alpena has a great used record store, noise & toys, and i usually come home with an inch or two of LPs, but not this year bc they’re in the middle of moving to a new space #alas
they don’t sort by categories, just alphabetically. i usually spend hours rummaging for vintage jazz among all the rest, picking up where i left off the following year.
i have found so many gems there
any…
ProPublica launches its first in-house podcast, Paper Trail, an audio serialization of past investigations; filing: ProPublica had an $18.5M surplus in 2024 (Shannon Thaler Cherry/A Media Operator)
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The Trump administration has decided to start phasing out HIV funding for South Africa following the country’s
“failure to make demonstrable progress on policy requests by the administration,”
a State Department official told POLITICO on Thursday.
The official, who agreed to discuss the decision only if POLITICO did not use their name,
said the decision to “initiate a phased drawdown of PEPFAR programming in South Africa”
is in line with Donald Trump’s February …
For @… this coming Monday, we will discuss Barbara L. Fredrickson’s paper “The broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions.” A PDF is available at the following link: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.…
Dr. Francisco Trujillo, University of South Wales UNSW, invents ultrasonic espresso
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In the paper we:
... discuss how the architecture discourse has begun to include disabled perspectives;
... critique how the space syntax community has mostly ignored bodily difference in the past,
... and praise noteworthy exceptions;
... report from a building exploration of a campus building, where we've invited eight creatives with diverse disabilities to reflect on the architecture and their experiences of inclusion and exclusion, of feeling welcome …
More than 10,000 Starlink satellites currently orbit the Earth.
We see them crawling across dark skies, no matter how remote our location, and streaking through images from research telescopes.
SpaceX recently announced that it wants to launch
one million more of these satellites
as orbital data centres for AI computing power.
A few years ago, we wrote a paper predicting what the night sky would look like with 65,000 satellites from four planned megaconstellatio…