Published on: 2025-04-18 02:19:31
Ocean Tides and the Earth's Rotation An Introductory Discussion Courtesy of the Tides affect the earth's rotation in two sharply contrasting ways. One way, caused by tidal friction, produces an extremely slow secular change in rotation. The other way, caused by the continual movements of the tides about the planet, produces very small but very rapid changes in rotation. These rapid changes occur at exactly the same periods as the tides themselves -- half-daily, daily, etc. (The IERS Special Bu
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Trump administration threatens Harvard with foreign student ban 1 hour ago Share Save Kelly Ng BBC News Share Save Getty Images Harvard President Alan Garber has flatly rejected the White House's sweeping list of demands The US government has threatened to ban Harvard University from enrolling foreign students - after the institution said it would not bow to demands from President Donald Trump's administration and was hit with a funding freeze. The White House has demanded the oldest universi
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The Trump administration has been using federal research funding as a cudgel. The government has blocked billions of dollars in research funds and threatened to put a hold on even more in order to compel universities to adopt what it presents as essential reforms. In the case of Columbia University, that includes changes in the leadership of individual academic departments. On Friday, the government sent a list of demands that it presented as necessary to "maintain Harvard’s financial relations
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The Trump administration has been using federal research funding as a cudgel. The government has blocked billions of dollars in research funds and threatened to put a hold on even more in order to compel universities to adopt what it presents as essential reforms. In the case of Columbia University, that includes changes in the leadership of individual academic departments. On Friday, the government sent a list of demands that it presented as necessary to "maintain Harvard’s financial relations
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Dear Members of the Harvard Community, For three-quarters of a century, the federal government has awarded grants and contracts to Harvard and other universities to help pay for work that, along with investments by the universities themselves, has led to groundbreaking innovations across a wide range of medical, engineering, and scientific fields. These innovations have made countless people in our country and throughout the world healthier and safer. In recent weeks, the federal government h
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The rapid proliferation of AI in our lives introduces new challenges around authorship, authenticity, and ethics in work and art. But it also offers a particularly human problem in narrative: How can we make sense of these machines, not just use them? And how do the words we choose and stories we tell about technology affect the role we allow it to take on (or even take over) in our creative lives? Both Vara’s book and The Uncanny Muse, a collection of essays on the history of art and automation
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is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2011, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Garmin has announced a new addition to its Varia line of safety and visibility accessories for cyclists. The Varia Vue is the first to pair a bright headlight with a front-facing 4K camera designed to automatically record incidents and save the footage locally or send it to the cloud through a smartphone. It’s available now through the company’s
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As billionaire tech moguls ravish public research funds and startups siphon knowledge workers into pie-in-the-sky venture capitalist schemes, one professor has found his own key to innovation: scientists who are able to do crucial lab work without going broke. David Liu is a chemistry professor and director of the Merkin Institute of Transformative Technologies in Healthcare at Harvard. For the past five years, he's celebrated Thanksgiving by giving away his entire salary — sans taxes — to the
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Rusty Cascading Style Sheets (RCSS) Tip Download the VSCode extension for syntax highlighting! Rusty Cascading Style Sheets (RCSS) is a styling language that brings Rust-inspired syntax to CSS. It combines the robustness of Rust with SASS-like features such as nesting and variables for cleaner, more maintainable styles. let variable: "#FFFFFF"; let breakpoint: "768px"; fn padding() { padding: 20px; } .container { padding(); h2 { color: blue; } } h4 { width: 50%; color: green; } /* MOBILE STYL
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As Tesla shares plummeted for a fourth straight day, CEO Elon Musk let loose on President Donald Trump's top trade advisor Peter Navarro. Musk, the world's richest person, started going after Navarro over the weekend, posting on X that a "PhD in econ from Harvard is a bad thing, not a good thing," a reference to Navarro's degree. Whatever subtlety remained at the beginning of the week has since vanished. On Tuesday, Musk wrote that "Navarro is truly a moron," noting that his comments about T
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Elon Musk spent Tuesday morning slinging insults at one of President Donald Trump’s top trade advisors Peter Navarro. The billionaire oligarch referred to Navarro as a “moron” who’s “dumber than a sack of bricks,” dubbing him “Peter Retarrdo,” as new reports surface that Musk is privately lobbying to put a stop to Trump’s tariffs on goods coming from almost every country in the world. Musk appears to be upset that Navarro criticized the way that Tesla manufactures cars during an appearance on C
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Musk labels Trump trade adviser 'moron' over Tesla comments 58 minutes ago Share Save Liv McMahon Technology reporter Share Save Reuters Elon Musk has called President Donald Trump's trade adviser, Peter Navarro, a "moron" over comments he made about his electric vehicle firm, Tesla. Musk - who is also a member of the Trump administration - also said Navarro was "dumber than a sack of bricks" in posts on his social media platform X. It was in response to an interview Navarro gave in which he
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Kimbal Musk, co-founder of The Kitchen Community, speaks during the annual Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., on Tuesday, May 3, 2016. Elon Musk's younger brother, Kimbal, took to X on Monday to lambaste President Donald Trump's tariffs, calling them a "structural, permanent tax on the American consumer." He also said Trump appears to be the "most high tax American President in generations." "Even if he is successful in bringing jobs on shore through the tar
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Billionaire Elon Musk and president Donald Trump's long, balmy honeymoon may finally be coming to a close. Over the weekend, Musk lashed out at the architect of Trump's catastrophic tariff policy, which has ravaged international markets and stoked fears of an imminent recession. In a tweet, Musk took aim at Trump's advisor on trade and manufacturing, Peter Navarro — a proxy for Trump himself, who continues to stand for his draconian tariffs even as the stock market slides precipitously. "A Ph
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Here’s a CSS technique that produces blurry image placeholders (LQIPs) without cluttering up your markup — Only a single custom property needed! <img src="…" style="--lqip:192900"> The custom property above gives you this image: Try changing the property’s value (WARNING: FLASHING) Granted, it’s a very blurry placeholder especially in contrast to other leading solutions. But the point is that it’s minimal and non-invasive! No need for wrapper elements or attributes with long strings of data, o
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OpenSNP, a large open source repository for user-uploaded genetic data, will shut down and delete all of its data at the end of April, co-founder Bastian Greshake Tzovaras has confirmed. In a blog post, openSNP’s Greshake Tzovaras attributed the decision to shutter the site due to concerns of data privacy following the financial collapse of 23andMe and the rise in authoritarian governments around the world. Founded in 2011 by Greshake Tzovaras, along with Philipp Bayer and Helge Rausch, openSN
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-22 14:27:33
Saturday 29 Mar 2025 For a few months now I’ve received sporadic reports that my website was broken. They said the layout was askew and things were sized strangely. They had screenshots to prove it. This was embarrassing for a professional website builder. Thankfully my audience is tech-savvy and the Grammarly browser extension was identified as a prime suspect. When this extension was installed it broke my website, simple as that. My initial response was: “Sorry, their bug, not mine”. But aft
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MRubyD MRubyD is a new mruby virtual machine implemented in pure C#. The name "MRubyD" stands for mruby for dotnet and pays homage to the well-known alternative implementation mruby/c. Designed with seamless integration in mind for C#-based game engines, and emphasize ruby level compatibility. MRubyD leverages the latest C# features for high performance and high extensibility. Note This library is currently in preview Features Implemented in C# Utilizes the robust capabilities of C# to ensu
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GNU command line argument parser Command line argument parser following the GNU standard. ./test -vo out.png --size 256 input.txt with the following features: build-in help ( -h and --help ) message and ) message scan arguments into struct fields with configuration in tags scan into composite field types (arrays, slices, structs) allow for nested sub commands GNU command line argument rules: arguments are options when they begin with a hyphen - multiple options can be combined: -abc is
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In a nutshell: Aardvark Weather, an AI-based system, promises to significantly enhance weather forecasting by delivering predictions dozens of times faster while using thousands of times less computing power than current methods. This system has been developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge, with support from the Alan Turing Institute, Microsoft Research, and the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts. The speed and efficiency of modern forecasting systems are vital,
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A little while back, Chris shared this nice hexagonal grid. And true to its name, it’s using —wait for it — CSS Grid to form that layout. It’s a neat trick! Combining grid columns, grid gaps, and creative clipping churns out the final result. A similar thing could be accomplished with flexbox, too. But I’m here to resurrect our old friend float to create the same sort of complex and responsive layout — but with less complexity and without a single media query. I know, it’s hard to believe. So
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A Simple Physics Engine in GoLang ☻ Introduction Physix.go is a simple, easy-to-use, and fast physics engine written in GoLang. It provides functions to perform physics calculations efficiently, including particle-based physics simulations. Features Vector Calculations Physics Calculations Spring Dynamics Easy to use with Ebiten.go Getting Started Prerequisites GoLang must be installed. Ebiten must be installed. Installation To start, clone this project: git clone https://github.co
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The changes go into effect for the 2025-2026 academic year. Harvard says tuition will be free for families making $200K or less Harvard University on Monday announced that tuition will be free for students from families with annual incomes of $200,000 or less starting in the 2025-26 academic year. "Putting Harvard within financial reach for more individuals widens the array of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives that all of our students encounter, fostering their intellectual and perso
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According to Deadline , Humans writers Jonathan Brackley and Sam Vincent are working on an adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s 1953 novella, The Variable Man. The show is being produced by Motive Pictures in a partnership with Electric Shepherd Productions, which is run by the late author’s daughter, Isa Dick Hackett. The Variable Man follows a tinkerer turned accidental time traveler named Thomas Cole, who is transported from 1913 into the future and suddenly finds himself a reluctant player in an i
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C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung is apparently thinking about a variable aperture for the Galaxy S26 Ultra’s main camera. The company first offered this feature on the Galaxy S9 series but dropped it with the Galaxy S20 range. A variable aperture would allow for greater control over focusing, light capture, and depth-of-field effects. The Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra is a mostly incremental upgrade over the Galaxy S24 Ultra, although the new phone does bring an upgraded ultrawide
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Not long ago, I was auditing a codebase for work (looking for bugs) when I realized that despite the quality of the code, I was becoming mentally fatigued extremely quickly and had a hard time working on it for long stretches of time… I ended up figuring out what made this codebase so difficult to stick with, but it didn’t turn out to be what I expected (Cyclomatic Complexity). After doing a little reflection and research, it ended up being something more related to readability–something I didn
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Not long ago, I was auditing a codebase for work (looking for bugs) when I realized that despite the quality of the code, I was becoming mentally fatigued extremely quickly and had a hard time working on it for long stretches of time… I ended up figuring out what made this codebase so difficult to stick with, but it didn’t turn out to be what I expected (Cyclomatic Complexity). After doing a little reflection and research, it ended up being something more related to readability–something I didn
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Hexa is trying something new. Instead of fostering startups from the ground up and incubating them for the first year or so, the Paris-based startup studio is acquiring a majority stake in Veevart, a vertical software-as-a-service company for museums that provides solutions for ticketing, fundraising, CRM and collection management. Hexa is a familiar name in the French tech ecosystem. The startup studio originally started its life in 2011 as eFounders and regularly comes up with ideas for new t
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Visuals are for illustration purposes only. Actual product appearance may vary. 1. Data based on peak biological torques at the hip joint. 40% boost, 30% reduction, and 30 kg offset occur at max assistance, adjusted to body weight. 2. Weight of the carbon version without battery is 1.8 kg. Actual product weight may vary due to material batches and manufacturing processes. Refer to the actual product for precise data. 3. Data from durability tests. Product lifespan may vary based on mate
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As Donald Knuth has just published Volume 4, Fascicle 7 of The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP), on constraint satisfaction, I would like to provide more information about the errors I discovered in 2019 in other volumes, for which I received two Knuth reward checks. To date, my account balance on his “bank”, the Bank of San Serriffe, is still 0x$2.40 (hexadecimal dollars). 0x$2.00 for two errors, and 0x$0.40 for two “valuable suggestions.” His response to my errors reports was faster than I
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