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Wednesday, May 15Jane and I are in Cincinnati for the 32nd annual Congress for the New Urbanism, after an all-day drive. We got here about 8:00, too late to register or join the Opening Night …

So a while back an Oklahoma man was charged with killing a friend during a noodling expedition despite his claim that he acted in self-defense because the victim was trying to summon Bigfoot to kill …

The festive lassie you see here is an Anglerfish. They always look to be celebrating a birthday of some kind, albeit solo. This party is happening deep in our oceans and for those that join …

My local library offered free access to Universal Class, a digital online learning platform. I love learning and have a Master’s degree focused on science education, so I like to try out current examples of …

With Cannes 2024 underway, host Rico Gagliano takes a tour of the lesser-known corners of the legendary film festival—avoiding red-carpet glamour to bring you tales of spiritual seekers, aspiring filmmakers on the street, and the …

The aurora australias, the southern lights, were a spectacle to behold last night aroundd Hobart, even with lots of cloud cover. My first taste was a seeing pulsing of lights from behind the clouds. It …

As someone that doesn’t play drums and is sometimes barely coordinated enough to walk without tripping over my own feet, what I just witnessed in the video below is absolutely spellbinding. It’s no secret that …

average global temperatures since 1850 Ed Hawkins' Warming Stripes visualization has now been updated to include 2023. Last year was the warmest year since accurate global records began. Globally the average temperature was 1.18°C (2.12°F) …

Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR – 16 mm focal length – 8″ at f/2.8 – ISO 800 Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, …

This 20-Minute stir-fried String Bean Chicken recipe is another weeknight staple from me, The Woks of Life’s resident lazy weeknight cook. If you’re looking for a simple one-pan meal with your vegetable and protein covered, …

photo caption: a tree that is so large and so tall that its branches are like trunks of other trees. the whole thing is triangle-shaped. but it’s still very clearly several trees stacked onto one …

The recent Beeper controversy briefly brought the “blue bubbles vs. green bubbles” topic back into the mainstream. Here’s a brief review for those of you who are (blessedly) unaware of this issue. Messages sent using …

Learn how to use BuildKit - the improved builder backend for Docker - that adds many new features to Docker, including new Dockerfile syntax, built-in debugger and more... Source

I was working on an Elixir project recently and one particular open source package that I wanted to make use of was written in Go. I searched for different ways to interface with Go code …

I’ve been doing lots of experiments with GPT, though I’ve only written about one until now… the more serious something is the harder it is to call it finished or identify the outcomes. Here I’ll …