This is an edition of the newsletter Pulling Weeds With Chris Black, in which the columnist weighs in on hot topics in culture. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Thursday. Substack, the ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Introduced in 1994, the grilling ...
The Portland City Council rejected a woke lawmaker's plan that would have cut $4.3 million from the city's homeless-camp-removal program that aims to find housing for unsheltered people. An amendment ...
Astronomers at the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa have reported the first radio detection from interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. First a recap for anyone who isn't up to speed with our third ...
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The Manhattan-size interstellar object 3I/ATLAS exhibited signs of non-gravitational acceleration and appeared “bluer than the sun” as it passed our local star — which could be signs of an alien craft ...
The Victorian government has just introduced sweeping new planning laws that will substantially change who can object to new developments. The Planning Amendment (Better Decisions Made Faster) Bill ...
Ever since interstellar object 3I/ATLAS streaked into our solar system, astronomers have been scrambling to understand how this likely comet got here—and more importantly, perhaps, where it came from.
Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS — which is zooming through our inner solar system — appears to be emitting its own light, according to Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb. The observation by Loeb, if ...
One can select both object and string dtypes, so you select those columns in both older and newer pandas. One gotcha is that df.select_dtypes(include=[str]) is not allowed in pandas<=2.3 ("string ...
An oddly tilted object beyond Neptune moves in perfect sync, one orbit for every ten of Neptune’s, and scientists are intrigued. (Artist’s concept.) Credit: SciTechDaily.com Astronomers have ...