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I am in my honeymoon phase with the fediverse.
I share what I've read and want others to discover also.
If you're into women's football or women's tennis join me on @WomensFootball and @WomensTennis.
Inspire us here : @inspirational.
Study: Most People Rely on Parents for Material Support Into Adulthood (news.ncsu.edu)
A new study finds that only a third of adults in the United States did not rely on their parents for some form of material support between their late teens and early 40s. The study highlights the extent to which parents and adult children rely on each other for financial assistance or a place to live well into the children’s...
Fortnite: Parents in US offered refunds for game purchases (www.bbc.co.uk)
Parents in the US whose children made unintended in-game purchases will be offered $245m (£198m) in refunds.
Exclusive: Ukraine's special services 'likely' behind strikes on Wagner-backed forces in Sudan, a Ukrainian military source says | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
Speaking to CNN, a Ukrainian military source described the operation as the work of a “non-Sudanese military.” Pressed on whether Kyiv was behind the attacks, the source would only say that “Ukrainian special services were likely responsible.”
My whole career has been a series of battles - Williamson (www.bbc.com)
England captain Leah Williamson tells the United Nations her football career has been a constant "battle" against gender inequality.
Elephants on the march across African borders as heat stress leads to fatalities (www.theguardian.com)
Mortality rate grows as animals roam long distances and clash with local people in desperate search for water.
Leaders of world’s biggest polluting countries skipping UN climate summit (www.theguardian.com)
Joe Biden and Xi Jinping, leaders of two biggest carbon emitters, among those not attending summit in New York....
Giorgia Meloni: I won’t allow Italy to become Europe’s refugee camp (www.theguardian.com)
Italy’s far-right prime minister has said she will not allow the country to become “Europe’s refugee camp”, after thousands of people seeking refuge landed on its shores, prompting France to tighten controls at its border with Italy....
How often do you read fiction and how do you manage to do it?
I want to know how you do manage your time to read. At the beginning of the year, I've made a resolution to read more this year but after 3 or 4 months of good reading, I was back to my "old version". Some good practices?
RNA for the first time recovered from an extinct species - Stockholm University (www.su.se)
RNA for the first time recovered from an extinct species A new study shows the isolation and sequencing of more than a century-old RNA molecules from a Tasmanian tiger specimen preserved at room temperature in a museum collection. This resulted in the reconstruction of skin and skeletal muscle transcriptomes from an extinct...
South Korea, a science spending champion, proposes cutbacks (www.science.org)
South Korea’s government surprised many of the nation’s scientists last month when it abruptly proposed cutting research spending by 10.9% in 2024 and shifting resources into a number of new initiatives, including efforts to build rockets, pursue high-risk biomedical research, and build a U.S.-style biotech innovation...
Vape stores opening near Australian schools to ‘recruit new generation to nicotine’, Mark Butler says (www.theguardian.com)
Companies skirting regulations by labelling e-cigarettes as ‘nicotine-free’ despite them containing the drug.
The missing link to make easy protein sequencing possible? (www.rug.nl)
There has been a real race among scientists to create a technology that enables easy protein sequencing. Professor of Chemical Biology Giovanni Maglia of the University of Groningen has now found the missing piece in the puzzle: a way to transport a protein through a nanopore, which allows sequencing of proteins in a simple,...
Libya Protests Turn Violent as Flood Survivors Demand Accountability (www.wsj.com)
People gathered to demand government accountability, while others marched up to the house of the mayor and started a fire....
Germany bans neo-Nazi group Hammerskins (www.bbc.co.uk)
German authorities crack down on the skinhead group known for organising far-right concerts.
Another country has called Xi a 'dictator' and China is not happy with that description (edition.cnn.com)
China has lashed out at Germany after its foreign minister called Xi Jinping a “dictator” and summoned Berlin’s ambassador for a dressing down, in the latest flaring of tensions with a western democratic power over how the Chinese leader is described overseas.
Spain squad shows 'nothing has changed' - Hermoso (www.bbc.com)
Jenni Hermoso says the decision to call-up players who are boycotting the national team is proof "nothing has changed" at the Spanish FA.
1,000 Met Police officers suspended or on restricted duties (www.bbc.com)
England: The crackdown follows a string of scandals, but a senior officer warns it'll take years to root out corruption.
Top scientists, engineers choose startups over tech behemoths for reasons other than money (news.illinois.edu)
Non-monetary benefits such as independence, autonomy and the ability to work on innovative technologies are among the key selling points for talented scientists and engineers who spurn working for a bigger technology firm in favor of a riskier startup
The surprising origin of a deadly hospital infection (www.michiganmedicine.org)
Surprising findings from a Michigan Medicine study in Nature Medicine suggest that the burden of C. diff infection may be less a matter of hospital transmission and more a result of characteristics associated with the patients themselves.
Eureka! Groundbreaking Study Uncovers Origin of ‘Conscious Awareness’ (www.fau.edu)
FAU researchers provide the first quantified observations of the “birth” of purpose in human infants, as they recognize their causal powers and transition from spontaneous to intentional behavior.