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On a recent parabolic flight, ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański tested a novel robotic gripper that could grapple space debris or gently grasp a living plant.

I’ve been blogging longer than I’ve been on social media. While posts here go back to 2008, I started writing online around 1997 and it took me a while to realize I could migrate between platforms rather than start over. Other than this blog I’ve ran a few others on specific topics. Blogging is the one medium where I feel like I can be myself, online or off and for …

I’ve seen Wicked twice on stage and both times been impressed by the way the show transcends its fantastical roots to deliver a narrative about friendship, prejudice and understanding within such an unlikely premise. It’s an unapologetic musical in the truest sense. This big screen version has done a great job in upgrading the limited production available on stage to give the tale a full cinematic experience. Yet this is …

May 19 or 20, 1864. "Fredericksburg, Virginia. Burial of Federal dead. Photograph from the main Eastern theater of war, Grant's Wilderness Campaign, May-June 1864." Wet plate glass negative, Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress. View full size.

This week’s theme: Lou Donaldson Memorial on Blue Note: Featured artists include Lou Donaldson, Clifford Brown, Art Blakey, Horace Silver, Percy Heath, Blue Mitchell, Herman Foster, Donald Byrd, Peck Morrison, Arthur Taylor, Dave Bailey, Ray Barrett,Sonny Clark, Curtis Fuller, George Joyner, Gene Harris, Andrew Simkins, Bill Dowdy, Horace Parlan, and moreThe post Podcast: Lou Donaldson Memorial first appeared on jazzcollector.com.

Excerpts from an article in The New York Times:The syndrome refers to a constellation of conditions and symptoms that become more prevalent during perimenopause and beyond, including joint pain, frozen shoulder, a loss of muscle mass and bone density, and worsening osteoarthritis, among other things. Research suggests that more than half of menopausal women may experience musculoskeletal symptoms, some of which are severe enough to be debilitating — yet health …

[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] I’m pretty sure there’s a Peanuts comic strip in which Linus works out how many of each gift was given in the “Twelve Days of Christmas.” I’ve been unable to Google it, because the search results are overwhelmed by links to “A Charlie Brown …

The bacteria known as Campylobacter are a common cause of food poisoning in people. The majority of Campylobacter infections are linked to the handling and consumption of chicken meat as chickens can carry the bug in their guts and faeces. The emergence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is also a threat to infected patients who require antibiotic treatment as there is a risk that these medications will no longer be effective. …

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Image from retailer site. Although I don't have any imediate plans for this piece, it did catch my eye and I decided to purchase the piece. It will be added to my "small" projects, those that can be completd within a few hours. It also requires the new label of "boat".

Hello you fine Internet folks,Today’s content from Supercomputing 2024 is from Ayar Labs. Ayar Labs is known for co-packaged optical interconnects with their TeraPHY chiplet which converts the electrical signals from the silicon that the TeraPHY is attached to into optical signaling. That optical signal is then sent down a bundle of optical fibers to a second TeraPHY on a second piece of silicon which then decoded back into electrical …

🌶️ Hot-take: if you’re a manager and find you1 miss building…then build2! On your time: mornings, weekends, national holidays. Whatever you want: tools for yourself, something frivolous, something practical. However you want: in an esoteric technology, in a boring technology, in a domain you’ve always wanted to explore, with LLM copilots, building every piece from scratch, without using conditionals, whatever! Avoid: Swooping into your team’s current projects3. Imposing your discoveries/ideas …

Movement or Mission?[1] In a discussion with a friend, he distinguished between the Hare Krishna Movement (its structure and organization) and its mission (its goals or objectives), stressing the importance of the mission: awakening our eternal relationship with Krishna. It was a passing remark in a brief discussion, but as I reflected on his statement, I was inspired to give it some more thought. It seems important to make a …

Guten Tag! Guten Tag! 👋Are you aware that the ::details-content pseudo-element is coming to the web? Or have you used the Picture in Picture API already? And do you know that emojis have different meanings in the world? Turn on the Web Weekly tune and find all the answers below. Enjoy! Carlos listens to "Yann Tiersen -- Bagatelle (feat. Dominique A) -- L'Absente": I hadn't heard it for a long …

Donna Ramanauskas, the creative force behind Gold and several other Commodity fragrances, has a style that's unmistakably her own. It’s light and energetic, fresh yet palpable, with an edge that flirts with challenging notes like inedible vanilla and sharp cypress. These two elements dominate Gold, resulting in a fragrance that, while not particularly daring, carries an air of sophistication. The