"If all goes well, it should be released back into its home territory within the week." Firefighters make extraordinary save after responding to unusual tree rescue: 'Incredible efforts' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
It is relatively easy to identify a list of things that we want, in the sense of preferring a life with more of them to less of them. | Continue reading
What is that? It’s a well-known science fiction award in Germany, roughly equivalent to a Nebula or Hugo for German-language work and translations. Kaiju (known in Germany as Die Gesellschaft zur Erhaltung der Kaijū-Monster), is a finalist in the “Foreign Novel” category, which c … | Continue reading
"The one-by-one regulation approach is ineffective." Scientists make alarming discovery about consuming fish: 'They're not doing anything good' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
While sifting out signatures of supernova remnants, a high-schooler stumbled upon the afterglow of a dormant black hole. It may be one of the largest ever seen. | Continue reading
A post-apocalyptic world where trees have come to life and eat people. Something like a mix of The Mist, The Day of the Triffids, and the story of The Finisher by Vega Jane. Koli is a kid forced by circumstances and ambition to take the path through the man-eating forests. In Kin … | Continue reading
In an ultra-cold, high-magnetic-field setting, ZrTe5 defies expectations by showing quantum heat oscillations. Researchers found that phonons, normally dominant in semimetals, behave more like electrons due to magnetic effects, reshaping our understanding of heat transport. Heat … | Continue reading
Yesterday Columbia University gave in to blackmail by President Trump (see here the letter [HT: NYT]) in order to allow to begin negotiations over the recovery of $400 million in research funding. It’s unsigned letter (here HT: Leiterreports) leaves ambiguous which sensible eleme … | Continue reading
Renault is reviving its rally spirit for 2027 in the form of the R5 Turbo 3E, an electric hot hatch with far more power and torque than you can shake a stick at. Continue Reading Category: Automotive, Transport Tags: Electric Vehicles, Renault | Continue reading
Pixel 9a or iPhone 16e? It's no contest. | Continue reading
The custard layer is so good, you'd swear it's lemon curd. READ MORE... | Continue reading
Infinity Nikki and Assassin’s Creed Shadows have become my twin obsessions for their meticulously detailed environments, textures, and weather. With open-world dress-up game Infinity Nikki, I continue to be agog at how clothing textures are rendered with such detail and fidelit … | Continue reading
Spot wildlife on nature walks and stargaze at stunning dark skies with a highly portable monocular — the perfect, lightweight alternative to binoculars, telescopes and spotting scopes | Continue reading
"Level 3 pedal assist felt significantly smoother and more natural." Company stuns riders with high-tech e-bike upgrade designed to transform cycling: 'We are setting new standards' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
I use speech-to-text (or STT) a lot when I go for walks, in order to record stray thoughts and have them converted automatically into typed-out words, but I guess last night down by the ocean was windier than I thought it was, because this morning when I looked at what had been t … | Continue reading
The pet food company has issued a recall. | Continue reading
Solar manufacturers and investors continue pour cash into the US solar market, regardless of the anti-renewable hot air blown by state and federal policy makers. The post Solar Manufacturing Accelerates In Texas … With Freyr Battery In The Mix (?!?) appeared first on CleanTechnic … | Continue reading
In the new single, LTB masterfully delves into both perspectives of love as an innocent bystander just as much as someone who's gone through it all. | Continue reading
Austin Abrams may be the first actor in Zach Cregger's new Resident Evil movie. Might he be playing Raccoon City's unluckiest rookie cop? | Continue reading
The study involved some 1,700 people. | Continue reading
I've no idea who put out the first music video – someone in the comments will doubtlessly inform me – but now they seem inextricable from the music industry as a whole. Mononymic video editor Simeon may not be the only person to wonder what some iconic music videos might look lik … | Continue reading
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"Nice score." Thrift store shopper makes mind-blowing discovery after purchasing $15 ring: 'This store missed a good one' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
SwitchBot will integrate more than 45 of its products with Home Assistant during the first half of this year, the company said in an email to The Verge. That expansion includes The SwitchBot Hub 3 that was first revealed in a filing with the Connectivity Standards Alliance last w … | Continue reading
Panelists joined to discuss Donald Trump’s standoff with the judicial branch and his move to shut down the Department of Education. | Continue reading
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A funny thing. A few months back someone told me that I had been gone from the podcast world for too long for anyone to listen to me. I thought how weird, I didn't go anywhere at all, I stayed exactly where I was, all the time. Virtually every day. If people cared to know what I … | Continue reading
Astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant galaxy ever observed, JADES-GS-z14-0, shaking up our understanding of how quickly galaxies formed after the Big Bang. The find suggests this galaxy matured far faster than expected, becoming chemically rich just 300 million yea … | Continue reading
For athletes, it's tough to compromise on heart rate accuracy. | Continue reading
‘God of War’ made Kratos into one of our most beloved anti-heroes. | Continue reading
With a show as big and relatively recent as Family Guy, it can be hard to imagine anything attached to it being lost – but by the same token, its massive real estate in the pop culture landscape means there's plenty of ephemera to fall through the cracks. — Read the rest The post … | Continue reading
A controversial new book about Facebook serves as a field guide for the DOGE era. | Continue reading
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A new report showcases the 20 top-trending open source startups around the world, more than half of which are closely aligned with AI. The report is the handiwork of European venture capital firm Runa Capital, which has operated the Runa Open Source Startup (ROSS) Index since 202 … | Continue reading
The Game Developers Conference, an annual gathering that brings thousands of game developers to San Francisco, has just wrapped up. While most of the event is about networking and interesting talks about game design and technology, there were also a bunch of unreleased indie game … | Continue reading
Web developers have been waiting years for traction in styling HTML form controls. Is it possible the day has come? Here’s Jen Simmons on Mastodon: My team is working on a solution — you’ll apply appearance: base and switch to a new interoperable, consistent controls with easy to … | Continue reading
Officials at the Environmental Protection Agency remain closed-lipped about which grants they’ve canceled. Earlier this week, however, the office provided a written list to the Sierra Club in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, which begins to shed light on some of … | Continue reading
This week at the EU Open Data Days in Luxembourg, Davide Taibi a senior researcher at the Institute for Educational Technology of the National Research Council of Italy, talked about his research into a possible European curriculum for data literacy. He mentioned how, in the high … | Continue reading
This video gives an inside look at how pre-packaged sandwiches and fish replicas are made. The pre-packaged sandwiches in this video are made on a conveyor belt in a multi-step process. At one point in the process, people place the bread atop the sandwiches by hand. — Read the re … | Continue reading
"It's about installing a vision about how we, as citizens, can get involved." Billionaire entrepreneur cements legacy with creation of a new national park: 'It feels like a tremendous responsibility' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
I find that writing about something publicly helps me focus on the idea in a way I can't get by only talking about it privately. That's because I am a Natural Born Blogger. I was born that way. | Continue reading
Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears. | Continue reading
Watch a small beetle use amazing strength to escape a closed venus fly trap. I must admit, I was on the edge of my seat throughout this entire video. After a little beetle finds itself stuck inside of a venus fly trap, it puts up a big fight. — Read the rest The post Watch a smal … | Continue reading
This easy Gumbo recipe is made with andouille sausage, chicken, the Cajun holy trinity, and a dark roux. It's fail-proof, flavor-packed, and delicious! The post Gumbo appeared first on Budget Bytes. | Continue reading
"Having results in real time greatly reduces stress for growers and winemakers." Scientists unveil game-changing 'wizard' technology to detect hidden threats in grapes: 'The Holy Grail of research' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Barnabas Szaszi writes: I’m contacting you now to get your advice/interpretation on the piranha theorems regarding a paper I’m writing about the generalizability of behavioral interventions. Here, I use the Piranha theorem to back my claim that average affect of … Continue readin … | Continue reading