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How women defied and made history in this year’s midterms

Originally published by The 19th We’re making sense of the midterms. We’ve finally made it (mostly!) to the other side of this year’s consequential midterm elections. Election Day proved to be the only poll that mattered, with what we already know so far bucking predictions from pundits and prognosticators of Democratic doom and

Amazon continues to destroy new goods and returns

An investigation by Greenpeace, Business Insider and ZDF frontal proves that Amazon continues to throw away and destroy returns and new goods. Secretly recorded images and conversations with employees reveal the ecological madness of a throwaway culture at Amazon. The company does not see itself as responsible, but rather the so-called third-party sellers.

Windows Interview – Silvia Zanella

I ripetuti cambiamenti in atto nel mondo del lavoro creano e suggeriscono visioni differenti della metodologia esecutiva nel prossimo futuro. Ospite di Bruno Carenini, nel primo episodio della terza stagione di Windows Interview, è Silvia Zanella, manager e autrice. La conversazione trae spunto dal libro “Il futuro del lavoro è femmina. Come lavoreremo

Documentary “The Long Road to the Hall of Fame”

One of the grant recipients was Réda Zine, an author, director, and producer based in Italy. Zine used the grant to help complete his feature length documentary, The Long Road to the Hall of Fame, which tells the story of Tony King (a.k.a. Malik Farrakhan). Tony King is a former National Football League

Florida board of medicine bars gender-affirming care for some transgender youth

Transgender youths who are already receiving medical care can continue treatment, and some doctors may still be able to accept new patients. Originally published by The 19th Florida has restricted gender-affirming care for trans youth after a vote from the state’s medical board on Friday, though it’s unclear when the restrictions will go

Quantum Clones inside Black Holes

A systematic procedure is proposed for better understanding the evolution laws of black holes in terms of pure quantum states. We start with the two opposed regions I and II in the Penrose diagram, and study the evolution of matter in these regions, using the algebra derived earlier from the Shapiro effect in

Introducing Smol Links: Shorten URLs Without Tracking

Our WordPress plugin, built on top of Shlink, lets editors generate short URLs without compromising user privacy By: Dan Phiffer About the LevelUp series: At The Markup, we’re committed to doing everything we can to protect our readers from digital harm. We’re constantly working on improving digital security, respecting reader privacy, creating ethical

Overview on Strategies and Assays for Antibiotic Discovery

The increase in antibiotic resistance poses a major threat to global health. Actinomycetes, the Gram-positive bacteria of the order Actinomycetales, are fertile producers of bioactive secondary metabolites, including antibiotics. Nearly two-thirds of antibiotics that are used for the treatment of bacterial infections were originally isolated from actinomycetes strains belonging to the genus Streptomyces.