Wat zeggen wij als wij wij zeggen? Omdat zelden helemaal helder is waar een wij eindigt, zijn retorici en politici er dol op. Ze kunnen je doodknuffelen in een wij, boosdoeners laten schuilen en ongemerkt grenzen stellen. Want wie het over wij heeft, maakt ook duidelijk wie er níét bij hoort.

De Amerikaanse Harvard University wil de regering-Trump tegemoetkomen door hoogleraren aan te stellen met een diversere mening. De universiteit is al een jaar in gevecht met de Amerikaanse overheid over inperking van haar academische vrijheid.

Sommige landen lijken de schaarste op de energiemarkt te beantwoorden met meer kolen, andere juist met meer hernieuwbare energiebronnen. In praktijk lijkt de toename van kolengebruik mee te gaan vallen.

New leader urges Hungarians to help him end illiberalism as he faces calls to investigate years of corruption

Inside Hungary’s dazzling neo-Gothic parliament, the scenes will be solemn on Saturday as the new leader, Péter Magyar, is sworn in. Outside is where the party is expected to unfold, as people pour in from across the country to mark a pivotal moment: the formal end of Viktor Orbán’s 16 years in power.

It comes weeks after Magyar and his opposition Tisza party won a landslide victory in a result that rattled the global far right, reset Hungary’s long-strained relationship with the EU and set off all-night celebrations along the banks of the Danube River.

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Last year in an Alaskan fjord, a surprise landslide triggered a tsunami 1578 feet tall. That’s not a typo…the wave was taller than all but 13 of the world’s tallest buildings.

In the early hours of August 10, 2025, an enormous landslide triggered a massive tsunami down the fjord. The tsunami was 1,578-feet-tall, or one-and-a-half times the height of the Eiffel Tower. Fortunately, no one was caught in the wave since it hit around 5:30 a.m. local time. If the tsunami hit later that day, about 20 cruise ships and numerous recreational boaters and kayakers could have been impacted by the giant wave.

In a study published today in the journal Science, researchers studied this “near miss” event, finding that the continued effects of climate change were likely the cause.

The mass of rock that set off the wave contained “a volume 24 times larger than that of the great pyramid of Giza”, with the initial wave moving at ~150mph. Professor Dan Shugar explains what happened on that morning and shows a simulation of what happened:

From this piece in the NY Times:

The Tracy Arm landslide was preceded by an unusually rapid retreat of the South Sawyer Glacier, leaving the rock slope that ultimately collapsed bare and unsupported. That same rearrangement of land elements is increasingly occurring throughout Alaskan fjords and around the world. As glaciers retreat and thawing permafrost lubricates slopes, these giant landslides may become more frequent.

Incredibly, this isn’t even the largest recorded tsunami; a 1958 earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 to 8.3 triggered a rockslide that created a wave 1,719 feet tall in Lituya Bay. If you don’t want to waste a couple of hours, I’d suggest not clicking through to the megatsunami Wikipedia page.

See also When the Mediterranean Sea Dried Up.

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ASTANA (ANP) - Judoka Amber Gersjes heeft bij een grandslamtoernooi in Astana goud gepakt in de klasse tot 48 kilogram. Voor de 28-jarige Gersjes is het haar eerste overwinning bij een Grand Slam. In Astana versloeg ze Narantsetseg Ganbaatar uit Mongolië in de finale.

Vorige week greep Gersjes zilver in de Grand Slam van Doesjanbe in Tadzjikistan. Op het EK van vorige maand strandde ze in de eerste ronde.

Als Feyenoord zondag wint van AZ is het officieel zeker van plek 2 en deelname aan de competitiefase van de Champions League in het komende seizoen. Op de wekelijkse persconferentie kreeg trainer Robin van Persie de vraag of hij ook tevreden is over dit seizoen als dat doel wordt behaald.

Longtime Slashdot reader Qbertino writes: The Fehrmarnbelt tunnel is a European construction megaproject building a tunnel between Denmark and Germany, crossing the Fehmarnbelt in the Baltic sea. The first segment of the tunnel has now successfully been placed in its designated spot. This is a yet-unseen, next-level engineering feat achieved by the Danish Sund & Baelt construction company. It took 14 hours and used a massive pontoon ship built specifically for this project.

The tunnel segments are 217 meters long, weigh more than 73,000 metric tons, and have to be placed within a tolerance of 3 mm. The tunnel will eventually consist of 89 of these segments, be 18 km long, and connect the Danish city of Rodby with the German island Fehmarn through five individual tunnel tubes: two for cars, two for trains, and one rescue and maintenance tunnel. Crossing time will be reduced from a 45-minute ferry crossing to seven minutes by train or 10 minutes by car, and cut the travel time between the German city of Hamburg and the Danish capital, Copenhagen, down to 2.5 hours. The project's planned completion is set for the year 2029. German news Tagesschau has some details and a neat animation, while further details are available from the German tech news site Heise.

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