An online sale of a single pixel, as a part of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) by the digital artist Pak, sold for $US1.36 million at auction house Sotheby's. | Continue reading
The original British dandy dates back to the 18th century, but since then, several generations of, mostly, men who identify as dandies have been challenging prevailing conceptions of masculinity and rebelling against social norms. Now, some who've studied this cultural movement s … | Continue reading
Apparently Americans think a quarter pounder is bigger than a third pounder | Continue reading
Scottish sportscaster Andrew Cotter (previously) quite amusingly chastised his very muddy dog Mabel when she decided to wander into a ditch after he | Continue reading
Content-aware image resizer based on Seam Carving algorithm | Continue reading
Due to feasibility or ethical requirements, a prediction model may only access a subset of the confounding factors that affect both the decision and outcome. We propose a procedure for learning valid counterfactual predictions in this setting. | Continue reading
Short answer: Both require you articulate product strategies (problems to be solved), metrics (lead indicators), then guess which projects will move your metrics, over time. Choose what works for you. | Continue reading
I wanted to flag your attention to this NBC article about radicalization among current and retired US Special Forces personnel.... | Continue reading
Gabriel Luna (Terminator: Dark Fate) is the latest actor to join HBO's The Last of Us cast. He'll play Tommy, the brother of Pedro Pascal's character, Joel. | Continue reading
A team of researchers from the Austrian Academy of Science's, Austrian Archaeological Institute, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Institute of Archeology, has identified a piece of writing on a shard of pottery unearthed in 2018 at the Lachish archaeological site as the o … | Continue reading
In a new report now published on Science, Robby Divine and an interdisciplinary research team at the department of biochemistry, regenerative medicine, and vaccines and infectious disease at the University of Washington U.S. and the School of Medicine, at the Tehran University of … | Continue reading
A team of physicists in China has produced the lightest uranium atom ever, which is more than 10 per cent smaller than the most common type of uranium | Continue reading
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security. | Continue reading
You can still listen to Testing the Tebbit Test on BBC Radio 4 Extra in which Rajan Datar documents how many English people with ancestors who migrated from Asia, and maybe even from the Caribbean … | Continue reading
Since fast radio bursts (FRBs) were first discovered over a decade ago, scientists have puzzled over what could be generating these intense flashes of radio waves from outside of our galaxy. In a gradual process of elimination, the field of possible explanations has narrowed as n … | Continue reading
For over a year, Americans have been struggling with the challenges imposed on them by the global coronavirus pandemic. While all Americans have struggled, the pandemic has imposed three distinctive sets of burdens on the 64 million Americans living with children under the age of … | Continue reading
People who read often desire to read in connection with other readers. Readers have found community within the website, “Goodreads.” And… | Continue reading
Collaborative research of the University of Jyvaskyla and Natural Research Institute Finland presents new evidence of the effects of enriched rearing on well-being of aquaculture fishes. The research demonstrates that stone enrichments that have been previously conditioned in lak … | Continue reading
Amartya Sen at the Nobel website: Rabindranath Tagore, who died in 1941 at the age of eighty, is a towering figure in the millennium-old literature of Bengal. Anyone who becomes familiar with this large and flourishing tradition will be impressed by the power of Tagore’s presence … | Continue reading
The money was stolen from a COVID-19 aid program helping Americans left jobless by the pandemic, authorities said. | Continue reading
Due to the number of students formerly in the class of 2024 who requested to defer their enrollment by one year over the summer, the total number of admits is around 20 percent lower than it would otherwise be in an ordinary year. | Continue reading
Reader Nico Maijer came across this photo on Marktplaats, which he described as "Holland's favorite second-hand-stuff website." Nico writes, "if you know how to handle a 3-D printer, it should be possible to manufacture such a 'funny' front ring yourself,... | Continue reading
Dass Controlling nur zum Teil mit Kontrolle zu tun hat und keineswegs damit gleichzusetzen ist, dürfte sich inzwischen rumgesprochen haben. Doch was genau steckt dahinter, welchen Nutzen hat es für den Veranstaltungsbereich und warum ist gerade das Einkaufscontrolling hier eine H … | Continue reading
MENA Telecommunication rapid market growth in B2B can be ensured by deploying innovative digital transformation and technologies. | Continue reading
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Erstmals rein digital trafen sich rund 200 Mitglieder, Partner und Gäste des EVVC Europäischer Verband der Veranstaltungs-Centren e.V. zu ihrer Jahreshauptversammlung 2021. Per Live-Stream aus dem Studio in Lübeck wurde Ilona Jarabek bei den ... | Continue reading
NFTs are disrupting the creative industry by providing artists with a new medium to sell their work. However, they have a significant carbon footprint. Some NFT marketplaces and artists offset their CO2 emissions by planting trees. The long-term solution, though, should come from … | Continue reading
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In our The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Truth review, we break down the latest episode of the show, in which the shield changes hands. | Continue reading
A team of researchers from Spain, Argentina and France has identified 87 Neanderthal footprints found on an ancient shoreline on the Iberian Peninsula. In their paper published in the journal Scientific Reports, the group describes their study of the footprints and what they lear … | Continue reading
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Recently approved rapid antigen tests are likely to help mitigate the chain of transmission and put the U.S. on par with other countries that have them | Continue reading
EV Grieve is the leading news, entertainment and lifestyle blog about the East Village of New York City. | Continue reading
A group of Schulich Medicine & Dentistry alumni have authored a thorough roadmap for institutions, government and policy-makers to follow in order to implement a systems-thinking approach to address anti-Black racism in Ontario. | Continue reading
Gas accidents such as toxic gas leakage in factories, carbon monoxide leakage of boilers, or toxic gas suffocation during manhole cleaning continue to claim lives and cause injuries. Developing a sensor that can quickly detect toxic gases or biochemicals is still an important iss … | Continue reading
Snow cover in the Alps has been melting almost three days earlier per decade since the 1960s. This trend is temperature-related and cannot be compensated by heavier snowfall. By the end of the century, snow cover at 2,500 meters could disappear a month earlier than today, as simu … | Continue reading