“…August 1974. The newly crowned British 20 km champion, Maurice Burton waves his bouquet. Sections of the crowd are booing. … Burton has just made history, he is Britain’s first black senior champion.”
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Outlook - I became a cycling champion – but I was booed - BBC Sounds
From a broken bike to British champion – Maurice Burton had to battle his way to the top
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November 8, 2024 at 9:49 AM
“…August 1974. The newly crowned British 20 km champion, Maurice Burton waves his bouquet. Sections of the crowd are booing. … Burton has just made history, he is Britain’s first black senior champion.”
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“Suppose you call a sheep’s tail a leg, how many legs will the sheep have?”
“Why five, to be sure,” answered the would-be-school-master with an air of wisdom.
“Very well” said the parson: “So if you call a sheep’s tail a leg, it is a leg, is it?“
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“Why five, to be sure,” answered the would-be-school-master with an air of wisdom.
“Very well” said the parson: “So if you call a sheep’s tail a leg, it is a leg, is it?“
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Suppose You Call a Sheep’s Tail a Leg, How Many Legs Will the Sheep Have? – Quote Investigator®
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October 10, 2024 at 4:47 AM
“Suppose you call a sheep’s tail a leg, how many legs will the sheep have?”
“Why five, to be sure,” answered the would-be-school-master with an air of wisdom.
“Very well” said the parson: “So if you call a sheep’s tail a leg, it is a leg, is it?“
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“Why five, to be sure,” answered the would-be-school-master with an air of wisdom.
“Very well” said the parson: “So if you call a sheep’s tail a leg, it is a leg, is it?“
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A potential candidate tree for the locally extinct “Judean Balsam” or “Balm of Gilead” has been germinated from a 1,000 year-old seed.
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Characterization and analysis of a Commiphora species germinated from an ancient seed suggests a possible connection to a species mentioned in the Bible - Communications Biology
Germination of an ancient seed from the Judean desert, confirmed by DNA sequencing and phylogenetic analysis as belonging to an unknown Commiphora sp., contained abundant bioactive compounds, suggesti...
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October 7, 2024 at 6:19 AM
A potential candidate tree for the locally extinct “Judean Balsam” or “Balm of Gilead” has been germinated from a 1,000 year-old seed.
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October 3, 2024 at 3:00 AM
“In the early 20th century, there were around 1.2 million people working in it. For context, at its peak, this was one-twentieth of the country’s workforce. In the last five years that’s dropped to just hundreds of workers.”
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Coal has now died in its birthplace: the UK closes its last coal power station
It was a relatively quick energy transition by historical standards.
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September 30, 2024 at 7:49 AM
“In the early 20th century, there were around 1.2 million people working in it. For context, at its peak, this was one-twentieth of the country’s workforce. In the last five years that’s dropped to just hundreds of workers.”
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“A footpath for those who seek fellowship with the wilderness.”
On Saturday 21 September, Tara Dower completed the Appalachian Trail (2,189 miles) in 40 days, 18 hours, and 5 minutes, beating the previous supported fastest known time (FKT) by 13 hours.
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On Saturday 21 September, Tara Dower completed the Appalachian Trail (2,189 miles) in 40 days, 18 hours, and 5 minutes, beating the previous supported fastest known time (FKT) by 13 hours.
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2,189 Miles, 40 Days, and 3 Showers: How Tara Dower Destroyed the Appalachian Trail Speed Record
Fueled by 90-second “dirt naps” and the “La La Land” soundtrack, she beat Karel Sabbe's record by 13 hours.
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September 30, 2024 at 5:32 AM
“A footpath for those who seek fellowship with the wilderness.”
On Saturday 21 September, Tara Dower completed the Appalachian Trail (2,189 miles) in 40 days, 18 hours, and 5 minutes, beating the previous supported fastest known time (FKT) by 13 hours.
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On Saturday 21 September, Tara Dower completed the Appalachian Trail (2,189 miles) in 40 days, 18 hours, and 5 minutes, beating the previous supported fastest known time (FKT) by 13 hours.
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“Almost all of the progress in the fight against poverty was achieved in the first 15 years of the 2000s. Indeed, in 2022 just one-third as many people left extreme poverty as in 2013.
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September 20, 2024 at 8:49 AM
“Almost all of the progress in the fight against poverty was achieved in the first 15 years of the 2000s. Indeed, in 2022 just one-third as many people left extreme poverty as in 2013.
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“Last year, an immense but brief outburst of seismic energy was soon followed by a long hum that made the world ring. Finding its cause took 68 scientists and an assist by the Danish military.”
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September 14, 2024 at 1:42 PM
“Last year, an immense but brief outburst of seismic energy was soon followed by a long hum that made the world ring. Finding its cause took 68 scientists and an assist by the Danish military.”
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“Returning to Feynman’s remarks, sooner or later reality will catch up with the public relations narrative that currently surrounds fusion. Nature cannot be fooled.”
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Fusion’s public-relations drive is obscuring the challenges that lie ahead – Physics World
Guy Matthews says that the focus on public relations is masking the challenges of commercializing nuclear fusion
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September 13, 2024 at 4:56 PM
“Returning to Feynman’s remarks, sooner or later reality will catch up with the public relations narrative that currently surrounds fusion. Nature cannot be fooled.”
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September 13, 2024 at 10:37 AM
"From a market perspective, the shift towards larger EVs is notable when considering that SUVs — and particularly e-SUVs — represent the most profitable models for manufacturers, sold at a premium for proportionally lower manufacturing costs."
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Confronting mobesity is vital for the global electrification of transport - Nature Energy
The proliferation of large electric vehicles risks undermining the environmental and economic benefits of the green transport transition, argues Christian Brand.
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September 10, 2024 at 7:11 PM
"From a market perspective, the shift towards larger EVs is notable when considering that SUVs — and particularly e-SUVs — represent the most profitable models for manufacturers, sold at a premium for proportionally lower manufacturing costs."
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"And therein lies the joy of reference books: You as the reader can make them comply with the demands of your knowledge, intellect and time constraints, not vice versa."
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In Praise of Reference Books
Reference volumes should be valued as least as much as fiction and other nonfiction books
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September 10, 2024 at 6:09 AM
"And therein lies the joy of reference books: You as the reader can make them comply with the demands of your knowledge, intellect and time constraints, not vice versa."
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“If you want people to make a climate-friendly choice, you need to make it cheap and easy. If you want more people to take the train, it needs to be cheaper and easier than driving or taking a flight. Unfortunately, that’s often not the case.”
Is it cheaper to drive, fly, or take the train? Some numbers on Scotland's train pilot program.
Peak train tickets are far more expensive than driving.
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September 5, 2024 at 6:00 AM
“If you want people to make a climate-friendly choice, you need to make it cheap and easy. If you want more people to take the train, it needs to be cheaper and easier than driving or taking a flight. Unfortunately, that’s often not the case.”
“… we are data subjects and the data controller is kind of like a feudal lord who controls that data on our behalf. But there's an asymmetry of power and knowledge that means that we don't understand when they're making errors and we struggle to hold them to account.”
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HARDtalk - Neil Lawrence: Being human in the age of the machine - BBC Sounds
Stephen Sackur speaks to the leading artificial intelligence researcher
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August 30, 2024 at 4:34 AM
“… we are data subjects and the data controller is kind of like a feudal lord who controls that data on our behalf. But there's an asymmetry of power and knowledge that means that we don't understand when they're making errors and we struggle to hold them to account.”
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“… tasks involving image classification and generation generally result in carbon emissions thousands of times larger than those involving only text. Creative industries considering large-scale adoption of AI, such as film-making, should take note.”
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August 30, 2024 at 4:13 AM
“… tasks involving image classification and generation generally result in carbon emissions thousands of times larger than those involving only text. Creative industries considering large-scale adoption of AI, such as film-making, should take note.”
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“This is a tremendously powerful way to reduce stigma around disability, increase inclusivity and have healthy debates around what roles people would expect to see people with physical disabilities taking in society.”
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‘I hope I get the opportunity to fly’: Meet Paralympian-turned-astronaut John McFall
Nature speaks to the world’s first disabled astronaut about his hopes for the future of space exploration. Nature speaks to the world’s first disabled astronaut about his hopes for the future of space...
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August 30, 2024 at 3:52 AM
“This is a tremendously powerful way to reduce stigma around disability, increase inclusivity and have healthy debates around what roles people would expect to see people with physical disabilities taking in society.”
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Before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but still relevant.
“I am afraid this will lead us to more years of what one might call great pretending: we will pretend as if we did respond to changes in the world, while in fact we are not doing much of anything at all.”
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“I am afraid this will lead us to more years of what one might call great pretending: we will pretend as if we did respond to changes in the world, while in fact we are not doing much of anything at all.”
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The West’s Strategic Mistakes and Broken Resolve. Jonathan Holslag on World Politics Since 1989 | Review of Democracy
Our editor Ferenc Laczo interviews Jonathan Hoslag (Free University Brussels) on his book "World Politics Since 1989" (Polity Press).
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August 27, 2024 at 3:51 AM
Before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but still relevant.
“I am afraid this will lead us to more years of what one might call great pretending: we will pretend as if we did respond to changes in the world, while in fact we are not doing much of anything at all.”
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“I am afraid this will lead us to more years of what one might call great pretending: we will pretend as if we did respond to changes in the world, while in fact we are not doing much of anything at all.”
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“To offer a theory though, I think what lasts is almost always what has a dedicated following among one or more of the following: artists, geeks, academics, critics, and editors. “Gatekeepers” of various types, if you like.”
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What Lasts and (Mostly) Doesn't Last
On the books that are remembered, rejected, repudiated, and rediscovered,
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August 24, 2024 at 5:01 AM
“To offer a theory though, I think what lasts is almost always what has a dedicated following among one or more of the following: artists, geeks, academics, critics, and editors. “Gatekeepers” of various types, if you like.”
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“Don’t wait for money, don’t wait for anyone’s approval, and don’t wait for anyone to jump on board,” McComber says. Just do the work.
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The Māori saved their language from extinction. Here’s how.
Born from a movement that swept New Zealand in the 1970s, the Māori model has helped cultures around the globe reclaim what colonization stole.
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August 23, 2024 at 7:56 AM
“Don’t wait for money, don’t wait for anyone’s approval, and don’t wait for anyone to jump on board,” McComber says. Just do the work.
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Are we being ripped off?
1980 vs 2020:
Average markup: 17 % to 59 %
Average profit rate: 1 % to 8 %
Medians are stagnant!
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1980 vs 2020:
Average markup: 17 % to 59 %
Average profit rate: 1 % to 8 %
Medians are stagnant!
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More or Less - Are companies making more money from their customers? - BBC Sounds
We investigate claims mark-ups are larger than ever
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August 23, 2024 at 4:37 AM
Are we being ripped off?
1980 vs 2020:
Average markup: 17 % to 59 %
Average profit rate: 1 % to 8 %
Medians are stagnant!
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1980 vs 2020:
Average markup: 17 % to 59 %
Average profit rate: 1 % to 8 %
Medians are stagnant!
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Dr Jan Łyczakowski said: “Liriodendrons diverged from Magnolia Trees around 30-50 million years ago, which coincided with a rapid reduction in atmospheric CO2. This might help explain why Tulip Trees are highly effective at carbon storage.”
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Scientists discover entirely new wood type that could be highly
Scientists from the Sainsbury Laboratory at Cambridge University and Jagiellonian University, Poland made the discovery while undertaking an evolutionary survey of the microscopic structure of wood
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August 20, 2024 at 8:20 AM
Dr Jan Łyczakowski said: “Liriodendrons diverged from Magnolia Trees around 30-50 million years ago, which coincided with a rapid reduction in atmospheric CO2. This might help explain why Tulip Trees are highly effective at carbon storage.”
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