Harper on the trails…NHL Playoffs…Chirpy birds and blooming flowers…In the Land of Saints and Sinners with favorite Liam Neeson…Freud’s Last Session with favorite Anthony Hopkins… | Continue reading
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, usually simply known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. As well as many famous paintings he is associated with, he was also known for frequent self-portraits, showing the changes in his face as he aged. As I … | Continue reading
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It’s spring. It’s officially spring in New York, where CrimeReads is based. Maybe you, like me, wear sunglasses year-round. But maybe you are just busting yours out for the season. There can be no denying that accessory’s association with warm weather. Nothing elevates a look lik … | Continue reading
When Prohibition came into force in 1920, it was meant to end the production, sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages. Instead, it was the beginning of perhaps the most infamous criminal period in US history because, very simply, most Americans liked a drink – and many did … | Continue reading
We now live, as one often hears, in an age of few musical superstars, but towering ones. The popular culture of the twenty-twenties can, at times, seem to be contained entirely within the person of Taylor Swift — at least when the media magnet that is Beyoncé takes a breather. Bu … | Continue reading
by Connor Goodwin ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. With recor … | Continue reading
Pruning is difficult because we are forced to make a conscious decision to remove something that has been part of a growing plant. But these cuts are necessary and even life-giving. | Continue reading
By precisely measuring the mass of neutrinos — ghostly particles that stream through your body by the billions each second — physicists could find some glaring holes in the Standard Model of particle physics. A new experiment has taken them one step closer. | Continue reading
This approach is much easier on the environment, producing less air, water, and soil pollution and destroying less of the natural landscape. Government invests in technology that uses plants to mine metals instead of digging — here's how it could revolutionize mining industry fir … | Continue reading
For The Upshot, Emily Badger and Francesca Paris compare the rates of existing… Tags: mortgage, Upshot | Continue reading
A new legal theory suggests that oil companies could be taken to court for every kind of homicide in the United States, short of first-degree murder. The idea of “climate homicide” is getting attention in law schools and district attorney’s offices around the country. A paper pub … | Continue reading
Matt Massicotte: Making just one type @MainActor can result in cascade of errors at all usage sites where the compiler now cannot provide that MainActor guarantee. This virality can make it really hard to incrementally adopt concurrency with targeted changes. Perhaps that’s not t … | Continue reading
From low birth weight to wildfire smoke, kids can bear the brunt of climate change. | Continue reading
Table Of Contents Free Speech and Political Correctness Political Correctness in Business Coinbase Basecamp Google Changes Course Elon Musk and AI Conclusion Free Speech and Political Correctness The USA is the land of free speech. I think that’s amazing. And think that people sh … | Continue reading
Now, climate change is adding urgency to those pledges. | Continue reading
Australia's robotic submarine program is a year ahead of schedule as the government takes delivery of the first Ghost Shark Extra-Large Autonomous Undersea Vehicle (XL-AUV) prototype, with three more to follow next year. Continue Reading Category: Military, Technology Tags: Subma … | Continue reading
“I feel like every single frame of the film is burned into my retina,” said Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett about the movie Stalker (1979). “I hadn’t seen anything like it before and I haven’t really seen anything like it since. Andrei Tarkovsky’s final film in the USSR seem … | Continue reading
Lovely customers, whose children had grown up and moved out, decided to completely renovate their existing apartment in Ramat Gan. The renovation of the apartment involved a comprehensive dismantling of the entire apartment's infrastructure Continue reading | Continue reading
It's all part of Staples' strategy to finally offer a solution to a key part of the fragmented, often frustrating recycling experience in the U.S. Staples' new plan is to recycle nearly everything — and pay their customers for it first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
This story was first published by Grist . To build all of the solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicle batteries, and other technologies necessary to fight climate change, we’re going to need a lot more metals . Mining those metals from the earth creates damage and pollution … | Continue reading
Energy developers are more eager than ever to build new solar, wind, and battery projects in the U.S. As of December 2023, proposed projects encompassing nearly 2,600 gigawatts (GW) — or 2.6 tera watts — were making their way through the series of studies and steps required to pl … | Continue reading
Hi-Fi Rush, one of the first Bethesda games that was an Xbox console exclusive post-Microsoft acquisition, is now available on PS5. While some overzealous console fans have dreaded the news as part of Microsoft releasing its games on multiple platforms outside of Xbox, this is, t … | Continue reading
"Is there any way to fix this?" Distressed gardener seeks advice after realizing their major mistake with soil treatment: 'I feel absolutely awful' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Over the last few months, it has been challenging to balance my interests and focus. Indeed, I have wasted a lot of time moving things around and messing with my websites, but along with this I have found it difficult to do more than one ‘thing’ at a time. There’s something to be … | Continue reading
Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) has released the seventh annual issue of its comprehensive AI Index report, written by an interdisciplinary team of academic and industrial experts. Continue Reading Category: Technology Tags: Artifi … | Continue reading
I think it was Robert Paterson who first used “the intensity of the mundane” to describe the power of blogging. I still think the phrase captures what makes personal blogs different from the airbrushed realities of social media. Two bloggers who I think are great examples of the … | Continue reading
Record high temperatures across much of Central and Eastern Europe have once again sounded the alarm about the threat climate change poses to the region’s economies. It can’t go on, but it will. March 2024 saw much of Europe record its highest ever temperatures while globally Mar … | Continue reading
Do external SSDs draw so much power that they're likely to exceed that available from Thunderbolt or USB4? What would the consequences be in terms of heat? | Continue reading
"Average greenwashing." Frustrated customer calls out pen company for false advertising on packaging: 'The irony is stunning' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
When we were about to trade our original camper van, Connie, in for our new van, Ritzy, I wrote about how emotionally attached I felt to the van, despite it “just being a thing”. What is interesting is how long it is taken to form an equivalent attachment to our new van. Don’t ge … | Continue reading
The Cinderela Apartment is nestled in the heart of the traditional Higienópolis neighborhood in São Paulo. ARKITITO was selected to undertake the renovation of this apartment, named after the building in which it resides. Continue reading | Continue reading
Indie record stores hit a high note, Europe removed hundreds of damns, and an iconic tree was poised for a comeback, plus more The post What went right this week: the good news you should know about appeared first on Positive News. | Continue reading
"I've seen a number of chargers that were obviously vandalized." EV driver shares photo after finding concerning scene at local charging station: 'Now someone might be stranded' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
One thing you can be sure of, as you measure and observe the Universe around you, is this: the physical objects you see, touch, and otherwise interact with all occupy a volume of space. Whether in the form of solid, liquid, gas, or any other phase of matter, it costs energy in or … | Continue reading
The first Christmas I was married, in 1977, my mother in law Elizabeth gave me a small handwritten notebook containing all of her favorite recipes. It was just a small notebook, nothing fancy. In most cases the instructions were very brief. They were the recipes that she had brou … | Continue reading
It can be done, but you won’t be able to fill in those pieces of time where you have to face the horror of existing, while your friend is buying a drink. | Continue reading
Somehow, a highly toxic everyday product had crept into my home. Mother's harrowing mishap with seemingly 'safe' laundry detergent leads to life-changing realization: 'I'd had enough' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
These endangered mammals face a barrage of threats. Incident with sperm whale stranded at Florida beach leaves experts puzzled: 'It's really unusual' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
I’m happy with the show. The music and execution were fantastic. It’s one of those events that sticks with you and leaves a lasting memory. The team managed to sneak in some Bulgarian jokes and contemporary puns and localize the experience, particularly with Phantom’s signature. … | Continue reading
Kobo will release the Libra Color, Clara Color and Clara BW e-readers at the end of April. These are the first colour e-readers that the company has ever released, and they are a huge deal. Today, I spoke with a few people at Kobo and discovered many things that nobody was discus … | Continue reading
Today we are making Chessman banana pudding! Your entire family is going to absolutely love this Chessman banana pudding. It’s… The post Simple Chessman Banana Pudding Recipe appeared first on Kids Activities Blog. | Continue reading
This muffin tin and ball game is so much fun! Kids of all ages, particularly toddlers and preschoolers, will love… The post Games for Baby: Muffin Tin Fun appeared first on Kids Activities Blog. | Continue reading
Ruff v0.4.0: a hand-written recursive descent parser for Python The latest release of Ruff - a Python linter and formatter, written in Rust - includes a complete rewrite of the core parser. Previously Ruff used a parser borrowed from RustPython, generated using the LALRPOP parser … | Continue reading
Il master ha un costo di 1.300 euro, comprensivo dell’esame per il rilascio della certificazione CEPAS, e prevede 125 ore tra lezioni frontali, pratico-laboratoriali e lo sviluppo di un project work. | Continue reading
"It's the perfect place for the government to step in." Biden administration announces unprecedented $6 billion to transform polluting industries: 'These projects offer solutions' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Ben and Ryan explore why configuration is so complicated, the right to repair, the best programming languages for beginners, how AI is grading exams in Texas, Automattic’s $125M acquisition of Beeper, and why a major US city’s train system still relies on floppy disks. Plus: The … | Continue reading