Push to restart uranium mining in Patagonia has sparked fears about the environmental impact and loss of sovereignty over key resources

On an outcrop above the Chubut River, one of the few to cut across the arid Patagonian steppe of southern Argentina, Sergio Pichiñán points across a wide swath of scrubland to colourful rock formations on a distant hillside.

“That’s where they dug for uranium before, and when the miners left, they left the mountain destroyed, the houses abandoned, and nobody ever studied the water,” he says, citing suspicions arising from cases of cancer and skin diseases in his community. “If they want to open this back up, we’re all pretty worried around here.”

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I was a ski god. An avalanche. I was starting to think about the Olympics. Darude’s Sandstorm was playing in my head. Then wham, bam, stacked it

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Twenty hot lesbians in a cabin in the snow. It sounds like a budget porn plot from the 70s, but it was the pitch my sister gave when she convinced me to try out skiing for the first time.

I am not a sports dyke. I am a like-to-read-books-and-sit-in-saunas dyke.

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For people who love the middle seat, the attractions are many, from a taste of humility to ethical entitlement to the armrests to ‘strangermaxxing’

Embracing friction and inconvenience in our lives is a 2026 trend, but the New York Times has drawn my attention to individuals who are frictionmaxxing further than most of us might be able to fathom: travellers who choose the awkward, inconvenient middle seat on planes.

Airlines expect us to pay extra to choose our seat now, and refusing means becoming the filling in a stranger sandwich, but actively embracing that seems perverse. Some, I learned, claim middle seats offer the best of both worlds – you can see out of the window but enjoy a relatively easy escape – and you’re “ethically entitled to both arm rests” (good luck explaining that to your neighbours). Others treat it as an exercise in Zen humility. I suppose relinquishing main-character energy could make travel less painful? “Be grateful that you’re flying and that’s it,” as James Cashen, a middle seater, explained his philosophy on TikTok.

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Taylor, who did for Ghanaian music what his friend Fela Kuti did for Nigeria, has been called the greatest rhythm guitarist in history

Ghanaian musician Ebo Taylor, a definitive force behind the highlife genre, has died age 90.

His son Kweku Taylor announced the news on Sunday: “The world has lost a giant. A colossus of African music. Ebo Taylor passed away yesterday; a day after the launch of Ebo Taylor music festival and exactly a month after his 90th birthday, leaving behind an unmatched artistry legacy. Dad, your light will never fade.”

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Op de slopestyle heeft Mathilde Grimaud net als in 2022 de gouden medaille gewonnen voor Zwitserland. De Chinese Eileen Gu pakte het zilver.

Na tien jaar afwezigheid is de progressieve António José Seguro terug op het politieke toneel. Voor het eerst in twintig jaar krijgt Portugal met hem een centrumlinkse president, een andere politieke kleur dan de centrumrechtse premier.

The blog OMG Ubuntu reports that a new version of the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B has been (quietly) introduced. "The key difference? It now uses a dual-RAM configuration."


The Raspberry Pi 4 Model B (PCB 13a) adopts a dual-RAM configuration to 'improve supply chain flexibility' and manufacturing efficiency, per a company product change notice document. Earlier versions of the Raspberry Pi 4 use a single RAM chip on the top of the board. The new revision adds a second LPDDR4 chip to the underside, with a couple of passive components also moved over... In moving to a dual-chip layout, Raspberry Pi can combine two smaller — and marginally cheaper — modules to hit the same RAM totals amidst fluctuating component costs...

This change will not impact performance (for better or worse). The Broadcom BCM2711 SoC has a 32-bit wide memory interface so the bandwidth stays identical; this is not doubling the memory bus, it's just a physical split, not a logical one. Plus, the new board is fully compatible with existing official accessories, HATs and add-ons. All operating systems that support the Pi 4 will work, but as the memory setup is different a new version of the boot-loader will need to be flashed first.

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​​Vandaag werd bekend dat Jaimi van Essen de nieuwe minister van Landbouw, Visserij, Voedselzekerheid en Natuur wordt in Kabinet-Jetten. De 34-jarige politicus maakte meteen een grote, bijna onwerkelijke belofte aan de Nederlandse bevolking. “Ik ga íets doen de komende jaren”, aldus Van Essen.

“Ik moet me eerst nog even inlezen, maar ik kan u in ieder geval beloven dat ik beleid ga voeren”, vervolgt de aankomend minister. “In welke vorm precies, dat gaan we de komende maanden onderzoeken. Maar er gáát iets gebeuren.”

Volgens een werknemer op het ministerie zorgde de toezegging van Van Essen voor lichte verbijstering op de werkvloer. “Dit is even schakelen hoor. Opeens moeten we plannen ontwikkelen en beleid evalueren, die bovenal ‘uitvoerbaar’ zijn”, aldus een bezorgde beleidsmedewerker.

Er staat Van Essen met het stikstofdossier een grote klus te wachten, maar de D66-minister is hoopvol: “Nederland is klaar voor beleid”

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