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Researchers are investing in a record-breaking collection of urine on Walpurgis Day […] 20,000 liters of pee. That’s how much researchers want to collect during this year’s Walpurgis celebrations in Uppsala. The goal is to produce clean fertilizer that can be used in agriculture.
Female lobbyists more likely to get access to EU legislators, regardless of the policymaker’s gender
There is obviously a special place in my heart for financial engineers, for people who structure complex transactions to achieve regulatory aims and to make a nice profit and to experience aesthetic satisfaction. Many environmental, social and governance regimes are essentially complex accounting systems, and the people who are good at them will not necessarily be committed environmentalists or social justice activists. They might be, you know, derivatives structurers. They might be the sort of people who see a complex accounting regime, one whose users are not entirely economically motivated, and think “ooh I could game this, that would be fun.” A really talented ESG financial engineer has built up a deep and nuanced understanding of these rules and, if evil, how to manipulate them. You can’t just run that in reverse. […] On Wall Street, which has turned its back on net zero alliances, firms are dropping “ESG” from job titles. And globally, less than 7% of people who took on an ESG role in 2020 still retain an ESG title today,
Inside the spectacular rise and crash of India’s largest EV company
Tariff exemption is coming for automakers, or at least for their vehicles made from 85% US content. Tesla appears to have the easiest path to reaching 85% US content, with an average share of 81% in 2024. The next closest automaker is Honda, with an average of 63% US parts for vehicles sold in the US
A 53-year-old Venus probe that failed to escape low Earth orbit is expected to make an uncontrolled reentry in the coming weeks. Built to withstand extreme heat, parts of the spacecraft could survive the descent and crash on Earth.
Ordinary yellow pineapples were once so precious they were rented for display at dinner parties
A Stylish 2,000-Year-Old Roman Shoe Found in a Well
How to Stage a Coup […] mechanically speaking, you can take over the headquarters of the government: the presidential palace, the prime minister’s office, whatever it is. You can do that. You can shut down the mass media. And you can stop the internet because the internet operates from specific physical facilities. You can just open a door, enter there, and switch it off. […] Then you denounce the previous government and announce wonderful useful reform measures that people have been calling for. […] you go and arrest all the political leaders that could challenge you: all the ones that might stand up and speak in front of a group of people or a camera or microphone. You arrest them and you just physically detain them, perhaps to be liberated in a day or so with apologies, perhaps to be killed on the spot — anything in between. Those mechanics of the coup have not changed. […] I wrote my book in ‘67, published in ‘68. […] Coups had been very common until about two years after the book was published, and then stopped. The reason is that authorities everywhere reverse-engineered the book. The book was published in English, and it was immediately translated into about 13 languages. It went all over the place. […] So, you have an armored mobile force, which is near the capital. I say, “Make sure either you move it 400 kilometers away, as far away as you can, or else make sure that it’s commanded by your son or nephew or something like that.” So they did that, they put their nephews in charge of any mobile force. My book caused a decline of coups.
There’s a Vape With a Tamagotchi Inside It That Dies If You Stop Puffing
