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Last year I was fortunate enough to attend Tinkerfest at the Chabot Space and Science Center, high in the hills of the East Bay. One of the fun things about it was that I ran into an old friend from HacDC, who is very involved in the amateur radio ballooning community out here. Their specific thing (because everybody seems to have a Thing out here) is launching and tracking pico …

Reading Time: 35 minutes I had something of a new professional nadir this week which I feel it might be cathartic to share. So I was booked to appear on some panel thing by a very corporate company, to talk about AI (I was asked as a result of one of my ‘actual jobs’ – rest assured I wasn’t introduced as ‘Matt Muir, author of a miserably-unpopular newsletter no cnut …

This is a rather startling paper for those of us who remember the earlier days of what are generally called "thermal shift assays". The idea behind these is that proteins have a certain amount of thermal stability, that they can hold something like their normal three-dimensional shape for a while as the temperature is increased. But eventually this gives way to a more "melted" (denatured) form where things start to …

Bloomsbury titles are to go to the Spotify 'Audiobooks in Premium' offering, and to a-la-carte availability for those without subscriptions. The post Bloomsbury Opens an Audiobook Distribution Agreement With Spotify appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

A reader question:Dear Muffy,May I ask a question pleaseMy wife and I are well travelled globally including several visits to the U.S.A. (we're British) however for all sorts of reasons (not least because we're getting older) our travelling days have come to an end. Somebody did ask me recently though if there was somewhere I wish we had visited but hadn't and my immediate response was "New England" (hence a …

Jason Snell (tweet, Macworld, podcast): To a kid growing up in the 1980s, the idea that the maker of your computer would actively stop you from using software it didn’t approve of would have seemed beyond the pale. It certainly would’ve been a deal-breaker. And yet so many of today’s computing devices are locked down—for some good reasons, but also a lot of bad ones. What do we want the …

Places is collaborating with Columbia’s Historic Preservation Program to co-host the annual Fitch Colloquium. This year’s theme is “Repairing Architecture Schools.” Read on Places Journal

“An animation of three near-infrared images of Uranus captured by the JWST Space Telescope with assigned representative colors. During processing, I aligned the rings separately to reduce the bubbling effect caused by different inclinations, making the planet appear to rotate on an almost flat plane.” —Andrea Luck

In 2011, a striking black rock about the size of an apple was discovered in the Sahara desert. Its unusual appearance tipped off its finder, and it soon passed into the hands of a meteorite dealer in Morocco. An American collector ended up buying the stone, but pieces of it have since been parceled out to various scientists. And that meteorite, which has come to be known as NWA 7034, …

Over the last month or so, I’ve definitely been on board the Cistern hype train, perhaps even throwing the wood on the fire. Today, you can stream the entirety of New Standard, and in doing so, you’ll be filled with this angular punk energy that should carry some enthusiasm into your afternoon. The catchy enthusiasm of “Pendulum” reminds me of

My thoughts on the Brittany Patterson case, which I was the first to report. (I’ve been having trouble with my FRK blog distribution lately. Sorry for the delay in getting you this!) Brittany Patterson had to take one of her four children to a medical appointment, and her youngest son, 10-year-old Soren, was going to come with them. This was a few weeks ago on a Wednesday afternoon. But at …

What are you up to this weekend? Tonight I’m excited to see Oh, Mary!, the dark-comedy play about Mary Todd Lincoln. It’s supposed to be hilarious, and I can’t wait to see Cole Escola perform in real life.… Read more The post Have a Delicious Weekend. appeared first on Cup of Jo.

A Fall Day in Philly – Philadelphia, PA – Fujifilm X-T4 ES – Aerochrome v2I had a great time in Philadelphia this last weekend with Allan Ali at Unique Photo as a part of their two day Camera Show. Allan and I led a photowalk through the Old City. There were about 70 in attendance, which was amazing—it just edged out Denver as the largest photowalk that I’ve hosted. It …

Space and time seem as fundamental as anything can get. Philosophers like Immanuel Kant thought that they were inescapable, that we could not conceive of the world without space and time. But increasingly, physicists suspect that space and time are not as fundamental as they appear. When they try to construct a theory of quantum gravity, physicists find puzzles, paradoxes that suggest that space and time may just be approximations …

Welcome to our latest author Q&A, where we chat to the writers behind new and upcoming 33 1/3 books! Today Zac Petit tells us more about his 33 1/3 on Modest Mouse’s The Moon & Antarctica. He shares his favorite moments from the book, things that didn’t make it into the final draft and how he approached the writing process. How would you describe your book in one sentence? Hypnotists; …