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See Language Difficulty of European Languages According to This Map
For English-speakers, Romanian is easier to learn than German. And you’ll be speaking Swahili sooner than Polish. How is that? Because the Foreign Service Institute says so. Located in Arlington, Virginia, the FSI is the U.S. government’s main provider of foreign affairs training, including language courses. As the chief learning organization for the State Department, …
Threads and the Social/Communications Map – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
If you’re only going to tweet once every 11 years, then you better make it count; the best way to do just that is to pull off a well-executed meme: This offering from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg works on multiple levels. The surface interpretation is obvious given the timing of the tweet, which was posted …
Citizen Scientists Help Map Ridge Networks on Mars That May Hold Records of Ancient Groundwater
Unusual ridge networks on Mars may provide clues about the history of the Red Planet. Credit: NASA/JPL/MSSS/Caltech Murray Lab/Esri Scientists have uncovered strange ridge networks on Mars using images from spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet over the previous two decades. How and why the ridges formed, as well as what clues they may reveal about …
Sit back and enjoy the technology ride | Lifestyles
Some technology is OK, like remote controls and Google maps, but for the most part, I think life was a lot easier and far less stressful when the world wasn’t wireless and the only people who understood computers were the geeky guys in high school who all became bazillionaires. An example of how frustrating technology …
Sharks Use Earth’s Magnetic Fields to Guide Them Like a Map – “It Really Is Mind Blowing”
Sea turtles are known for relying on magnetic signatures to find their way across thousands of miles to the very beaches where they hatched. Now, researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology on May 6 have some of the first solid evidence that sharks also rely on magnetic fields for their long-distance forays across the …
Space junk map tracks 200 ‘ticking time bombs’
Thousands of human-made objects orbit earth and the majority of them no longer work. There’s a risk this space debris could collide with functioning satellites, which provide vital services like GPS and weather warnings. To track and predict its behaviour, Prof Moriba Jah and his colleagues built AstriaGraph – a near real-time map of where …
Spring Break, A Tornado, & Wet/Dry Metro Area | FOX 12 Weather Blog
9:30pm Sunday… Ahhh, spring break in Oregon. One thinks of…exactly what our 7 day forecast shows. A mix of cool, showery days plus some warm sunshine too. It’s raining this evening as a cold front approaches the coastline. The front should pass by Astoria by midnight, then through the metro area sometime between 2-4am. Behind …
Coronavirus: Canadian zoos struggle to survive amid lockdown measures
Last week, Paul Goulet’s 10-year-old daughter quietly went to his wife with worry about her father. “It’s like he’s here, but he’s not really here,” she said. That nearly broke Goulet, the owner of Little Ray’s Nature Centre, a zoo and animal rescue organization with locations in Hamilton and Ottawa. Usually an eternal optimist, Goulet …
Outage map harnesses technology to better inform customers
MUSCATINE, Iowa–When Muscatine Power and Water embarked on their Fiber to the Home project, they intended to improve internet connections across the city. As this work nears completion this winter, the upgraded communication equipment will allow for more than just faster internet. Thanks to some creative thinking, Muscatine Power and Water has used the new …
Insurtech.Rocks Publishes its Swiss Insurance Technology Map for 2020, Featuring 20 High-Potential Startups
Insurtech.Rocks, a management and digital consulting firm focused on Switzerland’s insurance sector, has published its Swiss Insurtech Map for 2020. It features 20 insurance technology startups. Here are the 20 Insurtechs to look out for as we head into 2021: Insurtech firm Anivo offers insurance providers, banking institutions, telecommunications providers, and ecosystems a tech platform …
