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'Victims of Revolutions' in Paris, France
This yet eerie monument has a contentious origin story.#cemeteries #warhistory #monuments #section-Atlas
French sculptor Paul Moreau-Vauthier transformed the site of a 19th-century massacre into a haunting memorial.ugc (Atlas Obscura)
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#idw #Pesticides have greater impacts on animals, plants, and microorganisms than previously thought
Pesticides are used primarily in #agriculture to control pests. However, they can also harm many beneficial animal, plant and fungal species that are not the target of the control. An international meta analysis, including contributions from the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of #Biodiversity Change (LIB), 1/2
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Eco-Funerals Now Feature World’s First ‘Living Coffin’ Made Out of Mushrooms
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Funeral directors in the UK can now bury you in the ‘world's first living coffin’, which is made out of mushrooms and hemp.Good News Network
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We are PeARS, a friendly project dedicated to the development of a fully open source and decentralised #Web #search #engine.
How does it work? Every instance of PeARS can be considered a mini search engine for a single topic of interest, which is populated and curated by people like you. One beautiful day, when enough instances are alive, they will come together to provide a generalised Web search solution. Owned by you.
Interested? Come and help us! Say hello here or on GitHub.
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Great Big Story spoke with Bubzia, the world's fastest blindfolded speedrunner who has conquered every Super Mario 64 game.Lori Dorn (Laughing Squid)
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Down To Earth Magazine: Earth enters dangerous new climate era: Studies suggest Paris Agreement warming threshold breached already…
Almost every month in recent years has individually exceeded 1.5°C anomaly, signalling long-term climate shift... #temperatures #globalwarming #climatechange #C3S #parisagreement #IPCC
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Almost every month in recent years has individually exceeded 1.5°C anomaly, signalling long-term climate shift… #temperatures #globalwarming #climatechange #C3S #parisagreement #IPCCfor much deliberation
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🏭 Coal gasification, an old technology, is quietly expanding across Asia
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#coal #energy #chemistry #industry #climatechange #badnews #asia #syngas #c1
In Nagasaki prefecture, on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu, J-Power, the operator of the aging Matsushima coal-fired power plant, has an idea to keep the unit operating despite the country’s no-coal pledge: gasification.Isabel Esterman (Conservation news)
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Chrissi Kelly, who says anosmia is a ‘like a bereavement’, is trialling a simple procedure that could help those who lost sense of smell during Covid or other viral infectionsJames Tapper (The Guardian)
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That’s the way to fulfil your goals and have fun in life, writes Simon MayGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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🎨 #BLOG:
Incorporating education in the #arts into the curriculum can benefit all students, and it can have some secondary benefits, such as improving student achievement.
#CoffeeForTheArts #Coffee #Tea #Artist
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In recent years, many school districts have had to make the difficult decision to cut art programs such as drama, music, visual arts, photography, and so on, due to budget cuts and based upon state/national academic priorities.Robert Casillas (Coffee For The Arts)
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Phys.org: Research reveals how Earth got its ice caps…
#earthsciences #environment #icecaps
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A helpful two-toed sloth at Sustainable Safari hung upside down to hold onto the dustpan pole that her keeper was using to sweep up.Lori Dorn (Laughing Squid)
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#QuizOfTheDay: A #Hydroelectric dam harnesses the #Energy of falling water to generate #Electricity.
What is the largest hydroelectric dam in the world by installed capacity?
A. Tarbela Dam, Pakistan
B. Three Gorges Dam, China
C. Fort Peck Dam, USA
D. Atatürk Dam,Turkey
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🍙 Seaweed farms show potential for carbon storage that gets better with age
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Den Spauwer in Brussels, Belgium
Known as "The Spewer," this bizarre fountain has an even stranger urban legend behind it.#urbanlegends #legends #statues #fountains #section-Atlas
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🍶 Japanese food makers step in to preserve sake breweries' legacy
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The initiatives by food companies coincide with a growing recognition of traditional sake-making techniques.The Japan Times
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Paul Workman has researched untreatable chordoma for years. Now new technology points towards to a potential drug to beat itRobin McKie (The Guardian)
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Golden-breasted Starling
A slim, gorgeous long-tailed starling of dry country. Iridescent green, purple, and blue decorate the upperparts, and the belly is yellow. There is a dark mask and a pale eye. The flight is weak, with the long, thin tail flapping behind. Found in dry woodland, thorn savanna, and thorn scrub, usually in small flocks. Generally shy, but can become tame in some lodges and picnic areas.
Link: ebird.org/species/gobsta5
Photo Location: Kenya
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⚡ Generating electricity from tacky tape: Follow-up research offers improved version
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How would a small asteroid impact change life on Earth? – Earth.com…
Throughout history, Earth has faced cataclysmic events that reshaped its climate and ecosystems. Some of these events were triggered by asteroid impacts, leaving long-lasting effects on both land and sea... #asteroid #earth #space
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Café De Dokter in Amsterdam, Netherlands
The smallest bar in Amsterdam has stayed in the family since 1798.#timecapsule #bar #section-Atlas #section-GastroPlace
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Italian nobrewoman Vittoria Accoramboni was born #OTD in 1557.
Her story formed the basis of Webster's drama, The Tragedy of Paolo Giordano Ursini (1612), and of Ludwig Tieck's novel, Vittoria Accoramboni (1840); it is told more accurately in D. Gnoli's volume, Vittoria Accoramboni (Florence, 1870), and an excellent sketch of her life is given in Countess E. Martinengo-Cesaresco's Lombard Studies (London, 1902).
Vittoria Accoramboni by Stendhal at PG
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"... the increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts; not their diminution or destruction."
Galileo was born #OTD in 1564. One of the key figures of the scientific revolution, his name is associated with important contributions in physics & astronomy. Also of primary importance was his role in the astronomical revolution, with support for the heliocentric system & Copernican theory.
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Project Gutenberg offers 75,205 free eBooks for Kindle, iPad, Nook, Android, and iPhone.Project Gutenberg
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When asked about Pytharoras most persons may be familiar with the Pythagorean theorem (a2+b2=c2), despite aspects of this concept being known prior to Pythagoras himself. However, historically Pyth…philosophy indefinitely
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#OTD in 1824.
Lord Byron falls ill at Missolonghi while taking part in the Greek War of Independence. He dies of fever on April 19. The Greeks mourned Lord Byron deeply, and he became a hero.
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Books by Lord Byron at PG:
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A Narrative of Lord Byron's Last Journey to Greece by Pietro Gamba (1825):
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#OTD in 1908.
The weekly boys' story paper The Magnet is first published in London, containing "The Making of Harry Wharton", the first serial story of the fictional Greyfriars School written by Charles Hamilton as Frank Richards and introducing the character of Billy Bunter. He was introduced as a minor character, but developed into one of the principal characters of the stories as author Charles Hamilton realised his comic potential.
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#PuzzleOfTheDay: The digit sum of a natural number is the sum of all its digits e.g. digit sum of 72 is 7+2 = 9, digit sum of 9045 = 9+0+4+5 = 18.
What is the sum of first 99 digit sums i.e. digit sum of 1 + digit sum of 2 + ... digit sum of 99?
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Wedge-rumped Storm-Petrel
Very small storm-petrel. Fairly common in warmer offshore waters and not usually seen from shore. Plumage black overall with large, wedge-shaped white rump patch and slightly notched tail tip. Often feeds and associates with Least and Black storm-petrels. Similar to slightly larger Leach’s and Townsend’s storm-petrels, but flies with deeper wingbeats, and white rump patch is larger and longer.
Link: ebird.org/species/wrspet
Photo Location: Ecuador
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#OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of Italian #Polymath Galileo Galilei (1564) - known as the "father of observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics", the "father of the scientific method".
Philosopher #Socrates was sentenced to death by the city of Athens (399BC).
The first draft of the complete human #Genome was published in Nature (2001)
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It's happening...🚶🏼♀️- 🐦⬛🦠🤧
Wyoming’s First Human Bird Flu Case Confirmed - Wyoming Department of Health
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Back in 2018, I made this very handy mini egg-flip. And for what it was designed to do (flip eggs, move biscuits off trays, etc) it excelled.
However, youngest child has been using it to fry steaks and pressing down on the steak in the process, so the thin shank glued in to a turned wooden handle was a weak point. The wood broke.
Rather than just make another handle with the same problem, I set about fixing the attachment point.
I took some engineering grade stainless bar, and forged down a small part of it and formed a cone, then welded that to the egg-flip shank. The existing wooden handle fits inside beautifully. I'm now waiting for the epoxy holding it in there to set before it can go back in service.
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Tonight I start #FediFortuneFriday where I will pull a fortune cookie for the #Fediverse from a jar I have, crack it open, eat the cookie and read the fate of this place for the weekend. The one I pulled today is perfect.
*we use only real cookies with real fortunes, no AI bs
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It’s #Friday folks!
Have the best #weekend you can.
You know the drill:
Be #kind
Be #gentle
Be #true
Be like #bees
This #ValentinesDay
Fall in love with #nature.
Maybe even fall back in #love with this old #planet.
❤️🌍🐝
#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
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Bumblebee Love.
For most species of #bumblebee the queens will usually only mate with one male.
Most males never actually get to mate successfully but if given the chance will indeed mate with more than one queen!
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Selective Cleaner: A Privacy-Focused Chrome Extension for Targeted Data Management
In an era where online privacy is paramount, the Selective Cleaner Chrome extension emerges as a powerful tool for users seeking granular control over their browsing data. This innovative extension al...
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I took a selfie in my "Protector of the Woods" guise. Thinking of all the young (and old, and middle-aged) #ForestDefenders and #ClimateJustice warriiors out there! #NeverGiveUp!
#DefendTheForest #Nature #DefendNature #EnvironmentalJustice
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