This is a short, initially rather upmarket-looking passageway in Chalk Farm that caught my attention thanks to the sculpture at the end. When it was first built, Harmood Grove was a small, kinked passage off George Street with the backs of houses on one side and a small row of cottages on the other.…

인사처럼 건네는 하이파이브, 감동적인 공연을 본 후 쏟아지는 박수갈채 등 인간의 문화에서 박수는 오래도록 다양한 목적으로 사용됐다. 딱딱한 물건이 아닌, 부드러운 손이 맞닿음에도 불구하고 손뼉을 칠 땐 의외로 꽤 큰 소리가 난다. 2023년 개봉한 드라마 <무빙>에는 손뼉을 칠 때 퍼져나가는 충격파로 벽도 부수고, 지반을 붕괴하는 파괴력을 지닌 초능력자가 등장하기도 했다. 사진 1. 사람들은 일상 생활 중 종종 손뼉을 치곤 한다. ⓒshutterstock 미국 코넬대와 미시시피대 공동 연구진은 일상 중 자주 행하는 사회적…

Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies that made me smile, think, and despair for humanity this week. First up, it’s officially a hot Jurassic summer with the recent release of yet another Mesozoic movie filled with de-extincted animals that are oddly preoccupied with human flesh. We’ll…

What It Means Utmost describes something that is the greatest or highest in degree, number, or amount. // The safety of employees is of utmost importance. // Olympians push themselves to the utmost limit when training. See the entry > utmost in Context “Only about 2,000 of the hybrid tea rose…

중앙SUNDAY 오피니언 먼나라 이웃나라 역사 프리즘 [먼나라 이웃나라 역사 프리즘] <89> 개혁의 상징 중앙선데이 입력 2025.07.18 16:30 업데이트 2025.07.18 22:10 951호 29면 중앙일보 지면보기 서비스는 로그인 후 이용 가능합니다. 최근 1개월 내 지면만 열람하실 수 있습니다. 중앙일보 지면보기 서비스는 로그인 후 이용 가능합니다. 로그인 하시면 최신호의 전체 내용을 보실 수 있습니다. 로그인 하시겠습니까? 더중앙플러스 회원이 되시면 창간호부터 전체 지면보기와 지면 다운로드가 가능합니다. 더중앙플러스…

A short list of the most transformative products of the past century and a half would include the lightbulb, Ford’s Model T—and the IBM System/360. This mainframe series forever changed the computer industry and revolutionized how businesses and governments worked, enhancing productivity and making…

To learn how to build more maintainable and usable Python libraries, I’ve been reading some of the most widely used Python packages. Along the way, I learned some things about Python that are off the beaten path. Here are a few things I didn’t know before. Using super() in base classes Python’s…

Past a certain point, web applications outgrow a single server deployment. Companies either want to increase their availability, scalability, or both! To do this, they deploy their application across multiple servers with a load balancer in front to distribute incoming requests. Big companies may…

After getting a new car, [Solo Pilot] missed the automatic garage door opening and closing system their old car had. So they set about building their own, called GarageMinder. On the project page you will find a bill of materials, schematics, and some notes about the approach taken in various…

Film maker [David Greelish] wrote in to let us know about his recent documentary: Before Macintosh: The Apple Lisa. The documentary covers the life of the Apple Lisa. It starts with the genesis of the Lisa Project at Apple, covering its creation, then its marketing, and finally its cancellation. It…

While we don't have much 'smoking-gun-style' evidence of dinosaurs' horns and spikes being used as weapons, there are some signs in the fossil record that suggest they may have been used as such - particularly in the case of Stegosaurus. 10 Unusual Wildlife Encounters on UK Islands Discover rare…

기사를 읽어드립니다 6:53 프랑스 출신 작곡가이자 피아니스트인 에리크 사티(1866-1925)의 1909년 모습. 위키미디어 코먼스 광고 집에 돌아와 오래된 다이어리를 펼쳐보았다. 그날따라 기분이 그랬다. 대학 시절 추억에 젖어, 다시 현재로 바로 돌아올 수는 없었다. 2025년 올해, 모교 음악대학 창립 100주년을 맞았고, 졸업생인 나는 특별 음악회의 진행자로 서게 되어 오랜만에 모교를 찾았다. 캠퍼스를 바라보며 남다른 감회가 밀려왔다. 정문에서부터 무용대학, 미술대학을 거쳐야 비로소 음악대학이 나온다. 그리고 음악대학 바로…

What It Means To devise is to invent or plan something that is difficult or complicated in some way. // The siblings devised a plan to clean the house from top to bottom with hopes of getting their parents to let them go to the concert. See the entry > devise in Context “The Timberwolves…

The C++ standard provides a std::chrono::high_resolution_clock which provides the implementation’s clock with the smallest tick period. This gives you the best resolution available to the implementation. But what if you don’t need the best resolution available to the implementation? For example, our…

Last time, attempted to intercept the ways that a C++ program could exit due to an unhandled exception by installing a custom unhandled structured exception filter and letting it classify the nature of the unhandled exception. But I also noted that there are other ways a C++ program can exit on an…

ACCU Membership: https://tinyurl.com/ydnfkcyn --- Heaps Don’t Lie - Guidelines for Memory Allocation in C++ - Mathieu Ropert - ACCU 2025 --- Dynamic memory allocations are ever-present in most programs. A simple look at the RAM usage of the browser you are currently using to read this abstract will…

What It Means Meritorious is a formal adjective used to describe something that is deserving of honor, praise, or esteem. // She was honored for her meritorious service to the city. See the entry > meritorious in Context "The Air Medal is awarded to anyone who distinguishes themselves through…

On a regular weekday in the United States, most people are working. Unless you’re younger, then more likely you’re in school. Or if you’re older, then maybe you’re relaxing. It depends. Using the most recent data from the American Time Use Survey, which asked people what they did during a day in…

What It Means Fugitive refers to a person who runs away to avoid being captured or arrested. // The FBI regularly updates and circulates its list of most wanted fugitives, and asks communities where they might be seen to be careful and on the lookout. See the entry > fugitive in Context “The…

하드 캔디 (Hard Candy) 2005년 미국영화 감독 : 데이비드 슬레이드 각본 : 브라이언 넬슨 출연 : 패트릭 윌슨, 엘리엇 페이지(엘렌 페이지), 산드라 오 오데사 레이 ​ 엘리엇 페이지, 혹은 엘렌 페이지 ​ 할리우드의 나름 유명한 배우죠. 주연급 톱 스타라고 하긴 그렇지만 썩 괜찮은 화제작들에 제법 나왔죠. '인셉션'을 비롯하여 '엑스맨' 영화 몇 편, 주연 대표작 '주노' 우디 앨런 연출의 '로마 위드 러브' 등의 작품들이 출연작 중 알려진 작품입니다. 우리나라에 개봉된 유명 영화에서는 주연이 아니어서 우리나라에서…

in History, Photography, Uncategorized | July 17th, 2025 Leave a Comment In his­to­ries of ear­ly pho­tog­ra­phy, Louis Daguerre faith­ful­ly appears as one of the fathers of the medi­um. His patent­ed process, the daguerreo­type, in wide use for near­ly twen­ty years in the ear­ly 19th cen­tu­ry,…

in Film | July 17th, 2025 Leave a Comment BlueskyFacebookThreadsMastodonRedditMessageEmailShare Though now in his sev­en­ties, Jack­ie Chan con­tin­ues to appear on the big screen with reg­u­lar­i­ty. For most world-famous actors, that’s hard­ly notable, but it’s not as if Sir John Giel­gud, say,…

A few minutes walk from East London’s Custom House station is a decent-sized woodland that offers a pleasing respite from the summer sun. You might think at first glance that this is an isolated survivor of when the whole area was covered in trees before the houses arrived, but in fact, it’s a…

Little darling, it’s been a long, cold, lonely winter. —George Harrison, “Here Comes the Sun” We’re better together, and that’s as true of software engineers as it was of the Beatles. None of us is as smart as all of us, and this is why in my book The Secrets of Rust: Tools, I encourage thinking…

I'm an experienced C++ programmer, but still feel that I need a mindset shift when starting to work with Rust. References can be immutable (&) or mutable (&mut), which is straightforward for simplest cases. There are more complex cases, e.g. there are data types with interior mutability (e.g.…

Subscribe to receive notifications of new posts: 2025-07-10 Quicksilver is a key-value store developed internally by Cloudflare to enable fast global replication and low-latency access on a planet scale. It was initially designed to be a global distribution system for configurations, but over time…

Few people love their cities’ urbanism. There’s always a problem: Streets are ugly, dirty, expensive, inaccessible, lifeless, overcrowded… But it seems to me that they all boil down to one single problem: Who owns what? This is just the ugliest of them all, not the only ugly urban solution. I…

Image: Matt Brown "When the lions drink, then London shall sink." So runs the old adage. The lions in question are the leonine mooring rings that can be found at various points along the embankments, always positioned beneath lamps. Pictured above, for example, is a row beside Cleopatra's Needle.…

Adventure & Experience | Biking | Luxembourg | France | Germany | Europe The European bike trail that hits three countries in a day (Image credit: Emma Truscott) By Emma Truscott Forty years after a tiny Luxembourgish village paved the way for border-free European travel, a series of scenic bike…

What It Means Abject usually describes things that are extremely bad or severe. It can also describe something that feels or shows shame, or someone lacking courage or strength. // Happily, their attempts to derail the project ended in abject failure. // The defendants were contrite, offering abject…

mathematical physics A New Geometry for Einstein’s Theory of Relativity July 16, 2025 A team of mathematicians based in Vienna is developing tools to extend the scope of general relativity. Read Later Harol Bustos for Quanta Magazine In October 2015, a young mathematician named Clemens Sämann (opens…

in Comedy, Film | July 14th, 2025 Leave a Comment BlueskyFacebookThreadsMastodonRedditMessageEmailShare A few things to know about Char­lie Chap­lin. He starred in over 80 films, reel­ing off most dur­ing the silent film era. In 1914 alone, he act­ed in 40 films, then anoth­er 15 in 1915. By the…

기사 기사 최신 기사 추천 기사 연재 기사 마빡 리스트 전체 정치 사회 문화 예술 교육 역사 취재 리뷰 국제 환경 우주 만물 신변 잡기 만평 만화 교습 강좌 이너뷰 정체 불명 [산하칼럼]삼성과 LG의 끝없는 전쟁, 그 배후의 역사 2016-01-20 11:08 추천3 비추천0 세탁기 파손 사건, 그 배후의 역사 -SBS CNBC 이형진 앵커브리핑에 부쳐- 로미오와 줄리엣의 사연은 이탈리아 베로나에만 있는 건 아닙니다. 남녀간의 사랑이란 무엇이든 타고 넘는 법이라 몬터규와 캐퓰렛처럼 사생결단을 벌이는 원수 집안 간에도, 지기라도 하는…