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When archaeologists with the National Museum of Denmark excavated a burial mound called GuldhŸj (Gold Hill) in southern Jutland in 1891,
they were surprised to find a well-preserved wooden folding chair
similar to those known from ancient Egypt and Greece.
But the GuldhŸj folding chair was made in Denmark around 3,400 years ago
and is the only completely preserved chair from the Bronze Age in Europe,
according to the National Museum of Denmark.
The chair …

Guldhøj folding chair: The only completely preserved chair from Bronze Age Europe
The remarkably preserved wooden folding chair was likely a status symbol and was found in the grave of a Bronze Age chieftain.

NFL news roundup: Latest league updates from Friday, Aug. 7 https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-friday-aug-7

OpenAI says it has expanded safety testing around its upcoming model Astra as it "cannot rule out" critical cyber capabilities, potentially delaying launch (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/07/openai-astra-model-delay-cybersecurity-risks…

Exclusive: OpenAI slows release of Astra model citing cyber capabilities
The move comes amid concerns that recent models from OpenAI and others have been breaking beyond sandboxes.

In the blood: Football journey leads Klint Kubiak to try to turn around Raiders https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/in-the-blood-football-journey-leads-klint-kubiak-to-try-to-turn-around-raiders-3883455/

Sources: Channel 4 is set to cut about 300 jobs, around a quarter of its staff, in its biggest round of layoffs as it seeks to limit cuts to the content budget (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/sep/08/channel-4-cut-jobs-layoff-cos…

Channel 4 to axe about 300 jobs in biggest layoffs in its history
Exclusive: Staff expect ‘brutal’ cutbacks as broadcaster seeks to reduce costs amid advertising slowdown

"Butterflies around the world are changing habitats – and experts say it’s ‘signalling a warning’"
#Butterflies #Insects #Climate

Butterflies around the world are changing habitats – and experts say it’s ‘signalling a warning’
New research shows early-warning species is on the move, expanding or contracting geographic range and changing altitude

Really looking forward to a conference in London next month, but I struggle to understand how contributing to a two day conference costs the contributor around £500. Academic conferences seem to be getting more and more expensive, where does the money go? As far as I know, they are volunteer run, using facilities that academics should have free use of,..
Is it commercial university conference depts soaking it up? Or academic publishers/societies?
By the way these outrageous fees a…

Making good progress on the trainer / board for the probing class, which is going to double as a portable demo board for showing off ngscopeclient at various events.
USB-C powered, has a STM32H750 and XC7A35T because I had a bunch of each lying around and I wanted transceivers.
Test patterns will be selectable by the e-ink display and D-pad, or via a SCPI console on the USB port.
And of course there's probe points on the (12 Mbps) USB itself, so I can use it as a demo o…

Default messaging app of trillion-dollar corporation uppercases an x at the end of a message but please, tell me again how AGI is just around the corner.

I’m sat on a bench in Lincoln Square, Manchester, surrounded by a buzz of expectation.
The Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, is in town for his first day at Number 10 North
-- the government’s new northern base inside Heron House, immediately in front of me.
Police officers are stationed around the square, keeping watch on all the entrances.
In the middle of it all, Abraham Lincoln stands looking out across the square with the weary air of somebody who has seen it all

Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 7 Aug 2026
I feel as though I’m in a kind of dystopian bubble of my own making - an aberration in the continuum, as though I’ve slipped into the square from another century, carrying some obsolete way of looking at the world.