Quote of the day by Laozi: ‘A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving’ and how the best parts of life happen on the detours you never planned

‘A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving’ Picture a traveller standing at a busy intersection in a foreign city. Her phone battery dies, taking her maps, digital tickets, and step-by-step plans with it. Instead of panicking, she puts the phone in her pocket, turns down a side street lined…

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Quote of the day by Che Guevara: ‘The life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on Earth’ and how modern economic systems treat people like numbers on a spreadsheet

‘The life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on earth’ When a single human life is weighed against material wealth, the right choice seems clear. Yet everyday real-world systems constantly do the math in reverse. Car companies weigh the cost of fixing…

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Scientists found a 2,865-pound predator from before dinosaurs ruled Earth; now 2,000 ordinary people are helping reveal its skeleton

Under the watchful eye of scientists, volunteers clean the skeleton of a mastodonsaurus A huge fossilised skeleton weighing 1,300 kilograms (2,865 pounds) that was found in southern Poland is currently being chipped out of solid rock by a group of more than 2,000 public volunteers.According to a report by the Associated Press, this unusual public…

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How engineers dreamed of turning Egypt’s Qattara Depression into an endless power source | World News

More than a century ago, engineers proposed an audacious idea for Egypt’s Western Desert, cutting a canal from the Mediterranean Sea into the Qattara Depression, a vast basin sitting well below sea level, and using the resulting flow of water to generate electricity indefinitely. The concept first surfaced around 1912 and was developed further by…

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Workers digging a railway tunnel in Sweden uncovered six shipwrecks spanning five centuries | World News

A routine railway tunnel project in the Swedish coastal town of Varberg has turned into an unexpected archaeological event, after construction crews cut into a buried stretch of the town’s medieval waterfront and uncovered the remains of six separate shipwrecks. The vessels range from the Middle Ages to the seventeenth century, with four dating to…

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A tapeworm infects worker ants and makes them live several times longer by turning their bodies more like those of queens

A worker ant of the species Temnothorax nylanderi infected with the tapeworm Anomotaenia brevis, recognizable by its yellowish coloration, alongside an uninfected worker (Credit: Susanne Foitzik) Deep inside the damp leaf litter of the Lenneberg Forest near Mainz, Germany, tiny worker ants of the species Temnothorax nylanderi are living surprisingly long lives. While a normal…

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Britain: Britain’s canals were built for industry, but they are now helping endangered wildlife survive | World News

Britain’s canal network was never designed with nature in mind. Built more than two centuries ago to move coal, clay and cotton across an industrialising country, these engineered waterways were about as far from a natural habitat as a landscape could get. Yet today, nearly 8,000 kilometres of canals crisscrossing the country have quietly become…

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UAE launches instalment payment option for MoHRE service fees and fines via ‘Tabby’ | World News

UAE introduces Tabby instalment payments for MoHRE fees and fines nationwide. UAE’s Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation (MoHRE) has launched a new payment option allowing customers to pay service fees and administrative fines in instalments through “Tabby”.The service enables payments to be split over a period of four to 12 months, with a maximum…

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Mexican illegal immigrant working on California farm arrested over rape and assault charges

The man had previously been charged with rape and sodomy of a drugged victim. An illegal immigrant working as an agricultural labourer in Southern California has been arrested after US border authorities said he had previously faced multiple serious criminal charges, including rape and sodomy of a drugged victim.US Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) El…

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