tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90870780155102409202024-03-29T16:02:31.699+05:00SAM Daily TimesYour Corporate NewspaperDarakshanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15927433487509947111noreply@blogger.comBlogger24321125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9087078015510240920.post-56738818447544268912024-03-29T15:28:00.002+05:002024-03-29T15:28:39.334+05:00HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 2 : SERIES<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZxmXYwUXgxWZzc8XaITh6ewBEboP1zSGPLDhGcJPLITXVOCh0IbLlqaC7bJPpMHIrVaurXMOpHCPLQZ1cCR7ct0Qqvt1U5G1sNKgn6_ZTxPyPwj6JxtRfi9N467vrSYfOrCE7zDd-OoQcsIBZMzo3xN4E37sM3C3j5L0hsTQymtH_EzEQ_uzVGaAdVuD7/s681/House-of-the-Dragon.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="383" data-original-width="681" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZxmXYwUXgxWZzc8XaITh6ewBEboP1zSGPLDhGcJPLITXVOCh0IbLlqaC7bJPpMHIrVaurXMOpHCPLQZ1cCR7ct0Qqvt1U5G1sNKgn6_ZTxPyPwj6JxtRfi9N467vrSYfOrCE7zDd-OoQcsIBZMzo3xN4E37sM3C3j5L0hsTQymtH_EzEQ_uzVGaAdVuD7/w514-h289/House-of-the-Dragon.webp" width="514" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>HBO's highly anticipated series, House of the Dragon, has unleashed a tantalising glimpse into its forthcoming second season, igniting fervent speculation and excitement among fans.</p><p>With the premier slated for June 16, the network dropped not one, but two distinct trailers for the upcoming installment.</p><p>Set 200 years before the gripping events of Game of Thrones, Season 2 plunges viewers into the heart of the Dance of the Dragons, a savage civil war tearing through the Targaryen dynasty.</p><p>With one trailer draped in the ominous hues of Rhaenyra's black faction and the other pulsating with emerald glow of Alicent's green team, audiences are urged to pick sides in the simmering conflict that threatens to tear Westeros asunder.</p><p>The trailers offer a compelling glimpse into the divergent paths of these two rival factions. One trailer unfurls the brooding strongholds of Dragonstone, where Rhaenyra, alongside Prince Daemon and other forces, marshals their might in preparation for the impending clash.</p><p>Meanwhile, the other trailer thrusts viewers into the political cauldron of King's Landing, where Alicent, aided by her father Otto and her sons king Aegon and Prince Aemond, manoeuvers to secure her grip on power.</p><p>Amidst the deluge of reactions on the internet, one sentiment resonates loudly : admiration for HBO's cunning two-trailer strategy. </p><p>'' Making two trailers for House of the Dragon to make people choose a side is kind of genius, actually ....... Anyways, I know where my loyalties lie,'' cryptically penned one fan on the microblogging platform X, formerly Twitter, naming neither Rhaenyra nor Alicent.</p><p>For staunch supporters of Rhaenyra, the trailers served as a reaffirmation of their unwavering loyalty. Declarations of affection and solidarity flooded social media feeds, with one fan defiantly proclaiming :</p><p>'' Rhaenyra, my beloved, they could never make me hate you.''</p><p>Other cast doubt on Queen Alicent's motivations and actions. Critics seized upon her perceived folly, defending her as '' delusional '' and '' an idiot '' for her decisions and interpretations of events within the realm.</p><p>One user couldn't resist a lighthearted jab, remarking, '' Alicent [is] legit an idiot. She knew the guy was drugged up but she still thought he meant her Aegon?''</p><p>The World Students Society thanks News Desk, The Express Tribune.</p>Hussain Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14956692492249351721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9087078015510240920.post-43252442192270020302024-03-29T15:07:00.002+05:002024-03-29T15:08:03.641+05:00Headline, March 30 2024/ ''' ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ARMISTICE '''<p><br /></p>
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IN 2019 - A GROUP OF RESEARCHERS LED BY VAHE TSHITOYAN, then at Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory, in America, used an AI technique called
unsupervised learning to analyse the abstracts of materials science
papers........
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And extract information about the properties of different materials into
mathematical representation called ''word embeddings''. These place concepts
into a multi-dimensional space where similar concepts are grouped together.
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The system thereby gained a ''chemical intuition'' so that it could, for
example, suggest materials with similar properties to another material.
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The AI was then asked to suggest materials that might have thermoelectric
properties [ the ability to turn a temperature difference into an electrical
voltage, and vice versa], even though they were not identified as such in
literature.
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The ten most promising materials were selected, and experimental testing
found that all ten did indeed display unusually strong thermoelectric
properties.
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Academic journals and laboratories revolutionized how science worked in the
past. Could artificial intelligence do the same in the future?
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'' BY AMPLIFYING HUMAN INTELLIGENCE -AI may cause a new Renaissance, perhaps
a new phase of the Enlightenment,'' Yann LeCun, one of the godfathers of
modern artificial intelligence [AI], suggested earlier this year.
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AI can already make some existing scientific processes faster and more
efficient but it can do more, by transforming the way science itself is
done?
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Such transformations have happened before. With the emergence of the
scientific method in the 17th century, researchers came to trust
experimental observations, and the theories they derived from them, over the
received wisdom of antiquity.
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This process was, crucially, supported by the advent of scientific journals,
which let researchers share their findings, both to claim priority and to
encourage others to replicate and build on their results. Journals created
an international scientific community around a shared body of knowledge,
causing a surge in discovery known today as the scientific revolution.
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A further transformation began in the late 19th century, with the
establishment of research laboratories - factories of innovation where
ideas, people and materials could be combined on an industrial scale.
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This led to a further outpouring of innovation, from chemicals and
semiconductors to pharmaceuticals.
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These shifts did more than just increase scientific productivity. They also
transformed science itself, opening up new realms of research and discovery.
How might AI do something similar, not just generating new results, but new
ways to generate new results?
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A promising approach is '' literature based discovery '' [LBD] which, as its
name suggests, aims to make new discoveries by analysing scientific
literature. The first LBD system, built by Don Swanson at the University of
Chicago in the 1980s, looked for novel connections in MEDLINE, a database of
medical journals.
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In an early success, it put together two separate observations - that
Raynaud's disease, a circulatory disorder, was related to blood viscosity -
and suggested that fish oil reduced blood viscosity - and suggested that
fish oil might therefore be a useful treatment. This hypothesis was then
experimentally verified.
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We're charging our battery : But Dr. Swanson's LBD system failed to catch on
outside the AI community at the time.
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Today AI systems have become far more capable at natural-language processing
and have a much larger corpus of scientific literature to chew on. Interest
in LBD-style approaches is now growing in other fields, notable materials
science.
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Exhilarated, the researchers then retrained their system, omitting papers
from more recent years, and asked it to predict which new thermoelectric
materials would be discovered in those later years.
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The system was eight times more accurate at predicting such discoveries than
would be expected by chance alone.
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It could also make accurate discovery predictions using other terms, such as
''photovoltaic''. The researchers concluded that ''such language based
inference methods can become an entirely new field of research at the
intersection between natural-language processing and science.''
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The Honour and Serving of the Latest Global Operational Research in
Artificial Intelligence, Science and the Future Revolution continues. The
World Students Society thanks The Economist.
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Hussain Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14956692492249351721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9087078015510240920.post-51029694561394131342024-03-28T15:54:00.007+05:002024-03-28T15:56:01.056+05:00SCIENCE MARVELLOUS SCHEMES : PRECIS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>
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>Regenerative dentistry : Scientists have used stem cells to regrow tooth
enamel. The HUMAN body is a marvellous thing. But like anything built by evolution, it
has plenty of flaws.</span
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Whereas sharks grow new teeth throughout their lives, adults humans get one
set, which must last 60 years or more.
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That is tricky. A combination of poverty, sugar-rich diets and poor hygiene
means 2.5 billion people around the world suffer from tooth decay, in which
acid produced by mouth-dwelling bacteria eats away at the hard enamel that
coats the outside of a tooth.
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That can open the door to painful infections, which cause further damage. Once
decay has set in, all a dentist can do is fill the gap with an artificial plug
- a filling.
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But in a paper published in Cell, Hannele Ruohola-Baker, a stem-cell biologist
at the University of Washington, and her colleagues offer a possible
alternative.
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Stem cells are those that have the capacity to turn themselves into any other
type of cell in the body.
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It may soon be possible, the researchers argue, to use those protean cells to
regrow a tooth's enamel naturally.
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STEM-cell-based therapies are not the only ones heading to clinical trials.
Another class of treatments is known as biomimetic repair. This involves
rebuilding the tooth crown using synthetic proteins, which are similar, but
not quite identical, to human enamel.
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Unlike stem-cell treatments, the proteins could be included in toothpaste,
mouthwash and even cough drops. But synthetic formulations can be less durable
than human enamel.
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It will take time for either technology to arrive in the clinic. One question
is just how durable the enamel made by stem-cell derived ameloblasts proves to
be. Another is how best to deliver the stem cells to a patient's mouth.
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But these findings are promising. As any dentist will tell you, prevention is
better than cure. But a better cure would be welcome nonetheless.
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<p>The World Students Society thanks The Economist.</p>
Hussain Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14956692492249351721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9087078015510240920.post-41722848630167456772024-03-28T15:54:00.006+05:002024-03-28T15:54:36.856+05:00DATA'S -A.I. FLY- DEALS : MASTER GLOBAL ESSAY<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU-lNc7V_5B06Z8L-rjgeKsKXTU255hCmlMGVEKJLe6CWLUyMKwmzs7RTxuI-UgePkQfJz6lSV86pToNo5JdO972wMUVL040ZfN5H72-_cbe-9TaI3vuDk1TncGNjcrMxcyr2zraKCApgPAn2V1FNwSMGRPwDoM3dGLiPMavRngQ9YFt0wEyn7qoZJrsX0/s1920/20230819_WBD002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU-lNc7V_5B06Z8L-rjgeKsKXTU255hCmlMGVEKJLe6CWLUyMKwmzs7RTxuI-UgePkQfJz6lSV86pToNo5JdO972wMUVL040ZfN5H72-_cbe-9TaI3vuDk1TncGNjcrMxcyr2zraKCApgPAn2V1FNwSMGRPwDoM3dGLiPMavRngQ9YFt0wEyn7qoZJrsX0/w500-h281/20230819_WBD002.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><span class="liner">ON AUGUST 8th 2023, it was reported that Google was in discussions with Universal Music, a record label, to license artists' voices to feed a songwriting AI tool.</span></p><p>Rumors swirl about AI labs approaching the BBC, Britain's public broadcaster. Another supposed target is JSTOR, a digital library of academic journals. </p><p>HOLDERS of information are taking advantage of their greater bargaining power. Reddit, a discussion forum, and Stack Overflow, a question-and-answer site popular with coders, have increased the cost of access to their data.</p><p>Both sites are particularly valuable because users ''upvote'' preferred answers, helping models know which are most relevant.</p><p>Twitter X, a social-media site, has put in place measures to limit the ability of bots to scrape the site and now charges anyone who wishes to access its data. Elon Musk is planning to build his own AI business using the data.</p><p>EXPANDING the frontier : As a consequence model-builders are working hard to improve the quality of the inputs they already have. Many AI labs employ armies of data annotators to perform tasks such as labelling images and rating answers.</p><p>Some of that work is complex; an advert for one such job seeks applicants with a master's degree or doctorate in life sciences. But much of it is mundane, and is being outsourced to places such as Kenya and Pakistan where labour is cheap.</p><p>As firms are also gathering data through users' interactions with their tools. Many of these have a feedback mechanism, where users indicate which outputs are useful. </p><p>Firefly's text-to-image generator allows users to pick from one of four options. Bard, Google's chatbot proposes three answers. Users can give ChatGPT a thumbs-up or thumbs-down to its responses.</p><p>That information can be fed back as an input into the underlying model, forming what Douwe Kiela, a co-founder of Contextual AI, a startup, calls the ''data fly-wheel.''</p><p>A stronger signal still of the quality of a chatbot's answers is whether users copy the text and paste it elsewhere, he adds. That information helped Google rapidly improve its translation tool.</p><p>There is,however, one source of data that remains largely untapped : the information that exists within the walls of the tech firms' corporate customers.</p><p>Many businesses possess, often unwittingly, vast amounts of useful data, from call-centre transcripts to customer spending records. </p><p>Such information is especially valuable because it can be used to fine-tune models for specific business purposes, such as helping call-centre workers answer queries or analysts spot ways to boost sales.</p><p>Yet making use of that rich resources is not always straightforward. Roy Singh of Bain Consultancy, notes that most firms have historically paid little attention to the types of vast but unstructured datasets that would prove most useful for training AI tools.</p><p>Often these are spread across various systems, buried in company servers rather than in the cloud.</p><p>Unlocking that information would help companies customise AI tools to serve their needs better. Amazon and Microsoft, two tech giants now offer tools to help companies improve management of their unstructured datasets, as does Google.</p><p>Christian Kleinerman of Snowflake, a database firm, says that business is booming as clients look to ''tear down data silos'' Startups are piling in.</p><p>In April Weaviate, an AI focused database business, raised $50 million at a valuation of $200 million. Barely a week later PineCone, a rival, raised $100 million at a $750 million valuation.</p><p>Earlier this month, Neon, another database startup, raised an additional $46 million in funding. The scramble for data is only just getting started.</p><p>!WELCOME! to The World Students Society - for every subject in the world and the exclusive and eternal ownership of every student in the world. </p>Hussain Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14956692492249351721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9087078015510240920.post-49390605142011410632024-03-27T20:44:00.002+05:002024-03-27T20:44:17.740+05:00SCIENCE LAB SCHEME : DIRTY ICE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFecnuSBlKMCE2we8lwO-PRbUofT8PAqcbmo-raLvwXHeZIHugodNm0kj41LXAE2L-ZLlsmGoZC2HKDZYVz_laoT53-PAmadeOHWN4EH7Q5AgayGYeTAf2jojBBZ7VjoEj3zKkBjIsfI4DnR-wGOt4OQZg5oW-7fzfNlz3nGwnVKao-Xncnky-ThEfjTmS/s867/slippery-road-snowing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="867" height="345" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFecnuSBlKMCE2we8lwO-PRbUofT8PAqcbmo-raLvwXHeZIHugodNm0kj41LXAE2L-ZLlsmGoZC2HKDZYVz_laoT53-PAmadeOHWN4EH7Q5AgayGYeTAf2jojBBZ7VjoEj3zKkBjIsfI4DnR-wGOt4OQZg5oW-7fzfNlz3nGwnVKao-Xncnky-ThEfjTmS/w519-h345/slippery-road-snowing.jpg" width="519" /></a></div><p><br /></p>
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<span class="liner">Clear Advantage : On dirty ice, fewer somersaults : What's the worst part
of winter?</span>
The perpetual shoveling of snow? The bitter wind that whips across your face?
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Some might say the real villain is ice, which causes slips and falls, sends
cars spinning and delays flights. Engineers in Chicago have made it their
mission to better understand the basics of ice and, better yet, how to get rid
of it.
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Their latest research published in the journal Materials Horizons, reveals
that while water freezes, even tiny amounts of containment significantly
decreases the tendency to stick to a surface.
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The discovery could someday lead to the less damaging de-icing salts - which
corrode metal and infrastructure and harm the environment or lead to
alternative melting agents.
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Researchers have been studying how ice adheres to surfaces for a long time,
though their research almost always focuses on pure ice, said Sushant Anand, a
mechanical engineer at the University of Illinois Chicago who led the study.
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'' But water isn't pure on the roads or in the ocean,'' he said. '' And when
this water freezes on surfaces, then it forms thin ice that has all these
contaminants inside.''
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To study how ''dirty'' ice sticks to surfaces, Dr. Anand's team mixed pure
water with concentrations of table salt, soap or alcohol. They then put
droplets of the contaminated water on surfaces made of copper, glass or
silicon, and measured how much force it took to unstick them after they froze.
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But the best performers were salt [not surprisingly, since it is already
widely used to de-ice roads] and alcohol. [Katrina Miller].
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Hussain Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14956692492249351721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9087078015510240920.post-29664775050150811472024-03-27T13:25:00.000+05:002024-03-27T13:25:00.591+05:00DATA CENTERS DARE : FUTURE PRECIS<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgShBxlKAHZn04yfqun3aoJzmPBOGm3ZHXKMUXzZduHEV3C38zHdb2ystOC4DTWAuRTkSRa-M5Y6eBpOS2AZlMhGTNYrnoJt2vHpR_Xo1BIOipGRESR3vHc42LRZARWD2QY_CPEJpI71S6Z49eYAX48B11PrvIRxUSMqEuZxe2GlXuMfgeIYlkAt1O9CUFN/s1200/data_center_loudoun_credit_Hugh_Kenny.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="799" data-original-width="1200" height="348" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgShBxlKAHZn04yfqun3aoJzmPBOGm3ZHXKMUXzZduHEV3C38zHdb2ystOC4DTWAuRTkSRa-M5Y6eBpOS2AZlMhGTNYrnoJt2vHpR_Xo1BIOipGRESR3vHc42LRZARWD2QY_CPEJpI71S6Z49eYAX48B11PrvIRxUSMqEuZxe2GlXuMfgeIYlkAt1O9CUFN/w523-h348/data_center_loudoun_credit_Hugh_Kenny.png" width="523" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span class="liner">Some sites have sought to install onsite gas power plants to make up for shortfalls in the grid.</span> It may be cleaner than existing power, but adds to the industry's substantial carbon footprint.</p><p>And lawmakers have proposed more transparency and action. The US Senate introduced a proposal in early February to assess A.I.'s environmental impact. Lawmakers in northern Virginia, which is known as Data Center Alley, have pushed to mandate sustainability goals for data centers.</p><p>Suhas Subramanyam, a Virginia state senator, proposed a number of rules, including one that would require data centers to get at least 90 percent of their power from renewable sources to qualify for subsidies.</p><p>'' I don't want to stick my kids in a situation where, in 20 years, they have to pay some of the bills for things that we thought were a good idea and turned out not to be,'' he said.</p><p>The World Students Society thanks Patrick Sisson.</p>Hussain Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14956692492249351721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9087078015510240920.post-43352973846910980112024-03-27T12:16:00.003+05:002024-03-27T12:19:33.254+05:00BEST AUTHOR BEST : ARMISTEAD MAUPIN<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpDkW-4zIm1a89r4JHBfsTs12RR2_ksHLYan8XMG07gNppas13p_6AY4hRrGkgCCiA1it6mgfV6AnQ6ZgO8ioW370Vy7nmfx8zsN5WDt77eEUHWW1Ck1SrrmrdawPwl8o2DVcGTUtDk5jr5Jbnth8qTFv-K2mum3keAtLLjZx1kwOpaoe55fML2KkTIsHr/s640/a3f5c4c6e5b1b24f6e80af8675a2a0f59ec1697c1eba35ea111f961a476fa7c4.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpDkW-4zIm1a89r4JHBfsTs12RR2_ksHLYan8XMG07gNppas13p_6AY4hRrGkgCCiA1it6mgfV6AnQ6ZgO8ioW370Vy7nmfx8zsN5WDt77eEUHWW1Ck1SrrmrdawPwl8o2DVcGTUtDk5jr5Jbnth8qTFv-K2mum3keAtLLjZx1kwOpaoe55fML2KkTIsHr/w497-h280/a3f5c4c6e5b1b24f6e80af8675a2a0f59ec1697c1eba35ea111f961a476fa7c4.webp" width="497" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span class="liner">'' This is the last in the series,'' the '' Tales of the City '' writer says about '' Mona of the Manor,'' which brings Barbary Lane to the English countryside.</span> '' There are 10 of them, and that has a nice symmetry to me.''</p><p>.- What book should everybody read before the age of 21?</p><p>Harper Lee's '' To Kill a Mockingbird.'' It's a primer in human decency.</p><p>.- Disappointing, overrated, just not good : What book did you feel as if you were supposed to like, and didn't?</p><p>Well, I was warned but I didn't listen. '' Go Set a Watchman,'' the so-called ''sequel'' to '' To Kill a Mockingbird,'' is a muddy mess, in which Atticus Finch devolves into an old-school racist that my own father would not have found objectionable.</p><p>.- What's the most important thing you learned from a book recently?</p><p>There was a vibrant bohemian culture in San Francisco in the 1860s. Part of it was a response to artists fleeing from the Civil War, which was raging on the East Coast. </p><p>The community was fascinating, including an actor who some have called a trans man, and other queer figures.</p><p>.- What's your favorite book set in a manor house [ aside from your own ]?</p><p>Dodie Smith's '' I Capture the Castle '' enchanted me as a teenager and still works its charm when I pick it up.</p><p>Sweet eccentrics living penniless in a grand old house.It had a definite influence on '' Mona of the Manor. ''</p><p>.- Do you think a reader could jump into '' Mona of the Manor ''' without having read the earlier books? without having read the earlier books? What do they need to know?</p><p>Like all the " Tales, '' Mona is designed so the reader begins at the beginning. You don't have to know anything about the other books in order to read this one, although if you are a fan of Mona from earlier books you'll probably get more out of it.</p><p>.- How do you sign books for your own fans?</p><p>Just my name and their name and a personal inscription when I feel inspired. I don't take dictation.</p><p>.- Do you think [ or write ] differently about your characters now that they've been brought to the screen by actors?</p><p>Laura Linney's spot-on-portrayal of Mary Ann Singleton was so indelible that she lived in my head when I wrote the later novels. There were plenty of fine actors in the series, but Laura really brought my vision to life.</p><p>.- What do you plan to read next?</p><p>'' The Bee Sting '' by Paul Murray.</p><p>The World Students Society thanks The New York Times.</p>Hussain Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14956692492249351721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9087078015510240920.post-60066668002617586342024-03-27T11:54:00.006+05:002024-03-27T13:26:37.202+05:00Headline, March 28 2024/ ''' KIDULTING GOES KABBOOOM '''<p><br /></p>
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! FIRST AND FOREMOST ! : IT IS A GREAT HONOUR TO NOMINATE esteemed
technologist Amin Malik, Chicago, US, as a lifelong Global Consultant on
technology to <b style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: red;">!</span></b><b style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: red;">W</span><span style="color: yellow;">O</span><span style="color: #0b5394;">W!</span></b>.
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OVER 2 and a half decades ago, technologist Amin Malik gave me two short
tutorials on ''COMPILERS''. I recall that to be his major research
assignment in his Computer Science degree.
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Technologist Amin Malik is not only a world class practitioner of
technology, he is also a gentleman and a human of very high class.
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'' <b style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: red;">!</span></b><b style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: red;">W</span><span style="color: yellow;">O</span><span style="color: #0b5394;">W!</span></b> will be honoured to have you light up the path.'' In my considered
judgment, all global students are now finding that ''growing up is not so
easy''. See you at the bubble pit.
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The RISE OF KIDULTING : See You all at the bubble pit : Experiences that let
adults act like children are booming.
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A young woman slides herself gleefully into a fake bathtub filled with giant
plastic '' bubbles ''. Snack bags of popcorn are handed out inside a room
designed to look and sound like the inside of a popcorn machine. Friends
snap selfies amid colour-changing lights before heading to the pillow-fight
section and pummelling each other with feather-filled cushions.
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Dopamine Land, a pop-up interactive museum with venues in Madrid and London,
is colourful, creative and silly. Although it is family-friendly, most of
the adults milling around on a Saturday at lunchtime have no offspring in
tow.
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As the museum's marketing makes clear, this is a place for the '' inner
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Dopamine Land is just one example of a new cultural trend called
''kidulting'', where adults engage in lighthearted activities traditionally
designed for children.
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IN AMSTERDAM, Wondr invites patrons to ''dive into a sea of pink
marshmallows'' and ''write on the walls''.
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The Museum of Ice Cream, a multistorey playground of pools filled with fake
sundae toppings, has expanded from New York to several other American cities
and Singapore. Bubble Planet, which started in Madrid, will soon have 13
cities in its orbit, including Brussels and Toronto.
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Ballie Ballerson, which operates a giant ball pit for adults in three
British cities, welcomes 25,000 visitors each month.
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Even museums and immersive exhibitions typically aimed at actual children
now host adult-only evenings. This includes KidZania, amodelcity in London
that was [ ironically ] designed for children to play at grown-up
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Enthusiasts say that such spaces heighten creativity, human connection and
joy, triggering the pleasure-seeking chemical that Dopamine Land is named
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But kidulting spaces are not for everyone. Their tendency to claim the title
of museum can feel spurious to people who think such institutions should
impart knowledge.
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Art exhibitions aim to leave visitors seeing the world a bit differently,
but venues like Dopamine Land try for little more than making people feel
happy - and sometimes tipsy.
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That most attendees have smartphones glued to their hands reinforces the
critique that these spaces are little more than selfie backdrops for people
obsessed with their own image.
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But perhaps the shallowness of these places is entirely the point. Negative
emotions, including stress, sadness and anger, have reached record highs,
according to Gallup, a research firm that started tracking this globally in
2005.
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When the world feels bleak, the appeal of distraction is stronger. Meanwhile
millennials and Generation Z have found that growing up is not so easy to
do.
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The milestones their parents achieved so effortlessly, such as buying a home
and getting married have become extensive affairs, out of reach for many.
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This all explains the lure of Kidulting. Dopamine Land - with its
fancy-dress boxes, craft stations and picture-perfect backgrounds - asks
nothing of its visitors.
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There is no information to take in, no rules to follow, no goals to achieve.
It is amusing and vapid and brainless. That is what makes it such fun.
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The Honour and Serving of the Latest Global Operational Research on Culture,
Experiences and boomerangs Continues. The World Students Society thanks The
Economist.
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With most respectful dedication to technologist Amin Malik, Chicago, and
then Parents, Students, Professors and Teachers of the world.
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See Ya all prepare for Great Global Elections on The World Students Society
- the exclusive and eternal ownership of every student in the world, - and
for every subject : wssciw.blogspot.com and Twitter X <b style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: red;">!E-</span></b><b style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: red;">W</span><span style="color: yellow;">O</span><span style="color: #0b5394;">W!</span></b> - The Ecosystem 2011 :
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Hussain Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14956692492249351721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9087078015510240920.post-84656203330754512362024-03-25T21:58:00.001+05:002024-03-26T10:33:43.714+05:00Cosmic Spectacle: A Rare Nova<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIrB6seWWPJrf2eiDkOmLvtdox_jDBrraVNm5gRhccfy1z-h84xXieb3CK_jfuyt7CZzFPI8Geslc7iBVHt_ub4Bwj3PFpP4H8jDHWSoPKCaIEVo3j7gq4GTGmOGomvtBcpSnKH2R88XQdLfXmPazmfDjRxle0IaJZsJvAho3LnpFx_IdxQ8qzhNNp9m1v/s800/p0hlcn3p.jpg.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIrB6seWWPJrf2eiDkOmLvtdox_jDBrraVNm5gRhccfy1z-h84xXieb3CK_jfuyt7CZzFPI8Geslc7iBVHt_ub4Bwj3PFpP4H8jDHWSoPKCaIEVo3j7gq4GTGmOGomvtBcpSnKH2R88XQdLfXmPazmfDjRxle0IaJZsJvAho3LnpFx_IdxQ8qzhNNp9m1v/w512-h288/p0hlcn3p.jpg.webp" width="512" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>The nova T Coronae Borealis explodes about once every 80 years.</p><p>While the world's attention has been focused on the total solar eclipse that will occur later this spring, the distant Corona Borealis binary system – which contains one dead white dwarf star and one ageing red giant star – has been busy gearing up for its own moment of glory: a spectacular nova explosion.</p><p><span class="liner">Located 3,000 light years from Earth, the Corona Borealis is home to a white dwarf star named T Coronae Borealis (or T CrB for short) that's on the verge of what Nasa says will be a once-in-a-lifetime nova eruption.</span></p><p>The rare cosmic event is expected to take place sometime before September 2024. When it occurs it will likely be visible to the naked eye. No expensive telescope will be needed to witness this cosmic performance, says Nasa.</p><p>T CrB oubursts only happen about once every 80 years, the last was was back in 1946.</p><p>"I'm very excited. This thing is kind of like Halley's Comet – it occurs once every 75 to 80 years – but novas don't get the press Halley's Comet gets," says Nasa’s meteoroid environment program manager William J Cooke. "Comets always get more press."</p><p><b>How do scientists know when nova explosions will occur?</b></p><p>In most cases, Nasa experts have no idea when nova explosions are going to happen, says Cooke. But there are about 10 novas that are known as "recurrent novas", he explains.</p><p>"A recurrent nova is a nova that periodically blows its top," continues Cooke. "And T Coronae Borealis is a prime example."</p><p>But how does Nasa know with such certainty that T CrB is going to erupt over the next few months specifically? It's a matter of mathematical calculations and visible evidence. For instance, the last time T CrB experienced a nova was in 1946 – 78 years ago. The clock is very much ticking.</p><p>There's another sign that T CrB is getting ready to blow also, Cooke says. "We know that before it goes nova it dims for about a year, and T Coronae Borealis started dimming back in March 2023, so that's why we think it's going to go nova between now and the end of September."</p><p>T CrB's reliable nova recurrence rate sets it apart from the many other novas identified over the years – and is part of what makes the star explosion so special.</p><p>"There are lots and lots of nova that have been discovered, but most haven't been known to recur. Or they go such long time periods without recurring that we don't know when they will again," explains Meredith MacGregor, an assistant professor with Johns Hopkins' William H. Miller III Department of Physics and Astronomy, who specializes in stellar activity.</p><p>The time span for a repeat performance of a nova can be anything between one year and as much as a millions of years, adds Richard Townsend, professor of astronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.</p><p><b>What triggers a nova event?</b></p><p>In addition to knowing when some of the more predictable nova events like T CrB's will occur, Nasa experts also know why they happen. The white dwarf T CrB exists in a binary system, meaning it is one of two stars orbiting around each other. The other is the red giant.</p><p>White dwarfs have masses similar to the Sun, but have a diameter around a hundred times smaller, making them comparable in size to Earth, he says. And that high mass but relatively small size makes a white dwarf's gravity especially strong.</p><p>As the red giant in T CrB's system ejects matter, T CrB's gravity attracts or collects it and puts it on its own surface, doing so for years and years, until it reaches its limit.</p><p>"What's happening in the system is that the red giant star is dumping all of this material onto the surface of the white dwarf," says Cooke. "And when too much gets on the surface of the white dwarf (T CrB) you literally get a thermonuclear reaction, like in a bomb, and the white dwarf blows off that material."</p><p>Townsend offers a similar description, explaining that once a sufficient amount of material has accumulated on T CrB and its temperature reaches a few million degrees Celsius, a nuclear fusion reaction begins burning, creating the highly visible nova event many are now eagerly anticipating.</p><p>"These are the same reactions that are ongoing in the core of the Sun, and they release a tremendous amount of energy in the surface layers of the white dwarf," says Townsend. "The energy release causes the white dwarf to temporarily outshine its red giant companion, and the overall light output from both stars – when seen here on Earth – increases by a factor of between a thousand and 100,000."</p><p>This type of outburst event helps Nasa experts understand the mass transfer that takes place between stars in binary systems and the thermonuclear explosions that result when the white dwarf goes nova. It's a process that in the case of T CrB happens again and again.</p><p>"It keeps going through this cycle of accumulating material from the bigger star over and over again," says MacGregor. "It usually takes thousands of years to build to the point where you see a nova. But T Coronae Borealis seems to do it much faster, which makes it a rare one."</p><p><b>What you'll see when the T CrB nova occurs</b></p><p>The T CrB star system normally has a visibility magnitude +10 in terms of brightness, according to Nasa. But when the upcoming T CrB nova eruption takes place, the visibility will jump significantly, up to what's known as a magnitude +2, which is far brighter than a +10. To put that into some context, a +2 is a similar level of brightness as the North Star, Polaris.</p><p>By the time that happens, T CrB will be visible to the naked eye.</p><p>Those hoping to see the nova display should look in the sky for the constellation Corona Borealis, or the Northern Crown – a small, semicircular arc near Bootes and Hercules, says Nasa. "This is where the outburst will appear as a 'new' bright star," the space agency explains.</p><p>But don't be mistaken: what's occurring is not actually the formation of a new star. Rather, T CrB is simply becoming visible to us thanks to these far-off nuclear reactions.</p><p>"It's a star that already exists. The star has always been there, but to us it looks like there's suddenly a new star because we can't always see it," MacGregor explains. "White dwarfs are so small we cannot see them with the naked eye. But because of the fusion reaction that's occurring, we're temporarily able to see it. You could go out in your driveway at night and see this."[1] </p><p>Once T CrB's brightness reaches its peak it could even be as bright as the planet Mars, adds Cooke. And it is expected to remain fiery and visible to the unaided eye for at least a few days, but its explosive event could very well last more than a week.</p><p>And then, once the white dwarf rids itself of all the material it's accumulated from the larger red star, T CrB will once again dim into obscurity, unseen for decades more…</p><p>- Author: Mia Taylor, BBC</p>Hussain Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14956692492249351721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9087078015510240920.post-33266627908982472852024-03-25T21:56:00.002+05:002024-03-25T21:56:23.335+05:00AMAZON'S FINE APPEALS : VIGILANCE PRECIS<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTY40khT6zByd4aFVYxyRd406m_3zE8P45MMz2S5jfXDEURAi6k89zEubT8oXNrQxnuRIaonVlt-FffdjPLYgPU01U_gVFF-uMkICIUgM3K7_K6qYGk9OCyNrIMhmJaHl55Zgjys9NTf48bdDy3dNvnygFRGx9M6SFhbKH-ukhzVm512r3NWcXw3ryLANs/s728/VFQUFSGLPBMSBKGIXFKRUI7AIQ.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="443" data-original-width="728" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTY40khT6zByd4aFVYxyRd406m_3zE8P45MMz2S5jfXDEURAi6k89zEubT8oXNrQxnuRIaonVlt-FffdjPLYgPU01U_gVFF-uMkICIUgM3K7_K6qYGk9OCyNrIMhmJaHl55Zgjys9NTf48bdDy3dNvnygFRGx9M6SFhbKH-ukhzVm512r3NWcXw3ryLANs/w457-h278/VFQUFSGLPBMSBKGIXFKRUI7AIQ.jpg" width="457" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span class="liner">BENGALURU : '' Unauthorized Vigilance '' : Amazon appeals $36.5 million fine.</span></p><p>E-commerce giant Amazon.com said on Friday it has appealed French regulator CNIL's decision to fine the company 32 million euros [ $34.58 million ] for setting up a system to monitor employee activity and performance.</p><p>The CNIL had in January fixed Amazon France Logistique, which manages Amazon's large warehouse in France, for what the regulator said was an '' excessively intrusive '' surveillance system.</p><p>'' We strongly disagree with the CNIL's conclusions, which are factually incorrect, and we have filed an appeal before the Council of State,'' Amazon said in an emailed response to Reuters.</p><p>The CNIL did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. [Reuters]</p>Hussain Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14956692492249351721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9087078015510240920.post-47691724806012868752024-03-25T14:58:00.002+05:002024-03-25T14:58:26.165+05:00GOLD -GIRLS EGYPT- GIRDS : HUMANS GLOBAL ESSAY<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFdWcaS0c9NTtRH65A2vyauCSkM3JPYgUFZbVHNWbaBKXmNiM9BAy74NdQXhM70DlP7n2zOJQgghhgA2CR4XBUU0p6-k78SGFRE12-Td7LLlgnsoWleVbDzEnf_c4uUF_K6ePtQNnvnCKHU7tUu17fOoShNxdXVvMgoY_rA6A1X0RcLbF92hHYr5CfIQ2C/s1100/dsc_7260edit_custom-2b5b7a612fdd77c62cf172a0ead513e2e411d186-s1100-c50.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="732" data-original-width="1100" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFdWcaS0c9NTtRH65A2vyauCSkM3JPYgUFZbVHNWbaBKXmNiM9BAy74NdQXhM70DlP7n2zOJQgghhgA2CR4XBUU0p6-k78SGFRE12-Td7LLlgnsoWleVbDzEnf_c4uUF_K6ePtQNnvnCKHU7tUu17fOoShNxdXVvMgoY_rA6A1X0RcLbF92hHYr5CfIQ2C/w467-h311/dsc_7260edit_custom-2b5b7a612fdd77c62cf172a0ead513e2e411d186-s1100-c50.jpg" width="467" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>! FIRST AND FOREMOST ! : This beautiful lyrical essay is dedicated to the outstanding accomplishments and services rendered to his country Proud Pakistan, by Esteemed Shabbar Zaidi, the former Chairman of the Federal Board of Revenue.</p><p><span class="liner">GIRLS BETTING on Gold, reluctantly. In Egypt's failing economy, speculators seek out this beautiful, alluring and life sustaining metal despite market volatility.</span></p><p>'' MY MEMORIES WILL COVER IT ALL '' : While still an outstanding student, I have a distinct record of Rabo handing over some money to me to enable a struggling founder and student who had his internet blocked.</p><p>And then this distinguished founder of <b style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: red;">!</span></b><b style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: red;">W</span><span style="color: yellow;">O</span><span style="color: #0b5394;">W!</span></b>, Haleema, following up secretly and in grace, many kind acts of feeling and helping and sharing with fellow humans.</p><p>And with Dee, giving away her prized gold earrings to a stricken, admiring poor girl. And founder Hussain giving away to help struggling colleagues, families and humans. I saw it all, first hand, '' POWERED BY HOW ''.</p><p>IN GLORIOUS TIME AHEAD, I am planning to miss nothing - my experiences and thoughts on outstanding humans like Dr. M Jawad Khan - University of California, M Fahim Khan, University of Surrey, and Imran Khan, Trinity College, Europe. But for now...........</p><p>INSIDE the wood-paneled shop in Cairo's famed Khan-eL-Khalil market, the price of gold was slumping fast, and Rania Hussein was feeling the future slip through her fingers.</p><p>She and her mother watched the gold merchant weigh the necklace and three bangles they had bought in - jewelry Ms. Hussein had bought for her mother as a present five years ago but which they now needed to sell.</p><p>Her brother was getting married, an expensive undertaking even in normal times, but the economic crisis and soaring inflation that have gripped Egypt for more than two years left the family no choice.</p><p>Years of reckless spending and economic mismanagement had come to a head in 2022, when Russia's invasion of Ukraine helped plunge Egypt into a financial crisis. The war in Gaza has only deepened the pain.</p><p>On the day Ms. Hussein visited the market, the price of gold was dropping fast after news that Egypt might have found a lifeline to save it from what had, until then, looked like looming financial ruin.</p><p>The country late last month struck a $35 billion deal for the United Arab Emirates to develop a new city and tourism destination on Egypt's Mediterranean coast.</p><p>Within hours of the deal's announcement, Egypt's pound strengthened, the dollars black-market value fell and gold prices dropped with it.</p><p>If the Emirati funds materialize as promised, analysts say, the cash, along with a new $8 billion bailout agreement with the IMF, will help Egypt stabilize its economy.</p><p>It will help the country avoid a debt default, pay for a backlog of needed imports and undercut the black market in dollars created by a shortage of foreign currency.</p><p>As they watched the value of their paychecks and savings evaporate over the past two years, the poor skimped on food, the middle class pulled their children out of good schools for cheaper or free ones, and even the better-off went without vacations and meals out. </p><p>Millions of people descended into poverty.</p><p>Traditionally, Egyptians have bought gold jewelry as a long-term saving strategy, but speculators have now turned to coins and ingots to try to turn a quick profit, said Saeed Imbaby, the founder of i Sagha, a gold trading platform.</p><p>Demand for gold doubled and then some, driving up the price. The market grew so fevered that the government announced in November that it was partnering with a financial technology company to install A.T.M.s that would dispense gold bars instead of cash. </p><p>'' It's not guaranteed that it'll go up, and I am afraid that it'll go down again,'' Ms. Hussain said of the falling price of gold as she sat in the market shop, explaining why she had decided to sell.</p><p>Preventing the economy of the Middle East's most populous country from collapsing has likewise taken on new urgency for Egypt's Western partners and the war in Gaza.</p><p>The I.M.F. has said it plans to loan Egypt $8 billion, up from an initial $3 billion announced in October 2022.</p><p>Before the deal, growing economic pressure had forced the government to make some changes, including freezing some costly mega projects ordered up by President el-Sisi that had piled on the debt, among them a showy new capital in the desert.</p><p>But Egypt now has less incentive to change course.</p><p>The deal is '' a game changer,'' said Tarek Tawfik, the chairman of the Cairo poultry Group and president of Egypt's American Chamber of Commerce.</p><p>'' The question is, how will the money be used?''</p><p>This Master Global Essay continues in the future. The World Students Society thanks authors Vivian Yee and Nada Rashwan.</p>Hussain Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14956692492249351721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9087078015510240920.post-73547475950558631592024-03-25T14:51:00.003+05:002024-03-25T14:51:40.871+05:00SCIENCE LAB SPECIAL : CAT'S MEOW<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFj9L7r9Ns-3Uoz39XzuLkSlRl_ggq8wqSEzVRwFgTWre1M6dLBwTIN-13tqrh0sqIlVnF8UMP1Qm56cenmazZG_q2OPGCU4hsWKqiav0_R4OwMOuAZrXRRra3y7uEABKLSl4biijDKSt_4ql3tWJChuIH0fBbAgVSJ0S4kGKcFVDCUnaJxKsJHUYGXrAM/s1500/Why-Do-Cats-Meow.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1500" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFj9L7r9Ns-3Uoz39XzuLkSlRl_ggq8wqSEzVRwFgTWre1M6dLBwTIN-13tqrh0sqIlVnF8UMP1Qm56cenmazZG_q2OPGCU4hsWKqiav0_R4OwMOuAZrXRRra3y7uEABKLSl4biijDKSt_4ql3tWJChuIH0fBbAgVSJ0S4kGKcFVDCUnaJxKsJHUYGXrAM/w428-h285/Why-Do-Cats-Meow.jpg" width="428" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><span class="liner">Language Barrier : Exactly part of meow you don't understand? What is the meaning of a cat's meow that grows louder and louder?</span></p><p>OR your pet's sudden flip from softly purring as you stroke its back to biting your hand?</p><p>It turns out these misunderstood moments with your cat may be more common than not.</p><p>A new study by French researchers, published in the journal Applied Animal Behaviour Science, found that people were significantly worse at reading the cues of an unhappy cat. [ nearly one-third got it wrong ] than those of a contented cat [ closer to 10 percent ].</p><p>The study also suggested that a cat's meows and other vocalizations were greatly misinterpreted and that people should consider both vocal and visual cues to try to determine what's going on with their pets.</p><p>These findings were drawn from the answers of 630 participants. Each watched 24 videos of cat behaviors. One-third depicted only vocal communication, another third just visual cues and the remainder involved both.</p><p>Cats have a range of visual signals : tails swishing side by side, or raised high in the air ; rubbing and curling around our legs ; crouching; flattening ears or widening eyes.</p><p>Their vocals include meowing, purring and growling, hissing and caterwauling.</p><p>Even some of the most common cues may be misunderstood. Purring is not always a sign of comfort, but may be used when a cat is stressed or even hurt. [Anthony Ham ].</p>Hussain Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14956692492249351721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9087078015510240920.post-35868607075080694272024-03-25T14:45:00.003+05:002024-03-25T14:45:38.721+05:00T20 -WORLD CUP- US : WEST INDIES HONOURS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaSgPdgpRyIUg062yoG8WHJuyiqBJR-78P0GcQ_BTKcgglO3hi01kXW1nyya3-TvKBK6Tjmfw6zahPANc45xrmoA2XyGn0LKtcBRTnkyTPhOl8AA5prE4U0zDnb-nGjzC8d4ovOKeh1PxtKk_8nvBUx3Jdll68aGr-P6_OSGngJ6V1QQR0fxrUPjIPKrqX/s700/t20-world-cup-trophy.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="700" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaSgPdgpRyIUg062yoG8WHJuyiqBJR-78P0GcQ_BTKcgglO3hi01kXW1nyya3-TvKBK6Tjmfw6zahPANc45xrmoA2XyGn0LKtcBRTnkyTPhOl8AA5prE4U0zDnb-nGjzC8d4ovOKeh1PxtKk_8nvBUx3Jdll68aGr-P6_OSGngJ6V1QQR0fxrUPjIPKrqX/w517-h310/t20-world-cup-trophy.webp" width="517" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>WorldT20 will boost cricket in the US. Windies - US jointly host Twently20 World Cup from June 1.</p><p>LONDON : England World Cup winner Liam Plunkett says cricket superstars such as Virat Kohli and Babar Azam can help bolster the game in the United States when it hosts the T20 World Cup.</p><p>The Twenty20 showpiece, which starts on June 1, is being jointly staged by the United States and the West Indies.</p><p>It will be the first major international cricket tournament played in the US, with a sell-out crowd expected for the clash between arch-rivals India and Pakistan at a temporary 34,000-seat venue in Long Island, New York.</p><p>That match could feature a dramatic face-off between two of the world's best batsmen in India's Kohli and Pakistan's Azam.</p><p>'' I know it's hard to get tickets,'' Plunkett told AFP in a video call from Philadelphia. ''People are asking me for tickets, like I'm a Ticketmaster or something. I've got nothing to do with it.</p><p>'' I'm sure there will be a resale value. People are trying to sell it for $1,500 and people are buying the tickets for that, which is crazy to think.</p><p>'' I said to someone, ' If you had Babar Azam and Virat Kohli stood next to [NBA] star LeBron James, the queues for the cricketers would be just as long or not longer '. They are so massive around the world.</p><p>''People don't believe that. People in America don't realise that more people watch India vs Pakistan than watch the [NFL] Super Bowl, which is crazy.''</p><p>Plunkett, 38, played in last year's inaugural edition of Major League Cricket [MLC], a US-based franchise tournament that used the same short and sharp 20-overs-per-side format as the upcoming global showpiece.</p><p>'' It was successful,'' said Plunkett, speaking with fewer than 100 days to go until the start of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2024. [AFP]</p>Hussain Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14956692492249351721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9087078015510240920.post-60424764153340979122024-03-25T00:32:00.003+05:002024-03-25T09:10:07.817+05:00E-Waste Empirical <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfstO1dfZwq8e8_4ccXZ0-9-TgrqBW9I7dnkXNbIQhxbKeAsXBJphflYFg0P2Xxg1egNHfs51NsU1nyQWu1AOgaROc6cUh3CSKAGNCUhuvdTMaqHvODaRI-Q-0zbcwTMAiRhjohbW9Cg25CyVzsgdKri_E9HrxMx2rFRQ7tWxuIFj3qukkfQylmT8_vt8A/s850/_w850.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="567" data-original-width="850" height="333" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfstO1dfZwq8e8_4ccXZ0-9-TgrqBW9I7dnkXNbIQhxbKeAsXBJphflYFg0P2Xxg1egNHfs51NsU1nyQWu1AOgaROc6cUh3CSKAGNCUhuvdTMaqHvODaRI-Q-0zbcwTMAiRhjohbW9Cg25CyVzsgdKri_E9HrxMx2rFRQ7tWxuIFj3qukkfQylmT8_vt8A/w501-h333/_w850.jpg" width="501" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><span class="liner">U.N. agencies have warned that waste from electronics is piling up worldwide while recycling rates remain low and are likely to fall even further.</span></p><p>The agencies were referring to “e-waste,” which is defined as discarded devices with a plug or battery, including cellphones, electronic toys, TVs, microwave ovens, e-cigarettes, laptop computers and solar panels. It does not include waste from electronic vehicles, which fall into a separate category.</p><p>In a report, the U.N.’s International Telecommunications Union and research arm UNITAR said some 62 million tons of “e-waste” was generated in 2022, enough to fill tractor-trailers that could be lined up bumper to bumper around the globe. It’s on track to reach 82 million tons by 2030.</p><p>Metals — including copper, gold and iron — made up half of the 62 million tons, worth a total of some $91 billion, the report said. Plastics accounted for 17 million tons and the remaining 14 million tons include substances like composite materials and glass.</p><p>The U.N. says 22% of the e-waste mass was properly collected and recycled in 2022. It is expected to fall to 20% by the end of the decade because of “staggering growth" of such waste due to higher consumption, limited repair options, shorter product life cycles, growing “electronification” of society, and inadequate e-waste management infrastructure, the agencies said.</p><p>They said some of the discarded electronic devices contained hazardous elements like mercury, as well as rare Earth metals coveted by tech industry manufacturers. Currently, only 1% of the demand for the 17 minerals that make up the rare metals is met through recycling.</p><p>About half of all e-waste is generated in Asia, where few countries have laws on e-waste or collection targets, according to the report. Recycling and collection rates top 40% in Europe, where per-capita waste generation is highest: nearly 18 kilograms (39 pounds).</p><p>In Africa, which generates the least of any of the five big global regions, recycling and collection rates hover at about 1%, it said.</p><p>“The latest research shows that the global challenge posed by e-waste is only going to grow,” said Cosmas Luckyson Zavazava, head of the ITU telecommunication development bureau. “With less than half of the world implementing and enforcing approaches to manage the problem, this raises the alarm for sound regulations to boost collection and recycling.”</p><p>For some, e-waste represents a way to earn cash by rummaging through trash in the developing world to find coveted commodities, despite the health risks.</p><p>At the Dandora dumpsite where garbage collected from the Kenyan capital of Nairobi ends up — even though a court declared it full over a generation ago — scavengers try to earn a living by picking through rubbish for e-waste that can be sold to businesses as recycled material.</p><p>Steve Okoth hopes the flow continues so he can eke out an income, but he knows the risks.</p><p>“When the e-waste comes here, it contains some powder which affects my health," he said, adding that when electronic devices heat up, they release gases and he “can’t come to work because of chest problems.”</p><p>However, Okoth said they don't have any other options: "We are now used to the smoke because if you don’t go to work you will not eat.”</p><p>Recycling plants, like Nairobi’s WEEE center, have collection points across Kenya, where people can safely get rid of old electric equipment.</p><p>“We take inventory of the items," said Catherine Wasolia, WEEE's chief operating officer, to check for data on submitted devices and wipe them clean. Then they test each to assess if "it can be reused or repurposed.”</p><p>E-waste expert George Masila worries about the impact of electronic waste on soil.</p><p>“When you have all this e-waste — either in the dumpsites or mercilessly deposited anywhere else — it could have major effects on the soil," Masila said. "Every year it rains and water flows and attracts all these elements that are deposited into the environment. You have water getting contaminated.”</p><p>He said greater recycling and re-use of such materials, "are some of the things we should be considering.”</p><p>Report authors acknowledged that many people in the developing world pay their bills through harvesting such e-waste, and called for them to be trained and equipped to make such work safer.</p><p>“We must try to support these people trying to find their niche,” said Ruediger Kuehr, senior manager of the sustainable cycles program at UNITAR.</p><p>- The Associated Press</p>Hussain Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14956692492249351721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9087078015510240920.post-27781303654228447502024-03-24T21:45:00.001+05:002024-03-24T21:47:29.221+05:00Headline, March 25 2024/ ''' BRAVE LEADERS BRACE '''<p><br /></p>
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<span style="font-size: 55px;">''' BRAVE LEADERS BRACE '''</span>
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FOR PROUD PAKISTAN - THE FOUNDERS OF THE WORLD STUDENTS SOCIETY - rise to
give this nation a standing welcome ovation and pray for its glory in times
ahead. March 23 and beyond.
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No generation is spared its traumas. But on <b style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: red;">!</span></b><b style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: red;">W</span><span style="color: yellow;">O</span><span style="color: #0b5394;">W!</span></b> our historical frame of mind does give us an unshakeable sense of who
Pakistanis are and what Pakistanis must do.
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To survive the ugliness of the world, Pakistanis must exhibit a rocklike
firmness : Rabo, Dee, Haleema, Salar, Mustafa, Emaan, Sajina, Hussain,
Sharayar, Hamza, Sanan, Ahsen, Zaeem, Danyial, Ghazi, Hazeem, Ayaan
[Australia], Mayna, and Haniya ............
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Esteemed Quaid-E Azam - the father of the nation had tremendous confidence
in the future of this nation. We need that right now.
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IN 1940, Sir Winston Churchill's romantic vision gave more shape to
contemporary terrors.
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Under his guidance, the British people came to see themselves as the
phlegmatic and resolute defenders of their island home, the latest in a
great line of underdog warriors. His invocations of their common past united
a class-riven nation.
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IN A MAGNIFICENT 1949 ESSAY ON SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL - Isiah Berlin noticed
that Churchill idealized his fellow Brits with such intensity that he lifted
'' a large number of inhabitants of the British Isles out of their normal
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By dramatizing their lives and making them seem to themselves and to each
other clad in the fabulous garments appropriate to a great historic moment,
transformed cowards into brave men, and so fulfilled the purpose of shining
armor.''
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I see an American analogue to Churchill's historic sensibility in Lincoln's
rhetoric during the Civil War - '' Our fathers brought forth on this
continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal.''
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And I can imagine a contemporary American leader putting our current crises
in the frame of constant and similar crises of our own national past - the
populists versus the coasts, the struggle for racial justice, America's
unasked-for role as leader of the free world.
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I can imagine a contemporary leader with a similarity weathered but
undaunted confidence in our institutions and our ideas, a leader with an
acute awareness of our own national identity :
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The nation of the future, the beacon of democracy, the nation that, with its
unbounded dynamism and immigrant drive, manages to overcome the recurring
tumult caused by its own idiocy and iniquity, and in the end energizes the
world.
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The second very different model of confidence was projected by Chrucjill's
great friend F.D.R.
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Berlin wrote that Roosevelt stood for '' his astonishing appetite for life
and by his apparently complete freedom from the fear of the future ; as a
man who welcomed the future eagerly as such, and conveyed the feeling that
whatever the times might bring all would be grist to his mill.''
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Roosevelt looked forward with such optimism, such an assumption of
abundance, such a faith in progress that he saw present difficulties as
stumbles on the path to the sunlit uplands to come.
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<p>
While Churchill's political gift was steadfastness, Roosevelt's was nimble
dexterity. He relished improvisation, trying multiple things at once even if
they did not fit together.
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<p>
His untroubled confidence in his own and nation's power rested upon an
exceptionally sensitive awareness, conscious and unconscious of his own
milieu, his antutive anticipation of how public opinion would flow, how
events would unfold.
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It's as if he had antennae that could feel the minutest vibrations across
the political world.
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<p>
Berlin writes, ''This feeling of being at home not merely in the present but
in the future, of knowing where he was going and by what means and why, made
him, until his health was finally undermined, buoyed and gay; delight in the
company of the most varied and opposed individuals.''
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<p>
In Roosevelt's self-confident vision, a nation enduring depression and then
war was nonetheless illuminated by the brilliance of its future days. He
never lost that faith.
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<p>
You may doubt in these gloomy years, but I think even today's America could
produce a leader of F.D.R. 's buoyancy.
</p>
<p>
We have by far the strongest large economy on earth. We have by far the most
innovative technical centers, the greatest centers of learning and the
mental and spiritual resources brought by millions of striving immigrants.
</p>
<p>
We have more talent in America today than ever before. We need somebody who
can name those strengths and connect them to our children's future.
</p>
<p>
We're floating upon a pessimism bubble. The underlying realities do not
justify the bearish mood that some leaders feed and then feeds off of.
</p>
<p>
The world needs leaders who can counteract sour and grievance-ridden
patriotism with a vaster and more generous patriotism, drawing on the
glorious inheritance left by our ancestors and lured by F.D.R.'s buoyant
faith in what's to come.
</p>
<p>
This goes for this Great Nation of America and Britain just as it goes for
the Proud Nation of Pakistan. '' This is how we survive the ugliness of the
world ''.
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<p>
The World Students Society thanks Esteemed David Brooks for his opinion.
</p>
<p>
With most respectful and loving dedication to Mankind, and then the Great
Nation of America and Britain and this proud nation of Pakistan. And then
grandparents, parents, Students, Professors and Teachers of the world.
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See You all prepare for Great Global Elections on The World Students Society
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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCBPuk-YNMHCqZADLkqusbAtJLatJ9JI0h3a567idrOpWYOi94i5-2cMCDbpey7yFsmJsTwo0LbwTs01UJtMbBHhZe4MVE4T-SNWyvJv7HuUuGhMPplhFDHQsUotEFoI3aGQxjuhrfqzh_QUEMignVwQ-xOPxQz_CjtvMMj-6YBJ8YhiFFIAAQgOLUM8IR/s1200/image%20-%202024-03-23T114926.431.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="332" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCBPuk-YNMHCqZADLkqusbAtJLatJ9JI0h3a567idrOpWYOi94i5-2cMCDbpey7yFsmJsTwo0LbwTs01UJtMbBHhZe4MVE4T-SNWyvJv7HuUuGhMPplhFDHQsUotEFoI3aGQxjuhrfqzh_QUEMignVwQ-xOPxQz_CjtvMMj-6YBJ8YhiFFIAAQgOLUM8IR/w498-h332/image%20-%202024-03-23T114926.431.jpg" width="498" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>Red Bull's Max Verstappen fought off a challenge from Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz to take pole position for the Australian Grand Prix.</p><p>Sainz was quickest in the first two parts of qualifying but the world champion bounced back in the top 10 shootout to take pole by 0.27 seconds.</p><p>Lando Norris will start third ahead of Ferrari's Charles Leclerc after a grid penalty for Red Bull's Sergio Perez.</p><p>Mercedes' George Russell was seventh while Lewis Hamilton only 11th.</p><p>Norris' team-mate Oscar Piastri made it a four-six for McLaren while RB's Yuki Tsunoda and the Aston Martins of Lance Stroll and Fernando Alonso completed the top 10.</p><p><b>A Red Bull comeback</b></p><p>Verstappen and Red Bull had looked comparatively out of sorts for most of the weekend, there or thereabouts but not topping any of the practice sessions on the way to qualifying.</p><p>And when Sainz was fastest in both first and second qualifying, the Spaniard looked a favourite for pole, just 15 days after having an operation for appendicitis that forced him to miss the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.</p><p>But two exquisite laps from Verstappen in the final session were too good for the Ferraris and the Dutchman took his third pole position in a row this season, one he has started in even more dominant style than his record-breaking 2023.</p><p>"A bit unexpected in qualifying today but very happy with Q3," Verstappen said. "Both of those laps felt very nice. Bit of a tricky weekend but we managed to be there at the end."</p><p>Red Bull typically have an even greater advantage in the race than in qualifying but Ferrari's long run in second practice looked strong and Verstappen said he was expecting a challenge in the race.</p><p>"They seem very quick also in the long runs so a bit of a question mark also for tomorrow but that makes it interesting," he said.</p><p>It was a momentous performance from Sainz, in remarkable form considering he was just two weeks out from abdominal surgery.</p><p>He said: "It has ben a tough couple of weeks, a lot of days in bed, waiting to see if I could be here today. To make it this weekend and put it on the front row after leading all the way through qualifying, I almost could not believe it.</p><p>"Very happy to be here. I was a bit rusty yesterday but I got up to speed and feeling good with the car.</p><p>"I am not going to lie, I am not in my most comfortable state when I am driving out there but I can get it done. A lot of discomfort and weird feelings but no pain so it allowed me to push flat out."</p><p>Perez took third in qualifying, 0.359 secs slower than team-mate Verstappen, but was later given a three-place grid drop for impeding the Haas of Nico Hulkenberg in the first part of qualifying.</p><p>Leclerc had looked competitive on Friday but he said he felt the car had gone away from him on Saturday, developing understeer, and he had a "messy" qualifying as a result, adding too much front wing for the final run and generating oversteer instead.</p><p><b>Mercedes' struggles continue</b></p><p>Norris' fourth place was McLaren's best result of a year after they have started a little bit behind where they expected to be.</p><p>Mercedes, meanwhile, continued to struggle in Australia after a difficult weekend in Saudi Arabia last time out.</p><p>Lacking pace in the high-speed corners in Jeddah, the team have spent the time between the two races trying to understand why their car was not behaving as expected.</p><p>But little progress appears to have been made.</p><p>Last year, Russell was on the front row with Verstappen, but this time he was more than 0.8secs off the pace.</p><p>And Hamilton did not even make it into the top 10, losing out to his team-mate in the second session by 0.059secs.</p><p>Both drivers insist the car has potential, but after three races it remains stubbornly elusive and Mercedes still have plenty of work to do.</p><p>- Author: Andrew Benson, BBC</p>Hussain Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14956692492249351721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9087078015510240920.post-78641718483026596072024-03-23T12:47:00.002+05:002024-03-23T12:47:15.032+05:00BOOK REVIEW : AN ODE TO THE PARIS METRO<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW3XIQhQ96_HT-A9vklan_-sR8tdoUFRifo_hlaWmVvu0UfM3JOJ3PpfxKj5m6-bzw7Koo-IhCOY7ld24_dG9Qnn52czrxo_7GDpYOApiDFf9xV8k0766OIUR_Wu6y5-omB5FC4Ivi-FduLCZGDFD4_vXDjQgQovQZFckN1hafB8Dl5oM2DIowAwfYG6VJ/s700/5616.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="700" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW3XIQhQ96_HT-A9vklan_-sR8tdoUFRifo_hlaWmVvu0UfM3JOJ3PpfxKj5m6-bzw7Koo-IhCOY7ld24_dG9Qnn52czrxo_7GDpYOApiDFf9xV8k0766OIUR_Wu6y5-omB5FC4Ivi-FduLCZGDFD4_vXDjQgQovQZFckN1hafB8Dl5oM2DIowAwfYG6VJ/w467-h280/5616.webp" width="467" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span class="liner">Metropolitain : An Ode to the Paris Metro. By Andrew Martin : THERE is something strangely seductive about the Paris Metro. Its distinctive warmth.</span> The floral Art Nouveau entrances, designed by Hector Guimard in 1900.</p><p>The single word '' Metropolitain '' suspended at street level about descending station steps. From Serge Gainsbourg's first hit song in 1958 about a ticket-puncher, '' Le Poinconneur des Lilas '', to François Truffaut's film '' The Last Metro '' in 1980, the Paris underground and its iconography have marked modern French culture.</p><p>'' Metropolitain '', Andrew Martin's ode to the Paris Metro, is an affectionate and welcome antidote to the prevailing grumbling about litter-strewn platforms and overcrowded carriages in Paris.</p><p>So enthusiastic is his amour for the French underground that he cedes to his inner railway geek.</p><p>No tunnel goes unvisited, no track uninspected. Mr.Martin includes six pages on Metro tickets and devotes ten chapters to individual lines of the network, starting evidemment with Line 1.</p><p>The book brims with girder and gauges, riveted copper, lateral steel guide-wheels and details on third-rail electrification. It is an eclectic blend of engineering and travelogue, urban planning and anecdote.</p><p>What shines through above all is a sense of awe. There is the wondrous quiet of the rubber-tyre wheeled Paris Metro carriages, compared with the bone-jangling rattle of the London Tube.</p><p>There is also its sheer density. The French capital's underground has 225 km of tracks, compared with 400 km in London, yet serves 304 Metro stations, by the author's count, 32 more than the Tube.</p><p>The names of Metro stations evoke history at every turn : Pyramides and Iena [ site of Napoleonic battles ] and Montparnasse-Bienvenue [ paying tribute to network's chief engineer, Fulgence Bienvenue].</p><p>Even stations named after humdrum street intersections take on a lyrical quality : Marcadet Poissonniers, Maubert Mutualite. Strange things go on underground.</p><p>The first recorded murder on the Metro, Mr. Martin notes took place in 1937 at the Porte de Charenton.</p><p>A literary work this is not, as Mr. Martin might concede, judging by his self-deprecating style. He has ignored certain French conventions, refusing to refer to the right and left banks of the Seine, and makes some odd observations. </p><p>"" How's that going to play out,'' the author asks of gendered French, '' in an increasingly androgynous world?'' Nor is Mr.Martin well-briefed on the politics of future urban planning in the capital. </p><p>But as a sincere love letter from a Brit to a French public-transport network under strain, it is a timely reminder of what makes Metro-goers happy when they spend time underground.</p><p>The World Students Society thanks The Economist.</p>Hussain Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14956692492249351721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9087078015510240920.post-35308807500544001592024-03-23T12:23:00.002+05:002024-03-23T12:23:36.463+05:00POWERING -JOBS- PROGRESS : PRECIS<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPaj_CCTI1z1dEIuMfgizzB9o9TpTtrElC5R7iw8HTrAjV6jeZ6_sOypwz6eEoo7oLUCSZzfYaUb__iJ6LmoWkZaWBv76BeUSamFqtUdaKsiEqqv_usNjJcI3Xu6Upte-VfjSTV1WfZgnwe6ifRc6brydbsFJUkXSU7-cOr0yLfmCIoabUmzdcKUratWXr/s1200/GettyImages_1441659037.0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPaj_CCTI1z1dEIuMfgizzB9o9TpTtrElC5R7iw8HTrAjV6jeZ6_sOypwz6eEoo7oLUCSZzfYaUb__iJ6LmoWkZaWBv76BeUSamFqtUdaKsiEqqv_usNjJcI3Xu6Upte-VfjSTV1WfZgnwe6ifRc6brydbsFJUkXSU7-cOr0yLfmCIoabUmzdcKUratWXr/w435-h290/GettyImages_1441659037.0.jpg" width="435" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span class="liner">Some academics contend that workers are right to be wary of technological change.</span></p><p>''Power and Progress'', a newish book by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, both of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wades through a thousand years of history to argue that new technologies lead to better livelihoods only when they create jobs, rather than just cost savings. </p><p>Mr. Johnson expresses optimism that the Big Three can find a way to ensure the switch EVs does not lead to job losses.</p><p>He points to the eventual embrace by unions of the containerisation of shipping, which saved countless hours of Labour at ports but also led to a surge in the amount of cargo that passed through them, preserving jobs and benefits for dockers.</p><p>In theory, as EV production scales up, prices will come down and more drivers will buy them. Fuelling demand for even more workers. </p><p>The World Students Society thanks Schumpeter - The Economist.</p>Hussain Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14956692492249351721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9087078015510240920.post-24725515277112694872024-03-22T22:50:00.002+05:002024-03-22T22:50:51.242+05:00FILM : '' IO CAPITANO '' FILE : HONOURS<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVQH69omIA8CwwvSYpZFbFHpFl5MGxKq39J63PTEKky04bl3keVnYRK5F3UCHwsob228CoFuW3P8Dv8AtOEDZGfOTMk4E7n2ikesdd9uStm5PHJD0BPvEC2S8meB0mDeWCepAwQz6tVMaAvuVL1sX5fZT33DA9Ghx6vomtP3cHQ-V4BJLL47n5alRsS4w_/s3000/MV5BOTI1OWUyMjItNzM4MC00OTE0LWJiODEtOGNmN2RlNGE5MTEzXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTY4MjUxMzgz._V1_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1976" data-original-width="3000" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVQH69omIA8CwwvSYpZFbFHpFl5MGxKq39J63PTEKky04bl3keVnYRK5F3UCHwsob228CoFuW3P8Dv8AtOEDZGfOTMk4E7n2ikesdd9uStm5PHJD0BPvEC2S8meB0mDeWCepAwQz6tVMaAvuVL1sX5fZT33DA9Ghx6vomtP3cHQ-V4BJLL47n5alRsS4w_/w461-h304/MV5BOTI1OWUyMjItNzM4MC00OTE0LWJiODEtOGNmN2RlNGE5MTEzXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTY4MjUxMzgz._V1_.jpg" width="461" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>' The Art of Filmmaking '. People risking their lives to get to Europe. '' Io Capitano '' dramatizes the harrowing journeys made by many Africans.</p><p>At the end of '' Io Capitano '' [ '' I Captain'' ], Matteo Garrone's harrowing contender for best International film at Academy Awards, a map tracks the journey taken by the film's two teenage protagonists :</p><p>Over 3,500 miles from Dakar, Senegal, to Sicily, via the scorching Nigerian desert, horrific Libyan prisons and nerve-racking Mediterranean crossing aboard a rickety vessel.</p><p>Such perilous voyages, taken each year countless Africans seeking a new life in Europe, is ''one of the great dramas of our times,'' Garrone said in a recent interview, and '' Io Capitano '' is famed as an epic, modern-day Odyssey, with protagonists no less valiant than Homer's hero.</p><p>'' It's a journey that's an archetype so that anyone can identify with it,'' said Garrone, who is best known to international audiences for the hyper-realistic 2008 drama ''Gomorrah'' and his dark and fantastical '' Pinocchio '' [ 2019 ].</p><p>'' Io Capitano is also, he said, a documentary of contemporary history.'' In February, over 2,000 people reached European shores crossing the Mediterranean, while at least 74 died, bringing the number of people who have gone missing in that sea in the last decade to more than 29,000, according to the International Organization for Migration, a United Nations agency.</p><p>Many Europeans learn of these landings, and deaths, from short news segments, often accompanied by clips of lawmakers pledging to stop illegal migration.</p><p>Garrone's film, which won the Silver Lion for best directing at last year's Venice Film Festival, goes beyond the statistics with a plot based on the stories of real people crossing the Mediterranean.</p><p>The World Students Society thanks Elisabetta Povoledo.</p>Hussain Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14956692492249351721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9087078015510240920.post-4480699168891545062024-03-22T22:08:00.001+05:002024-03-22T22:08:50.509+05:00DEMOCRACY* AND DECLARATION : MASTER GLOBAL ESSAY<p> </p>
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IN A PAPER published in 2019, Daron Acemoglu of The Massachusetts Institute
of Technology and co-authors split countries into dictatorships and
democracies.
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They found that 25 years after after making a permanent switch from the former
camp to the latter, a country's GDP was one-fifth higher than it would
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A TYPICAL ECONOMIST does not have all that much in common with a typical
protester in a failing dictatorship. Dismal scientists favor cautious lessons,
carefully crafted and suitably caveated, backed by decades of data and
rigorous modelling.
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Protesters need electrifying arguments and gargantuan promises about just how
good life will be as soon as their aims are achieved, since that is how you
recruit people to a cause. But the two groups share at least one trait. They
both tend to be ardent democrats.
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Democratic institutions are good for economic growth. That is one of the few
things on which, after decades of probing the link between politics and
prosperity, economists agree.
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Dictators may be able to control the state, its resources and much of the
society. But countries that have long-established elections and associated
institutions also tend to have trustworthy governments, competent finance
ministers and reliable legal systems.
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In 2019, Daron Acemoglu of MIT and co-authors split countries into
dictatorships and democracies. They found that 25 years after making a
permanent switch from the former camp to the latter, a country's GDP was
one-fifth higher than it would otherwise have been.
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The problem is that making the switch takes longer and is more expensive than
often assumed. Look beyond Mr. Acemoglu's black-and-white division.
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Allow some countries to be more democratic than others - after all it makes
little sense to put a centuries-old democracy in the same category as one
finding its feet - and a different picture emerges.
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In a study published last year, Nauro Campos of University College London and
co-authors found that regime face problems while trying to get rid of
autocratic tendencies.
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On average, countries lose 20% of GDP per person in the 25 years after
escaping dictatorship relative to their previous growth path, in part because
many struggle with the transition to democracy.
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Today there are more such inbetween regimes than ever [ 87, according to
Economist Intelligence Unit.]
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Reliable institutions are a prerequisite for development, but democratic ones
take a long time to build. Countries do not finish one day under a military
dictator and start the next with a fully formed supreme court.
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Society thanks 'Free Exchange' - '' The Economist.''
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STATUES AND MURALS BEAR HIS LIKENESS. SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES are named after
him. Hotels, barbershops, nightclubs and bike repair stores carry references
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In the sweltering Colombian mountaintown of Aracataca, it is impossible to
walk down a single street without seeing allusions to its most former resident
: the winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
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Yellow butterflies are seen all over town, a nod to one of his famous images.
The house where he lived as a child has been turned into a museum filled with
its original furniture, including the cribs where he slept.
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The library, named Biblioteca Publica Municipal Remedios La Bella, after the
character Remedios the Beauty from his novel ''One Hundred Years of
Solitude,'' features a glass case of his books translated into various
languages.
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Aracataca, a once dusty and dilapidated town of 40,000 plagued by unemployment
and a lack of basic services, has been transformed by its connection to Mr.
Garcia Marquez, Colombia's most famous author and one of the world's literary
titans.
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Ten years ago, the town had little to offer tourists and did little to promote
its connection to the author, beyond a museum and a pool hall that called
itself Macondo Billiard, after the name of the fictional town in '' One
Hundred Years of Solitude.''
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But since Mr. Garcia Marquez's death in 2014, interest in him and his
hometown, which inspired some of his well-known works, has surged.
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Many refer to the writer by his nickname Gabo, and the town has become a sort
of Gabolandia.
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Walk down any block and there are visible reminders of the author : signs with
his name, murals, statues, street signs and plenty of stands selling any of
the number of items, from baseball caps to coffee mugs, with Mr. Garcia
Marquez's likeness.
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With the release of his final posthumous book, '' Until August,'' hopes are
high among Aracataca officials and residents that the surrounding publicity
will lure even more tourists.
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'' We have seen changes in all aspects,'' said Carlos Ruiz, the director of a
museum where Garcia Marquez's father worked as a telegraph operator. He has
been working with the regional government to boost literary tourism in the
town.
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''What we want is for Arcataca to be strengthened through Gabo,'' Mr. Ruiz
said, adding that 22,000 tourists visited last year, up from 17,500 in
2019.
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The town celebrates Mr. Garcia Marquez's birthday on March 6 every year, but
this year's festivities were bigger, with more participants and more
activities.
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The celebration included a short story and poetry competition featuring a
dance performance by girls dressed as yellow butterflies. A librarian dressed
up as Mr. Garcia Marquez to read parts of ''One Hundred Years of Solitude'' to
students and children.
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In the evening, a theater group put on a performance of '' Love in the Time of
Cholera.''
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These days in Aracataca, the works of Mr. Garcia Marquez are taught as
early as preschool, with children asked to draw pictures based on his short
stories that are read aloud, Mr. Aaron said.
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A group of teenagers gathered outside a shop last Wednesday said the legacy of
Mr. Garcia Marquez's Nobel Prize had inspired them to be creative and
imaginative in class.
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They debated which work of his was their favorite - " The Incredible and Sad
Tale of Innocent Erendira and Her Heartless Grandmother'' or '' The Story of a
Shipwrecked Sailor.''
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Fernando Vizcaino, 70, a retired banker got the idea to turn his house into a
hostel about six years ago when he saw visitors starting to arrive in bigger
numbers.
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He named it the Magic Realism Tourist House, and he and his wife decorated it
in brilliant colors, chock-full of homages to Mr. Garcia Marquez.
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez : For sure the writer's legacy transformed his
birthplace in Colombia and went on to touch the whole world as a literary
master.
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Student Alejandra Mantilla, 16, said she was proud to see tourists from as far
away as Europe and China visit the town, particularly because Colombia still
struggles to overcome its reputation for drugs and violence.
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Hussain Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14956692492249351721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9087078015510240920.post-9744839458982497312024-03-22T10:54:00.001+05:002024-03-22T11:54:42.691+05:00SCIENCE LAB SPECIAL : DADDY LONGLEGS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMUWEb-y32bCd8coYtqsfBmDRpsBybWePsuoDFB9nw3djPEilJ0awbIiV6sz4tfN91F1Z7YdWktUzgpddkfRq5DARJ7TXCXRc81x9EJ3lmjX-fNl0X6GxwTq8sQi4M4aIeMA9cITJyJ1h35ao0ii4iwWqgwmatpoe0hA6onX8D6X71exSeQ-U0VNc8aJD3/s1000/phalangium_opilio_01_mk.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMUWEb-y32bCd8coYtqsfBmDRpsBybWePsuoDFB9nw3djPEilJ0awbIiV6sz4tfN91F1Z7YdWktUzgpddkfRq5DARJ7TXCXRc81x9EJ3lmjX-fNl0X6GxwTq8sQi4M4aIeMA9cITJyJ1h35ao0ii4iwWqgwmatpoe0hA6onX8D6X71exSeQ-U0VNc8aJD3/s320/phalangium_opilio_01_mk.webp" width="320" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><span class="liner">Seeing A Surplus : It has lots of long legs, sure but no shortage of eyes either</span> :</p><p>Gulherma Gainett, then a biologist at the University of Wisconsin Madison, was looking through a microscope at the embryo of a daddy longlegs when he saw it - or, rather, saw them.</p><p>Daddy longlegs, the group of splendidly leggy arachnids also known as harvestmen, have been thought to have just two eyes.</p><p>But there on the animal's body, illuminated with fluorescent markers, were what looked like four more vestigial eyes.</p><p>In the Journal Current Biology, Dr. Gainett, now at Boston Children's Hospital, and his co-authors report that they believe they have discovered remnants in the harvestman species Phalangium opilio of what may have once been fully functional eyes in the arachnids' ancestors.</p><p>Though these vestigial eyes don't mature fully, they appear on the harvestmen's bodies as they develop, shaped by many of the same genes as the creatures' true eyes.</p><p>Arachnids include spiders, scorpions, harvestmen and other arthropods, and divining the relationships among this group of organisms is tricky.</p><p>To do so, researchers must draw on both genetic information from modern arachnids and fossils of those that have long since vanished.</p><p>Dr. Gainett used fluorescent tags to study the development of harvestman eyes. The tags were designed to stick to opsins, light-sensitive proteins that exist in the eyes across the animal kingdom.</p><p>Looking at the shapes traced by the tags, he matched the locations of the unexpected opsins on the harvestmen to approximately where extra eyes grow on spiders and horseshoe crabs.</p><p>{ Spiders typically have eight eyes, and horseshoe crabs have 10.}</p><p>These findings suggest that the neural architecture that handles the daddy longlegs' vision may be quite old. [ Veronique Greenwood ]</p>Hussain Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14956692492249351721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9087078015510240920.post-5637938987167177662024-03-22T10:50:00.002+05:002024-03-22T10:54:19.030+05:00WOMEN -WHIRL- WONDER : PRECIS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9b7RX1NgGAjaQNJE-PfNZscbLP440d0kax-7ESvfgq6vcgoPmsaTPs39eNCuxSRrelcUQXC-kJHr8JbZDDwqRNIjKYajDT7beWQWqgX1w0S4gxXffzmXMcGcvhN3TVdQN_Go5-Kil8liWtT5LDsYaNTJwo268UfYzuPhvdn6HEmo5-jprjjb_oLUeAIPu/s622/Primary-girls-playing-football--622x350.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="622" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9b7RX1NgGAjaQNJE-PfNZscbLP440d0kax-7ESvfgq6vcgoPmsaTPs39eNCuxSRrelcUQXC-kJHr8JbZDDwqRNIjKYajDT7beWQWqgX1w0S4gxXffzmXMcGcvhN3TVdQN_Go5-Kil8liWtT5LDsYaNTJwo268UfYzuPhvdn6HEmo5-jprjjb_oLUeAIPu/s320/Primary-girls-playing-football--622x350.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><span class="liner">FOR HALF a century - between 1921 and 1971, the Football Association, which governs the sport in England, forbade women from playing in FA-affiliated pitches. </span></p><p>''The game'', it opined, '' is quite unsuitable for females.''</p><p>And now : Tell that to the fans. The Women's World Cup, held last year in Australia and New Zealand sold more than 1.8 million tickets, breaking the previous world record of 1.3 million in Canada in 2015.</p><p>The television audience doubled the previous record of 1 billion. The level of play is higher across the board.</p><p>The struggle for women's football to be taken seriously has, so far, meant fighting for equality with the men's game. In terms of money and exposure, it still has a long way to go.</p><p>Although women's prize money has more than tripled since the previous World Cup, it is still only 25% of men's hauls. The disparity of club wages is cavernous.</p><p>One reason is that women's sport in general accounted for just 13% of TV sports coverage in Britain in 2022, and 5% in America in 2019.</p><p>But on the field itself, football is scrupulously equal. Women play on the same-size pitch, with the same-size ball and the same rules as men. And yet in sport that sort of equality is not always a good idea.</p><p>Feminists have long argued, correctly, that women are not just men with long hair.</p><p>The unthinking assumption that men are the '' default human '' means that everything from drugs and smartphones to stab vests and airbags has been designed in ways that are inconvenient or dangerous for the female users.</p><p><br /></p><p>This Precis continues. The World Students Society thanks The Economist</p>Hussain Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14956692492249351721noreply@blogger.com0