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Is it advantage Arsenal in dramatic title race?

Today at 00:30 AM, via BBC News

Are Arsenal now firmly in pole position to be Premier League champions after the Gunners went six points clear of Manchester City with a 3-0 win over Fulham.

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Antonelli takes Miami pole from Verstappen

Yesterday at 23:40 PM, via BBC News

Mercedes driver Kimi Antonelli bounces back from a difficult sprint race to take pole position for the Miami Grand Prix.

World

Is there a ‘standard’ Indian body?

Yesterday at 23:39 PM, via NPR

India recently published a survey to ‘standardize’ the Indian body sizes, so its manufacturers don’t have to use the U.S. and E.U. sizes for a billion people. But is there a ‘standard’ Indian body?

Education

‘Go inside, he will kill you’: Israeli militants step up West Bank school attacks

Yesterday at 13:00 PM, via The Guardian

Education is being targeted across Palestine, with the murder of 14-year-old Aws al-Naasan only the latest in a spree of violence

The Israeli reservist shot 14-year-old Aws al-Naasan in the head just outside the western gate of the Mughayyir boys’ secondary school, where he was studying in ninth grade.

Aws collapsed instantly, bleeding heavily. More shots rang out as his friends ran to his...

Education

What Is Higher Education For?

Yesterday at 13:00 PM, via New York Times

Readers respond to Bret Stephens’s column about the recent Yale report on reforming academia.

Science/Tech

Ask Slashdot: Are YouTube’s Subtitles ‘Appallingly Bad’?

Today at 00:34 AM, via Slashdot

Long-time Slashdot reader Anne Thwacks frequently uses YouTube’s subtitles “not to disturb others in the room, or because my hearing is not very good.” But they say there’s a new problem. “The subtitling is terrible!”Almost every sentence has a huge error. Proper names are more often wrong than right. Non-English place names are almost always mangled to barely recognizable. And no effort...

Science/Tech

The $19B “Nuclear AI” Energy Startup That Couldn’t Sign a Single Client

Yesterday at 23:34 PM, via Slashdot

“Nuclear AI startup” Fermi had hoped to build power plants generating 17 gigawatts of electricity, remembers Bloomberg, “three times the amount typically consumed by New York City.”Hyperscalers could install their data centers on the site itself and tap directly into that power, which would come first from natural gas turbines and later from nuclear reactors. The pitch ticked so many boxes —...

Science/Tech

Using Drones for Cloud-Seeding Can Trigger Rain, Company Claims

Yesterday at 22:34 PM, via Slashdot

Monday a company called Rainmaker announced their rain-triggering technology had produced 143 million gallons of freshwater for Utah and Oregon residents — making them “the first private company in history to validate the results of cloud seeding operations.” The Deseret News reports:Founded in 2023, Rainmaker uses drones to disperse silver iodide into clouds, then they track precipitation...

Science/Tech

‘We don’t hear the frogs, we don’t see the birds’: government repeatedly delayed water to NSW wetlands, documents reveal

Yesterday at 22:00 PM, via The Guardian

Exclusive: A grazier has released emails that reveal the state’s environment and water department prioritised harvesting of winter cereal crops over wetlands

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The New South Wales government has routinely delayed environmental flows to critical wetlands in the state’s north-west in favour of farming, despite...