a new album on the way, titled AZE. Set for release via the Italian label Riforma, it will be made availabl … | Continue reading
X-Ray Specs? Amazing fighting techniques? Magic tricks? A monkey? These videos show off what actually arrived when you ordered something from a comic ad. YouTuber Laura Legends made videos full of mail-order advertising toys and gadgets from days ago. I remember saving Bazooka Jo … | Continue reading
"That [voters] were insufficiently alarmed about the damage Trump will do – and that they actually thought he has some way to make the economy better and bring inflation down – was the result of a massive information system failure." | Continue reading
In a bid to draw in more riders and make e-motos more accessible, Zero Motorcycles has unveiled a new 'All Access' plan. At its core are six newly developed motorcycles, all priced under US$10,000. The first two electric motorcycles from this pack were unveiled at EICMA 2024. Con … | Continue reading
Cops in Detroit are sending out a warning about what they suspect is a new security feature in iOS 18. | Continue reading
In the wake of the shock election news from the US, a provocation for the future of journalism. | Continue reading
New version of the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress. | Continue reading
I missed this back in May: the Boy Scouts of America is changing its name to Scouting America “in an effort to emphasize inclusion”. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org → | Continue reading
Oral phenylephrine is sold as a nasal decongestant. It doesn't work very well, and the U.S. Food and Drug administration wants it removed from over-the-counter medications. The agency conducted a comprehensive review of all available data on the safety and efficacy of oral phenyl … | Continue reading
The three-part final season of Netflix's hit Karate Kid spinoff series drops its next batch of episodes November 15. | Continue reading
Book 12 of 26 books for 2024! Let’s see if I can get to 50% read by the end of the weekend… I have long been a fan of the work of Henry Kuttner, who was perhaps the most versatile … Continue reading → | Continue reading
On "Take Me Home" the German Canadian duo Moon and Aries navigates through a comforting production that still manages to push themselves forward. | Continue reading
Dave and I talk about using Live Activities on our iPhones and how it works with Dynamic Island, which is one of my favorite hardware features on the iPhone. We also look at the numbers from the company's fourth quarter fiscal results and how each product category did in the quar … | Continue reading
Scientists measure the variability in musical pieces. Music is widely known to evoke emotions, but how exactly do these emotions arise, and how does meaning emerge from music? Nearly 70 years ago, music philosopher Leonard Meyer proposed that both are the result of an interplay b … | Continue reading
Complicated births may not have arisen in humans as a trade-off between our need for big brains and pelvises suitable for upright walking, new research in chimps suggests. | Continue reading
A few years back, my local mom Facebook group started a weekly thread to share the best deals on groceries around town. We tried to look through supermarkets’ circulars to pull out the best deals we saw. Someone started a spreadsheet comparing prices at Costco versus non-warehous … | Continue reading
Home Assistant and CarPlay with the Pi Touch Display 2 After a decade, Raspberry Pi finally upgraded their official Touch Display from 480p to 720p, while keeping the price and overall aesthetic the same. I've had early access to the Touch Display 2, and have been testing it in a … | Continue reading
Note: the PDF/A specification is not freely available so everything here is based on reverse engineering. It might be complete bunk. There are many different "subspecies" of PDF. The most common are PDF/X and PDF/A. CapyPDF can already do PDF/X, so I figured it's time to look int … | Continue reading
But she might not be a hat person. The post J.Lo Put a Lid On It first appeared on Go Fug Yourself. | Continue reading
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Between composting, recycling, donating, and selling, there's usually always another option. Homeowner met with brilliant solutions after asking how to make use of old bedsheets: 'Wondering what to do other than donate' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
A fragment of cloth found in a royal tomb in Greece decades ago might be the remains of a tunic once worn by Alexander the Great, a new study claims. | Continue reading
Image: Palworld Palworld developer Pocketpair has revealed the patents at the center of the infringement lawsuit Nintendo and The Pokémon Company filed in Japan back in September. Pocketpair has also shared that, in addition to 5 million yen each plus late fees, they’re “seeking … | Continue reading
Dutch company Airback has invented a backpack that can shrink its contents. Their eponymous backpack ($185) features a zippered airtight compartment with a port; once you've stuffed this compartment full, you attach either a household vacuum cleaner, or the company's small electr … | Continue reading
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The teacher . . . is not a machine which follows a certain syllabus, which has certain lessons to recite to the child, and too make him recite them back. She is a sensitive human being who works with her intellect, and loves her work. She is not helpless. She has faith in human n … | Continue reading
Sony is happy selling more PS5 games like Astro Bot, even when Concord proved to be an unmitigated disaster. | Continue reading
I’ve kind of had enough of all this Stoic stuff. I’m not an expert on Stoicism (maybe you can help?). But I’ve had enough of being told by Stoic friends to “choose my feelings” and to “take control of my emotions.” Sure, I don’t like being angry, anxious, or even depressed now an … | Continue reading
This is the fifteenth part of a fiction serial, in 824 words Things happened fast following the seance and the visitation of the Demon, Bel. By the next afternoon, Edgar was being sent away in disgrace, to stay with a distant relative in Bristol. The whole house had heard Pomery … | Continue reading
MinuteEarth explained how late 18th Century scientists dispelled the long-held notion that water was not an element but a chemical compound. | Continue reading
Last week, fall weather finally fell, and along with wrapping myself in sweaters and admiring the changing leaves on my Brooklyn block, I was craving soup. Particularly tomato soup, and mostly because I had a fresh loaf of sourdough and a generous hunk of Jarlsberg cheese (cue Ad … | Continue reading
The Protect Reporters from Exploitative State Spying Act is bipartisan legislation that would shield news reporters from having to disclose their sources and other communications to the courts, with few exceptions. Legal threats along these lines are a common method used to censo … | Continue reading
I've spent a week with Apple Intelligence—here are the takeaways. | Continue reading