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On Growth and Form
by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
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On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
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I Won a Writing Award. Does It Matter?
Even awards that offer only bragging rights, but no prize money, can telegraph something important: your work matters to readers.
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#brother : one who, or that which, resembles another in distinctive qualities or traits of character
- French: Frère
- German: der Bruder
- Italian: fratello
- Portuguese: irmão
- Spanish: hermano
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The Open 2025: Scottie Scheffler on the daily wrestle with why he plays golf
World number one Scottie Scheffler questions why he is continually chasing victories in the sport's biggest tournaments.Peter Scrivener (BBC Sport)
Arduino Saves Heat Pump
For home HVAC systems, heat pumps seem to be the way of the future. When compared to electric heating they can be three to four times more efficient, and they …read more
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Arduino Saves Heat Pump
For home HVAC systems, heat pumps seem to be the way of the future. When compared to electric heating they can be three to four times more efficient, and they don’t directly burn fossil fuels…Hackaday
U.S. Department of Education Opens Foreign Funding Investigation into the University of Michigan (U.S. Department of Education)
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U.S. Department of Education Opens Foreign Funding Investigation into the University of Michigan
Today, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of the General Counsel (OGC) opened a foreign funding investigation into the University of Michigan (UM) after a review of the university’s foreign reports revealed inaccurate and incomplete disclosure…U.S. Department of Education
Etihad Museum in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
This museum shaped like a manuscript tells how the seven kingdoms combined to form a single desert nation.#section-Atlas
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Ticket No. "9672"
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Ticket No. "9672" by Jules Verne
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Marseille lance la journée sans kalachnikov
Toute l'information selon des sources contradictoires.La Rédaction (Le Gorafi.fr Gorafi News Network)
"Visualizing Lubartworld" is the story of Jews in a small Polish town from the 1930s to the 1950s, caught between migration and persecution #jews
Visualizing Lubartworld
This is the history of the Jews from a small Polish town from the 1930s to the 1950s, caught between migration and persecutionVisualizingLubartworld
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#ceremony : the ceremonies observed in consecrating a church
- French: Cérémonie
- German: Zeremonie
- Italian: cerimonia
- Portuguese: cerimônia
- Spanish: ceremonia
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Six-hour ‘undo’ button: GAI-17 rewinds stroke damage and may beat Alzheimer’s
Stroke kills millions, but Osaka researchers have unveiled GAI-17, a drug that halts toxic GAPDH clumping, slashes brain damage and paralysis in mice—even when given six hours post-stroke—and shows no major side effects, hinting at a single therapy t…ScienceDaily
Meta reportedly takes more talent from OpenAI.
Researchers Jason Wei and Hyung Won Chung are said to be joining Meta’s superintelligence lab, the latest of several high-profile OpenAI researchers and developers to be plucked by the social media giant. That would make this the second big move in as many years for Wei and Won Chung, who left Google’s Brain research group to join OpenAI in 2023.
Another High-Profile OpenAI Researcher Departs for Meta
Snap tries to win back investors
Plus: The generative AI hangover and Twitter’s desperation.Alex Heath (The Verge)
Nimisha Priya: Yemen postpones execution of Kerala nurse on death row
Nimisha Priya, who was sentenced to death for the murder of a Yemeni man, was set to be executed on Wednesday.Imran Qureshi (BBC News)
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