The motorhome seems like a great idea until you have to actually drive it somewhere. As it turns out, the car and the house don’t have enough in common to be the best fit. But what about a house and a helicopter—what is the latter if not an airborne box that can be filled with the comforts of home?…

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What happens when anaesthesia fails 13 March 2019 David RobsonFeatures correspondent Getty One in 20 patients remain aware but paralysed during major medical procedures - though the vast majority will not remember it afterwards. Why? It can be the smallest event that triggers Donna Penner’s…

In the 1989 US blockbuster “Back to the Future II,” time traveler Marty McFly orders a Pepsi Perfect at Hill Valley’s futuristic Cafe 80s. It was an iconic moment of product placement. But if you look very closely at a different scene showing future McFly as he video-conferences a co-worker in 2015,…

I recently took a drive-through COVID-19 test at the University of North Carolina. Everything was well organized and efficient: I was swabbed for 15 uncomfortable seconds and sent home with two pages of instructions on what to do if I were to test positive, and what precautions people living with or…

Photo by Aleks Dahlberg on Unsplash Ah, yes, Vim, the powerful text-editor that is everywhere and a place where even the wisest can’t quit. You had to hear about it at least once. Or you might have considered learning or trying it. But why do it now? It’s 2020, doesn’t everyone use VSCode already?…

Members of Heaven’s Gate, a religious cult, believed that as the Hale-Bopp comet passed by Earth in 1997, a spaceship would be traveling in its wake—ready to take true believers aboard. Several members of the group bought an expensive, high-powered telescope so that they might get a clearer view of…

Fifty metres under Tokyo lies a subterranean world — 6.4 kilometres of tunnels, water tanks and massive pillars constructed to withstand 200 tonnes of water per second. This engineering marvel built to protect the ever-present threat of Tokyo flooding. Subscribe to ABC Science YouTube 👉…

Die Gemeinde Bettmeralp sucht mit der Unterstützung der Bevölkerung einen neuen 🥼Bergdoktor. Auch ihr könnt der Gemeinde bei der Suche helfen! Teilt dieses Video und markiert jede Ärztin und jeden Arzt, der als Bergdoktor geeignet ist. Vergält’s Gott! 🙏 #bergdoktorgesucht Kontakt der Gemeinde…

When was the first time you heard about antifa? Maybe it was in the viral footage in which a black-clad, masked figure delivered a flying punch to neo-Nazi Richard Spencer’s jaw on the afternoon of Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration. Or, perhaps, it was after the Unite The Right rally in…

Friedrich Schmitt ist Jurist und wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Öffentliches Recht der Universität Freiburg. Dieser Artikel basiert auf einer im Jahrbuch Informationsfreiheit und Informationsrecht 2019 erschienen Untersuchung zur polizeilichen Öffentlichkeitsarbeit auf Twitter.…

As a COVID-19 summer surge sweeps the country, deep cleans are all the rage. National restaurants such as Applebee’s are deputizing sanitation czars to oversee the constant scrubbing of window ledges, menus, and high chairs. The gym chain Planet Fitness is boasting in ads that “there’s no surface we…

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S ucht er nach Frauen, die seine Kinder austragen möchten, gibt er sich Decknamen wie „Fabian“ oder „James“. In Kontaktanzeigen schreibt er: „Intelligenter, gesunder Mann (40/185/85) sucht Frau zur Erfüllung ihres Kinderwunsches. Melde dich!“ An einem Junimorgen sitzt dieser Mann in einer…

SLEDHEAD Sledding Athletes Are Taking Their Lives. Did Brain-Rattling Rides and High-Speed Crashes Damage Their Brains? Mark Wood By On May 3, Pavle Jovanovic, a former bobsledder, rigged a chain to a crane he and his brother kept in the shop of their family’s metal works in Toms River, N.J. He tied…

A long time ago, about a decade after the end of the war in Beirut, I lived in a huge, crumbling house by the sea. Every foray into the heart of the city—to work, to the supermarket, to the cafés on Hamra Street—meant a trudge up a steepish hill. Not so steep a climb as in, say, Lisbon or Istanbul,…

SubEthaEdit 5 – Now free and open source! The new version 5 of SubEthaEdit, the Apple Design Award winning text editor for macOS, is now available free of charge in the App Store and as direct download. The complete source code with history going back 15 years is also available under the MIT…

Christian Bogner war schon einmal nach einem Ausbruch in der Identität eines anderen festgenommen worden. Von diesem Mann fehlt bis heute jede Spur und Bogner wurde freigesprochen. Zu Recht? Kai Schlieter und Stephan Thiel, 6.6.2020 - 14:22 Uhr Foto: Volkmar Otto Wo ist Thomas Ranke? Drei Monate…

Christian Bogner beteuert seit seiner Verhaftung vor 15 Jahren seine Unschuld. Entscheidende Fragen konnten nicht geklärt werden. Trotzdem befindet er sich seither in Isolation, damit er kein Anstaltspersonal manipulieren kann. Kai Schlieter und Stephan Thiel, 6.6.2020 - 14:23 Uhr Foto: Volkmar Otto…

Nach der Verhaftung von Christian Bogner verfolgen die Ermittler eine ungeheuerliche Spur: Wieso konnte Bogner direkt nach dem Ausbruch eine neue Identität annehmen? Kai Schlieter und Stephan Thiel, 6.6.2020 - 14:24 Uhr Foto: Markus Wächter Der Tatort: die Auffahrt zum Acker am Rande des Waldstücks…

Dem vielleicht gefährlichsten Straftäter Deutschlands gelang, was nur sehr wenige schaffen: der Ausbruch aus einem der sichersten Gefängnisse des Landes – und das hatte verheerende Folgen. Kai Schlieter und Stephan Thiel, 6.6.2020 - 14:25 Uhr Foto: Berliner Zeitung/Markus Wächter Christian Bogner…

7 min read· Jun 22, 2020 -- Disclaimer: the views I express in my personal blog are just that: personal. They aren’t endorsed by my employer, my mother, my lawyer, or anyone else for that matter. Photo by Joe Green on Unsplash The big news in the geospatial world at the moment is Facebook’s…

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Image above: Izidor Ruckel near his home outside Denver Updated at 3:22 p.m. ET on June 23, 2020. For his first three years of life, Izidor lived at the hospital. The dark-eyed, black-haired boy, born June 20, 1980, had been abandoned when he was a few weeks old. The reason was obvious to anyone who…

Nach einer Stunde steht der Höhenmesser still. Er zeigt 3.050 Meter, wie festgefroren. Links und rechts von uns pressen Granitwände Eis und Schnee ins Tal. Um uns eiskalte Luft. Vor uns erhebt sich eine Wand in der Landschaft. Das Ende des Ruth-Gletschers, eine Bergscharte: Da müssen wir rüber.…

By James Nestor Breathing is not an activity that anyone is feeling confident about right now. We spend our days covering our mouths and noses with masks, struggling to inhale and exhale. We toss and turn at night, worried that we might be feeling a cough coming on or some tightness in our chests.…

Er steht vor mir mit einem Stofftier im Arm, einem Hasen, der eine Rübe umklammert, und sagt, dass er Stofftiere sammle, denn Stofftiere seien frei von Hass. Ich habe mir den verurteilten IS-Terroristen irgendwie anders vorgestellt. Sami A., einer von drei Verurteilten der «Schaff­hauser IS-Zelle».…

In a scene from Srećni Ljudi (Happy People), a Serbian television show from the early 1990s, two young brothers harass a younger boy sitting on a bench, a dog underneath his feet. “Is that the little mongrel you got for your birthday?” One brother, played by Pavle Bihali, says to him, using a…

Updated at 7:42 p.m. ET on June 23, 2020. My Little Pony fans have had a Nazi problem for a long time. That sounds just as strange no matter how many times you say it. My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is a cartoon television show about friendship, compassion, and a group of magical horses with…

Protests sparked by the murder of George Floyd and systemic racism have been boisterous, righteous assertions of the constitutional liberties of free assembly, expression and speech — even as police have too often breached those rights. Yet as a wider precept, free speech is losing ground. As…

von Bis zur Erschöpfung ringt ein Team im Universitätsklinikum Bonn mit dem Virus, das die Welt verändert hat. In der Corona-Krise waren unsere Reporter über Wochen im Inneren dieses Apparats Elisa Ferrara* schlägt ihre Augen auf. Sie trägt ein Hemd, das hinten offen ist, ein Beatmungsschlauch…

How agonising surgery paved the way for anaesthetics 25 June 2020 Richard HollinghamFeatures correspondent Getty Images In Victorian times, surgery was painful, brutal – and often a death sentence. But the discovery of drugs which put the patient into blissful sleep was a step towards safer…

Mishima and the Flying Saucers “Summer, the season of flying saucers, is almost here. Last summer, I took my binoculars to Atami Hotel and watched the skies every single night in the hope of seeing so-called UFOs coming in to land. Yet in the end, I was not fortunate enough to witness such an…

Gott wollte, dass Henry Fernsehen guckt. Allah führte seine Hand zur Fernbedienung, ließ ihn genau dieses Programm auswählen, an genau diesem Tag. Schicksal. So wird Henry das später sehen. Aber als er den Fernseher einschaltet und der Bildschirm aufleuchtet, denkt Henry noch nicht an göttliche…

Finding the 'invisible' millions who are not on maps 2 July 2020 Sarah Treanor and Katie PrescottBusiness reporters, BBC News, Kigali Getty Images There are often no maps of rural areas of Rwanda "There are about two billion people in the world who don't appear on a proper map," says Ivan Gayton…

The emergency room was busy that afternoon. I had just started my shift and was making my way through a scrum of frantic doctors, nurses, and orderlies when I heard yelling coming from the ambulance bay entrance. “Put her down now!” I recognized the stern voice of Herb, one of our security guards.…

Rico Maleskat findet es unverschämt, dass dieser Protest jetzt als „rechts“ verleumdet werde. Direkt neben ihm steht eine Handvoll Neonazis, zur anderen Seite ein Mann mit Reichskriegsflagge mit Eisernem Kreuz drauf, dahinter sieht man umgedrehte Deutschlandflaggen, das AfD-Emblem,…