Toyota claims battery breakthrough in potential boost for electric cars (www.theguardian.com)
Japanese firm believes it could make a solid-state battery with a range of 745 miles that charges in 10 minutes
Astronomers observe time dilation in early universe: Events appear to unfold five times slower when universe was a tenth of its present age, in effect predicted by Einstein (www.theguardian.com)
Industrial Revolution iron method ‘was taken from Jamaica by Briton’ (www.theguardian.com)
This is unsurprising, because African iron working is a good thousand years older than what we call ‘the iron age.’ That African expertise in iron working was what helped kick off the Industrial Revolution is just another tragedy of slavery.
Toyota claims battery breakthrough in potential boost for electric cars (www.theguardian.com)
Japanese firm believes it could make a solid-state battery with a range of 745 miles that charges in 10 minutes
Eighty Afghan civilians may have been summarily killed by SAS, inquiry told (www.theguardian.com)
Unilever named ‘international sponsor of war’ by Ukraine (www.theguardian.com)
Here’s a list of their products in case anyone wants to stop buying them. Looks like I’m buying generic q-tips from now on....
French rail operator SNCF fined after train killed cat hiding on tracks (www.theguardian.com)
Passengers Georgia and her 15-year-old daughter Melaina said their pet escaped from its travel bag and disappeared under a high-speed train as it prepared to leave Paris for Bordeaux, in south-western France, with 800 passengers onboard....
Vietnam bans Barbie film over disputed map of China’s South China Sea claims (www.theguardian.com)
Scene shows map of China’s controversial ‘nine-dash line’ – repudiated in international ruling
‘It was an accident’: the scientists who have turned humid air into renewable power (www.theguardian.com)
Nikola Tesla speculated electricity from thin air was possible – now the question is whether it will be possible to harness it on the scale needed to power our homes....
El Salvador’s crime crackdown: a short-term, high cost fix (www.theguardian.com)
President Nayib Bukele’s hardline campaign against gangs has won admirers at home and abroad. Look closer and its flaws are glaring.
The scientists who have turned humid air into renewable power (www.theguardian.com)
‘Boil in the bag’ environmentally friendly funerals arrive in the UK (www.theguardian.com)
Putin claim that Russia funds Wagner group may make it easier to try him for war crimes (www.theguardian.com)
It'll probably never happen, but a person can dream
‘It was an accident’: the scientists who have turned humid air into renewable power (www.theguardian.com)
The king of dark money effectively controls the US supreme court now | Joel Warner (www.theguardian.com)
From its recent rulings to its billionaire donor scandals, this supreme court term has been defined by judicial activist Leonard Leo
Joe Biden lays out new student debt relief plan after supreme court ruling (www.theguardian.com)
President says ‘the court misinterpreted the constitution’ as he announces intention to use another law for debt forgiveness
France protests: nearly 1,000 arrested as riots surge in Marseille and Lyon (www.theguardian.com)
Judges ban Bolsonaro from running for office for eight years over ‘appalling lies’ (www.theguardian.com)
Supreme court leaves intact Mississippi law disenfranchising Black voters (www.theguardian.com)
Super-rich warned of ‘pitchforks and torches’ unless they tackle inequality (www.theguardian.com)
Super-rich warned of ‘pitchforks and torches’ unless they tackle inequality (www.theguardian.com)
Where to start with: Iain Banks | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
Finland coalition in chaos as far-right minister quits over ‘climate abortion’ remark (www.theguardian.com)
The good people of Finland decided to elect the most right wing government in the history of the country just a couple of months ago. The government is a coalition of an extreme right wing party, a right wing christian party, and a "fiscally conservative" party – ie. they mostly leave saying the bigoted shit out loud to the...