The widening military conflict in the Persian Gulf quickly began to disrupt shipping in one of the world’s biggest oil-and-gas producing regions -- threatening to send energy prices soaring.
Oil markets were closed on Saturday when the United States and Israel launched attacks on Iran that spurred retaliatory strikes across the Middle East.
But shipping companies quickly began trying to steer clear of the region and the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway on Iran’s southern border …
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sp_primary_school: Primary school dynamic contacts (2009)
Two temporal networks of contacts among students and teachers at a primary school in Lyon, France, on consecutive days of in October 2009. Each network accumulates all contacts over the course of a single day; contacts were sampled at 20-second intervals.
This network has 242 nodes and 125773 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata
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i received a text from our landlord this weekend announcing his intention to kill critics in the backyard, taking me a moment to remember he equally loves to call rats "critters" & use autocorrect. doing his part in the war on journalism, i suppose. haven't spotted any yet!
China's Green Methanol Industry is racing ahead 🇨🇳🌱⚗️🏎️
Many expect that Green Methanol is the future clean shipping fuel🚢⛽, as well as a promising feedstock for sustainable aviation fuels✈️ & fossil-free plastics🧴
In 2023, something happened in China🇨🇳.
Suddenly, announcements for Green Methanol production plants started appearing. They had one thing in common: they were huge💪. 500,000 tons here, a million tons there🏭🏭🏭
Donald Trump said he is looking to sue author Michael Wolff for “conspiring” with dead sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein to wreck his political career.
Trump shared his plan while speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on Saturday night, one day after the latest batch of files on Epstein were released.
Trump was asked what he thinks of the latest release and whether his critics will be “satisfied” when he went off on Wolff.
“Well they should be, because it looked like this guy…
hyves: Hyves friendship network (2010)
A network of friendships among users of Hyves, an online social networking site in the Netherlands (comparable to Facebook at the time). Nodes represent users and an edge exists if two users are friends. These data were crawled in December 2010.
This network has 1402673 nodes and 2777419 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
"To be honest with you, my favourite thing is to take the oil in Iran,” Trump said,
“but some stupid people back in the US say: ‘why are you doing that?’
But they’re stupid people.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/03/30/bcmd-m30.html
Trump officials cite white supremacists in bid to end birthright citizenship
Over a century ago, Alexander Porter Morse was among a trio of thinkers who spearheaded a failed effort
— steeped in anti-Black and anti-Chinese racism
— to erase birthright citizenship.
The Trump administration is reviving their arguments to make its case today, some legal scholars say.
The administration is citing arguments “built on a racist foundation,”
Justin Sadowsky, an attorne…