Scottish engineer and inventor,
James Watt
was born on this day
19 January 1736
"I had gone to take a walk on a fine Sabbath afternoon. I had entered the Green by the gate at the foot of Charlotte Street – had passed the old washing-house. I was thinking about the engine at the time and had gone as far as the Herd’s house when the idea came into my mind, that as steam was an elastic body it would rush into a vacuum, and if a communication was made between the cyl…
So…my first retail job was at a place the city HATED*, and would occasionally send cops in to “check” on the place (it’s open 24/7) and the owner told us to tell them to get out
Getting to tell a cop to pound sand and GTFO at 2am was a true joy.
*it’s still there 40 years later 😂
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Zweiter Tag der #DeDeCo 2026 bot nun Programm von früh bis spät und auch auf der Großen Bühne. Highlight in meinem Bereich war das Panel von 4 Synchronsprechenden - Charlotte Uhlig, Christian Zeiger, Konrad Bösherz und Peggy Pollow - und deren Autogrammstunden danach. Autogrammschlange managen hat auf Dauer aber ganz schön geschlaucht.
Außerdem gabs Panels zu den Büchern "Einfach Japani…
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Charlotte Sohy, Orchestre national de France & Debora Waldman:
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The Netherlands' consumer protection regulator launches an investigation into Roblox under the DSA over potential risks to underage users in the EU (Charlotte Van Campenhout/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/dutch-regula…
Nicht mal auf Jim Jarmusch ist mehr Verlass. Erst enttäuscht mich Richard Linklater gleich doppelt, und jetzt Jarmusch. #FatherMotherSisterBrother ist unfassbar langweilig.
Das muss man erst mal hinkriegen, so hochkarätigen Leuten wie Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver und Charlotte Rampling einfach nichts zum Spielen zu bieten. Hab ernsthaft „Gott sei Dank“ geflüstert, als klar w…
Simple Magneto-Optical and Magnetic Traps for Dysprosium
Liam Domett-Potts, Lucile Sanchez, Charlotte Hayton, Oscar Stone, Nuttida Kaewart, Piyawat Chatchaichompu, Narupon Chattrapiban, Nithiwadee Thaicharoen, Mikkel F. Andersen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09403
Dutch startup Axelera AI, which builds power-efficient AI inference chips, raised $250M led by Innovation Industries, with investment from BlackRock and others (Charlotte Hughes-Morgan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
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Ian Sansom reflects on changing cultural values through five almost-famous reputations. Today: poet Charlotte Mew, who never gained the recognition her supporters expected.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qh54
Latent Causal Diffusions for Single-Cell Perturbation Modeling
Lars Lorch, Jiaqi Zhang, Charlotte Bunne, Andreas Krause, Bernhard Sch\"olkopf, Caroline Uhler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.15341
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Ludwig van Beethoven, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Charlotte Margiono, Rudolf Schasching, Birgit Remmert, Robert Holl, Arnold Schoenberg Chorus & Erwin Ortner:
🎵 Symphony No 9 in D minor, Op 125, 'Choral' (4th mvt)
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Andrew McGregor with the best new classical releases, joined by Charlotte Gardner and Kenneth Hamilton, who picks his favourite recording of Brahms's Paganini Variations.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qgz4
High-precision Penning-trap spectroscopy of the ground-state spin structure of HD
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17522
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001yqy3
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Charlotte Sohy, Orchestre national de France & Debora Waldman:
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#CharlotteSohy #OrchestrenationaldeFrance #DeboraWaldman
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Charlotte Sohy, Orchestre national de France & Cristian Măcelaru:
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Franz Schubert, Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux & Joseph Havlat:
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Big Boss Man:
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