One of the things I’m most proud of in my entire life is how little I panic before a race these days. I used to be a complete mess, changing my routines, buying new trainers the day before, eating random green pasta in a bid […]
Day: April 18, 2018
Where to Stay and Eat in the Berry Province
The Don Carlos suite is where Don Carlos of Bourbon lived during his exile from Spain in 1839-45. Period luxury. www.panette.fr. Villa Stuart, Aubigny-sur-Nère. Five en-suite rooms with family house atmosphere in 1930s property with outdoor pool. Dinner on reservation; cookery classes and gourmet … social […]
How Southwest Pilots Could Have Landed Safely With a Blown Engine
A Southwest Airlines flight flying from New York City to Dallas turned terrifying this morning, when the left-side engine failed at 31,000 feet. Debris from the engine, which appears to have exploded, punctured the fuselage, leading to the violent depressurization of the cabin. Oxygen masks […]
ZTE said to be meeting with Google over US export ban
Yesterday was a rough one for ZTE. A year after pleading guilty to violating sanctions with Iran and North Korea, the U.S. Department of Commerce brought the hammer down and announced a seven-year export restriction on goods sporting U.S. components. That applies to more than […]
YouTube details how its updates help creators get paid
In a “sneak peek” posted earlier in the month, the service hinted at what that information could include. It would touch on not just the nature of the content, but the level of it. Is there a lot of sex, violence, drug use, firearm , […]
GoFundMe campaign seeks to buy Elon Musk a new couch
You see, it appears that Musk has been so worked up over the production problems surrounding Tesla's Model 3 sedan that he's practically living at Tesla's Fremont factory. And as part of that situation, Musk has been sleeping on a couch in a conference room. […]
Pensioni di invalidità, il Sud doppia il Nord. Spesa da 16 miliardi
Le pensioni sono un po' meno, ma la spesa complessiva cresce ancora, seppur di poco. E continua ad allargarsi anche lo squilibrio tra Nord e Sud, in termini di rapporto tra prestazioni ed abitanti. Il quadro aggiornato al 2018 delle prestazioni per gli invalidi civili […]
Sonos will sell red, yellow and green One speakers for a limited time
Sonos speakers, for the most part, have been limited to two shades, black and white, which is a result of the brand’s desire for its devices to blend in with the home rather than stand out. Well those looking for a little bit of color […]
Scientists accidentally created a mutant, plastic-eating enzyme
Some of humanity’s greatest scientific inventions—penicillin, X-rays, pacemakers, the microwave—were all created after researchers accidentally discovered how they could work. Now we can add a new, monumental creation to that list: a mutant enzyme that starts degrading plastic into its original, natural components, discovered by […]
Thanks to today’s outage, the goobers at the IRS are giving people another day to file their taxes
All of the procrastinating Pollys and Peters who waited til the last minute to file their taxes can breathe a sigh of relief. Thanks to today’s outage of direct payment systems at the Internal Revenue Service, folks are getting another day to get those taxes […]