Abu Dhabi, December 10-12, 2024 The 2nd Heritage Middle East International Exhibition and Conference for Museum and Librarianship Technologies, Restoration, Archaeology, and Cultural Tourism is going to arrive in Abu Dhabi. The event will take place between December 10-12, 2024, … | Continue reading
Finished reading: The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work by Simone Stolzoff 📚 This was an important read for me, in a phase of my career marked by overwork. Especially resonant: the chapter featuring Fobazi Ettarh. | Continue reading
On a large scale, desalination is a promising method to provide abundant fresh water. Researchers develop method of desalination that could save millions of lives: 'A paradigm shift is essential to sustain human life' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
We have a cute reindeer coloring page! Kids of all ages will love this simple, but adorable looking reindeer coloring… The post Printable Reindeer Coloring Page For Kids appeared first on Kids Activities Blog. | Continue reading
Bill Gates in Gates Notes: Today is a big one for Kemmerer—for the coal plant workers who will be able to see their future job site being constructed across the highway, for the local construction workers who will be part of a 1,600-person skilled labor force building the plant, … | Continue reading
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The thinness of the OLED iPad Pro is only the beginning of a renewed effort by Apple to make increasingly thin computers, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter. The company plans a “significantly skinnier” … | Continue reading
Happy Bloomsday, happy father’s day, happy Valentina Tereshkova day, and Eid Mubarak! | Continue reading
if I look through more recent workouts, the data superficially looks OK. The post new Whoop 4 Accuracy Update appeared first on the5krunner • tri bike run. The full post can be read now at the5krunner • tri bike run. | Continue reading
Kavita Puri at the BBC: “I feel enormous shame about what happened,” Susannah Herbert tells me. Her grandfather was the governor of Bengal, in British India, during the run-up and height of the 1943 famine which killed at least three million people. She is only just learning abou … | Continue reading
A Massachusetts Democrat’s Facebook post earlier this month (the woman who’d repeatedly expressed alarm regarding climate change was about to board a transoceanic flight, apparently; she’d also previously posted in favor of masks and was about to share a confined space with more … | Continue reading
Over the last few months, Delicious in Dungeon has been airing over on Netflix. Based on the manga of the same name by Ryōko Kui, the adaptation courtesy of Studio Trigger (the team behind Promare and Cyberpunk Edgerunners) has been a really good watch, and just wrapped its first … | Continue reading
1. The Chinese version of the Stanford AI “bamboo strips” plagiarism story. 2. Photographer Disqualified From AI Image Contest After Winning With Real Photo. 3. Scott Sumner on progress in the arts. 4. Why do many people subvocalize when they read? 5. Henry Oliver on late bloomer … | Continue reading
iPadOS 18 includes an array of new wallpapers to adorn the backdrop of the iPad, with colorful interesting shapes that are pleasing to the eye. While they may be included in the iPadOS 18 beta, that doesn’t mean you have to brave the betas just to gain access to the new default w … | Continue reading
She woke up, as she always does, hungry. | Continue reading
One of the things I hate, yes, I really hate it, is cigarette smoke. I get angry when I smell the smoke of the neighbors who are smoking directly in front of the entrance door of our apartment build, while we are trying to let fresh air in. But situations like smelling smoke at t … | Continue reading
It is becoming increasingly clear that spending time in nature can benefit our mental health and wellbeing. | Continue reading
It says the move is part of a "promise to create mobility for all and continue to facilitate the entry into e-mobility." Volkswagen Group announces plans to advance EV industry by rolling out affordable new model: 'The future is electric' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Dan Piraro at Bizarro and Naked Cartoonist: I successfully raised two children to adulthood who, until recently, I called my daughters. But in the past year, one of them has asked that I not refer to her with terms associated with females. She doesn’t feel that words like “her,” … | Continue reading
Image: Apple Siri may do more than make the edges of your iPhone a glowy rainbow when iOS 18 drops this fall. Apple Intelligence features won’t be out until 2025 for anyone not testing them in beta this year, but reports suggest that Siri itself will still get natural language up … | Continue reading
When you’re making potato soup, some people think it’s using cream instead of whole milk that’s important. Others say, it’s the type of potato or the size of the cut. Some will even argue that you should add green onion or use white pepper for the milder flavor. Personally, I say … | Continue reading
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"This is good news." Researchers find significant potential of energy source below US-Mexico border region: 'A really good development target' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
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Do Facebook and YouTube have the legal right to block or remove users or posts from their websites because of what the users or posts are saying? Or, should the law compel Facebook and YouTube to feature users or posts that the platforms do not want to be associated with? Those q … | Continue reading
Thanks to Elizabeth for finding this. A great resource for writers, or for everyday enquiries. Free to use, and instant, reliable results. Check out the linked post to discover more, no download required! | Continue reading
"Why tackling accent bias matters at work: Wall Street banks and big City law firms among employers addressing potential discrimination" by Pilita Clark, Financial Times (7/16/24). If the polls are to be believed, the UK parliament is going to look quite different after the July … | Continue reading
Read to the end for a video game finding getting rid of landlords solves the rent crisis | Continue reading
Marvel’s relaunched version of the Ultimate Universe has been going strong between its current quartet of titles. Between Ultimate Spider-Man, Ultimate X-Men, The Ultimates, and Ultimate Black Panther, the line’s writers and artists have been gradually sketching new alternate ver … | Continue reading
Even through our distance, my dad and I are bonded. READ MORE... | Continue reading
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The human placenta does a lot of work for the fetus; it is, effectively, the fetal lungs, kidneys, and digestive track. | Continue reading
A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, Ernie Smith’s newsletter, which hunts for the end of the long tail. Last month, Google announced some big changes to its search engine that are, in a word, infuriating, to users like myself. Google has started adding AI overvi … | Continue reading
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"Super cute find." Shopper shares awe after finding designer shoes at thrift store: 'These are gorgeous' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Sociologist Claude Fischer has an interesting review of an edited book, “Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past.” I’m a big fan of the “Why everything you thought you knew was wrong” genre—it’s a … Continue reading → | Continue reading
‘The days of etymology are over,’ Peppone told him. ‘Every word is making a fresh start.’ — Giovanni Guareschi, Don Camillo and the Prodigal Son (otherwise titled Don Camillo and His Flock). Trans. Frances Frenaye. London: The Camelot Press, 1952, p. 51. | Continue reading
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Since the first iteration of the dependency-management-data web application, I've offloaded the experience of writing and querying SQL querying to the excellent Datesette tool. I'm a huge fan of Datasette, and recommend it as a great web-based SQLite database browser for querying … | Continue reading
Another morning, another two miles, another fruit breakfast with coffee, another shower, another Mass and sermon, then another Confirmation Class, and just finished writing another column for the parish newspaper. The sermon went down well; Confirmation Class was fine; and now it … | Continue reading
DOOM is just one of those franchises that looks like it will be here forever, with new fans falling into… Continue reading DOOM: The Dark Ages – Release date, trailers, platforms, and everything we know The post DOOM: The Dark Ages – Release date, trailers, platforms, and everyth … | Continue reading
In 2016, Capcom decided to try something new with the Monster Hunter games. And that new thing was Pokémon. | Continue reading
"You can just load it like a normal washing machine load and then run the cycle." Innovative startup develops simple solution to laundry machines polluting waterways: 'We are creating next-gen filtration devices' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
“Just put the load balancer in front of it, and call it a day”. But is it really that simple? Was it ever “just do XYZ?“. I was preparing a… | Continue reading
It’s pretty late in the 2024 United States election cycle. I think we all know the stakes: the rule of law and preservation of liberal democracy are on the ballot, notwithstanding women’s rights, global warming, and the environment, etc. being there, too. I’ve taken a multi-prong … | Continue reading
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Im ersten Teil unserer Mini-Serie zum Digitalen Euro haben wir darüber gesprochen, dass der Wert des Bargeldes mit dem Vertrauen in dieses Zahlungsmittel steht und fällt. Wenn das Publikum Zweifel an der Zahlungsfähigkeit der Bank hat, wird es versuchen, seine Einlagen so rasch w … | Continue reading
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