Coldfusion

Have you ever wished your phone could communicate wirelessly with the tube in your tire to check the air pressure? What if that tube had a super catchy, and definitely not chuckle-inducing name like MTB PSENS? Same here, but Tubolito’s latest addition to their line of lightweight tubes is actually a pretty clever innovation. The Austrian company has put a NFC (Near-Field Communication) chip that’s encased in foam inside their thermoplastic polyurethane tubes. The chip wirelessly sends a pressure reading to the Tubolito app when a smartphone is held against the tire. The chip doesn’t require any batteries, and only adds around 7 grams to the tube. It’s located around the valve stem, which makes it easier to remember where to place the phone to check the pressure. The MTB… Source link

And so we come to one of the most pressing matters of our time. Not just as it relates to the NHL and the final weeks of the regular season but maybe beyond. Maybe one of the most vexing questions to confront us since whether cold fusion was real or can Count Chocula cereal really be good for you or, yes, how do they get the caramel in the Caramilk bar. And that is the question of which team will finish fourth in the West Division. A cynic might counter with, who cares? And they might not be wrong. Of the four divisions in this most curious NHL season, none is as wildly out of whack as the West. Three good, nay, maybe really good teams in Vegas, Colorado and surprising Minnesota. And the rest. A cynic might suggest that it matters not… Source link

(Photograph by Patrick Pleul/Picture Alliance/Getty Images.d) Dear Reader (Including people who have previously been left out of the “Dear Reader” gag), Let’s start with some good news: It looks like there’s a vaccine for malaria. This is huge. Huge. Claims that half of all humans who ever lived died from malaria are probably overstated. But a lot of people have been killed by malaria. So many people have been killed by malaria that it has bent the course of not just history, but human evolution. The prevalence of sickle cell anemia—a disease that killed my sister-in-law last December—has to do with the fact that inheriting just one sickle-cell gene provides added protection against malaria (you get the disease if you get the gene from both parents). Sadly, if you have… Source link

Beloved Beasts Michelle Nijhuis W. W. Norton (2021) In 2019, a white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) was born at a zoo in San Diego, California, as a result of artificial insemination. A related technique using a complex robotic catheter might lead to a free-roaming population of the northern subspecies of white rhino, which is functionally extinct. Such are the complexities of modern conservation covered in science writer Michelle Nijhuis’s thoughtful and readable history of people “who did the wrong things for the right reasons, and the right things for the wrong reasons”. On the Fringe Michael D. Gordin Oxford Univ. Press (2021) All scientists agree that cold fusion, creationism and Nazi… Source link

Afraid of white people. Afraid of husbands and wives. Afraid of the nuclear family. Afraid of adoption. Afraid of ultrasound. Afraid of biology. Afraid of science. Afraid of the Bible. Afraid of evangelicals. Afraid of school prayer. Afraid of conservatives. Afraid of Republicans. Afraid of capitalism. Afraid of free markets. Afraid of competition. Afraid of success. Afraid of fair tax rates. Afraid of temperature variation. Afraid of gasoline. Afraid of oil. Afraid of natural gas. Afraid of pipelines. Afraid of energy independence. Afraid of nuclear power. Afraid of cold fusion. … Source link

Following Friday night’s big Annie Awards live-streamed celebration of all things animation, awards season continued to roll on with honors for editors, sound editors and the conclusion of the virtual San Francisco Int’l Film Festival. It takes top talent across the board to bring our favorite animated spectacles to the screen, so let us all celebrate the winners: In the Shadow of the Pines SFFILM 2021 came to a close Sunday with an afternoon ceremony for the juried Golden Gate Awards and Audience Awards, hosted online at sfflim.org and awarding more than $17,000 in cash prizes. Animated Short ($750):WINNER: In the Shadow of the Pines, Anne Koizumi (Canada)In awarding the animated short prize, the jury commented that the director “creates a memorable tribute to her father with… Source link

It was a precarious moment: Calls to the company’s call centers had surged 500% as consumers canceled flights and hotel rooms. Expedia burned through cash in issuing refunds. To weather the downturn, it scrambled to raise about $4 billion in capital last spring. Expedia had troubles that predated the pandemic. A strategy clash between its board and management led to the resignations of Expedia’s then-CEO and finance chief in December 2019. Barry Diller, the company’s chairman, pronounced Expedia on an earnings call as “sclerotic and bloated” as it struggled to compete against Google’s growing presence in the travel-booking business. He tapped Mr. Kern, Expedia’s 52-year-old vice chairman and a longtime media and private-equity executive, to help him run Expedia’s… Source link

Peter Kern became chief executive officer of Expedia Group Inc. last April, during the travel industry’s worst crisis in decades. It was a precarious moment: Calls to the company’s call centers had surged 500% as consumers canceled flights and hotel rooms. Expedia burned through cash in issuing refunds. To weather the downturn, it scrambled to raise about $4 billion in capital last spring. Expedia had troubles that predated the pandemic. A strategy clash between its board and management led to the resignations of Expedia’s then-CEO and finance chief in December 2019. Barry Diller, the company’s chairman, pronounced Expedia on an earnings call as “sclerotic and bloated” as it struggled to compete against Google ’s growing presence in the… Source link

‘Tenet,’ ‘Trial of the Chicago 7,’ ‘Eurovision Song Contest’ also are Golden Reel honorees. Motion Picture Sound Editors spread the wealth in the feature competition of its 68th Golden Reel Awards, giving Greyhound, The Trial of the Chicago 7, Tenet, Soul and Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of the Fire Saga one category win apiece. During the virtual ceremony on Friday evening, Greyhound received the award for FX/Foley; Trial of the Chicago 7 topped the category for dialogue/ADR; Tenet, for musical underscore; Soul, for animated feature; and Eurovision Song Contest, for music. Sound of Metal--which won the BAFTA in sound–and News of the World, both of which led the MPSE feature nominations with three apiece, came up empty-handed. Greyhound and Soul, along with Mank, News… Source link

Barack Obama is one of many who have declared an “epistemological crisis,” in which our society is losing its handle on something called truth. Thus an interesting experiment will be his and other Democrats’ response to a book by Steven Koonin, who was chief scientist of the Obama Energy Department. Mr. Koonin argues not against current climate science but that what the media and politicians and activists say about climate science has drifted so far out of touch with the actual science as to be absurdly, demonstrably false. This is not an altogether innocent drifting, he points out in a videoconference interview from his home in Cold Spring, N.Y. In 2019 a report by the presidents of the National Academies of Sciences… Source link