If you've ever woken up in the middle of the night with sudden painful thigh, calf or foot cramping, you'll know just how awful the experience is – and, unfortunately, the frequency of these nighttime disturbances increases with age. Continue Reading Category: Diet & Nutrition Ta … | Continue reading
Predatory bacteria, known as BALOs, are microscopic yet formidable hunters of other microbes, pivotal in both environmental and health applications. Researchers are studying their role in marine ecosystems, their potential to reshape microbial ecology, and their effectiveness aga … | Continue reading
Jay Olson is a stage magician and psychology researcher at University of Toronto. Given his unique background, he was recently called in to help design a scientific study in which the participants would be convinced they had taken a psychedelic compound when really they were give … | Continue reading
It’s been a while! My site has fallen majorly by the wayside which both feels appropriate (see first point below) and makes me a bit sad. There’s a lot I’ve already forgotten. I want to analyze a bit more why I haven’t been posting… but that’s something I need to think a bit more … | Continue reading
This follows additional rounds of layoffs in 2024 and 2023 The post Fandom Lays Off 11 Percent Of Staff, GameSpot Affected appeared first on Aftermath. | Continue reading
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The GitHub Awards celebrates the outstanding contributions and achievements in the developer community by honoring individuals, projects, and organizations for creating an outsized positive impact on the community. The post Celebrating the GitHub Awards 2024 recipients 🎉 … | Continue reading
Here’s how to repurpose your gourds this season. READ MORE... | Continue reading
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If there’s one thing I love, it’s a good Dreamworks movie. In fact, a huge portion of my favorite movies are Dreamworks movies, like How to Train Your Dragon, Kung Fu Panda, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, The Road to El Dorado, and of course, Megamind. With all these iconic classi … | Continue reading
Key projects for the Energy Department’s hydrogen hubs are dropping like flies. And it’s really not obvious why. Three hubs DOE selected for potential federal support have lost projects that were linchpins. Industrial giant Fortescue is no longer publicly committing to a hydro-po … | Continue reading
1. Douglas County, Kansas – A legal headache is consuming Kansas Sky Energy Center, a 159-megawatt solar project proposed by Savion and Invenergy… and showcasing how “agri-voltaics” may not be the community engagement panacea some in industry are praying for, according to legal f … | Continue reading
1. Offshore wind lease win – Two companies, Avangrid and Invenergy, purchased four of the eight leases up for grabs yesterday at the first floating offshore wind sale in the Gulf of Maine, according to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. I’ve previously chronicled how offshore … | Continue reading
A decade-long study reveals that adolescents who received weight-loss surgery significantly maintained reduced BMI and improved major health markers, such as diabetes and hypertension, 10 years post-surgery. These health gains significantly surpass those observed in adults, highl … | Continue reading
Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and let's be honest—you're going to need some backup. With 18 bottles of wine (yes, 18!), this deal from Swirl Wine Shop is your secret weapon for surviving all the awkward family conversations and the inevitable political debates at the di … | Continue reading
Last week at Greentown Labs’ startup summit in Boston I interviewed Scott Strazik, CEO of GE Vernova, the energy equipment manufacturing arm of General Electric formerly known as GE Renewables and GE Power. GE Vernova has been at the forefront of a tech and public relations crisi … | Continue reading
A pair of beautiful white cats play all sweet and innocent when their human enters the kitchen to find that someone has knocked over their water bowl. And since no one confesses to the shenanigans, their two-legged waiter refills the bowl and waits around, with camera in hand. — … | Continue reading
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grateful to Mia Sato for staying on this beat, which affects so many smaller sites I care about # | Continue reading
Instruments from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory have recorded the passage of comet C/2023 A3, Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, as it moved close to the sun. The observation by the LASCO telescope revealed a spectacular view of the comet’s dust trail, marking one of the brightest comets see … | Continue reading
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Our use of tech in Halloween celebrations; the smallest tech we regularly use and the small gadget that wowed us; which Apple Intelligence features we’re using and looking forward to next; and the one item we’d give up this week, tech or non-tech.… | Continue reading
Changes to business rate relief will put more than 350 venues at immediate risk of closure, the organisation said Music Venue Trust, the UK organisation advocating for grassroots music venues, has criticised today's (October 30) Autumn Budget announced by the Labour-led UK govern … | Continue reading
BRAIN scraped 16 years of Twitter to find the first people to post "RIP" when celebrities died, turning it into a morbid competition # | Continue reading
She got my cords and cables organized, accessible, and out of sight. READ MORE... | Continue reading
“If you want to feel like you’re in a cabin in the woods this is for you.” READ MORE... | Continue reading
They've also shared lead track 'Lion Rumpus' Screenshot Mogwai have shared details of their 11th studio album, The Bad Fire. Spanning 10 tracks, the album was recorded in Blantyre, Scotland, and takes its name from a Scottish colloquialism for Hell. It draws inspiration from "a s … | Continue reading
Pinch bowls doubling as votives that I don’t have. Photo by Amanda Hesser A dinner party guest, and Oslo, our canine guest. Photo by Amanda Hesser We had some friends for dinner this weekend, so I got an education in which serving pieces I don’t have, or don’t have enough of, or … | Continue reading
a useful case study given the current debacle stemming from WordPress's "benevolent dictator for life" model # | Continue reading
Here’s a tricky contradiction about local crime news: Most Americans consume it, yet few say it’s easy to stay informed about key questions that news should, theoretically, cover. More Americans follow news and information about crime than any other local topic except the weather … | Continue reading
Announcing the brand new Tom the Dancing Bug book: "IT'S THE GREAT STORM, TOM THE DANCING BUG!" collecting all Tom the Dancing Bug comics from 2020-2023 (and more!)! Now accepting orders right HERE! Get your personalized / signed / sketched / swagged copy while it's still legal t … | Continue reading
Our metabolism's response to food is highly idiosyncratic and there are hints that tailoring our diet to these personal differences can deliver health benefits | Continue reading
The 10x12-inch vinyl set from Beggars Arkive focuses on live performances recorded for John Peel's BBC radio shows A new box set put out by Beggars Arkive collects BBC radio sessions by a number of artists recorded between the 1970s and 2000s. Split across 10 pieces of 12-inch vi … | Continue reading
A team of scientists has discovered that iron monoxide plays a critical role in conducting heat from the Earth’s core to the surface, influencing tectonic movements and volcanic activity. This mineral’s unique properties, identified under extreme conditions, are key to understand … | Continue reading
research and short essays about cultural loss and the critical importance of preservation and access # | Continue reading
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National Science Foundation grant expected to help New England researchers translate discoveries to commercial technology. | Continue reading
This "things you didn't know" video on John Carpenter's cult classic "Big Trouble in Little China" is an excellent distraction at a time we really can use to be distracted. Jack Burton is the greatest bumbling sidekick who thinks he is the main character ever. — Read the rest The … | Continue reading
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You may have heard that an eye-watering 250,000 subscribers have left The Washington Post following the paper’s decision to not endorse a presidential candidate. Readers were particularly upset at the timing — less than two weeks from a close and consequential election — and were … | Continue reading
This Chinese woman is purportedly 107-years-old but it's not just her age that has raised her, um, profile. Known as Chen, she's caused quite a stir on the social media platform Douyin thanks to the four-inch horn growing from her forehead. — Read the rest The post Woman, 107, ha … | Continue reading
“We live in an age which silence is not only criminal but suicidal”, wrote James Baldwin in his “Open Letter to My Sister, Angela Y. Davis”. The year was 1970. I wonder if there has ever been a time when silence was not only criminal but also suicidal. I would like to live there … | Continue reading
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These simple, short statements by Vice President Kamala Harris and convicted felon Donald Trump display one of their fundamental differences. Vice President Kamala Harris cares about people and understands that we don't have to all agree, all the time, on everything. — Read the r … | Continue reading