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Zika cases surge by almost 300pc in Thailand (www.telegraph.co.uk)

Lasers reveal ancient settlements hidden deep in the Amazon rainforest (www.livescience.com)

Lasers have revealed a complex network of pre-Hispanic structures and roadways hidden beneath the canopy of the Amazon. At 2,500 years old, it’s the earliest (and largest) example of an agricultural civilization ever recorded in South America’s dense rainforest....

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Baratza Sette 30 Upgrades (discuss.online)

I got a Baratza Sette 30 from my wife for Christmas. It’s replacing my old faithful Baratza Virtuoso+, with which I had been grinding for my Moccamaster Cup-One just fine. I used the Virtuoso+ for espresso, but I was looking for something that could be a little more dialed in than that....

UN: Russian Federation’s War Having ‘Appalling Impact’ on Ukraine’s Children, North Korea Using Ukraine as Test Site for Nuclear-capable Missiles (press.un.org)

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Despite Image Campaign: Human Rights Watch Accuses Saudia Arabia of Mass Killings, Death Sentences, Unfair Trials And Abusive Detention Practices (www.hrw.org)

“The Saudi government uses its Public Investment Fund to expand its influence and fund lavish sporting events in an attempt to obscure how it systematically violates human rights,” said Joey Shea, Saudi Arabia researcher at Human Rights Watch....

Global Rights Crises Deepen as World Leaders Shy Away, Human Rights Watch Says In World Report 2024 (www.hrw.org)

Governments’ double standards in applying the human rights framework not only put countless lives at risk, but they chip away at trust in the institutions responsible for enforcing and protecting rights, Human Rights Watch said....

UN Must Include Strong Language on Tibet in China Review, exiled Tibetans say (tibet.net)

China’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) will take place Jan 23 in Geneva. The UPR is a mechanism of the Human Rights Council to assess the human rights record of every UN member state every four to five years....

Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition (www.youtube.com)

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A princess's psalter recovered? Pieces of a 1,000-year-old manuscript found (phys.org)

A special find has been made in the Alkmaar Regional Archive: A number of 17th-century book bindings contained pieces of parchment from a manuscript from the 11th century. The original manuscript may have belonged to a princess who fled England after the Norman Conquest....

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2 golden tongues symbolizing 'flesh of the gods' unearthed in ancient Egyptian mummies (www.livescience.com)

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered two mummies outfitted with golden tongues at the ancient town of Oxyrhynchus, bringing the total number of golden tongues found at the location to 16, archaeologists say....

RDCCDX: The Digital Pirates of Dark Water Saga: Ep. 2 (yt.artemislena.eu)

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ICJ updates: South Africa’s genocide case against Israel over Gaza war (www.aljazeera.com)

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Membrane-Free Green Hydrogen To Chase Fossil Fuel Blues Away (cleantechnica.com)

100 ancient genomes show repeated population turnovers in Neolithic Denmark (www.nature.com)

Major migration events in Holocene Eurasia have been characterized genetically at broad regional scales. However, insights into the population dynamics in the contact zones are hampered by a lack of ancient genomic data sampled at high spatiotemporal resolution. Here, to address this, we analysed shotgun-sequenced genomes from...