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ゲーム体験を語ろう:ミュージアムでのゲームアーカイブ | 織苑 寺農 | TEDxHokkaidoU — ゲームアーカイブという言葉をご存知でしょうか?そのまま訳せばゲームの記録という意味ですが、最近の博物館では例えばファミコンの展示などが行われているところもあります。しかし、製造年や製造会社、商品説明などを見ても、当時の様子はそこまで伝わってきませんよね。寺農氏によれば、そのゲームがその時代にどのように遊ばれていたかに価値があるといいます。では、どのようにしてその記録を取っていくのでしょうか? This talk was given at a…

Apple adds nearly 45 hearing devices to its Made for iPhone compatibility list - 9to5Mac — Apple updated its list of Made for iPhone (MFi) hearing devices today, with 39 models across 22 brands, five of which are new.

The Commons — Since launching in 2008 with the Library of Congress, the Flickr Commons has been sharing hidden treasures from the world’s photography archives, with over 100 members.

Way Bandy Was One of the Most Influential Makeup Artists in the World. He Challenged Stigmas in the 1980s by Making Sure His Death From AIDS Was Widely Known — He instructed the executors of his will to make his specific cause of death from the disease public during a time when…

This Infamous ‘Death Railway’ Station, Built by Forced Labor From Prisoners of War and Civilians in World War II, Was Just Revealed in Thailand — The Nithe Station, usually submerged under a reservoir, will be accessible this summer as officials drain the site to perform dam…

Why preserving your mobility is key to healthy aging | Meghan Dares | TEDxWollongong — We’re living longer than ever before, but are we living well? Dr Meghan Dares explores the growing gap between lifespan and healthspan, revealing how small losses in movement can quietly…

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One Man’s Crazy Scheme to Create a New County in Northern Ireland — Rarely am I able to pinpoint precisely where a novel comes from. Patricia Highsmith once wrote, “ideas come to me like birds in the corner of my eye.” Until very recently this felt like an apt syno…

How to Take Your Wealth With You | Liyaan Karbelkar | TEDxAlmuntazir School Youth — she explores a timeless question: What remains of us when our time runs out? Through our actions, choices, values, and the lives we touch, we leave behind a legacy that often outlives our…

APS News — From the physics community.

Virginia's Civil Rights Trail: Six Historic Sites That Changed America — Explore powerful sites along Virginia’s Civil Rights Trail where student activism, peaceful protest, and landmark legal battles helped reshape the nation’s fight for equality

Be a Clump Scout and Help Reveal Secrets of Stellar Nurseries - NASA Science — Help identify star-forming clumps in galaxy images, and help train machines to do the same.

Why Think Tanks are a Billion Dollar Business — Think tanks bring together experts and shape debates in Washington, but how do you measure the value of an idea? From the Aspen Institute to the Heritage Foundation, this episode explores the business of ideas, the billions of…

Reflections on an Angelheaded Hipster: Celebrating Allen Ginsberg’s 100th Birthday — Allen Ginsberg was born in Newark a century ago today. He is totem as much as poet, arguably the most famous American writer of verse in the twentieth-century. There’s the Ginsberg dancing like a

Electricity bills targeted in planned shakeup to energy pricing — The war in the Middle East has brought renewed attention to Britain's vulnerability to energy price shocks.

All the top sights and sounds from North Carolina vs. TCU in Ireland — For the fifth straight year, major college football will open with a Week 0 tilt abroad, as North Carolina and TCU meet in Dublin.

The Power of a Small Change | Umang Sharma | TEDxPrinceton Day School Youth — A blind student guided Umang through a dark bathroom he couldn’t navigate. That moment changed how he built, designed, and thought about impact. His TEDxYouth talk is about why the smallest fix can…

Stability Becomes Momentum and Momentum Changes Everything. | Chris Pappas | TEDxHilton — Chris Pappas explores how communities move from decline to renewal through three distinct phases: disruption, stabilisation and momentum. Drawing on the realities of rebuilding public instit

Growing up with a Robot Brain | Nyinsha Kosireddy | TEDxAvi Cenna Intl School — Kosireddy Nynisha explores how growing up in the age of artificial intelligence is shaping the way young people learn, think, create, and imagine the future. Kosireddy Nynisha is a 12-year-old…

New-to-science spider builds trap that flings ants into the air — A spider living in the rainforests of Queensland, Australia, builds a snare trap reminiscent of a Roman-era ballista weapon that it uses to catapult green tree ants into a web 30 centimetres above

Aboriginal Spiritual Leaders Performed ‘Magic, Healing, Cursing’ Rituals in This Australian Cave for 25,000 Years, New Research Finds — Archaeologists collaborated with members of the GunaiKurnai Aboriginal community to explore layers of ash from burned grasses dating back…

This Pacific Island Disappeared Under Rising Seas. A New Sculpture Marking the Spot Will Morph Into a Home for Seabirds, Coral and Marine Life — "The Solomon Siren" remembers Kale Island, submerged a decade ago in the Solomon Islands

The Best Things to Do In and Around New Hope, PA — Country air, historic architecture, and world-class antiquing await, just an hour-and-a-half from midtown Manhattan.

The Only Three Distinctions Between People — It may be that consciousness evolved to sieve the relevant from the incomprehensible allness of all there is, to parse the world into concepts and find an organizing principle for the chaos of them…

Monsoon-driven wildfires may have shaped human evolution — A reconstruction of East Africa's environment 1.75 million years ago suggests wildfires spiked during wetter times, which may have influenced human evolution

Tropical Storm Arthur - NASA Science — The first named storm of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season brought intense rainfall and the threat of flash flooding to the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Cubans grapple with fuel shortages and blackouts as US steps up pressure — The BBC speaks to Havana residents after the US charges the country's former leader, Raúl Castro, with murder.

A Modernização da Aduana e Seus Impactos | Mario De Marco e Fabiano Coelho | TEDxCarioba — Nesta palestra, Mario de Marco e Fabiano Coelho revelam os bastidores da modernização da aduana brasileira e mostram como a análise de risco, a inovação e o uso estratégico de informações i

One of My Poems is Literally Going to the Moon — In some sense, I’ve been going to the Moon most of my life. As a child of the space age whose father worked in the space industry, I’ve tracked sometimes closely, sometimes less so with activities …

These Shark Look-Alikes Have Long Confounded Fishers and Scientists on the East Coast. Tracking Where They Migrate Could Help Clear the Confusion — Researchers are tagging and tracking spinner sharks to map out their geographic distribution, because they've seen that the range…

Why you can't learn to be original. | Trung Kien Nguyen | TEDxThe Dewey Schools THT — Learning gives us maps to follow - but originality begins when the map runs out. Through humorous personal stories, from buying a shaving razor to struggling to write this very TEDx talk,…

Biological Evolution and Information Acquisition — A few weeks ago we looked at a simulation of technological evolution by economist Brian Arthur, in which he was able to start with simple building blocks (such as a NAND gate) and evolve surprisingly complex circuits (such as a…

Why every chemo ward needs an artroom | Prachi Kulkarni | TEDxCCOEW — In this talk, she reflects on finding strength in vulnerability and choosing hope, purpose, and joy even through life's most difficult moments. A runner, chef, potter, and cancer survivor, Prachi Kulkarni…

US government releases huge batch of UFO files — The US Department of Defense has released hundreds of documents and photographs related to UFOs, some of which have been declassified, in the first of many drops to come

Can a heatwave cause trees to fall? — Don't sit under a tree during a heatwave - here's why.

Meta ordered to pay enormous penalty after losing New Mexico case — A new development in the teen safety trial.

The gravity of emotion | Vedansh Parashar | TEDxRWA Youth — Every idea has its own pull. Vedansh Parashar draws us closer to the gravitational pull of our own emotions. At just 11 years old, this Grade 6 student at RWA is full of energy and as transparent as crystal. An…

NASA's TESS Mission Reveals the “Puffiest” Planets Ever Found - NASA Science — NASA has revealed two new “super-puff” planets, giant worlds so light that their density is comparable to cotton candy. Scientists calculate that these Jupiter-sized planets are the “puffiest” worlds…

Thousands of fish killed in park pollution mystery — Dead eels, sticklebacks, gudgeon and stone loach were discovered in a stretch of the River Pool.

The difference between chosen and forgotten brands | Doug Zarkin | TEDxApex — Through powerful storytelling, sharp insight, and real-world examples, this talk reveals how authenticity, empathy, curiosity, and human presence are becoming the rarest and most valuable traits of all.

¿Quién está en tu sala de crisis? | Yohana Leguizamo | TEDxBucaramanga Women — Todos tenemos personas cerca: familia, amigos, gente que nos quiere. Pero cuando la vida golpea, no basta con tener personas que te amen. Necesitas personas que sepan quedarse contigo dentro del…

An incomplete list of people reading The Catcher in the Rye in movies. — Today, J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye turns 75. Despite mixed early reviews, the book quickly became a touchstone of American literature, and an icon of American culture in general. I…

Mangroves Are Key to Coastal Ecosystems. See 20 Breathtaking Photos That Reveal How the Trees Support Wildlife and Face Threats — The Mangrove Photography Awards honor images that show off the beauty—and the fragility—of these valuable intertidal forests

NASA Upgrades Vertical Motion Simulator for Modern Mission Needs - NASA — Imagine stepping into a machine that can make you feel like you’re flying a spacecraft, piloting a next generation air taxi, or landing on the Moon, all

Writing a Novel and Hiking a Mountain Are Pretty Similar, Actually — In July 2020 my twin sister Madelynn and I had decided we were tired of being apart, of quarantining alone in our homes—mine in Syracuse, NY, where I was an MFA student drafting my first “novel” an…

Erased No More: A Reading List of BIPOC-Centered Historical Fiction — Through historical fiction, many BIOPOC authors help to reclaim the voices of our past and ensure that these sheroes are finally recognized and celebrated. These works collectively illuminate the m…

What Real Freedom Means | Tekla Lomidze | TEDxLCC University — Tekla Lomidze reflects on freedom as something deeper than comfort or perfection. Through stories of artists, scientists, and her own personal experiences, she explores how challenges, uncertainty, and struggle…

At least five dead, 41 missing after ferry catches fire off Indonesia — The ship was carrying 271 passengers and crew members when the blaze broke out as it sailed eastwards from Java.

Powered by Noise | Sowdeswari S | TEDxKGCAS — Noise isn't always disturbance; sometimes it is data. The experiences, we overlook sometimes can reveal something important about who we are and where we're headed. I'm Sowdeswari, an aspiring embedded engineer with a keen interest…

Rare butterfly find drives conservation research — Gareth Tilley is credited as being the first to discover the elusive black hairstreak in Surrey.

NASA Sounding Rocket to Launch Student Experiments - NASA — NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia is scheduled to launch a sounding rocket carrying student-developed experiments for the agency’s RockSatX and

'Maybe people will stop sleeping on us' - Hull enjoy dream return — Relegation favourites Hull City start the season well with a victory over Manchester United as their manager says "we are trying to prove people wrong".

Actuación María Casado | María Casado | TEDxCesine — Una autentica artista A dancer specialising in Spanish dance who runs her own dance school in Santander. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.…

Injection halves risk of chromosome error common in older human eggs — Egg cells missing a key protein may be more likely to end up with the wrong number of chromosomes, but an mRNA injection that helps the cells make the protein reduces the problem

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La NASA avanza hacia la misión Artemis III en 2027 y anuncia a su tripulación - NASA — La NASA dio el martes otro paso hacia una de las misiones tripuladas más complejas de la historia reciente al ofrecer nuevos detalles sobre Artemis III y

Trust launches 'first-of-its-kind' nature survey — A wildlife group says "everyone can get involved with protecting nature" by taking part in research.

Jewish activists push back against Israeli settlers — Jewish activists provide a ‘protective presence’ to deter settler violence in parts of the Occupied West Bank.

NASA's Hubble Spies Superbubble Scene - NASA Science — This Hubble Space Telescope image features a sprawling cosmic vista called N44. Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Hot summer helps group clear 'buckets' of lake litter — The hot summer has meant lakes and rivers across the country have been running low.

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