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For all the detailed evidence laid out in the 38-count indictment accusing former President Donald J. Trump of holding onto hundreds of classified documents and then obstructing the government's efforts to retrieve them, one mystery remains: Why did he take them and fight so hard to keep them?Mr. Trump's motive for having thousands of presidential records including more than 300 classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, his combination residence and members-only club in Palm Beach, Fla., was not addressed directly in the 49-page indictment filed on Thursday in Miami.

Colombia's invasive hippo population is even larger than researchers had thought, according to the most thorough census of the animals conducted yet.Scientists were already concerned about the hippos considered the largest invasive animal in the world threatening native plants and animals in the country, and had been calling for drastic measures to reduce the population.

Analysis A federal judge rejected the Internet Archive's claim that it has a fair use right to lend out a digital copy of each printed book that it has purchased, raising the possibility of it facing huge damages for copyright infringement.A week ago, Judge John Koeltl from the Southern District of New York heard oral arguments in Hachette v. Internet Archive, a lawsuit filed by four large publishers (Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, John Wiley & Sons and Penguin Random House) that challenged the Internet Archive's Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) initiative.

by Lucia Longhi // Nov. 25, 2022
This article is part of our feature topic 'ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.'While critics wrack their brains trying to place artificial intelligence creativity into one of the existing artistic categories, artists continue to experiment with it, marshaling its technical properties in the most disparate realms.

Pharmaceuticals, pesticides, illegal drugs and E.coli are among a cocktail of chemicals found in water off the south coast, a study has found.And now the substances are even being found in oysters and crabs in the area.Scientists have been investigating the water quality between Chichester and Langstone harbours near Portsmouth and have found more than 50 compounds in 228 samples across 22 sites.

You know the current idiocy of trying to ban disliked ideas has reached its peak when the Bible itself, also called the Good Book, has been banned from elementary and middle schools in Utah's Salt Lake City school district for vulgarity and violence, a way of avoiding saying "sex" ("Utah district bans Bible from schools after citing vulgarity, violence," June 4).

A van Gogh landscape to die for.A sacred scene by Botticelli that puts a lump in your throat.One of Jasper Johns's stunningly subtle map paintings.Those were just a few of the treasures on view last week when Christie's auction house broke records by selling more than $1.5 billion in art from the estate of Paul G. Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft who died in 2018.

I began reading Scientific American at a single-digit age.My first mind-blowing article was Allan R. Sandage's The Red-Shift in 1956.SciAm has gone through ups and downs, but in my view, in the past few years it has been better than ever.Bravo to all of you!CHRISTOPHER CLARK Houston, Tex.SOLAR STORMS VS.

The sight is one that beekeepers say is understandably intimidating to the ordinary person out for a walk: a sliver of sky suddenly darkening amid the collective roar of thousands of honeybees before they cluster on branches or bushes.In Britain, the behavior, known as swarming, typically takes place from May to July and is a natural process in which a honeybee colony splits in half and leaves with a queen bee in search of a new home.

The Simi Hills is now home to three healthy female mountain lion kittens.Their names are P-113, P-114 and P-115.The mountain lion dubbed P-77 gave birth to the trio that was found last week nestled in a dense patch of poison oak in the hills between the Santa Susana and Santa Monica mountains, according to the National Park Service.

Since capturing P-22 earlier this week, wildlife officials struggled with the best path for the celebrity mountain lion who spent more than a decade roaming Griffith Park and the hillsides of Los Angeles.State officials ultimately decided to euthanize P-22 at 9 a.m.Saturday morning due to serious health issues.

Down the stone steps in a tucked-away corner of Westminster Hall, the Conservative backbencher Miriam Cates can occasionally be found on a weekday lunchtime playing piano at a chapel service for Christian MPs.But this week, she has been preaching to the converted, delivering a keynote address at the National Conservatism conference.

Today, the Internet Archive (IA) defended its practice of digitizing books and lending those e-books for free to users of its Open Library.In 2020, four of the wealthiest book publishers sued IA, alleging this kind of digital lending was actually "willful digital piracy" causing them "massive harm."

A wail of outrage from a spurned Queen who found the doors barred to her husband's coronation 200 years ago has resurfaced in an archive, just in time for the weekend ceremonies to enthrone Charles III.It may rain on King Charles's parade, as it did on his mother's, or a horse could cast a shoe, a guardsman might faint or a trumpeter hit a wrong note-but whatever minor disasters arise, at least he will not have to deal with a distraught wife hammering on the locked door of Westminster Abbey, pleading in vain for admission, as Caroline of Brunswick did in 1821 to the coronation of her estranged husband George IV.

A German stock photographer who asked to get his images removed from a dataset used to train AI image generators was not only met with a refusal from the dataset owner but also an invoice for $979 for filing an unjustified copyright claim.The photographer, Robert Kneschke, found out in February that his photographs were being used to train AI through a site called Have I Been Trained?

The tension between the opportunities presented by new technology and the need for artists to be able to control the use of their own works and derive revenue from them is all too familiar.Inevitably, cases and/or legislation will draw an artificial line between what is fair and what is not.The last few months have seen a number of court cases filed around the use of artwork images by tech companies in order to "train" their artificial intelligence (AI) tools.

Last week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman published a blog post about how he says the company will use superhuman artificial general intelligence (AGI), the point at which AI systems are able to compete with and even exceed human intellect, to "benefit all of humanity."The company has gotten copious amounts of attention lately with its AI chatbot ChatGPT, a versatile tool that has seen an exponential rise in popularity since its release just a few months ago.

Architecture practice Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has created a series of crescent-shaped  student housing blocks with a CLT structure for King's College at the  University of Cambridge.Called Stephen Taylor Court, the blocks contain 84 homes for King's College's graduate students and fellows that were designed to Passivhaus standards and to have as low a carbon impact as possible.

Dezeen Showroom: Swedish furniture brand  Blå Station has relaunched Sting, a stackable chair that was originally created by designers Stefan Borselius and Fredrik Mattson in 2003.For its reproduction, Blå Station kept Sting's original graphic shape but made the chair from recycled materials.

Generation over generation, catch after catch, fishing changes fish evolution.This phenomenon, called fisheries-induced evolution, is well documented, though it impacts the myriad species of fish differently.For the North Sea cod, it has meant that early bloomers thrive, while fish that are slower to mature get taken out of the gene pool.

Health Men who regularly lifted or moved heavy objects at work had 44 percent higher sperm counts than those who did not, researchers found.Those men installing microwave ovens and moving refrigerators and color TVs that Dire Straits sang about may not have gotten their "money for nothing" like those guys who play the guitar on the MTV.

"The listings of possibilities are so long, and so interwoven, that it is quite unclear how many compounds actually fall within the described genera and subgenera."- CAFC
In a precedential decision published Monday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) affirmed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's (PTAB) decision to invalidate a pharmaceutical patent owned by the University of Minnesota.

Imagine for a moment: Two college students are canoodling in their dorm room.Their sweaty bodies are smashed up against each other in a cursed XL twin bed, as one slowly inches a hand into his partner's underwear.He begins feeling around-tepid and unsure, but polite-as he waits to find the secret spot, the pleasure button...where he knows how to give her what she likes.

Over the past year I have read and reread Angelica Nuzzo's book Approaching Hegel's Logic, Obliquely , in which Nuzzo guides the reader through Hegel's Science of Logic.Nuzzo presents the question of how we are to think about history as it unfolds amid chaos and relentless crises.How, in other words, are we to find a means to think outside the incessant whirr of our times?

Canadian singer Justin Bieber arrives for YouTube Originals' "Justin Bieber: Seasons" premiere at the Regency Bruin Theatre in Los Angeles, January 27, 2020.Lisa O'Connor, AFP Pop juggernaut Justin Bieber has sold his music publishing and recording catalog shares to the Blackstone-backed Hipgnosis Songs Capital for $200 million, the company said Tuesday -- marking the industry's latest blockbuster rights deal.

North Atlantic right whales are facing "an extinction-level emergency," said one campaigner.A boat's passengers watch an Atlantic right whale in the Bay of Fundy, in New Brunswick, Canada.Francois Gohier / VW Pics / Universal Images Group / Getty Images The Biden administration on Friday denied an emergency petition aimed at protecting critically endangered North Atlantic right whales from being struck and killed by ships in their calving grounds off the southeastern coast of the United States.

NFTs have been everywhere this year, with the controversial digital art in production by everyone from big brands and video game companies to artists and popstars.Whatever you think of the art form, it can be worth serious money - and it comes in many different styles.But it's fair to say that some styles are more out there than others, and there have been some properly strange pieces.

(Image credit: Frida Kahlo Museum / Visoot Uthairam via Getty Images / Future)
NFTs have been controversial for several reasons, and cases of people burning paintings to try to increase their worth as NFTs isn't helping.There have been several headline-grabbing examples, including that of Martin Mobarak.

As sure as the sun sets each day, every woman who enters her fifth decade will experience menopause, if she hasn't hit it already.For this new life stage, the ovaries run out of eggs and no longer need to produce the hormones that prepare our bodies for making babies.But the effects reach far beyond reproduction.

As a sociologist of reproduction who has spent the last two decades exploring the fertility journeys of people struggling to conceive, I know just how much infertility can wreak havoc on a person's life.This week, a new study published by Fertility Network UK, has highlighted the many ways in which the condition and its associated treatment can have a detrimental impact on not only a patient's mental health and their relationships, but also their work life.

Choosing a partner with whom to have children can be a game of genetic roulette, and Sobia Qureshi and her spouse Zahid Bashir didn't fare well.They both have a very rare mutation that causes a fatal disease in infants if both parents have it.Their first two daughters, Zara and Sara, died from this disease.