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“Agreeable Gray”: How color vanished from modern life (and why it’s coming back)

“Agreeable Gray”: How color vanished from modern life (and why it’s coming back)

Published by Jenni Sidey

No, you haven’t suddenly gone colorblind. This map is in color. In fact, it is a map of color — specifically, of each U.S. state’s favorite house paint color. It’s just that those favorites look like a swatch book for a funeral parlor — like fifty shades of gray. Well, gray-ish. From Hawaii to Maine, from Alaska to Florida, the most popular shade for your home’s exterior is some variation of gray, off-white, beige, or greige — a hue so existentially undecided that it can’t commit to being either gray or beige, and so ends up neither, and both. Dipped in a vat of Resigned Indifference® But how can this be? America is anything but monochrome. It contains multitudes of cultures, climates, and landscapes, and people who disagree, loudly and publicly, about nearly everything. So why, when Americans need a tin of house paint, do they so often reach for the neutral shelf? Why does the average house in this great and varied nation look like it’s been dipped in a vat of Resigned Indifference®? …

Desperate search for missing teen who vanished from Newport city centre | UK | News

Desperate search for missing teen who vanished from Newport city centre | UK | News

Published by Sam Flores

Police are appealing for the public’s help to find a missing 13-year-old girl. Sara was last seen on Friday, March 13, leaving an address on Lighthouse Road in Newport. She is described as a tanned girl, approximately 4’9 and of a medium build with black hair just below shoulder length tied in a plait, with a nose ring piercing. She was last seen wearing a purple blazer, grey jumper, white shirt with a purple and grey striped tie, and a grey skirt over black tights. Gwent Police have now issued an appeal to ask for the public’s help to find her. She has links to the Newport and Cardiff area. A spokesperson for the force said: “We’re appealing for information to find 13-year-old Sara, from the Newport area who is missing. “She was last sighted on Friday 13 March leaving an address on Lighthouse Road, Newport. Sara has links to the Newport and Cardiff area.” Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to call Gwent Police on 101 or send us a direct message …

Search for Nancy Guthrie Now Seeks Nearby Security Videos From the Month Before She Vanished

Search for Nancy Guthrie Now Seeks Nearby Security Videos From the Month Before She Vanished

Published by Sam Flores

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Investigators in Arizona want residents near Nancy Guthrie ‘s home to share surveillance camera footage of suspicious cars or people they may have noticed in the month before she disappeared. The alert went across a 2-mile (3.2 kilometer) radius in neighborhoods close to where the mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie went missing 12 days ago, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department said Thursday. It asked for video of “anything neighbors deem out of the ordinary or important to our investigation” since the beginning of January. Federal and local officers have been going door-to-door in Tucson neighborhoods around 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie’s house while also looking for clues around her other daughter’s nearby home, which she had visited just hours before disappearing. Investigators have recovered and are analyzing several pieces of evidence, including a pair of gloves, the sheriff’s department said. Authorities on Thursday briefly put up a tent in front of Nancy Guthrie’s entryway where her blood was discovered in the early days of the investigation and where a doorbell camera …

An important ice cap vanished in Greenland about 7,000 years ago

An important ice cap vanished in Greenland about 7,000 years ago

Published by Jenni Sidey

Deep under Greenland’s ice, a thin layer of frozen dirt and rock has been holding a secret for thousands of years. Now, a drilling project co-led by the University at Buffalo has brought that secret to the surface, and it carries a sharp warning. The first study from GreenDrill reports that a high point of Greenland’s ice sheet, the Prudhoe Dome ice cap in the northwest, disappeared completely about 7,000 years ago. Scientists did not expect the melt to be so recent. That timing matters because it happened during the Holocene, an interglacial period that began about 11,000 years ago and continues today. Many people think of the Holocene as steady and calm. It is also when humans began farming and building early societies. Yet the study suggests that even modest natural warmth in that era pushed a key section of the ice sheet beyond a tipping point. Maps of study area. (CREDIT: Nature Geoscience) “This is a time known for climate stability, when humans first began developing farming practices and taking steps toward civilization,” …

B in US EV, clean energy projects vanished in 2025 – here’s what broke

$35B in US EV, clean energy projects vanished in 2025 – here’s what broke

Published by skeptic

The BlueOvalSK Battery Park is no more. Businesses walked away from $5.1 billion in large-scale factories and clean energy projects in December alone – a stark finish to a year in which cancellations finally overtook new investment in the US clean energy sector. By the end of 2025, nearly $35 billion in clean energy investments had been canceled or downsized nationwide, taking more than 38,000 current and future jobs with them, according to new tracking from E2. More money going out than coming in For the first time since 2022, more clean energy investment left US communities than came in. Companies abandoned, closed, or downsized nearly $3 in clean energy projects for every $1 they announced in 2025 – a reversal that suggests capital is growing more cautious about building factories and supply chains in the US. Companies did continue to announce new projects during the year, but the pace slowed as cancellations and downsizing accelerated. EV and battery projects lead the pullback Battery and EV projects drove much of the December pullback, a notable …

‘Vanished’ review: Kaley Cuoco’s France-set thriller lacks spark

‘Vanished’ review: Kaley Cuoco’s France-set thriller lacks spark

Published by Sam Flores

In “Vanished,” premiering Friday on MGM+, Kaley Cuoco plays Alice, an archaeologist, a fact she repeats whenever she’s asked about herself, without particularly seeming like one, apart from passing mentions of Byzantine caves and “one of the earliest examples of Christian worship” to make her sound professional. Sam Claflin plays Tom, who works for a charity organization dealing with Syrian refugees in Jordan; in a flashback we get to see them meet cute on a dusty Jordanian road, where he has a flat tire and no spare. Alice gives him a lift to camp; they banter and flirt after a fashion. He does something heroic within her sight. They have been long-distance dating for four years, meeting up, as Alice describes it, “in hotels all over the world” where they “actually want to have sex with each other all the time.” Currently they are in Paris (in a $500-a-night joint — I looked it up). But Alice, now working in Albania, has been offered a job as an assistant professor of archaeology at Princeton, which …

Star appears to have vanished in a failed supernova

Star appears to have vanished in a failed supernova

Published by skeptic

An illustration of a failed supernova forming a black hole NASA, ESA, and P. Jeffries (STScI) A massive star in a nearby galaxy that reached the end of its life appears to have vanished rather than blown up, forming a black hole in what astronomers think is a rare way. The most common black holes in our galaxy begin as stars. When these stars explode in a supernova, they can leave behind a black hole. But it is thought that black holes can also form from stars that fail to go supernova, instead simply collapsing under their own mass and producing a black hole directly. In 2024, Kishalay De at Columbia University in New York and his colleagues observed an unusually bright star called M31-2014-DS1 in the nearby galaxy Andromeda that was around 20 times as massive as our sun. The star appeared to grow briefly brighter in 2014, before becoming dramatically dimmer between 2017 and 2020. De and his colleagues thought this pattern of brightening and then fading matched predictions for a failed supernova …

Labour disaster as devastating poll shows nearly half of its support has vanished | Politics | News

Labour disaster as devastating poll shows nearly half of its support has vanished | Politics | News

Published by Sam Flores

A damning new poll has shown that nearly half of Labour’s support has vanished since the 2024 election amid a series of catastrophic blunders. Plunging approval ratings for both the Prime Minister and his party have reached new depths in recent months as a series of flagship policies have been reversed. The current -59 score is the worst the current Government has ever recorded – and they could sink even lower, as the latest snapshot was taken before the latest pubs tax debacle. Now pollster More in Common has shared a devastating new graph showing that while Labour is holding 54% of its 2024 voters, it is losing much of the rest hand over fist. Even more worryingly, it is losing backing to both parties on the Left and Right, with 11% of 2024 Labour voters saying they will vote for Nigel Farage’s Reform and 8% saying they now support the Liberal Democrats. It has also lost 8% of voters to the Greens, but 11% who say they don’t know who they’ll support are believed …

The century-long hunt for the gigantic meteorite that vanished

The century-long hunt for the gigantic meteorite that vanished

Published by skeptic

It all started with an overheard conversation between some camel herders. The year was 1916, and Gaston Ripert, a French army captain, had been injured and sent to recover in the small town of Chinguetti in Mauritania. It was a lonely, dusty place on the edge of the Sahara. So when Ripert heard local people talk of a colossal block of iron out in the undulating expanse of dunes, he was intrigued. They referred to it as the “iron of God”. He persuaded one man to guide him to this fabled iron and what followed has passed into legend. After an arduous overnight camel ride, Ripert arrived at what appeared to be an enormous metal edifice – some 100 metres wide in his estimation – partly buried in the dunes, its side polished by the sand to a mirror finish. Ripert brought back a piece of rock from the site, and when it was analysed after the war, it was found to be genuine meteorite. That caused a sensation and prompted meteoriticists the world over …