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
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
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
When someone receives an implant such as an artificial hip, there's a real risk of an infection occurring at the implant site. According to a new study, however, a covering of bacteria-frying gold nanorods could keep that from happening. Continue Reading Category: Medical Devices … | Continue reading
Creating a LLM-as-a-Judge that drives business results Hamel Husain's sequel to Your AI product needs evals. This is packed with hard-won actionable advice. Hamel warns against using scores on a 1-5 scale, instead promoting an alternative he calls "Critique Shadowing". Find a dom … | Continue reading
The town of Salem, Massachusetts, gets overrun by tourists every October, with more than 1.5 million people visiting the small community over the last few weeks. That's according to some guy I met outside of the Salem Polish Legion of American Veterans Club on Friday night. — Rea … | Continue reading
"Bizarre!" is how the city ecologists in Utrecht, The Netherlands describe this bright orange sac discovered attached to a floating island in one of the city's canals. It turns out that the "large slippery thing," as described by the ecologists, is actually a colony of tiny Bryoz … | Continue reading
Researchers have uncovered how social interactions influence brain development in common marmosets, drawing parallels with human evolution. The study reveals that brain regions involved in social processing mature slowly, mirroring the development seen in humans. This protracted … | Continue reading
In what could be Randy Rainbow's last parody song if the MAGA party has its way next week, the comedic singer uses ELO and Olivia Newton John's utopian "Xanadu" to paint a grim picture of what Trump's dystopian "Magadu" will look like. — Read the rest The post From Xanadu to Maga … | Continue reading
And because letting “random people steer a company Twitch Plays Pokémon-style” instead of venture capitalists is “fucking funny” The post Former Disco Elysium Devs Embrace Worker/Player-Owned Structure To Bring ‘True Democracy’ To Game Development appeared first on Aftermath. | Continue reading
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In the first inning of Game 4 of the World Series, Dodger outfielder Mookie Betts reached into the stands to make a catch of a foul ball. After the catch, Betts was basically mugged: Yankee fans in the front row brutally grabbed his glove and his other wrist and wrestled the ball … | Continue reading
The upcoming game Indiana Jones and the Great Circle takes place in 1937, between the events of Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. In the action-adventure game, Indy is chasing another MacGuffin and trying to keep it out of the hands of the bad guys, … | Continue reading
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Are you looking for shadow box ideas to showcase your special moments or decorate your house? We’ve got your back!… The post 54 Shadow Box Ideas For That Special Occasion appeared first on Kids Activities Blog. | Continue reading
I received a lot of annoying and/or weird PR pitches in my inbox. But the one that showed up last Thursday morning might take the cake: an invitation to interact with an AI-powered chatbot based on Linda Lovelace—the star of the iconic 70s pornographic films, Deep Throat and Doga … | Continue reading
One of our neighbors recently suffered a massive flood in their house due to a burst sink supply hose: Readers: What material do you think we’re looking at here? A vinyl or rubber inside pipe surrounded by braided stainless steel? All of our houses in this sub-development (within … | Continue reading
At a recent rally for Donald Trump, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Howard Lutnick, the head of Wall Street firm Cantor Fitzgerald, took the stage together and contemplated the federal budget. “How much do you think we can rip out of this wasted $6.5 trillion Harris-Biden budget?” Lutnic … | Continue reading
Bitwarden finally released the native Android app (written in Kotlin) with version 2024.10.1. I used the beta since it was released and Vaultwarden updated to support it, and I can definitely say it’s a huge improvement to the previous Xamarin version. 👍 | Continue reading
A birthday party invitation seems like such a normal right of passage as a kid. I remember getting many growing up.I also remember handing out birthday invitations to all of my friends. Birthday invitations were always a big part of my childhood. I grew up and had three children … | Continue reading
docs.jina.ai - the Jina meta-prompt From Jina AI on Twitter: curl docs.jina.ai - This is our Meta-Prompt. It allows LLMs to understand our Reader, Embeddings, Reranker, and Classifier APIs for improved codegen. Using the meta-prompt is straightforward. Just copy the prompt into y … | Continue reading
Last night the combination of things adjudicated rapist Donald Trump and his make-up "artists" smeared on his face looked even more unnatural than usual. Did the monkey whose poo Donald uses as a base for his bronzer eat an extra bag of Flamin' Hot Cheetos? — Read the rest The po … | Continue reading
A study finds that Arctic sea ice melting can disrupt ocean circulation and cooling, echoing scientists’ concerns of potential future climate impacts. A new study published in Nature Communications suggests that rising temperatures in polar regions could greatly disrupt ocean cir … | Continue reading
YouTube TV when it starts up, the station it automatically opens is Fox News. I posted this on various social webs and heard from people this is not their experience. | Continue reading
A talk show building. The post Two “Only Murders” Ladies Walk Into a Building… first appeared on Go Fug Yourself. | Continue reading
By which I mean, they looked the foxiest. The post Salma and Penelope Outfoxed Everyone at WSJ Innovators first appeared on Go Fug Yourself. | Continue reading
Let's do a little fantasy shopping! The post Come Check Out Altuzarra Spring/Summer 2025 first appeared on Go Fug Yourself. | Continue reading
And will be for a while. The post The Wicked Ladies Are Busy Again first appeared on Go Fug Yourself. | Continue reading
A cosmic entity breaks the internet—and eventually, the world. The post The Viral Post From Beyond: Manish Melwani’s “Mammoth” appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Floridians will soon vote on whether there is a constitutional right to sell recreational marijuana (Amendment 3). Elite Democrats who control the Palm Beach Post urge peasants to vote “yes” on this amendment. The same newspaper also reports that elite Democrats in Palm Beach per … | Continue reading
This is the eighth part of a fiction serial, in 751 words. It was important to eavesdrop, as Jake soon found out. And the servants in the house loved to gossip. The new master was Richard Pomery. He wasn’t an artist, but a dealer in art and antiquities who had spent most of his l … | Continue reading
Synthedelic by Luke Tangerine is an impressive musical accomplishment, one that manages to explore a myriad of different inspirations while still remaining absolutely true to its own gorgeous new wave and post-punk aesthetic. | Continue reading
Today we’re doing pie crafts! Fall just screams pies to me. Pumpkin pie, pecan pie, apple pie, you name it!… The post Fun Fall Clay Pie Crafts For Kids appeared first on Kids Activities Blog. | Continue reading
Twelve years ago, my former Macworld colleague Lex Friedman and I were at an Apple focused conference where we presented a talk called “Apple is Huge Now (And That Sucks For You)”.… | Continue reading
A Florida man beat a fellow traveler — who was sleeping — to a bloody mess on a United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Washington D.C. yesterday. And the reason? None, as far as anyone can gather. The assault took place around two hours into the flight, after 44-year-old Ev … | Continue reading
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Scientists have discovered that the brain produces “guardian peptides” that maintain its immune balance, potentially offering new treatments for neuroinflammatory diseases like MS and Alzheimer’s. The brain is in constant communication with the body’s immune system, working to ma … | Continue reading
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By emulating a magnetic field on a superconducting quantum computer, researchers can probe complex properties of materials. | Continue reading
Here in town for the Utopiales Festival. I’m signing books and talking on panels. And then after that I have signings in Brest and Paris. It’s a whole French tour. Nantes is currently a little gray but otherwise lovely. I hope it’s lovely where you are as well. — JS | Continue reading
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Crystal the Witch is a freeware English-language visual novel which takes place on the eve of Halloween. We Crystal, who is a (beginner) witch, her cat, and online friends. | Continue reading