Rebecca Morley catches up with Domex Bikes – a newly launched mobile bike repair service – on how it started and how it aims to fill a gap in the market. It’s safe to say mechanics are pretty indispensable in the bike industry – there’s an increasing number of bikes in the market now, so … Continue Reading »
Elite women’s cycling team Alba Development Road Team has named bike manufacturer Handsling as frame supplier and title sponsor for the 2025 season. The Scotland based UCI Continental team will race as Handsling Alba Development Road Team and continue to be equipped with the British bike brand’s high-performance A1R0evo carbon race bikes, custom-painted in Alba … Continue Reading »
Zedify is one of the UK’s largest cargo bike delivery networks. Daniel Blackham sits down with CEO and co-founder Rob King to discuss the company’s significant growth, the hurdles it faces, and how the business plans to play a role in diversifying the sector. The last mile delivery market has boomed in recent times with … Continue Reading »
The BikeBiz jobs board helped fill more than 720 positions in 2023, and listings are still on the rise. Here’s our latest top five… Inside Sales Representative – Santa Cruz Bicycles & Cervelo Cycles UK We are seeking a motivated and proactive Inside Sales Representative to join our team. This role focuses on building relationships with dealers, growing … Continue Reading »
Thanks to the HERO TO ZERO sustainability project, the HERO Südtirol Dolomites was awarded the UCI Climate Action Award. The Union Cycliste International set up this award to acknowledge those cycling events which have a positive impact on the environment. On Wednesday, 18 December 2024, during the UCI Mobility & Bike City Forum in Abu … Continue Reading »
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Snapchat is expanding its Monetization Program to allow eligible creators to earn revenue from ads in longer Spotlight videos starting February 2025. Continue Reading »
Pennsylvania's Attorney General has filed a lawsuit against a Florida company, alleging that it's targeting new businesses with a scam offer. Continue Reading »
In his work on republicanism as a living idea, J G A Pocock showed that contesting history is part of a robust civic life - by Rosario López Read at Aeon
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The self-sacrifice of ants to save their colonies is an allegory and a euphemism in one family’s story of fleeing Vietnam - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
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By testing the boundaries of reality, Spanish-language authors have created a sublime counterpart to experimental physics - by Joshua Roebke Read at Aeon
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A portrait of the Texas coastline occupied by SpaceX reveals the footprints we leave on Earth in the quest to reach beyond it - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
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Metamorphic rocks are our emissaries from the deep, travelling to alien realms and revealing the restless nature of Earth - by Marcia Bjornerud Read at Aeon
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Objectives: The salinization of the water environment worldwide is increasing, which has brought great challenges to the sustainability of fish farming of aquatic animals. Methods: Three NaHCO3 concentration groups (0 mmol/L, 20 mmol/L, and 60 mmol/L) were set up in this study to investigate growth and metabolic differences between diploid ... Continue Reading »
Safety climate has been extensively studied using survey-based approaches, providing significant insights into safety perceptions and behaviors. However, understanding its dynamics in construction projects requires methods that address temporal and trade-specific variability. This study employs a longitudinal, mixed-methods design to explore safety climate dynamics. Quantitative data analyzed with ANOVA revealed ... Continue Reading »
The effects of puffing on the ginsenoside composition as well as antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities of ginseng berry were investigated to increase the utilization of ginseng berry. There was no significant difference in extraction yield between the control and puffed samples at all moisture contents and pressure conditions (p < ... Continue Reading »
GaN-on-Si high-electron-mobility transistors have emerged as the next generation of high-powered and cost-effective microwave devices; however, the limited thermal conductivity of the Si substrate prevents the realization of their potential. In this paper, a GaN-on-insulator (GNOI) structure is proposed to enhance the heat dissipation ability of a GaN-on-Si HEMT. Electrothermal ... Continue Reading »
Background: Blunt thoracic trauma possesses unique physiopathological traits due to the complex interaction of immune and coagulation systems in the lung tissue. Hemogram-based ratios such as neutrophil-to-lymphocyte (NLR), platelet-to-lymphocyte (PLR), neutrophil-to-lymphocyte × platelet (NLPR) ratios have been studied as proxies for immune dysregulation and survival in trauma. We hypothesized that ... Continue Reading »
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read: The Constitution Allows for Term-Limited Supreme Court Justices (Nancy Gertner, Brennan Center for Justice) Who Knocked on the Supreme Court’s Door in November?...
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Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Thursday morning read: Ex-Congressman’s Meme Fight Faces Long Odds at Supreme Court (Kyle Jahner, Bloomberg Law News) Supreme Court Fast-Tracks TikTok Case in Face of Jan....
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday morning agreed to take up a dispute over whether a South Carolina woman can bring a lawsuit challenging that state’s decision to end Planned Parenthood’s participation in its Medicaid program. The court’s announcement that it will hear arguments next spring...
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The Supreme Court will hear two hours of oral arguments on Jan. 10 in TikTok’s appeal to block enforcement of a federal law that would require TikTok to shut down in the United States unless its parent company can sell off the U.S. company by...
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Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Wednesday morning read: How Trump’s lawyer could steer the Supreme Court on abortion and trans rights (Joan Biskupic, CNN) Judge Broke Rules by Criticizing Justice Alito...
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sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: With a few keystrokes, anyone can ask an artificial intelligence (AI) program such as ChatGPT to write them a term paper, a rap song, or a play. But don't expect William Shakespeare's originality. A new study finds such output remains derivative -- at least for now. [...] [O]bjectively testing this creativity has been tricky. Scientists have generally taken two tacks. One is to use another computer program to search for signs of plagiarism -- though a lack of plagiarism does not necessarily equal creativity. The other approach is to have humans judge the ... Continue Reading »
Last week, startup Embodied announced it was closing down, and its product, an $800 robot for kids ages 5 to 10, would soon be bricked. Now, in a blog post published on Friday, CEO Paolo Pirjanian shared that Embodied's technical team is working on a way to open-source the robot, ensuring it can continue operating indefinitely. Ars Technica reports: The notice says that after releasing OpenMoxie, Embodied plans to release "all necessary code and documentation" for developers and users. Pirjanian said that an over-the-air (OTA) update is now available for download that will allow previously purchased Moxies to support OpenMoxie. ... Continue Reading »
Axiom Space has revised its plan for assembling its commercial space station by launching the Payload, Power, and Thermal module first, enabling it to operate as a free-flying platform as early as 2028 -- two years ahead of the original timeline. Space.com reports: NASA awarded Axiom Space a contract in 2020 to attach one or more modules to the International Space Station (ISS), which is set to retire by 2030 at the earliest. The original plan called for Axiom to detach a multi-module group from the ISS, creating a commercial outpost in low Earth orbit that will continue operating after ... Continue Reading »
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Malaysia has agreed to resume the search for the wreckage of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, its transport minister said on Friday, more than 10 years after it disappeared in one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries. Flight MH370, a Boeing 777 carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew, vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014.
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Five years ago, journalist and sci-fi author Cory Doctorow published a short story that explored the radicalization of individuals denied healthcare coverage. As The Guardian notes in a recent article, the story "might seem eerily similar" to the recent shooting of UnitedHealthcare's CEO. While it appears that the alleged shooter never read the story, Doctorow said: "I feel like the most important thing about that is that it tells you that this is not a unique insight." Doctorow continued: "that the question that I had is a question other people have had." As an activist in favor of liberalizing copyright ... Continue Reading »
Excellent HF conditions greeted hams in the ARRL 10-Meter contestlast weekend. Recent indicators show a sudden shift to two digitdaily sunspot numbers from three, and although there is nothingsignificant about 100, it makes one notice.All daily sunspot numbers this week were 97 or less.Perhaps this indicates a move off of solar maximum, or to a futurewith a second maximum.Solar activity was way... Continue Reading »
Average daily sunspot number plummeted to 104.4. Weekly Commentary on the Sun, the Magnetosphere, and the Earth's Ionosphere for December 12, 2024 from OK1HH: "The high solar activity in October this year suggests that this may have been the peak of an 11-year cycle. This is not to say that solar activity will not continue to rise. On the contrary, it may well be that the first maximum of the... Continue Reading »
The ARRL Teachers Institute on Wireless Technology (TI) continues to grow. Fresh off a highly successful YouTube telethon that raised more than $41,000 for the program, some of next year’s dates have been announced. Applications are now open.The program is growing, and educators will have the opportunity to attend sessions around the country. “We love having the teachers here at ARRL Headquarte... Continue Reading »
We are at the peak of Solar Cycle 25, and the 10-meter amateur radio band has been providing impressive propagation lately. Recent reports of “wide open” band conditions make this weekend’s ARRL 10-Meter Contest a great opportunity to take advantage of the best conditions of a generation. “I’ve been leaving the mobile radio on 10-meters for the drive into work each day,” said ARRL Regulatory an... Continue Reading »
Solar activity seems to have dropped dramatically from a recent peak. Are we over the cycle peak and headed down again? Too early to say. Daily average sunspot numbers this week sank to 120.1. Predicted solar flux is 175 on December 6 to 8, 170 on December 9 and 10, 175 on December 11 and 12, and 205 on December 13 to 17. Predicted planetary A index is 8 on December 6 and 7, 5 on December to ... Continue Reading »
Rebecca Morley catches up with Domex Bikes – a newly launched mobile bike repair service – on how it started and how it aims to fill a gap in the market. It’s safe to say mechanics are pretty indispensable in the bike industry – there’s an increasing number of bikes in the market now, so … 
Elite women’s cycling team Alba Development Road Team has named bike manufacturer Handsling as frame supplier and title sponsor for the 2025 season. The Scotland based UCI Continental team will race as Handsling Alba Development Road Team and continue to be equipped with the British bike brand’s high-performance A1R0evo carbon race bikes, custom-painted in Alba … 
Zedify is one of the UK’s largest cargo bike delivery networks. Daniel Blackham sits down with CEO and co-founder Rob King to discuss the company’s significant growth, the hurdles it faces, and how the business plans to play a role in diversifying the sector. The last mile delivery market has boomed in recent times with … 
The BikeBiz jobs board helped fill more than 720 positions in 2023, and listings are still on the rise. Here’s our latest top five… Inside Sales Representative – Santa Cruz Bicycles & Cervelo Cycles UK We are seeking a motivated and proactive Inside Sales Representative to join our team. This role focuses on building relationships with dealers, growing … 
Thanks to the HERO TO ZERO sustainability project, the HERO Südtirol Dolomites was awarded the UCI Climate Action Award. The Union Cycliste International set up this award to acknowledge those cycling events which have a positive impact on the environment. On Wednesday, 18 December 2024, during the UCI Mobility & Bike City Forum in Abu … 
Here are some popular and profitable microgreen seeds to consider for your microgreen business. We hope you find everything you need to get started. 
When you run a craft business, having an organized workspace is key. Here are some amazing craft supply storage ideas to get you started.
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In his work on republicanism as a living idea, J G A Pocock showed that contesting history is part of a robust civic life - by Rosario López Read at Aeon
The self-sacrifice of ants to save their colonies is an allegory and a euphemism in one family’s story of fleeing Vietnam - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
By testing the boundaries of reality, Spanish-language authors have created a sublime counterpart to experimental physics - by Joshua Roebke Read at Aeon
A portrait of the Texas coastline occupied by SpaceX reveals the footprints we leave on Earth in the quest to reach beyond it - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
Metamorphic rocks are our emissaries from the deep, travelling to alien realms and revealing the restless nature of Earth - by Marcia Bjornerud Read at Aeon
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read: The Constitution Allows for Term-Limited Supreme Court Justices (Nancy Gertner, Brennan Center for Justice) Who Knocked on the Supreme Court’s Door in November?...
The post The morning read for Friday, Dec. 20 appeared first on SCOTUSblog.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday morning agreed to take up a dispute over whether a South Carolina woman can bring a lawsuit challenging that state’s decision to end Planned Parenthood’s participation in its Medicaid program. The court’s announcement that it will hear arguments next spring...
The post Court adds Medicaid lawsuit to docket appeared first on SCOTUSblog.
The Supreme Court will hear two hours of oral arguments on Jan. 10 in TikTok’s appeal to block enforcement of a federal law that would require TikTok to shut down in the United States unless its parent company can sell off the U.S. company by...
The post Justices to hear arguments on TikTok ban on Jan. 10 appeared first on SCOTUSblog.
sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: With a few keystrokes, anyone can ask an artificial intelligence (AI) program such as ChatGPT to write them a term paper, a rap song, or a play. But don't expect William Shakespeare's originality. A new study finds such output remains derivative -- at least for now. [...] [O]bjectively testing this creativity has been tricky. Scientists have generally taken two tacks. One is to use another computer program to search for signs of plagiarism -- though a lack of plagiarism does not necessarily equal creativity. The other approach is to have humans judge the ... 