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Justine le Clercq Terwijl half Nederland met de caravan zigeunertje aan het spelen is op een brandende Franse camping, lopen hier onze echte zigeuners te smeken of ze er alsjeblieft een paar woonwagens bij mogen krijgen. Justine le Clercq We zijn weer massaal vertrokken naar mooie ruim opgezette campings in binnen- en buitenland. Heerlijk die vrijheid! Lekker de natuur om je heen. En al die vertrouwde gezichten van vorig jaar weer ontmoeten bij de barbecue. De echte zigeuners, die we zo niet meer noemen, dat zijn de Roma, de Sinti en de Reizigers. Beter gezegd, woonwagenbewoners. Hun levenswijze moeten ze stap voor stap inleveren. Eerst moest men stoppen met rondtrekken. Daarna moest men op grote locaties bij elkaar wonen. Daarna moest men juist weer op kleine locaties wonen (uit elkaar getrokken families). Toen moesten de woonwagenlocaties verdwijnen. En uiteindelijk moest de woonwagenbewoner gewoon een huis nemen. Over Nederlandse woonwagenbeleid de afgelopen decennia kan ik kort zijn: die woonwagenbewoners moeten normaal doen. Hoe doe je normaal? Normaal doen is de kern van het echte Nederlanderschap en wie niet normaal doet, kan rekenen op alle varianten van uitsluiting, discriminatie, repressie en wurgende bestuurlijke besluitvorming. Wij normale Nederlanders weten nu eenmaal beter dan […]

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Scientists have long studied how magnetic energy powers solar activity. The constant motion of plasma particles and the sun’s rotation are major contributors to its cycles and events, such as flares and coronal mass ejections, which lob huge quantities of plasma and gas into space.

Sometimes these explosions reach the earth’s magnetic field and cause geomagnetic storms, which are when we see some of the most brilliant auroras. But they also disrupt or damage our communications systems, power grids, GPS, and satellites, and researchers want to further understand how the sun builds up its magnetic energy so we better know how to guard against its massive fits of activity. They’ve also been trying to figure out why the sun’s corona, or atmosphere, is millions of degrees hotter than its surface.

Thanks to the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, which has pride of place at the National Solar Observatory on Maui, Hawaii, the highest-resolution image of the sun ever captured has revealed unique features that may give solar scientists some insight into how this magnetic energy builds.

Rippling forms that physicists call Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability (KHI) demonstrate the effect of two fluids flowing past each other at different velocities. It’s a phenomenon named for the two scientists who observed it for the first time around 1870, and it can be seen in clouds, ocean waves, and the atmospheres of gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn.

The Inouye telescope, the most powerful of its kind, was able to capture features smaller than 12 miles across, providing insights that remained hidden in earlier photos. The details may illuminate part of a solar process that scientists refer to as “flux braiding,” because the way the sun’s magnetic field lines move around one another result in a plaited effect. But the tension builds and builds before eventually breaking, which is when we see flares and similar events. The swirls of KHI may have something to do with how these twists happen in the first place.

“This could solve this biggest mystery of the last half a century for solar physics and astrophysics,” team scientist Dr. David Kuridze told The Guardian. “When you have this instability in the system, it is very easy to cascade the energy into smaller scales. And at some point, it just dissipates as a heat. This could make hot coronas, hot outer atmospheres of the sun and similar stars.”

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• Messi’s father, ⁠Jorge, died last week at age of 68

• Argentinian suggests he may not play on much longer

Lionel Messi said on Wednesday that he is having doubts about continuing his career following the death of his father last week. Messi’s father, ⁠Jorge, died last week aged 68 at a medical clinic in the Argentinian city of Rosario after a long illness.

In a tribute on Instagram, Messi wrote: “I don’t know what I’m going to ⁠do without you. I ⁠don’t know how ​to move forward. I only played football and now I have quite a few doubts about whether I’m going to keep doing it for much ⁠longer.

As social media shrinks and distorts the EU’s crises, the Venice film festival is delivering politically forthright epics from directors such as Sergei Loznitsa and Alex Gibney

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Europe is in an economic crisis that, unlike the eurozone downturn at the beginning of the millennium, cannot be measured in ratings downgrades and borrowing costs. For metrics, try engagement depth and consumer trust instead.

The unedifying spectacle of the European Union’s falling out over the Ceuta crisis looks like the latest symptom of Europe’s shrinking attention economy. When more than 70,000 people crossed over from Morocco to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta at the start of the month, Rome hastily reintroduced air and sea border checks with Spain for one month; Madrid retaliated with spot-checks on travellers to Italy.