To see or not to see: Edinburgh fringe ’s startling plays about perception
Two new shows at the festival question senses of hearing and sight in engaging and eccentric waysSeeing is believing, right? That is a phrase used repeatedly by Mamoru Iriguchi and co-star Gavin Pringle in What You See When Your Eyes Are Closed/What You Don ’t See When Your Eyes Are Open (★★★★☆). It is an amusingly hand-stitched investigation into ways of seeing, performed in one of Summerhall ’s small basement rooms at the Edinburgh fringe. The production treats the challenges faced by people who are blind or visually impaired as a creative resource. The costumes are bold, the lines distinct, the faces large...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 12, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Mark Fisher Tags: Edinburgh festival 2023 Stage Theatre Culture Ray Bradbury Books Blindness and visual impairment Deafness and hearing loss Disability Psychology Source Type: news

Top 5 cryptocurrencies to buy under $1 next week
With over 1.8 million cryptocurrencies available in the market, speculators could be unsure about which project to focus on, for doing their due diligence before even thinking about buying. Therefore, listening to others often provides a shortcut for relevant pieces of information, but it must be…#finbold #xrp #michaëlvandepoppe #mntrading #ripple #bis #ada #tvl #cardanoecosystem #messari
Source: Reuters: Health - August 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

How to See the Perseid Meteor Shower —and Why It ’ s Special
Space is a punishing place—frigid, airless, sizzling with radiation. But for so unforgiving an environment, it does put on stunning spectacles, with its comets, eclipses and, for people with telescopes, dazzling views of exotic worlds like ringed Saturn and its litter of moons. This time of year, space regularly stages one of its most dazzling productions: the Perseid meteor shower. The brightest meteor shower of the year began on July 14 and will continue until Sept. 1, but peaks this week on Aug. 11, 12, and 13. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The best viewing hours are from midnight to just befor...
Source: TIME: Science - August 11, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

Volunteers head off plastic waste crisis by removing tons of rubbish from Hungarian river
Thousands of muddy plastic bottles, chunks of Styrofoam and other waterlogged pieces of rubbish are piled onto a flatbed trailer on the banks of the Tisza River in Hungary — a metric ton of waste that was removed by hand from the waterway and its floodplain in a single day. It’s the haul of…#tiszariver #hungary #plasticcup #tisza #hungarian #zsolttamas #gergelyhanko #hanko #universityofszeged #gangesriver
Source: Reuters: Health - August 8, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

IRS Announces Plans To (Almost) Go Paperless Beginning In 2024
During the pandemic, taxpayers saw photos from the IRS cafeteria in Austin, Texas, showing racks and racks of paper filling a room not generally used for storage. It was a glimpse of the tens of millions of pieces of paper that require manual processing at the IRS. But, IRS Commissioner Danny…#austin #dannywerfel #treasury #janetyellen #werfel #taxpayers #forms940
Source: Reuters: Health - August 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Philadelphia Eagles sign veteran linebackers Myles Jack and Zach Cunningham
The Philadelphia Eagles signed linebackers Myles Jack and Zach Cunningham to one-year deals, the team announced on Sunday. Jack and Cunningham are two veteran pieces that add depth to a linebacker group that had just five players on the depth chart entering Sunday — Nakobe Dean and Nicholas Morrow…#philadelphiaeagles #mylesjack #zachcunningham #cunningham #nicholasmorrow #philadelphia #jacksonvillejaguars #jaguars #pittsburghsteelers #nfl
Source: Reuters: Health - August 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Lesli Linka Glatter Re-Elected President of DGA
Lesli Linka Glatter has been elected to a second term as president of the Directors Guild of America. The veteran helmer known for her work on “Homeland,” “Mad Men” and numerous other TV series, was re-elected during the DGA’s biennial national convention held Saturday at the DGA Theatre in Los…#leslilinkaglatter #madmen #dga #dgatheatre #sagaftra #wga #hollywood #laurabelsey #parisbarclay #toddholland
Source: Reuters: Health - August 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

The Countries That Are the Source of the Most Space Junk
In March, the International Space Station had to perform two maneuvers in the span of a week in order to avoid collisions with debris that is orbiting around Earth. There are half a million pieces of space debris in orbit that are the size of a marble or larger, and over 23,000 pieces that are…#russian #ucssatellitedatabase #iss
Source: Reuters: Health - August 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Most secondary sales won ' t look like Tiger ' s Flipkart deal
A few months ago, it looked like all the pieces had fallen into place for a hot secondaries summer: Buyers were coming back to market, some companies and sellers were getting desperate, and the bid-ask spread — the difference of what buyers are willing to pay and the price sellers are setting —…#tigerglobals #flipkart #walmart #tigerglobal #brex
Source: Reuters: Health - August 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Meta shares suite of AI tools to generate music and audio
The AudioCraft tools are available for researchers and include MusicGen, which is able to generate pieces of music based on text and melody prompts. Meta has released a suite of generative AI tools, designed to create music and audio clips from text prompts. These tools – collectively called…#audiocraft #musicgen #meta #encodec #audiogen #voicesofopensource #generativeai #openai #williamfrys #barryscannell
Source: Reuters: Health - August 3, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

A critical analysis of the protection of children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 - Jha P.
The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 is one of the important pieces of legislation brought by the Parliament to address the offences and harassment faced by children (who are considered to be part of the weakest and defenceless segment...
Source: SafetyLit - August 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Fire detection in ship engine rooms based on deep learning - Zhu J, Zhang J, Wang Y, Ge Y, Zhang Z, Zhang S.
Ship fires are one of the main factors that endanger the safety of ships; because the ship is far away from land, the fire can be difficult to extinguish and could often cause huge losses. The engine room has many pieces of equipment and is the principal p...
Source: SafetyLit - July 31, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Burns, Electricity, Explosions, Fire, Scalds Source Type: news

Urgent 'do not eat' warning over salt sold at Tesco: Supermarket recalls product because of fears it may contain tiny pieces of plastic
Tesco's warns the cooking salt is 'unsafe to eat' and urges people to get a full refund. The salt is thought to be contaminated with tiny pieces of plastic which could be a choking hazard if ingested.
Source: the Mail online | Health - July 31, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Festival d ’Avignon: ' We won ’t let political mistakes build walls between us '
France's world-renowned theatre festival came to a close this week. Euronews Culture looks back at the festival's 77th edition - which proved to be more European than ever. One of the highlights of the European theatre calendar has just drawn to a close. Every July, the streets of the medieval…#avignoninsoutheast #portuguese #tiagorodrigues #nonfrench #festivaldavignon #euronewsculture #patagonia #timcrouch #johncollins #timetchells
Source: Reuters: Health - July 29, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

‘Barbie’ Production Designers Reveal Set Secrets, From the Key to Kendom to a Painted LA Skyline
Production designers Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer have worked on all manner of epic projects, but Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” left the duo with a high bar to cross. “It was one of the most challenging, philosophical and intellectual pieces of work we’ve ever done,” Greenwood told TheWrap. “It was…#sarahgreenwood #katiespencer #gretagerwigs #annakarenina #beautyandbeast #barbieland #hollywood #ryangosling #jacquelinedurran #littlewomen
Source: Reuters: Health - July 28, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

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