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Wow! Biologists seem to have discovered an entirely new kind of life form. They’re called ‘obelisks’, and you probably have some in you. They were discovered in 2024—not by somebody actually seeing one, but by analyzing huge amounts of genetic data from the human gut. This search found 29,959 new RNA sequences, similar to each other, but very different from any previously known. Thus, we don’t know where these things …

Over the past few weeks I've been working on the lumber shed portion of Art Curren's kit-mingling project, Artz Lumber Co.. Even though I've written about some aspects of Curren's projects, especially his connection with E. L. Moore, I've never actually worked on one of his builds. In 2023 I came up with an idea for a little diorama that would feature E. L. Moore's Cal's Lumberyard project and the …

Please see below our new call for a special dossier on Television, to be published in the second half of 2025 in Significação: Journal of Audiovisual Culture. https://revistas.usp.br/significacao/announcement/view/1841 Significação: Revista de Cultura Audiovisual invites submissions for a special dossier dedicated to the multifaceted and ever-evolving medium of television… Source

• 4-star hikes • 3 to 4 mile options • Moderate | Gain 1,100 to 1,300 feet • Sargent's Purchase, NH | White Mountains . Hikers taking in the views at the Gem Pool. If you'd like to experience some Mount Washington hiking but don't want to venture all the way to the summit, a trip to the waterfalls on the Ammonoosuc Ravine Trail can be a rewarding compromise. Located …

It’s winter, so that means days of getting gear re-packed for the coming Spring shooting season! I like to keep a full system in a backpack that can sit in the car and be worked out of! I no longer carry or wear a backpack, but I want to keep everything I might need close by. A photo vest works great to carry a few lenses and spare batteries! Comfort …

The door of the Writers’ Museum. Reading this week: Virunga, Archives and Collections of an Outstanding National Park edited by Patricia Van Schuylenbergh and Han de Koeijer Our final day in Edinburgh began with some light shopping, first of all for donuts at Kilted Donut. That place was great. Between the two of us we got three donuts and couldn’t finish them. We ate them on a bench in the …

A past blog post highlighted the importance of APHA’s collaborative efforts to promote bee health and honey production in Ghana. Honeybees are crucial to agriculture across Ghana, with key crops like shea, cashew, and citrus oil palm relying heavily on them for pollination. Beyond their ecological importance, beekeeping initiatives in Ghana are also focused on creating jobs and generating wealth, contributing to the economic empowerment of local communities. Find out …

The ingredients used to make this novel promise something delectable. There is a deceased and disreputable writer, Cyril Heldman, who wrote weird and occultish tales and who died under very strange circumstances. His literary executor, Catherine Richards, whose house is crammed full of books, papers, newspapers, herself dies bizarrely in the first chapter: by falling from the sky onto the nearby roof of her longtime friend Tanya Sewell, who is …

Jonny Woo: Suburbia is a reflective and raucous act of cabaret at the Soho Theatre “I left,... The post Review: Jonny Woo – Suburbia, Soho Theatre appeared first on There Ought To Be Clowns.

I'm in my 50s and want to quit-- but I don't know if I have "enough". The post I’m 50 And Ready To Quit; A Case Study Update 3 Years Later first appeared on Financial Mechanic.

lingthusiasm:Lingthusiasm Episode 100: A hundred reasons to be enthusiastic about linguisticsThis is our hundredth episode that’s enthusiastic about linguistics! To celebrate, we’ve put together 100 of our favourite fun facts about linguistics, featuring contributions from previous guests and Lingthusiasm team members, fan favourites that resonated with you from the previous 99 episodes, and new facts that haven’t been on the show before but might star in one of the next …

Over the last few years we have seen many new characters enter the public domain including Winnie-the-Pooh in 2022, Mickey Mouse in 2024, and now, Popeye in 2025! The character emerged from a comic strip called Thimble Theater, which was started in 1919 and originally centered around the characters Ham Gravy and Olive Oyl. Popeye made his first appearance in the series as a minor player in early 1929, and …

Galerie der Abseitigen Künste/Mille Plateaux, book+USB card, ISBN 978-3948478193, English, 64 pages, 2023, Germany The electric guitar has been playing a structural role for music especially in the second half of the 20th century, and still retains its importance. To acknowledge this, Ciciliani has created a fictional history of the electronic guitar as a performance. The work documents and expands a series of three works: ‘a multimedia performance, a performance …

Two airplanes have just collided on the runway at Tenerife Airport. While no one on the Amsterdam-bound KLM plane survives the resulting fireball, 71 Pan-Am passengers and crew make it off their plane. But could it have been more? Why did so many Pan-Am passengers die, even though they weren’t injured by the initial collision and their plane was still on the ground? This episode was previously released on Pushkin+ …

In my post Brief Note on Figure and Figcaption Support I demonstrate how, when encountering a figure with a screen reader, you won’t hear everything announced at once: No screen reader combo treats the caption as the accessible name nor accessible description, not even for an image that lacks one. Brief Note on Figure and Figcaption Support All Is Well This is a good thing. Users don’t want to hear …