For Fodor’s Travel, Rosie Bell wrote about her experiences at Sekishoin, a modern Buddhist temple in Kōyasan, Japan: Was it a Rolex? I couldn’t get close enough to tell what was dangling on the wrist of the 83-year-old monk teaching us. I’m not enough of a timepiece aficionado to … | Continue reading
I love this idea by Lee Peterson: using Apple’s Journal app (which got some terrific updates in iOS 18) to track your Home Screen updates over time. Every so often, I see screenshots from people on Threads or Mastodon showing their Home Screens from over a decade ago. I routinely … | Continue reading
This isn't the first time SpaceX has run afoul of the rules. Regulators find further evidence of SpaceX releasing pollutants into nearby bodies of water: 'Very serious concern' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
New research reveals that liquid crystals can form dynamic structures that mimic biological transport systems, suggesting potential applications in creating self-assembling materials and modeling biological systems. Liquid crystals are everywhere. They are used in numerous applic … | Continue reading
Parker Finn teases some of what's to come in Smile 2, and how the horror franchise could go even further with more movies. | Continue reading
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Meta is restricting links on Threads, Instagram, and Facebook that lead to Ken Klippenstein’s newsletter containing a JD Vance dossier that was allegedly nabbed in an Iranian hack of the Trump campaign. The company has apparently rem … | Continue reading
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In economically advantaged countries, it’s hard to imagine a time when electric lighting wasn’t available in nearly every home, business, and public facility. But according to the World Economic Forum, the sun remains the primary light source for more than 1 billion people worldw … | Continue reading
This technology could be put to use at any number of industrial or chemical facilities that produce carbon pollution. Scientist develops revolutionary technology that turns air pollution into valuable resource: 'We can directly use those converted chemicals and fields for other a … | Continue reading
Another story of a big tech company using their monopoly to get more money and harm little companies. While I don’t use iA Writer currently, I have used it and found it to be an excellent app. I follow their site because they have very interesting content in many fields showing t … | Continue reading
I’m 61 today, a stereotypical age for a 1950s father to drop dead from a heart attack (that would have been attributed to the stresses of work, adult female supervision, concerns around children, etc.). This post is to reflect on things that I’ve learned in the past year. From Fo … | Continue reading
A long, long time ago in a galaxy far away I had to give an impromptu presentation about something I didn’t know much about. The goal of the task was to see how well we could ad-lib a presentation under pressure. Everybody in the room had to think of a topic whilst waiting for ou … | Continue reading
What Hirayama Taught Me About Getting Through the Day Anyone who has spent more than a day with me will know I tend to maintain rigid rituals, habits, and schedules. I keep fairly strict rituals for winding down my day, Read More The post Perfect(ing) Daily Rituals first appeared … | Continue reading
Researchers have determined that reducing plastic littering by 32% by the year 2035 is necessary to prevent further water pollution. A report published in the Marine Pollution Bulletin by researchers from Kyushu University has, for the first time, established a clear numerical ta … | Continue reading
My new blog home is up and running at euansemple.com. I am still working on email subscriptions and building my blogroll but its there, and I am happy with it. I am hoping to migrate my old blog posts (all 23 years of them) to the new location soon but I have a paid subscription … | Continue reading
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I do this manually at the end of each week: collating most of the recent little comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I also find knowing I will revisit my posts to be a positive and mellowing influence on my social media activity. I mostl … | Continue reading
CERN scientists observed a rare kaon decay into a pion and two neutrinos, a significant find confirming predictions of the Standard Model and hinting at possible new physics. Physicists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, have discovered an ultra-rar … | Continue reading
If you've recently updated your Phoenix/Elixir application and encountered a warning related to the Gettext backend, you're not alone. With newer versions of the Phoenix framework and the Elixir ecosystem, some older ways of defining Gettext backends have been deprecated. In this … | Continue reading
"There's no reason to be building houses that are going to contribute further to the climate issue." New all-electric housing development promises revolutionary clean energy standards: 'We're the vanguard' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
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Crows and ravens, which belong to the corvid family, are known for their high intelligence, playful natures, and strong personalities. They hold grudges against each other, do basic statistics, perform acrobatics, and even host funerals for deceased family members. But we keep le … | Continue reading
The move towards electric vehicles in Africa, especially in the electric motorcycle sector, has mainly been driven by the private sector, led by small startups. Most of the developments have been concentrated along what is now known as the “boda belt” of countries on the African … | Continue reading
NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft was recently outfitted with propellants at Kennedy Space Center, signaling a major preparatory step for its forthcoming mission to Jupiter’s moon, Europa. Encased in NASA’s largest-ever planetary spacecraft, the propulsion module contains 24 engin … | Continue reading
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It's a movie royale as the Us and Nope director picks 16 horror films to figure out which of them he loves most of all. | Continue reading
In June of 2020 the human-caused “Magnum Fire” burned 71,450 cares of forest on the Kaibab Plateau at Jacob Lake. When you drive through the fire zone today you see the conifers have been decimated but aspens have taken over like gangbusters. And right now they’re glorious yellow … | Continue reading
“So full. So filled.” | Image: Disney This week, I’ve been slowly catching up on Dark Matter; I’m about 20 hours into Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door on the Switch; and I’m still trying to work a trip to the movie theater into my schedule to see Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. I’m b … | Continue reading
Filled to the brim with unabashed punk attitude and an impeccable sense of melody that only challenges their own urgency, Spirit Gun's new EP is a work unlike most. | Continue reading
Elke fietser heeft een favoriet rondje. Dat vaste plekje waar je even gaat lopen boren, die serie bochten waar je hard doorheen wilt en dat mooie uitzicht waar je altijd van geniet terwijl je benen gedachteloos ronddraaien. Heerlijk! Maar zelfs dat vaste rondje gaat soms vervelen … | Continue reading
This year it has become a trend for major automakers to announce a retreat from ambitious plans to transition to electric vehicles (EVs). While publicly stating the decision is due to limited consumer demand, the reality is that profitability deficits press on upper automotive ma … | Continue reading
"Being able to support those in need and redirect waste from landfill is something we are trying to do more of." 7-Eleven introduces new upcycling initiative to reduce waste from old employee uniforms — here's what they're being turned into first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
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Girona and online, December 13, 2024 Registrations are now open for the EUreka3D Final Conference, which will take place in Girona on 13 December 2024. The event will consist of a hybrid public conference by project partners and invited contributors, and a public onsite workshop … | Continue reading
Finally giving a home to most of Gentry Blue's great singles from the past years as well as throwing in a couple of new tracks, Fragments is an album that does not mess around. | Continue reading
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
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Apple, the most valuable company in the world, will have to work this weekend to meet a legal deadline on Monday. That’s after Magistrate Judge Thomas S. Hixson on Friday denied the company’s request for more time to produce 1.3 million documents … | Continue reading
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Unfortunately the driver drowns so it's a moral stalemate. Today's News: | Continue reading
Researchers evaluated the impact of recessive genetic variants on developmental disorders, proposing that reanalyzing genetic data could enhance the understanding and diagnosis of conditions affecting millions of families globally. Researchers have carried out the largest and mos … | Continue reading
SpaceX is bringing back propulsive landings with its Dragon capsule, but only in emergencies. | Continue reading
NBC News: Officials warned of an imminent breach of a dam in Greene County, Tenn., on the border with North Carolina, and told residents downstream to move to higher ground immediately. | Continue reading
Age of Empires 2 is one of the most important strategy games ever made, and even 25 years later it retains a timeless quality. | Continue reading
Diet-related diseases are the leading causes of death in the U.S., and a poor diet is responsible for more deaths than smoking. | Continue reading
Hello dear readers. I wish I could say I've got a restful weekend in front of me, but today we're driving to New Orleans to pick up our eldest who has been in Germany for a year, and tomorrow we fly to Las Vegas for the Adobe ColdFusion Summit. Both are things I'm quite happy abo … | Continue reading
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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 2050, and for the first time in 100 years, the average global tempe … | Continue reading