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It was once a ubiquitous cliché in your own home or on your favorite TV sitcom: Beleaguered Dad, in the middle of a pile of bills, yells, “You’re sending me to the poorhouse!”Do fathers still yell that? Does anyone even remember poorhouses? It is long forgotten now, but Cincinnati maintained a poorhouse for more than a century out in Hartwell where today stands the UC Health Daniel Drake Center for …

This year, I am thankful for all of my supportive friends and followers. Whether I am squirreling from one idea to the next and the next, I’ve fallen down a rabbit hole of research, or I am slipped into a depressive mud hole, you are there. Sometimes, you even squirrel or rabbit hole with me. […]

A Circumzenithal Arc We have all met – or have been – someone who is very quiet and seemingly withdrawn in a social situation. It can be easy to dismiss, forget, or ignore these quiet people. But I’ve found that some of the quietest people I know have the strongest opinions, observations, and forces of will. Judith is such a person. She’s easily misunderstood and cast as unaware, boring, and …

Amazing. Here’s how it’s made.

Space enthusiasts of a certain age, like myself, grew up learning about the trio of NASA’s unmanned programs which provided scientists and engineers with vital information about the Moon before the Apollo landings: Ranger which took TV images of the lunar surface before they were purposely crashed into the Moon; Lunar Orbiter which acquired high-resolution photographs of the lunar surface to scout out potential Apollo landing sites; and Surveyor which …

The Manga Classics line has announced their first color volume: Manga Classics: Sherlock Holmes, telling the story of A Study in Scarlet.

I love AI. I love how magical LLMs are. Just by predicting what word comes next, they can impersonate a real person. They have more personality than the computer in Star Trek. They also make more mistakes. I'm frustrated with AI. I try to use them for programming, and end up going down a rabbit hole based on a hallucination. The confidence of an LLM becomes my over-confidence. I get …

Hi you guys! I’m going to review another set of products from DAZZLE ME today. I don’t know when the Better Than Filter makeup collection was launched but here in the Philippines, I think they were released a few months back. Anyway, I’m so thankful that the brand keeps on sending me PR because I […]

Three new beautiful sweaters have arrived from Bosie! As always, they are made on the Northeast Coast of Scotland, and they never disappoint. No one does Fair Isles like Bosie/Harley.West Coast Yoke Fair Isle Women's Sweater - Winter White <https://bosie.co/products/west-coast-yoke-fair-isle-womens-sweater-winter-white>West Coast Yoke Fair Isle Women's Sweater - Nutmeg Brown <https://bosie.co/products/west-coast-yoke-fair-isle-womens-sweater-nutmeg-brown>Blue Mogganer Trawlerman Chunky Glenugie Nep Sweater - Raasay Green <https://bosie.co/products/blue-mogganer-trawlerman-chunky-glenugie-nep-sweater-raasay-green>Links are below, but also, be sure to take a look …

I was looking forward to playing UFO 50.An anthology of 50 fictional 8-bit-style games, it sounded like the perfect thing to dip in and out of between the longer, more demanding games that seem to eat up so much of my time these days.I consider anything over 15 hours to be long and demanding, and am right to do so.Anyway, I'm not playing UFO 50, and that's because it's currently …

Welcome to Scouts Then and Now, an Aaron on Scouting blog series. The premise is simple: We share two photos of the same Scout or Venturer — once in his or her early Scouting years (Cub Scout, younger Scout, younger Venturer) and again in his or her later Scouting years (Life Scout, Eagle Scout, older Venturer). Find Chapter 31 below. And click here to learn how to submit your photos. …

In This EDC Knife: Spyderco Yojimbo 2Tool: Knipex Cobra XSTool: Big Idea Design TPT SlidePen: Big Idea Design Ti MiniTool: Vero Engineering Fulcrum MiniFlashlight: Reylight Pineapple Mini TitaniumMulti-tool: Victorinox Deluxe Thinker with custom scales from Knife LoungePen: Big Idea Design Bit Bar InlineOther: Coin from local EDC groupKnife: Knafs Lander 2 About This Everyday Carry An eternal Nomad running the world with Titanium.Being constantly traveling, my EDC allows me to …

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I've recently been thinking about a switch to the Fairphone 5, but after some research, I'm not sure it's worth it? I ditched Android around 6 years ago now, and since then I've been very happy with iOS, but over the last couple of months, I've been thinking about a move back to Android, specifically the Fairphone 5. The rationale here is that phones are extremely expensive, they don't last …

JFI’s Financing the Energy Transition team has published a new series, including an interactive map and report, on the global distribution of minerals critical to the green transition, and on the potential for the countries that produce those natural resources to capture their value. View the series here, or go directly to our interactive version of the report. The post New series: Mineral Wealth and Electrification appeared first on Jain …