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Minab school bombing: how the worst mass casualty event of the Iran war unfolded – a visual guide A strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh school during the US-Israeli bombing campaign killed up to 168 people. The Guardian has pieced together the incident and its aftermath using verified footage and images from the site Above the pastel murals of trees, paintbrushes, crayons and microscopes, black smoke rises. The glass windows of the school have been blown out by the force of the blast, and its curtains hang shredded from the frames. Against one burned-out wall, the remains of a playground lie scattered: a red plastic slide, a jumble of child-sized chairs. On an overturned bookshelf a pair of pink plastic sandals have been neatly placed, now covered in dust from the blast. Continue reading...

Minab school bombing: how the worst mass casualty event of the Iran war unfolded – a visual guide

Nike Is Moving Jobs to Low-Wage Regions of Indonesia After moving manufacturing to the developing world to save on labor, Nike and other apparel brands are shifting employment in their Indonesian supply chain away from high-wage parts of the country and...

NEW: Over the last decade, Nike has sharply expanded production in regions of Indonesia where workers don’t earn a living wage while cutting its workforce in places where they do.

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A greenish black toad with large, widely spaced warty bumps on their back, perched on a stick! The warty bumps are brown in color, as is the top of their head, their large parotoid glands, and the back sides of their legs!

Our friend the Udzungwa Glandular Tree Toad was first described as a new species just a few months ago! Like other toads in genus Nectophrynoides, they do not lay eggs and instead give birth to fully developed toadlets! (photo by John Lyakurwa)

Map of Bahrain showing location of Stena Imperative on https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/shipid:3793960/zoom:13

Apparently the US-flagged tanker Stena Imperative in the Port of Bahrain was hit, caught fire, and crew has been rescued - per Reuters, other sources.

In other news reportedly GPS and other positioning services are no longer reliable in Strait of Hormuz due to jamming.

googling "UK supermarket tier list" to see what the rankings are like

i am in an airport waiting for a flight so i have made this high quality graphic

it's a backpack with a banana tucked into the banana side pocket

wow my new backpack has a banana holder in case I need a banana at short notice

These visual breakdowns of everyday objects by Bryan Macomber are super satisfying mechanical-pencil.com

"An illustrated celebration of the engineering around us"

Quite rare to see a chart that says quite so overtly that no one involved has the slightest clue what’s happening here

Pauline Hanson’s daughter employed in taxpayer-funded job with NSW One Nation senator Exclusive: Tasmanian Lee Hanson employed as senior adviser to Sean Bell in role worth as much as $180,000

Pauline Hanson’s daughter employed in taxpayer-funded job with NSW One Nation senator

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‘Unbelievably dangerous’: experts sound alarm after ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases

'Unbelievably dangerous’: experts sound alarm after ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies

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Deloitte tells staff to stop uploading confidential data to ChatGPT In an extraordinary email, the firm said the audit division was “considerably out of step with the rest of the firm” when it came to protecting information.

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yeah it's probably just a general anti-AI company scraping measure, I'm just a bit paranoid hah

Corona UV signals observed under a thunderstorm on 27 June 2024. (a) Approximate location of all 859 corona UV signals observed during the ∼1.5-hr observation period on a sweetgum tree. Each corona UV signal is colored by the number of total isotropic UV photons between 255 and 273 nm emitted by the corona discharge, as estimated from the illuminated pixels observed in that frame. The boxes depict the Corona Observing Telescope System (COTS) UV camera field of view, and the colors indicate the observation time for the branch within each box. Panel (b) as in (a), but for all 93 corona UV signals observed during the ∼20-min observation period on a loblolly pine tree. Locations of boxes and corona UV signals are only approximate because the wind blew the branches in and out of the COTS field of view. Note a corona UV signal is defined as a contiguous bundle of several illuminated pixels.

Coronae glow on the tips of spruce needles, induced by charged metal plates in a laboratory. These weak electric discharges subtly singe the tips of leaves and needles, and new observations indicate they may occur ubiquitously across treetops under thunderstorms. Credit: William Brune

During thunderstorms, electric discharges in the air cause trees to glow with an ultraviolet aura. You can't see it with your eyes, but researchers have finally managed to measure it & recreate it in the lab. 🧪🔭

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good to know thank you!!

Never a big Narnia guy but this 6 seconds typifies everything I love about British television.

is everyone seeing CloudFlare captchas when they go to journal sites now or is it just me because of all the scraping I've been doing

more like 1.2password am I right

This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to ...

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

#science #birds #conservation

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

We visualize the Olympic medal count as Norwegian-style scarf. :) 📊
Check out how Germany looks like and generate your own scarf – including download of the knitting pattern.

yesssss

cannot believe noone has mentioned the yeti

in the 2050 winter games, Australia will win 2,048 gold medals

Thanks Dan... I looked into it and when I realised the growth in events was mostly down to increased women's participation it felt silly and mean-spirited to adjust. Probably worth a blog post on its own at some stage!

illustrated chart showing a line for Australia's total medals won at each winter olympics, rendered as a snowy mountain ski slope with little cartoon characters snowboarding and skiing down it

PEAK SUCCESS: Australia just keeps doing better at the Winter Olympics - here's how our medal tally has grown over time.

This graph also ticks off a long-standing ambition which is to turn a line chart into a sick snowboarding/skate course 🤘