«Si je réussis mon projet de terrain, je m’attends à avoir au moins vacciné 345 enfants». Cet engagement n’a pas été pris par un ministre dans la capitale, mais par Jérémie Mpata Lumpungu, infirmier titulaire dans la province du Kasaï. Il n’était pas seul. Lundi 10 novembre 2025, un appel a résonné à travers la République démocratique du Congo.
Appalachian Figures Rodney Leon “Rod” Brasfield turned a quiet Lewis County town into a running character on one of America’s biggest radio stages. From the late 1940s through the 1950s, the Grand Ole Opry’s premier comedian regularly told listeners he hailed from Hohenwald, and he worked that hometown into his bits with affectionate precision.
Throughout the year 2021, Disney+ released a series of…well, series, which took place in and followed various characters of the wider hyperdiegesis conventionally referred to as the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).
If you live, like me, in The Guardian bubble, you will be heartened by the outspoken defence of the BBC in the last two days (The Guardian, 2025). But this defence clearly doesn’t come from all sides.
Just about exactly a year ago, on 19 November 2024, I e-mailed a group of colleagues expressing concern about the Terms of Use researchers had to sign up to it secure access to the immeasurably rich collections of the BBC Written Archives Centre (WAC) at Caversham.
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Auf Obsidian bin ich in meiner Mastodon-Timeline gestoßen. Dort kochte vor einiger Zeit das Thema “Wissensmanagement” hoch.
Kürzlich ist der Sammelband #BlickVomTellerrand – Die Bezugsdisziplinen der Sozialen Arbeit und ihre Perspektiven auf die Digitalisierung im Open Access erschienen. Herausgegeben wurde das Werk von Prof.in Dr.in Daniela Cornelia Stix (Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus–Senftenberg), Prof.
I came across Obsidian on my Mastodon timeline. Some time ago, the subject of “knowledge management” was a hot topic there.
Confession time: I have yet to find a satisfyingly regular and repeatable method for measuring neural canal diameters. A LOT of dinosaurian neural canals are not cylindrical but flare out on either end, like two trumpet bells set back-to-back.
Anita Cherry: Like Father Like Daughter History was made in the winter of 1973 in the coal seams of Jenkins, Kentucky. Alongside Diana Baldwin, Anita Cherry became one of the first two women in the United States to work underground in a coal mine.