Category: General
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Population Decline Will Change the World for the Better
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in GeneralA future with fewer people offers increased opportunity and a healthier environment
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Trump Gaza, Smotrich: “La Striscia è una miniera d’oro immobiliare, già in trattativa con gli Usa”
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in GeneralIl ministro israeliano di estrema destra: “La demolizione l’abbiamo fatta, ora dobbiamo costruire”
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L’ex agente del Mossad: «Fondi dal Qatar e conti in criptovalute? Ora un’inchiesta sul premier di Israele e la sua famiglia»
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in GeneralLa storia di Udi Levi, per 14 anni numero uno dell’intelligence finanziaria del Mossad. Chiede un’indagine sui rapporti finanziari tra Netanyahu e il Qatar. Che manda soldi a Hamas. Le lettere dagli Emirati e le campagne di Bibi
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Nakba, la «catastrofe»: la storia (violenta) della cacciata dei palestinesi, nel 1948
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in GeneralQuello della «Nakba» è stato un capitolo ignorato per trent’anni dalla storiografia occidentale: ecco che cosa accadde, e come, tra gli ultimi mesi del 1947 e l’inizio del 1949
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Resource for Vincent van Gogh’s artworks
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in GeneralHis most brilliant works date from this later period, during his time at the hospital at Arles, where he painted his famous bedroom. All of these paintings, and hundreds more, can be found in high-resolution scans at the new van Gogh resource, Van Gogh Worldwide, “a consortium of museums,” notes Madeleine Muzdakis at My Modern Met, “doing their…
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AI system resorts to blackmail if told it will be removed
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in GeneralArtificial intelligence (AI) firm Anthropic says testing of its new system revealed it is sometimes willing to pursue “extremely harmful actions” such as attempting to blackmail engineers who say they will remove it.
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Geoffrey Hinton: «I militari hanno preso l’IA. Entro 20 anni esseri superintelligenti ci sostituiranno: rischiamo l’estinzione»
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in GeneralIl premio Nobel e l’intelligenza artificiale: «I leader delle aziende tecnologiche non hanno una posizione morale: che tristezza. Ora ascoltiamo il Papa». Venerdì 12 assieme ad altri scienziati discuterà con Leone XIV
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The hill where the idea of a Palestinian state may die
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in GeneralAtop a Palestinian village overlooking Jerusalem, Atallah Mazara’a ruminates about his long-held dream. His Bedouin village of Jabal al-Baba sits near the geographical center of the occupied West Bank, balanced between the north and south of what a future Palestinian state would be made up of. But with each passing day, that dream seems to…
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Brett Allen Johnson Harnesses the Glow of the American Southwest in Dreamy Oil Paintings
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in GeneralAs though seared into our collective consciousness, some images of the American Southwest seem to fully embody its inhospitable terrain, mercurial weather, and intense, challenging beauty. One of these would most certainly be Edward Curtis’ dramatic 1904 photograph of the sacred Canyon de Chelly (pronounced “deh-shay”) in Arizona, featuring a string of Navajo riders on horseback, silhouetted…
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America’s Nuclear War Plan in the 1960s Was Utter Madness. It Still Is.
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in GeneralNuclear war is madness. Were a nuclear weapon to be launched at the United States, including from a rogue nuclear-armed nation like North Korea, American policy dictates a nuclear counterattack. This response would almost certainly set off a series of events that would quickly spiral out of control. “The world could end in the next couple…
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Equal Earth • Political Wall Map
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in GeneralA world map for everyone The Equal Earth Wall Map is for schools, organizations, or anyone who needs a map showing countries and continents at their true sizes relative to each other. Africa appears 14 times larger than Greenland as it actually is. And wherever you live, the map has you covered. Download a choice…
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Equal Earth • Physical Wall Map
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in GeneralA completely natural world map The Equal Earth Physical Map focuses on the natural world—terrain, rivers and lakes, vegetation, land cover, and the ocean floor—free of obscuring country boundaries. It is a companion piece for the Equal Earth Political Map. Because the map projection is equal-area, continents and oceans are shown at their true sizes relative…
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100 Best Movies of the 21st Century
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in GeneralMore than 500 influential directors, actors and other notable names in Hollywood and around the world voted on the best films released since Jan. 1, 2000. Here is how their ballots stacked up.
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Genesis Albums From Worst To Best
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in GeneralGenesis’ loyal fans and outspoken critics love and hate the band for the exact same reasons. During their prime-era prog-rock run in the early ’70s, with Peter Gabriel as frontman, Genesis either represented the genre at its peak of bloat or expressiveness; during the ’80s, with Phil Collins on vocals, they were selling out stadiums…
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Il test di intelligenza più veloce del mondo (soltanto tre domande)
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in GeneralPrima domanda: la palla da baseball Una mazza e una palla da baseball costano in tutto 1,10 dollari. La mazza costa un dollaro più della palla. Quanto costa la palla? Seconda domanda: in fabbrica Se 5 macchine ci mettono 5 minuti a fabbricare 5 congegni, quanto tempo ci mettono 100 macchine a fabbricarne 100? Terza…
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Carl Sagan Issues a Chilling Warning About the Decline of Scientific Thinking in America
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in GeneralNearly 20 years later, we have reached that point. Under the second Trump administration, DOGE has rushed to dismantle the scientific infrastructure of our government, haphazardly cutting the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and NASA. Next, they’re going after our leading research universities, intentionally weakening the research engine that has fueled the…
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Tina Merlin, la voce che denunciò i rischi del Vajont
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in GeneralMerlin, un’oscura corrispondente di provincia, era stata l’unica giornalista italiana a raccogliere le proteste degli abitanti di quelle zone durante la costruzione della grande diga a partire dal 1957 e a segnalarne poi ripetutamente i pericoli, tanto da meritarsi lo sprezzante nomignolo di “Cassandra del Vajont”.
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The No-BS Protest Art of the Anti-Trump Marches
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in GeneralIn nationwide demonstrations this weekend, protesters left “Dump Trump” in 2016 and opted for cheekier and artistically inclined messaging.
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Con Trump una crisi transatlantica «senza precedenti»? Abbiamo dimenticato il 1971 di Nixon
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in GeneralEichengreen pensa tutto il male possibile di Trump però ha il pregio di vedere gli eventi attuali in un arco lungo della storia. Un suo articolo sul Financial Times mi ha riportato alla memoria una crisi dell’alleanza transatlantica che anche allora fu vissuta come terminale, epocale, irrimediabile, definitiva. Risale a 54 anni fa, nientemeno.
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Nick Offerman calls out ‘homophobic hate’ against The Last of Us
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in General“Thanks to HBO for having the guts to participate in this storytelling tradition that is truly independent. Stories with guts that when homophobic hate comes my way and says, ‘Why did you have to make it a gay story?’ We say, ‘Because you ask questions like that. It’s not a gay story it’s a love…
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La storia di Soumaila, fuggito dal Mali
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in GeneralSoumaila è un giovane attivista maliano quando nel 2012 un colpo di Stato sconvolge la sua vita e quella di altri 17 milioni di persone. La lotta per il potere porta a un lungo periodo di repressione e di persecuzione per chi si oppone al nuovo regime. Anche chi ha un passaporto valido e un…