It triggers a reaction in the brains of mice that helps them change their behavior
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Here’s a review by Contributing Editor David Persails of the 30th anniversary version of “The Beatles Anthology” streaming on Disney+, including the new Episode 9 … “The Beatles Anthology 2025,” directed by Bob Smeaton and Oliver Murray, restored and remastered … Continue reading
This misconception can prompt us to feel pessimistic about our peers—and the world
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How women crab farmers along India's coast have linked their livelihoods to environmental conservation.
Mateo, a child, sits at a debate table opposite an empty chair. He’s surrounded by twenty Santa Claus Deniers, each holding a red flag.
MATEO: My name is Mateo, I’m six years old, and Santa Claus is real.
The sound of a countdown can be heard, “3…2…1… ding.” Several Santa Deniers dive toward the empty debate chair. Santa Denier 1 arrives first.
SANTA DENIER 1: Hi. Okay, I just… with everything we know, how can you still think Santa is real?
MATEO: Well, every Christmas morning, there are REAL presents under my tree FROM Santa.
SD1: But you know it’s not Santa putting those there.
MATEO: Who else would it be?
SD1: Your parents, obviously.
MATEO: But every year, my friend Liam wakes up at his house, and there are presents under his tree from Santa too.
There’s more than what meets the eye in a color-swapping insect
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A former Biden-era financial regulator accused of going easy on banking supervision has a new job as a venture capitalist.
But the moon’s slushy interior could still harbor pockets of life-sustaining water
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An increasing number of Wall Street investors are betting against artificial intelligence.
Kunskapen om vad MMT står för är pinsamt låg hos ekonomer i vårt land. Häromveckan påstod en av våra mer kända mainstreamekonomer — Lars Calmfors — i samband med en debatt med Katalys-utredaren och forskaren Max Jerneck att MMT-förespråkare tror att lösningen på alla ekonomiska problem är att bara trycka mer pengar och att MMT […]
The Tragedy of True Crime is both a critique of and a major contribution to true-crime literature.
Like a name dropper at a party, Donald Trump likes to associate himself with famous forerunners. In his inaugural address in January, it was the 25th US president, William McKinley. Earlier this month, he issued what he called the ‘Trump corollary’ to the Monroe Doctrine on the 202nd anniversary of the fifth president asserting US […]
I am somewhat of a hot chocolate maven. I normally consume this winter-wonderful drink through powdered packages and hot water, and I know my way around the myriad packages in my local grocery aisle. You could say I am a bona fide Swiss Mistress.
As I was scrolling through the internet one day, I came across The Grinch Hot Chocolate Bomb from Williams Sonoma. I like to avoid cooking at all costs, and I normally do not patronize stores like WS (I’m assuming this is what kitchen people call it), but I couldn’t resist this quirky little drink that is probably also a children’s activity. The picture on the WS website featured the idyllic outcome of The Grinch Hot Chocolate Bomb. “Oh, I’ve got to try this,” I murmured to my screen. I hit “add to cart” and waited in anticipation for three to five days.
I unboxed my new treasure and enthusiastically inspected the packaging. The bomb itself is a tennis-ball-sized head of the Grinch (and the same hue), taunting you with his cheeky eyes and about seven different artificial colors. It boasts a filling of marshmallows that will float like clouds to the top of your mug. Oh, we’re in for a magical time!
By awarding its peace prize to Trump’s favorite Venezuelan opposition figure, pro-war coup plotter Maria Corina Machado, the Nobel Committee contravened the principles enshrined in its founding documents, as well as Swedish law, Julian Assange alleged in an explosive brief reviewed by The Grayzone. The Swedish government violated its own laws by awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition figure Maria Corina Machado, according to an explosive legal brief filed by Julian Assange, the Wikileaks co-founder and former political […]
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Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We called this list a collection of Trump’s cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes, and it felt urgent to track them, to ensure these horrors—happening almost daily—would not be forgotten. Now that Trump has returned to office, amid civil rights, humanitarian, economic, and constitutional crises, we felt it critical to make an inventory of this new round of horrors. This list will be updated monthly between now and the end of Donald Trump’s second term.
The third feature release of Drupal 11 is here with the biggest performance boost in a decade. Serve 26-33% more requests with the same database load. New native HTMX support enables rich UX with up to 71% less JavaScript. Plus, enjoy the new stable Navigation module, improved CKEditor content editing, native content export, and cleaner OOP hooks for themes.
New in Drupal 11.3
Biggest performance boost in a decade
Database query and cache operations on both cold and warm caches have been significantly reduced. Our automated tests show that the new optimization for cold caches is about one third and on partially-warm cache requests by up to one fourth. Independent testing shows even bigger improvements on complex sites.
Drupal 11.3 includes a number of significant performance improvements, altogether making it the most significant step forward for Drupal performance in the last 10 years (since the Drupal 8.0.0 release).
These improvements have been driven by enhancements to Drupal's render and caching layers in 11.2.x, notably taking advantage of Fibers, a new PHP feature added in PHP 8.1. By rendering more parts of the page in placeholders, we have enabled similar database and cache operations that used to occur individually to be combined, with particular improvements in path alias and entity loading. We have also learned from Drupal's automated performance testing framework, allowing us to identify and execute several optimizations during Drupal's hook and field discovery processes, to significantly reduce database and cache i/o, and memory usage on cold caches.
Drupal developers always face the dilemma of building classic multi-page applications or headless solutions with a modern JavaScript stack. Especially when they need to build UIs that feel fast and are highly reactive. While there were some Drupal specific solutions for parts of this need (Form State API, AJAX API and BigPipe), these were dated, only solving very specific use cases and comparatively heavy in implementation.
HTMX is a tiny, dependency-free, and extensible JavaScript library that allows you to access modern browser features directly from HTML, rather than using extensive amounts of JavaScript. It essentially enables you to use HTML to make AJAX requests, CSS transitions, WebSockets, and Server-Sent Events (SSE) directly.
As a replacement for Drupal's mostly home grown solutions, this reduced the loaded JavaScript size by up to 71% for browser-server interactions, including HTML streaming with BigPipe. While enabling a whole set of new functionality at the same time!
As Reform opens the door to crypto donations, the Government is finally starting to take action against the threat of foreign financial interference in our politics, reports Adam Bienkov
Why has the ‘learning styles’ theory persisted without any evidence? And what do we actually know about how we learn?
- Video by Veritasium
Two women – one aged 35, the other 102 – become friends. This is what the road trip they can’t take would look like
- by Aeon Video
In my therapy office, I’ve found that to live with greater purpose, we must think differently about where it comes from
- by Ross White
Great lecture on how to do — and not to do — economics, delivered by a great historian and economist, Robert Skidelsky. Here you can follow them all.
As the freedom flotilla made its way towards Gaza in October, a former Taylor Swift fan posted on Threads that Swift is so wealthy she could have sent her own flotilla to break the siege and deliver aid. Other fans responded that this is not Swift’s job: she’s a pop star, not a politician; she […]