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’s children at risk | The devastating impact of air

Natalya Saprunova’s image shows a kindergarten in the capital, where air purifiers have been installed to reduce pollution levels. Four-year-old girls are admitted to hospital with respiratory illnesses, young children undergo lung X-rays, and dozens die from carbon monoxide poisoning, while brown clouds rise from hundreds of thousands of chimneys into the icy winter air that can drop to -30C.


4-year-old girls are lined up on mats in a room filled with balloons. Photograph: Natalya Saprunova
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earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social
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’s children at risk | The devastating impact of air

Natalya Saprunova’s image shows a kindergarten in the capital, where air purifiers have been installed to reduce pollution levels. Four-year-old girls are admitted to hospital with respiratory illnesses, young children undergo lung X-rays, and dozens die from carbon monoxide poisoning, while brown clouds rise from hundreds of thousands of chimneys into the icy winter air that can drop to -30C.


4-year-old girls are lined up on mats in a room filled with balloons. Photograph: Natalya Saprunova
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Mongolia’s children at risk | The devastating impact of air pollution

Particulate pollution from burning coal, which accounts for about 70% of the country’s energy generation, has catastrophic consequences, despite being one of the most sparsely populated, with an average of two inhabitants for each square kilometre, compared with about 240 in Germany.

Photograph: Natalya Saprunova




Open-cut coal mine.
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Children in Jharia’s coal mines | Childhoods lost to smoke, fire and an endless struggle for survival

They breathe hot air from smouldering underground fires. They carry sacks instead of books, drink filthy water, and wade barefoot through black mud. And instead of the bell that signals the start of school, they hear the sound of pickaxes. This is what childhood looks like in Jharia, the infamous ‘burning city'.

Photograph: Sourav Das



Blackened children at a smouldering coal stack.
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earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social
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Children in Jharia’s coal mines | Childhoods lost to smoke, fire and an endless struggle for survival

They breathe hot air from smouldering underground fires. They carry sacks instead of books, drink filthy water, and wade barefoot through black mud. And instead of the bell that signals the start of school, they hear the sound of pickaxes. This is what childhood looks like in Jharia, the infamous ‘burning city'.

Photograph: Sourav Das



Blackened children at a smouldering coal stack.
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Children in Jharia’s coal mines | Childhoods lost to smoke, fire and an endless struggle for survival

When houses and shacks collapse into cracks that open up in the hollowed-out ground beneath them, they have to live in ruins. Some crawl out of the coal mine entrances or scurry across smoking rubbish heaps like pitch-black shadows, dressed in rags, faces covered in black dust.

Photograph: Sourav Das




Cracks in the ground above a mine. Indian law prohibits child labour under the age of 14, but violations are rarely punished.
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earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social
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Children in Jharia’s coal mines | Childhoods lost to smoke, fire and an endless struggle for survival

When houses and shacks collapse into cracks that open up in the hollowed-out ground beneath them, they have to live in ruins. Some crawl out of the coal mine entrances or scurry across smoking rubbish heaps like pitch-black shadows, dressed in rags, faces covered in black dust.

Photograph: Sourav Das




Cracks in the ground above a mine. Indian law prohibits child labour under the age of 14, but violations are rarely punished.
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: I hope your family is safe

Since the Ukrainian photographer Anya Tsaruk left her country – to go first to Poland and then Germany – she has repeatedly been asked if her family is safe. More often than not, she doesn’t know what to answer. What does safety mean since the Russian invasion? What is it like to live with the constant threat of drone and missile attacks? The danger is everywhere.

Photograph: Anya Tsaruk


Young girl in the arms of her mother and aunt.
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: The journey home

Going to school in Cape Town can be risky, because some areas of the city are controlled by armed gangs. This is especially true in the Cape Flats, a plain where notorious townships were established during the apartheid era. High youth unemployment contributes to gang-related violence. The British photographer Laura Pannack accompanied teenagers on their way home from school.

Photograph: Laura Pannack/UNICEF Photos 2025


Children climbing a bus stop shelter.
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日本時間で

> 打上げ日 ： 2025年12月22日（月）
> 打上げ時刻 ： 10時51分30秒

とのこと

JAXA | H3ロケット8号機による「みちびき5号機」の打上げ時刻及び打上げ時間帯[再設定（その2）]
https://www.jaxa.jp/press/2025/12/20251220-1_j.html

JAXA | H3ロケット8号機による「みちびき5号機」の打上げ時刻及び打上げ時間帯[再設定（その2）]

「H3ロケット8号機による「みちびき5号機」の打上げ時刻及び打上げ時間帯[再設定（その2）]」を掲載しています。 -宇宙航空研究開発機構 JAXA（ジャクサ）は、宇宙航空分野の基礎研究から開発・利用に至るまで一貫して行う機関です。

www.jaxa.jp · JAXA | 宇宙航空研究開発機構

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Albert Einstein The Poetry Of Real by Manuel Garcia Iglesias, 2019

A father offered his son, a five-year-old Albert Einstein, a compass that triggered an irrepressible need to understand the laws of the universe and an iconic scientific career. At first a simple employee of the Swiss Patent Office in Bern, the young Einstein published a series of scientific articles that questioned everything previously understood in the world of physics.




His theory, summed up by the formula E = mc2, opened to humanity the doors of the power of the atom. A legendary genius, but also a great humanist, Einstein lived through the first half of the 20th century, with all its horrors and contradictions, in the service of science, but distraught by what man's madness is capable of doing with it.
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After Rumi The Mevlevis and Their World by Jamal J. Ellas

After Rumi The Mevlevis and Their World by A preeminent scholar of Islamic history chronicles the rise of the Mevlevis, the influential Sufi community founded by Rumi.

The thirteenth-century Persian poet and scholar Rumi is revered to this day. However, less attention has been paid to the Sufi community he founded: the Mevlevis, sometimes called the “Whirling Dervishes.”





The thirteenth-century Persian poet and scholar Rumi is revered to this day. However, less attention has been paid to the Sufi community he founded: the Mevlevis, sometimes called the “Whirling Dervishes.” Centered on the descendants of Rumi and the disciples of his thought, the Mevlevis flourished in Anatolia during a period of extraordinary political, religious, and linguistic change. By the seventeenth century, they had become the recognizable bearers of Rumi’s tradition across the Ottoman world. Jamal J. Elias argues that the Mevlevis are best understood as a community rooted in kinship and emotional affinity, anchored by multiple generations of partnership between Rumi’s descendants, known as Chelebis, and scholars devoted to his works. These collaborations shaped the religious, artistic, and social priorities of the Mevlevis, while also establishing the status of both Rumi and the Persian language in Ottoman society.
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Adapting to Climate Change: Implications of Risk-Based Approaches by Claudia Morsut, 2025

has become the new mantra worldwide as the set of strategies, practices, and measures for coping with climate change and building resilient societies. Accompanying its rise on the international agenda, especially since the Paris Agreement, is the treatment of climate change adaptation using a risk management approach.

link.springer.com/book/10.1007



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This Open Access book examines risk management as a type of policy logic that shapes and refracts the outcomes of climate change adaptation. Policy logics are underpinned by a set of ontological understandings of the nature of problems and how they should be handled, along with certain methodologies for analysing and acting upon those problems. Policy logics, in other words, are not politically neutral. Risk management approaches offer systematised models for making assessments and a clear set of decision tools. They also, however, may underestimate complexity, exclude wider social goals and trigger new unknown risks. This book offers a novel view on climate change adaptation by critically questioning the use of a risk management approach. Empirically, the book expands our understanding of which climate change adaptation policies are being adopted, at international and national levels. Theoretically, the book considers two sets of literatures enlightening the implications of a risk approach to the governance of extreme events: Security Studies and Risk Governance. Each of these fields is mined for key insights into the advantages and drawbacks of risk management. Analytically, the book assesses international and national policies in the light of these advantages and drawbacks and discusses the resulting implications at practical level.
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Ancient Greek Lyrics by Willis Barnstone, 2009

Ancient Greek Lyrics collects Willis Barnstone's elegant translations of Greek lyric poetry—including the most complete Sappho in English, newly translated. This volume includes a representative sampling of all the significant poets, from Archilochos, in the 7th century BCE, through Pindar and the other great singers of the classical age, down to the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods.





William E. McCulloh's introduction illuminates the forms and development of the Greek lyric while Barnstone provides a brief biographical and literary sketch for each poet and adds a substantial introduction to Sappho—revised for this edition—complete with notes and sources. A glossary and updated bibliography are included.
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Archiving Machines by Amelia Acker

From Punch Cards to Platforms

The story of the rise of networked data through the evolution of archiving and digital storage.

Archiving Machines advances our understanding of memory, information, and data by charting the struggle between the computing technologies that archive data and the cultures of information that have led to platforms that assert control over its use.






Amelia Acker examines the origins of data archives and the computing processes of storage, exchange, and transmission. Each chapter introduces data archiving processes that relate to the evolution of data sovereignty we experience today: from magnetic tape and timesharing computer models from the 1950s, to the establishment of data banks and the rise of database processing and managed data silos in the 1970s, to file structures and virtual containers in cloud-based information services over the past 40 years.
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Prologue
The Andes uplift occurred about 100 My ago and has significantly impacted the climate and environment, not only in the Andes but also the surroundings, extending to regions such as the Amazon basin and the Pacific Ocean coasts. This orographic process created new habitats, promoting isolation and diversification, resulting in a variety of environments with biodiversity hotspots and endemism.
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Fig. 1(a): Elevation patterns across the Andes cordillera outline, displaying the Andes above 500 m a.s.l. (Danielson and Gesch 2011), (b): cumulated annual precipitation averages from 1970 to 2000 (Fick and Hijmans 2017), and (c): main ecosystems across the Andes (Yu et al. 2019), with the green outline showing the extent of the Andean hotspot (Myers et al. 2000). (P-M Pastaza Marañon foreland basin)
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GeekNews Weekly #337 “퇴사하겠습니다”를 미리 막는 방법
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유능한 개발자가 “잠깐 얘기 좀 하시죠” 라는 메시지를 보내면 가슴이 철렁합니다. 슬픈 예감은 틀리지 않아서, 회사를 떠난다고 합니다. 올해 연봉도 가장 많이 올려줬는데, 왜 다른 회사 면접을 보고 있었는지 몰랐을까요?
「왜 당신의 최고 엔지니어들이 다른 곳에 면접을 보고 있을까」는 엔지니어들이 실제로 회사를…
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https://news.hada.io/weekly/202551?utm_source=googlechat&utm_medium=bot&utm_campaign=1834

[GN#337] “퇴사하겠습니다”를 미리 막는 방법 | GeekNews

유능한 개발자가 “잠깐 얘기 좀 하시죠” 라는 메시지를 보내면 가슴이 철렁합니다. 슬픈 예감은 틀리지 않아서, 회사를 떠난다고 합니다. 올해 연봉도 가장 많이 올려줬는데, 왜 다른 회사 면접을 보고 있었는지 몰랐을까요?「왜 당신의 최고 엔지니어들이 다른 곳에 면접을 보고 있을까」는 엔지니어들이 실제로 회사를 떠나는 이유를 정면으로 다룬 글입니다. 많은 경영

news.hada.io · GeekNews

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Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War by Thomas de Waal, 2013

Since its publication in 2003, the first edition of Black Garden has become the definitive study of how Armenia and Azerbaijan, two southern Soviet republics, were pulled into a conflict that helped bring them to independence, spell the end the Soviet Union, and plunge a region of great strategic importance into a decade of turmoil.






This important volume is both a careful reconstruction of the history of the Nagorny Karabakh conflict since 1988 and on-the-spot reporting of the convoluted aftermath. Part contemporary history, part travel book, part political analysis, the book is based on six months traveling through the south Caucasus, more than 120 original interviews in the region, Moscow, and Washington, and unique historical primary sources, such as Politburo archives. The historical chapters trace how the conflict lay unresolved in the Soviet era; how Armenian and Azerbaijani societies unfroze it; how the Politiburo failed to cope with the crisis; how the war was fought and ended; how the international community failed to sort out the conflict. What emerges is a complex and subtle portrait of a beautiful and fascinating region, blighted by historical prejudice and conflict. The revised and updated 10th-year anniversary edition includes a new forward, a new chapter covering developments up to-2011, such as the election of new presidents in both countries, Azerbaijan’s oil boom and the new arms race in the region, and a new conclusion, analysing the reasons for the intractability of the conflict and whether there are any prospects for its resolution. Telling the story of the first conflict to shake Mikhail Gorbachev's Soviet Union, Black Garden remains a central account of the reality of the post-Soviet world.
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Disney Imagineering Debuts Next-Generation Robotic Character, Olaf

Link: disneyparksblog.com/disney-exp
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

Disney Imagineering Reveals Robotic Olaf Character

Disney introduced a next-generation robotic character representing Olaf, the beloved snowman from Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Frozen.

disneyparksblog.com · Disney Parks Blog

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‘저속노화’ 개념으로 잘 알려진 정희원 서울시 건강총괄관이 최근 사생활 논란에 휩싸인 가운데, 서울시에 사의를 표명했습니다. www.hani.co.kr/arti/area/ca...

‘사생활 논란’ 정희원 박사, 서울시 건강총괄관 사의 ...

‘사생활 논란’ 정희원 박사, 서울시 건강총괄관 사의 표명

‘저속노화’ 개념으로 잘 알려진 정희원 서울시 건강총괄관이 최근 사생활 논란에 휩싸인 가운데, 서울시에 사의를 표명했다. 22일 서울시에 따르면 정 총괄관은 전날 사의를 밝혔다. 정 총괄관 쪽은 “최근 보도되고 있는 내용 중에 사실관계가 다른 부분이 많아 제대로 다투기

www.hani.co.kr · 한겨레

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猫蛸 @nekotako@fedibird.com
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文字と会話は包容力というか許容性が全然違うからなぁ。「でけへん」も「でけひん」も「できへん」も「できひん」も「できん」も「でけん」も地域差があるとはいえ関西人の会話の中では全て丸く内包されてるけど、伝達手段としての文字は音よりも許容性が下がるので違和感がでてくる。大迫構文の「そんなんできひんやんふつう」は「できひん」自体は滋賀～京都あたりが主流の言葉で、摂津の僕にとっては音はまったく違和感ないが、字にするとめちゃめちゃ違和感がある。

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