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A teacher has apparently told her students to watch the Nobel Prize announcement live on Youtube and is now making a rollcall in the chat:
Well done, Eddy Rocío Rey Santos 🤦♀️
#vanguardhighschool #nobelprizechemistry
🧵 1/2: I recently saw this vintage #Qantas poster with a unique “flower” map projection centered on #Sydney (1st image). I like how the map almost neatly divides the four largest continents (Eurasia, North America, South America, and Africa) into the four petals.
Well, I kinda became obsessed and wonder…
😃😳🤦♂️
#USpol
How Trump and Musk made the Nepal disaster worse, by glaciologist dr Heïdi Sevestre:
"What about early warning systems?"
SERVIR Hindu Kush Himalaya, a joint initiative by NASA, USAID and ICIMOD monitoring, had mapped landslide and flood hazard in these valleys since 2010.
The Trump administration’s aid freeze cut it in January 2025."
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Livestream shopping app Whatnot raised a $545M Series G led by Iconiq, Lightspeed, and Avra at a $20B valuation, up from an $11.5B valuation in October 2025 (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/08/07/ai-obse…
Lake Mead (Hoover Dam) hat (yet again) den niedrigsten Wasserstand der seit der Füllung in 1937 erreicht. Das letzte mal wurde der "normale" Füllstand im Jahr 2000 erreicht. Seit dem waren bis auf ein Jahr die Abflüsse immer höher als die Zuflüsse.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Mead
OpenAI says GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly on Thursday; a source says the US Department of Commerce cleared a broad rollout (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/08/openai-gpt-trump-ban-lifted
Source: the US Department of Commerce has given OpenAI the green light for a broad launch of GPT 5.6; the company expects to do a wide release this week (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/08/openai-gpt-trump-ban-lifted