A to Z of Landscapes: Japan

In the late 19th century, it evolved from classical painting dating back to the 1400s, to Barbizon School and Impressionism, with some traditional artists continuing. | Continue reading


@eclecticlight.co | 30 minutes ago

4/18/2024

Just past sunrise, a vagrant red squirrel appears in the yard, given away at first by her nervous, jerky movements as she forages for breakfast, then the old-barn color as […] | Continue reading


@morningporch.com | 31 minutes ago

Arsenale’s "Plan B": lightweight, long-range, 2WD hybrid adventure bike

The Arsenale’s latest offering is the Plan B: a lighweight, ultra-long-range, 2WD, low-power, hybrid gas/electric bike for wet, slippery, snowy or sandy conditions. With two failed indiegogo campaigns behind it as the 2X2 Ultrabike, it has reemerged at The Arsenale, a high end bo … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 43 minutes ago

Emulators aren’t new; here’s the great ones on the Mac

The first few emulators hit the App Store this week and while two of them were promptly removed (for different reasons, neither of which were because emulation is wrong), Delta seems to be quite good (I’m still using it for the first time so too early to say | Continue reading


@birchtree.me | 51 minutes ago

BAR SPOTS | GDZIE DO BARU MLECZNEGO?

Są miejsca doskonale nam znane, ale nie zawsze uczęszczane. Jednym po drodze do barów mlecznych, dla innych to prawdziwy relikt z przeszłości albo przymus z dzieciństwa. Dzisiaj przychodzę do Was z trzema doskonałymi lokalizacjami w Trójmieście, gdzie tłumy są porównywalne do naj … | Continue reading


@makecookingeasier.pl | 52 minutes ago

Other Attempts to Take Over Open Source Projects

After the XZ Utils discovery, people have been examining other open-source projects. Surprising no one, the incident is not unique: The OpenJS Foundation Cross Project Council received a suspicious series of emails with similar messages, bearing different names and overlapping Gi … | Continue reading


@schneier.com | 53 minutes ago

OpenAI winds down AI image generator that blew minds and forged friendships in 2022

How a group of friends found themselves at the center of a fierce debate about the future of art. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 59 minutes ago

Pluralistic: Podcasting "Capitalists Hate Capitalism" (18 Apr 2024)

Today's links Podcasting "Capitalists Hate Capitalism": "Competition is for losers." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep read … | Continue reading


@pluralistic.net | 59 minutes ago

Resident builds city's first net-zero property — and shares exactly how she did it

"It pains me seeing so much energy wasted, even in my own house." Resident builds city's first net-zero property — and shares exactly how she did it first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 1 hour ago

Why do people feel like they're being watched, even when no one is there?

The causes range from innocuous media exposure to severe mental illness. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 1 hour ago

Kurczak milanese z sosem ranczerskim i rzodkiewką

Przejdź do treści Menu Na skróty Hity Kwestii Smaku Znane i lubiane Filety drobiowe Polędwiczki Schab Karkówka Kotlety Burgery Pulpeciki Potrawy tradycyjne Popularne ciasta Więcej... Szybki obiad Szybkie ciasto Obiad na niedzielę Bar mleczny Naleśniki Pierogi Kluski śląskie Kopyt … | Continue reading


@kwestiasmaku.com | 1 hour ago

Spring founders Rod Johnson and Juergen Hoeller on the 20th Anniversary of Spring Framework 1.0

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, more than 20 incredible years in the making, Spring founders Rod Johnson (@springrod) and Juergen Hoeller (@springjuergen) discuss Spring since its 1.0 release in 2004 | Continue reading


@bootifulpodcast.podbean.com | 1 hour ago

Light-activated propulsion spins bacteria-shredding micromotors

The four spikes on a new nanocrystal developed in Spain spin up under light and move through liquid, blasting any bacteria unfortunate to be in their path. The development could spell trouble for bacteria that resists traditional drug treatments. Continue Reading Category: Medica … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 1 hour ago

Among the Activists Plotting to Disrupt the DNC. Plus. . .

Uri Berliner resigns from NPR. Free Press Cupid. ‘Liquid Ass’ at Columbia. And more. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 hour ago

Destination Brief: Why Northern Ireland is the Next Must-Visit Incentive Destination

Rich in natural beauty, a proud and vibrant cultural heritage, warm hospitality with unique and luxurious accommodations and venues; Northern Ireland should be on your radar as the next must-visit incentive travel destination. -Meet in Ireland, a brand of Tourism Ireland & Touris … | Continue reading


@meetings.skift.com | 2 hours ago

Tesla engineer gives rare update on electric Semi truck program as new EPA rules help expedite rollout: 'Now, it's about scale'

The Semis have been running the same routes as typical diesel trucks would and have carried the same load while offering lower operating costs. Tesla engineer gives rare update on electric Semi truck program as new EPA rules help expedite rollout: 'Now, it's about scale' first ap … | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 2 hours ago

The regional flavors of labor-on-demand

A new report digs into the social dynamics of gig work. | Continue reading


@restofworld.org | 2 hours ago

Bangladesh built a tech park for 100,000 workers. Now it’s a ghost town

The facility was partly funded by the World Bank and touted to become the country’s “cyber capital.” | Continue reading


@restofworld.org | 2 hours ago

The Book of Chaos: Time to Change the Guards

And so, what was became what is and quickly too, and more, this happened faster than I knew it. And just like that, in the blink of an eye, a temporary burden became factand permanent because of an unfortunateforce, which I callthe deception of my perception. But this is where he … | Continue reading


@thewrittenaddiction.com | 2 hours ago

If history repeats, a 100-year heart disease epidemic is on the way

Over the first half of the 20th century the world saw growing rates of heart disease mortality. From the 1920s to the 1960s more and more people were dying from heart attacks. It was described as an epidemic of heart disease. But in the mid-1960s heart disease mortality suddenly … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 2 hours ago

Berlin rents increase by an average of 18,3 percent in one year

The past decade has seen rents in Berlin reach new heights. Now, the city has seen an 18,3 percent increase in just one year a new survey has revealed. Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg... | Continue reading


@iamexpat.de | 2 hours ago

Commission adds extra €1.4B to EU research spending this year

Berlaymont building, headquarter of the European Commission, Brussels, Belgium. Photo credits: Bogdan Hoyaux / European Union The European Commission is adding €1.4 billion to the Horizon Europe research programme this year, in latest amendment to 2023 and 2024 spending plans. Th … | Continue reading


@sciencebusiness.net | 2 hours ago

Some Days Are All About Birds, Books And Coffee

Bird of the Day: Red-winged blackbird Coffee of the Day: Biggby Coffee White Chocolate Macadamia Latte Book of the Day: The Hunter by Tana French | Continue reading


@cimple.life | 2 hours ago

Farewell, Prague: How I Had to Leave the City of Inspiration to Write My Spy Novel

Prague in the 1990s was a magical place. Communism had fallen, a seat at the opera cost a few bucks, the city’s magnificence had yet to be sullied by hordes of tourists or chain restaurants. Playwright and former dissident Václav Havel was at the helm, transforming and privatizin … | Continue reading


@crimereads.com | 2 hours ago

Dying Cities: On the Lone Book of ‘Lost’ Novelist Elaine Perry

“The city is strong in the memory, no matter how much it decays and gives way to the sea.” –Elaine Perry, 1990 Since I’ve started writing about out-of-print and “lost” Black authors, I occasionally get suggestions from writer-friends who turn me on to their favorite neglected aut … | Continue reading


@crimereads.com | 2 hours ago

Beautifully-Preserved Frescoes with Figures from the Trojan War Discovered in a Lavish Pompeii Home

Image via Pompeii Archaeological Park Imagine visiting the home of a prominent, wealthy figure, and at the evening’s end finding yourself in a room dedicated to late-night entertaining, painted entirely black except for a few scenes from antiquity. Perhaps this wouldn’t sound ent … | Continue reading


@openculture.com | 2 hours ago

A Powerful Atlanta Movie Executive Praised for His Diversity Efforts Shared Racist, Antisemitic Sentiments in Texts

by Nicole Carr, ProPublica, and Mike Jordan, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights … | Continue reading


@propublica.org | 3 hours ago

Ancient artists high on hallucinogens carved dancer rock art in Peru, study suggests

The research notes similarities between the carvings in southern Peru and the ayahuasca-induced art of the Amazon's Tucano people. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 3 hours ago

Nicole Avant on Tragedy, Forgiveness, and Thinking Freee

It was November 30, 2021, when Nicole Avant got a call in the middle of the night from her husband. The unthinkable had happened. Her otherwise healthy mom, Jacqueline Avant, was in critical condition at the hospital. She had been shot. Nicole would soon find out that her mother … | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 3 hours ago

That Brutal, Ferocious Thing: Watching Civil War

I must say that I did not want to write this review. I walked into the theatre with high hopes for Mr. Garland’s Civil War. I was hoping it would sober people to the actual horrors that a modern a civil war would entail. | Continue reading


@frontporchrepublic.com | 3 hours ago

Homeowner puzzled after learning HOA violates state law repeatedly: 'I strongly believe this is wrong'

"An HOA does not and cannot overrule federal law." Homeowner puzzled after learning HOA violates state law repeatedly: 'I strongly believe this is wrong' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 3 hours ago

Przepis na syrop z mniszka lekarskiego

Dzisiaj chciałam Wam pokazać kolejną rzecz, po winie, którą można zrobić z kwiatów mniszka lekarskiego – syrop z goździkami, zwany również miodem majowym czy miodem z mniszka. Tego typu syrop, oprócz walorów smakowych, był stosowany w medycynie ludowej jako środek przeciwzapalny … | Continue reading


@klaudynahebda.pl | 3 hours ago

Why does the Netherlands have such a serious worker shortage?

If you’ve been in the Netherlands for some time already, you’ll surely know that the country’s labour market is suffering from some serious problems, the core of which often lies... | Continue reading


@iamexpat.nl | 3 hours ago

Staggering quantities of energy transition metals are winding up in the garbage bin

Recycling more of the copper, aluminum, and other minerals in our old electronics could reduce the need for mining. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 3 hours ago

Thursday Chuckles: Cats And Dogs

Visit the post for more. | Continue reading


@beetleypete.com | 3 hours ago

Railways and the Enrico Letta report on the future of the Single Market

Former Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta has been spending months preparing a report on the future of the EU’s Single Market. The report will be presented to Heads of State and Government this week, and was published yesterday – you can find the PDF here. A couple of well conne … | Continue reading


@jonworth.eu | 3 hours ago

The US still won’t fully embrace the rights of Indigenous peoples, here or abroad

"It does continuously feel like that you are trying to prove that you are worthy of life." | Continue reading


@grist.org | 3 hours ago

Painting: The Peasant Wedding

The Peasant Wedding is a 1567 painting by the Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painter and printmaker Pieter Bruegel the Elder, one of his many depicting peasant life. It is now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. Pieter Bruegel the Elder enjoyed painting peasants and different … | Continue reading


@beetleypete.com | 3 hours ago

Perlovska River

The photo is from a few days ago when it was summer. We are temporarily back to the winter today. | Continue reading


@veselin.blog | 3 hours ago

Songs I Like (28)

In 1967, Mike D’Abo wrote the song ‘Handbags and Gladrags’, trying to get over the point that fashionable clothes and designer labels are not the way to find happiness. That same year it was recorded by Chris Farlowe, a British singer with a powerful voice who is almost forgotten … | Continue reading


@beetleypete.com | 3 hours ago

Creating Your Own Custom AI Assistants Using OpenAI GPTs: A Free Course from Vanderbilt University

Last fall, OpenAI started letting users create custom versions of ChatGPT–ones that would let people create AI assistants to complete tasks in their personal or professional lives. In the months that followed, some users created AI apps that could generate recipes and meals. Othe … | Continue reading


@openculture.com | 4 hours ago

Island makes conservation history with world's first sperm whale reserve: 'It's our responsibility to be good stewards'

"The reserve will protect the whales that have lived here far longer than humans." Island makes conservation history with world's first sperm whale reserve: 'It's our responsibility to be good stewards' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 4 hours ago

A primer on the cascade and specificity

Often feared by developers, the cascade and specificity is actually really simple if you utilise the right mental model when authoring CSS. | Continue reading


@piccalil.li | 4 hours ago

Two lifeforms merge in once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event

Scientists have caught a once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event in progress, as two lifeforms have merged into one organism that boasts abilities its peers would envy. Last time this happened, Earth got plants. Continue Reading Category: Biology, Science Tags: Life, Evolution … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 4 hours ago

This new tool makes it easier to crunch the costs of energy upgrades

A new free tool for contractors and other energy professionals aims to pin down the economic and climate benefits of electrifying homes and commutes — a calculation typically hard to come by. While figuring out the upfront costs of upgrades such as heat pumps is routine for energ … | Continue reading


@canarymedia.com | 4 hours ago

Company to launch world's first clean ammonia-powered container ship — and it could revolutionize the shipping industry

"To succeed in decarbonizing shipping, low-emission technologies must be brought to commercial scale within the next decade." Company to launch world's first clean ammonia-powered container ship — and it could revolutionize the shipping industry first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 4 hours ago

109: HAZCHEM!

Would you like a chat with that haircut? Are you feeling rooted? What kinds of things do you collect? Do you mix and match your watch bands? What tomato timer is the best? All these questions answered, and more, this week on Hemispheric Views! Haircuts 00:00:00 Haircuts in Americ … | Continue reading


@listen.hemisphericviews.com | 4 hours ago

Disquiet Junto Project 0642: Kick from Champagne

Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto music community, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have five days to record and upload a track in response to the project instructions. Membership in the Junto is open: just join and participate. (A Sound … | Continue reading


@disquiet.com | 4 hours ago