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So what does Shakira’s nomination change? Potentially a lot, because she is one of the most globally recognizable Latin superstars of the past 25 years, and her catalog is built for a Rock Hall argument. Her crossover was never a simple language switch. She carried rock instincts into pop structures, then folded in Colombian and Caribbean rhythms, global dance sounds, and stadium sized hooks. The Hall’s eligibility rule is 25 years after an artist’s first commercial release, and Shakira has long cleared that bar.

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A new light-based sensor can spot incredibly tiny amounts of cancer biomarkers in blood, raising the possibility of earlier and simpler cancer detection.

I know it’s February already and many of use have long-abandoned our resolutions, but researchers have identified steps to not only help you keep them going for longer, but also build more meaning into your day-to-day life. The TL;DR:

From Somalis in Minneapolis to Nepalis in New York City, immigrant communities turn to trusted local news sources. Here’s our regular ranking of the top 25 nonprofit news sites in the United States.

“We were able to show through our hair samples what the lead concentrations are before and after the establishment of regulations by the EPA,” said demographer #link("https://profiles.faculty.utah.edu/u0030780")[Ken Smith];, a distinguished professor emeritus of family and consumer studies. “We have hair samples spanning about 100 years. And back when the regulations were absent, the lead levels were about 100 times higher than they are after the regulations.”

Editorialized title, because it makes no sense to focus on his three year celibacy. Also a four month old article, but I figured it was still good to see.

The move came as dozens of immigrants arrested in Minneapolis were shipped to the Torrance County Detention Facility, which is run by private prison operator CoreCivic, in New Mexico. One of them, 33-year-old Jorge Cordoba, told Source NM he lived in Minneapolis for more than 20 years and was in the country legally under protected Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival status.

Currently, only lobbyists working more than 28 hours a month are required to publically register with the commissioner of the Commissioner of Lobbying.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/56777651

Can Republicans win now without rampant voter suppression and gerrymandering?

First Califonia major city to implement speed cameras.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/41032636

No longer do South Africans depend entirely on giant coal-burning plants that have defined how people worldwide got their electricity for more than a century. That’s forcing the nation’s already beleaguered electric utility to rethink its business as revenues evaporate.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/32148836

Virtually no public access currently exists by land to the landscapes on this part of the coast, except for a federal wildlife refuge, although two major projects are planned here: a 2,300-acre Powderhorn Ranch State Park and a 6,400-acre Green Lake Park.

Flat-headed cats (Prionailurus planiceps), named after their flattened foreheads, live in fragmented pockets across Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia, but they were feared extinct in Thailand.

American student Cassidy Feeney will spend Christmas with the family of the Perth father she helped save.

“There’s plenty of room to do Gunforged better than I did,” says its creator.

TL;DR - Ewingella americana is a git microbe which when injected in mouse veins preferentially accumulates around oxygen starved environment, that is a rapidly divided tumor. it also brings immune response around tumor, so your immune system learns to fight it. Still in Mouse phase. but toxicologically safe so could be done in human soon. almost no major side effects (just inflamation)

When Olympian Tess Howard put on her new uniform for Great Britain’s women’s field hockey team in 2021, she felt something she hadn’t expected at the height of her athletic career: embarrassment.

My big three wins of these from a personal perspective would be:

We find that nearly one fifth of urban and suburban US car owners express a definite interest in living car-free (18 %), and an additional 40 % are open to the idea. This is in addition to the small share (10 %) of urban and suburban US residents currently living without a car.

At the start of each year, on January 1st, a new crop of works enter the public domain and become free to enjoy, share, and reuse for any purpose. Due to differing copyright laws around the world, there is no one single public domain — and here we focus on three of the most prominent. Newly entering the public domain in 2026 will be:

It’s rare for Italian lawmakers from across the political spectrum to agree on anything. But on Tuesday, the lower house of Parliament unanimously ratified a law introducing the crime of femicide into Italy’s criminal code, punishable by life in prison.

Dog should be named Palpatine because he somehow returned.

Clean energy, largely wind and solar, have grown significantly over the last decade, due largely to policies by a range of countries, including China, Germany and the U.S.

The financier’s ties to President Donald Trump have led to mounting suspicion, including from fellow Republicans like Reps. Thomas Massie (Ky.) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.), who have said they plan to join Democrats in voting for the files’ release.

Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/38615567