3400 BC: The oldest evidence for the use of the wheel and wagon originates from Northern Germany
https://www.uni-kiel.de/en/details/news/051-wheel-tracks
tech nerdery
I mean this: if every receiver just connected to its source when it was ready, and we hadn't made short-timeout stateful firewalls everywhere, we'd have to deploy SO MANY fewer weird one-off services just to receive something.
Instead we have to provision certificates and public facing hostnames to get communication going. Backend development is so much more complex and less robust because of it.
What a week! This week was Open Data Day #ODD.
On Tuesday the @… organised an event on Open Data / Bring your own data, for which slides are available here: #OpenScience in Challenging Economic and Political times". A recording to follow!
On Friday I participated in an event on #WomenInStem and I won a Tshirt!
This Wednesday afternoon April 9th from 3-6pm there's an end of life information event at the Westbury Community Centre.
Speakers include myself, the northern Palliative Care Tasmania coordinator and a social worker with palliative care.
There will also be a short film.
I'll be discussing rights, options, choices, and money saving tips.
#tasmania
@…
Carbon dioxide concentration records
from Southern to Northern latitudes, 1957 to date
https://scrippsco2.ucsd.edu/#home-plot
Started reading this and it's already funny.
Apparently in 50bc years the hottest political topic in Roman Empire was a problem of refugees coming from northern regions.
https://www.thalia.de/shop/home/artikeldetails/A1052821267
An Amnesty report documents over 70 attacks and threats on journalists in Northern Ireland since 2019, with no prosecutions for threats from paramilitary groups (Rory Carroll/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j
Hundreds die after flash floods tear through Nigerian market town https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/06/hundreds-die-after-flash-floods-tear-through-nigerian-market-town/
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Ajna Marosz and Il Cuore Barocco play Graupner and Telemann
A chamber music concert from the 2024 Allegretto Žilina International Music Festival in northern Slovakia, bringing together award winning musicians from around the world.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002d1q4