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
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
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
President Nixon's science advisors recommended building global CO2 monitoring network. | Continue reading
The Atacama Desert—an arid, unpopulated swath of northern Chile that is home to some of the most perceptive ground telescopes on Earth—is actually teeming with life beneath the ground, according to a team of researchers that recently scrutinized its soils. Read more... | Continue reading
I have a group of cycling friends and we all go mountain biking together away about twice a year. I get on well with everyone apart from [one guy], who recently ruined the last trip for me by being antagonistic. He’s an ex-soldier and holds very right-wing views. I’m very liberal … | Continue reading
Arepitas de maiz (cornmeal fritters) is a delectable side dish that can also be served as party food and is surprisingly easy and quick to make. With the lovely aroma and taste of aniseed, and a subtle sweet taste to contrast its savoriness, it makes for a lovely little treat. Re … | Continue reading
Today we are doing money tricks! What are money tricks? It’s a magic trick using money! This magic trick is… The post Magic Tricks for Kids: Money Roll Over appeared first on Kids Activities Blog. | Continue reading
For the past few months or so, I've started tracking my movie watching with Letterboxd. I'm not doing a lot of reviews, mostly just logging, but I find it neat to look back and remind myself of what I've watched recently. You can see my profile if you're curious, or check out my … | Continue reading
by Lee Zurik, Samantha Sunne and Dannah Sauer, WVUE-TV, data analysis by Joel Jacobs, ProPublica This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with WVUE-TV. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories l … | Continue reading
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Your sponge can contain over 360 species of bacteria. Cleaning expert shares surprisingly easy method to rid your sponge of hidden bacteria: 'Kills 99.999% bacteria, mold, and yeast on your sponge' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
A lot is going on this May to celebrate 25 years of the prequel trilogy kicking off in The Phantom Menace—a way for us to reflect, and look back on how remembrance and appreciation of the film has wildly evolved over the last quarter century. But it also gives ups an opportunity, … | Continue reading
I was working a floor puzzle with one of the kids. It's a popular puzzle, one with fairies, unicorns, and a castle, but everyone else was busy elsewhere so we were one-on-one. Soon, however, we were joined by another girl, and together, the three of us fit the final piece into pl … | Continue reading
Congratulations to all the authors! The post Here’s the 2024 Aurora Awards Ballot! appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
This week on MacStories Unwind, why game emulators on iOS are a big deal, Girls5eva, and Franklin. This episode is sponsored by: Kolide – It ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo now. Links and Show Notes Unplu … | Continue reading
A couple of years ago at our office gift exchange a co-worker gave everyone something called “Poo-Pourri” (also called poop… The post Make Your Own “Before You Go” Toilet Spray appeared first on Kids Activities Blog. | Continue reading
Esteban Martinena Guerrer / Shutterstock In the era of social media and 24 hour news cycles, people expect instant, up to the minute information. However, Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez chose to announce a five day pause in his duties via a lengthy four page letter. He will … | Continue reading
In polarising political times, the death of Frank Field at the age of 81 seems to speak to the death of a certain kind of politician. Gracious, impeccably polite, unwaveringly principled and driven by an unmistakable moral conviction, few politicians today seem to fit the mould f … | Continue reading
US secretary of state Antony Blinken fired a warning salvo towards China during a G7 foreign ministers’ meeting on the Italian island of Capri on April 20. The US’s top diplomat said that China is a “prime contributor” of weapons-related technology to Russia, and was fuelling wha … | Continue reading
“How did you find me?” specialty coffee roaster Dajo Aertssen asked. He’d just handed me a bag of single-origin cascara, the dried flesh of coffee cherries, in his shop, Cafés Muda in Lille, France. “The AI sent us,” I replied. He looked puzzled, so I explained that my companion … | Continue reading
With Ubuntu 24.04 LTS out and the weekend upon us you may be planning to upgrade a previous Ubuntu install to the newest version. But you shouldn’t. For one, “officially” you can’t since Ubuntu 24.04 LTS upgrades are not enabled yet (for reasons I’ll get in to in a second) from e … | Continue reading
This essay is part of the Autonomy and Cohesion series. We can’t deal with most things in life on our own. We don’t have a large enough repertoire of responses to all the stimuli of the environment. We get together and form tribes, communities, companies, networks, states, or, in … | Continue reading
Transform humble chickpeas into a spectacular snack with a topping of crunchy, buttery pine nuts and a dusting of earthy cumin. | Continue reading
When you're parked about a million miles from Earth, just observing the planet, there's not a lot going on. But as pointed out in a post by Tell Me No Lies, sometimes you do get Mooned. | Continue reading
Over the last several years, Saudi Arabia has been working on a massive infrastructure project that its leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (or MBS) hopes will transform the Kingdom and its relationship with the outside world. The Neom project is a series of developments tha … | Continue reading
Writing an award submission can be a daunting task, but luckily for you, I have the inside scoop on how to make sure your submission stands out from the crowd. -Adam Stacey | Continue reading
The rapid progress of humanoid robot development is nothing short of astounding. Less than 12 months after introducing its 6th-gen general-purpose humanoid, Canada's Sanctuary AI has pulled back the curtains on the next iteration of Phoenix. Continue Reading Category: Robotics, T … | Continue reading
While the cycling industry and consumers are reverberating from the Stages apparently laying off their entire workforce last weekend, the reality is that the Stages story is far from over. And equally, it was far from starting this past weekend. … Read More Here → | Continue reading
By Will Song The Trail of Bits cryptography team is pleased to announce the open-sourcing of our pure Rust and Go implementations of Leighton-Micali Hash-Based Signatures (LMS), a well-studied NIST-standardized post-quantum digital signature algorithm. If you or your organization … | Continue reading
Zach Cregger’s mysterious Barbarian follow up recruits a Silver Surfer. Rosario Dawson dances around the mystery of Ahsoka season 2. Olga Kurylenko shows off from the Thunderbolts set. Plus, what’s coming on Chucky as things get even weirder. To me, my spoilers! Read more... | Continue reading
Freethink's weekly countdown of the biggest space news, featuring NASA's Mars rock request, the Dragonfly mission, and more. | Continue reading
How much of our recycling actually gets recycled? Robots could help boost the percentage of recycled trash with near-perfect accuracy. | Continue reading
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Every now and then, I fantasize about the end of the world. I imagine what it would be like if it were just me left (and a few loved ones, I suppose). I run through all the fun to be had — the fast cars I’d drive, the mansions I’d commandeer, and the luxury clothes I’d wear. Ther … | Continue reading
Who's the center of the club that's made for you and me? M-I-C! K-E-Y! M... Ohhh! MLT!* Happy birthday, Mickey. Thanks to the amazing Sweet Designs Kitchen for having a sense of humor matched only by their talent. Wreck on, guys. *So perky! ***** BONUS REACTION SHOT: via You're w … | Continue reading
Initially, this post was published here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lets-write-simple-microservice-clojure-andrew-panfilov-2ghqe/ Intro This article will explain how to write a simple service in Clojure. The sweet spot of making applications in Clojure is that you can express … | Continue reading
Wind River Tiny Homes recently completed a new tiny house named the Pingora. The towable home comes with a relatively affordable price tag and features a compact interior with an "upside-down" layout that positions the bedroom downstairs and the living room upstairs. Continue Rea … | Continue reading
Plan Builds on Groundbreaking Federal-State Partnership Launched through 2021 Environmental Justice-Focused Agreement LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) today released a two-year action plan to … | Continue reading
Learn from my mistake and take more time on this decision. READ MORE... | Continue reading
By Leo Babauta I challenge you to do a test before you read the rest of this post (well OK, read the next two paragraphs then go do the challenge) … Open an email that’s been sitting in your inbox but that you’ve been avoiding responding to or acting on. Pick the hardest one. Try … | Continue reading
Though we’re surely in for some more April showers, the weather is set to become warmer over the coming days, making for some potential T-shirt temperatures during the King’s Day... | Continue reading
Well, I recently got an iPad Air. It turns out I really did miss having an iPad, and having one back in my life is wonderful. I ended up getting the 64GB M1 model on a steep discount ($200 off)…clearly Best Buy was clearing out their inventory for | Continue reading
God Says to Me I asked God if it was ok to be melodramatic and she says yes I sked her if it was ok to be short and he said sure it is I asked her if I could wear nail polish or not wear nail polish and he said honey she calls me… | Continue reading
Dan Falk in Quanta Magazine: In 2022, researchers at the Bee Sensory and Behavioral Ecology Lab at Queen Mary University of London observed bumblebees doing something remarkable: The diminutive, fuzzy creatures were engaging in activity that could only be described as play. Given … | Continue reading