Biden Takes a Side in the Solar Industry’s Family Feud

The Biden administration continued its campaign to support domestic green energy manufacturing via trade policy on Thursday, this time by expanding existing solar panel tariffs to include the popular two-sided modules used in many utility-scale solar installations. With this move … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 11 minutes ago

A Playlist of the 3,300 Best Films & Documentaries on Youtube, Including Works by Hitchcock, Kubrick, Errol Morris & Other Auteurs

?si=yCx1pqpcATHND90L Once upon a time, the most convenient means of discovering movies was cable television. This held especially true for those of us who happened to be adolescents on a break from school, ready and willing morning, midday, or night to sit through the commercial- … | Continue reading


@openculture.com | 11 minutes ago

Homeowner vents anger about their HOA's unnecessary lawn maintenance: 'The grass has been brown for two months'

"How dreadful." Homeowner vents anger about their HOA's unnecessary lawn maintenance: 'The grass has been brown for two months' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 12 minutes ago

Rendering Me into We: A Review of The Crisis of Narration

Disagreements aside, however, Byung-Chul's argument remains a valuable one: the cultures of consumption that rule the modern world are death to the cultures of community that give life meaning. | Continue reading


@frontporchrepublic.com | 12 minutes ago

Calendar Check

I woke up to complete darkness at 7am today, caused by cloud so low it seemed to be covering the house. It is raining heavily, feels cold at only 12C, and it’s dark enough inside the house to require lights on at 9:44am. It was necessary to check the calendar to confirm it was th … | Continue reading


@beetleypete.com | 25 minutes ago

This enzyme is responsible for life on Earth. It’s a hot mess.

And it’s getting worse with extreme heat. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 27 minutes ago

Catching Nessie on Film

Catching Nessie on Film JamesHoare Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41 | Continue reading


@historytoday.com | 31 minutes ago

The American Climate Corps will get people into green jobs. Can it help their mental health too?

Most young people aren’t sure how to take action. Biden’s program could provide much-needed structure. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 42 minutes ago

Best of Foojay.io May 2024 Edition – JVM Weekly vol. 83

I promised that this month we would have some unconventional editions, and I am keeping that promise 😉 | Continue reading


@vived.substack.com | 45 minutes ago

How ‘kitty cats’ are wrecking the home insurance industry

Supercharged thunderstorms and tornadoes are ravaging the Midwest, driving insurance costs to record highs. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 57 minutes ago

Climate change is linked to worsening brain diseases – new study

JuYochi/Shutterstock Climate change is making the symptoms of certain brain conditions worse, our new review has found. Conditions that can worsen as temperature and humidity rise include stroke, migraines, meningitis, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s dise … | Continue reading


@theconversation.com | 1 hour ago

Songs I like (35)

Guitarist Carlos Santana was known for some great (mainly) instrumental recordings from 1969 and into the 1970s, with his band Santana. His performance at the Woodstock Festival gave him the wider exposure he needed to get widespread popularity and acclaim. I had a couple of his … | Continue reading


@beetleypete.com | 1 hour ago

Chinese company develops world's largest floating platform for wind turbines: 'Enhancing production efficiency'

This is part of a growing offshore wind industry. Chinese company develops world's largest floating platform for wind turbines: 'Enhancing production efficiency' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 1 hour ago

Trinity College Dublin: Government announces €104M investment for scientific research

A €104 million investment in scientific research across Ireland is being announced today by Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Patrick O’Donovan TD, and Minister for Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue TD. T … | Continue reading


@sciencebusiness.net | 1 hour ago

Elsevier and SCELC establish partnership to expand open access in Elsevier journals

Elsevier, a global leader in information analytics and scientific publishing, is pleased to announce an innovative partnership with the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC) with a focus on open access. The read and publish transformative agreement, effective … | Continue reading


@sciencebusiness.net | 1 hour ago

PERISCOPE model accelerates development of new pertussis vaccine

A nasal vaccine against pertussis that was tested using a model and cell bank created by the PERISCOPE project is entering the final phases of clinical trials. | Continue reading


@sciencebusiness.net | 1 hour ago

Spanish government strengthens AI capabilities of MareNostrum 5 supercomputer, managed by BSC

This upgrade, part of the Spanish government's Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2024, will increase MareNostrum 5's processing capacity by almost 50%, over 450 petaflops, or the ability to perform up to 450,000 trillion operations per second. Another of the main objectives of the … | Continue reading


@sciencebusiness.net | 1 hour ago

Next-gen Ozempic rewires brain for easier, long-term weight loss

The current breakthrough weight-loss drugs are only the beginning, according to Danish researchers hard at work on a new treatment that targets the brain's natural plasticity, which could offset bad side effects and provide more long-term benefits. Continue Reading Category: Medi … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 1 hour ago

Beetleypete’s Classroom: Lesson Nine

Judd and Westen, please see me after class. CLASS DISMISSED. | Continue reading


@beetleypete.com | 1 hour ago

Hanns and Rudolf

✍️ Written by: Thomas Harding 🏷 Genre: Non-fiction 🗓 Published: 03 September 2013 📄 Pages: 384 🧐 My rating: ★★★★☆ (4 stars) Hanns Alexander was the son of a prosperous German family who fled Berlin for London in the 1930s, becoming an investigator … | Continue reading


@kevquirk.com | 1 hour ago

Imperial and University of São Paulo sign new research and education partnership

Imperial College London and Brazil’s University of São Paulo (USP) have signed a new five-year partnership in research and education. Imperial – a world top ten university – have signed an agreement with Brazil’s top ranked university, USP, that will begin a new phase of closer c … | Continue reading


@sciencebusiness.net | 1 hour ago

Thursday Fun

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@beetleypete.com | 1 hour ago

111: I'm a Pencil Guy!

It’s Eurovision season! Do you like taking photos? Andrew might! There will be some light banter about tech markets. Another fantastic Hemispheric Views adjacent website is born! How about some sweet pencils? And finally, do you need a bud…? Using Apple Podcasts? All notes can al … | Continue reading


@listen.hemisphericviews.com | 1 hour ago

One Star Review

I have bad movie opinions. I love movies I know are bad in the "la-de-dah I studied cinema at whatever university" way. I will avoid movies that win oscars because more often than not it means they'll be boring as fuck. If it won darling-of-the-weekend award at some film festival … | Continue reading


@rknight.me | 2 hours ago

Probability of Success

Imagine that you try to do something and there's a 20% chance of success. If you try to do the thing six times, what is the probability that you succeed at least once? Tags: Andrew Huberman, binomial, probability, simulation | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 hours ago

Traveler sparks debate with photo of product purchased from airport McDonald's: 'I can't deal with this'

"This is wild though." Traveler sparks debate with photo of product purchased from airport McDonald's: 'I can't deal with this' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 2 hours ago

SwiftUI on macOS: Documents

Implementing a document-based app in SwiftUI for macOS. Fun and games with menus, and what are the differences between FileDocument and ReferenceFileDocument protocols? | Continue reading


@eclecticlight.co | 2 hours ago

SwiftUI on macOS: Documents, Source Code

Swift source code to accompany article about implementing a document-based app in SwiftUI for macOS. | Continue reading


@eclecticlight.co | 2 hours ago

Meet Fanny, the First Female Rock Band to Top the Charts: “They Were Just Colossal and Wonderful, and Nobody’s Ever Mentioned Them”

When the Beatles upended popular music, thousands of wannabe beat groups were born all over the world, and many of them–for the first time ever, really–were all-female groups. This Amoeba Records article has a fairly exhaustive list of these girl bands, with names like The Daught … | Continue reading


@openculture.com | 2 hours ago

Blood pressure drugs double the risk of bone fractures in older adults

Healthcare workers have urged for a greater duty of care with older adults who start taking common blood pressure medicines, with a new study highlighting that they're more than twice as likely to experience fall-related fractures after commencing treatment. Continue Reading Cate … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 2 hours ago

4 pervasive myths that cause us to abandon science

When you think about what science actually is, how do you conceive of it? Do you do what most people do, and default to what you learned in our classes in school, with a layer of cynicism and skepticism layered atop it? That’s understandable, as many of us remember being taught “ … | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 3 hours ago

Pasta with Peas & Pesto

I made another quick and easy pasta dish for dinner today. Pasta with Peas & Pesto. This is something that I used to make very frequently when I worked at the Manor. My boss was really fond of it. I used to use a recipe from Ina Garten to make it for her. There was fresh basil in … | Continue reading


@theenglishkitchen.co | 3 hours ago

Homeowner seeks advice on lawn renovation that appeases their HOA: 'I'm not in their good graces right now'

"I need less grass in my life, so this is my plan." Homeowner seeks advice on lawn renovation that appeases their HOA: 'I'm not in their good graces right now' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 3 hours ago

A Small Brother Charger 11 Repair Surgery

I spent some time today doing surgery on my Brother Charger 11 Correction typewriter. It was quite relaxing to tinker around for a bit and appreciate the sparse, but clever and solid internals of this late model JP-1 machine that the serial number dates to January 1985. I managed … | Continue reading


@boffosocko.com | 3 hours ago

Quoting Richard Schneeman

[...] by default Heroku will spin up multiple dynos in different availability zones. It also has multiple routers in different zones so if one zone should go completely offline, having a second dyno will mean that your app can still serve traffic. — Richard Schneeman | Continue reading


@simonwillison.net | 3 hours ago

Jay

This curious fellow welcomes me to our co-working space from time to time. I wanted to take a photo of him earlier this week but he was busy with a prey. | Continue reading


@veselin.blog | 3 hours ago

New energy weapon replaces million-dollar missiles at 13 cents a shot

The Radio Frequency Directed Energy Weapon (RFDEW) is part of the British government's policy to respond to a changing geopolitical situation, placing the country's defense on more of a war footing as it increases spending to 2.5% of GDP by 2030. This policy change also includes … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 3 hours ago

Experts call out misguided ecotourism attempts and impacts on vulnerable shark populations: 'Just because you put the green label on something doesn't mean it really is'

"Real ecotourism requires enforcing standards and responsible behavior." Experts call out misguided ecotourism attempts and impacts on vulnerable shark populations: 'Just because you put the green label on something doesn't mean it really is' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 3 hours ago

Watch: Sony's new super-microsurgery robot stitches up a corn kernel

Sony has shown off its new surgical robot doing some super-precise work sewing up a tiny slit in a corn kernel. It's the first machine of its kind that auto-switches between its different tools, and has successfully been tested in animal surgery. Continue Reading Category: Roboti … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 4 hours ago

Regno Unito: nuovo record di vendite nel 2023 grazie a export e digitale

Siamo un network informativo che dal 1888 ascolta, aggiorna e sostiene i professionisti dell'editoria. | Continue reading


@giornaledellalibreria.it | 4 hours ago

What games will I play anyway?

So, I have the Miyoo Mini Plus, and I have games, and I've restored some save files, and I put more games, and cover art, but what am I even playing on it? | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 4 hours ago

Leader Spotlight: Enabling a vision-led product mindset, with David Krell

David Krell, VP of Product at Going, talks about the fallacy that PMs have to be in a position of authority to do vision-led work. The post Leader Spotlight: Enabling a vision-led product mindset, with David Krell appeared first on LogRocket Blog. | Continue reading


@blog.logrocket.com | 5 hours ago

#201 When you owe someone $10 and someone else owes you $10 and they just give $10 to the person you owe instead

Way to cut out the middleman. AWESOME! Make your inbox awesome: Photo from: here The post #201 When you owe someone $10 and someone else owes you $10 and they just give $10 to the person you owe instead appeared first on 1000 Awesome Things. | Continue reading


@1000awesomethings.com | 5 hours ago

Angela Merkel to release memoir in 2024

Germany’s longest-running Chancellor Angela Merkel has announced that she will release a memoir in November 2024, which centres around questions of freedom. Angela Merkel... | Continue reading


@iamexpat.de | 5 hours ago

Scientists develop proof-of-concept device that uses air pollution to produce electricity: 'We will now work on improving efficiency and reducing cost'

Scientific breakthroughs like this one are so crucial to the future of our planet. Scientists develop proof-of-concept device that uses air pollution to produce electricity: 'We will now work on improving efficiency and reducing cost' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 5 hours ago

Scientists use generative AI to answer complex questions in physics

A new technique that can automatically classify phases of physical systems could help scientists investigate novel materials. | Continue reading


@news.mit.edu | 5 hours ago

New tool empowers users to fight online misinformation

The Trustnet browser extension lets individuals assess the accuracy of any content on any website. | Continue reading


@news.mit.edu | 5 hours ago

Elaine Liu: Charging ahead

The MIT senior calculates how renewables and EVs impact the grid. | Continue reading


@news.mit.edu | 5 hours ago