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The Nokia Design Archive is a graphic and interactive portal designed by researchers from Aalto University in Finland. It currently hosts over 700 entries, curated from thousands of items donated by Microsoft Mobile Oy and representing over 20 years of Nokia's design history — both seen and unseen. You can freely explore the archive, learn about designers' experiences working in Nokia and discover interesting...

Did you know that a bald eagle makes a sound like a teakettle when it is laying an egg? I know that now, thanks to the Friends of Big Bear Valley (CA) Eagle Cam, going in to its seventh year. More about the eagle nest and the camera. [via]

Storm Éowyn has caused widespread damage across Ireland (and the UK).With extensive power and mobile phone network outages the full extent of the devastation is still coming to light. Ongoing live coverage (which also summarises the events to date): Irish Times RTÉ Irish Independent The Journal While some are discovering the challenges of power cuts in 2025, others are turning to the comforts of...

"Findings from a 2023 survey of NYPL patrons show that the vast majority of responding patrons report that the Library positively contributes to their well-being. ... While this report directly draws upon the experiences of NYPL patrons, it presents a theoretical model of how and in which ways libraries impact well-being—which is likely relevant to libraries across the nation." Libraries & Well-Being: A Case...

"An equally blunt assessment today would conclude that a large part of the digital media, trafficking in fake news and conspiracy theories, is now systematically dishonest. The mainstream press, often owned by big business tycoons, maintains its pretensions to political and ethical responsibility, claiming to be a beacon in the darkness where democracy supposedly dies. But the evidence of its inadequacy and even corruption...

Ford tells a reporter his PC party needs the largest majority it has ever had to make its voice louder amid a period of political turmoil. (slCBC, live coverage)Opposition reminding voters to not loose sight of family doctor shortage Ford and his cabinet fast-tracking annoucements in preparation for snap election Why it's the wrong time for Ford to call for a provincial election "Canada...

The Man who used Nazi propaganda to help the Allies win " The German soldiers and civilians listening to the station knew the Soldatensender was a British station masquerading as a German station. And the British who broadcast the station wanted the Germans to know it was the British. Their aim was not to deceive the listener, but to give 'cover' to German listeners....

"We're talking about a black comedy that hardly delivers any laughs. A comedy that isn't funny because it portrays the hilarious albeit sad constituent of our everyday lives, something we don't find funny because we're a part of it, because we give our best to help the carousel continue spinning. That's why The King of Comedy hit a little too close to home to...

Traditional owners in WA celebrate new position of strength for stunning stretch of country. Janella Isaac's elders have fought for nearly 20 years to ensure the deep cultural and environmental significance of their homeland in Western Australia's north is recognised.

My book, Petroleum-238: Big Oil's Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It [protectpt], due to be published by Simon & Schuster the following spring, was the product of a seven-year investigation into the radioactivity brought to the surface by oil and gas development, and the various threats it posed to the industry's workers, the public, and the environment. KKR's purchase of Simon...

Solar ponds use a large, salty lake as a kind of a flat plate collector that absorbs and stores energy from the Sun in the warm, lower layers of the pond Driven by the impetus of the dark days of the 1970s oil crises, many nations looked to their own natural resources to reduce dependency on imports and provided increased support to renewable energy....

I believe that opera is not merely pleasurable but necessary, and keeping it alive means transforming institutions like the Met into palaces of the people: places where the productions are accessible to anyone in need of the succor and catharsis that great opera can provide. This doesn't mean we should all throw money at already wealthy institutions with incoherent and outdated industrial nonprofit funding...

The last surviving member of The Band, keyboardist, multi-instrumentalist, musical genius, and gloriously weird old man Garth Hudson passed January 21st at the age of 87. A magisterial eulogy in The Ringer by fellow keyboard/accordionist Franz Nicolay traces "the ever-expanding breadth and depth of his musical reference—Anglican hymns, Bach, country polka, parlor song, jazz, R&B—broadening what had been a very good bar band into...

"These things in the Bible seem to uplift me and tell me the truth." - Bob Dylan addressing a Toronto audience in 1980"I Believe In You" "Are You Ready?" "Every Grain of Sand" Raygun Busch: I don't believe in God at all, but I do believe that quality art comes from passion, and Bob happened to be extremely passionate about Christ, which threw a...

64 years ago the multi 100 Kflop/s IBM 7094 mainframe, usually employed in things like correcting satellite orbital calculations, took time to sing a song.Modern descendant Hatsune Miku (codename "Daisy") joins for a duet with her grandfather.

Aged care centre recognised as the best in rural Australia. So what is it doing differently? A lack of aged care facilities in WA's far north often means Indigenous elders have to leave their country and culture behind, but an aged care provider in Roebourne is helping them see out their final days.

r/CollapseMusic has a wonderfully varied collection of music all somehow related to the collapse of the biosphere and civilization.As six years of music links across all genres feels daunting, you might try searching bands you already like, since reddit's search actually works.

Trump pardons Silk Road dark web market creator Ross Ulbricht [BBC]How Trump Was Persuaded to Pardon an Online Drug Kingpin [NYT; ungated] Previously: Silk Road shut down, owner indicted [2013] Who is Dread Pirate Roberts? [2015] Jailed pirate Roberts [2015]

Stuart Slade's "The Salvation War," humanity-fuck-yeah fiction in which the human race devastates Hell and fires a thermonuclear warhead at Jesus. In two parts, Armageddon and PantheocideA voice from Heaven announces that the gates are closed and that everyone needs to just lie down and die, kthxbye. Humans instead decide to fight back. This is VERY not for everyone. It's very "Lt. Smith increased...

Most people come to vintage-Ladybird-appreciation after using the books in childhood. A few people come to appreciate them as adults. But one of the strangest routes I've yet come across is via an Indonesian biscuit tin.

Wikipedia: Giant Rock is a large freestanding boulder in the Mojave Desert near the 29 Palms Marine Corps Center and Landers, California (whose residents are sometimes referred to as "Landroids"). The rock cleaved in the year 2000, the day after a group of devotees held a Long Dance at the nearby Integratron... but the story really begins in 1931, when Frank Critzer arrived. He...

Full list of nominations Best picture Anora The Brutalist A Complete Unknown Conclave Dune: Part Two Emilia Pérez I'm Still Here Nickel Boys The Substance Wicked Performance by an actor in a leading role Adrien Brody, The Brutalist Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown Colman Domingo, Sing Sing Ralph Fiennes, Conclave Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice Performance by an actor in a supporting role Yura Borisov,...

Yes, excessive alcohol consumption is harmful. But the advice on moderate drinking can seem bewildering. Oh no! A report from the Surgeon General recommends a warning label on cancer risks. But wait! A report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine finds that "moderate alcohol consumption is associated with lower all-cause mortality." Ugg! The Interagency Coordinating Committee for the Prevention of Underage...