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Germans decry influence of English as ‘idiot’s apostrophe’ gets official approval | Germany | The Guardian
October 12, 2024 at 3:49:10 PM GMT+2 * - permalink -“There is a long tradition of conservative circles fretting about international influences on the German languages,” said Stefanowitsch. “It used to be French, and now it’s mainly English”
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/07/germany-influence-of-english-idiots-apostrophe
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Farewell to the car CD player, source of weirdly deep musical fandoms | Music | The Guardian
October 12, 2024 at 3:48:27 PM GMT+2 * - permalink -Farewell to the car CD player, source of weirdly deep musical fandoms
- https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/sep/30/farewell-to-the-car-cd-player-source-of-weirdly-deep-musical-fandoms
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‘A huge loss’: is it the end for the ship that helped us understand life on Earth? | Science | The Guardian
October 9, 2024 at 9:18:09 AM GMT+2 * - permalink -For almost 40 years the Joides Resolution drilled into the ocean floor to collect samples and data that helped scientists to study Earth’s history and structure
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/09/a-huge-loss-is-it-the-end-for-the-ship-that-helped-us-understand-life-on-earth
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Web-Tipps: Who’s who der Online-Katzen | heise online
October 6, 2024 at 10:23:24 AM GMT+2 * - permalink -Grumpy Cat, Lil Bub und Maru sind bekannte Internetkatzen. Cats of the Web porträtiert diese Katzen mit Steckbriefen und Social-Media-Links
- https://www.heise.de/news/Web-Tipps-Who-s-who-der-Online-Katzen-9957893.html
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‘It is a lot cheaper for couples’: single people feel penalised on prices | Money | The Guardian
October 5, 2024 at 11:41:34 AM GMT+2 * - permalink -Frustration over lack of discounts for those with extra financial burden because they face living costs alone
- https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/oct/05/it-is-a-lot-cheaper-for-couples-single-people-feel-penalised-on-prices
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Earth may have breached seven of nine planetary boundaries, health check shows | Oceans | The Guardian
September 24, 2024 at 7:37:55 AM GMT+2 * - permalink -Earth may have breached seven of nine planetary boundaries, health check shows
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/23/earth-breach-planetary-boundaries-health-check-oceans
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Social media and online video firms are conducting ‘vast surveillance’ on users, FTC finds | Technology | The Guardian
September 20, 2024 at 9:02:22 AM GMT+2 * - permalink -Social media and online video firms are conducting ‘vast surveillance’ on users, FTC finds
Agency accuses Meta, Google, TikTok and other companies of sharing troves of user information with third-parties
- https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/sep/19/social-media-companies-surveillance-ftc
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Entire Earth vibrated for nine days after climate-triggered mega-tsunami | Climate crisis | The Guardian
September 14, 2024 at 11:08:21 AM GMT+2 * - permalink -Entire Earth vibrated for nine days after climate-triggered mega-tsunami
Landslide in Greenland caused unprecedented seismic event that shows impact of global heating, say scientists
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/12/entire-earth-vibrated-climate-triggered-mega-tsunami
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‘A shell of the place it used to be’: readers on the importance of libraries - and their fragile future | Libraries | The Guardian
September 8, 2024 at 10:50:56 AM GMT+2 * - permalink -readers on the importance of libraries - and their fragile future
- https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/sep/06/essential-for-me-readers-on-the-importance-of-libraries
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‘Internet prophet’: arrest of Telegram CEO could strengthen heroic image | Telegram | The Guardian
August 31, 2024 at 11:07:32 AM GMT+2 * - permalink -Hätten sich die Medien weltweit vor Frankreich mal mit diesem Drecksack und seiner App hier richtig beschäftigt, stünde hier in der Headline statt "internet prophet" "Christoph Metzelder". Arbeitet gefälligst und bringt diesen Scum hier down!
- https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/31/arrest-of-telegram-ceo-pavel-durov-could-strengthen-heroic-image
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‘Happiness recession’: UK 15-year-olds at bottom of European satisfaction league | Young people | The Guardian
August 29, 2024 at 7:53:12 AM GMT+2 * - permalink -Zufriedenheit von 15-Jährigen: UK, Polen, Deutschland als Schlusslichter in Europa
- https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/aug/29/uk-teenagers-low-life-satisfaction-europe
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The possibilities for dark matter have just shrunk — by a lot
August 27, 2024 at 7:23:53 PM GMT+2 * - permalink -The LUX-ZEPLIN, or LZ, experiment has searched for and ruled out the existence of dark matter particles with a wide swath of properties, researchers report August 26 at two conferences
- https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dark-matter-wimps-lz
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Prozac in waterways is changing how fish behave, research finds | Fish | The Guardian
August 27, 2024 at 7:52:13 AM GMT+2 * - permalink -Prozac in waterways is changing how fish behave, research finds
Australian study of guppies shows that pharmaceutical pollution could threaten species’ long-term survival
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/27/australia-prozac-waterways-fish-behaviour
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Kevin Boone: They don’t make ’em like that any more: Borland Turbo Pascal 7
August 25, 2024 at 9:44:32 PM GMT+2 * - permalink -So habe ich auch mal angefangen. Blieb aber zum Glück nur ein Seitenpfad.
- https://kevinboone.me/tpwin.html
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Neurotechnology Numbers Worth Knowing
August 25, 2024 at 10:39:40 AM GMT+2 * - permalink -here’s a collection of numbers worth knowing if you’re working in neurotechnology
- https://milan.cvitkovic.net/writing/neurotechnology_numbers_worth_knowing/
