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Nearly Half of Italy’s Wolves Are Part Dog Now, Thanks to Hybridization. Is That a Threat to the Species?
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Join us in Bologna, Italy, from 4 to 6 November 2026 for Visualising Climate – the first global conference dedicated to data visualisation and the climate crisis.

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In this era of an accelerating climate crisis, the role of clear, compelling and actionable communication has never been more critical.

Together, scientists, artists, designers, communicators, and journalists will explore the space where data meets storytelling, and art meets science.

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The Conversation U.S.

Giving foreign aid may not boost a country’s image.

In South Korea, people who received U.S. COVID-19 vaccines didn’t view the U.S. more favorably, but they were more likely to support giving aid to other countries themselves.

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You know exercise is good for you. So why is it still so hard to make yourself do it?

The biggest barrier often isn’t knowledge — it’s believing you can stick with it when life gets busy, stressful or exhausting.

🏃‍♀️ 🏋️‍♂️ 🚴‍♀️ 💪 🏃

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Teens aren't as disengaged as you may think.

Young people don’t all contribute in the same way, and understanding the broader picture is the starting point for adults who want to support them.
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re: hci.social/@chrisamaphone/1165

a cool trick i once learned is that you can often decipher the pragmatics of corporatespeak (and academic adminspeak) by negating its semantics

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The Conversation U.S.

Photographic memory isn’t real (sorry to that one person you swear can remember everything).

Your brain isn’t a camera. It’s more like a storyteller that fills in the gaps.

Here’s the science: theconversation.com/photograph

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"Israel and Russia are also the only two countries in the world whose leaders are wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes. (In both countries, one other official is also sought.)

Both countries hold occupied territories, and both have declared annexations that are not recognized internationally and appear to violate the UN Charter. The similarities go further, says Popova.

"Russia has no right to be confiscating and trading this grain," she said. "It's not Russia's grain, and so it's an international law violation known as the crime of pillage."

Israel, like Russia, exploits the resources of occupied lands for its own benefit."
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EU Environment

Ladybirds might be your garden’s best ally.

These tiny red beetles feed on aphids and other harmful insects that damage your plants, acting as a natural, chemical-free form of pest control.

More: link.europa.eu/9V7vT9

Small actions. Big impact
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The Conversation U.S.

Danish parents encourage unstructured play (especially the kind that lets children test their limits) as a way to help them grow into competent, independent adults.

More from a psychologist from Denmark:
theconversation.com/denmarks-h

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@TheConversationUS "Chip manufacturing behaves less like a competitive commodity market and more like a layered oligopoly. Scale matters because the leading firms can reinvest in research, improve yields, secure equipment and deepen customer relationships. In the case of graphics processor chips, designers such as NVIDIA, which has 85% market share, depend on advanced semiconductor foundries such as TSMC, which has more than 70% market share, to manufacture chips using extreme ultraviolet lithography machines from ASML, a monopoly."

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Digital EU 🇪🇺

🌡️Europe is warming faster than any other continent.

In 2025, about 95% of the continent saw above-average temperatures.

To fight climate change we are building a digital twin of our planet to monitor & predict natural phenomena.

Explore DestinE → destination-earth.eu
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Tag:harassment_prevention=ask_angela - OpenStreetMap Wiki
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Amazing! I had just been wondering whether this can be mapped or whether I would have to start a proposal. Yay! It already exists. Obviously sad that it has to.
#OpenStreetMap

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Related:
"The bulletproof marker to Emmett Till at Graball Landing, in Mississippi

Selected by Sarah Lewis

President Joe Biden, in his last days in office, announced an act to create a monument to Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley. Near Glendora, Miss., is a marker that offers evidence of the need for this act—a marker that is deliberately 500 lbs. and bulletproof, covered with abrasion-resistant acrylic. It is the fourth time a marker has been placed there; the first three were all shot and thrown in the Tallahatchie River, where Till was found. Till helped inspire the Civil Rights Movement that we know today; the resistance to honoring him speaks to the work that remains before we can all claim freedom on American ground.

Lewis is the founder of the Vision and Justice initiative and currently the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University; she is also the organizer of the exhibition and book If Emmett Till Lived…, set to premiere in September."
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But I find it tremendously disappointing that so many of the "American tech insiders" in this list are so obsessed with what they do. To the extent that they declare it to be the most defining thing for their society.

Do these people really consider themselves so exceptional that they believe they personally are responsible for the most important changes in society? Or is it that they are so much engaged in their petty business, that they can't stop selling even when asked a big question? To me it doesn't really matter - either way they fail to live up to the expectations arriving with the question.

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Here's an answer for a life-changing technology that truly stands out:

"The Bicycle
Selected by Reshma Saujani

In the 1890s, the bicycle, as we know it today, finally let women go where they wanted, on their own, without asking permission. It even played a central role in the fight for women’s suffrage—a simple machine with outsized impact. Today, it reminds us what technology should do: expand freedom and opportunity. Millions of American women are still fighting for what the bicycle once gave them: the freedom to move, make decisions, and control their own futures. At 250 years in, that’s still the most American question we can ask of any new technology: Will it set people free?
Saujani is a lawyer, activist, and the founder of the nonprofits Girls Who Code and Moms First."
time.com/collection/our-americ

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Digital EU 🇪🇺

USB-C just matched with your laptop! 💻

As of 28 April 2026, laptops join phones, tablets and other portable devices under the EU common charger rules.

This means less e-waste and less clutter.

No swiping left on compatibility.
🔗link.europa.eu/QDMFTh
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The Conversation U.S.

The framework boils down to key tests:
• Legitimate authority
• Just cause
• Right intent
• Proportionality
• Last resort
• Likelihood of success

Fail these and the war isn’t justified.

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Brussels bars Chinese-made ‘brains’ of solar panels from EU funding euractiv.com/news/brussels-bar

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Life finds a way

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