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Grandmother Has Miracle Recovery From Brain Bleed After Doctors Said 5 Times She Wouldn’t Survive

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Thomas and Millie Beckett with daughter Corinne – SWNS
Thomas and Millie Beckett with daughter Corinne – SWNS

A grandmother who suffered a deadly brain bleed has made a miracle recovery—after doctors told the family five times that she wouldn’t survive.

Millie Beckett ended up in a coma for three weeks after the massive hemorrhage, but her devoted husband never left her bedside.

Millie’s daughter, Corinne, said the family was utterly ‘devastated’ when the medical team at Inverclyde Royal Hospital in Scotland warned that even if the 74-year-old lived, she would be left profoundly disabled and need round-the-clock care.

But Millie was back on her feet within weeks—and five months later, she has made an almost complete recovery.

“Mum was in the hospital for eight weeks,” said daughter Corrine. “Honestly, every time I look at her, I could cry. We thought she was gone.”

“We were absolutely devastated when we were told that it was bad news, and she wasn’t going to make it.”

Millie, who lives in Inverkip, Scotland, had only retired in 2023 after a career working in social care.

“We are such a close knit family,” her daughter told SWNS news agency. “We do everything together. My mum and dad are our best friends.”

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Looking back on what happened, husband Thomas, who ran his own fabrication company before retiring, said they noticed on November 30 that Millie had become really confused and disorientated and was mixing up her words.

They rushed her to the hospital where brain scans were taken. The family was then told that Millie had suffered a massive intra-cerebral brain bleed, which is a type of stroke.

“They basically told us there was nothing that they could do for her,” Corinne recalled “The bleed was too big to operate.

“They found a room for her in the stroke unit. They also gave us a room. We couldn’t bear it if she was to pass away and there was no-one by her side. She was unresponsive and in a coma, but dad never left her side.”

As the days passed the prognosis did not change; Millie remained paralyzed with no speech. “Five times we were told that mum wouldn’t survive, and that if they took her off the machine she would slip away,” she recalled.

After three weeks, though, Millie began to respond to treatment, and with the help of staff at the stroke unit, her recovery progressed to the point where, eight weeks after the hemorrhage, she was able to walk right out of the unit.

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“They offered me a wheel chair but I didn’t need it,” said Millie. “It has been much harder for my family than me. I have no memory of it at all.”

Miracle Millie is now looking forward to her summer holiday in Spain with Thomas—to whom she has been married for 57 years—and enjoying their retirement.

“I just want to make the most of every day. When I see the nurses in the town, they say to me, ‘There’s our Christmas miracle.’”

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The family are forever grateful for the team at the IRH stroke unit. Daughter Corinne said: “They were incredible with my mum and with us. They couldn’t do enough for us.

“We want to give something back, to help other patients.” So the family is now aiming to raise thousands for the stroke unit as a gesture of thanks and to help other patients.

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Rare Bird Moment as Photographer Witnesses Mistle Thrush Feeding Orphaned Blackbird as Her Own

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Mistle thrush feeds orphaned blackbird juvenile Credit: Andrew Fusek-Peters via SWNS
Mistle thrush feeds orphaned blackbird juvenile Credit: Andrew Fusek-Peters via SWNS

Birds of a feather usually flock together, but a lucky blackbird was ‘adopted’ by a mistle thrush mama who took the juvenile ‘under her wing’ in a rare case of inter-species feeding.

Photographer Andrew Fusek-Peters captured the rare phenomenon in adorable close-up photos that show the female adult thrush diligently feeding her own chicks before offering a worm to a baby blackbird.

Andrew watched as the fluffy fledgling ruffled its feathers, waiting its turn before gobbling down the worm from the thrush’s beak.

“It’s such a rare thing to see, let alone photograph,” said the 59-year-old who shot the photos in a field in North Shropshire, England, earlier this month.

“It is known to happen but it almost never photographed—and I’ve not known of a mistle thrush and a blackbird doing this before.”

He believed it was likely the blackbird chick was abandoned by its mother or its mother died leaving it an orphan.

“When the chick opens its mouth, it triggers a maternal response in nearby female birds,” he told SWNS news agency.

Female Mistle thrush with worm Credit- Andrew Fusek-Peters via SWNS

“The blackbird was sitting with its beak open, and the mistle thrush was close by.

“It fed its own chick first and then the blackbird.”

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He searched the internet but couldn’t find an example of this situation ever having been captured on camera before.

“I thought it was a very dark thrush baby at first, then I realized it’s actually a blackbird.

“I was only five yards away. I could get quite close because they aren’t bothered by humans.

“The chicks are only a few weeks old.

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“When fledglings leave the nest the parents will keep feeding them,” he explained.

“I can’t get over how unbelievably rare this is to capture. It was such a special moment.”

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Your Weekly Horoscope – ‘Free Will Astrology’ by Rob Brezsny

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Our partner Rob Brezsny, who has a new book out, Astrology Is Real: Revelations from My Life as an Oracle, provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free preview of the book is available here.)

Here is your weekly horoscope…

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY – Week of May 24, 2025
Copyright by Rob Brezsny, FreeWillAstrology.com

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):
Gemini writer Raymond Carver (1938–1988) established a reputation as a master of terse minimalism. One critic noted that he practiced the “Theory of Omission”—an approach to writing fiction that mandates the elimination of superfluous narrative elements. But it turns out that Carver’s editor Gordon Lish had a major role in all this. He deleted half of Carver’s original words and changed the endings of half his stories. Years after his death, Carver’s widow, Tess Gallagher, published the original versions, with the omitted material reinstated. I believe the coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to make comparable restorations, Gemini. In every way you can imagine, tell the full story, provide the complete rendition, and offer elements that have been missing.

CANCER (June 21-July 22):
Even if you don’t regard yourself as a psychic or prophet, I suspect you now have an uncanny knack for deciphering future trends. Your intuition is operating at peak levels, especially when you focus it on the big picture of your long-term destiny. As long as you’re not overconfident about this temporary bloom of expansive vision, you can trust your ability to see the deep patterns running through your life story. To make the most of this gift, take a loving inventory of where you have been and where you are going. Then devote relaxed meditations to adjusting your master plan.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):
River deltas form where rivers meet the sea, creating fertile and complex ecosystems that nourish abundant life. Some of my favorites are the Rhône River Delta in France, the Po River Delta in Italy, and the Shinano River Delta in Japan. In the coming weeks, Leo, I will visualize you as the metaphorical equivalent of a river delta. I’ll call you the Leo Delta, trusting you will be inspired to celebrate and cultivate the rich intersections that characterize your life—areas where an array of ideas, paths, and relationships converge. Be open to synergizing different aspects of your world: integrating emotions and logic, connecting with diverse people, blending personal and professional goals.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
Your natural inclination is to solve problems through detailed planning and careful analysis. On occasion, that process dead-ends in overthinking, though it often works pretty well. In accordance with current astrological omens, however, I suggest an alternative approach for you in the coming weeks. Instead of trying to figure everything out, how about if you simply create a relaxed spaciousness for new things to emerge? Experiment with the hypothesis that progress will come not from doing more, but from allowing more.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
As they climb, mountaineers carefully assess every handhold and foothold. Unfailing concentration is key. I recommend adopting their attitude in the coming weeks, Libra. You are entering a phase when ascension and expansion will be among your main assignments. The best approach to your adventures is to make steady progress with precision and thoughtfulness. Rushing rashly ahead or taking needless risks could be counterproductive, so be scrupulous about planning and preparation. Trust that the most efficient path to the summit will be via small, deliberate steps. Your winning combination will be ambition leavened with caution.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
At age 42, Scorpio painter Georgia O’Keeffe left her busy New York art career and traveled to New Mexico for the first time. The landscape’s beauty overwhelmed her. She wandered around the desert for three months, creating no art at all. A few critics accused her of wasting time. She rejected their ignorant misunderstanding of her process, replying, “To see takes time. I had to learn the country first before it would let me paint it.” Her most iconic paintings emerged after this phase of pure observation. I’m recommending a similar period for you, dear Scorpio. While your instincts may tempt you toward a flurry of activity, I believe now is a time to wait and see; to pause and ponder; to muse and meditate.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
By the 20th century, the 483-mile-long Seine River in France was so polluted that most of its fish were gone. But clean-up efforts have been successful. Now there are 32 fish species, including the Atlantic salmon. The Seine is also very close to being completely safe for humans to swim. I would love it if you were inspired by this success story to undertake a comparable project in your own life, Sagittarius. What would you most like to see revived and restored? Now is a good time to begin the effort.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
Until she reached her 70s, Capricorn visual artist Louise Bourgeois was a peripheral figure in the art world, modestly respected but not acclaimed. Then New York’s Museum of Modern Art presented her work in a major show. In response, the New York Times reviewed her work, saying it was “charged with tenderness and violence, acceptance and defiance, ambivalence and conviction.” I bring this to your attention, Capricorn, because I suspect the coming months will also bring you recognition for labors of love you’ve been devoted to for a while—maybe not in the form of fame, but through an elevated appreciation by those whose opinion matters to you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
The name of the old Talking Heads album is Stop Making Sense. One of its many implications is that we periodically derive benefit and relief from being free of the pressure to sound reasonable and be consistent. According to my detailed, logical, in-depth analysis of your astrological omens, now is a perfect time to honor this counsel. I hope you will give yourself a sabbatical from being sensible, serious, and overly sane. Instead, please consider a sustained pursuit of pure pleasure, fun foolishness, and amazing amusement.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
Be on high alert for fleeting intuitions that flow through your awareness. Really good ideas may rise up only briefly and only once, and you should be ready to catch them in the ripe moment before they fade away. Do you hear my urgency? Pay special attention to passing thoughts or sudden insights. They may contain more value than initially apparent. I will even speculate that seemingly ephemeral inspirations could become foundational elements in your future success. Document your hunches, even if they seem premature.

ARIES (March 21-April 19):
I think you’re ready to establish new ways of nourishing and protecting what’s valuable to you. Your natural assertiveness will be useful in setting boundaries and securing resources. Your flourishing intuition will guide you to implement adjustments that safeguard your interests while remaining flexible enough to permit legitimate access. Be extra alert, Aries, for when you need to balance security with accessibility. Your best defenses will come from clever design, not brute force. Do what you need to feel secure without feeling trapped.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
In July 1971, 26-year-old Taurus poet Bernadette Mayer kept a scrupulous diary. Every day, she shot a roll of 35 mm film, wrote about the day’s events, and recorded herself reading her accounts. By August 1, she had accumulated 1,100 photos and six hours of readings. One of her goals in doing the project was to learn more about how her memory worked. What was worth remembering, and what wasn’t? She also hoped to gain an objective perspective about her routine rhythm. Years later, she acknowledged that though this was a narcissistic experiment, she had no shame about it. Inspired by Mayer, and in accordance with astrological omens, you might find it worthwhile to lovingly and thoroughly study the details of your daily life for a while. It’s an excellent time to get to know yourself better.

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(Zodiac images by Numerologysign.com, CC license)

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“Necessity dispenseth with decorum.” – Thomas Carlyle

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Quote of the Day: “Necessity dispenseth with decorum.” – Thomas Carlyle

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Good News in History, May 24

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142 years ago today, the Brooklyn Bridge was opened by President President Chester A. Arthur and NY Governor Grover Cleveland. It was also the longest suspension bridge in the world when opened, with a main span of 1,595.5 feet (486.3 meters). The bridge uses a hybrid design combining elements of cable-stayed and suspension bridges, with both vertical and diagonal suspender cables. Its stone towers are neo-Gothic, with characteristic pointed arches. READ about its construction history… (1883)

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Nurse Swaps Medicine for Mangos After Epiphany: Patients Were Malnourished While Fruit Rots All Around

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The Mango Project in Uganda (Courtesy of their Facebook page)
The Mango Project in Uganda (Courtesy of their Facebook page)

In Uganda, a nurse was excited to start practicing medicine, but realized only afterwards that his patients didn’t so much need pharmaceuticals as proper nutrition.

14 years ago in northern Uganda’s Yumbe district, Francis Asiku was riding home from that nursing job having witnessed a four-year-old suffering from acute malnutrition. It was a disturbing experience he admits, but while passing by some mango trees in the village of Midigo, he saw birds feasting on mangos that were rotting on the ground.

A question stopped his pedals and his mind: why were the birds eating that nutritious fruit? Why was it left to rot? The epiphany which followed gave rise to the Mango Project, a local-led initiative to preserve mangoes from the two harvests per years, and get them into the mouths of the least-fortunate children.

“Should we wait for the government to come to our rescue, and yet the situation keeps getting worse?” he remembers asking his earliest colleagues on the Mango Project.

Malnutrition is a problem across Africa, and Uganda is no exception. Christian Science Monitor, reporting on the Mango Project, claimed that one-quarter of children have stunting, a condition that is associated with malnutrition.

One large mango isn’t exactly a superfood, but it does contain a whole day’s supply of vitamin C, and impactful amounts of copper, potassium, folate, vitamin A, manganese, and vitamin E.

The problem which Asiku and village elders who own the land the mangos grow on faced was that 40% of mangos are lost because communities like Midigo can’t afford refrigeration to preserve the fruit.

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The Mango Project embarked upon an effort to slice mangoes every spring and winter harvest season and preserve them in jars of boiled water and a bit of sugar. Like this, they can last a year. The jars are then delivered to health centers and refugee settlements. During the COVID-19 years, the project distributed 12,000 jars of mangos.

Francis Asiku, Founder of Uganda Mango Project

Asiku has become a local champion and educator for proper childhood nutrition, armed with an orchard of 310 hybrid mango trees bred to resist fruit flies and erratic weather. He knows that mangos alone can’t resolve the problem: for example they contain virtually no protein or iron, vitamin B2, B1, choline, or zinc.

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So in response to the interest in the project from donations, Asiku managed to squirrel away enough money to afford a solar-powered drier, with which he dries okra and eggplant, adding sources of vitamin K, B1, magnesium, and calcium.

He hopes to obtain a government license to distribute his foods further afield.

“It’s fulfilling to see my people smiling at the end of the day,” Mr. Asiku told CSM. “Malnutrition is still there, but this does not mean that we should give up.”

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Woman Stunned to See Grandparent’s Wartime Locket Online After Stranger Buys it in Thrift Shop to Find Owner

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Alison Anne reunited wartime locket with its owners after buying it at Thrift Shop (Photo posted on her FB page)
Alison Anne reunited wartime locket with its owners after buying it at Thrift Shop (Photo posted on her FB page)

From Canada comes the story of a lost family heirloom finding its way home in the most bizarre series of circumstances.

Kelly Brown, a member of the Aurora post of the Royal Canadian Legion, sat at her home last week in shock: staring at what appeared to be a black-and-white photograph of her grandparents smiling out from the inside of a locket; the subject of a post on Facebook.

The post’s author, Alison Anne, said she had found and bought the locket at a thrift shop after recognizing the man in the photo was connected to the Royal Canadian Air Force, and wanted to know if anyone had a clue as to its original owner; a simple, selfless act that against all odds, paid off.

“Little lost for words,” Brown said, remembering the instant she realized it was her grandparents in the locket. “Just it’s such a surreal, cool moment. The power of social media doing something good.”

Going back a few months, a branch of re-Source Thrift Shop in Barrie received a donation of things from a woman whose grandmother who passed away not long before. Inside were several jewelry boxes where the locket was eventually found before being put up for sale.

That’s where the locket resurfaced, but according to Brown, it disappeared long before that—perhaps as early as the year 2000 when during a teenager-organized house party, some of her grandfather’s medals and personal items were allegedly stolen.

Another possibility could have been a clear our of family effects by Brown’s grandmother in 2010 following the death of her daughter, Brown’s mother.

In any case, the locket had a picture of Bill Mitchell, Brown’s grandfather who served as a Warrant Officer 2nd Class in the RCAF during WWII, winning the Burma Star and the 1939–45 War Medal.

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After his time in the military finished, he became a police detective, and eventually retired to open a rollar rink in Barrie. Brown said she is routinely presented with stories from residents about the impact of Mitchell his wife on their lives, and has gradually come to recognize that they were major figures in the community.

Anne and Brown decided after connecting to meet at the local Royal Canadian Legion post to reunite the locket with its rightful owner and reminisce about family, war, history, and fortune.

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“I’m still mesmerized. I’m still in shock. Yeah. I’m like, is this for real? I had to ask people, are these my grandparents? And then I had the same pictures in my old photo albums, and I’m just. I’m in awe,” shared Brown.

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James Webb Telescope Reveals New Details and Mysteries Hidden in Jupiter’s Own ‘Northern Lights’

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Auroras on Jupiter –Credit: NASA's Webb telescope, ESA, CSA-Jonathan Nichols / Mahdi Zamani
Auroras on Jupiter –Credit: NASA’s Webb telescope, ESA, CSA-Jonathan Nichols / Mahdi Zamani

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have photographed the auroras of Jupiter, revealing a host of details previously unknown to science.

Naturally, the aurora on our solar system’s largest planet is hundreds of times brighter and more energetic than our own Northern and Southern lights, and the findings from Webb will help scientists understand better how the gas giant’s atmosphere is heated and cooled.

Fundamentally, aurorae are magnetic phenomena; caused by interactions with charged particles clustering around a planet’s magnetic poles. Earth’s aurorae are caused when energetic particles released by the Sun collide with the magnetosphere and are driven to the poles where they excite localized gases that glow in a variety of colors.

Jupiter on the other hand is so large that it grabs charged particles from all over its spatial environment, including those from the solar wind. It also gets a substantial amount of these particles from its own moon Io, the most volcanically-active body in the solar system, and the fourth largest moon.

Images with James Webb’s NIRCam instrument show giant, fiery-colored clouds of charged particles emitting trihydrogen cation. A cation is a smaller version of a normal atom measured via the size of it’s electron cloud. It’s one of the most abundant ions in the universe.

Jonathan Nichols from the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom, led the team which used both Webb and the Hubble Space Telescope to image the aurora, the resulting study from which was published in Nature.

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“What a Christmas present it was—it just blew me away!” shared Nichols. “We wanted to see how quickly the auroras change, expecting them to fade in and out ponderously, perhaps over a quarter of an hour or so. Instead, we observed the whole auroral region fizzing and popping with light, sometimes varying by the second.”

The team also uncovered some unexplained observations in their data.

“What made these observations even more special is that we also took pictures simultaneously in the ultraviolet with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope,” added Nichols.

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“Bizarrely, the brightest light observed by Webb had no real counterpart in Hubble’s pictures. This has left us scratching our heads. In order to cause the combination of brightness seen by both Webb and Hubble, we need to have a combination of high quantities of very low-energy particles hitting the atmosphere, which was previously thought to be impossible. We still don’t understand how this happens.”

The team now plans to study this discrepancy between the Hubble and Webb data and to explore the wider implications for Jupiter’s atmosphere and space environment.

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West African Man Becomes Kung Fu Master, Brings Chinese Martial Arts and Meditation Back Home

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Damien Agossou Degbo (front) and his students at his martial arts club in Akpro-Misserete town - credit, CLUB SUPER Shaolin Du BENIN
Damien Agossou Degbo (front) and his students at his martial arts club in Akpro-Misserete town – credit, CLUB SUPER Shaolin Du Benin, via Facebook.

Meet Master Degbo, a Chinese Shaolin kung fu and tai chi teacher on the other side of the world from China.

From the West African nation of Benin comes the ultimate story in intercultural exchange, whereby a young man inspired by Jackie Chan films took up kung fu and persisted to run the largest Chinese martial arts club in his country.

In a town about 20 miles north of the country’s economic center of Cotonou, some 350 girls and boys of all ages stamp their feet and strike the air to the sound “hay-ya!” When the physical training ends, they can be seen in half-lotus, practicing Buddhist meditation.

It’s just another day in the Super Shaolin Club of Benin, founded by Damien Agossou Degbo.

Degbo was 13 when he first discovered kung fu through imported films screened at the cinema in Porto Novo. He was captivated by the mixture of grace, strength, and discipline the figures displayed in combat and out of it.

He found a local martial arts club and began training 4 times a week. 4 years later, a scholarship offered Degbo the chance of a lifetime—to study the real thing at the real place—the Shaolin Temple on the slopes of Wudeng Mountain.

“At Shaolin Temple, training was fast-paced and relentless,” Degbo told China’s Global Times. “Back home, we trained three to four times a week. But at Shaolin, it (Kung Fu) was a way of life.”

Like all warrior-monks, when not breaking boards and standing in horse stance, he learned Chinese calligraphy, tea preparation, meditation, and massage techniques; one can only imagine what a culture shock it must have been for a French-speaking teen from the hot and steamy, musical cultures of West Africa.

A year later, Degbo returned to China for a second round of cultural immersion, learning traditional dragon and lion dances, which in turn he brought back to Super Shaolin Club.

“I wanted to pass on what I had learned to empower young people with self-discipline, confidence, and an understanding of another culture,” he said.

With multiple locations in different regions across Benin, it’s the largest Chinese martial arts club in the country and perhaps all of West Africa. Students talk about self-empowerment, learning discipline and confidence, and being able to face the challenges of the day and the age with calm and focus.

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Degbo has become a fully-fledged cultural ambassador, linking two completely different peoples and parts of the world through the mutual appreciation of martial arts.

“Sharing Kung Fu with young people gives them insight into the values of Chinese culture: discipline, harmony, respect,” Degbo reflected. “It opens a window onto another worldview.”

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In Kenya, another foreign martial art is helping keep kids in school and off the streets. The Tsavora Fencing Club routinely hold bouts in the middle of a disadvantaged Nairobi suburb, where they strike a dramatic scene thrusting and parrying in their snow-white uniforms across the reddish ground.

Founder Mburu Wanyoike is a former gangster turned athlete and said that they use their “enthusiasm and obsession” to compensate for the lack of high-quality equipment.

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“He who angers you conquers you.” – Elizabeth Kenny

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Quote of the Day: “He who angers you conquers you.” – Elizabeth Kenny

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Good News in History, May 23

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30 years ago today, the first version of the Java programming language was released, one of the most popular languages of computer code. It is intended to let programmers write once, run anywhere (WORA), meaning that compiled Java code can run on all platforms that support Java without the need to recompile. Currently on Java SE 24, the language has lost some of its former popularity, but was updated as recently as March, 2025. READ more about the Java language… (1995)

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World’s Tallest 3D-Printed Structure Rises 4 Stories into the Air Like a Wedding Cake, Inspired by Local Bakeries

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The village of Mulegns with the White Tower - credit, Benjamin Hofer Nova Fundaziun Origen
The village of Mulegns with the White Tower – credit, Benjamin Hofer Nova Fundaziun Origen

In the usually sleepy Swiss town of Mulegns, pop. 11, a dramatic white tower rises four stories into the Alpine air—the tallest 3D-printed structure on earth.

One might imagine such a technological marvel to be debuted in a square in the Silicon Valley cities of San Jose or San Francisco, or perhaps, being that it was accomplished by the Swiss, to garnish the slopes of Davos where millionaires gather to chin wag about the future of the world.

Instead, visitors came to Mulegns from all over Switzerland and further afield to see the ‘Tor Alva’ or white tower, for themselves. A tarp covering was removed by helicopter on the eve of the opening, revealing the delicate structure which now blends into the mountain landscape of the Julier Pass.

It’s an architectural landmark, a pioneering work of digital fabrication, and an instrument in the revival of Mulegns, a mountain village threatened by depopulation.

The Origen cultural foundation led the work in collaboration with ETH Zurich—Europe’s finest technical university, to celebrate culture and the arts and to give the village a new lease of life. Starting tomorrow, the Tor Alva will be open daily for guided tours. From July onwards, the space will also host staged performances, as it is intended to remain in Mulegns for at least 5 years.

The form of the structure is reminiscent of an ornate layered cake—a reference to the emigration history of confectioners from Graubünden who exported their skills from here to the whole of Europe. Thirty-two sculptured white concrete columns rise up over four stories, becoming thinner and more branched, before fanning out in an almost tree-like fashion to form the domed space at the top.

The tower was designed by architect Michael Hansmeyer and ETH Professor of Digital Building Technologies Benjamin Dillenburger. Instead of relying on traditional concrete formwork, they opted for an additive manufacturing process, whereby an industrial robot applies the concrete layer by layer into free-form elements without any supportive casting molds. The design is based on complex algorithms that generate the ornamental and the structural aspects at the same time.

The village of Mulegns with the White Tower – credit, Benjamin Hofer Nova Fundaziun Origen

To make this process possible, a specially developed concrete was needed. It had to be soft enough to bond the delicate structures, while hardening quickly enough to support the subsequent layers without support molds. Robert Flatt, ETH Professor of Physical Chemistry of Building Materials, developed a novel mixture for this purpose. Just before the concrete leaves the pressurized nozzle, two additives are blended into the mixture, allowing the characteristic droplet-like relief on the columns to be achieved.

“The tower combines the latest insights from research with the expertise of companies and experts. Building the tower here, at the foot of the Julier Pass, has also allowed our researchers to gain important practical experience,” said President of ETH Zurich Joël Mesot.

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What is special about this project is that the 3D-printed elements not only serve as a shell, but for the first time they are also load-bearing. Until now, a suitable method to reinforce 3D-printed concrete effectively has been lacking. This is now possible thanks to a newly developed reinforcement concept implemented using a robot-assisted innovation.

While one robot applies the concrete in layers, a second places a ring-shaped reinforcement in the new structure every few inches. These are supplemented by longitudinal rebars that are added after printing. The process, known as “reinforcement that grows” was developed by ETH professors Walter Kaufmann, Robert Flatt and Benjamin Dillenburger.

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In addition, the researchers developed a new testing method which allows the load-bearing capacity of 3D-printed concrete to be reliably calculated for the first time. This is a key requirement to ensure that such buildings can in the future be tested just as safely as conventional reinforced concrete structures.

It took five months to print the columns, and the components were then assembled in and delivered to Mulegns via the Julier road.

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Trees Can Warn Us When Volcanos Are Ready to Erupt–and NASA Satellites Can Read Their Signals

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Andy Corbley
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Mount Mayon seen from Space Shuttle mission STS-083 - credit, NASA
Mount Mayon seen from Space Shuttle mission STS-083 – credit, NASA

For the 10% of the global population that live near an active and potentially dangerous volcano, help may be forthcoming from an unlikely source: trees.

In advance of volcanic eruptions, carbon dioxide gases are released from the magma below the earth. The trees absorbing it become green and vibrant, a change that if tracked by satellite could be used to improve early warning and detection systems.

The idea comes from an all-American partnership between the Smithsonian Institute and NASA, with the former organizing a team of botanists and volcanologists, and the latter providing a variety of earth-monitoring satellites like Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 and Landsat 8.

Parts of the US like northern California, southwest Alaska, and obviously Hawaii, stand at high risks of damage from volcanic eruptions. In 2009 for example, 300 flights were canceled when Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport was shut down after Redoubt Volcano erupted clouds of volcanic rock and ash.

Before a volcano like Redoubt erupts, rising magma squeezes out emissions of carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide that are visible from space. While sulfur dioxide is easily detectable from space, the carbon dioxide comes earlier in the pre-eruption process and is much harder to spot because of the already ample amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere.

The CO2-caused greening of vegetation is an effective proxy for the CO2 release, and easier to detect via satellite. When combined with seismic waves and changes in ground height, volcanologists could have an even better idea of what’s going on below a volcano.

A sign near Anchorage warning that the Rebout Volcano is active – credit, public domain

“A volcano emitting the modest amounts of carbon dioxide that might presage an eruption isn’t going to show up in satellite imagery,” said volcanologist Robert Bogue of McGill University in Montreal. “The whole idea is to find something that we could measure instead of carbon dioxide directly, to give us a proxy to detect changes in volcano emissions.”

Previously, that has meant measuring volcanoes directly, though because they’re often located in remote and hostile terrain, that isn’t always straightforward or safe.

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“There are plenty of satellites we can use to do this kind of analysis,” volcanologist Nicole Guinn of the University of Houston told Sci-Tech Daily. Guinn was on the first team to show that tree greening could be used to detect early eruptions when they used the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-2 and NASA’s Terra satellite to examine and compare images of trees around Italy’s Mount Etna and found that greening had a strong correlation with volcanic activity.

The key is to measure the emissions of volcanoes as best as can be managed, and trees are a potential tool for doing that. Sulfur and carbon dioxide emissions, measured by equipment installed by members of the Smithsonian-NASA collaboration, helped predict an eruption of Mayon Volcano in the Philippines. Early warning systems combined with the emissions helped advocate for mass evacuations before the blast, which produced zero casualties.

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Other members of the collaboration are just as eager to see how trees respond to greater levels of CO2 in the air for studying the future of the climate crisis as for helping predict volcanoes.

“We’re interested not only in tree responses to volcanic carbon dioxide as an early warning of eruption, but also in how much the trees are able to take up, as a window into the future of the Earth when all of Earth’s trees are exposed to high levels of carbon dioxide,” Josh Fisher of Chapman University in Orange, California, told Sci-Tech Daily.

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Native Turtles Return to Yosemite After Being Overrun by Invasive Bullfrogs from the East

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Andy Corbley
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Sidney Woodruff holding a Northwestern pond turtle at a field site - credit Sidney Woodruff
Sidney Woodruff holding a northwestern pond turtle at a field site – credit Sidney Woodruff

In Yosemite National Park, the eradication of non-native American bullfrogs has led to the return of California’s only native turtle species.

The northwestern pond turtle has been proposed as a threatened species according to the US Endangered Species List, and their biggest threat is a frog from east of the Rockies.

A UC Davis Ph.D. candidate, Sidney Woodruff, has been conducting research on whether bullfrog elimination could lead to a return of the pond turtle, or if their decline was a multifaceted event.

Between 2016 and 2022, Woodruff chronicled the life and times of bullfrogs and the northwestern pond turtles in four sites inside Yosemite National Park.

Lead author of a study observing and documenting the effects of bullfrog removal, the young scientist has proven conclusively that these big mouthed bullies had to croak before the peaceful turtle can return.

At the start of her research, Woodruff described Yosemite, where the American bullfrog was introduced back in 1950, as so full of the amphibians that “constellations” of eyes would stare back at any light flashed into a pond. Their deafening bullfrog croak was all that could be heard, and more than a few park visitors probably imagined that was normal.

“One reason American bullfrogs are among the top worst globally introduced pests is because they eat everything—anything that fits into their mouth,” said senior author Brian Todd, a UC Davis professor in the Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology, a co-author on the paper. “They’ve been causing declines to native species everywhere they’re introduced, which is around the world.”

Juvenile pond turtle and large American bullfrog tadpole – credit Sidney Woodruff UC Davis

Indeed, the gluttonous frog has been recorded invasively in southern Brazil, northern Colombia, Ecuador, Cuba, Japan, northern Italy, and Malaysian Borneo to name a few locations.

Even before the tadpoles have lost their tails, their mouths are already larger than a juvenile pond turtle. It’s believed they prey on the turtle’s young, as well as newts, salamanders, and other smaller frogs. They’re cold-blooded killers in the most literal sense.

The team undertook searches on foot during the day to locate and scoop bullfrog egg masses using paint strainers or fine mesh nets before laying them out in the sun to dry. Adults were captured at night and euthanized.

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During the eradication work, the population surveys pointed to a stark reality that if bullfrogs were present, turtles struggled to be. In ponds without bullfrogs, population counts were between twice and 100-times as high as ponds with bullfrogs. In the infested ponds, all observed turtles were large and heavy, suggesting that juveniles were being picked off for the most part.

In fact, it took more than 2 years for the study team to even see a juvenile turtle in a bullfrog-present pond that wasn’t recovered from a frog’s stomach—and that one only after bullfrogs were eradicated, highlighting the scant survival rate they would have suffered from.

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“As bullfrog presence declined, we started to hear other native frogs call and see native salamanders walking around,” Woodruff said of their field work. “It’s nice to be able to go back to these sites and hear a chorus of native frogs calling again that previously would not have been heard.”

Todd told UC Davis Press that all across the state, the only freshwater turtles that should be there are the northwestern pond turtle, and without them, the state would lose “part of our natural heritage.”

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Unique Miami Recycling Company Gives Discarded Shoes New Traction

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Sneaker Impact's Miami location with shoes piled up - credit Sneaker Impact
Sneaker Impact’s Miami location with shoes piled up – credit Sneaker Impact

In Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood, a local business sorts through thousands of donated sneakers to decide the best way to keep them out of landfills.

Whether pristine or worn out, each pair will have a future either as recycled material or with a new owner who’s going to appreciate and continue to use them.

Sneaker Impact was founded by a man seeking a more environmentally friendly way to do business, and second-hand shoes is a good gig—the only competition is the landfill. Americans will own an average of 250 pairs of shoes in a lifetime, and that is unfortunately where many will end up.

“It’s all about accountability, sending the right product to the right market,” Sneaker Impact founder and CEO Moe Hachem told CBS News. “Sneakers are a necessity in the developing world. They are a form of transportation.”

Sneaker Impact receives around 1 million pairs of shoes every year through volunteer partners like running clubs, meaning that the cost to secure raw materials is virtually reduced to the labor of retrieving and sorting them.

Once in the Little Haiti facility, they are grouped together according to various criteria and stuffed into bags in orders of 200 to be sent around the world for resale.

“You’re not only reducing waste here at home, you are creating microbusiness opportunities in a developing country,” Hachem said.

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Those that are condemned are shredded and sorted into foam and fabric, which are then sold as raw materials where they could be used to make carpet mats, floor mats, etc.

Sneaker Impact sells a gym sandal that’s made of 85% sneaker foam, a durable, flexible, and weather-resistent material that seems fragile because of the intense job it’s asked to do: namely, pound the pavement for hours at a time every week.

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Quote of the Day: “There is always room at the top.” – Daniel Webster

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179 years ago today, the Associated Press organized in New York City as a nonprofit news cooperative to reduce the cost of covering the events of the Mexican American War. The original AP was agreed upon by senior members and editors of The Sun, the New York Herald, the New York Courier and Enquirer, The Journal of Commerce, and the New York Evening Express. Today, AP operates 235 news bureaus in 94 countries, and covers the news in English, Spanish, and Arabic, winning 59 Poulitzer prizes along the way. READ more about the AP’s long history… (1846)

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Stray Dog Rescued from the Streets Visits Dozens of Countries with Woman Who ‘Never Liked Dogs’

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Andy Corbley
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Heike Pirngruber and Butch the dog - credit Pirngruber, via SWNS
Heike Pirngruber and Butch the dog – credit Pirngruber, via SWNS

A woman who “never liked dogs” has been walking and biking around the world with a street dog that she found neglected and covered in fleas.

An Australian cattle dog, ‘Butch’ must now be among the most well-traveled dogs on the planet, having been taken in by a woman who spends all her days exploring the world.

Heike Pirngruber worked as a camerawoman for ZDF, Germany’s biggest broadcast station, over a decades-long career that ended 12 years ago when she decided to hit the road permanently. It’s taken her across over 104 countries on all inhabited continents to date.

She had been looking to travel across the Americas on a donkey in March 2020, before taking a break in a beach hut in Baja, California the following year.

Having been chased by dogs on more than one occasion during her travels, a lack of affection for the canine race grew into a dislike—all until her experience in the beach hut.

Cooking grilled chicken one night, a stray dog named Max—meek and mild—came to the front door, and Pirngruber’s friend Ronny convinced her to let him stay. The following day, Max came back with two friends.

During her sojourn in the beach hut, the three strays gradually nursed away her fear of dogs—a prerequisite to a lifechanging experience not long after.

“I never really liked dogs when I was a kid, but the first moment I had little Butch in my arms and knew he was mine now, I couldn’t believe how I felt,” Pringruber told England’s Southwestern News Service.

Butch the dog in his bike saddle – credit Pirngruber, via SWNS

Butch was chosen from among a litter of seven flea-ridden puppies that a pair of unscrupulous owners were looking to cast aside. Despite all the uncertainties and extra responsibilities that traveling with a dog would bring, she looked into Butch’s face and knew what she wanted to do.

“He’s my best friend, I love this guy to death and it’s awesome,” the Heidelberg native said. “Australian cattle dogs are a tough breed, they are basically made for the outdoors and Butch does not know any other way—he only knows life on the road and we’re connecting footsteps nearly every day.”

Heike Pirngruber and Butch the dog – credit Pirngruber, via SWNS

To begin their friendship, the duo spent a total of three years in the Americas together, walking across states in the US, riding a motorbike in Arizona and central Mexico, canoeing in New York and Vermont, and using a tuk-tuk to get around Chile and Argentina.

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With the tuk-tuk in particular, they saw thousands of miles of South America, both on and offroad.

“We’ve seen amazing places and scenery, and because Butch had the back seat in the tuk-tuk, he could sit in the shade or the sun—I think he really enjoyed that,” said Pirngruber.

“Then we flew to Madrid, Spain and I went home for just the third time in 12 years. But it’s been clear each time I came home I couldn’t stay there, as it wasn’t my lifestyle anymore, even if there is still a connection to people at home.”

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In November last year, after four months at home in Germany, they started out eastward through Europe, starting on a walk through Spain, and proceeding to Andorra, France, and Italy before taking a boat to Greece.

Heike Pirngruber and Butch the dog with their tuk-tuk – credit Pirngruber, via SWNS

Although Pirngruber does not plan much in advance, the pair are heading to Albania and the rest of the Balkans, before moving on to Turkey and eventually towards either India or Mongolia.

“I choose where we go mainly day by day. There are times when we want to get away from civilization and be by ourselves, and then other times I’m sitting at a square trying to get some contact with others, either in person or through my phone,” she said.

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“But I’m not a planner, and that’s the fun in it. I know the rough route, but it’s about experiencing new places. I love culture, I love to understand the planet. I just carry the basics, I go ultralight, I carry my camera and my first aid kit and Butch’s medicines so he’s protected from ticks and the like.”

“And 99% of people are nice and overall, I’ve had some great encounters with people, even though there have been some bad experiences and moments as a solo female traveler. It’s a safe world to travel in, in general.”

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Seizures Bar Him from Swimming–So He Saves a Drowning Girl with His Drone

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Andy Corbley
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The drone lowers a life-preserver into the girl's arms - credit Robert Nay, released to the media
The drone lowers a life-preserver into the girl’s arms – credit Robert Nay, released to the media

From Pensacola comes the story of an improvised rescue that saved the life of a teenage girl who was caught in a riptide.

A seizure-prone fisherman used his specialized drone to lower a life-preserver into the water, allowing her to rest and recover enough to fight the tide and stay above water.

The girl’s father called the man a “guardian angel” and witnesses described it as a “true act of humanity.”

Pensacola shark fisherman Andrew Smith had just clocked out of work last Thursday when a friend convinced him to come back out. Arriving on the beach, a woman came running up to him and asked if he and the others nearby if they could swim.

Smith replied that he could not.

However, the victim’s lucky stars were shining down that sunny day, as the incident happened on 21 C section of Pensacola Beach—just beyond the restricted airspace of Fort Pickens—meaning that Smith had brought along his drone.

Afflicted by a seizure disorder, Smith uses the drone to set bait for the sharks, which other fishermen do on kayaks. Because of his seizures, Smith can neither kayak nor swim, but he thought he may be able to drop a life-preserver if he could get the drone close enough to the girl.

“I ran up and grabbed one of those [life-preservers] and ran back down to the drone,” Smith said. “I flew it out, and it was a terrible miss. I released it too early, it was really windy.”

Realizing what was on his mind, a bystander brought him another flotation device and encouraged Smith to try again while a Mr. Robert Nay began filming it with his smartphone.

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On the second attempt, Smith nailed it. Gauging the wind more accurately, he lowered the device until he saw her grab it, then released it.

The fisherman described the pressure as intense, and at one point he felt like he was going to cry.

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“I was shaking pretty badly. It was nerve-wracking, I almost cried,” he told CBS 12. “If it wasn’t for that second drop, she wouldn’t have made it. The EMS, the cops, and the lifeguards said she wouldn’t have made it.”

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Students Decipher Title of Burnt Scroll from the Famous Library Buried by Vesuvius–Called ‘On Vices’

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Andy Corbley
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The scroll previously known only as PHerc. 172 was written by the Epicurean philosopher Philodemus. Vesuvius Challenge / Bodleian Libraries, Oxford University
The scroll previously known only as PHerc. 172 was written by the Epicurean philosopher Philodemus. Vesuvius Challenge / Bodleian Libraries, Oxford University

The title of a 2,000-year-old Greek philosophical text has been read by computer scientists using AI to study scrolls buried by the eruption of Vesuvius.

On Vices was written by Philodemus, a Greek philosopher who lived at Pompeii nearly 200 years before Vesuvius’ eruption, and several centuries after the life of Epicurus, a prominent Athenian thinker whose ideas have been discovered among the scrolls before.

Around 800 unreadable papyri were found more than 200 years ago by farmers in the ruins of Herculaneum, a city destroyed by Vesuvius’ eruption, in a villa that may have belonged to Julius Caeser’s father-in-law.

GNN has previously reported on the initiative called the Vesuvius Challenge, organized by Silicon Valley figures Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman, who offered a total of $1,000,000 in prizes to anyone who can map out the words on the husks of papyrus charred into obscurity by the volcano.

Prizes were given out in 2023/2024 to Julian, a Swiss robotics student at ETH Zürich, who enabled the 3D mapping of the papyrus scrolls which can’t be unraveled without turning to ash; Youssef Nader, an Egyptian Ph.D. student in Berlin who decoded the first letters; and Luke Farritor, a college student and SpaceX intern from Nebraska, who decoded the first word (which was ‘purple’).

Then, the three young men formed a “superteam” and read the first sentence to be gleaned from this lost literary treasure in over 2,000 years.

“…as too in the case of food, we do not right away believe things that are scarce to be absolutely more pleasant than those which are abundant,” were what was revealed. The thoughts likely belong to an Epicurean philosopher.

In this new discovery, On Vices was read out independently by two separate teams, and confirmed by other words to be the work known as On Vices and Their Opposite Virtues and In Whom They Are and About What.

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The winners of the $60,000 First Title Prize are Marcel Roth and Micha Nowak, computer scientists at Germany’s University of Würzburg.

Output of ink detection model revealing the title, with transcribed letters overlaid – credit Vesuvius Challenge, released

According to Michael McOsker from University College London and Oxford University where the scrolls are kept, it’s generally been understood that the first book of On Vices was On Flattery (known from physically unrolled papyri). A statement from the Vesuvius Challenge says that the text of PHerc. 172, the scroll found to contain On Vices, does not seem to correspond with that of On Flattery, suggesting that if this is indeed book one, we will improve our general understanding of the work.

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On Vices has received special attention over the decades, not only because of its philosophical content, but also because in one of its books, Philodemus addresses some of his friends, namely Quintilius Varus, Varius Rufus, Plotius Tucca, and the great Vergil.

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