On Hemispheric Views 110 Jason presented the following question: Pick in your mind a perfect album. And I think it's mostly open to interpretation, but I'm kind of thinking an album that you would say you could just start from beginning, let it run all the way through, without sk … | Continue reading
"Any way to salvage it?" Gardener raises concern after examining new order of soil: 'Make sure it's not contaminated with herbicides or anything' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
This picture by Roice Nelson shows a remarkable structure: the hexagonal tiling honeycomb. What is it? Roughly speaking, a honeycomb is a way of filling 3d space with polyhedra. The most symmetrical honeycombs are the ‘regular’ ones. For any honeycomb, we define a flag to be a ch … | Continue reading
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Garlic may not be the most expensive item at the grocery store, but this tip can save you money all the same. Gardener demonstrates simple way to grow garlic 'year-round' from supermarket head of garlic: 'This is an awesome tip' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
"I want to know who is at fault." Cyclist seeks advice after run-in with truck that resulted in broken knee: 'I personally feel that I had the right of way' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Made with cooked eggs, sauce gribiche is a classic of the French kitchen. While traditionally an emulsified sauce, many versions today are broken, and it can be made well either way. Here we explain the tricks and techniques for making both versions successfully. | Continue reading
If there's one thing that needs to be antibacterial, it's the public touchscreen displays that everyone paws at with their filthy fingers. Well, help is on the way, in the form of a newly developed copper coating. Continue Reading Category: Materials, Science Tags: Antibacterial, … | Continue reading
A Chinese probe is on its way to the far side of the Moon to collect samples and drop them off at Earth in what would be a historic first. The Chang’e-6 mission launched from the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center at 5:30 a.m. ET on Friday. The lunar probe was riding on board China … | Continue reading
Hey, it’s that time Apple made an ad directly targeted at me. I just used Precision Finding last week while traveling around the D.C. area; it was a handy way for my wife and to find each other in the Smithsonian museums when one of us would go off with the kid for a bit.… | Continue reading
The electric vehicle revolution has barely gotten under way, and already the goalposts for EV charging times are moving on to the next phase. The post New Sodium-Ion Battery Could Charge An Electric Vehicle In Seconds, Not Minutes appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Have you ever heard of the book, "The Anarchist's Tool Chest" ? Part philosophy, part woodworking guide, it's about building an ethical life by creating furniture that will last for generations. It is now free to download, as noted in this post by slogger! | Continue reading
A low-code solution is a simple way to offer some flexibility for your users. However, to accommodate further customization (especially for enterprise users), you should have an “escape hatch” — simple, code-level customization. Here are three product scenarios and where an escap … | Continue reading
Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine has defined the Fox era of X-Men movies. His storied tenure from the 2000 film all the way up to Logan gave us perhaps one of the most definitive live-action superhero performances of our lifetime. That makes the temptation of his return in Deadpool & Wol … | Continue reading
For the first time ever, a wild male orangutan in Sumatra has been spotted tending to a wound on his face in an ingenious way. The technique worked, adding even more cred to the intelligence of this striking and endangered species of great ape. Continue Reading Category: Biology, … | Continue reading
7:40 am, another dark stormy morning. Jumping right back into PROJECT OLDBOOK first thing. About 90 pages to go, need to work round the clock if I want to be done with it in the next few days. Won't be able to slide back into TSG until this is out of the way. journal | Continue reading
Hugo Gernsback was a pioneer in the world of science fiction during the first half of the 20th century—so much so that the Hugo Awards are named after him. But Gernback also edited serious tech magazines and came up with ideas that were often way ahead of their time. Or, in the c … | Continue reading
In yesterday's note I added a bunch of YouTube embeds. I remembered that I've been meaning to use a better alternative for a while now. I didn't have time for that yesterday so I swapped them out today. In terms of performance, YouTube embeds are pretty woefull, downloading way t … | Continue reading
A way forward to eating fish without damaging the oceans The post Lab-cultured fish: the newest alt-protein making a splash appeared first on Positive News. | Continue reading
Not coincidentally, I quit my great love, horror movies, right around the time I became a mom. Perhaps it’s because new terrors haunted me: SIDS and school shootings, poison in Halloween candy, toxins in the water, plastic in our bloodstream, creepy lingerers in Golden Gate Park, … | Continue reading
"What a happy story!" Homeowner shares amazing impact of converting front lawn: 'Gardening is a wonderful way to make friends with your neighbors' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
This year I’ve mostly been drinking Fu Shou Shan. It is a Formosa oolong tea, on the lighter end of the oxidation spectrum, which gives it a creamy and buttery taste that is somewhat reminiscent of a green tea. In the way that Snow Dragon blurs the boundary between … | Continue reading
I had seen a video on Stella Drivas' Instagram the other day for what looked to be incredibly delicious chicken! I am always looking for new ways to cook chicken. I like to try new things and get bored of doing things the same way all the time. I like my food to be new and exciti … | Continue reading
There is no limit. When you get the itch to go for it you can keep going all the way to the top. No one will tell you to stop. You can study and study and try and try and dream to go far and dream to go high. If you believe it can be, […] The post #210 When one of your paintings … | Continue reading
I’m not a birder*, but I endorse this perspective that doing things that enliven you is important, even if no one else sees them as productive. *(I get excited about plants the way birders do about birds 🌱 Actually, I realized that I have even made some trips explicitly t … | Continue reading
Perhaps one of the delights of a new Ondaatje book arriving is learning how others read his work, or first came upon it. I like reading the stories interviewers tell. The way he once took a Robert Frost quotation from his wallet and read it to a reporter, which I came upon in the … | Continue reading
"That bear could have closed that gap way quicker than I think he realizes." Video captures man's dangerous encounter approaching bear and cubs: 'He's lucky' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
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Q: Is there a way to "talk" to other bloggers on your own website? I know of Webmentions, but that seems kind of complicated to me. Can I even implement this on Bearblog? Are there other ways to do this? I simultaneously want/don't want comments on my blog. Want: bc I want to con … | Continue reading
One of the few "official" trails in the Desert National Wildlife Refuge, this path follows an old Jeep road some 5.5 miles up into the Sheep Range. It goes all the way from the low-desert Joshua tree-creosote bush biome in the valley beyond the range front to a ponderosa pine for … | Continue reading
This is from the announcement of a new website. However, this image held my attention. It’s either an optical illusion or a truly bad job at photoshopping. The camera angle, the way the monitor is angled cannot happen in real life. My guess is that the laptop screen angle is for … | Continue reading
Green hydrogen is working its way into the steel industry, and a new round of ARPA-E funding could help accelerate the trend. The post Green Hydrogen To Help Eject Fossil Fuels From Steel Industry appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
I am continuing my planner/journal/diary set-up the same way each month this year (check out my March and April set-ups, if you missed them). May will continue this process and each month my process is getting a little more streamlined and easier to do. I start by pasting in a mo … | Continue reading
A zero emissions future is fascinating, isn’t it? It’s a world of change and reinvigoration, a chance to reflect and renew. Individual technical options, or “pathways,” for decarbonizing specific industries are necessary and starting to take place. Aligning investment and innovat … | Continue reading
If you were expecting a smart, programmatic way to do this, you’re about to be severely disappointed. This process was as manual as it gets. I had seven sites on Webflow, and I’ve been slowly moving them off one by one. Some sites were easier than others—a static export here, a f … | Continue reading
Dubai already boasts the world's tallest skyscraper, with the world's tallest residential tower on the way too. Now local firm Urb envisions transforming its shores with the world's largest coastal regeneration project. The ambitious development would involve planting over 100 mi … | Continue reading
Tad and I went to a party for Amor Towles’s new story collection, Table for Two, at his home in Manhattan. He served two plump, beautifully glazed hams next to a basket of fresh biscuits—reminding me, an over-planner, that keeping it simple is often the best way to go. So let’s p … | Continue reading
"I could see these being a great way to add a little pollinator value to your yard." Homeowner debates best way to add variety to ground cover without upsetting HOA: 'It's like National Geographic out here' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
by Gerardo del Valle ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This article is co-published with The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpar … | Continue reading
"Beautiful, terrible plant.” Gardeners issue warning about deceptive plant making its way into backyards: 'Kill it now' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
As knowledge worker and when learning new topics, it’s helpful to have a note-taking system and a way to keep track of acquired knowledge and additional pointers. In this video, I’m showing a simple, plain-text-file-based knowledge system powered by your editor of choice. I want … | Continue reading
A couple of weeks back I noticed that Windbringer was starting to act dodgy in the way that Dell laptops do when they're getting long in the tooth: USB trouble, wifi getting weird (he'd only connect to the legacy 802.11b network), power cell not charging fully and refusing to doo … | Continue reading
Just in case you’d like to know: Alpaca sex is weird, biologically speaking. In a new paper this month, scientists have presented evidence that male alpacas impregnate their partners by thrusting their penises all the way up inside the female’s uterus—a tactic not documented with … | Continue reading
Traditional poached chicken recipes are usually a guessing game of timing and temperature, leading to meat that's either undercooked or dry and stringy. Our unconventional cold-start method is worlds better, producing chicken that is plump, tender, and juicy. | Continue reading
While fans of Futurama—who’ve learned to be very patient and eternally hopeful—await the show’s next season, premiering July 29 on Hulu, here’s a fun nugget to chew on: The Art of Futurama, an art book timed to the show’s 25th anniversary, is on the way. The book’s not arriving u … | Continue reading
The SE team has pulled together 11 brands of unsalted butter (everything from Kerrygold to Land O Lakes and more) that you're likely to find in your local supermarket, and methodically, empirically, scientifically! tasted its way through them all in a quest to identify the very b … | Continue reading
Kobo recently launched the Kobo Libra Colour and the same is already available to buy via Amazon. While that is great, the other related and not-so-enthusiastic development on this front is that the original Kobo Libra might be on the way out. Kobo hasn’t officially stated anythi … | Continue reading