To the untrained eye, the ancient brittle star fossil above looks like what you’d expect of a now-especially-brittle echinoderm. But the fossil is quite rare: It captures the moment at which the brittle star was cloning itself, regenerating three of its arms as it died. Read more … | Continue reading
In a world of cinematic universes, it makes no sense that IF exists. You may think we mean that becauseIF is an original, big-budget Hollywood release, the likes of which we don’t see much anymore. But that’s not it at all. What we mean is in a sea of films that are beholden to s … | Continue reading
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Everything you love about lemon bars … but better. READ MORE... | Continue reading
Google is rolling out Android 15's second public beta in tandem with the second day of the Google I/O developer conference. Google announced that many new features, fixes, and tweaks are coming to the operating system, including Private Space and Theft Detection Lock, which are d … | Continue reading
Participants in an online music forum research an English folk ballad… The post Forensic Folklore: Sarah Pinsker’s “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather” appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Deep in the heart of British Columbia, sits a ghost town and heritage site called Quesnel Forks. All that remains today are some wooden buildings and a cemetery that hints at the place's deep past. Quesnel Forks is located where the Quesnel and Cariboo rivers meet, creating a "fo … | Continue reading
Ebury backdoors SSH servers in hosting providers, giving the malware extraordinary reach. | Continue reading
I started out wanting to make fun of this thing, but realize that's my climate-controlled-workplace privilege. I'm lucky I don't work in torching conditions anymore; years ago I spent a summer working as a line cook, it was 130 degrees where I stood in front of the grill, and I'd … | Continue reading
Save big on cookware, vacuums, countertop appliances, and storage solutions. READ MORE... | Continue reading
Today's links Even if you think AI search could be good, it won't be good: It's just too goddamned easy to cheat. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been … | Continue reading
Parasites can cause a wide range of diseases in humans, ranging from short-term to lifelong. | Continue reading
The Margaret Hooligans are always on the lookout to share their perspective on social matters. Aiming to deliver a reality check behind their lyrics... | Continue reading
Doug Stowe in The Hedgehog Review: A few years ago, when my daughter was a freshman at Columbia University, one of only a few from Arkansas, I had the audacity to propose to then-president Lee Bollinger that the university add a hands-on component to its core curriculum. The core … | Continue reading
Star Wars and merchandise have been hand in hand since the very beginning. But there was still something unlike anything the galaxy had ever seen when, 25 years ago this coming weekend, The Phantom Menace launched: a brand new Star Wars saga, completely backed by an overwhelming, … | Continue reading
If we want LLMs to be less hype and more of a building block for creating useful everyday tools for people, AI companies' shift away from scaling and AGI dreams to acting like regular product companies that focus on cost and customer value proposition is a welcome development. — … | Continue reading
Learning and development leaders seeking to build a robust leadership pipeline face a two-fold challenge. Not only must they identify and cultivate employees with leadership potential, but they must also understand what attracts or discourages budding leaders from these roles. Wh … | Continue reading
Stephen Cass: Hello and welcome to Fixing the Future, an IEEE Spectrum podcast where we look at concrete solutions to tough problems. I’m your host Stephen Cass, a senior editor at IEEE Spectrum. And before I start, I just wanted to tell you that you can get the latest coverage o … | Continue reading
Frank McCourt, the billionaire real estate mogul and former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, is currently working on a bid to buy TikTok, according to reports from several reputable news outlets. And while it remains to be seen whether TikTok’s parent company ByteDance will agre … | Continue reading
It's time to further complicate the timeline The post Netflix’s Anime Series Terminator Zero Arrives on Judgment Day appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Charles Jackson Paul in The Texas Orator: Dr. Scott Aaronson is the David J. Bruton Jr. Centennial Professor of Computer Science at UT Austin. He is known for his work as a computer scientist and research into complexity theory and quantum computing, and more recently for his wor … | Continue reading
Welcome to our origami pumpkin tutorial! Whether you’re a seasoned crafter or just starting out, this step-by-step guide will help… The post How To Fold An Origami Pumpkin appeared first on Kids Activities Blog. | Continue reading
Average American IQ is falling (The Hill; note that this cannot be due to a massive increase in low-skill immigration from countries with a low average IQ because #Science proves that IQ is not heritable). Those who get jobs doing pool maintenance, a process that involves some ch … | Continue reading
What do you do on your day off? Wednesdays are our designated adventure day, so we checked out some electric vehicle stuff! We visited the new high-speed chargers BP has installed just around the corner, checked out the new Tesla Model 3 Highland with plaid signage, and checked o … | Continue reading
Home Movies was the best show on television and I will fight you if you say otherwise The post More Animation Should Have Weird Songs appeared first on Aftermath. | Continue reading
Just how far would you be willing to go to avoid the dreaded hangover? Researchers in Switzerland have developed an oral gel meant to prevent booze from breaking down into the toxic compounds most responsible for a hangover. In mice, it appeared to work as intended. Read more... | Continue reading
Years ago The New Yorker had a reader contest, asking you to add one letter to a word, to make a new word that made sense. The amusing entry I remember was "giraffiti," meant to describe graffiti in improbably high locations. The term is now in the Urban Dictionary.Image: Steve G … | Continue reading
Fall Guys, the multiplayer team battle royale title, has a vibrant community, and they aren’t pleased about the features of… Continue reading Fall Guys fans still not happy with new update features The post Fall Guys fans still not happy with new update features appeared first on … | Continue reading
Chuck E. Cheese is pulling the plug on Munch’s Make Believe Band, the animatronic robots that terrified children and their begrudging parents with musical performances for decades. The New York Times reports that the arcade-pizzeria franchise will soon power down the bands at all … | Continue reading
Steven Shaviro in his own blog: Bérubé’s new book, The Ex-Human, is about science fiction. Bérubé offers thoughtful close readings of a number of classic science fiction texts: Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness, Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem, Margaret Atwood’s Oryx … | Continue reading
The regulator is warning OEMs to respect data privacy or it will get mad. | Continue reading
L'articolo IL RESTAURO DEL TERZO MILLENNIO: A FERRARA EXPOSCENARI E PROSPETTIVE DEL SETTORE proviene da BolognaFiere Group. | Continue reading
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"This is the hack you need." Woman shares 'genius' trick to easily clean hard-to-reach areas in bottles: 'I cannot believe this works' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
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Rumford, Maine is one of several places that pride themselves as an important historical site remembering Paul Bunyan and his trusty blue ox. On the banks of the Androscoggin River stands a 20-foot-high statue of lumberjack and legend Paul Bunyan, and Babe the blue ox. The story … | Continue reading
The fantastical elements are always there in Byatt's fiction, underpinning the fabric of the story and guiding the fates of her characters... The post Myth, Fantasy, and Lives Shaped by Stories in the Work of A.S. Byatt appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
I think it is time for a tiny refresh/reboot….TwB 3.0. I’ve been writing and sharing in this space for quite some time now — since September of 2016 to be exact, with this post. And before that I wrote other blogs, which have long been archived, deleted, or made private. Before a … | Continue reading
A couple of months ago, I told you about a project to recreate the Supreme Court oral arguments associated with Brown v. Board of Education ("Spontaneous SCOTUS", 3/2/2024): Years ago, Jerry Goldman (then at Northwestern) created the oyez.org website as a multimedia archive devot … | Continue reading
Something is not the same. The post This Year’s Wicked Is Only Part One of Two, But the Trailer Shows Most of the Story appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Poet crossed out one racy passage, deeming it "an unbecom[ing] tale for a hist[ory]" | Continue reading
This is from a lovely blog post by David Smith: This last year has been a complicated one as an indie app developer. I’ve been in this community for long enough to know that there are always ebbs and flows in sentiment, and this year has lots of reasons to be feeling the ebb side … | Continue reading
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II is a day-and-date launch for Xbox Game Pass on May 21. Subscribers will get it at… Continue reading Hellblade II: Senua’s Sacrifice launch times revealed The post Hellblade II: Senua’s Sacrifice launch times revealed appeared first on ReadWrite. | Continue reading
Free for personal use, but businesses will have to fork over $120 per year. | Continue reading
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Introduction In this article, we are going to analyze the PostgreSQL plan_cache_mode setting and see when it’s useful to override a given generic plan using the the force_custom_plan strategy. Domain Model Let’s assume we have the following post table: The post_status type is an … | Continue reading
Boeing may be subject to criminal prosecution after the Department of Justice (DOJ) accused it of violating the terms of a 2021 settlement agreement. Read more... | Continue reading
WWDC is one month away and while I was out on a walk this morning I got to thinking about how I was feeling about it. This will be the 16th(!) consecutive WWDC which I have attended1. My first in 2009 was a few months after the birth of my oldest child. He has never known a world … | Continue reading