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It's funny that companies using an open office to save money are often the ones not willing to go full remote because they are worried it will hurt productivity.

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Building artificial neurons with mathematics

medicalxpress.com/news/2022-04

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Khurram Wadee ✅

The front cover of #PrivateEye

#UK #Politics #Satire #RishiSunak

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anniemo71

theguardian.com/society/2022/a

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anniemo71

The UN is warning that the ongoing Russian blockade of Ukraine’s grain exports may trigger a global food emergency that could lead to famines.

theconversation.com/famines-wh?

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Khurram Wadee ✅

Today is the end of the #FinancialYear in the #UK for anybody who cares. For ages, I didn’t know why this date was chosen to be the transition from one tax year to the next but it turns out the reason is that it’s from the old ecclesiastical #calendar with an adjustment made from the old style (Julian) to the new style (Gregprian) calendar.

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anniemo71

change.org/p/stop-the-privatis

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Glyn Moody

‘No hope for science in Russia’: the academics trying to flee to the west - theguardian.com/world/2022/apr we need to help as many of these academics as possible - the brain drain will weaken russia in the long term

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#SteveBell on the killing of civilians in #Ukraine – #cartoon | Opinion | The Guardian

Some people might not call this #satire but it’s a statement of many #wars that have recently been raging and perhaps have ever occurred.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

#Russia #Politics

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Gerald Leppert :verified:

Addendum 5 - #Universities in #Mastodon / #Fediverse

A new #university just joined Mastodon:

• @unimannheim #UniMannheim #Universität #Mannheim, #Germany

@smartsammler
@VictorVenema
@onlytina @KIT_Karlsruhe
@unituebingen
@UniUlm
@unifreiburg
@unijena
@hdmstuttgart @utwente @astatu @fem @phludwigsburg @unigreifswald
@h2international @vunk @Medienwirtschaft_HdM

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Gomez :baner:

17 Years ago today I married Mrs Gomez in my sister in law's garden in Nassau, Bahamas.
One of my better decisions.

#HappyAnniversary

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I don't normally indulge in FB-style personal commentary. But I'm really glad we're now into April. Winter here on Symi has been long, wet and sometimes very cold, reaching down to 0 degrees C (such a contrast to last August when we exceeded 42 degrees). And yes the island experienced snow.

Spring has sort of arrived - though I'm still waiting for the my severely pruned vine and peach tree to start budding.

After Easter, the tourists will arrive in increasing number. Like most Greek islands, Symi has two aspects. November to April when the island is resident only to Greeks and a small number of ex-pats and then April-November when the population swells and sometimes groans with tourists. Fortunately, I live high up at the bottom of a mountain (Vigla) and can opt out of the tourism invasion as much as I want. Very few make it up here.

Sadly, my much-used ten-year old Samsung laptop started showing signs of its age about a month ago - the hinge broke, there were signs that the HD was on its last legs, the battery wasn't holding its charge well and I couldn't enter the BIOS because of the CMOS battery.

So I bought an HONOR MagicBook 15 (Intel® Core™ i5 processor version, 512Gb SSD version) from Germany for circa 750 euros. It arrived here in two weeks. I immediately got rid of the installed Windows 10 and installed the latest version of Linux Mint. It all went went well with just a few initial glitches - reflecting my unfamiliarity with the German QWERTZ keyboard as well as the soon-discovered need to manually upgrade the Linux kernel. But now all is fine. Compared to the old Samsung, it is incredibly snappy and responsive with no issues with hardware acceleration or running Pulseeffects. Also, I can enter and close down a legacy version of Windows 7 in VirtualBox in about 8 seconds or less. Nothing of course is perfect and, like many reviewers, I have reservations about the keyboard video cam despite its privacy plus point. Also I had to buy an external DVD/CD player.

Come on Spring, the Beach Awakes!

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anniemo71

"Jeez. First MP’s get a £2,200 a year pay rise whilst NHS staff get a massive real terms pay cut & NOW MPs get free parking spaces at work whilst NHS have to pay from Friday!"

Welcome to Boris Johnson’s “golden age”

t.co/Np9mlWCTUZ

twitter.com/PeterStefanovi2/st

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Khurram Wadee ✅

#GhostFlights from #UK running at 500 a month, data reveals | Airline #emissions | The Guardian

This is crazy but it’s also because of the ridiculous #Laws regarding retention of #Landing #Slots for #airlines.

theguardian.com/environment/20

#Pollution #AirPollution #FossilFuels #Environmment #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange

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Home #WoodNurning in #UK causes £1bn of #Health costs a year, report says | #AirPollution | The Guardian

theguardian.com/environment/20

#Environment #Pollution

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Food for Thought - March 2022

phidoc.net/food_for_thought.ht

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The Book of the Month for March is Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie and the Track of the Month is the Sarabande from the Fifth Cello Suite by J. S. Bach.

phidoc.net/book_of_the_month.h

phidoc.net/track_of_the_month.

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Khurram Wadee ✅

I had one of those “Why didn’t that ever occur to me before?” moments. The time between the #Equinoxes is not symmetrical. It’s about 186 days between the #March and #September equinoxes and about 179 days from September to March. This is because the speed of the #Earth in its #orbit varies as it’s #elliptical rather than circular. I never bothered to count the days and yet it’s “obvious” when you look at the calendar. This gives an eccentricity of the orbit to be around 0.015.

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Nation.Cymru

Nuclear 'the wrong answer' says Plaid Cymru leader as new reactors mooted for Anglesey nation.cymru/news/nuclear-the-

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