Canadian historian and author Michael Ignatieff has been honored with Spain’s Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences for his, “critical examination of the significant conflicts of our era,” as announced by organizers on Wednesday. With a repertoire exceeding 20 books enco … | Continue reading
Last year, a new horror franchise took flight with Pooh: Blood & Honey. With the iconic bear now in the public domain, the film turned Winnie and Piglet into a pair of grim slasher villains carving up a post-grad Christopher Robin and several university students. It went over abo … | Continue reading
A heartwarming video of a seal rescue is raising awareness about the impact of plastic pollution and fishing debris on marine life. Bodycam footage shows harrowing rescue of seal entangled in fishing line: 'Thank you so much for your amazing help' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Spam, junk … slop? The latest wave of AI behind the ‘zombie internet’ I'm quoted in this piece in the Guardian about slop: I think having a name for this is really important, because it gives people a concise way to talk about the problem. Before the term ‘spam’ entered general u … | Continue reading
The Week in Review is a collection of both all the goodness I’ve written during the past week around the internet, as well as a small pile of links I found interesting – generally endurance sports related. I’ve often wondered … Read More Here → | Continue reading
The clojure.test namespace has the are macro that allows us to combine multiple test cases for the code we want to test, whithout having to write multiple assertions. We can provide multiple values for a function we want to test together with the expected values. Then then macro … | Continue reading
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Show off your Apple nerdery with these iPhone wallets designed to resemble various versions of the macOS blue folder icon and the classic rainbow logo. | Continue reading
"It took a few days to grasp the importance of this record." Rare animal sightings spark hope following giant rewilding program in Argentina: 'We shouted and cried when we saw it' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Everything is bigger in Texas, including lawn chairs at the San Antonio Botanical Garden. | Continue reading
Pals House 1627, designed by HARQUITECTES, is situated in Catalonia on the remnants of Mas Geli, an old farmhouse. While preserving two facades with buttresses and a couple of spaces with stone vaults from the original structure Continue reading | Continue reading
The age of Krakoa is over in the X-Men comics—or rather, it will be in another month. Come July, the mutants are off the island and back on Earth fighting the old fight of being hated and feared. Over the last few weeks, Marvel’s gradually pulled back the curtain on what’s to com … | Continue reading
Is there any time of year better than tax season? Due to my semi-retired status I tend to get a refund each year and this tax season is no different. It isn’t a lot mind you but it is enough for me to pick up a few new toys that aren’t normally within my budget.... Continue Readi … | Continue reading
Thanks to an incompatability between dracut and systemd version 256, I was left with an unbootable system. I booted a live USB system, downgraded systemd back to 255, but I had to regenerate the initramfs images to be compatible with my old systemd. While using systemd-nspawn is … | Continue reading
Ruby Bay Residence by Bell Stephenson Architects exemplifies the perfect blend of sustainable living and modern design. Its thoughtful orientation, energy-efficient features, and natural materials ensure it is both environmentally friendly and aesthetically pleasing. Continue rea … | Continue reading
NumFOCUS DISCOVER Cookbook: Minimal Measures NumFOCUS publish a guide "for organizers of conferences and events to support and encourage diversity and inclusion at those events." It includes this useful collection of the easiest and most impactful measures that events can put in … | Continue reading
There is a really pervasive trend in video these days where people will use (usually auto-generated) open captions (sometimes called “burned captions”), where the text for the narration or the like is baked into the image of the video. This is sometimes accompanied by some attent … | Continue reading
The album of the week is for “Pisces Pie” by Odelet. This is 9Albums/EPs You Should Liste To Week 20, 2024. | Continue reading
"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
In January, I was invited to GDC, the Game Developers Conference, to give a talk about Playdate. That talk — “The Playdate Story: What Was it Like to Make Handheld Video Game System Hardware?” — has been made available free for all to view. Now, it’s been 10 years since my last t … | 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