Feeding the Beast: When Beast Games crash-landed in Toronto, it left a trail of destruction in its wake

(slTorontoLife) Come for the shade against Mr Beast, stay for the exasperation for the state of American money getting tax breaks to create in Canada towards the end of the article.

Putting solar panels over irrigation canals seemed like a win-win idea: we get electricity while reducing evaporation. It turns out it's a win-win-win idea. Canals in California that have done this have generated electricity, reduced evaporation by a stunning 50% to 70%, and saved irrigation districts bunches of money by causing algae and aquatic weed growth to drop by 85%.

"At a busy thoroughfare inside the European Parliament, passing politicians are now confronted with a grotesque and gilded vision of American power: an 8.5-foot-tall statue of President Donald Trump, naked but for a thin layer of 23-karat gold leaf. 'Trump likes gold,' said Danish artist Jens Galschiøt, the statue's creator, over the phone after it was unveiled Tuesday. 'In a way, I think he would like this sculpture.'"

"Titled 'The Orange Plague,' the artwork has been installed in Strasbourg, France, the official seat of the European Parliament. The copper sculpture, also dubbed the 'King of Injustice,' imagines the US president on the shoulders of a frail smaller figure. His thighs and sagging belly wrap tightly around the man's head; his hands clutch at a long golf club and the scales of justice." "'I am sitting on the back of a man,' reads the text [a quote from Leo Tolstoy] on the statue's plinth. 'He is sinking under my burden. I will do anything to help him. Except step down from his back.'" "Galschiøt has exhibited 'The Orange Plague', [or in German, 'Die Orange Pest'] in public several times before, including at [the Danish Parliamentary building,] the Munich Security Conference, and last November's COP30 UN climate conference in Brazil. He also plans to display it at COP31 in Antalya, Turkey next month." "He said his decision to depict Trump naked alludes to Hans Christian Andersen's story "The Emperor's New Clothes," in which a vain emperor parades the city in the nude. 'Dictators don't like you laughing at them,' he explained." "The most recent temporary display is expected to remain on show until Thursday. It is accompanied by over 1,000 3D-printed miniatures of the sculpture, which are being made available to passersby as 'protest tokens.'"

Op de A15 ter hoogte van Hoogvliet is woensdagmiddag een auto over de kop geslagen en achter de vangrail beland. Twee personen zijn naar het ziekenhuis vervoerd. De weg is dicht tussen knooppunt Benelux en Hoogvliet.

Chris Medland runs through the biggest talking points as F1 heads to Singapore for Round 17 of the 2026 season.

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This image from the European Space Agency’s Mars Express shows the Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud: the most visually striking cloud on the Red Planet.

The image was taken by Mars Express’s High Resolution Stereo Camera on 24 June 2024; it shows a region of Mars just under 1250 km across (an area of 780 000 square km), with the cloud stretching out for around 980 km.

This white wisp of water ice emerges downwind of the 20-km-tall Arsia Mons volcano. It forms, grows, and fades on a daily basis, stretching out for up to 1800 km – nearly twice the length of the UK – before quickly evaporating. This cycle repeats every morning for several months.

Researchers now think that exotic physics (known as homogeneous nucleation) might be behind this cloud’s formation – physics related to how water vapour turns into icy cloud particles.

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[Image description: Tan-coloured horizontal rectangle showing part of the surface of Mars imaged by an orbiting satellite. On the right is a ring of concentric circles that indicate a volcano. Stretching to the left of the volcano is a long wisp of white cloud, which seems to emanate from the volcano. We also see the shadow of the cloud just above the cloud itself.]

Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

europeanspaceagency posted a photo:

This image from the European Space Agency’s Mars Express shows the Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud: the most visually striking cloud on the Red Planet. The image is based on data from Mars Express’s High Resolution Stereo Camera, and shows the cloud stretching out for around 1500 km.

Researchers using Mars Express now think that exotic physics might be behind this cloud’s formation – physics related to how water vapour turns into icy cloud particles.

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This image was processed by Flickr user J Cowart. It uses data from Mars Express orbit 18627 on 21 September 2018. Original image

[Image description: Tan-coloured horizontal rectangle showing part of the surface of Mars imaged by an orbiting satellite. Above the curved horizon is space. To the lower right of the image is a volcano. Stretching to the left of the volcano is a long wisp of white cloud, which seems to emanate from the volcano. We also see the shadow of the cloud just below the cloud itself.]

Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
Acknowledgements: J. Cowart

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Exactly two years after launch, ESA’s Hera planetary defence mission has caught its first glimpse of its destination: the Didymos binary asteroid system, seen from an approximate distance of 236 500 km away.

By combining multiple images and performing photometric analysis, the Hera mission team was able to identify Didymos against the background star field, seen in visible light, smaller than an individual pixel but sufficiently bright to be detected by the camera.

For now, Hera’s destination appears as little more than a single bright point. In reality, it is a binary asteroid system: the 780-m-diameter Didymos is orbited by the 150-m-diameter Dimorphos. In September 2022, NASA’s DART spacecraft deliberately impacted Dimorphos, changing its orbit around Didymos and demonstrating asteroid deflection for the first time.

Hera will have to travel much closer before its cameras can resolve the two asteroids separately. But from now on, its destination is no longer just a calculated point in space: Hera can see it.

When Hera reaches Didymos, it will perform a close-up investigation of the impact site and measure in detail how Dimorphos responded to DART’s collision.

These measurements will help turn the DART impact experiment into a well-understood and potentially repeatable planetary defence technique.

Have questions about Hera, its journey or what awaits it at Didymos? Ask the Hera Space Companion — an AI companion connected to the mission and designed to let everyone follow and explore ESA’s first planetary defence mission as it unfolds.

Credits: ESA

The Job Trail, a web game about making it through 52 weeks as a laid-off creative worker. Based on The Oregon Trail. My first try: “You have died of burnout. Week 13. 51 applications, 1 ghosting.”