The limestone inside this famed quarry is believed to have formed around 65 million years ago and is heralded as a unique natural wonder. All just a bike ride away from the center of Malmö. The quarry is home to thousands of different plant and animal species. Beginning in the mid-1800s, it was the site of a cement factory that was once the backbone of the Malmö economy, until the last mining explosion in 1993. Only a few remanents……
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — More than 80 people have been killed in unrest in Ethiopia after a popular singer was shot dead this week, the state-run Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation says. Hachalu Hundessa was buried Thursday amid tight security. He had been a prominent voice in anti-government protests that led to a change in leadership in 2018. Angry protests, including three bomb blasts, followed his death Monday in the capital, Addis Ababa. Scores of people were killed the next…
The District could soon make another $100 million in grants available for companies coping with the coronavirus fallout, targeting restaurants, hotels, retailers and other hard-hit businesses for relief. The D.C. Council is set to consider legislation Tuesday creating the new grant program, relying on money the city received through the CARES Act to fund the measure. The city previously used some of those federal dollars to hand out $33 million in “microgrants” to struggling businesses, but this new spending…
Mito’s oldest high school is actually not that old—it dates back to 1986. Its grounds, however, are an interesting walk through the prefectural capital’s educational heritage. It includes the historical Kodokan, Mito’s oldest clan school, and Shodokan, a museum. Mito Daiich is old-school architecture, with statues of dignitaries, sculptures, and old fashioned classrooms, adding a kick of nostalgia for visitors. The school is entered through Yakuimon Gate, the only standing portion of Mito Castle, built in 1214. There is……
The Clydeside Expressway Mural Wall, painted by 27 artists from around the world, was commissioned by the Clydeside Initiative for Arts, part of nearby SWG3, one of the premier arts venues in Glasgow and Scotland as a whole. It hosts gigs by world famous bands, DJs, and artistic projects. Over three weeks in 2019, the artists transformed a long stretch of derelict railway arches along the Clydeside Expressway: more than 700 hours painting and spraying in total. The path……
Originally built as a trade route between Mokhotlong in Lesotho and Himeville in South Africa, this treacherous stretch of road is now mainly used by tourists, and to transport laborers between the two countries. With a gradient as steep as 1:4 in places and poor traction, the pass is only accessible by 4×4, and can take up to 4 hours to cover less than six miles, depending on road conditions. The pass is challenging at the best of times, but……
ZenGo, a startup that is building a mobile cryptocurrency wallet, has discovered a vulnerability in some of the most popular cryptocurrency wallets, such as hardware wallet Ledger, BRD and Edge. Named BigSpender, the vulnerability might lead to an incorrect balance on your wallet as unconfirmed transactions are taken into account in your total balance. The attacker could revoke the transaction before it is confirmed, which could lead to some confusion. Even if you’re not familiar with cryptocurrencies, that type……
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi officials held a ceremony Wednesday to retire the former state flag and send it to a history museum, a day after Republican Gov. Tate Reeves signed a law stripping official status from the last state banner in the U.S. that included the Confederate battle emblem. One person watching with pride was a history-making former lawmaker whose grandfather was a slave. Robert Clark in 1967 became the first African American since Reconstruction to win a…
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea says it has confirmed 54 more COVID-19 cases as the coronavirus continues to spread beyond the capital region and reach cities like Gwangju, which has shut schools and tightened social restrictions after dozens fell sick this week. The figures reported Thursday brought the national case total to 12,904, including 282 deaths. Twenty-two of the new cases are in Gwangju, a southwestern city where infections were tied to various places, including office buildings, public…
Steven Raichlen doesn’t know exactly how the first humans began smoking their food, but he has an idea. “We were probably sitting around a fire with strips of meat posted on sticks downwind of it, because we’d realized flies don’t like smoke,” he says. “And when we tasted that meat, not only were there no flies on it, but it had this amazing flavor, too.” He admits it’s pure conjecture, but having written the book on smoked foods, Raichlen……
Agostino Ramelli, the 16th-century Italian military engineer, designed many contraptions for the changing Renaissance landscape, including cranes, grain mills, and water pumps. But his most compelling apparatus was one meant to nurture the mind: a revolving wooden wheel with angled shelves, which allowed users to read multiple books at one time. “This is a beautiful and ingenious machine, very useful and convenient for anyone who takes pleasure in study, especially those who are indisposed and tormented by gout,” Ramelli……
The following letter was sent to the MIT community today by President L. Rafael Reif. To the members of the MIT community, Every day brings fresh evidence that our society has arrived at a turning point. For years, the nation has grown increasingly unstable, the predictable result of tolerating severe economic and racial inequalities. This spring, the sudden crisis of Covid-19 highlighted and magnified those inequalities. And through a cascade of horrific killings of Black Americans, including the public……
There’s a tendency to think of scientists as emotionally distant—two left brains for the price of a right. Ironically, the more iconic the scientist, the more we ought to know about them, the more that image tends to calcify: Think of it as the Genius Industry™. A forthcoming online sale by Christie’s auction house, however, offers a slew of items that show off famous scientists’ more personal sides. Though the sale, called “Eureka! Scientific breakthroughs of the 20th century,”……
This colossal statue known in Rome as “Madama Lucrezia” is located on the right side of the church in Piazza San Marco, Rome. This fragmentary statue is believed to be either an Isiac statue (the Goddess Isis herself or a priestess of the temple of Isis in Rome), or a portrait of Empress Faustina, wife of Constantius II. It’s known as “Madama Lucrezia” (Dame Lucrezia) in honor of Lucrezia D’Alagno, the lover of Alfonso of Aragon, King of Naples……
It’s not a typical sentence you’d find on a class schedule, but on April 2, the first action item for one MIT course read: “Check in on each other’s health and well-being.” The revised schedule was for Susan Murcott and Julie Simpson’s spring D-Lab class EC.719 / EC.789 (Water, Climate Change, and Health), just one of hundreds of classes at MIT that had to change course after the novel coronavirus sparked a campus-wide shutdown. D-Lab at home The dust had……
