Category: General
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Trump announces new auto tariffs in a major trade war escalation
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in GeneralThe move didn’t come as a huge surprise to automakers. An executive at one of the automakers, who spoke on background to CNN on Wednesday, said they had already been working with the assumption that auto tariffs would take effect next week. “We were all kind of expecting April 2 to be our day,” said…
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Keep the lights on or mine Bitcoin? How crypto is starting to suck up clean energy
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in GeneralTo “mine” for digital currencies, powerful computers perform trillions of calculations per second. The more computer power miners have, the more profitable mining will be. This all adds up to huge amounts of electricity use. Where once Abkhazia was powered almost entirely by renewable hydropower, it’s now increasingly reliant on subsidized energy from Russia to help reduce…
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Plant and boys in the branches
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in GeneralMiniature of a plant and boys standing in the branches of a fruit tree picking fruit and thowing down to a woman standing below. From Tractatus de Herbis (ca.1440)
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Tractatus de Herbis (ca.1440)
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in GeneralSelections from a beautifully illustrated 15th century version of the “Tractatus de Herbis”, a book produced to help apothecaries and physicians from different linguistic backgrounds identify plants they used in their daily medical practice. No narrative text is present in this version, simply pictures and the names of each plant written in various languages –…
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Johannes Hartlieb’s Book of Herbs (1462)
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in GeneralThis 1462 Kräuterbuch (“Book of Herbs”) by Johannes Hartlieb enfolds, verbatim, much of Konrad von Megenberg’s Buch der Natur, published a century earlier and considered by scholars to be the first natural history written in German. (The Buch der Natur itself reworked herbals by Thomas of Cantimpré and Albert Magnus, who, in turn, borrowed heavily from Arabic botanical handbooks.) Unlike…
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Collater.al
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in GeneralCollater.al is a Web Magazine dedicated to contemporary creative culture and a Creative Studio specializing in consulting, creative direction and content production.
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Public Domain Image Archive
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in GeneralThe Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA) — brought to you by The Public Domain Review (PDR) — is a curated collection of more than 10,000 out-of-copyright historical images, free for all to explore and reuse. Our aim is to offer a platform that will serve both as a practical resource and a place to simply wander —…
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Criptovalute. Quali sono e come funzionano.
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in GeneralChe cosa sono le criptovalute Per capire meglio cosa sono le criptovalute – dette anche cripto – può venirci in soccorso anche una definizione di carattere linguistico. Il termine si compone infatti di due parole distinte: cripto, ossia legato al mondo della crittografia, e valuta. Possiamo quindi dire che sono delle monete virtuali (o anche “rappresentazioni digitali di valore”, come…
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A Poetic Cabin Might Signal the Future for a Small Icelandic Village
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in GeneralPálmar Kristmundsson’s unique getaway on the grounds of a defunct concrete factory just might be the catalyst that reinvigorates a struggling community
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Learn Lightroom
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in GeneralMake basic edits to adjust lighting and color Start with an auto adjustment and then fine tune the brightness, contrast, and color in a photo.https://www.adobe.com/learn/lightroom-cc/web/adjust-image-lighting-color-lightroom-cc?learnIn=1 Notes:Double click on a slider to reset that slider to default Light panel Exposure: overall brightness Highlights and Shadows: work on bright and dark areas Whites and Blacks: work on…
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Fabrizio Bernini, il figlio di una trovatella diventato imprenditore di successo: «Se ce l’ho fatta io, possono farcela tutti»
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in GeneralFabrizio Bernini, 67 anni, presidente di Confindustria Toscana sud, titolare di un’azienda con circa 500 dipendenti che fattura 700 milioni:«Mio padre era alcolizzato, ho iniziato a lavorare smontando e rimontando radio, tv ed elettrodomestici. Poi inventammo il il robot Ambrogio per tagliare l’erba dei prati»
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Open Access at The Met
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in GeneralData about The Met collection, including over 492,000 images of public-domain artworks, available for free and unrestricted use. Browse more than 492,000 Open Access works in The Online Collection by selecting the Open Access filter in search. All Open Access images also have an “OA” icon, , at the lower left of the image.
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The Voynich Manuscript
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in GeneralThere are countless objects that defy understanding, but the Voynich manuscript is perhaps one of the most confounding. Named after the rare books collector Wilfrid Voynich, who acquired it in 1912, the manuscript continues to baffle skilled cryptologists to this day. In fact, it’s never even been deciphered.
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Meta Field Block plugin – Display custom fields as a block
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in GeneralDisplay a custom field as a block on the front end. It supports custom fields for posts, terms, and users. It supports ACF fields explicitly.
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This alien plant is lethal for the environment. Now it’s being turned into a plastic to regrow forests
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in GeneralHyaPak Ecotech Limited, founded by Joseph Nguthiru, began life as a final year project by the former Egerton University civil and environmental engineering student. Nguthiru and his classmates experienced the problem of water hyacinths firsthand on a field trip to Lake Naivasha in 2021, when their boat became trapped for five hours. They returned determined to…
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The worst thing LA could do as it recovers from fire disaster
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in GeneralI’m scared that we’re going to rebuild LA more or less the same way, without using this as an opportunity to rethink how LA is built and reinvest in important public infrastructure like better water supply systems, as well as coming up with a strategy to force a retreat from building in the most risky…
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These people stopped procrastinating. You can too with this advice, they say
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in GeneralFinch often stayed in bed until just one minute before his first video meeting of the day. After it was over, he’d crawl back into bed as he cried over not understanding why his dream job had turned into a nightmare he just couldn’t push through, he said. Those circumstances eventually turned into the worst…
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La prima puntata di Quark
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in GeneralIl 18 marzo 1981, oltre quarant’anni fa, andava in onda sulla Rai, in seconda serata, la prima puntata di “Quark”, lo storico programma di Piero Angela di divulgazione scientifica, tecnologica, naturalistica, alimentare, umanistica alla portata di tutti. Ecco la copertina della puntata, dalle Teche Rai.
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Jeff Koons Doesn’t Get It
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in GeneralWhile Koons may be a man on the moon, he’s looking back at Earth, oblivious to the vastness behind him, if only he would turn around. But perhaps I’m missing the point — after all, why would Koons turn around to face the chill of the infinite universe, when he has the whole world in the…
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The Ceaseless Optimism of Woody Guthrie’s Activist Life
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in GeneralSomehow, the poisonous American anger that swirled around Guthrie never corrupted that innate creative optimism. Empathy was his reliable muse.
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If your Apple Account is grayed out in iPhone Settings
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in GeneralIf you can’t select your Apple Account
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Store your iPhone backup on the cloud with Dropbox
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in Generaluse Dropbox as your main storage for all of your devices. We’ll discuss that further below but, for now, let’s look at how to store an iPhone backup on Dropbox. To upload a backup file to Dropbox, first back up your data to your computer by following the iTunes backup process mentioned earlier. Once you…
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Watch the First 2 Hours of MTV’s Inaugural Broadcast (August 1, 1981)
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in GeneralNot everyone on August 1, 1981 had a VCR at their disposal, and not everybody stayed up until midnight. But fortunately at least one person did, in order to tape the first two hours of a new cable channel called MTV: Music Television. Did they know it would be historic? MTV certainly hoped it would…
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Tex n.109-113 “Chinatown”
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in GeneralIn quest’avventura, Gianluigi Bonelli recuperava l’argomento – e gli avversari – di una storia precedente (contenuta nei n.46 e 47, come ben spiegato nella nostra scheda storica): quindi ci sarebbero stati di nuovo una setta cinese, complici messicani, sparatorie eccetera eccerera. Quanto bastava, insomma, per aspettare freneticamente l’uscita dei nuovi albi della ristampa “Tre Stelle”, che il fratello…