Category: General
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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…
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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…