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"Bicycling has done more to emancipate women than anything else." — Susan B. Anthony, 1896.
Yet today, women only make up 40% of riders. This International Women’s Day, let’s push for ambitious and inclusive cycling policies that make our cities more equitable places for women and girls. #IWD
'The Morning Ride, Copenhagen.'
Bicycles were the perfect vehicle for a new generation of painters looking for subjects that would express their experience of the modern age. This work (1907) by Erik Ludvig Hennimoder depicts the new leisured classes.
A chess board featuring a puzzle. FEN: 8/8/2kP2K1/4r3/8/3p4/8/4R3 w - - 0 1
White to move.
Puzzle "Important Endgame" from chess.com. #ChessPuzzles
‘Useless to keep appealing to Trump’ on Iran says Spanish Culture Minister
www.channel4.com/news/useless...
The Guardian on our new study, which shows that global heating is significantly gathering speed. Our efforts to overcome our fossil fuel addiction should do the same.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A chess board featuring a puzzle. FEN: rn2Qb2/pp2p2p/4knp1/3N1p2/2BP1B2/8/P3KPPP/7q w - - 0 1
White to move.
Puzzle "Mate in 1" from chess.com. #ChessPuzzles
Abdusattorov leads another super tournament going into the final round after a dramatic end to Round 8 in Prague!
06.03.2026 00:35 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer suggests Donald Trump has "plunged" the Middle East into "chaos"
"My focus is providing calm, level headed leadership in the national interest... it means having the strength to stand firm by our principles, no matter the pressure to do otherwise"
429.39 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 03-Mar-2026
keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
Who has the most appearances in the FIDE Women’s Candidates? ♟
It turns out that we have a three-way tie! Tan Zhongyi, Aleksandra Goryachkina, and Kateryna Lagno have each played four times in the Candidates.
In Cyprus, we will also see three rookies: Divya Deshmukh, Bibisara
For anyone looking for a surprisingly delightful documentary watch, I highly recommend Queen of Chess on Netflix 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Note: you do NOT need to be a chess geek to enjoy it, IMHO.
The Move 2026 Golden light crossed the board. She waited, then moved—quiet, certain. Not force, but foresight.
The Move 2026
Golden light crossed the board.
She waited, then moved—quiet, certain.
Not force, but foresight.
#Chess #Strategy #PastelArt #BlueSky#art#easternart
Cover of the May, 1968 issue of Chess Review magazine, featuring Bent Larsen posing with a trophy next to a chess demonstration board. The board and the chess table in front of him bear name tags for Jesus Diez del Corral and Bent Larsen.
Bent Larsen, seen here collecting his trophy for winning the Palma de Majorca tournament, was born March 4, 1935.
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Aravindh's win in Round 6 of the Prague Masters was a 3rd loss in 4 games for Gukesh, with the World Champion dropping to World no. 20!
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Our environment cannot withstand the frivolous excessive consumption habits of the ultra rich. We need to control them but currently they have far too much control over us.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rex Whistler's picture (1942) is a view of Daye House in Wiltshire with the novelist Edith Olivier; the house attracted many writers, artists and musicians including Cecil Beaton, Stephen Tennant, Siegfried Sassoon, William Walton, and Osbert Sitwell.
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In 2024, a team of marine geoscientists made a controversial discovery – 'dark oxygen' was being made on the seafloor. They're now returning to back up their original finding.
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