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Estas son las mujeres milicianas Akashinga, una unidad de élite de Zimbabue, 100% femenina, creada para proteger a los animales y combatir a los cazadores furtivos. Estas mujeres han logrado una reducción del 90% en la caza furtiva de elefantes, protegiendo más de 5.261 km² de reservas naturales, expulsando a tiros a los criminales que intentan asesinar a los animales para vender marfil. Estas heroínas sí que merecen un Nobel de la Paz, son auténticas defensoras de la humanidad.

Your phone charger can electrocute a toddler who pokes a fork into the socket. The British plug cannot. That difference comes from a 1947 engineering project that refused every shortcut and turned a household plug into one of the most deliberately safe objects ever mass-produced. Britain published BS 1363 in 1947, built for the post-war housing boom. The country was wiring millions of new homes at once and needed one standard that would work safely for everyone. They picked the most paranoid option available. The earth pin (the large top prong) is longer than the other two. When you push a British plug in, the earth pin goes in first. Inside the socket, it presses a lever that opens two metal shutters covering the live and neutral slots. A fork pushed into an empty British socket hits only shutters. The shutters block it. The two conducting pins are also coated in plastic for their lower half. A plug halfway out of the wall is still safe to touch. You would have to pull it completely clear before any live metal is exposed. Inside every plug is its own fuse. UK homes wire their sockets in a loop called a ring circuit, which runs at 32 amps, enough to melt a lamp's cord if the cord fails. So each plug carries a fuse matched to the appliance: 3 amps for a lamp, 13 for a kettle. When something goes wrong in your appliance's wiring, only that plug's fuse blows. The standard US plug (flat two-pin or three-pin) has none of the pin coating and no individual fuse. American building codes began requiring shuttered outlets in new construction in 2008, decades after Britain made shutters standard. Even those newer shuttered versions lack pin coating and plug-level fuses. Britain's plug is bulky because a fuse, a shutter mechanism, insulated pins, and three contact prongs all need room. The plug looks the way it does because safety engineers refused to sacrifice any of those features to make it smaller, and that decision is now 79 years old.

And this is also true. Since you can also watch YouTube without logging in, the ban can be circumvented that way too

There is a lot of educational stuff on YouTube. There is also a huge number of music videos and about gaming, sport, history, about films; a 15 year old could go and watch Backrooms at the cinema but be unable to watch any of the many Backrooms videos on YouTube

I❤️St Pancras, saved from 60s barbarism: “a passionate campaign to save it led by @thevicsoc, Jane Hughes Fawcett & Poet Laureate John Betjeman, was successful, & St Pancras was awarded GI listed status just 10 days before demolition was due to commence.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Pan…

Sunday morning at Charles Holden’s Arnos Grove station, opened in 1932 as part of the Piccadilly Line extension from Finsbury Park, with its circular drum ticket hall supported by a single concrete pillar modernism-in-metroland.co.uk…

"The fascination that I have for test flying comes from being able to go into an environment where we have an idea what's going to happen, but then you have to [make it] happen." Meet the Artemis III crew in this episode of Houston We Have a Podcast: nasa.gov/podcasts/houston-we…

I cannot over estimate how much of a game changer in medicine this new therapy is. And I'm proud the UK is leading the way.

David Hockney. R.i.P. I remember the Bradford Bouncing Back campaign back in 1986/1987. He designed a page for the Telegraph and Argus: A Bounce for Bradford. I still have the one I bought

Introducing Artemis III. Four astronauts. Three launches. Two dockings. One splashdown. In 2027, the Artemis III mission will practice docking the Orion spacecraft with two lunar landers in low Earth orbit — the capability we need to return humanity to the Moon’s surface.

A mother and daughter watch a sailing ship navigate the Thames assisted by a steam tug, London, England, c. 1880.

Britain's lost Mars lander is getting its place in history. 📜 Commemorative red plaques are being unveiled across the UK to celebrate Beagle 2, which landed on Mars on Christmas Day 2003 to search for signs of life. 🦠 🔴 Find out more 👉 orlo.uk/9yQAx

There are no words to describe the horrors that Sudanese women and girls are enduring at the hands of the RSF, and which have not received a fraction of the outrage, attention and action by World leaders that it deserves.

One week to go! 🚀 @NASA will announce the Artemis III crew on June 9 at 11am ET (1500 UTC). Get ready to meet the four astronauts who will help advance the technologies needed to return humans to the Moon. More: go.nasa.gov/4wV6Muy

England's oldest surviving cookbook is over 600 years old. Compiled around 1390 for King Richard II's royal kitchens, The Forme of Cury contains nearly 200 recipes ranging from roast meats and pies to spiced sauces and elaborate feasts. Its name comes from the Middle English word cury, meaning cookery. Among them were dishes flavoured with saffron, cinnamon, ginger and cloves, showing that medieval kitchens were far more sophisticated than many people imagine. The manuscript still survives today, offering a direct link to the tastes of the fourteenth century. Would you try a meal from medieval England? Follow @oaksandlions for more on England’s history and heritage. 📷: Original Forme of Cury manuscript housed at the New York Public Library. #England #EnglishHistory #EnglishHeritage #MedievalEngland

'The dreamers are dreaming, the tranquil is passing, the miracles are waiting' (2025) by Alice Xu alicexuart.com

Heh. I remember learning to program in assembly language as part of my engineering degree. A washing machine was involved I seem to remember.

A newly identified sleep disorder known as hyperonirism, or “epic dreaming,” causes people to experience prolonged, highly vivid, and often relentless dreams throughout the night — leaving them exhausted and unrefreshed even after a full night’s sleep. Individuals with this condition describe spending entire nights immersed in detailed, realistic dream scenarios that can feel indistinguishable from waking life. These dreams are not limited to nightmares; they often involve mundane or emotionally charged situations that continue without interruption. Despite spending a typical amount of time in REM sleep, patients frequently wake up feeling mentally drained, cognitively foggy, and emotionally overwhelmed. French researchers propose that the exhaustion stems primarily from frequent micro-awakenings during the night. These subtle disruptions increase dream recall and create the distressing sensation of having lived through an additional full day while asleep. Standard treatments for anxiety or depression usually fail to relieve the symptoms, leading the authors to argue that hyperonirism should be recognized as a distinct clinical sleep disorder. [Geoffroy, P. A., Saadi, S., Mauries, S., Clerici, E., Lejoyeux, M., Maruani, J., & Bourgin, P. (2026). Dream tyranny: Hyperonirism diagnostic criteria. L'Encéphale. DOI: 10.1016/j.encep.2026.03.006]

Giles 😞

Horrific, unregulated, and very profitable. The companies making cash from England’s children in care. It's no surprise these private companies making bank accommodating asylum seekers and running care homes are also involved housing vulnerable children theguardian.com/commentisfre…