Iran opent volgens minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Abbas Araghchi gedurende het bestand de Straat van Hormuz voor alle commerciële scheepvaart. Iran had de straat afgesloten voor schepen van vijandelijke staten.

Er zijn van die kinderen over wie iedereen zegt: “Daar heb je geen kind aan.” Ze doen hun huiswerk zelf, maken geen ruzie, passen zich aan. In chaotische gezinnen zijn dat de kinderen die stilletjes leren: hoe minder ruimte ik inneem, hoe veiliger het hier is.

Van buitenaf lijken ze stoer, zelfstandig en makkelijk. Van binnen raken ze echter langzaam het contact kwijt met hun eigen behoeften. Niemand vraagt hoe het écht met ze gaat, zolang ze maar functioneren. Dat voelt als waardering, maar het is vaak een kind dat onzichtbaar wordt precies op de momenten dat het iemand nodig heeft.

Die strategie nemen ze mee naar hun volwassen leven. Ze hebben vrienden, een relatie, misschien een gezin. Ze zorgen, regelen, lossen problemen op. Iedereen leunt op hen. En toch voelen ze zich op een dieper niveau leeg en eenzaam, op een manier die ze nauwelijks kunnen uitleggen. Want hoe kun je je eenzaam voelen als je leven op papier “goed” is?

Het antwoord ligt in dat oude overlevingspatroon: nooit lastig zijn, nooit teveel zijn, nooit iets nodig hebben. Volwassen worden betekent dan niet alleen een baan en een hypotheek, maar ook langzaam afleren wat je ooit heeft beschermd. Oefenen met zeggen: “Ik trek het niet”, “Ik heb je nodig”, “Ik ben niet altijd de sterke.”

In a converted 18th-century chapel on the grounds of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, a strange form creeps through openings in the architecture. One can imagine its clipper- and knife-footed tendrils scurrying across the floor as it spills from an upper aperture and even slithers around part of the building’s exterior. It’s otherworldly genesis was at the hands of Nicola Turner, known for her monumental, contorted textile installations that often heave and surge from structures and public spaces.

Turner’s solo exhibition, Time’s Scythe, comprises forms made of recycled wool and horsehair, which she hand-stitches inside of mesh to create the bulging, knotted forms. “This is Turner’s first large-scale installation to use pale wool and creates a different energy to her dark sculptures, moving away from their more melancholic character,” the gallery says.

Time’s Scythe continues through September 27 in Wakefield. If you go, check out LR Vandy’s provocative exhibition, Rise, which also continues into September. See more on Turner’s Instagram, and for more twisting, creature-like forms, might also enjoy the work of Kate MccGwire.

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The remnants of a bizarre long-lost world that fell apart before our planet was fully formed are falling to Earth in the form of meteorites, according to a new study in Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 

For decades, scientists have puzzled over the origin of angrites, a rare class of about 70 meteorites with unique volcanic compositions that suggest they were forged in a large ancient object with differentiated layers, including a metallic core and a magma ocean.

Scientists have long assumed that this object, the so-called angrite parent body (APB), was roughly a few hundred miles across, similar in size to the asteroid 4 Vesta. But researchers recently raised the tantalizing possibility that the APB might have been much larger, perhaps on the scale of Earth’s moon.

Now, a team led by Aaron Bell, an experimental petrologist and an assistant research professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder, has discovered “the first unequivocal evidence supporting the large angrite parent body hypothesis, which posits that the angrites are samples derived from a protoplanet that was catastrophically disrupted during the earliest evolutionary stages of the inner solar system,” according to the new study.

“It probably got destroyed in the early solar system, so [angrites] are remnants of a lost protoplanet,” Bell said in a call with 404 Media. “A few pieces broke off and are now in the asteroid belt, and a few of them have come to Earth, and we’ve picked them up.”

Angrites date back about 4.56 billion years, making them among the oldest known volcanic rocks. They belong to a class of stony “achondritic” meteorites that contain the crystalized signatures of melted rock, such as basalts, hinting that they originate in larger bodies that underwent some degree of planetary processing and layered differentiation, even if those early planetary embryos never accreted into full planets. 

“Angrites are interesting in that they don't have a known parent body,” Bell said. “It's never been definitively identified, and that's one of the mysteries.”

“There are a bunch of arguments about why angrites are so geochemically unusual,” he added. “They're kind of this oddity.” 

Most models of early planetary accretion predict that relatively small objects formed within the first few million years of the solar system, which is why the APB was assumed to be an asteroid-sized object, rather than a much larger nascent planet.

While working on a previous study, Bell became interested in an aluminum-rich angrite from Northwest Africa, known as NWA 12,774, which was classified in 2019. The meteorite is one of a handful of unusual primitive angrites that appear to have been crystallized at high pressure within the APB, indicating that it formed deep under the surface and therefore might shed light on the size of this bygone world.

“Even among angrites, there's only four or five that have these primitive compositions,” Bell said, adding that the meteorite had “off-the-charts aluminum content, which is really very unusual.”

Bell and his colleagues developed a geobarometer—a tool that calculates the pressures at which rocks and minerals formed—-that estimated it would take at least 1.7 gigapascals to account for the rock’s special properties. This pressure corresponds to an object with a minimum radius of 620 miles (1,000 kilometers), which is just under the size of Pluto. The APB may even have been as large as the Moon, which has a roughly 1000-mile radius. 

“Clearly, within the first few million years of solar system evolution, you could grow planetary embryos that were 1,000-plus kilometers” in radius, Bell said. “We're talking within three million years of the condensation of the first solids in the solar system, so it’s right at the beginning.”

The discovery suggests that the APB may have been a first-generation protoplanet that coalesced and shattered millions of years before the familiar worlds of our solar system took full shape. Judging by the strange properties of angrites, the APB was also on track to be a very different kind of world than Earth and its neighbors, had it survived the chaotic environment of its infancy. 

Angrites are “geochemically fundamentally different, and that's why people were interested in the first place—because they were odd,” Bell said. “They don't look like garden-variety

basalts you get from Mars or the Moon or Earth.”

“It's sort of this path not taken—or maybe it was, but we just have a couple pieces of it that tell us something we didn't know,” he concluded. “There were once large bodies that, maybe, didn’t look like the terrestrial planets.” 

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss the Madonna-whore algorithm, reader tips, and jazz.

SAM: Yesterday morning I published a story I started working on weeks ago and only in the last week or so felt enough distance from the topic to be able to articulate it clearly: My year in the wedding planning social media abyss. The piece is a long, more sourced BTB, and I don’t have a ton to add to what’s said in it, but I do want to highlight some of the comments I’ve gotten so far that touch on things the story doesn’t elaborate on.

Open voor alle commerciële scheepvaart zolang de wapenstilstand van kracht blijft. Seyed (onbetwist de grappigste Iraanse official overigens): "In line with the ceasefire in Lebanon, the passage for all commercial vessels through Strait of Hormuz is declared completely open for the remaining period of ceasefire, on the coordinated route as already announced by Ports and Maritime Organisation of the Islamic Rep. of Iran." Het bericht volgt, zoals MinBuz Araghchi zelf ook aangeeft, op Trumps aankondiging van het staakt-het-vuren tussen Israël en Libanon dat tien dagen zal duren.

Update 15:08 - Trump reageert zojuist met een Truth op het nieuws dat de Straat van HORMUZ (niet van Iran) is geopend: "IRAN HAS JUST ANNOUNCED THAT THE STRAIT OF IRAN IS FULLY OPEN AND READY FOR FULL PASSAGE. THANK YOU!" Of de Amerikaanse blokkade nu ook wordt opgeheven laat hij overigens in het midden.
Update 15:13 - Barak Ravid van Axios schrijft dat de nieuwe onderhandelingsronde tussen Iran en de VS mogelijk zondag van start zal gaan in Islamabad en dat de VS bereid is 20 miljard aan bevroren Iraanse fondsen vrij te geven als Iran de voorrraad verrijkt uranium opgeeft: "The U.S. and Iran are negotiating over a three-page plan to end the war, with one element under discussion being that the U.S. would release $20 billion in frozen Iranian funds in return for Iran giving up its stockpile of enriched uranium, according to two U.S. officials and two additional sources briefed on the talks."
Update 15:18 - Kijk toch eens naar die olieprijzen: DIKKE DALING. Morgen gratis tanken!!!
Update 15:22 - Terwijl de Straat van Hormuz dus is geopend deelt CENTCOM beeld van het moment waarop vandaag nog een schip, vertrokken vanuit een Iraanse haven, terug wordt gestuurd door de Amerikanen. In totaal hebben 19 schepen gedurende de blokkade voldaan aan Amerikaanse bevelen om rechtsomkeert te maken.
Update 15:32 - Nieuwe Trump Truth, nu met de juiste Straat: "THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ IS COMPLETELY OPEN AND READY FOR BUSINESS AND FULL PASSAGE, BUT THE NAVAL BLOCKADE WILL REMAIN IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT AS IT PERTAINS TO IRAN, ONLY, UNTIL SUCH TIME AS OUR TRANSACTION WITH IRAN IS 100% COMPLETE. THIS PROCESS SHOULD GO VERY QUICKLY IN THAT MOST OF THE POINTS ARE ALREADY NEGOTIATED." De Amerikaanse blokkade blijft dus in stand zolang er nog geen deal is met Iran.

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Strait of Iran!

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When it comes to theology, Donald Trump’s vice-president clearly knows best. Are we about to see an American break with Rome?

The battle to be the absolute worst Trump henchman can feel so closely fought. But in the end, it’s always JD Vance, isn’t it? You would say Stephen Miller, but Miller’s too hidden to qualify as a front-of-house henchman among the US president’s court of grotesques. Stephen’s clearly been judged so wantonly horrifying that the administration must keep him out of public view. If you enter the store, Miller is the only-for-the-initiated entity alluded to in a whisper by the oleaginous sales assistant. “We do have something in the back – off-the-books, as it were – if sir is after something a little more … specialist.”

But Vance? Vance besets us like the 11th plague – the plague of media appearances. For the next South Park season, I hope the creators give their brilliantly ghastly little vice-president avatar a papal mitre to wear. After all, here we have a man whose pick-me book on his journey to Catholicism has yet to even be published. That tome currently lies in the rectum of HarperCollins, ready to be excreted in June – yet inevitably, Vance is already giving menacing doctrinal advice to the pope as part of the multi-theatre fallout of Operation Epic Facepalm.

Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist

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