Appalachian History Leslie County did not appear on the map until 1878, when the legislature carved it from Clay, Harlan, and Perry Counties and named it for Governor Preston H. Leslie. Its new seat, Hyden, rose at the mouth of Rockhouse Creek on the Middle Fork of the Kentucky River, in a landscape of steep ridges and narrow bottoms. That geography matters.
Appalachian History Rowan County on the War’s Ragged Edge When the Civil War reached the upper Licking River, Rowan County was still a young place. Created in 1856 from parts of Fleming and Morgan Counties, it had a new courthouse at Morehead, scattered farms along Triplett Creek and the Licking, and roads that threaded east and west toward Mt. Sterling, Flemingsburg, and the Virginia line.
Biotech policy: Recent policy discussions echo NSCEB recommendations across investment, defense, and data.
The Open Science Magnifiers project (funded by the Berlin University Alliance), aims to monitor a wide diversity of open research practices. We are collaborating with various communities in exploring and establishing different Open Science Monitoring approaches.
Erlaubt das Urheberrecht die Nutzung von Werken des Rappers „Haftbefehl“ im Schulunterricht? Hier gibt es einen Überblick über mögliche erlaubte Nutzungen von Songtexten, Musikvideos und dem neu erschienenen Netflix-Dokumentarfilm. Das Erscheinen des Dokumentarfilms über den Rapper „Haftbefehl“ entfachte die Diskussion darüber, ob dessen Werke Teil des Lehrplans werden sollten.
As we finish celebrating our 25th anniversary, we can look back on a truly transformational year, defined by the successful delivery of several long-planned, foundational projects—as well as updates to our teams, services, and fees—that position Crossref for success over the next quarter century as essential open scholarly infrastructure.
There's outrage in the computer science community over a new feature rolled out by the ACM Digital Library that generates often inaccurate AI summaries. To make things worse, this is hidden behind a 'premier' paywall, so authors without access (for example, having graduated from University) can't even see what is being said. Why are these paper AI summaries harmful? The summaries themselves are deeply average.
Dear rOpenSci friends, it’s time for our monthly news roundup! You can read this post on our blog. Now let’s dive into the activity at and around rOpenSci! 🔗rOpenSci HQ 🔗rOpenSci at LatinR We proudly continued supporting LatinR as a community partner in 2025. Here we share a list of resources and recordings for the tutorials and talks delivered by our staff and community memebers at LatinR.
A centralized logging solution is essential for the efficient implementation of best practices for logging in Kubernetes. We present the FLOOD stack as an open source solution to this requirement. Logging in Kubernetes The built-in logging in kubernetes only provides very basic functionality. Developers can only access the logs of one container at a time and there are only logs of the current pod and its direct predecessor available.
Appalachian Figures When a Confederate veteran came home to Hazard after the Civil War, he remembered looking out over fields and streets that no longer looked like a town at all.
Appalachian History A River County on a Moving Front Russell County sat on the kind of landscape generals studied on maps. The Cumberland River bent like a great road of water along its southern edge. The county seat at Jamestown lay on the ridge road that linked Columbia and Albany.