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- Could the UK abolish the monarchy?
- How a roadmap to becoming a republic might actually work
- Iran’s Internet Shutdown Hides a Deadly Crackdown
- Amid protests against the killing of Mahsa Amini, authorities have cut off mobile internet, WhatsApp, and Instagram. The death toll continues to rise.
- The nine boundaries humanity must respect to keep the planet habitable
- More than a decade after the Planetary Boundaries framework was first proposed by top scientists, we are no closer to changing our destructive trajectory
- Mahsa Amini: Protests over woman’s death claim more lives in Iran
- Nine people are now reported to have been killed at protests in Iran sparked by the death of a woman detained for allegedly breaking strict hijab rules.
- Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) 22 September 2022
- A free 24-hour online community event on accessibility and inclusion
- Google Maps voor handelsroutes 14de tot 17de eeuw
- Hoe lang duurde het zo’n 600 jaar geleden om van Eindhoven naar Deventer te komen? Dat kun je berekenen in de vernieuwde versie van Viabundus
- With Stable Diffusion, you may never believe what you see online again
- AI image synthesis goes open source, with big implications.
- Britain may look united in grief – but polling shows a growing generational divide
- In search of the lost “Greek” tribe of Alexander the Great
- A trek through the Hindu Kush to seek out the ancient Kalash people, who claim descent from Alexander’s army
- JSON Crack
- Seamlessly visualize your JSON data instantly into graphs.
- What's new in WCAG 2.2?
- WCAG 2.2 has officially reached “Candidate recommendation” status, meaning it is pretty close to becoming an official standard. What's new?
- Race Correction and the X-Ray Machine
- The Controversy over Increased Radiation Doses for Black Americans in 1968
- Toyota ranked last among world's top vehicle manufacturers for climate performance
- The rankings are based on the manufacturers' progress towards decarbonising their supply chains, phasing out internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles, and resource reduction and efficiency.
- Patagonia Founder Gives Away the Company to Fight Climate Change
- all of its profits — some $100 million a year — are used to combat climate change and protect undeveloped land around the globe.
- Over 10,000 sign petition against Prince of Wales title after it is handed to Prince William
- The petition says that since the days of the Welsh Princes the title has been “held exclusively by Englishmen as a symbol of dominance over Wales”.
- Slouching Towards Utopia
- Brad DeLong on why the years from 1870 to 2010 were humanity’s most important
- 57 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This Fall
- ‘It’s a Little Bit of Utopia’: The Dream of Replacing Container Ships With Sailing Boats
- Global trade depends almost entirely on huge, dirty, dangerous container ships. What would it take to bring back wind-powered sea freight?
- Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, dies aged 96
- Death draws to a close Britain’s second Elizabethan era and heralds the reign of her son, King Charles III
- All the drama surrounding Olivia Wilde’s Don’t Worry Darling, explained
- AOC on Masculinity, Power, and Politics in Post-Roe America
- With midterm elections looming, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez opens up about the hostility in American politics, the role men must play to protect abortion, and her own shot at the presidency.
- #IStandWithStarlight?
- The betrayal of Erin Moriarty by The Boys ‘fans’
- Using :has() as a CSS Parent Selector and much more
- It’s been a long-standing dream of front-end developers to have a way to apply CSS to an element based on what’s happening inside that element.
- The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse
- Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers to survive a societal collapse they helped create, but like everything they do, it has unintended consequences
- Mikhail Gorbachev: Last Soviet leader dies aged 91
- The former president opened up the Soviet Union but failed to prevent its collapse in 1991.
- Trump’s Second Term Would Look Like This
- The former president and his allies have explained their plans quite clearly.
- The Sundown Town Road Trip: A Black Adventurer's Journey of Discovery
- Exploring the diversification of the great outdoors in places built to exclude
- A 17-minute flight? The super-rich who have ‘absolute disregard for the planet’
- Kylie Jenner is far from the only celebrity to make short hops using private jets despite mounting concerns over the climate crisis
- Lean Web Club
- A learning space for people who hate the complexity of modern web development.
- 700m tonnes of CO2 could be saved if people cycled more
- The world would save nearly 700 million tonnes of carbon pollution each year if every person adopted the Dutch way of life and cycled on a daily basis, new research has shown.
- How to Make Your Web Content Accessible
- If you create web content, even if you never write a line of code or log in to a CMS, you have a role to play in accessibility.
- "Nuclear winter" would starve billions, but some countries may be spared
- If a nuclear war were ever to break out, it probably wouldn’t last long. For a few days, perhaps a week, nuclear weapons would be fired between several countries and catastrophic losses would be swift. But what happens next?
- The Future of Food
- How the agriculture industry could go from farming to “ferming.”
- What was that media query code again??
- What was that media query code again? Copy popular media query syntax at the click of a button!
- Europe Droughts Reveal Hunger Stones: Photos