Appalachian Figures A voice from Knott County Verna Mae Slone was born in Knott County, Kentucky, on October 9, 1914, and died in Hindman on January 5, 2009. She and her husband, Willie Slone, raised five sons. In addition to writing, she became known across Eastern Kentucky for her quilts and cloth dolls.

Die gemeinsame Seminarreihe „Bridging Minds and Machines“ der Forschungsinitiative Digitale Bildung (Leibniz Universität Hannover) und des Labs Learning and Skill Analytics an der TIB geht in die nächste Runde. Am 18. November 2025 findet die nächste Veranstaltung statt, in der Ulrich Stitzinger und Gianni Triantis das MULTIK-Projekt vorstellen.

Three weeks ago, I posted three colour photos of the “Ultrasaurus” excavation at the Dry Mesa Quarry, provided by Tyler Holmes from an old dinosaur encyclopedia. Here’s the third one again: I wrote: This can’t be right.

On November 12, 2025, the 18th European Public Health Conference hosted a symposium organized by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). The session, “The heart of resilience: lessons from mental health support for children and young people affected by conflict in Ukraine,” explored the large-scale mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) initiative developed by the IFRC with support from the European

.wrappingr { float: right; shape-margin: 50px; width: 40%; } .wrappingl { float: left; shape-margin: 50px; width: 40%; } #fig-structure > figure > figcaption { float: left; clear: both; } The Rise of Fentanyl We speak of the US opioid epidemic as if it is one single thing, but it is actually a rapidly shifting, regionally variable wave of different events.

I recently gave a talk about analyzing vowel formant trajectories using the Discrete Cosine Transform, and people have been asking me about when they could/should use a DCT based model versus a gamm. So, I’ll work through that question here!

Appalachian Figures Charles McElroy White grew up in the logging and rail hamlet of Hutton on the outskirts of Oakland, Maryland. He went on to lead one of the nation’s largest steelmakers during the most turbulent decades of American industrial history. His path ran from a mountain schoolhouse to the University of Maryland, from mill floors to boardrooms, and into the hearing rooms of Congress.

Updated PolitikerInnen haben es schwer. In dem Wirrwarr aus künstlicher Intelligenz, Cloud Computing, Virtual Reality, dem globalen Markt und dem Tsunami von Desinformation müssen sie Prioritäten setzen. Da ist es nicht leicht, für das kleine, aber feine Fediverse einen Fuß in die Tür zu bekommen.

Ohropax-Skizzen in retrodigitalisierten Skizzenbüchern, Dissertationen über Hundefutter und Forschungsdaten zur Gensequenz der Schlafbeere – diese kleine Auswahl lässt erahnen, welche digitalen Schätzen es in niedersächsischen Bibliotheken, Museen und Forschungseinrichtungen gibt.

✒️ Editor's Note: Today's guest post was written by Catharina Sänger . With a curious mind and a passport full of lab stamps, Catharina has explored science across the globe. She studied Biochemistry in Frankfurt, Germany, including research projects in Boston and Melbourne, before moving toward Molecular Biology for her PhD at ETH Zurich.

It is estimated that children make up one-third of the world’s population. Nevertheless, they constituted 40 percent (49 million) of the 122.6 million forcibly displaced individuals in 2024.