And other razor-sharp perspectives on the topic du jour. Plus: the chattering class’s traitor. MIT sours on DEI. Kristi Noem didn’t read her own book. And more. | Continue reading
When her husband was murdered, this Ivory Coast mother fell into a depression. Now she’s launched an innovative mental health scheme The post Salon therapy: the Ivory Coast hairdressers tackling a mental health crisis appeared first on Positive News. | Continue reading
ESMT Berlin presents an ideal environment for expats in Europe seeking to either jump-start, accelerate, or reinvent their careers. Here’s how an MBA from ESMT Berlin sets... | Continue reading
Digital rights activists have questioned the ethics of using “soft fakes” to resurrect the past and manage the future. | Continue reading
"With an EV, you can put that money in a piggy bank for a (possibly) never needed battery replacement." Data shows that Tesla is outpacing traditional carmakers in one key area — and its rivals are not even close first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
"With an EV, you can put that money in a piggy bank for a (possibly) never needed battery replacement." Data shows that Tesla is outpacing traditional carmakers in one key area — and its rivals are not even close first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
With just one week remaining until the Golden Boomerang Awards 2024 finale, it’s the prime time for the final push. This final week of the highly-anticipated traffic tournament has something special in store for both top participants and newcomers on the leaderboard. The Golden B … | Continue reading
This is an excellent move by Polar, perhaps to be expected as... The post new Polar 360 – A Complete Wearable Platform? a Whoop competitor? appeared first on the5krunner • tri bike run. The full post can be read now at the5krunner • tri bike run. | Continue reading
First customer since the last reset of the kiosks for the shift or the day. 11:30 is a bit early for lunch but still. I was first 🏆🏅✅ McDonald’s is not known to be the best food, it is expensive and is slow these days. We are high on the Big Mac Index, higher than … | Continue reading
Julie was busy in the kitchen yesterday! Victoria sandwich cake with strawberry jam and custard buttercream. White farmhouse loaf and brown seeded loaf, plus a chicken curry cooking on the stove. YUM! | Continue reading
Valve revolutionized the handheld gaming market with the release of their Steam Deck in 2022. It’s currently regarded as the… Continue reading Steam Deck 2: release date speculation, specs, pricing The post Steam Deck 2: release date speculation, specs, pricing appeared first on … | Continue reading
Czy kiedykolwiek zastanawialiście się, jak małe, zwykłe rośliny mogą mieć tak wielki wpływ na nasze zdrowie? Aby to wyjaśnić, przyjrzyjmy się olejkowi tymiankowemu. Ten mocny, pachnący olejek odgrywa kluczową rolę w aromaterapii, dostarczając nam różnorodnych korzyści. Sprawdźmy, … | Continue reading
Samsung is expected to hold its Unpacked event in Paris in July 2024 with a handful of new product reveals… Continue reading Samsung Galaxy Z Flip FE: Release date, specs, price and everything we know so far The post Samsung Galaxy Z Flip FE: Release date, specs, price and everyt … | Continue reading
A look at the week’s best new releases in crime fiction, nonfiction, mystery, and thrillers. * Abir Mukherjee, Hunted (Mulholland) “A pretty much flawless thriller, Hunted works on every level imaginable. Terrific characters are subtly and mercilessly pushed along by a plot as pr … | Continue reading
Use open source liberally to make progress. Avoid open source dependencies in the long run if you can. Start a project by ingesting open source libraries to make progress fast and see if your product works. That’s fine. If it’s not too much, you can leave them in. But when the pr … | Continue reading
An honorable serial killer. A hacker turned vigilante. A gentleman thief. Mysteries and thrillers are full of morally ambiguous antiheroes who challenge us to confront truths about human nature and undermine strict definitions of good and evil. From Dostoevsky’s Raskolnikov to S. … | Continue reading
In the nineteen-sixties, the music media encouraged the notion that a young rock-and-roll fan had to side with either the Beatles or their rivals, the Rolling Stones. On some level, it must have made sense, given the growing aesthetic divide between the music the two world-famous … | Continue reading
Atlas Obscura’s weekly crossword comes to us from Natan Last, a writer who also helps develop policy and digital products for refugees and asylum seekers. His work can be found in The Atlantic, Los Angeles Review of Books, The New Yorker, and other publications, and he's currentl … | Continue reading
It’s been over a decade in the making, but Boeing is finally ready to launch its first crewed test flight to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of its agreement with NASA. Read more... | Continue reading
Reading for the shape of a life can be medicinal, especially when we allow that life to diagnose and heal ourselves. And maybe then that understanding can encourage doctors of all kinds–but especially scholars of the humanities–to think differently about their life. | Continue reading
The simple question of "why five" has puzzled scientists from multiple fields, and the answer still isn't entirely clear. | Continue reading
This week, I am joined by Andy Ramage, who co-founded the OneYearNoBeer to discuss the growing alcohol-free lifestyle movement and its impact on individuals, industries, and cultural shifts. We explore the personal journeys of transitioning to an alcohol-free lifestyle, navigatin … | Continue reading
"Our HOA did it … our power bill went from $1,800 a month to $70 a month." HOA member seeks advice over staggering $120,000 energy bill: 'It feels like solar could be a real benefit' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
“The tribes fought very hard for the establishment of the monument and are here to defend it.” | Continue reading
My talk titled "Jakarta EE 11 - Performance and Developer Productivity" will give you a full overview of what to expect from the upcoming Jakarta EE 11 release. The post Why This JCON Europe Talk Is Unmissable (Part 2) appeared first on foojay. | Continue reading
Israeli company BaroMar is preparing to test a clever new angle on grid-level energy storage, which it says will be the cheapest way to stabilize renewable grids over longer time scales. This innovative system lets water do the work. Continue Reading Category: Energy, Science Tag … | Continue reading
Bright Renewables and HyGear, both part of the HoSt Group, together with the University of Twente, are set to construct Benelux's first E-Methanol system. Their joint project, "Towards Acceleration and Demonstration of E-Methanol" (TANDEM), received a total of nearly €4 million s … | Continue reading
The University of the Greater Region (UniGR) has just been awarded significant funding from the Interreg VI Greater Region programme for the establishment of a second centre of expertise dedicated to the transition to a circular economy of materials and metals. The UniGR-CIRKLA p … | Continue reading
The Technology for Social Innovation (TeSI) program harnesses the power of cutting-edge technologies developed under the ATTRACT initiative to address significant social needs. Through multidisciplinary collaboration among students from business, engineering, and design backgroun … | Continue reading
The Federal Council draft of the Dispatch on the promotion of education, research and innovation (ERI Dispatch) for the period 2025-2028 is influenced by financial concerns. Services may need to be cut and projects suspended. The education, research and innovation (ERI) sector is … | Continue reading
Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, set out to plant and conserve 1… Tags: Bloomberg, Marc Benioff, scale, trees | Continue reading
When Wendy Carlos released Switched-On Bach in 1968, her “greatest hits” compilation of the Baroque composer’s music, played entirely on the Moog analog synthesizer, the album became an immediate hit with both classical and pop audiences. Not only was it “acclaimed as real music … | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 254. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Held […] | Continue reading
"This could be especially useful in terms of measuring the potential impact of low emission zones and other environmental initiatives in town and cities worldwide." Research uncovers side effect of sudden decrease in car use during pandemic: 'Each fluctuation ... became an unplan … | Continue reading
Doctors treat a multitude of patients daily, with needs ranging from simple to very complex. To deliver effective care, they must be familiar with each patient’s health record and keep up-to-date with the newest procedures and treatments. And then there’s the all-important doctor … | Continue reading
In this episode, we are in Oberpfalz, Germany, for a particular reason; the organizers of the local JUG are the same people responsible for the JCON conference in Cologne in a few weeks. The post Foojay Podcast #48: JUG Oberpfalz, JCON Conference, and JAVAPRO Magazine appeared fi … | Continue reading
Last week, the U.S. Treasury Department released a set of highly anticipated and contentious tax-credit guidelines meant to spur production of sustainable aviation fuel, or SAF. U.S. airlines burned over 12.4 billion gallons of jet fuel in 2023, nearly all of which were derived f … | Continue reading
For the past four years, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have been tracking a major threat to the U.S. clean energy transition: the backups and bottlenecks in connecting proposed solar, wind, and battery projects to the electricity … | Continue reading
This breakthrough test proves that the fuel works in the real world, not just in a lab. Historic aircraft engine completes major flight using innovative new fuel — here's what it could mean for future air travel first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
I started writing a post about my computing history (coming soon) and realised I couldn't remember the name of a game I played a lot of in the early 90s. The best way to describe it is flappy bird in space. I tooted with this description: black background with white stars and you … | Continue reading
The set.studio site is powered by design tokens, which for colours, are hex codes. I managed to automatically convert those to P3 colours with a custom PostCSS plugin. | Continue reading
The success of Poland’s corporate reforms hinges on the ability to strike a delicate balance between political pragmatism and institutional integrity. Since Poland’s October 2023 elections, the country’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs) have undergone a dramatic transformation. Und … | Continue reading
This recipe for Sopa de pollo (or Caldo de gallina vieja) was the ancestral prescription for new mothers, recovering from an ailment or healing whatever ails you. If you can't get an old hen to make a hen soup, then make a chicken soup, and you will find it equally as tasty. Read … | Continue reading
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, farther away than the Sun, has sent data through a laser over a record-breaking distance, and done so even faster than expected. Continue Reading Category: Space, Science Tags: NASA, Communications, Communicate, Laser, Light, Data, Transmission, Psyche, … | Continue reading
I didn't post anything on this site for half of March and all of April. I also wasn't on socials much. It was such a long quiet period that a couple of people reached out to me via email to check that I was okay. It was incredibly touching and sweet, what with the absolute barria … | Continue reading
A puzzling arc was spotted in the water of a Greenland fjord littered with iceberg fragments. There are a couple of possible explanations for this bizarre phenomenon but we will likely never know what caused it, experts say. | Continue reading
How to manage dependencies on a Go project, compared to the Python ecosystem? How is the Go toolchain superior to Python in this regard? | Continue reading