While much of the focus of President Donald Trump’s trade war has been on the United States’ yawning trade deficit with China, the U.S. does have considerable exports going the other way — agricultural products like soybeans, technology products like semiconductors, and fossil fu … | Continue reading
A routine fossil-hunting trip turned into a groundbreaking discovery for a pair of researchers when they stumbled upon a rare ammonite fossil with brilliant mother-of-pearl iridescence, similar to Canada’s prized gemstone “ammolite.” This prehistoric find – dating back 300 millio … | Continue reading
It is designed for life on the go. | Continue reading
"Coca-Cola’s decision to abandon its reusable packaging goals is not just greenwashing." Coca-Cola slammed after quiet policy change: 'Needs to take real action' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
The planet’s first photosynthesizers dined on green light The post When Earth Was a Pale Green Dot appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading
Oil guy Matt Randolph is back with a very worthwhile explainer on how oil companies are responding to the downturn caused by their favored President kneecapping their business model. Rystad Energy via OilPrice.com: West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude prices dipped into the low $6 … | Continue reading
ChatGPT 4.1 is now rolling out, and it's a significant leap from GPT 4o, but it fails to beat the benchmark set by Google's most powerful model, Gemini. [...] | Continue reading
A Class II recall means permanent injuries aren't likely, but there's still some risk. Shoppers warned after 50,000 bottles of fan-favorite food product are recalled: 'Can pose risks' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
The 18-year-old won $250,000 for training a machine learning model to analyze understudied data from NASA's retired NEOWISE telescope | Continue reading
A massive 7.7 earthquake and powerful aftershock struck near Mandalay, Burma, shaking buildings and damaging infrastructure as far as Bangkok. Satellite imagery from NASA and the European Space Agency revealed dramatic ground shifts of over 6 meters, caused by strike-slip movemen … | Continue reading
Make sure your devices are charged and ready when you are. | Continue reading
TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 2025 Blue journalists said quite a few others: Tomorrow, we'll be back to full services. For today, here's something we noticed. We'll start with something Pam Bondi said at yesterday's Oval Office event. Presidents Bukele and Trump were there. Asked about the … | Continue reading
Amazon is offering some fantastic deals on various Apple products, including the AirPods Pro 2 with Hearing Aid Functionality, Apple Watch Series 10, and the M4 series of MacBook Pro models. AirPods Pro 2 with Hearing Aid Functionality – $190 (down from $249) AirPods Pro 2 are mu … | Continue reading
New cookbook from Samin Nosrat called Good Things that includes “the things she most loves to cook for herself and for friends”. Nosrat is the author of the nearly ubiquitous Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org → | Continue reading
Soaring tariffs on Chinese imports are impacting the U.S. promotional products industry, with ripple effects on meetings and conferences. One promotional products company said the U.S.-China trade war is driving small businesses like his into the ground. -Andrea Doyle | Continue reading
For almost six years, Playdate (a little handheld gaming device with a crank input and 1-bit screen) was a space where I did some of my most creative and personal work. I embraced its quirks, shipped over twenty releases, and explored what a tiny, constrained device could do. It … | Continue reading
"Ultimately, at its core, we cannot survive without insects." Farmers uncover surprising potential in insect waste for growing essential crops: 'It's exciting for so many reasons' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
On October 5, 1936, 200 men from Jarrow in Northumberland, England, began a protest march to Parliament to call for economic assistance in northeast England. Taking place during an economic depression, the march took 26 days and covered 282 miles. Today, the historic protest is k … | Continue reading
The What: Blending Culture, Craft, and Creativity: For my final project, I wanted to take on something that felt both creative and personal—sewing, design, and learning an entirely new skill from scratch. And what better muse than Rajasthani mirror work? It’s a craft I’ve admired … | Continue reading
Ping Place at Bottom Center One of my favorite tech writers, Justin Pot, who publishes a lot over at Lifehacker, reviewed a new to me app today called PingPlace. If something happens on a Mac, someone is going to figure out a way to tweak it. This free app moves the pop-up locati … | Continue reading
Using a traditional U-lock can be a hassle, as you have to pull it out of your bag, take it apart, then run its shackle through the bike's frame before putting it back together. The bike-mounted V-160 offers a simpler approach, in that you just push it head-first into whatever's … | Continue reading
We are often guilty of confusing quantity for quality – a bad habit from our “more-is-more” consumerist culture. But history shows that going bigger can … The post Quality Beats Quantity appeared first on Gapingvoid. | Continue reading
Sometimes the real world gets in the way of Star Wars' galaxy far, far away. | Continue reading
Fitting for a CEO who loves to play martyr. | Continue reading
One of the main goals in designing the home was making it as eco-friendly as possible. Architects unveil puzzle-inspired home with new tech that seamlessly blends indoor and outdoor spaces: 'It feels enormous' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
If you’ve ever experienced a blackout, gone camping, or just wanted a reliable backup power source, you know how frustrating it is to be left in the dark — literally. That’s where the EcoFlow DELTA 2 Max comes in. Right now, it’s on sale for just $999 (down from its ... [continue … | Continue reading
Funding is about to run out for the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program – a system used by major companies like Microsoft, Google, Apple, Intel, and AMD to identify and track publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities. The program helps engineers identify how … | Continue reading
Frustrated with self for letting certain stories develop as they did and still do but what can I […] | Continue reading
I thought a lot about the emotions I wanted my project to express and how I am going to show that visually. While doing so I came up with 5 ways to do so as well as the constraints I have that I will tackle while trying to achieve what I want. TOP 5 THINGS:... | Continue reading
INSPIRATION: I personally love designing, it’s a skill of mine that I’ve been honing for years. I’ve always wanted to work on a lot of fashion projects and I’ve never designed or made a hat in my life, so I decided to challenge myself into making one. The type of hat I specifical … | Continue reading
Houston, with a population of more than 2.3 million people, is the largest city in Texas — and the Houston Landing had funding to match. The nonprofit news startup raised $20 million well before it began publishing, from the American Journalism Project and the Knight Foundation a … | Continue reading
Scientists thought they saw a distant star swallow a planet for the first time ever. But new observations from the James Webb Space Telescope suggest something very different, but equally rare, may have happened instead. | Continue reading
A very nice profile of me over at Nice News covers a bunch of the stuff I practice and preach. “It’s funny. I consider myself a deeply lazy person,” Kleon answered with a laugh when asked how he manages to be so prolific. “And that’s where the discipline comes in.” He said that m … | Continue reading
"THIS is the way I learn best." Gardener reveals surprising mistake that could ruin your crops: 'The most common thing people get wrong' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
The last few newsletters have shown off how obsessed I’ve become with printmaking — I can’t seem to stop! From “All is not well (but some things are”: “Not everything will be okay but some things will.” Years ago, I saw that phrase on a slide at the end of a Maira Kalman talk. It … | Continue reading
Russian state-sponsored espionage group Midnight Blizzard is behind a new spear-phishing campaign targeting diplomatic entities in Europe, including embassies. [...] | Continue reading
Main Project Inspiration and Art Nouveau For my main project I will be creating a Mobile in the Art Nouveau Aesthetic. My main inspiration for this project is the work of Alexander Calder, who pioneered the mobile as a form of kinetic sculpture. “Taking inspiration from the unrul … | Continue reading
Two wonderful mentions of the Frame by Frame comics that Hannes Pasqualini and I have been up to: 1. It was rewarding to see, quite unexpected, this shout-out from novelist Robin Sloan (Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, Moonbound) in the latest issue (April 2025) of his main news … | Continue reading
Photographer Joshua Rozells on his photo of our increasingly crowded night skies: The light pollution caused by satellites is quickly becoming a growing problem for astronomers. In 2021, over 1700 spacecrafts and satellites were put into orbit. Light pollution caused by SpaceX’s … | Continue reading
Mass General Brigham officials say the hospital hasn't found any "environmental risk" behind these cases, though the nurses' union is still conducting its own investigation. | Continue reading
The aesthetic that describes me best is “Minimalism with a Statement Piece.” I’ve noticed that I tend to be a minimalist in everything I own—whether it’s my choice of furniture, kitchenware, clothes, or even bedsheets. However, I always incorporate a bold or chunky piece to add a … | Continue reading
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A new kind of spectator sport will soon arrive in Los Angeles. A startup has raised $1 million to launch sperm racing. Yes, spermatozoa will shake their tales to the finish line in front of an audience of 1,000 fans. "We've designed a microscopic racetrack that mimics the reprodu … | Continue reading
The app is for fans of the Notion note-taking suite, but I'm already feeling a little more organized after churning through my inbox. | Continue reading
A PDF of Meta’s opening statement slides in its FTC antitrust hearing yesterday contains easy-to-remove redactions that make it possible to see everything the company didn’t want made public, The Verge has discovered. Thanks to the poor redactions, we can see sections comparing t … | Continue reading
Who would have guessed the next thing my gamer desk needed was a surprisingly practical lava lamp. | Continue reading
A colossal squid was filmed for the first time in its natural habitat near the South Sandwich Islands during a recent expedition, and it turned out to be a baby | Continue reading
"10/10 recommend." Pet owner shares genius hack for reusing old toilet paper rolls: 'My cats lose their minds' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading