Scottish Poetry Library: Going without Saying by Bernard O’Donoghue
It is a great pity we don’t know
When the dead are going to die
So that, over a last companionable
Drink, we could tell them
How much we liked them. …
Ars Technica: Secondhand EVs will flood the market in 2026, JD Power says
Used EV supply is set to grow by 230% as 215,000 cars come off lease.
iPhone in Canada: Bell Stunned by Huge $1.2 Billion Q3 Loss, Slashes Forecast
BCE, the parent company of Bell, announced a huge third-quarter loss of $1.2 billion, heavily impacted by $2.11 billion in writedowns, mostly related to Bell Media’s TV and radio divisions.
This result marks a major shift from the over $700 million profit recorded in the same quarter a year earlier. Adjusted earnings per share (EPS) dropped to $0.75, down from $0.81 in the previous year. Despite some growth in adjusted EBITDA, overall operating revenues for BCE declined, totaling $5.97 billion, down from $6.08 billion in Q3 of 2023. The company now expects its 2024 revenue to fall about 1.5 percent, a change from its earlier guidance projecting up to four percent growth.
Timetable (Manton Reese): Episode 133: Freedom
Two days after the election. Walking to the coffee shop and thinking about politics and the future of Micro.blog.
I’m glad to see Manton’s short form Timetable podcast back.
BBC: Earthshot 2024: Prince William announces winners in Cape Town
It supports sustainable, eco-friendly projects from around the world, with each of the five winners receiving £1m to scale-up their innovative ideas to “repair” the planet.
There are five ‘Earthshots’ - or goals: Protect and Restore Nature; Clean Our Air; Revive Our Oceans; Build a Waste-free World; and Fix Our Climate.
Fifteen finalists, from countries including France, Kenya, Indonesia, the UK and Nepal, were competing for their category’s prize pot after being whittled down from 2,500 applicants.
The article includes a list of the winners.
NYT: With DNA, Pompeii Narratives Take a Twist
Now, genomic testing on skeletal remains embedded in the casts has challenged both interpretations. As reported Thursday in the journal Current Biology, the DNA evidence shows that the identities and relationships of the deceased do not match the longstanding assumptions, which had largely been based on physical appearance, the positioning of the casts and romantic notions promoted by literature and Hollywood films.
The study team, which included David Reich, a geneticist at Harvard University, and David Caramelli, an anthropologist at the University of Florence in Italy, proposed that the adult and the younger child, traditionally viewed as mother and offspring, are genetically an adult male and a boy who were biologically unrelated. Contrary to the established account, the researchers concluded that none of the four people in the grouping were kinfolk.
Last Updated: 07.Nov.2024 22:40 EST
