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World

Watch: Frozen river hosts dance party in Kyiv

Today at 16:45 PM, via BBC News

Residents in the Ukrainian capital are finding joy in unusual places, despite power cuts caused by Russian attacks and freezing winter temperatures.

Business

Pretoria hit by massive power outage

Today at 19:31 PM, via BusinessTech

Large parts of Pretoria have been hit by a massive power outage, with city officials unable to provide an estimated time of restoration.

Education

When the Doctor Needs a Checkup

Today at 17:25 PM, via New York Times

The physician work force is aging fast, and some hospitals now require that older clinicians undergo testing for cognitive decline. Many have resisted.

Education

Eton head apologises after former teacher jailed for sexual assault

Today at 14:09 PM, via The Guardian

Jacob Leland, who taught Russian, jailed for three years for sexually assaulting student on school trip

The headteacher of Eton College has apologised and said he was “appalled” after a former teacher was jailed for sexually assaulting a pupil.

Jacob Leland, who taught Russian, was jailed on Friday for three years and three months for sexually assaulting one of his students during a school...

Science/Tech

Blue Origin Announces Two-Year Pause in Space Tourism – to Focus on the Moon

Today at 21:34 PM, via Slashdot

TechCrunch reports:Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin is pausing its space tourism flights for “no less than two years” in order to focus all of its resources on upcoming missions to the moon, the company announced Friday. The decision puts a temporary halt on a program that Blue Origin has been using to fly humans past the Kármán line, the recognized boundary of space, for the last five...

Science/Tech

Can We Slow Global Warming By Phasing Out Super-Pollutant HFCs?

Today at 20:34 PM, via Slashdot

“There’s one big bright spot in the fight against climate change that most people never think about,” reports the Washington Post.”It could prevent nearly half a degree of global warming this century, a huge margin for a planet that has warmed almost 1.5 degrees Celsius and is struggling to keep that number below 2 degrees…”[M]ore than 170 countries — including the U.S. — have agreed to act...

Science/Tech

Scientists Found a Way To Cool Quantum Computers Using Noise

Today at 19:34 PM, via Slashdot

Slashdot reader alternative_right writes: Quantum computers need extreme cold to work, but the very systems that keep them cold also create noise that can destroy fragile quantum information. Scientists in Sweden have now flipped that problem on its head by building a tiny quantum refrigerator that actually uses noise to drive cooling instead of fighting it. By carefully steering heat at...

Health

A Predictor of a Good Social Life? Your Parents.

Today at 12:02 PM, via New York Times

A decades-long study suggested that close relationships with family members during teenage years could lead to a rich network of friendships in adulthood.