No, this isn't concept art for Dune 3 - it's the British design for a planned vast #astrotourism center in the #SaudiArabian desert near #AlUla: see https://heatherwick.com/studio/news/where-earth-meets-the-stars-heatherwick-studio-reveals-design-for-astrotourism-visitor-centre-and-masterplan/ and https://www.experiencealula.com/en/about/features/a-new-frontier-in-astrotourism and https://darksky.org/places/alula-manara-and-algharameel-nature-reserves/ and https://www.euronews.com/travel/2026/06/21/show-stopping-astrotourism-centre-with-stargazing-lodge-to-open-near-saudi-arabias-alula and https://parametric-architecture.com/heatherwick-studio-observatory-alula/ and https://www.designboom.com/architecture/heatherwick-studio-observatory-astrotourism-saudi-arabia-desert-alula-manara/ and https://www.dezeen.com/2026/06/19/alula-manara-space-observatory-heatherwick-studio-saudi-arabia/ for various aspects of the endeavour which involves a 4-meter (!) telescope among numerous other attractions.
A researcher used GPT-6 Astra to decipher a WWI German radio transmission from 1918, one of the 50 famous unsolved ciphers listed on a German science blog (prinz)
https://www.prinzai.com/p/gpt-6-astra-solves-a-wwi-german-radio
Readers reply: Why put solar panels on green space when we could put them over car parks? https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/jul/12/readers-reply-why-put-solar-panels-on-green-space-when-we-coul…
The last time code became “cheap,” we lost more than we realized — mentorship, craftsmanship, and the sense that engineering was a shared discipline.
I wrote about why that matters now more than ever:
https://www.poppastring.com/blog/what-we-lost-the-last-time…
25 years ago #OTD I observed a long Total #SolarEclipse in #Zambia: lots of pictures in the albums https://www.geocities.ws/skyreports/zam2001/index.html = https://web.archive.org/web/20130529024154/http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~dfischer/skyreports/zam2001/ and a long story (in German) in https://www.geocities.ws/skyreports/zam2001/bericht.html = https://web.archive.org/web/20120527054554/http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~dfischer/skyreports/zam2001/bericht.html
Zum 10-jährigen: Wie TikTok das Netz umgekrempelt hat
Vor zehn Jahren startete Douyin in Peking. Daraus wurde TikTok, das heute als mächtige Kultur- und Shopping-Maschinerie dominiert und andere herausfordert.
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