For no reason whatsoever, someone just sent me a photo of the National Fisheries Develoment Board building in Hyderabad, and it brightened my day. And because I can't focus on work, I sought out more whimsical architecture:
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Spain previously required reflective triangles to be set out after an accident. Unfortunately, hundreds are killed or injured every year doing so. The new law requires these omni-directional lights that you set on your car roof by reaching through the window. They also alert authorities using GPS.
"Many go unnoticed until adulthood, when they finally discover that what made them feel 'strange' was, in fact, extraordinary potential and limitless insight."
...muchas pasan inadvertidas hasta la edad adulta, cuando descubren, por fin, que lo que les hacía sentirse “raras” era, en realidad, un potencial extraordinario y una sensibilidad infinita.
Odd behaviour from DeepSeek. First it makes a typo, and then it blames autocorrect. Must be programmed to be "human" in its small talk.
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Fungi coat the eggs of stinkbugs, creating a shield that protects the embryos from parasitic wasps, researchers report. https://scim.ag/43kl3np
Wow! (Don't neglect to click to see the detail.)
🎶 (To Pete Seeger's "Where have all the flowers gone?")
Where have all the mall cops gone?
ICE is hiring.
Where'd they get their badges from?
Standards are low.
Why won't they show their face?
Young and angry every one.
Oh, when will we ever learn?
Oh, when we will ever learn?
"The problem is that people cannot live as if [their lives] have only an [economic] utility -- that we matter only to the extent that we can play a constructive role in the economy. ... Many people can no longer find meaning in economic questions but [turn instead to] identity and belonging.
"El problema es que las personas no pueden vivir como si tuvieran una 'utilidad'. Uno solo importa en la medida en que puede desempeñar un papel constructivo en la economía. ... Para mucha gente, ya no se trata de cuestiones económicas, sino de cuestiones de identidad, de pertenencia."
"If there is no state, and the state is very weak, then what happens is that some powerful individuals, let's say private elites, emerge and take it upon themselves to run things in their own interest, and that is not necessarily a better outcome..."
Si no hay Estado, y el Estado es muy débil, entonces lo que sucede es que algunos individuos poderosos, digamos élites privadas, emergen y se encargan de manejar las cosas en su propio interés, y eso no necesariamente es un mejor resultado...
Not US only: PepsiCo's (owners of Lay's) UK chip company Walker's summer ad campaign is about "how a sandwich should sound", with said chips providing the crunch
(Yum! BTW)
No one remembers the second part of Trump's "deal" tactics. He will claim that Europe is not fulfilling its part of the agreement and use that to justify breaking the deal whenever he wants. He did this as a real estate developer, and he's doing it now with Canada and Mexico.
Article title: The Remarkable Phenomenon of Diminishing Quality
Quotation: "Things aren't worse; in large measure, they are as we want them to be or have been made to want them. Put another way: what has diminished in quality is us."
"Las cosas no son peores; en gran medida, son tal como las queremos o como nos las han hecho querer. Dicho de otro modo: quienes somos de peor calidad somos nosotros."
Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.
Original paper:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
(Link in the El País article is incorrect.)
“The main ways females gain power appear to be related to their ability to choose which males to associate with and which to mate with.”
“Los principales mecanismos mediante los cuales las hembras ganan poder parecen estar relacionados con su capacidad para elegir con qué machos asociarse y con cuáles aparearse”
A crocheted seagull eating a crocheted fry atop a metal canister
A crocheted seagull eating a crocheted fry atop a metal canister with a view of the fry packet
A crocheted seagull from behind with a crocheted sand bucket and shovel
Llandudno, Wales is known for its aggressive seagulls and some fiber artists have commemorated them
I just watched the 2011 film "Captain America: The First Avenger", and it struck me that only 14 years ago it was still part of American mythology to cheer the underdog and revile the bully.
It's pedantic, but most (by tonnage) cargo ships are registered under flags of convenience (Liberia, Panama...). They will either need detailed information about the ships' cargo and destinations or they will have to attack them indiscriminately. The basic point still holds, though: consequences.
Preliminary -- and perhaps not surprising -- results, but they are important to everyone in education today.
If Federal Agents throw Democratic representatives to the ground, beat them, roughhouse them, handcuff them, and detain them, all in broad daylight with the cameras rolling... What restraint will they feel when no one is watching?
