While many people on the political right think internal combustion is going to be the norm forever, it’s becoming harder and harder to maintain that position. The talking points have to change every year because they keep being disproven, so many anti-EV trolls have simply resort … | Continue reading
More Electric Buses For Kenya As Roam & County Bus Service (CBS) Partner To Deploy 200 Electric Buses By 2026 The transition to electric mobility is progressing around the world at different rates. Norway is of course the leader when it comes to electric car market share of new v … | Continue reading
Zed Decoded: Rope & SumTree Text editors like Zed need in-memory data structures that are optimized for handling large strings where text can be inserted or deleted at any point without needing to copy the whole string. Ropes are a classic, widely used data structure for this. Ze … | Continue reading
In an attempt to study the spine, scientists in Portugal accidentally created a mouse embryo with an extra pair of hind legs, where its genitals should be — and the strange turn of events could improve our understanding of human embryo development, metastatic cancer, and more. Wh … | Continue reading
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The move will allow the company to avoid the release of 58,000 tons of carbon dioxide every year from mining practices. Jewelry brand snubs traditional industry practices to achieve unprecedented milestone: 'Precious metals can be recycled forever without any loss of quality' fir … | Continue reading
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A bird I see year round in our southeast Michigan area, the slender, graceful Mourning Dove is a bird I see or hear daily. Their coo-coo sound is often the first sound I hear in the morning. This morning, with our constant rainfall, this pair of Mourning Doves joined the local Ho … | Continue reading
The original Happy Death Day in 2017 was one of those “why hasn’t this done before?” horror movies, wherein college girl Tree (played by Jessica Rothe) got stuck in a time loop that always ended with her getting murdered. That first movie did really well, and its sequel Happy Dea … | Continue reading
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Colin Jost’s set at the White House correspondents’ dinner Posted on Sunday, Apr 28, 2024 10:25AMSunday, April 28, 2024 by Azra Raza | Continue reading
Julie Cadman-Kim in MQR: In Dur e Aziz Amna’s gorgeous debut, American Fever, readers can expect to find all the hallmarks of a bumpy adolescence—destructive confidence, crippling self-doubt, steamy crushes, social gaffes, obsession with looks and style, and pervasive loneliness. … | Continue reading
Commissioned by a couple with teenage children, Giudice House designed by ARKITITO Arquitetura rises from a unique narrative—transforming an existing structure while embracing environmentally friendly construction practices. Continue reading | Continue reading
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Let’s have some fun and rattle through some relatively spicy takes I have about tech! Movie theaters are awesome and people still like them. Yes, home theaters and high quality headsets like the Vision Pro make the at-home experience better than ever, but there are still major el … | Continue reading
Testcontainers became a popular way of setting up dependencies for integration testing. They’re not ideal, as configuring them to run your… | Continue reading
Plus de trois fois sur quatre, c’est la complémentarité entre la tête d’affiche de l’équipe et le reste des membres qui apporte le plus de valeur aux recherches. Flickr/NTNU, CC BY-SA “This isn’t mine; this is one for the team,” said Succession star Kieran Culkin as he accepted t … | Continue reading
"Used up a year's worth of luck for these." Shopper stunned after finding cult-favorite pullovers side by side at thrift store: 'I'm so envious' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
One of the things I love about Engineering Explained is that Jason does a great job of making technical and mathematical engineering concepts accessible to people like me, a person who can assemble and understand automotive parts, but who doesn’t design or engineer them. So, when … | Continue reading
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Gaurav Sood writes: Often enough, scientists are left with the unenviable task of conducting an orchestra with out-of-tune instruments. They are charged with telling a coherent story about noisy results. Scientists defer to the demand partly because there is a … Continue reading … | Continue reading
Many schools say anti-racism and equity initiatives matter for quality education, yet specific plans are often wanting. In 2023, the not-for-profit organization People for Education reported that 73 per cent of schools included anti-racism and equity in their school improvement p … | Continue reading
The responsibility to provide care to relatives can place immense pressure on women, both mentally and physically. (Shutterstock) In societies worldwide, women are frequently expected to assume the role of primary caregivers, and too often, that means putting the well-being of ot … | Continue reading
The design and marketing of mental health chatbots may result in users' misconceptions about their therapeutic value. (Shutterstock) With current physical and financial barriers to accessing care, people with mental health conditions may turn to artificial intelligence (AI)-power … | Continue reading
National Conservatism conferences, one of the main meeting grounds for the global radical right, rarely attract much attention. If not for the decision of a local mayor, the same neglect would have befallen this year’s event in Brussels. But the mayor’s decision to shut down the … | Continue reading
An allergist and immunologist explains the link between eczema and pollutants found in synthetic fabric, cigarette smoke and wildfires. | Continue reading
“ ‘Woke’ is not a political movement, it’s an optimal state of mind, and being.” …………………………… —Roshi Bob Some Never Awaken You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are no … | Continue reading
Warning: today's post contains violently delightful images. An all-out onslaught of adorableness awaits you. That's right, it's Baby Shower Sweets time! Prepare yourselves! Are you ready? You'll never be ready. We've already lined up a pair of twin baby bears in widdle baby diape … | Continue reading
The past 10 years revealed how government failures at every level could effectively kill a city, turning it into a "ghost town." | Continue reading
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I use Tarnsap to back up my data and I like it a lot, but it gets fairly expensive once you accumulate a lot of backups.At some point, I found prunef and started using it to prune my backups. It's a backup tool-agnostic utility that takes an unsorted list of backup filenames with … | Continue reading
“Hey, you!” Kim Kardashian yells through your smartphone’s speakers. “Draw out this function on a graph for me.” On the screen, a function appears against a white background. Kim explains […] | Continue reading
Lourdes Portillo (1944 – 2024) Documentary Filmmaker Posted on Sunday, Apr 28, 2024 8:46AM by Morgan Meis | Continue reading
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Helen Vendler (1933 – 2024) Poetry Critic Posted on Sunday, Apr 28, 2024 8:42AM by Morgan Meis | Continue reading
Mike Pinder (1941 – 2024) Keyboardist For The Moody Blues Posted on Sunday, Apr 28, 2024 8:40AM by Morgan Meis | Continue reading
Tackling violence against women will be the sole agenda item for a national cabinet meeting Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has convened for Wednesday. The meeting, held remotely, follows thousands of Australians attending rallies across the country, as community anger surges ove … | Continue reading
As Megan and I mentioned yesterday, we are having serious problems with our WordPress site. We have a technical expert working on it. WordPress has mostly ignored our pleas. In some ways, we are still trying to find out what is wrong with our Domain Name Servers (DNS). Some reade … | Continue reading
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I think when it comes to most things in life, especially someone else’s art, we should all strive to be quick to praise the things we enjoy, but take our time before criticizing what we don’t. I was thinking about this over the past week as | Continue reading
Disengaging, Reengaging, and Prioritizing Life Balance. Mondays have been somewhat of a struggle for me. I try start my work day before 8 AM, but that sometimes feels impossible. I sit at my desk, stare at my notebooks, open my Read More The post Madness and Mondays — How I Start … | Continue reading
The impact of ad creep on people can be quite significant. Shopper astounded after encountering bizarre new ad placement in store: 'What's next?' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
This is a weird book. The politics of the Star Wars universe are rarely deeply examined. The various tax-related shenanigans of The Phantom Menace were derided by geeks but here become a potent source for art as a dozen artists reimagine classic propaganda posters from Earth and … | Continue reading
Developed by Paradox Tectonic, Life By You looks to take the life sim genre even further than before with an… Continue reading Life By You – Release date, trailers, platforms, and everything we know The post Life By You – Release date, trailers, platforms, and everything we know … | Continue reading
Sorolla's White Slave Trade, a mother's adultery and break up of her family, the awakened conscience offering redemption, or destitution. | Continue reading
Last week I got a new monitor, after my old one has shown worse and worse signs of what looked like burn-ins. The new monitor allowed me to get rid of two (!) cables in my setup, which pleased me quite a bit. And since there are people reading this whose eyebrows went up at the “ … | Continue reading
Recently, I wrote about Bonnie, the border collie that we took into our home at the beginning of February. Although that post made some reference to the circumstances that she came to us from, I didn't really talk very much about her ex-owners. Bonnie should be the focus, not the … | Continue reading