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Education

Sad faces all round as Bolivia’s clowns protest over decree threatening their livelihoods

Today at 02:52 AM, via The Guardian

Clowns in Bolivia are upset by mandate that stops schools hosting events from which they earn a living

Dozens of clowns have marched through the streets of Bolivia’s capital to protest against a government decree that limits extracurricular activities in schools, threatening their livelihoods.

Wearing full face paint and their signature red noses, the clowns gathered on Monday in front of the...

Lifestyle

Is the Western Cape hoarding fuel?

Yesterday at 20:59 PM, via The South African

Reports of petrol limits and empty pumps have raised questions about whether fuel is being withheld in parts of the Western Cape.

Science/Tech

Does going to the moon still matter? – podcast

Today at 06:00 AM, via The Guardian

If all goes to plan, Artemis II, Nasa’s mission to return humans to the moon, will launch this week. The mission will mark the farthest that humans have travelled from Earth, and the first return to the moon in more than 50 years. It will also pave the way for landing on the moon again as soon as 2028. But given the Apollo missions have already achieved that feat, does going back to the moon...

Science/Tech

AI Data Centers Can Warm Surrounding Areas By Up To 9.1C

Today at 05:30 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from New Scientist: Andrea Marinoni at the University of Cambridge, UK, and his colleagues saw that the amount of energy needed to run a data centre had been steadily increasing of late and was likely to “explode” in the coming years, so wanted to quantify the impact. The researchers took satellite measurements of land surface temperatures over the past 20...

Science/Tech

Blast off! Nasa goes back to the moon – podcast

Today at 04:00 AM, via The Guardian

Astronaut Tim Peake and Guardian journalist Richard Luscombe talk through Artemis II, the first manned mission to the moon for 50 years

This week, for the first time in 50 years, Nasa is sending people to the moon once more.

And though none of the four astronauts of Artemis II will land on the lunar surface, the mission – which will involve flying around the moon – will take humans deeper...

Health

A Secret History of Psychosis

Sunday at 11:00 AM, via New York Times

Cohen Miles-Rath heard voices telling him to kill his father. After they passed, he spent years retracing the path of his delusions.