This type of sustainable home design is gaining traction and could save homeowners serious cash in the long run. Architects complete 10-year study of home that uses 110% less energy — here are the features that made this possible first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Mars is a graveyard for explorers. Many orbiters, landers, rovers, and other mechanical critters that have either been cremated in the Red Planet’s thin atmosphere or fallen silent in the ochre, radiation-smothered sands below, right away or at the end of their technological life … | Continue reading
Rebecca Nicholson in The Guardian: To answer the question of what we’re losing, think about what nightlife has given us. It was always a haven for outsiders trying to find, establish or shape their own communities. It brings people together and remains an insistently communal exp … | Continue reading
Thomas Zurbuchen in Quanta: Our sun is the best-observed star in the entire universe. We see its light every day. For centuries, scientists have tracked the dark spots dappling its radiant face, while in recent decades, telescopes in space and on Earth have scrutinized sunbeams i … | Continue reading
Morgan Meis at Slant Books: I was meeting my mother at the museum. My mother is both a great lover of art and completely unpretentious about it. Often, she simply stands in front of objects of art and smiles. We found ourselves in an exhibit entitled Indian Skies: The Howard Hodg … | Continue reading
Sudeep Dasgupta in the European Review of Books: Palestine, before it named something else, named a region. The region emerged during Ottoman rule, between 1518 and 1920. It was called Filastin in Arabic, the language of the Muslims, Christians, Jews and others who lived in this … | Continue reading
All of my attempts at humor fall flat, as a general rule. In January, for example, I jokingly asked a friend who had visited family in Madrid over Christmas if he’d had to navigate around pro-Hamas protests. He took it as a straight question and gave me a detailed straight answer … | Continue reading
Ask the average person what high-profile actor should join the MCU that already hasn’t, and Giancarlo Esposito will be one of the common answers. Folks have wanted the Breaking Bad star to be a part of the superhero franchise for years, and it apppears they’ll finally get their w … | Continue reading
"Consumers are now actively seeking brands that take sustainability seriously." Chocolate brand develops 'revolutionary' new product packaging: 'We are set to change all that' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
This is the thirty-fourth part of a fiction serial, in 772 words. That Monday morning when he was told the story of the conversation with Edward, George could hardly contain his delight. “Does that mean you are free to move in with me until I go to Berlin? Does Edward know about … | Continue reading
For years, the X-Men were noticeably absent from Marvel Studios’ projects due to a longstanding rift with Fox, the previous owner of their rights. This absence was intriguing yet odd, given the pivotal role of X-Men: The Animated Series in catalyzing the X-Men film franchise and … | Continue reading
The Braun+Design Börse is an annual event and fair focusing on products from the Braun company. Braun might not be the design icon it was 40 years ago, but starting in 1955, it profoundly impacted the design world, starting with the cooperation with the Ulm School of | Continue reading
I wanted to experiment with the new CSS function light-dark() and get a sense of how to use it in a CSS architecture of nested (web) components. I think it’s going to be a powerful in the new responsive world of component architecture but I don’t want to recommend a tool unless I … | Continue reading
Cinco de Mayo is a Mexican holiday celebrated predominately in the US by people of Mexican heritage. It takes place on 5th May (hence the name—Cinco de Mayo is Spanish for 5th of May) and commemorates Mexico’s victory over at the Battle of Puebla in 1862. It’s important to note t … | Continue reading
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If I’m being totally honest, I don’t understand the Rabbit R1 at all. As a piece of hardware, it looks cool, so I understand if you want to spend $200 on a thing that will look cool on your shelf, but take away the cool physical | Continue reading
Crypto poker platform CoinPoker is gearing up for another exhilarating tournament series, the Crypto Series Of Poker (CSOP+). This time,… Continue reading CSOP Plus May 5-26 Tournament Series Starts On CoinPoker App The post CSOP Plus May 5-26 Tournament Series Starts On CoinPoke … | Continue reading
An Argonne partnership with a Minnesota mining company is taking waste from one battery production process and using it in another. Researchers investigate how to use mining waste in battery production. The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory is developi … | Continue reading
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A recent discovery in Minnesota has unveiled a helium reservoir with astonishingly high concentrations of the gas, surpassing initial estimations and potentially opening doors for commercial extraction. Pulsar Helium, an exploration company, revealed the discovery of helium reser … | Continue reading
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"This is a significant milestone for the project and the floating offshore wind sector." Government approves new variation of floating offshore wind farm project: 'This refined design is future-proof' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
With growing urban populations and increases in cars, trucks and buses, cities are poised to experience more harmful pollution threatening people’s health and livelihoods. But some cities around the world are turning to an emerging solution called zero-emission zones (ZEZs). Thes … | Continue reading
This brilliant trick makes the sticky chore so much easier. READ MORE... | Continue reading
Bernard Hill, the actor that brought Lord of the Rings’ Théoden to life memorably in Peter Jackson’s movie adaptation trilogy, has died at the age of 79. Read more... | Continue reading
Tools and Products: I’m running a couple of clusters in my lab environment. One of them is a “hub” cluster[...] | Continue reading
An interview with host Lizzie O’Leary on Slate’s “What Next: TBD” podcast. | Continue reading
The age of IP means no property is off limits for a revival, and that includes Robin Hood. Read more... | Continue reading
There's less waste and plenty of “just for fun” items. READ MORE... | Continue reading
Canonical kernel engineer Juerg Haefliger has shared an update on Ubuntu support for the Lenovo ThinkPad X13s (Gen 1) laptop. The 13-inch Lenovo ThinkPad X13s is an ARM laptop powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx (gen3) processor with Adreno 690 GPU, 16 GB RAM, a 256 GB SSD, and … | Continue reading
What You Need to Know about Modern CSS (Spring 2024 Edition) Useful guide to the many new CSS features that have become widely enough supported to start using as-of May 2024. Time to learn container queries! View transitions are still mostly limited to Chrome—I can’t wait for tho … | Continue reading
In a comment on yesterday's "Software testing day" post, ernie in berkeley offered a nice "QA Engineer walks into a bar" joke, and pointed us to its origin in an old xkcd comic "Exploits of a Mom": …which in turn reminded me of an old problem, discussed in "Excel invents genes", … | Continue reading
I'm sure you agree that it has become impossible to ignore Generative AI (GenAI), as we are constantly bombarded with mainstream news about Large Language Models (LLMs). Very likely you have tried ChatGPT, maybe even keep it open all the time as an assistant. A basic question I t … | Continue reading
"Often no one bothers to look up what the mystery number means and they sell it for costume jewelry prices." Shopper finds thrift store treasure hidden in plain sight: 'I'd hold onto that for dear life' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2024 The New York Times doesn't seem sure: For starters, we strongly agree with Nia Prater concerning one basic point. Last week, Prater began writing for New York magazine about the arrests by the NYPD at Columbia University. On Wednesday, she did an initial post … | Continue reading
The company has some innovative approaches to make EV use easy for consumers in any location. NIO releases video of first-of-its-kind EV with mind-blowing ability: 'I personally love this feature' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
A few years ago, Electrify America announced a “Boost Plan” that aims to more than double the number of stations and chargers by the end of 2025. Serious hardware problems got in the way of that plan, forcing the company to slow down. But, another recent announcement shows us tha … | Continue reading
Urban pavements, which help to maintain clean and secure streets, generate large amounts of runoff that aggravate flooding and degrade the quality of surface water. In the context of the ecological and climatic crisis, they also contribute to the creation of heat islands in citie … | Continue reading
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The Drop is off of hiaitus! Today, we cover Debian's efforts to address the "2038 problem" by transitioning to a 64-bit time_t, the benefits of the REST Client extension for VS Codium, and the value of curated, opinionated lists of programming tools and libraries. | Continue reading
Tasneem Zehra Husain in New Humanist: If science has a native tongue, it is mathematics. Equations capture, precisely, the relationships among the elements of a system; they allow us to pose questions and calculate answers. Numerically, these answers are precise and unambiguous – … | Continue reading
Teachers play such an important role in our children’s lives; there’s no doubt about that. At the end of the… The post Perfect Printable Thank You Cards for Teachers appeared first on Kids Activities Blog. | Continue reading
Riedel Networks hat die Eröffnung des Riedel Networks Media House in Köln-Lövenich gefeiert. Schon seit Beginn der Saison erfolge die Highlights-Produktion der UEFA Champions League im Auftrag von Sunset+Vine dort. | Continue reading
Modified mice with hybrid brains that include rat neurons could one day lead to new breakthroughs in neuroscience. | Continue reading
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It's no secret I love color, and generally speaking, the brighter and bolder, the better. But today I'm featuring Sweets with as little color as possible, and in fact in my least favorite color for cakes: gray. Gray has always felt like an absence of color to me, like a desaturat … | Continue reading
In light of the ruling, the agency is determining its next steps. Federal court strikes down Biden administration rule put in place to regulate state's transportation — here's what it would have done first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
The proposal comes amid continued interest in expanding oil production within the Big Cypress National Preserve, an Everglades wilderness the tribe considers sacred. | Continue reading