Massachusetts farm installs 832 solar panels above berry fields, and the berries grown underneath turned out sweeter and juicier and could change the future of American farming - The Economic Times share.google/GDGqQBgisqhG...

Massachusetts farm installs 832 solar panels above berry fields, and the berries grown underneath turned out sweeter and juicier and could change the future of American farming

A Massachusetts farm is integrating solar panels above berry fields. This agrivoltaics project generates electricity while shading the crops. The elevated panels create a cooler microclimate, retain...

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The Germanic ancestor of ‘thing’ and its cognates, such as German ‘Ding’ and Danish ‘ting’, meant “folk assembly”. The Latin ancestor of the Romance words for “thing”, such as French ‘chose’ and Spanish ‘cosa’, meant “legal case”. My infographic shows how their meanings shifted to “matter; thing”.

A 73-year-old retired nurse's decision to learn to write Tibetan language offers a glimpse into how some embrace their language and cultural identity in Tibet. n.pr/459VQN1

Under China's new 'unity' law, Tibetans fight to preserve language and culture

A 73-year-old retired nurse's decision to learn to write Tibetan language offers a glimpse into how some embrace their language and cultural identity in Tibet.

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And you thought US urban-rural discourse was bad

Stop and smell the extremely overpriced flowers from tulip mania 🌷

for the first time in two and a half years, a new note was played in this organ performance today!

With the popularization of mobile phones and higher internet speeds, language immersion in English has become a bit easier for Brazilians than it was a few decades ago. At a click's distance, one can find hundreds of websites, podcasts and courses for beginners and lower-intermediate students. +

Gretchen McCulloch@gretchenmcculloch.com · 14h ago

It's gotten so much easier to start learning so many more languages, you used to be limited to the 3-5 major languages that a local bookstore or educational institution had decided it was worth making available, and now you can just like, look things up in hundreds of them

Approximately 350,000 Haitians and Syrians who have remade their lives in the U.S. are now at a crossroads. Their work permits and legal status have expired, yet their home countries haven't recovered from the crises that drove them to seek Temporary Protected Status. https://to.pbs.org/4hckHal

They lost their work permits and their legal status. Returning to Haiti is still ‘unimaginable’

Approximately 350,000 Haitians and Syrians who have remade their lives in the United States are now at a crossroads. Their work permits and legal status have expired, yet their home countries haven’t ...

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1. Paulo Rónai's "Como aprendi o português e outras aventuras". My go-to physical book to kill time at the waiting line, particularly when carring larger books with me is not feasible. In similar circumstances I also read Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" and Mia Couto's "Sleepwalking Land".

Mo 🌸📚@moplayspoke.bsky.social · 2d ago

1 like = 1 book question 📚💙

GREAT NEWS EVERYONE

Eeby@exaltedbrand.bsky.social · yesterday

oh cool the engage manga artist is doing a FW manga too

This is, imo, absolutely the consequence of politicians, media figures and others being actively unwilling to condemn this behaviour

Charles EP Murphy@cepmurphy.bsky.social · yesterday

news.sky.com/story/nhs-st... stereotypically this has been seen as Old People, but not only would the old people of now have often been born post-Windrush, lot of this will be younger people who've always lived in a diverse Britain. The guy with a pregnant wife likely millennial at oldest

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🌊 "A robot is cruising beneath #Antarctic sea ice. Another is bolted to the face of a collapsing Greenland glacier. A third is silently counting penguins on a remote, windswept beach. None of them has a human operator nearby." — @bas.ac.uk ▶️ www.bas.ac.uk/news/the-ris...

The rise of the robots: how autonomous vehicles are transforming polar science - British Antarctic Survey

Underwater, on the surface and in the air, robots are gathering data about our frozen planet – changing what is possible for polar science.

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"Multaj loĝantoj de Graco kaj la ĉirkaŭa regiono dimanĉe vespere povis konatiĝi kun la Universala Kongreso de Esperanto, kiam la publika televidkompanio ORF prezentis ĝin kiel la duan novaĵon en la vespera aktualaĵ-elsendo." Panjo, jen la movado en la televido! 💚 www.liberafolio.org/2026/08/03/a...

Aŭstria televido vizitis la Universalan Kongreson

La nomoj de sep novaj honoraj membroj de UEA estis anoncitaj en Graco. Krome du forpasintoj postmorte ricevis la titolon de honora membro, kaj Probal Dasgupta estis postmorte nomita honora prezidan…

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Another summer, another sporting (mis)adventure: Next month I'll be competing in a Kyrgyz belt wrestling ('Alysh') tournament at the World Nomad Games in Kyrgyzstan. I have never done anything even remotely like this before. 📚 Not unrelatedly, I will hopefully have another book out next year!

July is the last month of darkness at the #southpole, the skies are noticeably getting brighter. Still time for some #aurora, here is a pic from winterover Anjali showing some during the walk from station to the Dark Sector (with a person walking in distance) @NSF @doescience

The data is important for monitoring space weather and its impact on Earth and radio wave propagation; it is also very important for amateur radio operators and shortwave radio.

In July, Bochum transmitted by far the most data from STEREO-A’s Space Weather Beacon to the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Centre (SWPC). We have been doing this 24/7 since 2009.

Plysje nimt rydbewiis fan meardere bestjoerders yn by ferkearskontrôles

Plysje nimt rydbewiis fan meardere bestjoerders yn by ferkearskontrôles

Ien fan de bestjoerders, in 49-jierrige man út de gemeente Ljouwert, wie al faker steande holden fanwegen it riden ûnder ynfloed.

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Why does "ie" turn "dog" into itty bitty "doggie"? In this Lingthusiasm zine, Leah Velleman gets enthusiastic about diminutives. Yes, this one is extra tiny, it's a diminutive zine about diminutives! A zinelet? Or zineling? For more lingthusiastic zines: lingthusiasm.com/zines

The little dictionary I made for the Chhé’ee Fókaa is now up on the Tribe’s website: www.saltpomo.org/our-mission-1

"Authorities also began a region-wide censorship campaign, shutting down Mongolian WeChat groups and removing Mongolian-language books from the shelves of retail outlets. ... if you lose your language, you lose everything," Mr Togochog, director of SMHRC said." www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

'Cultural genocide': China's new laws set to wipe out 55 ethnic groups

China's new ethnic unity law is threatening to make the languages and culture of 55 different ethnic groups extinct.

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Watch out, #Mongolia, >1,000 scouts are visiting! www.scout.org/news/mongoli...

Mongolia welcomes Scouts from around the world for its third International Jamboree

More than 1,000 Scouts, volunteers, and International Service Team members gathered in Khentii Province for the Scout Association of Mongolia’s Third International Jamboree, a week-long programme of a...

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It sucks but I’m not done fighting our university administrators on this.

Vatican Observatory@vaticanobservatory.bsky.social · 4d ago

Kentucky’s big planetariums are gone. The stars will not again be projected on these domes.

Pessoal, saiu essa entrevista comigo uns dias atras e esqueci de divulgar. Espero que gostem! ultimosegundo.ig.com.br/2026-07-18/p...

Padre gamer concilia fé, animes, jogos e vida sacerdotal

Edson Ribeiro relembra infância, seminário, lives, relação com fiéis, limites diante das telas, além de muitas histórias marcadas pelo bom humor

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Ariri sunset - Ariri ( Macapá-Ap)

Confs: What African Languages Can Teach Us About (Synchronic and Diachronic) Phonology

Confs: What African Languages Can Teach Us About (Synchronic and Diachronic) Phonology

The historical relation between African languages and general phonology has been a mutually beneficial one: African languages have contributed to the development of phonology in quite central ways, and developments in phonological theory have in turn improved our understanding of the many fascinating complexities of African phonological systems. This conference brings together 13 specialists of African linguistics and phonology to discuss the many contributions of African languages to the fie

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