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- New Research Shows We’re on Schedule.
- The Formidable Charm of Omar Sy
- How the star of “Lupin” pulled off his greatest confidence trick.
- A New History Changes the Balance of Power Between Ethiopia and Medieval Europe
- For centuries, a Eurocentric worldview disregarded the knowledge and strength of the African empire
- The Forgotten Interventions
- The long history of US intervention in other countries’ elections has been omitted from discussions of Russia’s alleged meddling.
- Victorian Society Ladies Defended Their Honor With Jiu-Jitsu
- A lady never starts a fight. But she will finish one.
- Yes, All Men - by Jessica Valenti
- Only a small percentage of men attack women, but the majority let it happen
- Cut Out the Middle Tier: Generating JSON Directly from Postgres
- PostgreSQL has built-in JSON generators that can be used to create structured JSON output right in the database, upping performance and radically simplifying web tiers.
- Here Come the Fall Tour Cancelations | MetalSucks
- Study Projects a Surge in Coastal Flooding, Starting in 2030s
- In the mid-2030s, every U.S. coast will experience rapidly increasing high-tide floods, when a lunar cycle will amplify rising sea levels caused by climate change.
- The invisible addiction: is it time to give up caffeine?
- Caffeine makes us more energetic, efficient and faster. But we have become so dependent that we need it just to get to our baseline
- Opinion: Richard Branson's disappointing space jaunt
- Mitigating further climate damage is the most urgent challenge currently facing the planet -- one which should interest the world's billionaires far more than that of stepping just over the well-trod threshold of space.
- The lie of “expired” food and the disastrous truth of America’s food waste problem
- Stop throwing your food away.
- Were The Years After The Black Death A Golden Age For Medieval Women?
- In the 150 years after the Black Death halved London's population, women enjoyed new economic power in the city. Caroline Barron asks whether this era truly was a 'golden age' for English women
- The Complicated Future of the Handshake
- The pandemic killed this 2,500-year-old greeting as we know it.
- All talk, no jabs: the reality of global vaccine diplomacy
- Around two-thirds of shots promised bilaterally have arrived, while Covax has received fewer than one per cent of surplus doses pledged
- Belgium imposes ventilation rules for businesses to combat new Covid surge
- Carbon dioxide monitors must be on public display so customers can see level of fresh air
- Four-day week 'an overwhelming success' in Iceland
- The majority of workers in Iceland now look set to move to shorter hours for the same pay.
- New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral — despite being entirely fictional
- joke that mere mention of a new prod would appear in job ads came true and spawned books, songs, forks, cryptocoin, and more
- Canadian inferno: northern heat exceeds worst-case climate models
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/02/canadian-inferno-northern-heat-exceeds-worst-case-climate-models
- Day of Rage
- An In-Depth Look at How a Mob Stormed the Capitol
- The Oral History of ‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’
- Three decades ago, James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Linda Hamilton joined forces again to make the biggest, baddest, most eye-popping sequel ever. Here’s the story of how the machines took over Hollywood.
- Joseph Fiennes on Brutal ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 4 Finale Ending and Death
- De Pink Tax
- waarom vrouwen meer betalen voor hetzelfde product dan mannen
- Operatie Nachtwacht - Rijksmuseum
- Opinion: Vaccine Hesitancy In The U.S. Is A Peculiar Privilege
- That's Dr. Junaid Nabi's perspective as an immigrant when he hear Americans say they're going to "watch and wait" — while his family and colleagues abroad are desperate for a COVID-19 vaccine.
- Why ‘tiny forests’ are popping up in big cities
- Community forests the size of a basketball court can make an outsized difference, providing shade, attracting plants and animals, and even storing a bit of carbon.
- Pieter Pot
- Met onze verpakkingsvrije bezorgdienst verminderen we de hoeveelheid afval en CO2.
- Time to face the brutal truth: there’s no glamour at the bottom of a glass
- Alcohol addiction has long been romanticised in films, TV shows, books and adverts. Let’s look at the destructive drudgery and sheer sorrow of the disease instead
- Leiden in lego-steentjes
- Leiden in lego steentjes optrekken, als het aan de Historische Vereniging Oud Leiden (HVOL) ligt wordt daar de komende maanden druk aan gewerkt.
- Pfizer and Moderna Vaccines Likely to Produce Lasting Immunity, Study Finds
- Immune cells are still organizing to fight the coronavirus months after inoculation, scientists reported.
- The Anti–Birth Control Movement Is the New Anti-Abortion Movement
- Republicans are “conflating medications that prevent pregnancy—birth control and emergency contraception—with medications that end pregnancy,” says the president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund.
- China is building a floating train that could be faster than air travel
- Designed to reach speeds of up to 600 km/h, the prototype magnetic levitation train could travel between Shanghai and Beijing in just three and a half hours.
- Three Core Ideas to Make Remote Work, Work
- How a Burner Identity Protects Your Inbox, Phone, and Cards
- Handing out any sort of personal information, whether it’s an email address or a phone number, can lead to spam, data breaches, or harassment.
- Software Estimation Is Hard. Do It Anyway.
- Being able to tell your bosses and peers what to expect by when – and then hitting those marks – builds trust in a major way.
- The climate crisis is a crime that should be prosecuted
- Fossil fuel companies lied for decades about climate change, and humanity is paying the price. Shouldn’t those lies be central to the public narrative?
- Our world is built as though periods don't exist - even our toilets and sanitary bins
- When it comes to women's health, procreation is prioritised, yet the experience of periods has barely changed in half a century
- Corona Dashboard
- Create a central information hub for the Netherlands about the status of the Coronavirus pandemic, and the local and national measures that apply.
- Historical photos circulating depict women medical pioneers
- they represent the first women doctors from their countries, back in the 1800s.
- Let's Learn About Aspect Ratio In CSS
- Learn how to use the native CSS aspect-ratio property
- Vaccinatie vroeger en corona nu
- Over de tentoonstelling Besmet! in Rijksmuseum Boerhaave
- Drought-stricken communities push back against data centers
- As cash-strapped cities welcome Big Tech to build hundreds of million-dollar data centers in their backyards, critics question the environmental cost.
- Algoritmes versterken genderongelijkheid
- Gezichtsherkenningssoftware werkt vaak beter bij mannen dan bij vrouwen. Vacaturewebsites bevelen goed betaalde banen vaker aan bij mannen dan bij vrouwen.
- 4-Day Workweeks Can Boost Happiness and Productivity
- Reducing hours without reducing pay would reignite an essential but long-forgotten moral project: making life less about work.
- Photos Of Juneteenth Celebrations From The 1800s
- Juneteenth is now a federal holiday. How have Americans been celebrating it since the end of the Civil War?
- Ancient 'Megalake': The Largest Lake Ever Held 10 Times The Water of All Lakes Today
- Why Scrum prevents and causes Technical Debt
- Birthrates are declining globally – here's why it matters
- In fact, the Brookings Institute estimates that 300,000 babies were not born in the US as a result of economic insecurity related to the pandemic.