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Palestine has the right to exist because every community deserves self-determination and the ability to govern itself with sovereignty. Rooted in centuries of history, the land that is now recognized as Palestine has been home to countless generations of Palestinians, each contributing to its rich cultural and historical tapestry. International law, including United Nations resolutions, acknowledges the rights of all peoples to self-determination, peace, and security. The principle of two states for two peoples, supported by many nations around the world, underpins the vision of a peaceful coexistence with Israel. Ensuring the rights and freedoms of Palestinians is not just a matter of legal obligation but also a step towards lasting peace and stability in the region. #PalestineLivesMatter #RightToSelfDetermination #PalestineGenocide

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Palestine has the right to exist because every community deserves self-determination and the ability to govern itself with sovereignty. Rooted in centuries of history, the land that is now recognized as Palestine has been home to countless generations of Palestinians, each contributing to its rich cultural and historical tapestry. International law, including United Nations resolutions, acknowledges the rights of all peoples to self-determination, peace, and security. The principle of two states for two peoples, supported by many nations around the world, underpins the vision of a peaceful coexistence with Israel. Ensuring the rights and freedoms of Palestinians is not just a matter of legal obligation but also a step towards lasting peace and stability in the region. #PalestineLivesMatter #RightToSelfDetermination #PalestineGenocide

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Palestine has the right to exist because every community deserves self-determination and the ability to govern itself with sovereignty. Rooted in centuries of history, the land that is now recognized as Palestine has been home to countless generations of Palestinians, each contributing to its rich cultural and historical tapestry. International law, including United Nations resolutions, acknowledges the rights of all peoples to self-determination, peace, and security. The principle of two states for two peoples, supported by many nations around the world, underpins the vision of a peaceful coexistence with Israel. Ensuring the rights and freedoms of Palestinians is not just a matter of legal obligation but also a step towards lasting peace and stability in the region. #PalestineLivesMatter #RightToSelfDetermination #PalestineGenocide

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I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

-- Maria Skłodowska Curie

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She made groundbreaking discoveries in radioactivity, and her insight reflects her experiences in overcoming numerous challenges in her scientific career. Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and remains the only person to have won Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields (Physics and Chemistry). Her life and work exemplify the idea that progress in science (and in general) often requires persistence and resilience in the face of obstacles.

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She made groundbreaking discoveries in radioactivity, and her insight reflects her experiences in overcoming numerous challenges in her scientific career. Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and remains the only person to have won Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields (Physics and Chemistry). Her life and work exemplify the idea that progress in science (and in general) often requires persistence and resilience in the face of obstacles.

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There are more possible iterations of a game of #chess than there are atoms in the known universe.

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Pictured below is Abraham Lincoln and his son, Thomas, in 1860.

Most people know the story of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, his efforts to end slavery and his fierce leadership during the Civil War, but not many people know much about his son, Thomas.

Thomas, who was the youngest of Lincoln's children, was born on April 4, 1853, and was named after President Lincoln's father. It is said that, at his birth, his father looked at him and thought he resembled a tadpole, which gained him the lifelong nickname of "Tad." Tad is said to have been a rambunctious and spontaneous child who was one of his father's favorite children. Tad also had some type of speech impediment, which some people now think to have been a cleft palate of some sort. Many people who were around him wrote that he had his own way of speaking and developed his own names for people.

When his father became President, Tad is said to have been his father's biggest supporter and, at times, a bit of a distraction. Certain officials wrote of Tad spontaneously bursting into the room while important business was going on and throwing himself upon his father for a hug, which President Lincoln was said to have gladly welcomed.

After his father was shot in 1865, he became a source of great strength and encouragement for his mother. However, in 1871, at the age of 18, Tad died of an illness (possibly tuberculosis or pneumonia) which absolutely devastated his mother, who had already experienced much loss in her lifetime.

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Born with a speech impediment, Tad was a source of joy and occasional mischief in the White House, often humanizing the weighty atmosphere with his youthful exuberance. His untimely death at 18, just six years after his father’s assassination, added to the series of tragic losses endured by Mary Todd Lincoln. Tad’s short life remains a poignant chapter in the personal history of one of America’s most storied families.

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Born with a speech impediment, Tad was a source of joy and occasional mischief in the White House, often humanizing the weighty atmosphere with his youthful exuberance. His untimely death at 18, just six years after his father’s assassination, added to the series of tragic losses endured by Mary Todd Lincoln. Tad’s short life remains a poignant chapter in the personal history of one of America’s most storied families.

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The father of fiber optics: Dr. Narendra Singh Kapany ✍️

Doctor Narendra Singh Kapany was an Indian-American physicist who is widely regarded as the father of fiber optics. He was born in 1926 in Punjab, India, and received his Ph.D. in optics from the University of London in 1955. He was the first to demonstrate the transmission of high-quality images through a bundle of optical fibers, which revolutionized the fields of communications, medicine, and engineering.

He coined the term ‘fiber optics’ in 1960 and wrote the first book on the subject. He also founded several companies in Silicon Valley and held over 120 patents. He was a professor at UC Santa Cruz and a philanthropist who supported Sikh culture and studies. He received many awards and honors, including the Padma Vibhushan, India’s second highest civilian award, in 2021. He died on December 4, 2020, at the age of 94.

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His groundbreaking work in transmitting images through optical fibers laid the foundation for modern high-speed internet and flexible endoscopes. Coined as the “father of fiber optics,” Kapany’s innovations earned him over 120 patents and he authored the first book on the subject. His legacy extends into philanthropy and academia, influencing generations of engineers and scientists.

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His groundbreaking work in transmitting images through optical fibers laid the foundation for modern high-speed internet and flexible endoscopes. Coined as the “father of fiber optics,” Kapany’s innovations earned him over 120 patents and he authored the first book on the subject. His legacy extends into philanthropy and academia, influencing generations of engineers and scientists.

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Black Death, biggest pandemic of our history, was caused by bacterium Yersinia pestis and lasted in Europe between 1346-1353 AD. Despite, pandemic’s immense demographic and societal impacts, its origins have long been elusive. Now, a multidisciplinary team of scientists, including researchers from Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, University of Tübingen, in Germany, and University of Stirling, in United Kingdom, have obtained and studied ancient Y. pestis genomes that trace pandemic’s origins to Central Asia.

In 1347, plague first entered the Mediterranean via trade ships transporting goods from territories of Golden Horde in the Black Sea. Disease then disseminated across Europe, Middle East and northern Africa claiming up to 60% of the population in a large-scale outbreak known as Black Death. This first wave further extended into a 500 year-long pandemic, so-called Second Plague Pandemic, which lasted until early 19th Century AD.

Origins of the Second Plague Pandemic have long been debated. One of most popular theories has supported its source in East Asia, specifically in China. To contrary, only so-far available archaeological findings come from Central Asia, close to Lake Issyk Kul, in what is now Kyrgyzstan. These findings show that an epidemic devastated a local trading community in 1338-1339 AD. Specifically, excavations that took place almost 140 years ago revealed tombstones indicating that individuals died in those years of an unknown epidemic or “pestilence”. Since their first discovery, tombstones inscribed in Syriac language, have been a cornerstone of controversy among scholars regarding their relevance to Black Death of Europe.

In this study, an international team of researchers analysed ancient DNA from human remains as well as historical and archaeological data from two sites that were found to contain “pestilence” inscriptions. Team’s first results were very encouraging, as DNA from plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, was identified in individuals with the year 1338 inscribed on their tombstones. “We could finally show that epidemic mentioned on tombstones was indeed caused by plague”, says Phil Slavin, one of senior authors of study and historian at University of Stirling, UK.

Researchers have previously associated Black Death’s initiation with a massive diversification of plague strains, a so-called Big Bang event of plague diversity. But exact date of this event could not be precisely estimated, and was thought to have happened between 10th-14th Centuries AD. The team now pieced together complete ancient plague genomes from the sites in Kyrgyzstan and investigated how they might relate with this Big Bang event. “We found that the ancient strains from Kyrgyzstan are positioned exactly at the node of this massive diversification event. In other words, we found Black Death’s source strain and we even know its exact date [meaning the year 1338]”, says Maria Spyrou, lead author and researcher at the University of Tübingen.

Plague is not a disease of humans; the bacterium survives within wild rodent populations across the world, in so-called plague reservoirs. Hence, the ancient Central Asian strain that caused the 1338-1339 AD, epidemic around Lake Issyk Kul must have come from one such reservoir. “We found that modern strains most closely related to the ancient strain are today found in plague reservoirs around the Tian Shan mountains, so very close to where the ancient strain was found. This points to an origin of Black Death’s ancestor in Central Asia”, explains Johannes Krause, senior author of the study and director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

The study demonstrates how investigations of well-defined archaeological contexts, and close collaborations among historians, archaeologists and geneticists can resolve big mysteries of our past, such as the infamous Black Death’s origins, with unprecedented precision.

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