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Echo is finally doing well, though winter is not great for him. He is active, eating and sleeping well. Though his urinary problems continue, they do not threaten his day-to-day activities. Temperatures have been quite low in Bengaluru this week, and Echo feels cold. I started using a standing table during COVID-19, and it's still a habit. I plan to mix it up a bit this year, alternating between standing …

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Many discoveries in physics flow from theory to experiment. Albert Einstein theorized that mass bends the fabric of space-time, and then Arthur Eddington observed the effects of this bending during a solar eclipse. Likewise, Peter Higgs first proposed the existence of the Higgs boson; nearly 50 years later, the particle was discovered at the Large Hadron Collider. Hadronization is different. It’… Source

Editor’s note: This article was originally published in the Minnesota Reformer on January 9, 2025, and is reprinted with permission. We encourage Streets.mn readers to attend MnDOT’s Rethinking I-94 Policy Advisory Committee meeting on Friday, January 17, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Learn more and register here. The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) announced late last year they were rejecting a proposal to turn I-94 into a boulevard between Minneapolis …

EngineAI has had quite a showing at CES 2025. It showcased the SE01, SA01, and PM01 humanoid robots at the event. We have already covered how impressive the SE01 and PM01 robot are. The SA01 is a robot designed for research and education. It is based on an open source platform. It can perform runs and jumps. This robot can maintain its balance when punched or kicked. It has a …

Derek Thompson’s interrogation into adult loneliness corresponds with a wavelength that connects to what’s going on politically, with capitalism/branding, and probably the future of the human race. It’s an astounding change in our species.

This is a writeup of research into using satellite imagery to track mining operations, funded as part of Bellingcat’s 2024 Technical Writing Fellowship, and is a more in-depth version of a short guide published on their online platform. The accompanying Multispectral Satellite Imagery Explorer tool is available here. This guide is intended as an overview of my research, and a starting point for these techniques. a false colour satellite image …

I recently encountered the following party game: Mumbo Jumbo, based on trying to pronounce a word while wearing a mouth-stretcher. Basically, you wear a mouth-stretcher, and then you are asked to read out a phrase. Your teammate has to figure out the phrase you're trying to say. The mouth-stretcher means that you cannot make labials. Of course, the words are selected to take advantage of this limitation as much as …

I needed to do something. My family's new house had sprung a leak, as in the outside air (-28C with the wind at one point) was gushing into a room in our house, making things very unpleasant. I have been wrestling with many renovations to our new house, which has been neglected for years and is in need of some TLC.But on Wednesday night, I had had my share of …

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When I say Burger Chef to most people, they might recognize the name from its appearance on Mad Men, but most people haven’t heard of. This, despite it being the second largest fast food chain in the United States by 1973. Its rise was dramatic, its fall, sad. On this episode of the show, I want to talk to you about this wonderful fast food restaurant.I start the show talking …

Elon buys accounts someone else spent the hours developing, doesn't know how to play them

It’s the feast day of your patron saint, and a recipe has gone missing. A short tale of birds, books, and the cloistered life. It would be easy to say Hatoful Boyfriend meets Pentiment – but this is more intricate and loving than that would imply to me. Turn the sound on, but don’t worry, this won’t take too long.

After clocking out from my day job, I usually look for games that help me unwind. Fast Food Simulator had a different plan. The game perfectly captures the hustle and bustle of a fast-food joint, placing you in the shoes of a manager who has to handle everything from taking orders to balancing the books. It’s a frantic, fast-paced experience that mimics the real-world stress of working in fast food—but …

I. Darius Mozaffarian, a nutrition professor at Tufts University, has an editorial in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition:“The Dietary Guidelines for Americans—is the evidence bar too low or too high?” He writes about an analysis of the systematic literature reviews SRs) that form the basis of science-based decisions in the guidelines. His comments gives an insight into the Dietary Guidelines process worth seeing. For the 2025–2030 DGAC, I served …