Science must be accessible to everyone, everywhere.
This #WorldScienceDay, Prof. Rajaâ Cherkaoui El Moursli, a nuclear physicist and jury member of the @UNESCO-Equatorial Guinea International Prize reminds us: recognising scientific excellence wherever it emerges is key to building a more inclusive scientific community.
Learn more: https://t.co/CMIVV288Lm
#ScienceForAll #ForThePeople
To the fine folk at the Harrogate Crime Festival today, I'm sorry I can't be with you, but I have left some money behind the bar for you all to enjoy a drink on me. Just use the password 'BRASS MONKEY' in honour of Steve's favourite pub in the 'We Solve Murders' books. Have fun! @HarrogateFest
10/13/2023-
WE DID IT!
The Kofi Kingston Library and Digital Center is officially open, up and running! And we couldn’t have done it without all of you! It was such a special day filled with excitement, enthusiasm, optimism, and hope.
HUGE thanks to everyone who donated to the @gofundme! Your generous contributions helped make this vision a reality and we are ever grateful for your willingness to give!
Thank you to all the board members of the CLICK for Quality Education Foundation: Elizabeth Afua Sarkodie-Mensah, Leslie Esi Mensah Osabutey, Catherine Woodworth Wong, and Joanna Hadjicostandi-Anang. They, along with several others, all dedicated their time and effort over the years to make this possible.
We have all come together to make a real difference in the lives of Ghanaian children!
And now, into the future we go!
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🎵- Into The Future @stonebwoy
📹- in part by Kwame Agyenim-Boateng aka Nana Kokooto & OTEC 102.9 FM
The Hubble telescope looked out into what we thought was an empty patch of space and showed us how little we know about the universe, revealing tens of thousands of previously unknown galaxies.
Astronomers on Earth had long gazed into the skies, but their view was obscured as light from the universe was disrupted by our planet's atmosphere.
The Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit in 1990 to overcome the problem and offer a clear view of the stars.
But not everything went to plan.
🎧 Hear how the dream was almost lost in a distant blur, or search for 13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble wherever you get your podcasts: https://t.co/vt17Kk95AS
Anthropic's S-1 filing offers a glimpse at how the start-up hopes to balance AI discovery and emerging threats: “Moving quickly brings AI’s benefits sooner, but moving too quickly could outrun the world’s ability to make AI systems safe.”
https://t.co/I0N6nizl2b
Natural kratom and dangerous, enhanced opioid products are NOT the same.
HHS is following the science and drawing a clear line between the two.
HHS' new recommendation gives @DEAHQ precise, science-based thresholds to target concentrated 7-OH and MGPI products without sweeping natural botanical kratom into Schedule I.
https://t.co/Zxk9XxsNpl
https://t.co/Zxk9XxsNpl
THE TATA FEUD: WHO REALLY OWNS BOMBAY HOUSE?
First, some transparent disclosures: I have an emotional connection with the Tata name. I share my birthday with the iconic founder Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata. The Jubilee Park lit up for me too on 3rd March every year. Second, I studied at XLRI, Jamshedpur, which is better known as Tatanagar actually. Third, at the campus the hottest ticket job was not Citibank, Grindlays Bank, Hindustan Lever ( Unilever) or Richardson Hindustan ( P&G). It was TAS, short for Tata Administrative Services. My father wanted me to only work there till retirement because of their “work culture”. I think the real reason was that he had heard that people who worked with the Tata Group did so till they were 60 years, and got good superannuation benefits. His son would not be sacked even if he was an under-performer. I am assuming that explained his irrational exuberance at the prospect of me being employed in the group. Anyway, on to less prosaic matters.
First, does 66% ownership mean anything? To me, that is the fundamental question. Everything else either follows from it, or is totally immaterial on the extreme side of the fence. Listing is not synonymous with good governance. That is utter bullshit.
Second, what exactly has changed since Ratan Tata? Is the current Tata Sons Board openly decoupling from the assurances they gave to Ratan Tata on listing, who was instrumental in their appointment to Tata Sons in the first place?
Third, the USD 300 billion question: If the owners of 66% of Tata Sons don’t want to sell their house, why is everyone else so determined to put up the “For Sale” sign?
Do read the whole piece and let me know your opinion. Thanks.
The Substack link is given above.
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