W 1918 roku dokonano niezwykłego odkrycia głęboko w kopalniach węgla w Wilkes-Barre w Pensylwanii, gdy górnicy natknęli się na skamieniały pień drzewa osadzony w warstwie węgla.
Niezwykłością tego znaleziska jest to, że pień drzewa został odcięty.
Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych wore a helmet with images of people killed in the war in his home country during a Winter Olympics training session in Cortina.
Heraskevych had promised before the Games to use the event as a platform to keep attention on the conflict.
"Some of them were my friends," said Heraskevych, who was Ukraine's flagbearer in the opening ceremony.
He told Reuters that many of those pictured on his helmet were athletes including teenage weightlifter Alina Peregudova, boxer Pavlo Ishchenko and ice hockey player Oleksiy Loginov.
The 26-year-old said the International Olympic Committee (IOC) had contacted Ukraine's Olympic Committee over the helmet.
W kwestii Ukrainy miałem rozmowę z Prezydentem @realDonaldTrump w cztery oczy, gdzie powiedział mi, jaki jest – w krótkich bardzo słowach – jego plan działania. Powiedział, że musi prowadzić negocjacje. I tutaj nie ma innego wyjścia, bo to jest jedyna droga do tego, żeby wojna się zakończyła - Prezydent @AndrzejDuda w #Waszyngton.
1/ Looks like @lexfridman has taken a shot at creating a Russian version of his own show on YouTube meant to influence a potential audience in Russia (or Ukraine?). From the looks of it, he’s been quietly investing a lot of time into building this up.
He has been translating his interviews with pro-RU American into Russian (alongside other interviews with influential people), and clipped countless segments:
https://t.co/YfnjSkyxEN
This Russian YouTube channel was promoted on his Telegram account on Jan 2, 2025:
https://t.co/VypTwyEHvm
The curation of the clips he has chosen to translate for a Russian speaking audience are probably most telling. Unclear if he’s doing this himself or has a team working for him on this.
It includes clips such as @TulsiGabbard talking about her support for Assad, calling Ukraine a proxy war, and explaining why she is called pro-Putin.
It includes many, many clips of @TuckerCarlson speaking of the war and praising Orban. You can imagine what he says.
It includes Valdai Club participant John Mearsheimer sharing his positions on Ukraine and NATO.
It includes @jordanbpeterson talking about his love of Russian literature.
And finally, it includes @elonmusk (aka Kekius Maximus) talking about how Zelensky should end the war and that we should sympathize with Russian soldiers.
The first Russian dubbed clip on this channel was posted in Sept of 2024, so this is a recent endeavour Lex decided to embark upon. What triggered him to do this? Could it have been the decision to interview Putin after Tucker?
Overall, the channel has a lot of Kremlin propaganda narratives promoted by American figures which gives a Russian audience the feeling that they are “correct” in what they believe (with Kremlin narratives get echoed from both inside and outside the country).
This is a tactic often used by Russian state media, when we see them echo Tucker Carlson internally.
Note that he does have one clip I saw where he mentions he thinks Zelensky is a hero for staying in Kyiv from his interview with Tucker.
The channel also has content from interviews unrelated to the UA/RU conflict. Making a guesstimate, it seems like it’s a 70-30 split or something (20%-30% RU/UA focused). But obviously those are what are getting spread the most (see the “most popular” videos attached).