😱 “Rainfall in the central city of Hue reached 1,085 millimeters (42 inches) in 24 hours by late Monday, the highest volume ever recorded in Vietnam”
https://apnews.com/article/vietnam-floods-record-rainfall-3492e2748c8504392943f21b5df5079…
Four African countries to ‘run out of supplies to fight malnutrition’ within 3 months due to global aid cuts | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/aid-food-kenya-nigeria-somalia-africa-b2816539.html
And the prize for the most painful #acronym in an astronomy paper's title in the past few weeks goes to ... ASTRONAUT = A databaSe of millimeTeR ObservatioNs of Asteroids Using acT (which itself stands for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope the regular acronym of which is ACT): https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18300.
Parole de survivante, sur les séquelles :
1️⃣ Bottes en caoutchouc trop grandes. Engelures. Morve au nez. Malnutrition.
Un corps d'enfant qu'on maltraite, qu'on oublie. #Sectes #Violences
2️⃣ Un dos brisé, jamais soigné. Une scolarité abandonnée, une enfance volée.
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Dutch online grocery store Picnic raised €430M from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust and others, after raising €355M in January 2024 (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/11/21/dutch-online-grocery-store-picnic-raises-430m/
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths
https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hundreds-of-thousands-of-deaths/
The cruelty, corruption, incompetence, hate fueled rule of the current USA administrati…
Neue Details! - Drama um Inter-Goalie: Erlitt Opfer Herzinfarkt? #News #Nachrichten
On Secrecy Capacity of Binary Beampointing Channels with Block Memory and Feedback
Siyao Li, Mingzhe Chen, Shuangyang Li, Giuseppe Caire
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20980 https:/…
Transformation of topological optical states via spiral modulation in fractional-diffraction systems
Dongdong Wang, Xueqing He, Rujiang Li, Dumitru Mihalache, Boris A. Malomed, Pengfei Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20651