Last month, we spotlighted the Kickstarter campaign for Gardens of Ynn, a “depth-crawl” adventure by Emily Allen getting a new edition courtesy of SoulMuppet Publishing (Orbital Blues, Best Left Buried). As they prepare to wrap up their Kickstarter campaign, which has already raised $160,000 against a $12,530 goal, we wanted to have a chat with…
Schematic drawing of the thermoelectric effect in nickel-gold alloys. Credit: Fabian Garmroudi Thermoelectrics enable the direct conversion of heat into electrical energy—and vice versa. This makes them interesting for a range of technological applications. In the search for thermoelectric materials with the best possible properties, a research team at the Vienna University of Technology (TU…
The Sims 4 community is a little sadistic, and unabashedly so. The sandbox capabilities of EA’s otherwise family-friendly life sim have always encouraged us to explore those morbid curiosities with a proud lack of compunction. You’ll be hard-pressed to find anyone who didn’t delight in deleting pool ladders in The Sims 2, and it’s a…
