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"Bernard Lavilliers, toujours « coriace » Š 80 ans : « Il n’y a pas grand-chose qui m’angoisse »"
https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2026/10/23/bernard-lavi…

Bernard Lavilliers, toujours « coriace » à 80 ans : « Il n’y a pas grand-chose qui m’angoisse »
Le chanteur, auteur et compositeur publie son 23ᵉ album studio, « Rite cruel », un « appel à l’endurance et à la résistance », où il aiguise son goût des mots.

Chicago-based Formic, which provides robots-as-a-service automation to manufacturers, raised $50M, including a $40M Series B and $10M in asset-backed financing (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/all-deals/2026/10/22/formic-50m-robotics-deployme…

Exclusive: Formic raises $50M to expand robotics deployments
Formic's latest financing combines a Series B round with asset-backed capital as it looks to scale factory automation.

An article on the Fall of Scientific American.
Scientific publishers should be independent. But:
"Springer Nature felt that Scientific American’s criticism of Trump was threatening their broader business—selling subscriptions to their scientific journals. The federal government was a major client."
Scientific American will be for many Semantic Web researchers a special place because of that one article by Tim Berners-Lee, Jim Hendler and Ora Lassila. Thus it's…

The Fall of “Scientific American”
When the beloved science publication got too political, its corporate owners stepped in. Now its future is uncertain.

When I started at UCL, in. 1964, two of it's most eminent profs were refugees, Bernard Katz and Heinz Otto Schild. Schild, who gave me my 1st job, had been interned in the Isle of Man. He was a kind and gentle man

@… I mean you could probably just be a 'burner' PAYG real sim card I guess but I do not live in the UK and this is easier for me to manage.

Funfact zu Bern: Man kann dort in die Aar springen, wird von der starken Strömung fortgerissen und landet wohl auf der anderen Seite der Stadt. Nur in Bikini/Badehose.
Das tun auch tatsächlich viele. Ihr Hab und Gut haben sie in einem kleinen wasserfesten Seebeutel dabei.
Ist aber nur was für erfahren Bernerinnen. Ich selbst hätte Angst, entweder erst in Deutschland rauszukommen (oder wo auch immer der Fluss mündet). Oder aber in der Altstadt – nur im Bikini.

📰 Die deutsche Militärküste
#Nachrichten

The late great biophysicist, Sir Bernard Katz, who came to UCL from Leipzig in 1936, was perceptive. When I said to him, in 1991, that he must be pleased about reunification of Germany, he said "wait to see what crawls out from under stones". Yesterday it happened.
https://www.dcscience.net/BK-Phys-Soc-News…

I pruned my cinnamon tree last week, just a couple of low branches that were blocking a gate. The leaves smelled so lovely I brought them inside in a bowl near the door and just crushed them a little each time I walked past. House gloriously cinnamon scented, just subtle but lovely. Leaves started drying out this week so I put the bowl with some water on the stove, and warm it up with the remainder heat each time I turn a burner on the stove off. Another week of cinnamon smiles.

The Burning Land (The Last Kingdom #5), by Bernard Cornwell
#Adventure #Book #Favourite