Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

date stamped on slide, November 1963

wing of kaz has added a photo to the pool:

鹿児島県霧島市、霧島神宮 / Kirishima Shrine, Kirishima City, Kagoshima Prefecture

Hackers claimed to have stolen 23 terabytes of data, including information on Russian losses in the war in Ukraine.

Twan van Steenhoven (Big2) en Willem de Bruin (Willy) zijn na een lastige periode weer muziekvrienden. In Gashouder brachten ze een sterke Opposites-show zoals je hem verwacht.

FRANKFURT (ANP/DPA) - Bij de rellen in Frankfurt zijn meer dan honderd politieagenten gewond geraakt. Een van hen raakte ernstig gewond, aldus binnenlandminister van de deelstaat Hessen, Roman Poseck. De agent verloor zijn tanden nadat er een steen in zijn gezicht werd gegooid.

De politie heeft 54 mensen tussen de 13 en 29 jaar oud gearresteerd. Zeventien winkels raakten beschadigd en vijf werden geplunderd, onder meer op de Zeil. Dat is de belangrijkste winkelstraat van Frankfurt.

Volgens Poseck gaat de politie uit van ongeveer 1500 relschoppers. Er zijn volgens hem geen aanwijzingen dat geweldplegers vanuit het buitenland naar Frankfurt zijn gereisd, maar hij benadrukte dat slechts een klein deel van hen uit Frankfurt zelf kwam.

Frankfurt is een van de Duitse steden waar het zaterdagavond na demonstraties uit de hand liep. Er zijn op meerdere plekken vernielingen gepleegd en agenten aangevallen, zoals in Keulen en Berlijn.

The simplicity of breathing; the sweetness of laughter; the privilege of lying on a bed. Buddhism teaches us how to enjoy the small pleasures

• Making sense of it is a column about spirituality and how it can be used to navigate everyday life

There is a particular Buddhist story that reassured me I had found the right path.

The story goes that Prince Siddhartha Gautama was deep in spiritual practice – arduous, unforgiving practice. He had tried everything from breath-holding to extreme fasting. But none of it brought the freedom from suffering he sought.

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Cash was king in those days, and that money was enough to last me for a month as I slowly travelled from Australia back to the UK

• Read more in the kindness of strangers series

It was a hot night in 1989 when my wallet – stuffed with $1,000 cash – fell out of my pocket.

After university, I left the UK and went travelling in Australia for a year. I saw the delights of the east coast – mostly from various building sites, as I worked my way around doing long hours in the blistering sun. But I loved every minute of it. After 10 months, I had saved enough to make my way slowly back home.

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When it comes to fertility, testosterone and reproductive fitness, manosphere misinformation is rife - which can lead to a lot of heartache. Meet the man who wants to change all that

“I think you can tell it’s for a lay audience,” says Michael Carroll, holding up his book, Your Nuts, its cover illustrated with two walnuts in a string bag. The book has arrived in tandem with worldwide concerns about falling birth rates. “Spermaggedon” is a chunky piece of this puzzle, part of a wider debate about whether and why we’re heading for species-icide. Are people deciding not to have kids because of climate anxiety and economic precarity? Or is this an unchosen fertility cliff edge, created by forever chemicals and our lifestyles? This is not a drill, says Carroll, a biologist and reproductive scientist at Manchester Metropolitan University. “There’s compelling evidence to support a historical decline in sperm count and sperm concentration over the last number of decades.” However, it’s just not that simple.

First, it’s not a uniform picture and in some populations sperm counts are going up. The Danish Young Men Study, for instance, showed no drop between 1996 and 2022. In Ireland, a study of 15,000 men between 2008 and 2023 showed a 23% increase in sperm concentration.

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