"There'll be engineering challenges for sure, but the basic science works, the chemistry works." Startup develops process powered by sunlight and seawater to remove CO2 from air: '[It] can actually be energy positive' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Our civilization depends on many key systems, such as for electricity, water, sewage, communication, transportation, news, law, education, marriage, elections, and regulations. We depend so much on such systems that we are reluctant to consider big changes to them, for fear of br … | Continue reading
Welcome to our origami flower bouquet tutorial! In this step-by-step tutorial, we will show you how to make a lovely… The post How To Make An Origami Flower Bouquet appeared first on Kids Activities Blog. | Continue reading
A wonderful novella by Martha Wells, beautifully published by Artline Studios. The book is tiny and is a quick read. It’s about a very human murder bot whose job is to protect a group of planetary explorers. I’ll probably wait for the translations because the hardcover is so pret … | Continue reading
Sometimes life presents you with a choice. Or does it? There’s a lesson to be learned here. Maybe not all decisions are important and sometimes what matters is to keep moving forward. Thank you for keeping RSS alive. You're awesome. Email me :: Sign my guestbook :: Support for 1$ … | Continue reading
Seems this is another of those months where I did enough stuff to merit two posts. (See yesterday’s post on async Rust). Sometimes you just can’t get out of doing work, no matter how you try. So here is part 2. A few weeks ago I went to the USA for a week to meet a client team wh … | Continue reading
Two miles in pleasant weather (at a decent pace), Morning Prayer, hot breakfast, Pentecost Mass at St Nicolas’s, home to unwind for the early afternoon. Sermon below. In a couple of hours, we’ll connect with family and friends in Connecticut for a memorial to my sister Holly. The … | Continue reading
From $55,000/year (tuition alone) Boston University Academy, a senior thesis project for 2024: To make sure that the scholar won’t be identifiable if the academic discipline of Comparative Victimhood ever wanes in intellectual prestige, I have removed his/her/zir/their name from … | Continue reading
Here we are, matter yearning for meaning, each of us a fragile constellation of chemistry and chance hurtling through a cold cosmos that has no accord for our wishes, takes no interest in our dreams. “I can’t but believe that all that majesty and all that beauty, those fated and … | Continue reading
The new season of Doctor Who is in full swing, and it’s already making some big moves early into its run. This week’s episode, “Boom,” puts the Doctor and Ruby on the planet of Kastarion 3, which is currently in the midst of a war the pair are unable to escape from after the Doct … | Continue reading
Detailed Point of Interest (POI) data provided by Parkopedia now includes photos and ratings to assist EV drivers in assessing which charging locations are most suitable for their needs Parkopedia continues to increase market coverage for the service – adding data for Spain, Ital … | Continue reading
Turns out I'm not done with this topic… A couple days ago I saw this post pop up on Threads and it’s the “checkmate” move people like to bring up when dismissing the idea that macOS could ever work on a touch screen | Continue reading
An Earth-size planet discovered around a nearby star offers astronomers their first chance for exoplanetary geology. | Continue reading
"These ambitious targets are already translating into cleaner air and a healthier planet for all of us." Apple touts record-breaking success after convincing manufacturing partners to make a clean change: 'More hard work is ahead' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
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An excellent idea from Merlin Mann: the idea is to see if I can get somebody interested in a band I love (or sometimes even one specific aspect of a band I love) by curating a playlist of seven and only seven songs [...] Just seven really good songs that might help you fall in lo … | Continue reading
Jones Cove Farmhouse, designed by Altura Architects, is nestled in the picturesque mountain farm property in Buncombe County, Asheville, North Carolina. The clients envisioned a modern home that would cater to entertaining friends and hosting their large family Continue reading | Continue reading
From chimps that wage war over territory to parrots that outperform Harvard students on memory tests, many other members of the animal kingdom demonstrate surprisingly human-like behavior. | Continue reading
Nearly every day since she was a child, Alex Leow, a psychiatrist and computer scientist at the University of Illinois Chicago, has played the piano. Some days she plays well, and other days her tempo lags and her fingers hit the wrong keys. Over the years, she noticed a pattern: … | Continue reading
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"These are historic, extraordinary moments for the country." Government greenlights collaborations with China on clean energy developments: '[It will] maximize our competitiveness' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
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If the COVID-19 vaccines were the most significant FDA approvals of the 2020s so far, GLP-1 agonists to treat obesity are a strong runner up. Though these drugs have been used to treat type 2 diabetes for nearly two decades, it wasn’t until 2021 that the FDA approved one of them … | Continue reading
Designed by Atelier d'Arquitectura Lopes da Costa, the JMC House is situated in Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal. Nestled on a triangular plot with a steep slope, the unique topography of the land has significantly influenced the house's shape and volume. Continue reading | Continue reading
…or maybe I should say, "is deeply stupid, so far". At least, that's the verdict from my first encounter with this heralded innovation. I updated a Chromebook, re-installed Linux, and thought (incorrectly) that I might need to add repositories in order to install some non-standar … | Continue reading
Casa do Sobreiro, designed by Skemba Arquitectura & Engenharia, is a single-family residence located in Amarante, Portugal. This project centers around a remarkable century-old Cork Oak tree, making it the focal point of the design. Continue reading | Continue reading
Approach to electrification targets: Honda has not changed its belief that EVs are the most effective solution in the area of small mobility products such as motorcycles and automobiles, and Honda’s electrification target to make EVs and FCEVs represent 100% of its global vehicle … | Continue reading
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Unionization was in full force throughout the entertainment industry in 2023, particularly over at Disney. VFX artists across several in-house teams—including those for the MCU and the Avatar franchise—successfully unionized, a trend that’s now continuing in the corporation’s the … | Continue reading
Battery prices have continued to plummet, frankly faster than even battery optimists such as myself dreamed of. We’re seeing commercial, scaled, price points that we didn’t expect to see until 2030 or later. That has big implications for electric trucking. In 2022, a kilowatthour … | Continue reading
First installation The BirdNET-Pi system aims to provide out-of-the-box bird identification. It's slightly more awkward than that, but still pretty straightforward to get up and running. My first hardware plan was to use a Raspberry Pi Zero as the compute host with a Waveshare WM … | Continue reading
Ruth Marcus in The Washington Post: The upside-down U.S. flag flying at the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. — only days after the Trump-inspired insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021 — shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. After all, Alito has been doing the moral equiva … | Continue reading
Edd Gent in Singularity Hub: Getting microbes to eat plastic is a frequently touted solution to our growing waste problem, but making the approach practical is tricky. A new technique that impregnates plastic with the spores of plastic-eating bacteria could make the idea a realit … | Continue reading
"Good for you!!" Shopper shares astonishing value of unassuming ring picked up at thrift shop: 'I likely would have walked right past it' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
William H. Janeway at Project Syndicate: Whether mobilizing for war or (re)constructing advanced manufacturing capabilities in peacetime, success turns on the functioning of complex supply chains. But this truth was long forgotten – or at least under-appreciated. Not until recent … | Continue reading
Eric B. Schnurer in The Hedgehog Review: For thousands of years, humankind has fancied itself the apex of creation and the dominant force in the world. Yet humans are now gripped by the fear that yet another species of our own creation—artificially intelligent machines—will prese … | Continue reading
Raymond Offenheiser in The Conversation: I spent 20 years as the president of Oxfam America, an international humanitarian organization, and have overseen humanitarian responses to some of the biggest crises of the past three decades, from the war in Kosovo to the conflicts in Ir … | Continue reading
Michael Erard in the European Review of Books: Language as self, language learning as magic, the mortifications of the flesh: these themes run through The Centre, a debut novel by British-Pakistani writer and translator Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi. Its narrator, Anisa, is a Pakistani … | Continue reading
Fast groq-hosted LLMs vs browser jank Groq is now serving LLMs such as Llama 3 so quickly that JavaScript which attempts to render Markdown strings on every new token can cause performance issues in browsers. Taras Glek's solution was to move the rendering to a requestAnimationFr … | Continue reading
Jeep does not want to sacrifice speed when going electric. Jeep to release its first all-electric model this fall with promising all-terrain feature — here's what we know first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Dean Eckles writes: I thought this NPR report was an interesting example of how demand for life advice seems closely connected to low standards of evidence. Like if this didn’t supposedly tell how to live longer, lose weight etc., would … Continue reading → | Continue reading
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The weekend Bonus Drop covers various AI-centric tools like llamafile, whisperfile, and Firecrawl. llamafile simplifies the deployment of LLM/GPT models for local use, while whisperfile focuses on converting audio files. Firecrawl is a tool for crawling web content and converting … | Continue reading
The oil and gas industry has reaped profits without ensuring there will be money to plug and clean up their wells. In Oklahoma, that work could cost more than $7 billion if it falls to the state. | Continue reading
My friend Aimee has been celebrating "Tiara Tuesdays" for about a month now - by wearing a tiara around the house every Tuesday. Which is pretty fabulous. So when I read that Friday is International Tiara Day, I realized the one thing Tiara Tuesday is missing: Sunday Sweets! ( Th … | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence is everywhere these days, but the fundamentals of how this influential new technology works can be confusing. Two of the most important fields in AI development are “machine learning” and its sub-field, “deep learning.” Here’s a quick explanation of what t … | Continue reading
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Acadian Lane Indigo against ocher, Atlantic Blue abutting shore cliffs, bluffs, and sand, All of the earth on Prince Edward Island The red of dry blood, of weather-worn brick, Of the rutted, twisting road leading down Through the fishing village to the harbor Where lobster boats … | Continue reading