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Italy may be the first EU country to impose requirements on private charging points in its transposition of the EU REDIII into national law: newly installed private charging points must be able to communicate with smart meters from June 30 onwards.
https://www.normattiva.it/uri-res/N2Ls?u…

How did the Urban Network Flow Adapt to the Collapse of the Carola Bridge?
Jyotirmaya Ijaradar, Ning Xie, Lei Wei, Sebastian Pape, Matthias K\"orner, Meng Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.19947 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.19947 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.19947
arXiv:2603.19947v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The unexpected collapse of the Carola Bridge in Dresden, Germany, provides a rare opportunity to characterise how urban network traffic adapts to an unexpected infrastructure disruption. This study develops a data-driven analytical framework using traffic data from the Dresden traffic management system to assess the short-term impacts of the disruption. By combining statistical comparisons of pre- and post-collapse motorised traffic distributions, peak-hour shifts, and Park-and-Ride data analyses, the framework reveals how traffic dynamics and traveller choices adjust under infrastructure disruption. Results reveal that the two closest bridges, the Albert and Marien Bridges, absorb the majority of the diverted motorised traffic. In particular, the daily traffic volume on the Albert bridge increases by up to 81%, which is equivalent to 3.5 hours of traffic operating with maximum flow. Peak hours on critical links are significantly prolonged, reaching up to 250 minutes. Besides redistribution, the overall daily motorised traffic crossing the Elbe river declines by approximately 8,000 vehicles, while Park-and-Ride usage increases by up to 188%, suggesting a potential travel mode shift after the disruption. The study reveals the patterns of traffic redistribution following an unexpected disruption and provides insights for resilience planning and emergency traffic management.
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Weird feeling as while looking to answer to the question "how do I get the coordinates of the minimal value of a numpy.ndarray ?", found that I already asked that question ten years ago: https://laurentperrinet.github.io/sciblog/p…

United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta went public with her own account of being raped by Cesar Chavez, following a NYT investigation.
Huerta said she kept the secret because, “I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for.”
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Dolores Huerta worried her abuse by Cesar Chavez would hurt farmworker movement
The New York Times uncovered a pattern of abuse by the civil rights icon, including of young girls.

"Tree planting can combat urban heat, but some neighborhoods are falling behind"
#Trees #Environment
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Tree planting can combat urban heat, but some neighborhoods are falling behind
Sydney communities may be missing out on crucial tree planting projects intended to combat urban heat, leaving western and eastern parts of Greater Sydney with less protection from extreme heat, a University of Sydney-led study has revealed. In a surprising finding, the researchers found that while Greater Sydney's total tree canopy increased by 4.2% from 1.514 billion square meters to 1.578 billion square meters between 2016 and 2022, this growth was not evenly distributed.

Attention Browncoats: SHARE THIS VIDEO.
As Nathan says, they need the viewing metrics to push the Firefly animated series forward!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DV6Js56jT3F/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

Once We Were Spacemen on Instagram: "The word is out. To keep Firefly flying, we need a home. And for that, we need you. Like this post, comment on this post, repost this post. Tag a friend, tag an enemy, even tag a Reaver. Give us some “quantifiable analytics” that we can use to convince folks that this is something people want. #BringBackFirefly"
1M likes, 122K comments - oncewewerespacemen on March 15, 2026: "The word is out. To keep Firefly flying, we need a home. And for that, we need you. Like this post, comment on this post, repost this post. Tag a friend, tag an enemy, even tag a Reaver. Give us some “quantifiable analytics” that we can use to convince folks that this is something people want. #BringBackFirefly".

A rare daylight #fireball coming with a loud bang was seen and heard Tuesday morning over the U.S. and Ohio in particular: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHBjApk3d6w - see https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-12-marz-2026/ for links to many more reports. And https://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/meteorite-falls/events/windfall-oh says: "Signatures of falling meteorites are seen in data from three weather radars [...] NASA Meteoroid Environment Office finds that this was a 2m diameter object weighing around 6 metric tons - more of a small asteroid than a large meteoroid. [...] There are meteorites on the ground around Windfall, OH towards River Styx, OH."

ICE agent charged with two felonies
for allegedly pointing his gun at MN motorists during Operation Metro Surge
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said a "nationwide warrant" has been issued
in 💥 the first criminal charges against an ICE agent for on-duty actions during the surge.

My #silentsunday.. I only had a chat with two guys at the summit and one guy a bit below.
Besides that... 4-5h silence. If we don't count the minutes I was following the activities of a woodpecker a couple of meters away from me 😊
It took me really efforts to get out. But - as usual - it was worth it.

As cheesy as this sounds - even if you’re failing by all the world’s metrics of success, if you can lift someone else up today - even in the smallest way - you’ve done something of weight and - for all involved - kept the darker things at bay.
And multiplied by many, a society that values this will outlast every society that doesn’t anyway.
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