Here's an interesting alternative to an established manufacturing solution.CNC mills use spinning bits to remove material. This material comes off in the form of tiny chips. These chips must be evacuated, to avoid clogging the worksurface and potentially jamming or overheating th … | Continue reading
Folks, I’d like to inform you that I’m no longer a Marten maintainer. As you know, sometimes in the project’s lifetime, there’s a moment… | Continue reading
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Earlier this month, a group of scientists from universities around the world published the results of an ingeniously simple experiment in the journal PLoS ONE. ... Read more The post Can You Tweet Your Way to Impact? appeared first on Cal Newport. | Continue reading
Today is the first true t-shirt day of the year. It’s 23° C and the city is quick to toss the jackets in the closet. | Continue reading
Freethink's weekly countdown of the biggest space news, featuring a new space station, NASA's next astronaut transporter, and more. | Continue reading
Ferrell was approached by a company proposing a wind farm on his land in the mid 1990s. A ranch owner reveals how wind turbines saved his farm: 'I always say that wind farming is my best cash crop' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
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Bryan Vandyke in The Millions: In my second year of college I applied for a spot in a creative writing program. If I got in, I could graduate in two years with a writing major. If I didn’t, well, I needed a new major. I fussed over the application for months. Attended info sessio … | Continue reading
[It’s the practice of binding books in human skin.] The Boston Athenæum is one of America’s oldest independent libraries, with a collection of hundreds of thousands of volumes. Only one book, however, is bound in the author’s own skin: [Photo courtesy of P. Kafasis] This infamous … | Continue reading
I go to the grocery store a couple of days a week. The general purpose grocery stores I go to (as […] | Continue reading
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Only about 28% of Americans support banning TikTok, according to a new poll from market research firm Savanta. And while it remains to be seen whether the U.S. Senate will take up the so-called TikTok ban bill that passed the House earlier this month, this new poll will probably … | Continue reading
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My Son My Executioner My son, my executioner, …… I take you in my arms, Quiet and small and just astir, …… And whom my body warms. Sweet death, small son, our instrument …… Of immortality, Your cries and hunger document …… Our bodily decay. We twenty-five and twenty-two, …… Who s … | Continue reading
Alamo Drafthouse, one of the only corporate chains in America that is actually cool, is up for sale. Deadline reports that the cinema circuit, which was founded by entrepreneur Tim League in Austin, Texas, in 1997, is looking for a buyer, although it’s not clear what the asking p … | Continue reading
Several years ago, I had a CT scan of my jaw. The dentist wasn't sure if she was allowed to give me a copy of the scan, which led me to ask "who owns the copyright to my medical images?" I still don't have an answer to the copyright question - but I do now […] | Continue reading
Carrie Arnold at Noema: However, a growing collection of new experiments is challenging the old consensus. Far from being six-legged automatons, they can experience feelings akin to pain and suffering, joy and desire. When Chittka gave bumblebees an extra jolt of sucrose, their f … | Continue reading
Consciousness In Humans And Other Things Posted on Friday, Mar 29, 2024 8:31AMFriday, March 29, 2024 by Morgan Meis | Continue reading
If there’s any company obsessed with perfection, it’s Apple. So, of course, it makes complete sense that the company would create a new device capable of wirelessly updating iPhones that are still in their boxes with the newest Apple software. The funny thing is that this new gro … | Continue reading
Paintings by Jan van Eyck, Masaccio, Tintoretto and Delacroix with detailed explanations of their reading and background. | Continue reading
Ed Simon at Hyperallergic: Though firmly a Renaissance painter in regard to technical acumen, Grünewald was Medieval in his vision, an inheritor of the 14th and 15th centuries’ comfort with the horrors of embodiment. In Germany, in particular, there existed then a form of devotio … | Continue reading
The Consumer Product Safety Commission is telling consumers to immediately stop using Elide Fire Extinguishing Balls, a product that claims to activate automatically in case of a fire and release fire retardant chemicals to put it out. Read more... | Continue reading
Current conditions: Cyclone Gamane killed at least 18 people in Madagascar • A Saharan dust storm is choking tourist hot spots in the Mediterranean • It’ll be wet and stormy across large parts of California for Easter weekend. THE TOP FIVE 1. Study: Methane from landfills is unde … | Continue reading
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Ina Fried: Axios Review: Using Apple’s Vision Pro in Real Life The Vision Pro quickly feels heavy on your face, as others have noted. But using it is also cognitively more complex than just watching TV while doing some work on a phone or laptop. I spent a | Continue reading
Hi, Jesus. It’s Pop. Just got your message. Sorry I missed you yesterday. It was kind of wild around her. A good Friday it was not. You wouldn’t believe everything going on with this farkakte universe. Expanding and expanding and expanding, we can’t keep up! And all these bad thi … | Continue reading
The researchers hit a rate of 301 terabits per second — equivalent to transferring 1,800 4K movies over the internet in one second — using existing fiber-optic cables. | Continue reading
Insglück hat den Zertifizierungsprozess für nachhaltiges Veranstaltungsmanagement gemäß ISO 20121 gestartet. Koordiniert und begleitet werde der Prozess von den Verbänden IFES und fwd: Bundesvereinigung Veranstaltungswirtschaft. | Continue reading
Return of the very large hammer... | Continue reading
When and where will the double cicada brood emerge? Here's what to expect from this rare phenomenon, which occurs only once every 221 years. | Continue reading
These notes became item #4 in today’s newsletter: “I read in order to calm down.” Steven Soderbergh’s Year in Reading. So many things I care about get mentioned in this conversation: not being guilty about quitting books, Sarah Bakewell’s How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne, the … | Continue reading
Web2, code and APIs. The goal wasn't to build things that don't break because entropy gets everything. The post ▶️ The code was never the important part first appeared on @gurupanguji. | Continue reading
"Lasts my household for a whole year." TikToker shares how you can get near-limitless foaming soap with home hack: 'Cheat the system' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
This is the 31st edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Adrianna Tan and her blog, popagandhi.com Adrianna's blog was suggested by Winnie Lim in her interview, back in February. I love discove … | Continue reading
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A goldfinch foraging alone in the crown of a birch continues to warble, intonation rising and falling as if still in conversation with the flock. The sun muscles up through […] | Continue reading
St Helen’s doesn’t have its Good Friday service till evening, so I’m working through the day. Ran this morning at about 6:00, two miles in light drizzle, coffee (no fruit — it’s Good Friday), Morning Prayer, work work work, hope I don’t forget the fast and have a snack before sun … | Continue reading
The project consists of the restoration of a stone-built building of 1864 located in the proposed traditional settlement of Pines in Elounda, Crete. The village was first inhabited in 1400-1550 AD by the Venetians. Continue reading | Continue reading
And love . . .. . . Yes, love,I believe in you stillnow, then, and alwaysas in forever, or as in for lifeor longer. I believe in you and the highs or the lows, or the ins and the outsthe ups and the downs,or the back and forthor the “for betteror worse.”until death do us […] | Continue reading
Pitched as a near-future electric touring bike, the Felo TOOZ has a top speed of 125 mph, a hand-of-God mid-range, and a range of 720 kilometers per charge (450 miles). Those numbers suggest it will be one of the largest motorcycles on the road, regardless of engine type, because … | Continue reading
Dissonant House is a composition of many parts built around the central core, a 1,400 square foot masonry-clad farmhouse built in 1939. Two previous additions to the structure from the 1960s and 1980s Continue reading | Continue reading
You might think that libraries are kind of boring, but this self-analysis of a 2023 ransomware and extortion attack against the British Library is anything but. | Continue reading
"So don’t have that expectation, please. It’s not going to be perfect." | Continue reading
"Now people have been approaching us wanting natural strains.” Researcher makes career-changing discovery while on walk during Covid-19 lockdown: '[It] really got us down that path' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Our latest endeavor, the Xique Boutique Hotel in Puerto Escondido, aims to seamlessly integrate tranquility, environmental consciousness, cultural conservation, community growth, and distinctive architectural design. Continue reading | Continue reading
"Seriously well done." Pet owner crafts beautiful indoor playground for cats out of unexpected material: 'A true labor of love' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading