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A third-generation Floridian reflects on the state’s unofficial, unwanted mascot.

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The happiest place on earth, explained by the numbers.

Some of Miami’s most valuable real estate is also its most vulnerable as sea levels rise. But that’s not stopping new construction in these areas. | Umair Irfan/Vox

The coastal city wants to build its way out of climate change. Is that smart?

Last year, the Supreme Court made it harder for Congress and state legislatures to pass laws that restrict when Americans can own and carry guns. It instituted a new history-and-tradition test in New York Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen that lower courts have already used to overturn various gun control laws. President Joe Biden is among Bruen’s critics, having said he was “deeply disappointed” by the court’s ruling last summer.

In his monumental history Debt: The First 5,000 Years, the anthropologist David Graeber accused economists of inventing “imaginary villages” as the settings for their just-so stories about the ancient origins of financial exchange. Five thousand years later, it is hard not to apply the same phrase to the strange world of cryptocurrency, a skein of imaginary communities and exchanges that claimed to be reinventing trade and commerce from first principles even as, in reality, they reinvented forms... Читать дальше...

The best way of understanding House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s decision to back a baseless, ridiculous impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden is as a desperation play. McCarthy’s reign has been defined almost totally by one dynamic: He is completely in thrall to a gaggle of right-wing bomb-throwers who know they can end his time leading the House of Representatives whenever they want. McCarthy has to keep them happy: To get anything, he has to do what they want, even if it’s stupid and self-defeating. Читать дальше...

A billionaire benefactor of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has a significant financial stake in companies supervised by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, as the watchdog faces the crosshairs of an upcoming case before the high court, The New Republic has learned.

It’s often asked in my circles: Why isn’t Joe Biden getting more credit for his accomplishments? As with anything, there’s no single reason. Inflation is a factor. His age is as well. Ditto the fact that people aren’t quite yet seeing the infrastructure improvements or the lower prescription drug costs.

Small molecule oscillator can catalyse Knoevenagel condensation periodically without affecting the oscillation

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A new cult hero emerges

Few things are better in the sport of hockey than the obscure cult hero. A new one is budding in Jagger Joshua. His name is cool to say. He’s a ton of fun to watch play hockey - using his size and going out of his way to be physical before and after the whistle. It’s a throwback style, and it’s going to earn a lot of fans.

In fact, even non-partisan Buffalo natives were won over by Jagger’s antics in the Penguin prospects 8-3 win over Ottawa on Saturday. Читать дальше...

With a new school year just around the corner, it's time to choose which projects to carry out in the classroom. Discover ESA's exciting school projects and unique teacher trainings opportunities. Use space for out-of-this world STEM classrooms! 

The C House, designed and built by GetAway Projects, is situated in the middle of a Dutch forest. The distinctive C shape gave name to the house. It consists of 5 spaces that each have their own function. In the middle is a raised kitchen with views to both sides of the forest. This is the central part of the house. Both ends of the C comprise elevated bedrooms with bathrooms and in between at ground level you’ll find a dining area and an intimate sitting area.

As the volume of IoT devices connecting to enterprise networks continues to climb, the number of security threats has been increasing in lockstep. Cybersecurity threats, alongside supply chain issues, chip shortages and geopolitical instability, are a major reason that IoT growth has been slower than many analysts had predicted.

An analysis of cloth found inside the cannon suggests that it dates to the 14th century and that the weapon was charged with gunpowder and ready to fire.

ChatGPT, Claude, Bard, and other public-facing generative AI chatbots based on large language models (LLMs) are nice enough, but they’re general-purpose and not well integrated into enterprise workflows. Employees either have to go to a separate app, or companies have to spend time and effort adding the functionality to their applications via application programming interfaces. Plus, in order to use ChatGPT and other genAI chatbots well, employees have to learn prompt engineering.

TORONTO—Waxing poetic about shifting gender roles in contemporary society, professor and broadcaster Jordan Peterson took to his podcast Monday to rant about the state of “emasculated” scarecrows who have become covered in birds. “The ongoing war on masculinity has spread beyond our cities to more rural areas, where…

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1. Senedd to dramatically increase in size but key changes made to planned reforms  Wales Online
2. Senedd: 36 more Welsh Parliament members could cost extra £18m  BBC
3. Plans to overhaul Senedd announced | Ham & High  Hampstead Highgate Express
4. Plan to increase size of Senedd to begin route into law  Wales Online
5. ‘Historic’ plans to expand Senedd draw Conservatives’ ire  The Guardian
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The stony-faced centurion serving hard time at the Federal Correctional Institution in Milan, Mich., is 200 pounds of solid limestone and hangs on a gym wall. His nicotine-stained lips are evidence of a pack-a-day habit and devotion of fellow inmates who supply the butts. But, the hometown of the impish worker hand-carved into a 2-by-2-foot stone block was a mystery until 1999, when Bruce Baker, retired prison masonry instructor, confessed to the collar. In 1971, he brought four corner statues of... Читать дальше...

Actress Salma Hayek was reportedly looking out for her single best friend Angelina Jolie and had her eye on a few billionaire businessmen for suitors.

UNITED STATES - MAY 11: Basketball: finals, Philadelphia 76ers Julius Erving in action vs Los Angeles Lakers, Philadelphia, PA 5/11/1980 | SetNumber: X24508 TK2

Still perhaps the greatest move in the history of the NBA

Joe Biden should cooperate with the impeachment inquiry as Bill Clinton's White House under John Podesta did, not like Trump's Mick Mulvaney.

The Illinois Prisoner Review Board, whose members are appointed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker, was criticized as too lenient. But those critics now say the board seems to be on a path more to their liking.

The Project LIFE program is offering medication to patients in an emergency room setting that helps patients manage opioid withdrawal symptoms.

The Museum of Illusions Chicago, an interactive exhibit that presents optical illusions, signed a deal expanding into a vacant storefront in the East Loop