One Of The Ten Books We’re Currently Reading

Coffee of the Day: Starbucks White Chocolate Mocha Latte (oat milk/extra shot of espresso) Book of the Day: The Atlas Maneuver by Steve Berry (Cotton Malone Series Book 18) Audio Book of the Day: An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin (N … | Continue reading


@cimple.life | 18 minutes ago

Online betting firm 888.com to withdraw adverts after row

The casino company 888 has to withdraw adverts after branding the London Underground and taxis with slogans like ‘this carriage… Continue reading Online betting firm 888.com to withdraw adverts after row The post Online betting firm 888.com to withdraw adverts after row appeared … | Continue reading


@readwrite.com | 25 minutes ago

Police called to fill worker shortage at Berlin care home

A police patrol car, three officers, paramedics and four ambulances were recently called to a care home in Berlin to help a nurse find a night shift staff member to take over... | Continue reading


@iamexpat.de | 25 minutes ago

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. * Kellye Garrett, Missing White Woman (Mulholland) “Juicy but shrewd, Missing White Woman is arguably a thriller for the TikTok age, its issues contemporary yet timeless. Kellye Garrett uses her staccat … | Continue reading


@crimereads.com | 37 minutes ago

What a Series of Killings in Rural Georgia Revealed About Early 20th-Century America

They moved Route 36 in the years after the killings. Now the road runs straight where it used to dogleg through Newton County, an hour’s drive southeast of Atlanta, and most travelers don’t see that it was ever otherwise. Orphaned stretches of the old highway linger here and ther … | Continue reading


@crimereads.com | 40 minutes ago

How Édouard Manet Became “the Father of Impressionism” with the Scandalous Panting, Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (1863)

Édouard Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (1863) caused quite a stir when it made its public debut in 1863. Today, we might assume that the controversy surrounding the painting had to do with its containing a nude woman. But, in fact, it does not contain a nude woman — at least acc … | Continue reading


@openculture.com | 42 minutes ago

Happy Birthday: Part Thirty-One

This is the thirty-first part of a fiction serial, in 800 words Fifty years old that birthday, and Hettie thought she looked every minute of those years. There were things happening in nineteen fifty-one, not least the Korean War, and the Festival of Britain being held in London. … | Continue reading


@beetleypete.com | 44 minutes ago

Tekken 8 Reveals Next DLC Character Lidia And Plenty Of Free Content

At EVO Japan 2024, Bandai Namco revealed a new trailer for Tekken 8, highlighting the roadmap of what’s to come to the recently released fighting game. The stinger at the end revealed the next DLC character, the second of four in the Year 1 Season Pass. And it’s the Prime Ministe … | Continue reading


@gamermatters.com | 47 minutes ago

Limitless Wishing and its Discontents

Perhaps we need nothing more and nothing less than a continual return to the Gospel, via all the means already available to us. We could start with St. Paul’s reminder that “covetousness . . . is idolatry” (Col. 3:5) | Continue reading


@frontporchrepublic.com | 48 minutes ago

Homeowner weary of HOA's complaints seeks advice on how to get a 'certified native garden': '[They] may start to harass us again'

"The most common advice here is to use an edger to delineate the boundaries of the native plant garden." Homeowner weary of HOA's complaints seeks advice on how to get a 'certified native garden': '[They] may start to harass us again' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 48 minutes ago

From Punk to Monk: Raghunath Cappo on The Wisdom of The Sages, Bhakti Yoga & The Pursuit of a Spiritual Life

This week I am joined by Raghunath Cappo, a hardcore punk icon turned modern-day spiritual warrior and Bhakti yoga devotee, to discuss various facets of living a spiritual life. We talk about the transformative principles guiding the path of self-transcendence, examining cultural … | Continue reading


@richroll.com | 48 minutes ago

Beetleypete’s Classroom: Lesson Three

Now pay attention please. CLASS DISMISSED. | Continue reading


@beetleypete.com | 54 minutes ago

Map: Writers And Poets

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@beetleypete.com | 56 minutes ago

Scalable, reconfigurable building switches modes like a big Meccano set

The "Study Pavilion" has now been built at the Technical University Braunschweig in Germany, and the holistic modular design and construction of the reconfigurable building offers a fascinating glimpse into a potential future for scalable, reconfigurable buildings not just in pla … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 59 minutes ago

Alien: Rogue Incursion – In your Quest 3, everybody can hear you scream

There seems to be an ever-growing number of horror games for the Quest 3, it is only a few days… Continue reading Alien: Rogue Incursion – In your Quest 3, everybody can hear you scream The post Alien: Rogue Incursion – In your Quest 3, everybody can hear you scream appeared firs … | Continue reading


@readwrite.com | 1 hour ago

Nightingale Adding More Ranged Weapons In The Early Game

Early Access survival game Nightingale is getting more ranged weapons alongside various combat changes and an overhaul of the crafting system in an upcoming update. Version 0.2, dubbed the Crafting Update, will bring more ranged weapon arsenal craftable in the early game which pr … | Continue reading


@gamermatters.com | 1 hour ago

Have the world’s coral reefs already crossed a tipping point?

A quarter of marine life depends on coral reefs. So do 1 billion people. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 1 hour ago

Innovate UK announces £7M funding for next wave of AI innovations

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) encouraged to bid for a share of £7 million for artificial intelligence (AI) projects. SMEs looking to adopt AI solutions to address a business challenge in high-growth industries could receive a share of £7 million as two new competition … | Continue reading


@sciencebusiness.net | 1 hour ago

Gregg Talley: Building Human Connections and Communities

Gregg Talley, CEO of Talley Management Group, explains how events can help build a better world for everyone. -Andrea Doyle | Continue reading


@meetings.skift.com | 1 hour ago

How the Mandela myth helped win the battle for democracy in South Africa

Political history scholar Jonny Steinberg’s 2023 book Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage is a double biography of South Africa’s most famous political figures – Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela Mandela – and their role in the country’s struggle for democracy. It’s also a … | Continue reading


@theconversation.com | 1 hour ago

GÉANT announces publication of OCRE 2024 tender for pan-European cloud services procurement

21 March 2024. GÉANT is delighted to announce the publication of the OCRE 2024 Tender for the large-scale procurement of commercial cloud services offerings for its pan-European Research and Education community. The tender aims to procure the OCRE 2024 Cloud framework agreements … | Continue reading


@sciencebusiness.net | 1 hour ago

New EPO-EIB study: EU single market is a key catalyst for scaling clean and sustainable technologies

More than 22% of clean and sustainable technologies worldwide are developed in the European Union. Low-carbon energy technologies, clean mobility and alternatives to plastics are the leading fields in cleantech inventions developed in Europe. Although 29% of EU cleantech innovato … | Continue reading


@sciencebusiness.net | 1 hour ago

Fraunhofer to expand its collaboration with South Korea

Working together to expedite technological innovations in the fields of battery cell and semiconductor technology: That is the aim of a comprehensive international collaboration program funded by the Korean Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE). The Fraunhofer-Gesellscha … | Continue reading


@sciencebusiness.net | 1 hour ago

[Note] Nerd Sniped Traveller

I think I might be more-prone to nerd sniping when I'm travelling. Last week, a coworker pointed out an unusually-large chimney on the back of a bus depot and I lost sleep poring over 50s photos of Dutch building sites to try to work out if it was original. When a boat tour guide … | Continue reading


@danq.me | 1 hour ago

The world agreed to create a climate reparations fund. Now comes the hard part.

A 26-member board is finally beginning work on the UN’s new loss and damage fund. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 1 hour ago

Apple Watch Custom Routes – Incoming !?

Serious adventurers, hikers and racers will already use a different watch or one of the apps mentioned in.. The post Apple Watch Custom Routes – Incoming !? appeared first on the5krunner • tri bike run. The full post can be read now at the5krunner • tri bike run. | Continue reading


@the5krunner.com | 1 hour ago

Bukowski Reads Bukowski: Watch a 1975 Documentary Featuring Charles Bukowski at the Height of His Powers

In 1973, Richard Davies directed Bukowski, a documentary that TV Guide described as a “cinema-verite portrait of Los Angeles poet Charles Bukowski.” The film finds Bukowski, then 53 years old, “enjoying his first major success,” and “the camera captures his reminiscences … as he … | Continue reading


@openculture.com | 1 hour ago

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 253

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 253. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Financial […] | Continue reading


@eclecticlight.co | 1 hour ago

US military bases teem with PFAS. There’s still no firm plan to clean them up.

Excessive levels of PFAS have been detected at 80 percent of active and decommissioned military bases | Continue reading


@grist.org | 1 hour ago

Sailing away on the Steam Deck with OpenShift Virtualization (Part 1)

When on the road, some of us bring a handheld Linux computer such as the Steam Deck for entertainment. But after some time of hunting ghosts and shooting portals the desire to be productive returns. How about quitting the game and starting OpenShift on our handheld gaming compani … | Continue reading


@opensourcerers.org | 1 hour ago

CSS inheritance

Inheritance truly is a superpower and it’s what makes developing on the web a joy if you embrace it. In this quick post, I’m going to convert you into a super fan. | Continue reading


@piccalil.li | 1 hour ago

Global Farmer Is City Builder-Style Farming Simulator Where Location Matters

Developer Thera Bytes and publisher Aerosoft have announced their upcoming game Global Farmer. It’s a farming simulator of sorts, but not in the first-person perspective as established by the Farming Simulator series. Rather, it’s a top-down strategy game ala a city builder. But … | Continue reading


@gamermatters.com | 2 hours ago

Mount Fuji, seen from the International Space Station

The post Mount Fuji, seen from the International Space Station appeared first on Cultrface. | Continue reading


@cultrface.co.uk | 2 hours ago

Giant raptor dinosaur had legs taller than you

The six-foot-tall raptors in the Jurassic Park movies were terrifying enough, but now scientists have described a giant new raptor species whose legs alone were that tall. Continue Reading Category: Biology, Science Tags: Dinosaurs, University of Queensland, Fossils, Animals, Ani … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 2 hours ago

Geothermal heat pumps are helping clean up city buildings

Late last year in Austin, Texas, big blue rigs rolled up to a sunbaked parking lot and started boring holes deep into the ground. Bedrock Energy , a geothermal startup, was deploying its novel drilling technology for the first time, near a block of low-slung commercial buildings … | Continue reading


@canarymedia.com | 2 hours ago

Anatomy of a failed EV startup

Most startups die in darkness. They disappear behind closed doors, while investors privately assess their losses and employees look for new jobs. Any lessons learned tend to stay hidden, and do little to inform successive entrepreneurs. A few months ago, Andrew Krulewitz pulled t … | Continue reading


@canarymedia.com | 2 hours ago

South Korea makes major announcement about new homegrown high-speed train: 'Embarked on a train revolution'

The new train was designed and manufactured entirely in South Korea, which launched its first bullet train in 2008. South Korea makes major announcement about new homegrown high-speed train: 'Embarked on a train revolution' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 2 hours ago

Why This JCON Europe Talk Is Unmissable (Part 1)

JCON Europe in Cologne is around the corner (and here are your free Foojay JCON tickets). Why should you go? Well, one reason is that the talks will be awesome. Here's the start of a series of reasons why some of them are absolutely unmissable! The post Why This JCON Europe Talk … | Continue reading


@foojay.io | 2 hours ago

The Nature of Code, refreshed

Daniel Shiffman, who you might know from his enthusiastic YouTube channel The Coding… Tags: Daniel Shiffman | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 hours ago

Please help 3QD if you can

Will you please consider becoming a supporter of 3QD by clicking here now? We wouldn’t ask for your support if we did not need it to keep the site running. And, of course, you will get the added benefit of no longer seeing any distracting ads on the site. Thank you! NEW POSTS BEL … | Continue reading


@3quarksdaily.com | 2 hours ago

Earth from space: Lava bleeds down iguana-infested volcano as it spits out toxic gas

A satellite image of the Galápagos Islands' La Cumbre volcano shows lava seeping from the iguana-covered mountain days into an ongoing, months-long eruption. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 2 hours ago

408: Fine Tuning Minimal App Requirements

With a lack of control and power to specify what hardware is required when publishing your app has left Frank in a predicament. We discuss what Apple could do to improve this for developers. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Merge Conflict: Twitt … | Continue reading


@mergeconflict.fm | 2 hours ago

Homeowner receives stark warning after suggesting 'nightmare' tactic for landscaping: '[It] should be illegal'

"You will still get weeds, and it’s a nightmare to remove, once you realize it didn’t work." Homeowner receives stark warning after suggesting 'nightmare' tactic for landscaping: '[It] should be illegal' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 2 hours ago

Power of Libraries

The coveralls, hoodie, snow cap, scarf and gloves I’m wearing are not enough to stop my face from falling victim to windburn as I walk down the snow covered roads. Skin exposed to the air stings. My thermal-subzero boots feel weighted and my glasses are fogged. A vision of pink, … | Continue reading


@levelupeduc.wordpress.com | 2 hours ago

Back to the Road

Two miles this (cold but dry) morning at a rusty pace; fruit breakfast; clean up and go to Morning Prayer, then meet Margaret at a cafe after she sees the dogs off for their quarterly grooming (photos to follow). Communion for the residents of the Old Station House this afternoon … | Continue reading


@akma.disseminary.org | 2 hours ago

No threat to farm land: just 1,200 square kilometres can fulfil Australia’s solar and wind energy needs

Clean Energy Council / Neoen As Australia’s rapid renewable energy rollout continues, so too does debate over land use. Nationals Leader David Littleproud, for example, claimed regional areas had reached “saturation point” and cannot cope with more wind and solar farms and transm … | Continue reading


@theconversation.com | 2 hours ago

‘Witches’ are still killed all over the world. Pardoning past victims could end the practice

Arrest for witchcraft (1866) by John Pettie NGV, CC BY-NC In recent decades, governments the world over have increasingly taken action to address the dark history of witch-hunting. In western Europe, memorials to victims have been erected at sites in Bamberg (Germany), Vardø (Nor … | Continue reading


@theconversation.com | 3 hours ago

British Army rolls out its most lethal tank for live fire exercises

The British Army has rolled out the prototypes of its Challenger 3 main battle tank, which are undergoing their first live-fire tests in Germany. The upgraded tank not only has a deadlier gun, but can destroy incoming anti-tank rounds in flight. Continue Reading Category: Militar … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 3 hours ago