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Reform and Restore councillors object to secular reflection

Reform and Restore councillors object to secular reflection

Published by Sam Flores

Reform UK councillors have made a complaint after a council meeting opened with a nonreligious reflection and a moment of silence instead of prayers. At East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s full council meeting last week, Liberal Democrat council chair Linda Johnson delivered a “secular reflection” due to the absence of her chaplain. She requested the reflection be followed by a moment’s silence. However, a Restore Britain councillor interrupted the silence by reciting the “Lord’s Prayer” as soon as the council rose for the observance. The incident follows the imposition of the Lord’s Prayer on at least three Reform-controlled councils and attempts by Reform to restrict Islamic prayers at two others. Council chair reads “secular reflection in the interest of inclusivity” Opening the meeting, Cllr Johnson said she is “very conscious that there are councillors here from different religions and worldview backgrounds”, which is why she prepared “a more secular reflection in the interest of inclusivity rather than the Lord’s Prayer”. Her reflection said: “We are gathered here to serve our community bringing with us different …

A small object beyond Pluto may have a thin atmosphere

A small object beyond Pluto may have a thin atmosphere

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astronomy: The area of science that deals with celestial objects, space and the physical universe. People who work in this field are called astronomers. atmosphere: The envelope of gases surrounding Earth, another planet or a moon. comet: A celestial object consisting of a nucleus of ice and dust. When a comet passes near the sun, gas and dust vaporize off the comet’s surface, creating its trailing “tail.” eclipse: This occurs when two celestial bodies line up in space so that one totally or partially obscures the other. In a solar eclipse, the sun, moon and Earth line up in that order. The moon casts its shadow on the Earth. From Earth, it looks like the moon is blocking out the sun. In a lunar eclipse, the three bodies line up in a different order — sun, Earth, moon — and the Earth casts its shadow on the moon, turning the moon a deep red. Grand Canyon: A natural canyon in northwest Arizona that formed as the Colorado River cut through the rock here over the …

Fieldwork As a Sex Object by Meena Kandasamy review – story of a deepfake sex tape | Fiction

Fieldwork As a Sex Object by Meena Kandasamy review – story of a deepfake sex tape | Fiction

Published by Sam Flores

We can all agree that the internet today, especially two particular platforms owned by the world’s greatest megalomaniacs, is a hellscape. But if you think X and Facebook are purgatories of friendless trolls endlessly posting hate and bullying women, each other and minorities under the guise of free speech, wait till you experience the Indian version of that netherworld, as captured by novelist and poet Meena Kandasamy. Take the worst algorithms in the world, add a billion-and-a-half people, mix in a far-right government with advanced internet skills and bring on the “burning ghats of Indian politics” that include caste and misogyny as well as roiling ethnic and religious antagonisms, and the western version of X begins to look like a children’s playground. This is the world that Amy Chaturvedi, a posh student activist-communist living in London, wakes up to one day when the internet is set ablaze by a deepfake sex tape. It’s her face, but it’s not her. Don’t get her wrong, Amy is sexually unapologetic and proudly experimental; she has done plenty of transgressive …

South Korean ship in Strait of Hormuz hit by unidentified object, ministry says

South Korean ship in Strait of Hormuz hit by unidentified object, ministry says

Published by Sam Flores

SEOUL: The stern of a bulk carrier operated by South Korean shipper HMM was struck by an unidentified object on May 4 while stranded in the Strait of Hormuz, the foreign ministry said on Sunday (May 10) following an on‑site inspection of the vessel on Friday. A week ago, Seoul reported a blast and fire aboard the same vessel – the HMM Namu – in the strait, while anchored near the United Arab Emirates. No one was harmed in the incident. US President Donald Trump said at the time that the incident was caused by an Iranian attack. Seoul was investigating the incident, and the vessel was towed to a port in Dubai after the blaze on Monday. It was not certain what the object was, the ministry said, and authorities said debris would be collected at the site for analysis. Trump urged South Korea to join a currently suspended US-led effort dubbed “Project Freedom” to secure shipping through the strait following the incident. Iran’s embassy in South Korea denied responsibility for the attack. It …

Greene says UFO files release ‘shiny object propaganda’ as ‘they wage foreign wars’

Greene says UFO files release ‘shiny object propaganda’ as ‘they wage foreign wars’

Published by Sam Flores

Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Friday called the Pentagon’s release of documents related to unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) and UFOs “shiny object propaganda” as the Trump administration wages “foreign wars.” The Pentagon released 162 files earlier Friday morning amid President Trump’s push for greater transparency on the issue. The Defense Department shared a… Source link

NASA Says Strange Red Dots in Sky Are an Unknown Class of Object That Looks Like a Huge Evil Eye

NASA Says Strange Red Dots in Sky Are an Unknown Class of Object That Looks Like a Huge Evil Eye

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech There’s a fresh twist in the mystery of the “little red dots.” Astronomers say they’ve found a new specimen, which they’re calling an “X-ray dot,” that suggests these crimson specks are a type of never-before-seen — and improbably extreme — stage of supermassive black hole evolution. The breakthrough, which they report in a new study published in  The Astrophysical Journal Letters, came from data taken by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. By comparing old Chandra images with new ones taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, they found that one little red dot was emitting x-rays, a telltale emission of black holes. An official artist’s impression, above, portrays it as resembling a giant evil eye surveilling the cosmos. “Astronomers have been trying to figure out what little red dots are for several years,” lead author Raphael Hviding of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany said in a NASA statement. “This single X-ray object may be — to use …

Scientists Detect Atmosphere on Planet-Like Object Beyond Pluto

Scientists Detect Atmosphere on Planet-Like Object Beyond Pluto

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Astronomers have long been fascinated by the unusual behavior of objects orbiting the Sun in the Kuiper Belt, a scattered disc of minor planets beyond the orbit of Neptune. Many of these frozen objects appear to be affected by the gravitational influence of much more massive ones, with some astronomers controversially arguing that the region could be home to a hidden ninth major planet in the solar system. However, the region’s extreme distance from the Sun makes it incredibly difficult to study, shrouding the nature of “trans-Neptunian objects” (TNOs) in enduring mystery. Now, a team of astronomers in Japan says it’s spotted only the second TNO to have an atmosphere after the dwarf planet Pluto, the largest known TNO by volume. As detailed in a paper published in the journal Nature Astronomy this week, the researchers say they’ve identified a minor planet only about 311 miles across — roughly a fifth of Pluto’s diameter — that’s wrapped in …

Scientists Investigating Whether Object NASA Is Approaching Is Core of Destroyed Planet

Scientists Investigating Whether Object NASA Is Approaching Is Core of Destroyed Planet

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Scientists have long been intrigued by an enormous potato-shaped asteroid, dubbed 16 Psyche, that they suspect to be teeming with metal — and therefore potentially worth a ludicrous amount of money to future asteroid mining operations. The 173-mile object, which orbits the Sun in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, features two enormous crater-like depressions, which researchers say could be closely related to its still largely unknown origin story. In a new paper published in the journal JGR Planets, an international team of researchers tried to get to the bottom of one of the key questions regarding 16 Psyche that remains unanswered. Is it a core of a planetesimal, a billions-of-years-old building block of a planet, in which case it would have a “large metallic core buried under rocks,” or is it a “homogeneous mixture of iron and rock?” Put differently, could 16 Psyche be the ancient exposed remains of a planetary core whose crust and mantle …

The Object at the Core of the Milky Way Might Not Be a Black Hole at All, Scientists Say

The Object at the Core of the Milky Way Might Not Be a Black Hole at All, Scientists Say

Published by José Betancourt

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images The traditional understanding is that the center of our galaxy is dominated by a supermassive black hole. The “supermassive” part isn’t a mere superlative; your typical black hole that forms from the explosive death of a star weighs up to dozens of times than the Sun, while a supermassive one like the Milky Way’s Sagittarius A* would be around four million times our star’s mass. But new research challenges this long held idea. Instead of a black hole, there could be something else lurking there that’s also invisible to observers: a colossal clump of dark matter, the substance thought to account for 85 percent of all mass in the cosmos. A new study, published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, argues this would be possible if the dark matter entity was made of subatomic particles called fermions. Compared to traditional dark matter, which forms more diffuse blobs or “halos,” fermionic dark matter would press together to form a more tightly packed core. …