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kernel_task and summer heat

Open Activity Monitor. If kernel_task is the top of the CPU % list and hogging its cores, what should you do? Can Energy Modes help?

July 22, 2025 Macs, Technology

Why is kernel_task taking so much CPU?

Why you shouldn’t try killing kernel_task, but take action to help cool your Mac and reduce the heat it’s producing.

July 11, 2024 Macs, Technology

Keeping cool: control

Signs of thermal strain in a Mac, including what kernel_task is doing, how to encourage heat dissipation and reduce it production.

March 29, 2024 Macs, Technology

Keeping cool: physics

With the heat of summer drawing near, it’s time to consider keeping our Macs and their peripherals cool. Covers thermal paste, heat sinks, fans and more.

March 26, 2024 Macs, Technology

Paintings on fans

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As tried by Pissarro, Degas, Carl Larsson, Gauguin, Anders Zorn, Charles Conder, and Louis Welden Hawkins.

August 28, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of fans

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Paintings from Watteauto George Bellows showing this popular fashion accessory, sometimes used for surreptitious communication between lovers.

August 27, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Fan Club: painted fans in European art 2

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More exquisite painted fans from Carl Larsson, Paul Gauguin, Anders Zorn, and the Australian Impressionist Charles Conder.

September 1, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Fan Club: painted fans in European art 1

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Between 1874-79, Degas and Pissarro started painting fans, initially to relieve their poverty. Here’s the unknown history of fine art fan painting in Europe.

August 31, 2019 General, Life, Painting
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