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TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN today planted a two new trees to replace the university’s iconic Oregon Maples.   The first maple collapsed in June 2018, while a second Oregon Maple was removed later because of fears it could also collapse.  Both trees, which dated from the 1840s, had been undergoing a preservation…

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Incinerated coronavirus bodies, nuclear fallout, and pollution were among theories to explain mysterious black rain falling on parts of Japan.Soot-coloured rainwater was reported to authorities and on social media by people living in several wards in Saitama Prefecture in Japan, on 2 March.The majority of 'black rain' reports came from the city…

Sort by Oldest Latest Popular 23 Comments Login to comment Yubaru Mar. 4 07:00 am JST The ministry, which has supported the confederation's three previous exhibitions, suggested it could withdraw its backing unless the requested changes are made, said Sueichi Kido, the group's secretary general. Always about the money with…

Section 11: Epidemic Disease Occurrence Level of disease The amount of a particular disease that is usually present in a community is referred to as the baseline or endemic level of the disease. This level is not necessarily the desired level, which may in fact be zero, but rather is…

4 February 28, 2020February 28, 2020 Birthday Letter: Episodes 3-4 (Final) by LollyPip It took me a while to get back to finish this wonderful drama special, so I’m excited that I was finally able to find the time. Our young lovers have found each other in a foreign land…

Science's civil rebel dies aged 96 Video Freeman Dyson, the eminent British-American physicist and mathematician best known for his theoretical work in quantum electrodynamics, died today. He was 96. His death was announced by his daughter Mia Dyson via Maine public television and the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) –…

Berlin: The Oscar-nominated filmmaker's unconventional death montage offers an effective defense against historical forgetting. “Evil will hunt us if we don’t throw it out from us with open palms,” a disembodied voice declares to us in French at the start of “Irradiated,” Rithy Panh’s mesmerizingly bleak montage of war in…

Emmet GowinOverview of Frenchman Flat, Looking West, Nevada Test Site, 1997In 1962, the poet George Oppen published a poem called “Time of the Missile.” “My love, my love,” he wrote, “We are endangered / Totally at last.” It was the right year to come to that conclusion—the year of the…

Iran has blasted Washington for deploying submarines with low-yield nuclear warheads, arguing that the move increases the likelihood of unconventional war. "Such provocative actions must be condemned," Mohsen Baharvand, Iran's deputy foreign minister for international and legal affairs, told the Conference on Disarmament in the UN building in Geneva. He…