The Anime Community Has To Stop Chasing Shonen Jump’s Big Three Dream

My Hero Academia and Jujutsu Kaisen were never the medium's new, grand saviors their fans wanted them to be. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 20 minutes ago

How we solved the hole in the ozone

The most striking thing was the solitude. As the airplane thundered across an unsettled sky toward Antarctica, I stared out the window at the landscape of shifting ice floes and dark ocean. There were no roads, no settlements, no structures of any kind—not even the occasional lon … | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 35 minutes ago

Netherlands to build state-of-the-art 3D-printed homes inspired by rock formations: 'These houses are more than just experimental'

"This ambitious undertaking will take the standards of 3D concrete printing to the next level." Netherlands to build state-of-the-art 3D-printed homes inspired by rock formations: 'These houses are more than just experimental' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 35 minutes ago

X is capitulating to Brazil’s Supreme Court

Image: The Verge Brazilian fan account owners might have a reason to rejoice, as X could be returning to Brazil. According to the New York Times, in a court filing Friday night the company agreed to abide by the Supreme Court’s request in order to have the countrywide ban lifted: … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 45 minutes ago

New $1 Test Using Origami Paper Sensors Can Detect Infectious Diseases Like Covid–With Just a Mobile Phone

A cheap new test using origami paper sensors can help detect infectious diseases, such as COVID-19, much earlier and easier than current methods, say scientists. The innovative method identifies biomarkers in wastewater, enabling rapid tracking of diseases using the camera in a m … | Continue reading


@goodnewsnetwork.org | 48 minutes ago

Global infostealer malware operation targets crypto users, gamers

A massive infostealer malware operation encompassing thirty campaigns targeting a broad spectrum of demographics and system platforms has been uncovered, attributed to a cybercriminal group named "Marko Polo." [...] | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 50 minutes ago

What’s Lurking in the Kuiper Belt? NASA’s Unexpected New Discovery

NASA’s New Horizons team has identified a new group of distant Kuiper Belt objects using the Subaru Telescope, revealing that our solar system’s outskirts may be larger and more complex than previously understood. This discovery suggests the presence of a potential second Kuiper … | Continue reading


@scitechdaily.com | 50 minutes ago

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@bottledaux.com | 54 minutes ago

What do Democrats dream about now that vaccine passports are passé?

The big Democrat dream in 2021 was a segregated society in which Deplorables who refused to vaccinate their 8-year-olds against a virus that kills 82-year-olds would be excluded. See, for example, Vaccine papers checks in the Cradle of Liberty (December 2021, regarding Boston’s o … | Continue reading


@philip.greenspun.com | 56 minutes ago

This Week's Bookmarks - 365 Famous Quotes, Paul Simon Thief, Links Newsletter, Rare Films, Lost TV Show Book, Best Airports, US Journalism

The 365 Most Famous Quotes of All Time (Backed by Data & Verified) | Books Are Our Superpower (archive.ph) Rhymin' Simon: Not Welcome in East L.A. - WFMU’s Beware of the Blog - The story of how Paul Simon allegedly stole songs from Los Lobos for Graceland Links I Would Gchat You … | Continue reading


@amerpie.lol | 1 hour ago

Get Ready, Choom: A New Cyberpunk Anime is On the Way

CD Projekt Red and Netflix are reteaming to tell another animated adventure in the seedy world of Night City. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 1 hour ago

What Could You Change in a Year?

In the space of just a few years, I changed my diet, started exercising, began using a productivity system, read several books per month, joined Toastmasters, wrote a journal regularly, began waking up early, tried mediation and much more. The post What Could You Change in a Year … | Continue reading


@scotthyoung.com | 1 hour ago

Plasma Chasms charms with versatility on debut album “Chrysalis”

Exploring several different directions, often at once, Plasma Chasms created a tightly knit adventure marked by soundwaves that make up for a very interesting listen. | Continue reading


@lessthan1000followers.com | 1 hour ago

Masonry and good defaults

I’ve been writing about and teaching people CSS layout for a very long time. People sometimes call me an expert in CSS. I don’t know about that, but I’m confident in claiming expertise in teaching and writing about CSS. I’ve been doing this for a long time, about 25 years. Over t … | Continue reading


@rachelandrew.co.uk | 1 hour ago

South African rock art of mystery creature 'strangely flexed like a banana' might be tusked reptile that predated dinosaurs

Cave art created by the San, the indigenous hunter-gatherers of South Africa’s Karoo region, may have been inspired by fossils of long-extinct reptiles. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 1 hour ago

Novel electric inline skates put the power on your waist

In what shouldn't really come as a surprise, there are now a few different companies offering electric inline skates (aka rollerblades). The AtmosGear skates are unique, however, in that their battery is worn on the user's waist. Continue Reading Category: Urban Transport, Transp … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 1 hour ago

City officials and utility companies join forces to solve costly flooding issues using underground, sponge-like technique: 'Every drop of water counts'

Berlin is one of the cities hopping on to this strategy and will have around 300,000 cubic meters of underground storage space for water by 2025. City officials and utility companies join forces to solve costly flooding issues using underground, sponge-like technique: 'Every drop … | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 1 hour ago

I’ve Made Hundreds of Apple Pies, But THIS Is the Only One I’ll Ever Bake

It’s a classic. READ MORE... | Continue reading


@thekitchn.com | 1 hour ago

Professional socialization: Beginnings, endings, and endings that are beginnings

The autumn has arrived, and with it the university moves from a slow-paced and empty space, to a bustling campus full of new students finding their way and colleagues starting again on the yearly travel through the academic year. Much to the horror of my partner- who is a summer … | Continue reading


@rebeccanordquist.edublogs.org | 1 hour ago

Joy & Curiosity #8

Interesting & joyful things from the previous week | Continue reading


@registerspill.thorstenball.com | 1 hour ago

Vanceism of the week: "Haitia"

Back in the early 2000s, George W. Bush got a lot of flac for calling Greeks "Grecians" and making similar mistakes in the mapping from places to ethnonyms. J.D. Vance recently went the other way, mapping the ethnonym Haitians to a possible place name pronounced /ˈhej.ʃə/, as if … | Continue reading


@languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu | 1 hour ago

Scientists Uncover “Feel-Good” Brain Circuit That Makes You Keep Eating

A study conducted at the University of Bonn has identified an essential control circuit in flies that regulates food consumption. Researchers from the University of Bonn and the University of Cambridge have discovered a key regulatory circuit involved in the eating process. Their … | Continue reading


@scitechdaily.com | 1 hour ago

Ampersand & CrossBoundary Energy Look To Supercharge Kenya’s E-Mobility Transition With Solar Charging & E-Motorcycle Batteries

The solar PV market in a lot of African countries has grown thanks to project developers and financiers offering attractive power purchase and lease agreements to clients in the C&I sector. Uptake was driven without any government incentives in most of these countries. Uptake was … | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 2 hours ago

Chandra – new EP “Lifted”

Throughout the year, Chandra teased us with singles that set the tone of "Lifted". Now, we can finally get a full taste of the complete body of work which will be available on streaming platforms on August 30th, but you can buy or listen to it on Bandcamp today! | Continue reading


@lessthan1000followers.com | 2 hours ago

A Talented Multi-Blogger

A Talented Multi-Blogger - The many websites of Michael Burkhardt a talented writer and polymath from the heartland of America. - linkage.lol/a-talente… | Continue reading


@amerpie.lol | 2 hours ago

What to expect at Meta Connect 2024 — the next Quest VR headset

Image: Meta Meta is holding its annual Connect developers conference next week, and it’s going to showcase a bunch of expected and perhaps some surprise new VR and AR hardware — alongside what might be a heavy Meta AI showcase featuring the company’s newest Llama large language m … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 2 hours ago

knowledge of the instrument and an imagination

"Most of the other guitar solos that you hear performed on stage have been practiced over and over and over again," Frank Zappa complained to an interviewer. "They go out there, and they play the same one every night, and it's really just spotless." | Continue reading


@mavengame.com | 2 hours ago

The Bloodiest Sci-Fi Thriller of the Year Reclaims a Controversial Genre

How the writer and director of 'The Substance' teamed up with Demi Moore to make a body-horror masterpiece. | Continue reading


@inverse.com | 2 hours ago

Chances for CERN’s Mega-Collider are Sinking

Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science | Continue reading


@backreaction.blogspot.com | 2 hours ago

New study shows nationwide increase in schools using solar energy: 'Every single public school in my area ... has some kind of solar installed'

"The projects would pay for themselves in a few years, and then that money could go to teachers and programs that really need funding." New study shows nationwide increase in schools using solar energy: 'Every single public school in my area ... has some kind of solar installed' … | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 2 hours ago

The future of fertility, from artificial wombs to AI-assisted IVF

This article is an installment of Future Explored, Freethink’s weekly guide to world-changing technology. You can get stories like this one straight to your inbox every Saturday morning by subscribing above. It’s 2026, and you just had your first child through IVF. You would’ve t … | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 2 hours ago

Pork Pie’s new album “Golden Leaf Sheets” dwells on classic sounds with expertise and nuance

Their sounds are fuller and richer on this new project as the band seem to be having the time of their lives on each song. Across the ten tracks and roughly forty minutes that compose the album, we get to hear and feel Pork Pie diving deep into 60s inspired classic rock anthems t … | Continue reading


@lessthan1000followers.com | 2 hours ago

Quoting Steven Sinofsky

Whether you think coding with AI works today or not doesn’t really matter. But if you think functional AI helping to code will make humans dumber or isn’t real programming just consider that’s been the argument against every generation of programming tools going back to Fortran. … | Continue reading


@simonwillison.net | 2 hours ago

How To “Grow” New Supply Of Nickel For EV Batteries

A plant-based domestic supply chain for nickel-based EV batteries is emerging in the US, and the Department of Energy is here for it. The post How To “Grow” New Supply Of Nickel For EV Batteries appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 2 hours ago

🔗 Tackling ChatGPT's UX woes with optimistic updates in Phoenix LiveView

Part 2 of José Valim covering ChatGPT's new UI. "It's a paradox for a server-side framework to have so many affordances and abstractions on the client." ⚠️ This post links to an external website. ⚠️ | Continue reading


@yellowduck.be | 3 hours ago

Netflix’s Devil May Cry Anime Hits the Jackpot in 2025

Studio Mir is bringing Dante to animated life, and potentially bringing some of his manga adventures along for the ride. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 hours ago

We Compared Prices for a Dozen Items at Walmart Versus Whole Foods — And Did Not Expect These Results

We looked at bacon, avocados, canned tuna, and more. READ MORE... | Continue reading


@thekitchn.com | 3 hours ago

Scientists Uncover New Cancer-Blocking Benefits of Milk and Meat Proteins

Researchers in Japan found that food antigens like milk proteins suppress tumor growth in the small intestines by activating immune cells. This suggests that antigen-free diets could pose risks, emphasizing the need for medical supervision when adopting such diets. Researchers at … | Continue reading


@scitechdaily.com | 3 hours ago

Bacardi Rum Is Releasing a New Canned Cocktail That Has People SO Excited

You don’t have to be a bartender to spin up this boozy drink. READ MORE... | Continue reading


@thekitchn.com | 3 hours ago

Can Google AI count?

Apparently not. Given this recent tweet, in which Google AI Overview explains that "October 21 is not a Libra, as the Libra zodiac sign is from September 23 to October 22", I thought I'd try for myself. The result had a different format but the same problem: We've previously desc … | Continue reading


@languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu | 3 hours ago

THE AMERICAN NATION'S NEW CLOTHES: A new suit of clothes has appeared on the scene!

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2024 The Times keeps averting its gaze: No one was perfect at last week's debate. For the record, no one ever is. Last Tuesday, no one was perfect! For ourselves, we would have liked it better if Linsey Davis of ABC News hadn't offered this: TRUMP (9/10/24 … | Continue reading


@dailyhowler.blogspot.com | 3 hours ago

The Plucky Squire is an adorable adventure that mixes 2D and 3D

Image: All Possible Futures The Plucky Squire is a game that leaps off the page — literally. It takes place in a storybook world rendered in an adorable two dimensions thanks to codirector and former Pokémon artist James Turner. But at certain points, the heroic lead character ca … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 3 hours ago

Thrifter astonished after coming across massive designer shoe donation on neighborhood curb: 'I have never been more excited in my life'

"Y'all these were free." Thrifter astonished after coming across massive designer shoe donation on neighborhood curb: 'I have never been more excited in my life' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 3 hours ago

Why This Italian Baked Pasta Is So Much Better Than Lasagna

All the same flavors with less of the fuss. READ MORE... | Continue reading


@thekitchn.com | 3 hours ago

Transforming Overwhelm into a Creative, Productive Energy

By Leo Babauta I talk to dozens of people every month — Zen Habits readers, coaching clients and Fearless Living Academy members — who struggle with a feeling of overwhelm from all of the things on their plates. Overwhelm from tasks, messages, and more is completely normal. It’s … | Continue reading


@zenhabits.net | 3 hours ago

Why art is more forgiving than game design

The full interview is here. This is the relevant part: I’ve also been working with a friend on a multiplayer game called Buy That Guy that you play with a map and cards. Each player represents an interest group such … Continue reading → | Continue reading


@statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu | 3 hours ago

Pumpkin Cookies

Pumpkin Cookies are the only treat you need this fall! They're deliciously chewy, perfectly spiced, and dotted with gooey chocolate chips! The post Pumpkin Cookies appeared first on Budget Bytes. | Continue reading


@budgetbytes.com | 4 hours ago

Students create native gardening program to transform traditional college campus landscaping: 'They can make a change little by little'

"For the students who are already thinking about planting native plants, it can be really rewarding." Students create native gardening program to transform traditional college campus landscaping: 'They can make a change little by little' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 4 hours ago