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/God Save the Queen/ was actually composed on the spot and performed impromptu during a tournament in 1567, when court musician A. G. Crowley noticed that his brother Wilbur was falling into a dangerous trap being set up by his opponent, the fabled Russian chess player P. K. Kasparov.

#SecretMeaningsInSongs
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Simon and Garfunkel's /The Sound of Silence/ was a way for them to cope with their severe case of tinnitus, whose likely cause is still being debated by medical researchers.

#SecretMeaningsInSongs
#HashTagGames

"The clock is ticking for Tiktok in the US with the government giving the social media giant a deadline to sell its US operations."

#ImogenWells, 2024

interactives.stuff.co.nz/newsa

The US government wants to make sure only they can use DataFarming platforms to spy on and influence US citizens. They're following the example set by the CCP, which has been blocking foreign-owned platforms for years, for similar reasons.

#podcasts #Stuff #Newsable #TikTok

Bom-dia 😀 - #APOD - A Black Hole Disrupts a Passing Star (2024 May 05) -
Um buraco negro interrompe uma estrela que passa -

O que acontece com uma estrela que se aproxima de um buraco negro? -

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"It is no wonder that residents of the township but the entire Ontario farming community and environmental groups are up in arms,' says Algoma-Manitoulin MPP [Michael Mantha]
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Expropriation is unacceptable if it is in the name of private interests or corporate gain."

elliotlaketoday.com/local-news

#farmland

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Progress reported in Gaza truce talks, but Israel downplays chances of ending war with Hamas mainichi.jp/english/articles/2

@europesays
Getting to know the individuals makes a world of difference. I'm currently in mourning for a very special Eastern Black Swallowtail at this time.

"The paper reports the first results of an experiment in northern Finland during winter 2022–2023 that aimed at studying seismic events caused by seasonal freezing in the so-called critical zone (CZ) of the Earth...We identified and located two types of seismic events – namely, frost quakes with frequencies of about 10–20 Hz, with waveforms like those of tectonic events, and irregularly shaped frost tremors with frequencies of about 120–180 Hz."

#FrostQuake
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Tomorrow, two astronauts will launch in the most screwed-up spacecraft since Apollo 1. NASA estimates the loss-of-crew probability at 1 in 295. I will feel better when they are let back out of that thing.

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