These days an ID firm might be called on to design a system, rather than a product. Package Solutions is a company seeking to solve the problems of delivering packages to multi-resident buildings and student housing. They hired Formation Design Group to work out the solutions."Th … | Continue reading
I wear a face shield in the mornings. On a farm, when you're blasting out muck buckets with a hose, you only have to get liquid feces up your nose once before you seek solutions.The face shield I've got is the polycarbonate 3M kind that you'd wear if using a lathe. It's overkill, … | Continue reading
Not only was the event a "show and tell" of green technology, it allowed many to try out the different appliances and vehicles themselves. Residents flock to appliance 'petting zoo' to experience latest home efficiency technology: 'There's a real need and opportunity to inform th … | Continue reading
Writing good JSDocs for your JavaScript package is critical to its success. Here are some best practices for creating docs that helps your users be successful. | Continue reading
Whatever happened to Eskarina Smith, anyway? The post Terry Pratchett Book Club: I Shall Wear Midnight, Part II appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
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This week I found myself digging through the code of c4, an implementation of C “in four functions”, by Robert Swierczek. I remember coming across c4 when it was released ten years ago. It got me excited: hey, C in four functions, that means it’s easy to understand right? | Continue reading
“Is the popular “Shopping Cart Litmus Test” a measure of a person’s worth?” – Greg, US This question made me feel like a bad philosopher. I had to Google the shopping cart litmus test, and when I did so, I discovered it’s all over the philosophy-leaning internet. It’s a modern mo … | Continue reading
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April was a very busy month, I was in Chicago the whole time helping Ada Palmer run the Papal Election of 1492. We elected a terrible pope, had a terrible war, imposed another terrible pope, and generally had a great time. However, I had barely any time to read anything except pa … | Continue reading
Since Drexel University's Academy of Natural Sciences has been housed at its current location since 1876, it's not surprising that some of the public exhibits have changed over the years. Even more surprising, though, is how much has remained the same. Perhaps the best-known feat … | Continue reading
When someone says “Send me a (Web)mention,” I like to oblige. I guess it’s my inner urge to test and help others test that’s driving this puppy. So, hi John. | Continue reading
"This is the important part, let it sit for 15 to 30 minutes." Homeowner shares simple way to simplify bathroom cleaning routine: 'It will do most of the work for you' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
These MagPower Tables were designed by Carl Magnusson. The legs feature one USB-A and two USB-C ports.You may be wondering where the power comes from. In Magnusson's sketch, we can see where the power cord would be plugged into the back of the leg: However, there's also an optio … | Continue reading
Gold was struck in this area around 1860, but little activity occurred then because nearby Aurora overshadowed the location. Most of the early prospectors were Freemasons, however, and they did leave their names on the district. Masonic didn't boom until the early 20th century. A … | Continue reading
Will is driving along, and he sees a police car up ahead. He puts down his coffee, tenses up, and drives exactly at the speed limit. He puts on the most law-abiding face possible. Mia is at work behind a computer when her boss walks in. She shifts tabs, frantically types, and huf … | Continue reading
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In the title of yesterday's post about the Apple ad where a giant industrial press compresses all human creativity into an iPad Pro, I started with the weak pun "Tim Cook crushes it" — which led me to think about idioms where violent destruction conveys high praise, and to wonder … | Continue reading
Current conditions: Central Florida could see severe storms today • The cicadas are out in St. Louis • Kenya’s president declared today a public holiday to mourn the 238 people who have died in recent flooding. THE TOP FIVE 1. NOAA issues rare severe solar storm watch The Nationa … | Continue reading
Current conditions: Central Florida could see severe storms today • The cicadas are out in St. Louis • Kenya’s president declared today a public holiday to mourn the 238 people who have died in recent flooding. THE TOP FIVE 1. NOAA issues rare severe solar storm watch The Nationa … | Continue reading
"We are committed to reaching net-zero emissions in our value chain by 2040." Battery company reveals mass-producible energy storage system with unprecedented capacity — here's the difference it can make first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Audacy's Q1/24 financials, and Headliner adds full-length captioning. Sponsored by Supporting Cast. Don't lock your members into one platform! 🔓 With Supporting Cast, YOU own your podcast subscription and control the subscriber relationship. And it's completely white-labe … | Continue reading
A friend shared a speculation this week that, as you get older, your openness to new ideas goes to the extreme – either you ossify or you maintain (and build!) your capacity to take in new concepts that may turn everything upside-down. But ALSO, a level below that, you become eve … | Continue reading
Hot on the heels of yesterday's post, I've now made all of this blog available in text-only mode. Simply append .txt to the URl of any page and you'll get back the contents in plain UTF-8 text. No formatting, no images (although you can see the alt text), no nothing! Front page h … | Continue reading
Two unusual treatments of popular myths, an enigmatic series of the personification of Truth, two religious works, and a work that inspired Surrealists in the 20th century. | Continue reading
Steady rain. A gnatcatcher flutters to find breakfast on the undersides of leaves, then retreats to the shelter of the lilac to shake the water off. A chipmunk runs under […] | Continue reading
By now, we have conclusively traced the path of the domesticated horse from the area around the southern Urals and Pontic Steppe through Central Asia to East Asia. It's time to pay more attention to another equid, this one not so glamorous, but still redoubtable in its own formid … | Continue reading
I’m reading Areté by Brian Johnson at the moment (no, not that Bryan Johnson). I would describe it as a summation of every self help book ever written[^1]. As such, it’s long. I’m slowly getting through it. It appears that the message that Brian most wants get across is to follow … | Continue reading
A MIDI controller for a Midas M32R Digital Console... | Continue reading
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — Intelligent power management company Eaton is helping Endurant Energy deploy 10 battery storage projects in New York City. With a combined capacity exceeding 150 megawatt-hours (MWh), the energy storage systems will support clean, reliable power and str … | Continue reading
"We need to do our bit for the planet and this place is well past its sell-by date." Country's last remaining coal power plant to shut down after decades of operation: 'We're going to end it' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
This is the 37th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Riccardo Mori and his blog, morrick.me To follow this series subscribe to the newsletter. A new interview will land in your inbox every … | Continue reading
This week on MacStories Unwind, Federico and I discuss how Apple crushed it at its iPad event, and Federico lets loose in London. Links and Show Notes Crushing It Apple’s Crush! ad Hugh Grant, Justine Bateman and More Slam Apple for iPad Pro ‘Crush’ Ad: ‘Truly, What Is Wrong With … | Continue reading
Ten smak to moja pamiątka przywieziona z Grecji. Kruche ciasto filo do tego krem z mascarpone, który wystarczy tylko dokładnie wymieszać i połączyć z naszymi pierwszymi truskawkami. Czy to będzie najcześciej pieczone ciasto tego lata? Sami oceńcie i koniecznie wypróbujcie. Skład: … | Continue reading
L'articolo LEVANTE FOR 2024 proviene da BolognaFiere Group. | Continue reading
"For decades, the fossil-fuel industry has known about the economic and climate harms of its products." Internal documents illuminate industry's efforts to deceive public and investors ahead of Senate hearing: 'A rare glimpse' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Forget living fast. I like to wander, mosey around and go for strolls and dilly dally far too much. Pasta is like duct tape, it fixes everything. Concerts and restaurants were well enough but a bookstore was civilization. (I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger) Stressed, blessed and … | Continue reading
A spokesperson has said that production at the Grünheide Tesla plant southeast of Berlin will cease on May 10. Production line employees have been told to work from home. Berlin... | Continue reading
Volume 11, Issue 1, January-December 2024 . | Continue reading
Volume 11, Issue 1, January-December 2024 . | Continue reading
Just a couple of days ago, Apple CEO Tim Cook tweeted out a video promoting, “the new iPad Pro: the thinnest product we’ve ever created.” The response has been overwhelming, and overwhelmingly negative: for many viewers, the ad’s imagery of a hydraulic press crushing a heap of mu … | Continue reading
The EU’s objectives are ambitious: The total solar energy deployment is to reach around 750 gigawatts by 2030. In this context, dual land use concepts, especially agricultural PV, are gaining importance. At Intersolar Europe, the world’s leading exhibition for the solar industry, … | Continue reading
Our mothers and our children will always be part of our lives, in life and death. Surprisingly, grief does not dominate our existence, it informs it. | Continue reading
The new technique could enable detailed studies of how brain cells develop and communicate with each other. | Continue reading
by Lisa Song ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. When I register … | Continue reading
"We would like to develop something that can last decades and generations." Designer aims to revolutionize fashion industry with unexpected material: 'We often forget how remarkable it is' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
"We've certainly got big challenges ahead, but we have all the ingredients to solve them." Scientists achieve astonishingly high temperatures with breakthrough fusion reactions: 'Outside the status quo' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
DNA and Democracy I have just published my new book: DINA: Nature’s Case For Democracy. In it, I describe how democracy preceded humans by about two billion years. Of course, we don’t call it democracy in nature. We call the beings that practice democracy by their common names li … | Continue reading