The most common surgical implant is a screw; surgeons insert billions of them in patients each year.Screws need holes, and holes need drills. When wielding these drills, "Surgeons currently use their 'feel' to stop on the far side of the bone," writes McGinley Orthopedic Innovati … | Continue reading
Here's what we looked at this week:The strange story of how lefty abuse led to the formation of a successful mid-century design duo. Microsoft's new AI face animation technology turns a single snapshot into a convincing talking head. "Make anyone say anything."Outside-the-box … | Continue reading
Terry Eagleton: Where Does Culture Come From? Posted on Friday, Apr 26, 2024 12:25PM by Morgan Meis | Continue reading
Clifford Thompson at Commonweal: “For generations in the mind of America, the Negro has been more of a formula than a human being—a something to be argued about, condemned or defended, to be ‘kept down,’ or ‘in his place,’ or ‘helped up,’ to be worried with or worried over, haras … | Continue reading
Net neutrality rules restored by FCC Good news. Removing net neutrality was an injustice to users and bringing it back was necessary. It is a major victory for people. Now FCC can, and should, hold companies responsible for violating people’s rights. Comment on this. | Continue reading
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Kim Kelly at The Nation: Modern pro wrestling branches off from vaudeville, loops back through the circus, launches off a theater balcony, and takes a detour past Muscle Beach before hammering together a space all its own. It’s held onto its malleability and perennial status as a … | Continue reading
Redwood Materials is at the leading edge of a US-based supply chain for battery materials for electric vehicles. The post Redwood Materials Has Good News About Electric Cars appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is taking aim at one of Big Pharma’s newest cash cows: the latest generation of effective obesity medications. On Wednesday, Sanders’ office announced that the senator is launching an investigation into Novo Nordisk over the “astronomically high” lis … | Continue reading
I recognize that Trans Day of Visibility was Easter Sunday, ending Bisexual Health Awareness Month, and that today is Lesbian Visibility Day (we’ve moved past International Asexuality Day, National Youth HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, Day of Silence, National Transgender HIV Testing Day … | Continue reading
A student is arrested during a pro-Palestinian demonstration at the University of Texas at Austin on April 24, 2024. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Interrogations of university leaders spearheaded by conservative congressional representatives. Calls from right-wing senators for troops … | Continue reading
Turing RK1 is 2x faster, 1.8x pricier than Pi 5 I've long been a fan of Pi clusters. It may be an irrational hobby, building tiny underpowered SBC clusters I can fit in my backpack, but it is a fun hobby. And a couple years ago, the 'cluster on a board' concept reached its pinnac … | Continue reading
My thanks to Magic Lasso Adblock for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Magic Lasso Adblock is simply the best Safari ad blocker for your iPhone, iPad and Mac.… | Continue reading
Archaeologists in southern France have excavated an ancient Roman cemetery containing 1,430 graves and traces of a funerary festival, during which families feasted by the graves of relatives. | Continue reading
Today's game-centric Drop features Lantern, Hexcodle, and JS Challenger. Lantern uses JavaScript and D3 for a reimagined Zork I experience, Hexcodle tests RGB knowledge, and JS Challenger provides JavaScript coding tasks for skill improvement and practice. | Continue reading
Our addiction to plastics is trashing the planet, exacerbating global heating and threatening our very survival. Since 2022, the UN has been convening negotiations on a Plastics Treaty to address this crisis. In one of the greatest success stories of the negotiations, an Internat … | Continue reading
For years, we’ve been making predictions. The objective isn’t only to be right more than we’re wrong, but to catalyze a productive dialog that might shape better outcomes. If you get most/all your predictions right, you’re not predicting … you’re stating the obvious. Also, predic … | Continue reading
Airbnb announced in March that all indoor security cameras would be banned at its properties worldwide starting April 30. And if you read through online complaints about cameras that were discovered during Airbnb stays over the years, it’s easy to understand why it’s been such a … | Continue reading
Current conditions: Flash floods killed at least 155 people in Tanzania • Dry conditions are spawning dust devils in western Canada • Ongoing thunderstorms are set to pummel the central U.S. with hail and possible sporadic tornadoes through the weekend. THE TOP FIVE 1. Climate ch … | Continue reading
Tesla is facing a new probe from U.S. auto safety regulators related to its Autopilot driver assistance technology, even as a separate investigation has been closed. Read more... | Continue reading
I found something a bit strange and confusing in this quarter’s Tesla shareholder letter and conference call. Much of the news in recent weeks was about Tesla reportedly dropping the lower-cost car it was supposed to be working on. That stemmed from a pretty detailed and convinci … | Continue reading
A “novel” (get it?) clock that tells time through literary quotes with a new hand-picked passage every minute of the day. 🕰️📖 | Continue reading
I wanted to save two of my favourite comedy specials. Two years later, thanks to VHS-Decode and ld-decode, I have become obsessed with the cutting edge of archiving. The post The Person Saving The Media You Love Is You appeared first on Aftermath. | Continue reading
The best-kept secret of the freezer aisle. READ MORE... | Continue reading
"The truth of the matter is we don’t benefit from these industries." New report reveals oil companies using tax dollars to pivot business: 'It's outrageous, and it's been going on for 25 years' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Eurobot Open 2024: 8–11 May 2024, L … | Continue reading
Design choice may have implications for current Joy-Con compatibility. | Continue reading
Last week, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in California released a ruling that concluded state highway police were acting lawfully when they forcibly unlocked a suspect’s phone using their fingerprint. You probably didn’t hear about it. The case didn’t get a lot of coverage, es … | Continue reading
We combed through our reviews to find the best tested and recommended gear to brew the perfect pot of tea. | Continue reading
Humza Yousaf, Scotland’s first minister, has suddenly terminated the Bute House agreement, the pact between the Scottish National Party and the Scottish Greens, which ensured a majority for the Scottish government in the Scottish parliament. By ending their deal, Yousaf removed t … | Continue reading
In another recent article, I wrote about the experience of taking a Kia EV9 out on some backroad adventures in New Mexico. But, I also know that not everyone is interested in a review of a Kia EV. Many of us already have an EV we love, and many people ... [continued] The post How … | Continue reading
Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor Who debut last year broke the mold for many reasons, but for one excellent one among many, it meant that for the first time ever fans got to be introduced to a Doctor played by an openly queer man—and playing a Doctor unafraid of acknowledging that, either. R … | Continue reading
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What do you think: Do we have worth? The post Terry Pratchett Book Club: Unseen Academicals, Part IV appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
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I really enjoy writing liner notes. I only write them for albums I like enormously, the most recent of which came out today: Lieder Ohne Worte by Marco Lucchi and Henrik Meierkord. It was released by Chitra Records, which is based in Oxford, Mississippi. The title means “songs wi … | Continue reading
Absolutely essential reading and viewing on how to produce captions with valuable real world examples of how to completely mess it up (and a lot of social posted videos do the bad mess version). As someone who's hard of hearing and uses captions on all viewing media that I can, I … | Continue reading
The Greek philosopher Plato—Socrates’ student and Aristotle’s teacher—died nearly 2,400 years ago, having produced a voluminous amount of writing on political philosophy, aesthetics, ethics, and more (he came up with Atlantis!). This week, researchers announced that they found th … | Continue reading
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The curse of an industrial designer: Slaving over details no one will get to see. It's a pity that this GO streetlight, by Zurich-based industrial designer Jörg Boner, is mounted so high up. From the ground you can't see how attractive the head is. It's made of die-cast aluminum, … | Continue reading
Sometimes you nail that one component that makes the whole piece. In the case of this Piloti Alu table, by Portugese industrial designer Hugo Passos, it's the corner connector:The frame is aluminum, and the tops are available in stone or laminate. The Piloti Alu is in production … | Continue reading
Worldsucks is heading out on a U.S. East Coast tour in a couple weeks starting May 17th, and with them, they are bringing a new 7" vinyl of their latest single, "NO!/GO!" | Continue reading
Baltimore County Police arrested the former athletic director of Pikesville High School on Thursday, alleging he used an AI voice clone to impersonate the school’s principal, leading the public to believe Principal Eric Eiswert had made racist and antisemitic comments, according … | Continue reading
It's not known who was buried in the tomb, but one expert says it was probably the Chu state ruler. | Continue reading
FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2024 It's all about Helen of Troy: At the start of last night's show on the Fox News Channel, Laura Ingraham was puzzled. She started with the Gotham "hush money" trial. Her puzzlement took this form: We start in New York where David Pecker testified for the thi … | Continue reading
The milk is still considered safe, but disease experts are alarmed by the prevalence. | Continue reading
A new campaign tracked as "Dev Popper" is targeting software developers with fake job interviews in an attempt to trick them into installing a Python remote access trojan (RAT). [...] | Continue reading