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14-year old Miles Wu just won $25,000 for a research project based on an origami fold called "Miura-ori", which is known for collapsing and expanding with precision.
"I've been folding origami as a hobby for more than six years, mostly of animals or insects," Wu told Business Insider.
"Recently I've been designing my own origami, too."
"A problem with current deployable structures and emergency structures is, for example,
ten…

14-Year-Old Wins Prize For Origami That Can Hold 10,000 Times Its Own Weight
While most 14-year-olds are folding paper airplanes, Miles Wu is folding origami patterns that he believes could one day improve disaster relief.

"I share Alfred Nobel’s conviction that war is the greatest of all human disasters. Infectious disease runs a good second." --Peter C. Doherty, from his Nobel Prize biography https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1996/doherty/facts/
I believe floods (…

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1996
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1996 was awarded jointly to Peter C. Doherty and Rolf M. Zinkernagel "for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence"

Hopeful reading for the dark times we’re in
❤️ https://brennan.day/our-shared-oblivion/

Our Shared Oblivion
How the inevitability of oblivion can be a source of relief, while also examining our sacred duty to make things better in the present moment through persistent, stubborn action in the direction of care.

GB News pays substantial libel damages to Islamic Relief after airing false claims that the charity sent money to terrorist groups in the Middle East (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
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GB News pays substantial damages to Islamic Relief over false terrorism claim
GB News has paid "substantial" libel damages to a UK charity an interviewee falsely claimed had sent money to terrorist groups.

Das Weiße Haus führt jetzt eine „Galerie der Wahrheit“. Klingt nach Kunstmuseum, ist aber eher Horrorinstallation: Medien am Pranger, Lügen als Kuratierung. Ralf Heimann beschreibt im #Altpapier, wie Trump sich die Wirklichkeit schnitzt. Orwell lässt grüßen, Hannah Arendt hat die Praxis totalitär System schon lange seziert | MDR |

Kolumne: Das Altpapier am 4. Dezember 2025 – Wann tötet das Weiße Haus Journalisten?
Die US-Regierung stellt kritische Medien an einen Online-Pranger. Der Präsident droht Politikern mit dem Tod. Die Armee tötet mutmaßliche Drogenhändler, die wehrlos im Wasser schwimmen. Wie geht es weiter?

"What a privilege to collaborate with microbes and chicken manure. What a relief to recognize that the call to healing and life is a call to all creation. We do not work alone!"
—Nathan T. Stucky, Director of the Farminary project at Princeton, in his piece for the new issue of the YDS journal Reflections

In December, the authors of #watchtower decided to archive their own project.
There are a few forks out there - unfortunately I know nothing about them so can't really vouch for their legitimity. If you want to continue using Watchtower, please assess them yourself wit…

President TACO to announce $12 billion tariff relief for farmers
Farmers nationwide have been grappling with low crop prices and challenging TARIFFS that have pushed many into bankruptcy.
Some 181 farmers filed for bankruptcy protection in the first half of the year,
a 60 percent increase from the previous year
and the highest six-month reading since 2020, according to U.S. court records.

The new assistance package is expected to particularly help soybean farm…

Trump to announce $12 billion tariff relief for farmers
Farmers — particularly those who produce soybeans — have felt the impact of the president’s tariff policies.

"But as you can see, the programs do come at a cost... we estimate about $27.4m a year goes to the administrative costs and also the projected fare revenue reduction."
I'm waiting for the slide where they estimate the much higher cost of all the unmetered parking spaces across the city, and of turning off meters at 6pm and on Sundays. I'm sure that'll definitely be later in this presentation, right?