Current conditions: Parts of southwest France are flooded after heavy rains • Sydney’s Bondi Beach is closed because lumps of toxic tar are washing ashore • A winter storm warning is in effect for parts of Montana. THE TOP FIVE 1. Report: Large chunk of World Bank climate funds u … | Continue reading
I selected the best freely available English-language sources on Halloween in Japan to learn about its growing popularity there in recent years. | Continue reading
Maria Leptin, president of the European Research Council. Photo: European Union European research and innovation policy will be undergoing a major restructuring in the coming years, and for Maria Leptin, president of the European Research Council (ERC), it’s not good news if the … | Continue reading
I’m teaching four stick chair classes in Germany and Australia in 2025. Yes, it’s an American teaching a Welsh/Scottish/Irish form in places that are truly exotic for this humble chair form. Here are details and links. First stop, Germany. Comb-back Stick Chair With a Steambent A … | Continue reading
Choć dla wielu osób krótsze dni i chłodniejsze temperatury to sygnał na zmianę garderoby i czas spędzony pod kocykiem i ulubioną książką, dla niektórych nadchodzące miesiące mogą oznaczać uczucie smutku, zmęczenia i przygnębienia, które towarzyszy im przez większość czasu. Wbrew … | Continue reading
Older school-aged kids focus on drawing facial features in this easy project. This practice project is easy to complete at… The post Drawing Facial Features Art Project for Kids appeared first on Kids Activities Blog. | Continue reading
How and why I switched from Apple Podcasts to Pocket Casts (after enduring bizarre skipping with CarPlay). Plus, I’ve been on some podcasts to chat about Open Source stuff, and the Mastodon 4.3 release. | Continue reading
The European Committee of the Regions' building in Brussels, Belgium. Photo credits: European Union / Nuno Rodrigues The European Commission’s proposal to bundle most EU research programmes into a competitiveness fund spells trouble for regional innovation, according to the Europ … | Continue reading
Test your knowledge of e-commerce startups, 17th-century markets, and everything in between. | Continue reading
A growing number of Santa Muerte devotees are using social media to rebrand the controversial Mexican deity of death | Continue reading
Yale Environment 360, an online magazine published at the Yale School of Environment, recently published a story titled “How Traffickers Got Away with the Biggest Rosewood Heist in History” by Zach St. George. This story tells how 30,000 rosewood logs were illegally harvested in … | Continue reading
by Jennifer Berry Hawes ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories … | Continue reading
Luciano Pavarotti and James Brown are remembered as larger-than-life performers with an almost mythical-seeming presence and distinctiveness. But it wasn’t so very long ago that both of them were active — and even active onstage together. In the video above, the King of the High … | Continue reading
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Hydrogen is expected to play a key role in shifting heavy-duty industries away from fossil fuels. But today’s methods for making hydrogen are either carbon-intensive — such as steam methane reforming with fossil gas — or currently cost-prohibitive, like using huge amounts of rene … | Continue reading
After developer Genki revealed the return of a new Tokyo Xtreme Racer game, simply titled Tokyo Xtreme Racer, new information about the upcoming highway racing game has been the reveal of car roster, all licensed vehicles. Here’s the list of car revealed so far. This article will … | Continue reading
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to Oracle developer advocate Andres Almiray about the latest-and-greatest in the amazing Oracle database. #Oracle #SQL #Java #JConf | Continue reading
A new trailer for Sandfall Interactive’s upcoming turn-based RPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has dropped, revealing its English voice cast as well as some more glimpses of gameplay and cinematics. The main cast includes Hollywood stars as well as prominent voice actors. They are: … | Continue reading
George Harrison loved the ukulele, and really, what’s not to love? For its dainty size, the uke can make a powerfully cheerful sound, and it’s an instrument both beginners and expert players can learn and easily carry around. As Harrison’s old friend Joe Brown remarked, “You can … | Continue reading
A collaboration between AirAsia and Sega and Atlus was announced last week, which will see select AirAsia aeroplanes decked out to the theme of Sega and Atlus’s popular video game icons. The first of such planes has taken off today, as guests abroad the D7 179 flight from Kuala L … | Continue reading
Crow Country, the eerie survivor horror game by SFB Games, is now available on Nintendo Switch. The new game by the developer of Snipperclips (this is another dev that fits this meme) launched earlier this year on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. The launch of the Switch version was … | Continue reading
MindsEye, the “cinematic, AAA, story-driven action-adventure thriller” by Leslie Benzies’ new developer team Build A Rocket Boy, has picked up a publisher. And it’s the team behind Hitman, IO Interactive. IO Interactive has established a new third-party publishing arm, IOI Partne … | Continue reading
Harris shouts out crypto in her “Opportunity Agenda for Black Men”, one crypto exec leaves prison as another enters, and Stand With Crypto bets on the favorites. | Continue reading
Project Leyden is an OpenJDK project that is focused on improving startup time, time to peak performance, and reducing memory footprint. Over the summer of 2025 Leyden started releasing early access (EA) builds, and is looking to receive feedback from the community. In this Insid … | Continue reading
In May, we were alerted about a potential leak in the SmallRye release process. We acted swiftly to mitigate the issue; fortunately, no damage was done. Even if Quarkiverse has no reported leak, during our investigation, we uncovered a deeper flaw that affected not only SmallRye … | Continue reading
The Supreme Court allowed the Environmental Protection Agency to move forward with its rule restricting climate pollution from power plants on Wednesday, meaning that one of the Biden administration’s key climate policies can stay in place. For now. The high court’s decision will … | Continue reading
A couple of weeks ago I was attempting to use a “glow in the dark” filament in my 3D printer for the first time. It was a bit tricky to manage, and in end I had an unfortunate situation where the filament broke in the print head, so I needed to try to unclog it. […] | Continue reading
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In 2021, top elected officials in New York state promised that Plug Power, a nascent company in the growing hydrogen industry, would build a large hydrogen fuel production facility in the Buffalo-Rochester area. It was supposed to make the state an industry leader. Today, the pro … | Continue reading
1. San Diego County, California – The battery backlash just got stronger after the city of Escondido, California, indefinitely banned permits to the entire sector in reaction to a battery fire last month. Last week, the city council enacted a 45-day moratorium on permits to const … | Continue reading
Airlines are banking on sustainable aviation fuel to reduce the industry’s planet-warming pollution. But the amount of lower-carbon alternatives available to them right now represents just a few drops in an ocean of petroleum. On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Energy announced … | Continue reading
IRA on the mind – The renewable energy ecosystem is starting to really sound alarm bells about the November election and the risks of what they’re calling a “clean energy plan repeal” – e.g. scrapping IRA credits and carbon pollution rules. Yesterday, the nonprofit E2 released a … | Continue reading
This week’s conversation is with Ray Long, president and CEO of the American Council on Renewable Energy, or ACORE. A representative of one of Washington’s most influential climate tech policy trade groups, Long is also a seasoned veteran of the energy sector across fossil and ca … | Continue reading
'Astro Bot' is getting a series of free speedrunning levels over the next month, with online leaderboards so you can compete with your friends. | Continue reading
by Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with the Anchorage Daily News. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published … | Continue reading
After nineteen years, we have another full-length Wallace & Gromit feature heading our way. It’s called Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl and, as today’s trailer confirms, features the return of the world’s best boss, the penguin Feathers McGraw, who Wallace and Gromit helped … | Continue reading
Today, Boston Dynamics and the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) announced a new partnership “to accelerate the development of general-purpose humanoid robots utilizing TRI’s Large Behavior Models and Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot.” Committing to working towards a general purpose ro … | Continue reading
The third book in a series that's been described as the Expanse meets the Nightwatch from A Game of Thrones The post Read an Excerpt From J.S. Dewes’s The Relentless Legion appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Claire isn't too excited about Jamie visiting a woman who tried to kill her The post Outlander: Sneak Peek from Season 7, Part 2 Has Jamie Visiting an Ex appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2024 A rarely discussed distant land: Sometime in 2023, we began watching the Fox News Channel on a much more regular basis. We did so because we'd come to feel, rightly or wrongly, that MSNBC's major programs had become unwatchably bad. Our incomparable co … | Continue reading
With this new single "Get Together", Federico Giacobazzi AKA Giack Bazz confidently gears up for the launch of his fifth studio album. | Continue reading
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Comforting, creamy, and cheesy cauliflower soup is so easy to make any day of the week. This soup features cauliflower, ham, some cream and white cheddar cheese. It’s also great way to use up leftover holiday ham. Cauliflower is a wonderful vegetables! It’s not just full of vitam … | Continue reading
King's goofiest short story is getting an extremely gory adaptation from a man who just made horror magic with Nicolas Cage. | Continue reading
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Black Myth, China’s gaming blockbuster may be driving a critical shift in the global balance of technological power — through chip sales. | Continue reading
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