After a tiring seven-hour flight from Boston to Frankfurt, a three-hour drive from the airport, and six flights of stairs to our apartment, we arrived in Düsseldorf and quickly learned air conditioning isn’t really a thing in Germany. The large tilt-and-turn windows in our place didn’t have screens, only metal rolling shutters. This meant we
UNITED NATIONS — Under a global cloud of wars and bitter divisions, world leaders meet at the United Nations this week facing new fears that runaway artificial intelligence could threaten humanity even as climate shocks and escalating prices are already making life much tougher for hundreds of millions of people. The annual high-level gathering at
Meg Stalter won the Emmys red carpet by dressing up as the iconic statue. The “Hacks” star walked the carpet with series co-creator Paul W. Downs, and she was dressed all in gold with matching skin, wings and the iconic globe held above her head. Downs was dressed rather conservatively in a tux alongside her.
Data In each country, we have two waves of data: baseline and endline. In Nepal, we conducted a baseline survey with a random 50% of the sample, and in Kenya, we relied on administrative data instead of baseline survey data. The endline surveys took approximately 30 min to administer and included approximately 20 questions. These questions
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The Helix Nebula (NGC 7293) is one of the closest and brightest planetary nebulae, and therefore a benchmark for resolving how the late-stage ejecta of stars couple to their surroundings. Using the Gaia EDR3/DR3 astrometric solution for the central star (WD 2226-210), we adopt a distance of d = 198.6 (+1.6/−1.8) pc (ref. 10). Imaging of the Helix
