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Flight Monument at Anten in Sweden

July 22, 2025

Deep within the forest close to Lake Anten, near Alingsås, Sweden, is a unique monument made of a pile of stones and a plane propeller, with American names of military personnel. What happened here?, you might think. The answer is from way back in 1944. That year, on October 19, 6 American C-87 airplanes took off from Leuthars Air Base in Scotland heading for Bromma Airport in Stockholm as part of Operation Sonnie, a secret Allied intelligence operation over……

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School of Architecture and Planning recognizes faculty...

July 22, 2025

Seven faculty in the MIT School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P) have been honored for their contributions through promotions, effective July 1. Three faculty promotions are in the Department of Architecture; three are in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning; and one is in the Program in Media Arts and Sciences. “Whether architects, urbanists, computer scientists, or nanotechnologists, they represent our school at its best, in its breadth of inquiry and mission to improve the relationship between human……

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Aslanhane Mosque in Ankara, Turkey

July 22, 2025

One of the oldest and most beautiful historical monuments in Ankara, the Aslanhane Mosque, whose name literally translates to ”Lion’s House Mosque,” predates the Ottoman Empire and was built during the period of the Seljuks that succeeded the Sultanate of Rum amid Mongol invasions. At this time in the late Middle Ages, the wool-producing Silk Road town of Ankara was uniquely ruled not by the sword but by a community or “republic” of Ahis, a so-called brotherhood formed by……

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Victor K. McElheny, founding director of MIT’s...

July 22, 2025

Victor K. McElheny, the celebrated journalist and author who founded MIT’s Knight Science Journalism Program more than 40 years ago and served for 15 years as its director, died on July 14 in Lexington, Massachusetts, after a brief illness. He was 89. Born in Boston and raised in Poughkeepsie, New York, McElheny’s storied journalism career spanned seven decades, during which he wrote for several of the nation’s leading newspapers and magazines, penned three critically acclaimed books, and produced groundbreaking coverage of……

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Dedos (Fingers) in Madrid, Spain

July 22, 2025

This work was created in 1987 by the Chilean sculptor Mario Irarrázabal, who made this powerful image famous on a beach in Punta del Este ,Uruguay, and also on a colossal hand found in the Atacama Desert in Chile. The work, here called “Dedos” (“Fingers”) has been located on the main promenade of Juan Carlos I Park since 1994, after having been exhibited on Alcalá Street during the Chile Vive exhibition, and in subsequent years at the Cuartel del……

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Tribute to Věra in Prague, Czechia

July 22, 2025

What are the limits of human physical flexibility and mobility? Věra Čáslavská (1942–2016), who was born in the Nazi-occupied Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and devoted herself to figure skating and ballet at a young age, was determined to find out. She was introduced to the secrets of gymnastics by her coach Eva Bosáková, an Olympic champion and two-time world champion. Thanks to this, Věra became a seven-time Olympic champion, four-time world champion, eleven-time European champion, and four-time Sportswoman……

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Looming over two cases threatening Musk’s car...

July 22, 2025

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MIAMI (AP) — Elon Musk fought court cases on opposite coasts Monday, raising a question about the billionaire that could either speed his plan to put self-driving Teslas on U.S. roads or throw up a major roadblock: Can this wildly successful man who tends to exaggerate really be trusted? In Miami, a Tesla driver who has admitted he was wrong to reach for a dropped cell phone moments before a deadly accident, spoke of the danger of putting too…

MIT Learn offers “a whole new front...

July 21, 2025

In 2001, MIT became the first higher education institution to provide educational resources for free to anyone in the world. Fast forward 24 years: The Institute has now launched a dynamic AI-enabled website for its non-degree learning opportunities, making it easier for learners around the world to discover the courses and resources available on MIT’s various learning platforms. MIT Learn enables learners to access more than 12,700 educational resources — including introductory and advanced courses, courseware, videos, podcasts, and……

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A new way to edit or generate...

July 21, 2025

AI image generation — which relies on neural networks to create new images from a variety of inputs, including text prompts — is projected to become a billion-dollar industry by the end of this decade. Even with today’s technology, if you wanted to make a fanciful picture of, say, a friend planting a flag on Mars or heedlessly flying into a black hole, it could take less than a second. However, before they can perform tasks like that, image……

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Charlie’s Place Episode 1: Whispering Pines

July 21, 2025

Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart, and Amazon. Rhym Guissé: A quick warning: Some of the language and imagery used to describe this period of time may be upsetting. Please take care while listening. Bobby Donaldson: I was interviewing a gentleman about his participation in student demonstrations in 1960. He stopped me and he said, you know I’m from South Carolina. Have you ever heard of Charlie Fitzgerald? He mentioned specifically knowing Charlie Fitzgerald, knowing his wife,……

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The unique, mathematical shortcuts language models use...

July 21, 2025

Let’s say you’re reading a story, or playing a game of chess. You may not have noticed, but each step of the way, your mind kept track of how the situation (or “state of the world”) was changing. You can imagine this as a sort of sequence of events list, which we use to update our prediction of what will happen next. Language models like ChatGPT also track changes inside their own “mind” when finishing off a block of……

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Less selection, higher prices: How tariffs are...

July 20, 2025

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NEW YORK (AP) — With summer in full swing in the United States, retail executives are sweating a different season. It’s less than 22 weeks before Christmas, a time when businesses that make and sell consumer goods usually nail down their holiday orders and prices. But President Donald Trump’s vacillating trade policies, part of his effort to revive the nation’s diminished manufacturing base and to reduce the U.S. deficit in exported goods, have complicated those end-of-year plans. Balsam Hill,…

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July 19, 2025

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The Chicago Sky are trying to protect...

July 19, 2025

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Chicago Sky co-owner Nadia Rawlinson knew security concerns were serious. The Sky have physical security nearly 24 hours a day — around hotels, outside gyms, by buses and planes — but one of the final frontiers of player safety was the internet. Earlier this month, the Sky teamed up with Moonshot Technologies to protect their players from threats and hate on social media, the first relationship of its kind in the WNBA. “People think as athletes,…

Listener Stories of Leaving Home: From San...

July 19, 2025

Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. Dylan Thuras: Hey, Dylan here. You have reached the Atlas Obscura podcast line. I’m not home right now, but leave me a message about the first time you left home to live away on your own, to live away from your parents, to experience what it was like to be an adult for the first time. Maybe you were leaving a small town. Maybe you were moving……

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