MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System

Or: The Day My Toaster Started Taking Phone Calls

Rethinking Scan Chains In Semiconductor Test

Finding defects now requires multiple data types, and a much more thorough search.

Shoes not only express our social roles, they also create them | Aeon Essays

Shoes are deeply personal, literally moulded to our lives. But they create our social lives as much as express them

Putting the “You” in “Thank You”: Examining Other-Praising Behavior as the Active Relational Ingredient in Expressed Gratitude

Although positive emotions as a class can build interpersonal resources, recent evidence suggests a unique and direct role for gratitude. In the current research, we shine the spotlight on what happens between a grateful person and the benefactor to ...

Scientists Are Just Beginning to Understand How Life Makes Clouds, and Their Discoveries May Drastically Improve Climate Science

Plants, plankton and sea spray all release elements that help the atmospheric blankets form

Scientists identify culprit behind biggest-ever U.S. honey bee die-off

USDA research points to viruses spread by pesticide-resistant mites, indicating a worrying trend

Frontiers | Swearing as a Response to Pain: Assessing Hypoalgesic Effects of Novel “Swear” Words

Previous research showing swearing alleviates pain is extended by addressing emotion arousal and distraction as possible mechanisms. We assessed the effects ...

quincy california at DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo. Privacy, Simplified.

These Are the 6 Universal Traits of Coolness

What makes someone "cool?" Not just admired or respected—but genuinely, universally cool? We've got the answers...

Walk In These

"Shoes are deeply personal, literally moulded to our lives. But they create our social lives as much as express them."

Firewood in the American Economy: 1700 to 2010 - Marginal REVOLUTION

Despite the central role of firewood in the development of the early American economy, prices for this energy fuel are absent from official government statistics and the scholarly literature. This paper presents the most comprehensive dataset of firewood prices in the United…

The Emoji Tongue

If 😂 was a word, would that make emoji a language?

why AI language models like chatGPT can’t understand flowers

a study by ohio state university investigates whether large language models can represent human concepts without physically experiencing them.

200 Most Influential Musicians of the Last 25 Years

From Bon Iver to J Dilla to Beyoncé, these are the musicians who made the biggest impact across Pitchfork’s lifetime so far.

Engineered Addictions

How silicon valley is putting a price tag on your attention - and relationships

Bloom Filters by Example

Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate

In a Twitter discussion last week on ransomware attacks, KrebsOnSecurity noted that virtually all ransomware strains have a built-in failsafe designed to cover the backsides of the malware purveyors: They simply will not install on a Microsoft Windows computer that…

The Book Of Shaders

Gentle step-by-step guide through the abstract and complex universe of Fragment Shaders.

Hannibal’s Master Class in Ambush Tactics at the Battle of Trasimene | TheCollector

On June 21, 217 BCE, an entire Roman army marched into an ambush set by the Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca.

gemini-cli/docs/cli/commands.md at main · google-gemini/gemini-cli

An open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal. - google-gemini/gemini-cli

The Nickel Hotel Extols Charleston’s Old World Allure

Morris Adjmi Architects’ comprehensive design of The Nickel Hotel in Charleston marries local historical detail with modern convenience.

Getting started with Gemini Command Line Interface (CLI)

What I learned trying seven coding agents

There's still room for improvement, but don't underestimate this technology.

How Daniel Radcliffe Outran Harry Potter

He was the world’s most famous child star. Then he had to figure out what came next.

Build a 'Memory' for Your AI: The No-Code Guide to System Prompting

AI Rabbit Hole | Date: June 21, 2025

Loving my personal Heroku using Kamal : r/rails

How Your Brain Gaslights You—for Your Own Good - Nautilus

Nailia Schwarz via Shutterstock Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Runners can tell you that sometimes the last mile of a run seems to feel dramatically longer than the first. This perceptual distortion isn’t limited to brains addled by…

Ponza, Italy – the holiday island for in-the-know Romans

Ponza, Italy | The Italian island of Ponza has retained a gloriously retro sense of mystery with impossibly turquoise waters, golden cliffs, simple, fresh food and an elemental yet trippy magic atmosphere

CSS Blob Recipes | CSS-Tricks

Blob, Blob, Blob. What's the most effective way to create blob shapes in CSS? Turns out, as always, there are many. Let's compare them together!

The Record Store Enters a New Golden Age

The owners of Waterloo Records hope an eye-popping revamp will reinvent the music-shopping experience in uncertain economic times.

Why Are Homes in Western States So Expensive?

Earlier this month I came across the following graphic, originally posted on Reddit in 2022, showing the state of housing affordability in the US.

Out of Eden Walk: Getting by on the generosity of strangers - The World from PRX

On a long trip away from home, some of the most memorable moments come from the hospitality of strangers. National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek has come to rely on hospitality daily on his Out of Eden Walk, traversing the path of human migration. Host Marco Werman speaks to…

Insuring an uninsurable world – the pricing actuary’s Mission Impossible?

In InsuranceERM, David Walker published, yesterday Insuring an uninsurable world – the pricing actuary’s Mission Impossible? “Actuarially, it is entirely possible – and often documented – that the technical premium reflecting pure risk without political intervention…

Nvidia and others court niche Japanese supplier to ease AI bottlenecks

Glass cloth maker Nittobo is latest example country's overlooked role in supply chain

Four more HBM generations to arrive – Blocks and Files

Four more HBM generations have been outlined by KAIST and its Terabyte Interconnection and Package Laboratory research group.

Gemini CLI

First there was Claude Code in February, then OpenAI Codex (CLI) in April, and now Gemini CLI in June. All three of the largest AI labs now have their own …

Did Baby Talk Give Rise to Language?

The way that human adults talk to young children is unique among primates, a new study found. That might be one secret to our species’ grasp of language.

Axolotls Can Regenerate Limbs, and Scientists Are Finally Learning How

A new study looked into the axolotl’s freakish regenerative talents, hoping to uncover secrets that could revolutionize human medicine.

I Tested LLM Agents on Simple Safety Rules. They Failed in Surprising and Informative Ways. — LessWrong

TL;DR: I developed a simple, open-source benchmark to test if LLM agents follow high-level safety principles when they conflict with a given task acc…

How to Manage Python Virtual Environments for Data Projects

Tired of breaking your Python setup? Learn how virtual environments keep everything organized and working smoothly.

Writing Toy Software Is A Joy

Performance, efficiency, and cost analysis of wafer-scale AI accelerators vs. single-chip GPUs

This review compares wafer-scale AI accelerators and single-chip GPUs in terms of performance, energy efficiency, and cost for high-performance AI applications. It highlights enabling technologies, such as CoWoS, and explores future directions including 3D integration, photonic…

Merchandising Lessons from Top Marketplaces

We analyze the home pages of 10 marketplaces to spot common merchandising traits.

Backyard Coffee And Jazz In Kyoto, Japan

A "magical" experience, and what we get when we let people pursue their passions

“It’s a Hell of a Thing, Killing a Man”: the Birth of Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven

Eastwood biographer Shawn Levy dives into the making of the director’s masterpiece: “Unforgiven was Clint Eastwood saying, ‘This is what I’m going to do…get out of my way.’”

Albert Brooks Is Everywhere

The funniest people on the planet think there’s no funnier person than Albert Brooks.

Sea moss punch: The Caribbean's cooling, healthy elixir for summer

Plucked from the ocean, Trinidad's answer to the summer milkshake is now part of a frenzied craze around the world.

uv: An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust | Hacker News

How to Take the Ultimate American Stargazing Road Trip

Head out West for dark skies for a Milky Way so bright it casts a shadow.

ai-agent-starter-kit/expert-guides/07-google-prompt-engineering.pdf at main · HeyNina101/ai-agent-starter-kit

A collection of expert guides and tutorials on how to build real AI agents. Includes resources from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and others working on production-level systems - HeyNina101/ai-agent-s...