The main disagreement in the case is about treaties surrounding the pipeline. DOJ sides with Native American tribe in lawsuit against major oil company: 'Lacks any legal right to remain' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
This week, I have the pleasure of sharing with you my Q&A with Lisa Kaltenegger about her new book, Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos. Lisa is a world-renowned astrobiologist and the Director of the Carl Sagan Institute at Cornell University. Earlier t … | Continue reading
[I don’t care how mature you are, that’s funny.] Last month, I posted a story about scientists tracing COVID via sewer pipes. Soon after, I received a delightful email from a reader, which I share with you now: Yes, the Dave O’Connor mentioned in my initial post is a One Foot Tsu … | Continue reading
Somehow, we have arrived at episode 500 of Connected,1 and I’m so glad Apple waited to release new iPads until next week, so we could play our traditional game before the event next week: Apple’s first iPad event in over a year is next week, so the guys have dusted off their head … | Continue reading
WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2024 Agamemnon will have to wait: As it turns out, the rage of Achilles—along with the rage of Agamemnon himself—is going to have to wait. So too for that one overwhelming human concern—the one concern which lay behind their famous bouts of rage. Can we learn to … | Continue reading
When I was an editor at the magazines, primarily Pulse!, published by Tower Records, I occasionally sought out writers other than professional critics to write for us, in particular musicians and novelists. The list of novelists who did wasn’t a long one, but it was a respectable … | Continue reading
If you're designing steel outdoor furniture or infrastructure, your go-to material would be stainless steel—if your client has deep pockets. If they don't, you'd step down to galvanized steel, which adds a protective layer of zinc, offering the corrosion resistance at a lower cos … | Continue reading
Microsoft says the April 2024 Windows security updates break VPN connections on Windows 11, Windows 10, and Windows Server systems. [...] | Continue reading
All about the research that the User Experience team will be focused on over the next quarter and how you can help. | Continue reading
May has a little bit of everything for genre fans spread across its dozens of new sci-fi, fantasy, and horror book releases: space operas, doomsday cults, apocalyptic mysteries, fantastical romances, haunted mansions, dimensionally displaced vampires, badass wasteland motorcycle … | Continue reading
From first meetings and tiny moments to lifelong attachments, these stories celebrate the boundless nature of love. The post Nine SFF Short Stories That Explore the Meaning of Love appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
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A couple of days ago, I posted an article describing how the size of a quantum object, such as a proton or electron, can be measured. This isn’t obvious. For example, scientists say that an electron spreads out and is wave-like, and yet that it has no size. This apparent contradi … | Continue reading
An adaptation of Richard III in Fallout 76 will be taken to the big stage as a player-run troupe of… Continue reading ‘Now is the nuclear winter of our discontent’ – Theater troupe to perform Shakespeare inspired by Fallout The post ‘Now is the nuclear winter of our discontent’ – … | Continue reading
We used the pizza oven to make a variety of pies and calzones, evaluating its ease of use, speed, efficiency, and results. | Continue reading
The Trans Haggadah Companion On this night ……….. I remember Nachshon ……….. who was not Moses who ………………….. walked into the Red Sea ………………….. and called for God ……………………………………….. to meet him there On this night ………….I am only a body and you ………………………………………….. are only a body On th … | Continue reading
The iPad, remember that? It’s been a minute since Apple unveiled new models of its tablets—about 807,690 minutes, to be precise—but all indications point to brand new models being rolled out as part of an Apple keynote next week, on May 7.… | Continue reading
A mysterious new AI chatbot named “gpt2-chatbot” has emerged, following its release on a prominent large language model benchmarking site,… Continue reading Mysterious ‘gpt2-chatbot’ emerges as users claim it to be a top AI model rival The post Mysterious ‘gpt2-chatbot’ emerges a … | Continue reading
Tesla announced Tuesday that it will lay off everyone who works on both the new vehicle and Supercharger teams. At this point, no one has any idea what CEO Elon Musk was thinking or what’s going to happen going forward. Including other automakers that recently switched to NACS. M … | Continue reading
An experimental satellite that launched in 1974 disappeared from ground-based sensors in the 1990s, only to be found again this week. Some defunct satellites or debris can often go missing for years, presenting hazards within an increasingly crowded Earth orbit. But, how exactly … | Continue reading
Author Trang Thanh Tran crafts a harrowing story about a teen searching for a future where she can finally be free The post Revealing They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
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A Beatles fan pointed me to this news item from a few years ago, “A Songwriting Mystery Solved: Math Proves John Lennon Wrote ‘In My Life.'” This surprised me, because in his memoir, Many Years from Now, Paul McCartney very … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Qantas Airways confirms that some of its customers were impacted by a misconfiguration in its app that exposed sensitive information and boarding passes to random users. [...] | Continue reading
The future of coal played a starring role in the 2016 presidential election. As an industry, an energy supply, and a source of jobs and identity in many communities, coal was both a practical and symbolic issue, one that helped solidify Donald Trump’s support among white working … | Continue reading
Ed Yong in the New York Times: In some birding circles, people say that anyone who looks at birds is a birder — a kind, inclusive sentiment that overlooks the forces that create and shape subcultures. Anyone can dance, but not everyone would identify as a dancer, because the term … | Continue reading
TikTok hasn’t been favored too kindly in a recent poll as a majority of Americans believe that China uses the… Continue reading Majority of Americans brand TikTok as a Chinese influence tool, poll finds The post Majority of Americans brand TikTok as a Chinese influence tool, poll … | Continue reading
Rahul Rao in Scientific American: Few computer science breakthroughs have done so much in so little time as the artificial intelligence design known as a transformer. A transformer is a form of deep learning—a machine model based on networks in the brain—that researchers at Googl … | Continue reading
The shift toward the electrification of vehicles and the expansion of the electrical grid for renewable energy integration has led to a considerable increase in the demand for power electronics devices and modernized cable systems — applications that will help ensure a consistent … | Continue reading
Joseph E. Stiglitz at Literary Hub: The system that evolved in the last quarter of the twentieth century on both sides of the Atlantic came to be called neoliberalism. “Liberal” refers to being “free,” in this context, free of government intervention including regulations. The “n … | Continue reading
Musicians and other celebrities should be protected by a law that would ban AI-generated deepfakes in the U.K., MPs say.… Continue reading UK MPs call for law to protect musicians from AI deepfakes The post UK MPs call for law to protect musicians from AI deepfakes appeared first … | Continue reading
Even more Captain America: Brave New World marketing gives us a glimpse at its new super-suits. Bitsie Tulloch bids farewell to Superman & Lois. Jurassic World’s Camp Cretaceous follow-up teases a wild murder mystery. Plus, what’s coming on Chucky. To me, my spoilers! Read more.. … | Continue reading
A new malware named 'Cuttlefish' has been spotted infecting enterprise-grade and small office/home office (SOHO) routers to monitor data that passes through them and steal authentication information. [...] | Continue reading
In this column, professional speechwriter Chandler Dean provides partly satirical, partly genuine “How To” advice focused on a hyper-specific subcategory of speeches—from graduation speeches to wedding toasts to eulogies, and all the rhetorical occasions in between. - - - Hey, gu … | Continue reading
These tostadas made with mashed pinto beans are piled high with salsa, veggies, and cheese for a satisfying (and fun!) weeknight meal. The post Tostadas appeared first on Budget Bytes. | Continue reading
Yesterday I promised you more ridiculous/creative misspellings of the word "birthday." Which probably has you wondering, "Just how much more ridiculous can it get? It's a simple word! Sure, you might forget a letter, or switch a few up, but that's it, right?" [shaking head] Oh, y … | Continue reading
Who needs a juicer when you have tongs? READ MORE... | Continue reading
Evelyn went car shopping on a sunny summer day and drove off the lot in a new convertible. Sure, the payments were more than she had budgeted for, but the condition was mint, and it was nice to feel the wind in her hair. Thing is, Evelyn lives in Seattle, and these days, she’s no … | Continue reading
"Came with 3 mixers, a shield, the bowl and the manual/warranty card." Home cook can't believe their luck after finding high-end kitchen appliance at local thrift shop: 'What a steal' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Hello! We express most joyful salutations and wish to bring you much pleasants from this post by brainwane! Come! Express delight in this sharing of a short story by Fiona Jones! | Continue reading
In a somewhat unlikely collaboration mobile game powerhouse Supercell has teamed up with current World Club Champions Manchester City striker… Continue reading Football superstar Haaland becomes first real person to appear in one of the world’s most popular games The post Footbal … | Continue reading
Temperatures are rising across the Netherlands as the weather is set to reach highs of 27 degrees celsius on Wednesday and Thursday. The beginning of May brings with it... | Continue reading
Daniel Bessner in Harper’s Magazine: In 2012, at the age of thirty-two, the writer Alena Smith went West to Hollywood, like many before her. She arrived to a small apartment in Silver Lake, one block from the Vista Theatre—a single-screen Spanish Colonial Revival building that ha … | Continue reading
Challengers, a movie where Zendaya plays a tennis star who has a threesome, came out last week and, while I haven’t seen it yet, I sure do plan to. Director Luca Guadagnino’s new romantic tennis/thriller/drama is getting pretty good reviews, has a fun premise, and would seem to h … | Continue reading
Let's set the stage. A writer has drafted an essay for a publication that has specified a maximum word count of 5,000, and a preferred range of 1350 to 2700. The draft totaled 4,869 words, so it was within the limit, but not in the preferred range. Facing an imminent deadline, an … | Continue reading
Keeping track of medications is vital in most cases, but it can be hard to do without alarms and an extra nudge to make it a habit. I’ve personally had difficulty staying on schedule since I started taking daily medications decades ago. But these last few years, as more smartphon … | Continue reading
Designed by Dubbeldam Architecture + Design, the Shift Residence reinterprets the suburban bungalow with a fresh, architectural approach that integrates a stepped facade characterized by alternating volumes. Continue reading | Continue reading