Patricia Lockwood Goes To A Tradcath Wedding

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Curtin University researchers use innovative techniques to date three-billion-year-old impact crater in Pilbara region

A meteorite that struck Earth three billion years ago left behind a “smoking gun” – evidence of the world’s oldest impact crater in a remote part of Australia.

Ancient rocks in Western Australia’s Pilbara region record the event, which occurred during the Archean eon, a period 4 to 2.5 billion years ago, when tectonic plates were beginning to form and early life emerging.

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Coming into the tournament, Croatia head coach Zlatko Dalic warned that losing an open match “can destroy everything” for a team in a major tournament. History informed this dramatic stance, with Croatia opening Euro 2024 with a 3-0 defeat to Spain and subsequently bowing out in the group stage.

2018’s run to the World Cup final kicked off with a win over Nigeria; in 2022, a draw against Morocco put both teams on their paths to the semifinal. Just how destroying will that opening 4-2 loss to England prove to be?

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Mr. Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, recently dispatched a small team at his company to create a smartphone app similar to Polymarket and Kalshi, two employees with knowledge of the matter said. Users would not wager money, and the app would probably rely on a video game-like points system instead, one person said, though the company had not ruled out the eventual use of real money betting. The app is internally referred to as "Arena" and would function independently from Meta's social networking apps, which include Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger, said the employees, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss confidential plans. Meta aims to grow the app by leveraging its large social networking audiences and directing them toward using it, they said.

The effort, which insiders characterized as experimental but a top priority, is part of a broader push by Mr. Zuckerberg to create new types of apps based on emerging social behavior online. More than 3.56 billion people visit one or more of Meta's apps every day, an amount that has raised questions about whether those platforms have reached a saturation point. Arena is one of a handful of apps that Meta is trying out. Others include one called Meta Photos, another stand-alone app which would create new types of media using artificial intelligence, the employees said. [...] Meta insiders have cautioned that Arena remains in development and may not be released. But as executives search for ways to keep the world's largest social media sites thriving, Mr. Zuckerberg appears to be relying on his well-worn product development strategy: Follow the users.

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I took this photo of the “Children’s Peace Monument” with my iPhone 17 Pro Max while visiting Hiroshima, Japan. The monument for peace commemorates Sadako Sasaki and the thousands of child victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The booths behind are used to display and store the thousands of origami paper cranes that visitors from all over the world leave every year…

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I took this photo of the “Victims Memorial” with my iPhone 17 Pro Max while visiting Hiroshima, Japan. Registries lie inside, which contain the names of all the known victims of the bombing, regardless of nationality. Names are added to these registries each year. The memorial is shaped like a roof, designed with the intent to shelter the souls of those lost to the bombing, and it is engraved with the words, "Let all the souls here rest in peace, for we shall not repeat the evil…”