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Overnight News Digest: Friday Elsewhere [1]
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Date: 2025-01-03
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to) Interceptor 7, Man Oh Man (RIP), wader, Neon Vincent, palantir, Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse (RIP), ek hornbeck (RIP), rfall, ScottyUrb, Doctor RJ, BentLiberal, Oke (RIP) and jlms qkw. OND is a regular community feature on Daily Kos, consisting of news stories from around the world, sometimes coupled with a daily theme, original research or commentary. Editors of OND impart their own presentation styles and content choices, typically publishing each day near 12:00 AM Eastern Time. Please feel free to share your articles and stories in the comments.
Photos of the week and today from The Guardian, as well as their week in wildlife pics as well. Pictures of the week also come from the BBC.
Cheerier news above the fold, with the more serious stories below it.
It is seldom I get to start a diary with an archaeology story, but The Guardian supplies one this evening:
‘The hair stands up’: citizen archaeologists unearth ancient treasures in Scotland Members of the public are helping to sustain digs across the country, even as volunteering declines Libby Brooks They were moving forward in a line across the 10 sq metre trench, volunteer excavators elbow to elbow with academics, and Joe Fitzpatrick was at the far edge. He was digging around the hearth of a building, about 60cm (2ft) below surface level, when he hit the earth twice with his mattock and out it popped – a rare bronze spear butt, a metal fitting placed over the end of a wooden shaft to counterbalance the spear head. Covered in Pictish inscriptions, it had remained buried for more than one and a half millennia, and was one of the most groundbreaking archaeological discoveries of 2024 in Scotland.
Another from The Guardian:
Cambridge study aims to find out if dogs and their owners are on same wavelength Scientists to examine if humans’ and dogs’ brains synchronise when they interact in a way similar to parents and babies Nicola Davis Standing patiently on a small fluffy rug, Calisto the flat-coated retriever is being fitted with some hi-tech headwear. But this is not a new craze in canine fashion: she is about to have her brainwaves recorded. Calisto is one of about 40 pet dogs – from newfoundlands to Tibetan terriers – taking part in a study to explore whether their brainwaves synchronise with those of their owners when the pair interact, a phenomenon previously seen when two humans engage with each other.
One last one from The Guardian:
Back from the dead: the ‘zombie’ ponds repumping nature into Essex farmland A conservation project is helping identify and restore wildlife-rich sites previously degraded and dried up Patrick Barkham When Joe Gray coppiced a patch of woodland on his Essex farm, he noticed that an abandoned pond sprang back into life after it was exposed to sunlight. “It was a hole in the woods with some leaves in it – we didn’t think of it as a pond,” he says. Since then, he and his wife, Emma, have restored 11 “zombie” ponds on their 450-hectare (1,100-acre) regenerative farm. They’ve also persuaded a group of neighbouring farmers to bring back to life 80 ponds within a 3-mile (5km) radius near Braintree.
Other than a miscounting of years in the second paragraph (typos drive me crazy!), this is a cheery story from Deutsche Welle (DW):
Jules Verne: The writer who inspired space exploration Timothy Jones18 hours ago French author Jules Verne gave us some astoundingly accurate predictions of future technological advances. His stories inspired many scientists and inventors to make his visions a reality. When French author Jules Verne died in 1905, powered air flight, which he put at the center of his 1886 book "Robur the Conqueror," had moved from fiction to reality. Just two years earlier, the Wright brothers had achieved the first manned air flight in human history. Yet more of Verne's predictions of world-changing technologies were still far from being realized when he died. Being able to orbit the moon on a spaceship, as he depicted in his 1865 novel "From the Earth to the Moon," seemed like a distant fantasy. But it came true just 60 years later with NASA's Apollo 8 mission in 1968.
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