Soviet Union

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2024-10-09 @ 11.42.23 ∈ In English

The Disappearance of an Internet Domain
On October 3, the British government announced that it was giving up sovereignty over a small tropical atoll in the Indian Ocean known as the Chagos Islands. […] The decision to transfer the islands to their new owner will result in the loss of one of the tech and gaming industry’s preferred top-level domains: .io.
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2024-09-14 @ 13.22.30 ∈ In English

(From 2023; Medium.com, eww)

AI and the American Smile
Why do you smile the way you do? A silly question, of course, since it’s only “natural” to smile the way you do, isn’t it? It’s common sense. How else would someone smile? As a person who was not born in the U.S., who immigrated here from the former Soviet Union, as I did, this question is not so simple.
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2024-02-27 @ 13.17.41 ∈ In English

Ukraine war: Welsh miners in country to repay 1984 help
A convoy drives 2,000 miles from south Wales to Ukraine to repay a 40-year-old favour.
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2023-12-12 @ 19.32.47 ∈ In English

A good overview of GRB phenomena and recent developments.

Extra-Long Blasts Challenge Our Theories of Cosmic Cataclysms | Quanta Magazine
Astronomers thought they had solved the mystery of gamma-ray bursts. A few recent events suggest otherwise.
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2023-01-28 @ 21.31.34 ∈ In English

(From 2016)

Hollow Nickel/Rudolf Abel
One of the nation’s most fascinating—and ultimately significant—spy cases began in the summer of 1953, when a Brooklyn newspaper boy dropped a nickel he had just earned.
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2022-02-15 @ 12.12.48 ∈ Suomeksi

Helmikuun tykit
Minkälainen kehitys on ajanut Euroopan tilanteeseen, jossa suurvaltain välisen sodan uhka on jälleen akuutti? Mitkä asiat Venäjän, itäisen Euroopan ja maailman tapahtumissa yleensä muodostavat taustan kaikelle sille, mikä nyt tuntuu sysäävän maanosaa kohti tuntematonta?
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2021-04-28 @ 13.48.14 ∈ Suomeksi

Vielä kerran Tšernobyl
Tšernobylin onnettomuuden syitä ja seurauksia on käsitelty tässä blogissa jo melko yksityiskohtaisella tasolla. […] Päätin kuitenkin yrittää tuoda ilmi muutamia näkökulmia, joita ei tässä blogissa välttämättä ole aikaisemmin nostettu esille.