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Nikon Zf; 28mm f/2.8 SE Nikkor lens; 1/320th sec. @ f/8; ISO 100; camera set on Deep ToneMonochrome. (click to enlarge)There's not much I like about winter. About February I grow very weary of those dull, gray days and bland landscapes. There are a few things, however, that I do enjoy. First, there is the colder temperatures. I've gotten to the point where I really dislike those hot, humid summer …

The TTABlogger has once again gone out on a limb to chose the ten (10) TTAB decisions that he considers to be the most important and/or interesting from the previous calendar year (2024). This is the second of two posts; the first five (5) selections are posted here. Additional commentary on each case may be found at the linked TTABlog post. Laverne John Andrusiek v. Cosmic Crusaders LLC and Lewis …

This is 9-minute timelapse of LEGO builder Solid Brix Studios constructing a 15-foot, 250,000-piece diorama of the Battle of Geonosis from Star Wars Episode II: Attack Of The Clones. The actual build took over 2 years to complete. Damn! If I could choose between 9 minutes or 2 years to complete something, I’d definitely choose 9 minutes. And ideally less than 5. Honestly if I could just not do something …

Back in the fall of 2023 I started working on Baba Yaga's hut. It came assembled, and while the chicken legs are great, I wanted to be able to use the house on its own. So I started the process to remove the legs in a way that I hoped would allow me to use them in the future. Ideally I'd be able to put the house on the legs …

Health Care AI, Intended To Save Money, Turns Out To Require a Lot of Expensive Humans Darius Tahir January 10, 2025 Preparing cancer patients for difficult decisions is an oncologist’s job. They don’t always remember to do it, however. At the University of Pennsylvania Health System, doctors are nudged to talk about a patient’s...

For almost two decades (!) the de-factor object storage system for Rails apps has been AWS S3. It’s resilient (99.999999999% durability!) and Active Storage makes it very easy to use. There was also little competition so it was basically a no-brainer. We used S3 to store terabytes of customer receipt data for FreeAgent, and 37signals used it to store petabytes of data for Basecamp and HEY (recently 37signals have started …

Map created by geo.facts_The map above shows traffic signs for crosswalks/zebra crossings throughout Europe. Here’s some more key details from the map’s author: Most of the countries refer to the 1968 Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals, except from Moldova, Spain and Ireland. This is why all of the signs look so similar, although if you check carefully they are almost all different! Sweden is the only country in …

2025 will become my personal year of philosophy. I turn forty this year, which, if all goes well, marks the first part of my life as over. Considering recent illnesses along my family and friends, I have little hope of ever reaching eighty, but let’s keep that as a grand goal for the sake of the argument. I’ve been reading more philosophy lately, including Joep Dohmen’s De kunst van het …

Short Cruise on a Destroyer Escort, By Ernie Pyle: “So now I’m a D-E sailor. Full-fledged one. Drenched from head to foot with salt water. Sleep with a leg crooked around your rack so you won’t fall out. Put wet bread under your dinner tray to keep it from sliding. They are rough-and-tumble little ships. Their afterdecks are laden with depth charges. They can turn in half the space of …

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 …