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My students struggle with sleeping and are distracted by electronics. This interactive activity allows them to think about their sleep relative to norms regarding age and sex. It also dives deeply into how sleep changes over a person's lifespan, which is a topic suitable for non-static classes like Health or Developmental. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/interactive/2024/sleep-data-survey-americans/*You need a WaPo subscription or paywall buster to get to this interactive. Like this one! https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/interactive/2024/sleep-data-survey-americans/Here is a …

If only to distract myself from the fact that the flaming jalopy which is the western world just failed to clear the chasm jump which might have kept the wheels rolling a while longer, here is a little post to celebrate the fact that, after three consecutive Octobers, I’ve finally managed to watch, and write something about, every episode of the 1980 ‘Hammer House of Horror’ series. Not exactly a …

This is what happens when you hire Florida Man as your attorney: Attorney William F. Koegler had been acting as special prosecutor in the Miami (Florida) Court of Crimes all the week. Then he changed his role and defended a youth charged with stealing a watch. He ended his speech to the jury with the Read More

Last week, reverse-cycle air conditioning was finally installed at our place and my god, it’s so much more efficient than the plug-in electric heaters we used to have to put everywhere. Judging by the last few days, we’re going to save hundreds of dollars a year on power bills. More money for nappies, hooray!

A little more than a year ago I wrote about the end of social media. I think a lot of what I wrote there holds true and is more obvious from this perspective, especially if you consider the trajectory X/witter is on. Regardless of how you personally feel about Musk or any of his choices (like removing block functions and unbanning abusers) the fact that he’s moved from apolitical to …

I suspect this will do the rounds, as it thoroughly deserves to. Try to watch it without spoilers. It’s Cabel Sasser’s talk from XOXO this year, it’s about art and memory and what lives on of us after we pass, and it’s lovely. #

As well as a complete layout overhaul, Port’s recent redesign introduced an intriguing approach to its covers. Instead of a constant logo, the magazine title is handwritten by the issue’s cover star. Such flexibility is extremely rare. Whether a small indie or major mainstream title, the logo has long been the most sacrosanct part of a publication, the central part of the magazine’s visual identity. Even a complete redesign of …

Big fan of <details> and <summary> checking in but what I don’t like is having to add extra elements to present a nice look and feel for them. Dealing with the disclosed content also requires extra elements if you want to apply a layout, for example. It looks like that is changing though! I’m especially looking forward to giving the new ::details-content pseudo-element a test drive, that’s for sure. Check …

Don't google "data scorecard." It's full of stoplight color schemes. I have 3 solid reasons why the death grip on red-yellow-green has to go. The post Friends Don’t Let Friends Use Stoplight Color Schemes appeared first on Evergreen Data.

By now you will have probably read thousands of words about Trump’s sweeping election victory, so what can I hope to add? The biggest puzzle for me, and I suspect many others both inside and outside the US, has always been to understand Trump’s appeal to voters. After all, unlike 2016, this time they must have known what they were voting for. In Europe we sometimes pretend that someone who …

The new calendar is here! This year I've gone back to people on the canal; so there's incidents from daily life and history, like the workboats - here's John Knill in 1950, delivering a cargo to Newbury; and Ishtar, keeping boaters supplied with coal last winter; and the CRT paddle boat, dashing off to clear vegetation in the Long Pound. And a couple of cross-section pictures, which are always a …

Hyperconnexion, addiction et obéissance De l’hyperconnexion Nous sommes désormais connectés partout, tout le temps. J’appelle cela "l’hyperconnexion" (et elle ne passe pas nécessairement par les écrans). Parfois, je tente de me convaincre que mon addiction personnelle à cette hyperconnexion est surtout liée à mon côté geek, que je ne peux généraliser mon cas. Et puis, quand je roule à vélo, je me rends compte du nombre de piétons qui n’entendent …

When we launched NeuroBB in 2015, as the first (and only) independent EEG, BCI, and neurofeedback discussion forum, we chose the forum software Discourse. We chose Discourse not because it is easy, but because it is hard because it’s good, despite its hefty resource requirements. So, I have been self-hosting Discourse on DigitalOcean for the past decade, first on a $5/month 1GB droplet, then on a $12/month 2GB droplet when …

Introduction Luanti (formerly Minetest) 5.10.0 has been released just three months after 5.9.0 in accordance with the new release schedule. Just in time to be used in the 2024 Luanti Game Jam, too! Highlights include a content browser redesign, support for the modern glTF model format, gettext translation support, new visual effects, an API for per-player objects, usability improvements, and more. You can download Luanti from our website. As always, …

duration-property is a bit of a quirky component compared to what I've made before. I always try to make them very low level, versatile and utility based. In this case though I just went with what I needed, and hopefully you might find it useful too.ContextOn the homepage of my website I have a button next to my name, and if you press it a sound plays. When the sound …