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The #National #Climatic #Data #Center is based in Asheville, North Carolina.

As I write this, the center's website remains offline.
That's because Asheville, a city in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, is the epicenter of catastrophic flooding from #Hurricane #Helene that has played out over the last week.
🔥The climate data facility is inoperable because water and electricity services in the region have entirely broken down due to flooding.

arstechnica.com/science/2024/0…

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#dignity : the state of being worthy or honorable

- French: dignité

- German: die Würde

- Italian: dignità

- Portuguese: dignidade

- Spanish: dignidad

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NPR fact-checked the Walz-Vance vice presidential debate. Here's what we found


JD Vance and Tim Walz debated in New York on Tuesday in the last scheduled debate of the election. The sparring was largely collegial, but a number of points on key issues require additional context or corrections.

#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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It's happening again! The Trans Nerd Meet Up is this Saturday at Zeitgeist in San Francisco, from 12:30 to whenever.

If you self-identify as trans/nb/gnc and enjoy geeking out about absolutely anything, we'd love to see you! Please spread the word! ❤

eventbrite.com/e/trans-nerd-me…



Airborne Plastic Chemical Levels Shock Researchers


in reply to §ɦṛɛɗɗịɛ ßịⱺ𝔩ⱺɠịᵴŧ

"The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember [literally anything that's free of plastic]."







Machine Learning Crash Course for Physicists in Three Easy Lessons

Written by Florian Marquardt, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany (originally developed for an ICTP Trieste Summer School in 2024).

This online book teaches machine learning to a physicist in three easy chapters. You should be able to work through them in three to four hours total, provided you know how to use python and have worked with numpy before.

You can run the code examples in your browser, without any installation, by clicking on the rocket (taking you to Google colab).

florianmarquardt.github.io/Mac…



After pressing an Israel-Hezbollah cease-fire, the Biden administration shifts its message


apnews.com/article/middle-east…

"Pressing"?