Hello! We express most joyful salutations and wish to bring you much pleasants from this post by brainwane! Come! Express delight in this sharing of a short story by Fiona Jones! | Continue reading
Daniel Bessner in Harper’s Magazine: In 2012, at the age of thirty-two, the writer Alena Smith went West to Hollywood, like many before her. She arrived to a small apartment in Silver Lake, one block from the Vista Theatre—a single-screen Spanish Colonial Revival building that ha … | Continue reading
Challengers, a movie where Zendaya plays a tennis star who has a threesome, came out last week and, while I haven’t seen it yet, I sure do plan to. Director Luca Guadagnino’s new romantic tennis/thriller/drama is getting pretty good reviews, has a fun premise, and would seem to h … | Continue reading
Let's set the stage. A writer has drafted an essay for a publication that has specified a maximum word count of 5,000, and a preferred range of 1350 to 2700. The draft totaled 4,869 words, so it was within the limit, but not in the preferred range. Facing an imminent deadline, an … | Continue reading
Keeping track of medications is vital in most cases, but it can be hard to do without alarms and an extra nudge to make it a habit. I’ve personally had difficulty staying on schedule since I started taking daily medications decades ago. But these last few years, as more smartphon … | Continue reading
Adam Frank at Aeon Magazine: Suddenly, everyone is talking about aliens. After decades on the cultural margins, the question of life in the Universe beyond Earth is having its day in the sun. The next big multibillion-dollar space telescope (the successor to the James Webb) will … | Continue reading
About Searching for Alien Life with Dr. Adam Frank Posted on Wednesday, May 1, 2024 8:16AMWednesday, May 1, 2024 by Morgan Meis | Continue reading
Featuring garlic-Parm chicken bites that are so delicious, you'll eat them straight from the pan. READ MORE... | Continue reading
Stars are not only beautiful to look at but also super versatile for all types of crafts and activities. Whether… The post 5-Point Star Template {Free Printable} appeared first on Kids Activities Blog. | Continue reading
Ed Simon at Poetry Magazine: Because the likelihood of Li Bai dying from simple infirmity in 762 isn’t as strange and beautiful as the traditional story of his demise—that he drowned in the Yangtze River while drunkenly trying to embrace the moon’s reflection—the apocryphal tale … | Continue reading
"We need science to help us meet reality on its own terms, and we need poetry to help us broaden and deepen the terms on which we meet ourselves and each other. At the crossing point of the two we may find a way of clarifying our experience and of sanctifying it." | Continue reading
Coastal destinations offer the perfect blend of business and leisure for an enhanced event experience, as exemplified by Fort Myers – Islands, Beaches and Neighborhoods, a coastal area in Southwest Florida ready to take your meetings and events to the next level. -Fort Myers – Is … | Continue reading
This week on Ruminate, more snacks than you can shake a stick at, Weblog posting month 2024, Raycast experiments, and some new game controllers. Links and Show Notes Pringles Crocs: New shoes, ankle holster and crisp flavor unveiled Jalapeno Popper Cheese Curls Chupa Chups Cola P … | Continue reading
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is our final dispatch from the 2024 Power of Narrative conference. For earlier posts, see deadline narratives by a Wall Street Journal podcast team, the braided structure used by The Atavist for complex stories, practical tips on empathy as a reporting tool an … | Continue reading
Soon after buying my first home, I realized that the kitchen of my cute little row house sat directly below my bedroom. Go ahead, ask me how I figured it out. You see what I’m getting at: While delicious smells are part of the joy of cooking, I didn’t want to keep smelling them w … | Continue reading
The research team plans to scale up production of the flow batteries. Researchers repurpose commonplace chemical with incredible properties in new battery design: 'Exhibited remarkable cycling stability' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Squat metal wellheads rise from a grassy field in central Kansas, surrounded by red steel containers. Years ago, oil and gas companies came here to deposit their liquid waste into the teardrop-shaped salt caverns hundreds of feet below the surface. Now, a company with a wholly di … | Continue reading
In software discussions, there’s a relatively healthy trope of saying something like, “sure this would be fine for power users, but what about normal people?” That’s a good question to ask, but what comes next always bugs me. The “normal person” will | Continue reading
Jason Snell, writing at Six Colors about the arrival of emulators on the App Store: So where do we go from here? While Apple’s acceptance of emulators in the App Store is groundbreaking, and should delight many fans of retro gaming consoles, it’s an extremely limited change. Nobo … | Continue reading
Find out how Snyk AppRisk Pro, our application security posture management (ASPM) solution, is designed to empower your application risk management programs. | Continue reading
‘Half these kids don’t even know what they’re protesting for’ | Continue reading
The Gambling Commission which oversees and regulates gambling and gaming law in the UK has published figures showing a 5%… Continue reading UK online gross gambling yield increases to £1.36bn The post UK online gross gambling yield increases to £1.36bn appeared first on ReadWrite … | Continue reading
Cassandra Willyard in Nature: US drug regulators dropped a bombshell in November 2023 when they announced an investigation into one of the most celebrated cancer treatments to emerge in decades. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it was looking at whether a strategy t … | Continue reading
I've launched a WordPress Plugin for an extremely niche use-case. WP GeSHi Highlight Redux works with WordPress's Classic Editor to convert Markdown to syntax highlighted code. That allows me to write: ```php $a = "Hello"; $b = 5 * 2; echo $a . str($b); ``` And have it displayed … | Continue reading
Mit der Einführung von SustainSymphony bietet die d&b group der Live-Event-Branche einen Cloud-basierten Software-Service für das Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement – zugeschnitten auf die Landschaft der globalen Live-Event-Branche. | Continue reading
More sinister and 'Gothic' landscapes from one of the leaders of the Düsseldorf School, and last of the German Romantics. | Continue reading
A few days ago, I read a discussion on a YouTube video. The essence of the discussion was that memory layout and memory size matter. So, an unsigned 1 8-bit integer (or u8 in Rust) takes up less memory and thus is faster than a u128. However, someone else added a caveat: the memo … | Continue reading
Even brief periods of anger caused by triggering memories can negatively impact our blood vessels' ability to relax. That's the finding of a new study that could have implications on how we look at heart attack and stroke risk. Continue Reading Category: Health & Wellbeing, Lifes … | Continue reading
Do you want to know this part? Okay, fine. There is a sound that never goes away or noises that you never forget, like say the sound of handcuffs as they clasp around your wrist or the sound of a cell door as it rolls shut. Trust me.And trust that as crazy as this sounds,and […] | Continue reading
The opportunities in India, and podcast ad spend in the US climbed 29%. Sponsored by Supporting Cast. Don't lock your members into one platform! 🔓 With Supporting Cast, YOU own your podcast subscription and control the subscriber relationship. And it's completely white-la … | Continue reading
Jichang Lulu briefly alluded to work on languages of Italy in the dialectometry thread (here [the whole comment is well worth reading, as are the comments by Jonathan Smith [here — this one on an earlier thread, here, here, and here] on that post). He also thought that Language L … | Continue reading
Unlike many of the surprise hit games this year such as Palworld and Helldivers, everybody kind of expected Manor Lords… Continue reading Manor Lords next patch will fix the homelessness issue The post Manor Lords next patch will fix the homelessness issue appeared first on ReadW … | Continue reading
Scammers tricked a company into believing they were dealing with a BBC presenter. They faked her voice, and accepted money intended for her. | Continue reading
‘These guys produced the last normal Republican presidential nominee. Who am I to judge?’ | Continue reading
My wife Becky and I received our AWD (2 engine) Cybertruck on March 29th, 2024, at the Seattle Tesla Service Center. The delivery experience was smooth and pleasant. I was excited to see how the Cybertruck compared to my 2016 Model S, which has 116,000 miles on it. On April ... [ … | Continue reading
Yet again, CenturyLink failed to fix a long outage until Ars emailed the company. | Continue reading
Northrop Grumman Corporation has built its Manta Ray uncrewed underwater vehicle, which will operate long-duration missions and carry payloads into the ocean depths in partnership with DARPA. | Continue reading
Up to 50 "shooting stars" per hour may be visible in moonless skies as the Eta Aquarid meteor shower peaks Saturday and Sunday (May 4 and 5). The annual shower is linked to debris from Halley's comet. | Continue reading
Prior to its closure in 2012, the plant had a capacity of 8.2 gigawatts. Authorities cautiously permit reactivation of world's largest nuclear power plant: 'We will stop when we find issues and take necessary measures' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Twitch is taking a leaf out of TikTok’s book as they officially roll out a new discovery feed to all… Continue reading Twitch rolls out TikTok-like discovery feed full of short-form clips The post Twitch rolls out TikTok-like discovery feed full of short-form clips appeared first … | Continue reading
Wedge Tail House, situated in Auckland, New Zealand, is an architectural revival by Pac Studio, transforming a traditional bungalow into a strikingly modern family home. Continue reading | Continue reading
Cloudless at sunrise, with rain still clinging to the grass. Tree leaves are on average half open now, making the woods’ edge half screen, half wall. | Continue reading
We were less than charitable when the 850-hp, V10 Engler Superquad was first introduced in 2019. When the 2023 version was introduced with an extra 250 hp, we seriously considered where it might rank among a murderer's row of the most terrifying vehicles ever built. Now there’s a … | Continue reading
Revenue at Amazon Web Services has soared by more than 200% and the company says artificial intelligence (AI) and advertising… Continue reading Amazon profit soars due to AI and advertising The post Amazon profit soars due to AI and advertising appeared first on ReadWrite. | Continue reading
From a successful climate lawsuit in Switzerland and democratic change in Senegal to a law school student who earned his degree in prison: here's our recap of the most exciting and important stories from our April editions. | Continue reading
The founder of the crypto exchange giant Binance, Changpeng Zhao, has been handed a four-month prison sentence. A Seattle federal… Continue reading Binance founder Changpeng Zhao receives a four-month jail term The post Binance founder Changpeng Zhao receives a four-month jail te … | Continue reading
Lionel Shriver on PEN’s cowardice. Trump on trial. Ben Kawaller among the Mormons. And much more in today’s Front Page. | Continue reading