A few sheep are mowing the lawn in the park. And there is at least one lamb too! 🐑🐑🐑 “määähhh” | Continue reading
"The challenge was to create a home using earth as the primary building material." Architect turns to centuries-old technique to revolutionize how we build houses: 'This will be a very attractive method' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
This week, we’re back the original idea behind this newsletter – a newsletter that’s informal and “what I’d send you if you were to ask me what’s on my mind this week.” On my mind this week: the sea. It started last weekend when I read William Langewiesche | Continue reading
Medieval LOLs: Fabliaux Posted on Saturday, Apr 20, 2024 6:25AM by Morgan Meis | Continue reading
Fara Dabhoiwala at The Guardian: Everything Must Go is about how, over the past 200 years, writers and artists have built on this inheritance to create new kinds of non-Christian eschatology. Ever since Lord Byron’s poem Darkness (1816), which dispensed with God, people have been … | Continue reading
Benjamin Markovits at the New York Times: This week is the 200th anniversary of Lord Byron’s death. The most famous poet of his age (an odd phrase now) died fighting for Greek independence in the marshes of Missolonghi. “Who would write, who had anything better to do?” he once sa … | Continue reading
I’ve been watching the current debate over memory-safe programming with interest. On the one have you have Rust and Go advocates talking about the need to replace C with its buffer overflows and other security problems, and on the other you have different fingers. And people say … | Continue reading
The science fiction writer warned that environmental decay and technological advances would spark an American decline. Now, we are seeing the future she predicted. | Continue reading
"You learn something new every day." Gardener shares 'creative' tip to save on common seed-starting materials: 'This is going to really help your plants' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
In our top science stories this week, reporter Ed Cara explores the similarities and differences between today’s popular obesity drugs and fen-phen, a briefly trendy weight loss aid that was pulled from the market after doctors discovered dangerous side effects. NASA confirmed th … | Continue reading
Most Americans probably know a few Japanese loanwords, especially those who were alive in the two or three decades after WWII, when so many terms from Japan entered the English language — kamikaze, banzai, bonsai, origami, and so forth — with soldiers returning from the war in th … | Continue reading
Song of the Day: Good Vibes – Chris Janson Flower of the Day: Daffodil Game of the Day: Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Boston Bruins | Continue reading
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610), known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the final four years of his life, he moved between Naples, Malta, and Sicily until his death. His pa … | Continue reading
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If your mind has gone straight to the thundering waters cascading down Venezuela's Angel Falls, think again. | Continue reading
This technology could make it easier for homeowners to keep their panels spotless. Technology provider announces robotics system to keep solar panels at peak performance — here's how it works first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
“‘This Will Finish Us.’” I finished reading Wendell Berry’s Unsettling of America this week with a group of students, so this heartbreaking essay by Stephanie McCrummen about how the Tanzanian government, oil money from the Gulf states, and “conservationists” are evicting Maasai … | Continue reading
The weekend started with brunch in the Kreuzberg neighborhood of Berlin. Just the three of us—tinyScientist, scientist, and me. It was a sunny morning, so we decided to sit outside. The brunch plate for two was more than sufficient for the three of us, and we even used tinyScient … | Continue reading
The Japanese art of flower arrangement, Ikebana, is a captivating practice that aims for poetic synthesis of human hand and natural beauty in each composition. Stickybana, as documented on this Instagram page, is a sub-genre that centers cannabis within that tradition. The pairin … | Continue reading
A Quilt is More than Fragments By age 92 my mother was no longer independent, though she lived in the house my parents had bought sixty years before. My brother and I were far away, and Mom depended on the kindness of neighbors and a bit of hired help to shop for her, do her […] | Continue reading
"I see a lot of thick roots running along the surface of the dirt just under or intertwined with the fabric." Gardener shares worrying photos of landscaping fabric harming tree: 'I don't doubt that [it] played a role' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Waterproof to […] | Continue reading
Construction is the world’s largest industry, employing seven percent of the planet's working-age adults, contributing 13 percent of the world’s GDP and completing floor space equivalent to the city of Paris every seven days. Continue Reading Category: Good Thinking, Lifestyle | Continue reading
Today we are making kid friendly pasta salad. There is something so simple yet healthy about a Kids Pasta Salad… The post Easy Kids Pasta Salad Recipe appeared first on Kids Activities Blog. | Continue reading
Today's links Greedflation, but for prisoners: The first-ever survey of national prison commissary prices is a fucking nightmare. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've … | Continue reading
Dumpster diving is legal in her state — and, in fact, in every state. Woman stunned after finding dumpster full of perfectly good, unopened snacks: 'This is my dream find' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
nobody posted the beautifully minimalist Hirayama Fireworks' Illustrated Catalog of Night Bomb Shells from the 1890s, via the Yokohama City Library. | Continue reading
Death is Smoking my Cigars You know: I’m drunk once again here listening to Tchaikovsky on the radio. Jesus, I heard him 47 years ago when I was a starving writer and here he is again and now I am a minor success as a writer and death is walking up and down this room… | Continue reading
Sezon na szparagi w mojej kuchni trwa. Dziś przychodzę do Was z przepisem na ekspresową tartę rozpływającą się w ustach. Jeśli pogoda Wam pozwoli, koniecznie zabierzcie ją ze sobą na wiosenny piknik. Skład: 1 opakowanie ciasta francuskiego (z dobrym składem) 1 pęczek zielonych sz … | Continue reading
How you can use regexes to make search more powerful and reduce the number of irrelevant entries it returns. | Continue reading
Since the blue catfish don't have enough natural predators to control their population, they now threaten native species. Officials devise unconventional plan to eliminate invasive fish species: 'There are 100 million of them' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Weekends in my house are always time for baking and cake. I love to have a good cake in the house at the weekend, and this lush Peanut Butter Sheet Cake is a really lovely one to have in! The recipe is for a largish, 9 by 13 inch sheet cake, which cuts into 12 squares. Having sai … | Continue reading
What remains of the Radisson Blu’s giant cylindrical aquarium will be converted into a vertical garden, stretching to the sixth floor of the hotel in Berlin. Radisson Blu... | Continue reading
Taking his "cue" from an old Tom and Jerry cartoon, YouTube content creator Alex Apollonov from the 'I Did A Thing' channel has created an explosive billiards stick. Then he played his friend in a game. What could go wrong? Continue Reading Category: Lifestyle Tags: Inventors, Yo … | Continue reading
This checkin to GCAP4K8 Village Hall Series 1573 - Standlake reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. FTF! Can’t remember the last time I got one of those; it’s been a while. I woke up this morning thinking about an errand I need to run today that would … | Continue reading
Solutions exist, but our window to avoid the worst is shrinking fast. Risk assessment issues stark warning for major region amid rising temperatures: 'A huge wake-up call' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
"You never know." Shopper shares warning after examining soil of newly purchased plant: 'Make sure to check' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
When the toys themselves are ads, it can contribute to the hyperconsumerist churn of wasteful products. Shopper shares photo of 'dystopian' children's toy for sale at Costco: 'The point is brand indoctrination as young as possible' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Tesla’s just had a tough quarter, including in the United States, but a tough quarter for Tesla would be a stunning, fantabulous success for any other company trying to sell electric vehicles. In the USA, according to data from Cox Automotive and Kelley Blue Book, more than one o … | Continue reading
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I think many EV fans and followers have been impressed and optimistic about Volkswagen Group’s focus on electrification in recent years — basically, since the big Dieselgate scandal shook everything up. Volkswagen Group came up with one of the first big plans from legacy automake … | Continue reading
Lameazoid Link List for Friday 2024-04-19 19-Apr-2024 – Hasbro rolls out Transformers One tie-in action figures and toys Brief Summary: ” Following hot on the heels of the Transformers One trailer debut, Hasbro has revealed the first wav” | Continue reading
"It is time we stopped sacrificing people in the name of industry and economy." New report estimates millions of Americans are at risk of exposure to toxic 'bomb trains': 'It's going to happen again' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
"That's so beautiful." Renter shares stunning lawn update photos after quitting mowing for two months: 'It's a genuine meadow' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
After 96 years of service, public transport providers in the Netherlands and Germany have confirmed that the direct day train between Amsterdam and Basel will be discontinued from... | Continue reading
19:34 in office. Haven’t written here in days, possibly weeks. Miss it. Need to design this area down […] | Continue reading
WASHINGTON, D.C. — [This week] nearly 200 solar and storage companies sent a letter to congressional leaders calling for legislation to improve permitting, project siting, transmission, and public lands access for solar and solar plus storage projects. Market forecasts show that … | Continue reading
Anyone checking into their Instagram or Facebook pages in the last few days, will have no doubt noticed the presence of Meta’s AI “assistant”, named, um, Meta AI. Britney Nguyen, writing for Quartz: The tech giant said on Thursday that it is bringing Meta AI to all of its platfor … | Continue reading