In 2002, Deirdre Birmingham and her husband, John Biondi, bought a 166-acre farm in southwestern Wisconsin’s Driftless region. On a portion of that land — once used to raise cattle and grow feed crops like corn, soybeans, and alfalfa — they planted apple and pear trees to make fermented ciders. On a larger,
Scotland has become the first nation to provide ‘loss and damage’ funding having pledged a total of £7 million to date. The decision comes after an agreement between 200 nations at last year’s COP27 summit to give financial help to developing nations most impacted by climate change. Differing from immediate emergency aid, the
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a revolutionary technology that has taken the world by storm. AI has found applications in various sectors, including healthcare. The use of AI in medicine has opened up new opportunities for doctors and healthcare professionals to improve patient outcomes. In this article, we will discuss the uses of AI
by Zachary Roth, Minnesota Reformer Many of the election deniers who ran last year for positions that would have given them control over state elections systems lost their races. But several have found a new path to exert influence: as chair of their state Republican Party. On Saturday, Kristina Karamo, an activist who
Gigantic tsunamis have been decimating coastlines since time immemorial. We ignore these prehistoric warnings at our own peril. A boulder weighing more than 40 tonnes sits on the sand high above the ocean. Dwarfing every other rock in view, it is conspicuously out of place. The answer to how this massive outlier got
Reconstructing the working week. Steve Heap/Shutterstock Miriam Marra, University of Reading The world’s largest four-day working week trial has just ended and almost all of the companies that participated have decided to continue with a reduced working hours model. Participants in the trial agreed to produce the same output for the same pay,
Jimmy Carter answered reporters’ election-monitoring questions in Caracas, Venezuela, May 29, 2004. Juan Barreto/AFP via Getty Images Jennifer Lynn McCoy, Georgia State University When former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn Carter founded the nonprofit Carter Center in 1982, one of their goals was to help Latin American countries – many of
The importance of Indigenous languages in preserving cultural heritage and promoting intergenerational transmission of knowledge cannot be overstated. The International Decade of Indigenous Languages, a United Nations initiative spanning from 2022 to 2032, is a call for urgent action to safeguard the world’s linguistic diversity.On International Mother Language Day, it is imperative that
by Aaron Mendelson, Center for Public IntegrityFebruary 17, 2023 This story is a collaboration between the Center for Public Integrity and Bolts. The Howard R. Young Correctional Institution sits between a creek and Interstate 495 in Wilmington, Delaware. For the last ten years, the prison’s 1,281 residents were counted as constituents of Wilmington’s
Sarà quiete dopo la tempesta ciò che ci aspetta in termini di condizioni economiche del Paese? Qual è la verità sui dati congiunturali presentati a fine gennaio? Ospite di Bruno Carenini, nel sesto episodio della terza stagione di Windows Interview, è Mariano Bella, Economista e Direttore dell’Ufficio Studi di Confcommercio. La conversazione basata