A Tale of Two Conferences Part I: UNDRR Global Platform 2025 (In-depth read, 18 min) TLDR/Summary The 2025 UN Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction The costs of disasters continue to spiral upward. In 2020 alone, direct disaster losses reached $200 billion annually, but when cascading and ecosystem impacts are included, the true cost balloons … Continue reading "The Hard Landing Ahead – Why Current Disaster Strategies Are Doomed to Fail"

Continúo la discusión de la última entrada. Las omisiones no debidas a homoioteleuton y homeoarcton, así como las lagunas por pérdida de material, suelen tener valor conjuntivo pleno entre dos manuscritos.

In some ways, there has been little news in the iNaturalist ‘GenAI’ story: Beyond some vague posturing towards “going to work on improving ways to get feedback from the community” , saying (but not demonstrating) that they are ‘listening’, and somehow doing some ‘webinar’ at some point in the future, there’s been very little commitment from any iNaturalist staff or leaders.

This post is part of a living literature review on societal collapse. You can find an indexed archive here. For this post I aim to essentially create a little repository of catastrophic risk lists, so other people can find those more easily and get an overview of how groups of experts with different backgrounds categorize and evaluate risks.

Sie ist Dreh- und Angelpunkt für die Frage, ob eine geistige Leistung als Werk gilt und damit urheberrechtlichen Schutz genießt: die Schöpfungshöhe. Es ranken sich Mythen um sie, ihre Bestimmung ist nicht trivial und hängt vom Einzelfall ab. Doch es gibt klare Kriterien und Beispiele zur Orientierung. Die „Schöpfungshöhe“ ist ein unbestimmter Rechtsbegriff , also nicht im Gesetz selbst definiert.

In media, policy and scholarship, forced migrants are typically portrayed as either inherently vulnerable and in need of external protection, and/or as naturally violent and threatening and therefore not deserving of care. We know very little, however, about forced migrants as actors and providers of care themselves.

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DensToolKit2 is a versatile open-source, cross-platform, suite of programs for analyzing electronic densities calculated from various sources and getting cool plots for some of the most popular scalar fields out there, such as electron densities, spin densities, visualizing critical points, or investigating complex topologies of noncovalent interactions, DensToolKit2 provides an integrated, script-friendly suite for analyzing electron densities

In 2018, when the world found out a Chinese scientist had edited the genes of twin baby girls, the reaction was instant and loud: absolutely not. Scientists called it reckless. Ethicists called it unethical. Governments rushed to reinforce bans. And He Jiankui, the scientist behind the experiment, was sentenced to prison in China for violating medical regulations.

Humanitarian, global health, and development organizations confront an unprecedented crisis. Donor funding is in a downward spiral, while needs intensify across every sector. Organizations face stark choices: reduce programs, cut staff, or fundamentally transform how they deliver results. Traditional capacity building models have become economically unsustainable.

Before starting - what is Omics Data? Omics data represent massive volumes of information on genomes, epigenomes, transcriptomes — you name it. They’ve become a favorite among researchers, reviewers, and publishers. But at what cost? I’m not even talking about the huge financial investments it takes to generate good quality data with proper replicates.