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El zarevitch Iván, el pájaro de fuego y el lobo gris

Hola. Mi nombre es El Transhumanista.

Como transhumanista ...

Me encantan las tecnologías emergentes y en evolución , y por eso...

Actualmente estoy inmerso en el estudio de IA (particularmente IA generativa y motores de razonamiento) y big data .

Me dedico al uso de JavaScript, incluso escribo scripts de usuario de vez en cuando.

Mi mejor script de usuario hasta ahora es SearchSuite ...

SearchSuite ofrece un mayor control sobre los resultados de búsqueda de Wikipedia, como la activación o desactivación de funciones para ordenarlos, para presentar los resultados uno por línea y más. Si bien parece funcionar bastante bien, definitivamente hay margen de mejora. Se aceptan comentarios y sugerencias.

Por cierto, la mayoría de los scripts en los que he estado trabajando son para construir y ampliar esquemas...

Como enciclopedista...

Me interesa todo el conocimiento, especialmente cómo organizarlo para poder encontrar lo más relevante en cada momento.

He estado en Wikipedia desde el otoño de 2005, y he estado trabajando principalmente en la estructura de Wikipedia y en sus sistemas de navegación de conocimiento durante ese tiempo.

Actualizar con nuevas selecciones a continuación (purgar)

Artículos seleccionados en los que he trabajado

  • La Clasificación de la Biblioteca del Congreso ( LCC ) es un sistema de clasificación de bibliotecas desarrollado por la Biblioteca del Congreso en los Estados Unidos , que puede usarse para colocar libros en los estantes de una biblioteca. La LCC se usa principalmente en grandes bibliotecas académicas y de investigación , mientras que la mayoría de las bibliotecas públicas y pequeñas bibliotecas académicas usan el sistema de Clasificación Decimal Dewey . La clasificación fue desarrollada por James Hanson (jefe del Departamento de Catálogo ), con la ayuda de Charles Martel , en 1897, mientras trabajaban en la Biblioteca del Congreso. Fue diseñada específicamente para los propósitos y la colección de la Biblioteca del Congreso para reemplazar el sistema de ubicación fija desarrollado por Thomas Jefferson .

    La LCC ha sido criticada por carecer de una base teórica sólida; muchas de las decisiones de clasificación fueron impulsadas por las necesidades prácticas de esa biblioteca en lugar de consideraciones epistemológicas . Aunque divide los temas en categorías amplias, es esencialmente de naturaleza enumerativa . Es decir, proporciona una guía de los libros que realmente se encuentran en las colecciones de una biblioteca, no una clasificación del mundo. ( Artículo completo... )
  • Este glosario de filosofía es una lista de definiciones de términos y conceptos relevantes para la filosofía y disciplinas relacionadas, incluidas la lógica , la ética y la teología . ( Artículo completo... )
  • La salud tiene una variedad de definiciones, que se han utilizado para diferentes propósitos a lo largo del tiempo. En general, se refiere al bienestar físico y emocional , especialmente el asociado con el funcionamiento normal del cuerpo humano , sin enfermedades , dolor (incluido el dolor mental ) o lesiones .

    La salud se puede promover fomentando actividades saludables, como el ejercicio físico regular y el sueño adecuado, y reduciendo o evitando actividades o situaciones no saludables, como fumar o el estrés excesivo. Algunos factores que afectan la salud se deben a elecciones individuales , como si se debe participar en un comportamiento de alto riesgo, mientras que otros se deben a causas estructurales , como si la sociedad está organizada de una manera que facilita o dificulta que las personas obtengan los servicios de atención médica necesarios. Aún así, otros factores están más allá de las elecciones individuales y grupales, como los trastornos genéticos . ( Artículo completo... )
  • Web scraping, web harvesting, or web data extraction is data scraping used for extracting data from websites. Web scraping software may directly access the World Wide Web using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol or a web browser. While web scraping can be done manually by a software user, the term typically refers to automated processes implemented using a bot or web crawler. It is a form of copying in which specific data is gathered and copied from the web, typically into a central local database or spreadsheet, for later retrieval or analysis.

    Scraping a web page involves fetching it and then extracting data from it. Fetching is the downloading of a page (which a browser does when a user views a page). Therefore, web crawling is a main component of web scraping, to fetch pages for later processing. Having fetched, extraction can take place. The content of a page may be parsed, searched and reformatted, and its data copied into a spreadsheet or loaded into a database. Web scrapers typically take something out of a page, to make use of it for another purpose somewhere else. An example would be finding and copying names and telephone numbers, companies and their URLs, or e-mail addresses to a list (contact scraping).

    As well as contact scraping, web scraping is used as a component of applications used for web indexing, web mining and data mining, online price change monitoring and price comparison, product review scraping (to watch the competition), gathering real estate listings, weather data monitoring, website change detection, research, tracking online presence and reputation, web mashup, and web data integration.

    Web pages are built using text-based mark-up languages (HTML and XHTML), and frequently contain a wealth of useful data in text form. However, most web pages are designed for human end-users and not for ease of automated use. As a result, specialized tools and software have been developed to facilitate the scraping of web pages. Web scraping applications include market research, price comparison, content monitoring, and more. Businesses rely on web scraping services to efficiently gather and utilize this data. (Full article...)
  • Robots revolt in R.U.R., a 1920 Czech play translated as "Rossum's Universal Robots"

    An AI takeover is an imagined scenario in which artificial intelligence (AI) emerges as the dominant form of intelligence on Earth and computer programs or robots effectively take control of the planet away from the human species, which relies on human intelligence. Possible scenarios include replacement of the entire human workforce due to automation, takeover by a superintelligent AI (ASI), and the notion of a robot uprising. Stories of AI takeovers have been popular throughout science fiction, but recent advancements have made the threat more real. Some public figures, such as Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk, have advocated research into precautionary measures to ensure future superintelligent machines remain under human control. (Full article...)
  • An EXCOMM meeting during the Cuban Missile Crisis, a crisis between the United States and Soviet Union over ballistic missiles in Cuba

    A crisis (pl.: crises; ADJ: critical) is any event or period that will lead to an unstable and dangerous situation affecting an individual, group, or all of society. Crises are negative changes in the human or environmental affairs, especially when they occur abruptly, with little or no warning. More loosely, a crisis is a testing time for an emergency. (Full article...)
  • The branches of science, also referred to as sciences, scientific fields or scientific disciplines, are commonly divided into three major groups:

    Scientific knowledge must be based on observable phenomena and must be capable of being verified by other researchers working under the same conditions. This verifiability may well vary even within a scientific discipline.

    Natural, social, and formal science make up the fundamental sciences, which form the basis of interdisciplinarity - and applied sciences such as engineering and medicine. Specialized scientific disciplines that exist in multiple categories may include parts of other scientific disciplines but often possess their own terminologies and expertises. (Full article...)
  • A block is a defensive tactic in chess in response to an attack, consisting of interposing a piece between the opponent's attacking piece and the piece being attacked. This type of blocking will only work if the attacking piece is a type that can move linearly an indefinite number of squares such as a queen, rook, or bishop and there is at least one empty square in the line between the attacking and attacked piece. Blocking is not an option when the attacking piece is directly adjacent to the piece it is attacking, or when the attacking piece is a knight (because knights "jump over other pieces" and cannot be blocked). When an opponent's attack on a piece is blocked, the blocking piece is to some extent pinned, either relatively or absolutely, until a future move by either side allows it to be unpinned.

    A check on a king by an opponent's queen, rook, or bishop can sometimes be blocked by moving a piece to a square in line in between the opponent's checking piece and the checked king. The blocking piece is then absolutely pinned to the king by the attacking piece.

    Another type of interposing in chess can involve placing a piece between two opponent's pieces where one of those pieces is protecting the other, or they are both protecting each other. This chess tactic can be called interference. (Full article...)
  • A depiction of Idris visiting Heaven and Hell from an illuminated manuscript version of the Islamic text Stories of the Prophets (1577)

    The afterlife or life after death is a purported existence in which the essential part of an individual's stream of consciousness or identity continues to exist after the death of their physical body. The surviving essential aspect varies between belief systems; it may be some partial element, or the entire soul or spirit, which carries with it one's personal identity.

    In some views, this continued existence takes place in a spiritual realm, while in others, the individual may be reborn into this world and begin the life cycle over again, known as reincarnation, likely with no memory of what they have done in the past. In this latter view, such rebirths and deaths may take place over and over again continuously until the individual gains entry to a spiritual realm or otherworld. Major views on the afterlife derive from religion, esotericism and metaphysics.

    Some belief systems, such as those in the Abrahamic tradition, hold that the dead go to a specific place (e.g. paradise or hell) after death, as determined by their god, based on their actions and beliefs during life. In contrast, in systems of reincarnation, such as those in the Indian religions, the nature of the continued existence is determined directly by the actions of the individual in the ended life. (Full article...)
  • In futures studies and the history of technology, accelerating change is the observed exponential nature of the rate of technological change in recent history, which may suggest faster and more profound change in the future and may or may not be accompanied by equally profound social and cultural change. (Full article...)

  • A severe case of athlete's foot.

    Athlete's foot, known medically as tinea pedis, is a common skin infection of the feet caused by a fungus. Signs and symptoms often include itching, scaling, cracking and redness. In rare cases the skin may blister. Athlete's foot fungus may infect any part of the foot, but most often grows between the toes. The next most common area is the bottom of the foot. The same fungus may also affect the nails or the hands. It is a member of the group of diseases known as tinea.

    Athlete's foot is caused by a number of different funguses, including species of Trichophyton, Epidermophyton, and Microsporum. The condition is typically acquired by coming into contact with infected skin, or fungus in the environment. Common places where the funguses can survive are around swimming pools and in locker rooms. They may also be spread from other animals. Usually diagnosis is made based on signs and symptoms; however, it can be confirmed either by culture or seeing hyphae using a microscope.

    Athlete's foot is not limited to just athletes: it can be caused by going barefoot in public showers, letting toenails grow too long, wearing shoes that are too tight, or not changing socks daily. It can be treated with topical antifungal medications such as clotrimazole or, for persistent infections, using oral antifungal medications such as terbinafine. Topical creams are typically recommended to be used for four weeks. Keeping infected feet dry and wearing sandals also assists with treatment.

    Athlete's foot was first medically described in 1908. Globally, athlete's foot affects about 15% of the population. Males are more often affected than females. It occurs most frequently in older children or younger adults. Historically it is believed to have been a rare condition that became more frequent in the 20th century due to the greater use of shoes, health clubs, war, and travel. (Full article...)
  • Human overpopulation (or human population overshoot) is the idea that human populations may become too large to be sustained by their environment or resources in the long term. The topic is usually discussed in the context of world population, though it may concern individual nations, regions, and cities.

    Since 1804, the global living human population has increased from 1 billion to 8 billion due to medical advancements and improved agricultural productivity. Annual world population growth peaked at 2.1% in 1968 and has since dropped to 1.1%. According to the most recent United Nations' projections, the global human population is expected to reach 9.7 billion in 2050 and would peak at around 10.4 billion people in the 2080s, before decreasing, noting that fertility rates are falling worldwide. Other models agree that the population will stabilize before or after 2100. Conversely, other researchers have found that national birth registries data from 2022 and 2023 that cover half the world's population indicate that the 2022 UN projections overestimated fertility rates by 10 to 20% and are already outdated, that the global fertility rate has possibly already fallen below the sub-replacement fertility level for the first time in human history, and that the global population will peak at approximately 9.5 billion by 2061. The 2024 UN projections report estimated that world population would peak at 10.29 billion in 2084 and decline to 10.18 billion by 2100, which was 6% lower than the UN had estimated in 2014.

    Early discussions of overpopulation in English were spurred by the work of Thomas Malthus. Discussions of overpopulation follow a similar line of inquiry as Malthusianism and its Malthusian catastrophe, a hypothetical event where population exceeds agricultural capacity, causing famine or war over resources, resulting in poverty and depopulation. More recent discussion of overpopulation was popularized by Paul Ehrlich in his 1968 book The Population Bomb and subsequent writings. Ehrlich described overpopulation as a function of overconsumption, arguing that overpopulation should be defined by a population being unable to sustain itself without depleting non-renewable resources.

    The belief that global population levels will become too large to sustain is a point of contentious debate. Those who believe global human overpopulation to be a valid concern, argue that increased levels of resource consumption and pollution exceed the environment's carrying capacity, leading to population overshoot. The population overshoot hypothesis is often discussed in relation to other population concerns such as population momentum, biodiversity loss, hunger and malnutrition, resource depletion, and the overall human impact on the environment. (Full article...)
  • Emerging technologies are technologies whose development, practical applications, or both are still largely unrealized. These technologies are generally new but also include old technologies finding new applications. Emerging technologies are often perceived as capable of changing the status quo.

    Emerging technologies are characterized by radical novelty (in application even if not in origins), relatively fast growth, coherence, prominent impact, and uncertainty and ambiguity. In other words, an emerging technology can be defined as "a radically novel and relatively fast growing technology characterised by a certain degree of coherence persisting over time and with the potential to exert a considerable impact on the socio-economic domain(s) which is observed in terms of the composition of actors, institutions and patterns of interactions among those, along with the associated knowledge production processes. Its most prominent impact, however, lies in the future and so in the emergence phase is still somewhat uncertain and ambiguous."

    Emerging technologies include a variety of technologies such as educational technology, information technology, nanotechnology, biotechnology, robotics, and artificial intelligence.

    New technological fields may result from the technological convergence of different systems evolving towards similar goals. Convergence brings previously separate technologies such as voice (and telephony features), data (and productivity applications) and video together so that they share resources and interact with each other, creating new efficiencies. (Full article...)
  • Life extension is the concept of extending the human lifespan, either modestly through improvements in medicine or dramatically by increasing the maximum lifespan beyond its generally-settled biological limit of around 125 years. Several researchers in the area, along with "life extensionists", "immortalists", or "longevists" (those who wish to achieve longer lives themselves), postulate that future breakthroughs in tissue rejuvenation, stem cells, regenerative medicine, molecular repair, gene therapy, pharmaceuticals, and organ replacement (such as with artificial organs or xenotransplantations) will eventually enable humans to have indefinite lifespans through complete rejuvenation to a healthy youthful condition (agerasia). The ethical ramifications, if life extension becomes a possibility, are debated by bioethicists.

    The sale of purported anti-aging products such as supplements and hormone replacement is a lucrative global industry. For example, the industry that promotes the use of hormones as a treatment for consumers to slow or reverse the aging process in the US market generated about $50 billion of revenue a year in 2009. The use of such hormone products has not been proven to be effective or safe. (Full article...)
  • Existential risk from artificial intelligence refers to the idea that substantial progress in artificial general intelligence (AGI) could lead to human extinction or an irreversible global catastrophe.

    One argument for the importance of this risk references how human beings dominate other species because the human brain possesses distinctive capabilities other animals lack. If AI were to surpass human intelligence and become superintelligent, it might become uncontrollable. Just as the fate of the mountain gorilla depends on human goodwill, the fate of humanity could depend on the actions of a future machine superintelligence.

    The plausibility of existential catastrophe due to AI is widely debated. It hinges in part on whether AGI or superintelligence are achievable, the speed at which dangerous capabilities and behaviors emerge, and whether practical scenarios for AI takeovers exist. Concerns about superintelligence have been voiced by leading computer scientists and tech CEOs such as Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Alan Turing, Elon Musk, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. In 2022, a survey of AI researchers with a 17% response rate found that the majority believed there is a 10 percent or greater chance that human inability to control AI will cause an existential catastrophe. In 2023, hundreds of AI experts and other notable figures signed a statement declaring, "Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war". Following increased concern over AI risks, government leaders such as United Kingdom prime minister Rishi Sunak and United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called for an increased focus on global AI regulation.

    Two sources of concern stem from the problems of AI control and alignment. Controlling a superintelligent machine or instilling it with human-compatible values may be difficult. Many researchers believe that a superintelligent machine would likely resist attempts to disable it or change its goals as that would prevent it from accomplishing its present goals. It would be extremely challenging to align a superintelligence with the full breadth of significant human values and constraints. In contrast, skeptics such as computer scientist Yann LeCun argue that superintelligent machines will have no desire for self-preservation. (Full article...)
  • Friendly artificial intelligence (friendly AI or FAI) is hypothetical artificial general intelligence (AGI) that would have a positive (benign) effect on humanity or at least align with human interests or contribute to fostering the improvement of the human species. It is a part of the ethics of artificial intelligence and is closely related to machine ethics. While machine ethics is concerned with how an artificially intelligent agent should behave, friendly artificial intelligence research is focused on how to practically bring about this behavior and ensuring it is adequately constrained. (Full article...)
  • The technological singularity—or simply the singularity—is a hypothetical future point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable consequences for human civilization. According to the most popular version of the singularity hypothesis, I. J. Good's intelligence explosion model of 1965, an upgradable intelligent agent could eventually enter a positive feedback loop of self-improvement cycles, each successive; and more intelligent generation appearing more and more rapidly, causing a rapid increase ("explosion") in intelligence which would ultimately result in a powerful superintelligence, qualitatively far surpassing all human intelligence.

    The Hungarian-American mathematician John von Neumann (1903-1957) became the first known person to use the concept of a "singularity" in the technological context.[need quotation to verify] Stanislaw Ulam reported in 1958 an earlier discussion with von Neumann "centered on the accelerating progress of technology and changes in human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue". Subsequent authors have echoed this viewpoint.

    The concept and the term "singularity" were popularized by Vernor Vinge – first in 1983 (in an article that claimed that once humans create intelligences greater than their own, there will be a technological and social transition similar in some sense to "the knotted space-time at the center of a black hole",) and later in his 1993 essay The Coming Technological Singularity, (in which he wrote that it would signal the end of the human era, as the new superintelligence would continue to upgrade itself and would advance technologically at an incomprehensible rate). He wrote that he would be surprised if it occurred before 2005 or after 2030. Another significant contributor to wider circulation of the notion was Ray Kurzweil's 2005 book The Singularity Is Near, predicting singularity by 2045.

    Some scientists, including Stephen Hawking, have expressed concern that artificial superintelligence (ASI) could result in human extinction. The consequences of a technological singularity and its potential benefit or harm to the human race have been intensely debated. (Full article...)
  • A feature (also called an object or entity), in the context of geography and geographic information science, is a discrete phenomenon that exists at a location in the space and scale of relevance to geography; that is, at or near the surface of Earth. It is an item of geographic information, and may be represented in maps, geographic information systems, remote sensing imagery, statistics, and other forms of geographic discourse. Such representations of features consist of descriptions of their inherent nature, their spatial form and location, and their characteristics or properties. (Full article...)
  • A userscript manager, also known as a userscript engine, is a type of browser extension and augmented browsing technology that provides a user interface to run and organize userscripts. The main purpose of a userscript manager is to execute scripts on predetermined webpages as they are loaded, for example, running a userscript to modify only youtube.com pages. But, userscript managers do a lot more than execute scripts, and screen for the pages they are intended to run on. The most common operations performed by a userscript manager include installing, organizing, creating, copying, saving, deleting, and editing (including modifying webpage permissions of) userscripts.

    Userscript managers use metadata that is embedded in a script's source code primarily to determine the websites it should execute on and the dependencies necessary for the script to run properly. Metadata can also include information that is useful to the user such as the script's name, author, description and version number.

    Popular userscript managers include Tampermonkey, Greasemonkey, and Violentmonkey. The Gear browser for IOS has a userscript manager built in. (Full article...)
  • Figure 1. Compliant bonding a gold wire (Click to enlarge view)

    Compliant bonding is used to connect gold wires to electrical components such as integrated circuit "chips". It was invented by Alexander Coucoulas in the 1960s. The bond is formed well below the melting point of the mating gold surfaces and is therefore referred to as a solid-state type bond. The compliant bond is formed by transmitting heat and pressure to the bond region through a relatively thick indentable or compliant medium, generally an aluminum tape (Figure 1). (Full article...)
  • Automatic taxonomy construction (ATC) is the use of software programs to generate taxonomical classifications from a body of texts called a corpus. ATC is a branch of natural language processing, which in turn is a branch of artificial intelligence.

    A taxonomy (or taxonomical classification) is a scheme of classification, especially, a hierarchical classification, in which things are organized into groups or types. Among other things, a taxonomy can be used to organize and index knowledge (stored as documents, articles, videos, etc.), such as in the form of a library classification system, or a search engine taxonomy, so that users can more easily find the information they are searching for. Many taxonomies are hierarchies (and thus, have an intrinsic tree structure), but not all are.

    Manually developing and maintaining a taxonomy is a labor-intensive task requiring significant time and resources, including familiarity of or expertise in the taxonomy's domain (scope, subject, or field), which drives the costs and limits the scope of such projects. Also, domain modelers have their own points of view which inevitably, even if unintentionally, work their way into the taxonomy. ATC uses artificial intelligence techniques to quickly automatically generate a taxonomy for a domain in order to avoid these problems and remove limitations. (Full article...)
  • Visualisation of various methodological approaches to gaining insights from meta data areas. Including: infometrics, bibliometrics, cybermetrics, scientometrics, webometrics, altmetrics, and placed within Quantative Science Studies
    Visualization of various methodological approaches to gaining insights from meta data areas


    Information science, documentology or informatology is an academic field which is primarily concerned with analysis, collection, classification, manipulation, storage, retrieval, movement, dissemination, and protection of information. Practitioners within and outside the field study the application and the usage of knowledge in organizations in addition to the interaction between people, organizations, and any existing information systems with the aim of creating, replacing, improving, or understanding the information systems.

    Historically, information science is associated with informatics, computer science, data science, psychology, technology, documentation science, library science, healthcare, and intelligence agencies. However, information science also incorporates aspects of diverse fields such as archival science, cognitive science, commerce, law, linguistics, museology, management, mathematics, philosophy, public policy, and social sciences. (Full article...)

  • Blood flow diagram of the human heart. Blue components indicate de-oxygenated blood pathways and red components indicate oxygenated blood pathways.

    Cardiology (from Ancient Greek καρδίᾱ (kardiā) 'heart' and -λογία (-logia) 'study') is the study of the heart. Cardiology is a branch of medicine that deals with disorders of the heart and the cardiovascular system. The field includes medical diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart defects, coronary artery disease, heart failure, valvular heart disease, and electrophysiology. Physicians who specialize in this field of medicine are called cardiologists, a sub-specialty of internal medicine. Pediatric cardiologists are pediatricians who specialize in cardiology. Physicians who specialize in cardiac surgery are called cardiothoracic surgeons or cardiac surgeons, a specialty of general surgery. (Full article...)
  • A graffito in Dublin depicts a stick figure pondering its existence.

    The meaning of life pertains to the inherent significance or philosophical meaning of living (or existence in general). There is no consensus on a definitive answer, and thinking or discourse on the topic is sought in the English language through the question, "What is the meaning of life?" (or the related "Why are we here?" or "What is the purpose of existence?"). There have been many proposed answers to these questions from many different cultural and ideological backgrounds. The search for life's meaning has produced much philosophical, scientific, theological, and metaphysical speculation throughout history. Different people and cultures believe different things for the answer to this question. Opinions vary on the usefulness of using time and resources in the pursuit of an answer. Excessive pondering can be indicative of, or lead to, an existential crisis.

    The meaning of life can be derived from philosophical and religious contemplation of, and scientific inquiries about, existence, social ties, consciousness, and happiness. Many other issues are also involved, such as symbolic meaning, ontology, value, purpose, ethics, good and evil, free will, the existence of one or multiple gods, conceptions of God, the soul, and the afterlife. Scientific contributions focus primarily on describing related empirical facts about the universe, exploring the context and parameters concerning the "how" of life. Science also studies and can provide recommendations for the pursuit of well-being and a related conception of morality. An alternative, humanistic approach poses the question, "What is the meaning of my life?" (Full article...)
  • Meals have been traditionally prepared by women in a home kitchen (Painting from the circle of Jean-Baptiste de Saive, 1563)

    A meal is an eating occasion that takes place at a certain time and includes consumption of food. The names used for specific meals in English vary, depending on the speaker's culture, the time of day, or the size of the meal.

    Although they can be eaten anywhere, meals typically take place in homes, restaurants, and cafeterias. Regular meals occur on a daily basis, typically several times a day. Special meals are usually held in conjunction with such occasions as birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, and holidays. A meal is different from a snack in that meals are generally larger, more varied, and more filling than snacks.

    The type of food that is served or consumed at any given time depends on regional customs. Three main meals are often eaten in the morning, early afternoon, and evening in most modern civilizations. Further, the names of meals are often interchangeable by custom as well. Some serve dinner as the main meal at midday, with supper as the late afternoon/early evening meal; while others may call their midday meal lunch and their early evening meal supper or dinner. Except for "breakfast," these names can vary from region to region or even from family to family. (Full article...)

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    Un tricorder médico es un dispositivo de escaneo portátil de mano que los consumidores pueden usar para autodiagnosticarse afecciones médicas en segundos y tomar medidas vitales básicas. Si bien el dispositivo aún no está en el mercado masivo, existen numerosos informes de otros científicos e inventores que también están trabajando para crear un dispositivo de este tipo y mejorarlo. Una opinión común es que será una herramienta de propósito general similar en funcionalidad a una navaja suiza para tomar medidas de salud como la presión arterial y la temperatura , y el flujo sanguíneo de una manera no invasiva . Diagnosticaría el estado de salud de una persona después de analizar los datos, ya sea como un dispositivo independiente o como una conexión a bases de datos médicas a través de una conexión a Internet.

    La idea de un tricorder médico proviene de un dispositivo imaginario en el programa de televisión de ciencia ficción Star Trek de la década de 1960 en el que el personaje ficticio Dr. Leonard McCoy lo usaba para diagnosticar instantáneamente afecciones médicas. Una descripción del dispositivo ficticio fue la siguiente: ( Artículo completo... )

  • Moller Skycar M400

    The Moller Skycar is a flying car with VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) capability which has been under development by Paul Moller for over fifty years. As of 2023, the M400 has not achieved free flight.

    Due to the project's failure to deliver and associated financial issues, Moller has been accused of deliberate fraud. The parent company, Moller International, has been dormant since 2015. (Full article...)
  • Control theory is a field of control engineering and applied mathematics that deals with the control of dynamical systems in engineered processes and machines. The objective is to develop a model or algorithm governing the application of system inputs to drive the system to a desired state, while minimizing any delay, overshoot, or steady-state error and ensuring a level of control stability; often with the aim to achieve a degree of optimality.

    To do this, a controller with the requisite corrective behavior is required. This controller monitors the controlled process variable (PV), and compares it with the reference or set point (SP). The difference between actual and desired value of the process variable, called the error signal, or SP-PV error, is applied as feedback to generate a control action to bring the controlled process variable to the same value as the set point. Other aspects which are also studied are controllability and observability. Control theory is used in control system engineering to design automation that have revolutionized manufacturing, aircraft, communications and other industries, and created new fields such as robotics. (Full article...)

  • ET3 Global Alliance is an American open consortium of licensees that has tried to implement the Evacuated Tube Transport (ET3). It was founded by Daryl Oster in 1997.

    The stated goal of the consortium was to build a global transportation system using car-sized capsules traveling in 1.5-meter-diameter tubes via frictionless superconductive maglev. Oster claims that the ET3 system will cost only 20 cents' worth of electrical energy to get up to 350 mph (560 km/h). ET3 claims that initial systems would travel at the speed of 600 km/h (370 mph) for in-state trips and later will be developed to 6,500 km/h (4,000 mph, hypersonic speed).[needs update] (Full article...)
  • Genetic pollution is a term for uncontrolled gene flow into wild populations. It is defined as "the dispersal of contaminated altered genes from genetically engineered organisms to natural organisms, esp. by cross-pollination", but has come to be used in some broader ways. It is related to the population genetics concept of gene flow, and genetic rescue, which is genetic material intentionally introduced to increase the fitness of a population. It is called genetic pollution when it negatively impacts the fitness of a population, such as through outbreeding depression and the introduction of unwanted phenotypes which can lead to extinction.

    Conservation biologists and conservationists have used the term to describe gene flow from domestic, feral, and non-native species into wild indigenous species, which they consider undesirable. They promote awareness of the effects of introduced invasive species that may "hybridize with native species, causing genetic pollution". In the fields of agriculture, agroforestry and animal husbandry, genetic pollution is used to describe gene flows between genetically engineered species and wild relatives. The use of the word "pollution" is meant to convey the idea that mixing genetic information is bad for the environment, but because the mixing of genetic information can lead to a variety of outcomes, "pollution" may not always be the most accurate descriptor. (Full article...)
  • This is a comparison of various properties of different display technologies. (Full article...)
  • Nanosensors are nanoscale devices that measure physical quantities and convert these to signals that can be detected and analyzed. There are several ways proposed today to make nanosensors; these include top-down lithography, bottom-up assembly, and molecular self-assembly. There are different types of nanosensors in the market and in development for various applications, most notably in defense, environmental, and healthcare industries. These sensors share the same basic workflow: a selective binding of an analyte, signal generation from the interaction of the nanosensor with the bio-element, and processing of the signal into useful metrics. (Full article...)

  • Graphene is an atomic-scale honeycomb structure made of carbon atoms

    Graphene (/ˈɡræfiːn/) is a carbon allotrope consisting of a single layer of atoms arranged in a honeycomb planar nanostructure. The name "graphene" is derived from "graphite" and the suffix -ene, indicating the presence of double bonds within the carbon structure.

    Graphene is known for its exceptionally high tensile strength, electrical conductivity, transparency, and being the thinnest two-dimensional material in the world. Despite the nearly transparent nature of a single graphene sheet, graphite (formed from stacked layers of graphene) appears black because it absorbs all visible light wavelengths. On a microscopic scale, graphene is the strongest material ever measured. (Full article...)
  • A head transplant or full body transplant is an experimental surgical operation involving the grafting of one organism's head onto the body of another. In many experiments, the recipient's head has not been removed, but in others it has been. Experimentation in animals began in the early 1900s. As of 2024, no lasting successes have been achieved. (Full article...)
  • Regions with semi-arid climates
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    A semi-arid climate, semi-desert climate, or steppe climate is a dry climate sub-type. It is located on regions that receive precipitation below potential evapotranspiration, but not as low as a desert climate. There are different kinds of semi-arid climates, depending on variables such as temperature, and they give rise to different biomes. (Full article...)
  • A specialized trash collection truck providing regular municipal trash collection in a neighborhood in Stockholm, Sweden

    Waste management or waste disposal includes the processes and actions required to manage waste from its inception to its final disposal.
    This includes the collection, transport, treatment, and disposal of waste, together with monitoring and regulation of the waste management process and waste-related laws, technologies, and economic mechanisms.

    Waste can either be solid, liquid, or gases and each type has different methods of disposal and management. Waste management deals with all types of waste, including industrial, biological, household, municipal, organic, biomedical, radioactive wastes. In some cases, waste can pose a threat to human health. Health issues are associated with the entire process of waste management. Health issues can also arise indirectly or directly: directly through the handling of solid waste, and indirectly through the consumption of water, soil, and food. Waste is produced by human activity, for example, the extraction and processing of raw materials. Waste management is intended to reduce the adverse effects of waste on human health, the environment, planetary resources, and aesthetics. (Full article...)
  • Phage injecting its genome into bacterial cell

    Phage therapy, viral phage therapy, or phagotherapy is the therapeutic use of bacteriophages for the treatment of pathogenic bacterial infections. This therapeutic approach emerged at the beginning of the 20th century but was progressively replaced by the use of antibiotics in most parts of the world after the Second World War. Bacteriophages, known as phages, are a form of virus that attach to bacterial cells and inject their genome into the cell. The bacteria's production of the viral genome interferes with its ability to function, halting the bacterial infection. The bacterial cell causing the infection is unable to reproduce and instead produces additional phages. Phages are very selective in the strains of bacteria they are effective against.

    Advantages include reduced side effects and reduced risk of the bacterium developing resistance, since bacteriophages are much more specific than antibiotics. They are typically harmless not only to the host organism but also to other beneficial bacteria, such as the gut microbiota, reducing the chances of opportunistic infections. They have a high therapeutic index; that is, phage therapy would be expected to give rise to few side effects, even at higher-than-therapeutic levels. Because phages replicate in vivo (in cells of living organism), a smaller effective dose can be used. (Full article...)

  • Transmission electron micrograph of an unmodified herpes simplex virus

    Talimogene laherparepvec, sold under the brand name Imlygic among others, is a biopharmaceutical medication used to treat melanoma that cannot be operated on; it is injected directly into a subset of lesions which generates a systemic immune response against the recipient's cancer. The final four year analysis from the pivotal phase 3 study upon which TVEC was approved by the FDA showed a 31.5% response rate with a 16.9% complete response (CR) rate. There was also a substantial and statistically significant survival benefit in patients with earlier metastatic disease (stages IIIb-IVM1a) and in patients who hadn't received prior systemic treatment for melanoma. The earlier stage group had a reduction in the risk of death of approximately 50% with one in four patients appearing to have met, or be close to be reaching, the medical definition of cure. Real world use of talimogene laherparepvec have shown response rates of up to 88.5% with CR rates of up to 61.5%.

    Around half of people treated with talimogene laherparepvec in clinical trials experienced fatigue and chills; around 40% had fever, around 35% had nausea, and around 30% had flu-like symptoms as well as pain at the injection site. The reactions were mild to moderate in severity; 2% of people had severe reactions and these were generally cellulitis. (Full article...)

  • Working principle of lithium-sulfur battery and "shuttle" effect

    The lithium–sulfur battery (Li–S battery) is a type of rechargeable battery. It is notable for its high specific energy. The low atomic weight of lithium and moderate atomic weight of sulfur means that Li–S batteries are relatively light (about the density of water). They were used on the longest and highest-altitude unmanned solar-powered aeroplane flight (at the time) by Zephyr 6 in August 2008.

    Lithium–sulfur batteries may displace lithium-ion cells because of their higher energy density and reduced cost. This is due to two factors. First the use of sulfur instead of a less energy dense and more expensive substances such as cobalt and/or iron compounds found in lithium-ion batteries. Secondly, the use of metallic lithium instead of intercalating lithium ions allows for much higher energy density, as less substances are needed to hold "lithium" and lithium is directly oxidized. Li–S batteries offer specific energies on the order of 550 Wh/kg, while lithium-ion batteries are in the range of 150–260 Wh/kg. (Full article...)
  • A multi-function material is a composite material. The traditional approach to the development of structures is to address the load-carrying function and other functional requirements separately. Recently, however, there has been increased interest in the development of load-bearing materials and structures which have integral non-load-bearing functions, guided by recent discoveries about how multifunctional biological systems work. (Full article...)
  • Inductive charging pad for a smartphone as an example of near-field wireless transfer. When the phone is set on the pad, a coil in the pad creates a magnetic field which induces a current in another coil, in the phone, charging its battery.

    Wireless power transfer (WPT; also wireless energy transmission or WET) is the transmission of electrical energy without wires as a physical link. In a wireless power transmission system, an electrically powered transmitter device generates a time-varying electromagnetic field that transmits power across space to a receiver device; the receiver device extracts power from the field and supplies it to an electrical load. The technology of wireless power transmission can eliminate the use of the wires and batteries, thereby increasing the mobility, convenience, and safety of an electronic device for all users. Wireless power transfer is useful to power electrical devices where interconnecting wires are inconvenient, hazardous, or are not possible.

    Wireless power techniques mainly fall into two categories: Near and far field. In near field or non-radiative techniques, power is transferred over short distances by magnetic fields using inductive coupling between coils of wire, or by electric fields using capacitive coupling between metal electrodes. Inductive coupling is the most widely used wireless technology; its applications include charging handheld devices like phones and electric toothbrushes, RFID tags, induction cooking, and wirelessly charging or continuous wireless power transfer in implantable medical devices like artificial cardiac pacemakers, or electric vehicles. In far-field or radiative techniques, also called power beaming, power is transferred by beams of electromagnetic radiation, like microwaves or laser beams. These techniques can transport energy longer distances but must be aimed at the receiver. Proposed applications for this type include solar power satellites and wireless powered drone aircraft. (Full article...)

  • Tesla Model 3

    An electric car or electric vehicle (EV) is a passenger automobile that is propelled by an electric traction motor, using electrical energy as the primary source of propulsion. The term normally refers to a plug-in electric vehicle, typically a battery electric vehicle (BEV), which only uses energy stored in on-board battery packs, but broadly may also include plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV), range-extended electric vehicle (REEV) and fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV), which can convert electric power from other fuels via a generator or a fuel cell.

    Compared to conventional internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles, electric cars are quieter, more responsive, have superior energy conversion efficiency and no exhaust emissions, as well as a lower overall carbon footprint from manufacturing to end of life (even when a power plant supplying the electricity might add to its emissions). Due to the superior efficiency of electric motors, electric cars also generate less waste heat, thus reducing the need for engine cooling systems that are often large, complicated and maintenance-prone in ICE vehicles. (Full article...)
  • Reconfigurable computing is a computer architecture combining some of the flexibility of software with the high performance of hardware by processing with flexible hardware platforms like field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The principal difference when compared to using ordinary microprocessors is the ability to add custom computational blocks using FPGAs. On the other hand, the main difference from custom hardware, i.e. application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) is the possibility to adapt the hardware during runtime by "loading" a new circuit on the reconfigurable fabric, thus providing new computational blocks without the need to manufacture and add new chips to the existing system. (Full article...)
  • Flexible OLED displays on foldable smartphones

    A flexible organic light-emitting diode (FOLED) is a type of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) incorporating a flexible plastic substrate on which the electroluminescent organic semiconductor is deposited. This enables the device to be bent or rolled while still operating. Currently the focus of research in industrial and academic groups, flexible OLEDs form one method of fabricating a rollable display. (Full article...)
  • In telecommunications, 6G is the designation for a future technical standard of a sixth-generation technology for wireless communications.

    It is the planned successor to 5G (ITU-R IMT-2020), and is currently in the early stages of the standardization process, tracked by the ITU-R as IMT-2030 with the framework and overall objectives defined in recommendation ITU-R M.2160-0. Similar to previous generations of the cellular architecture, standardization bodies such as 3GPP and ETSI, as well as industry groups such as the NGMN Alliance, are expected to play a key role in its development. (Full article...)

  • Li-Fi (also written as LiFi) is a wireless communication technology which utilizes light to transmit data and position between devices. The term was first introduced by Harald Haas during a 2011 TEDGlobal talk in Edinburgh.

    Li-Fi is a light communication system that is capable of transmitting data at high speeds over the visible light, ultraviolet, and infrared spectrums. In its present state, only LED lamps can be used for the transmission of data in visible light. (Full article...)
  • Modern cinema auditorium in Madrid, Spain

    A movie theater (American English), cinema (British English), or cinema hall (Indian English), also known as a movie house, picture house, picture theater or simply theater, is a business that contains auditoria for viewing films for public entertainment. Most are commercial operations catering to the general public, who attend by purchasing tickets.

    The film is projected with a movie projector onto a large projection screen at the front of the auditorium while the dialogue, sounds and music are played through a number of wall-mounted speakers. Since the 1970s, subwoofers have been used for low-pitched sounds. Since the 2010s, the majority of movie theaters have been equipped for digital cinema projection, removing the need to create and transport a physical film print on a heavy reel. (Full article...)
  • A designer baby is a baby whose genetic makeup has been selected or altered, often to exclude a particular gene or to remove genes associated with disease. This process usually involves analysing a wide range of human embryos to identify genes associated with particular diseases and characteristics, and selecting embryos that have the desired genetic makeup; a process known as preimplantation genetic diagnosis. Screening for single genes is commonly practiced, and polygenic screening is offered by a few companies. Other methods by which a baby's genetic information can be altered involve directly editing the genome before birth, which is not routinely performed and only one instance of this is known to have occurred as of 2019, where Chinese twins Lulu and Nana were edited as embryos, causing widespread criticism.

    Genetically altered embryos can be achieved by introducing the desired genetic material into the embryo itself, or into the sperm and/or egg cells of the parents; either by delivering the desired genes directly into the cell or using gene-editing technology. This process is known as germline engineering and performing this on embryos that will be brought to term is typically prohibited by law. Editing embryos in this manner means that the genetic changes can be carried down to future generations, and since the technology concerns editing the genes of an unborn baby, it is considered controversial and is subject to ethical debate. While some scientists condone the use of this technology to treat disease, concerns have been raised that this could be translated into using the technology for cosmetic purposes and enhancement of human traits. (Full article...)
  • A nanoradio (also called carbon nanotube radio) is a nanotechnology acting as a radio transmitter and receiver by using carbon nanotubes. One of the first nanoradios was constructed in 2007 by researchers under Alex Zettl at the University of California, Berkeley where they successfully transmitted an audio signal. Due to the small size, nanoradios can have several possible applications such as radio function in the bloodstream. (Full article...)
  • The hominoids are descendants of a common ancestor.

    Human evolution is the evolutionary process within the history of primates that led to the emergence of Homo sapiens as a distinct species of the hominid family that includes all the great apes. This process involved the gradual development of traits such as human bipedalism, dexterity, and complex language, as well as interbreeding with other hominins (a tribe of the African hominid subfamily), indicating that human evolution was not linear but weblike. The study of the origins of humans involves several scientific disciplines, including physical and evolutionary anthropology, paleontology, and genetics; the field is also known by the terms anthropogeny, anthropogenesis, and anthropogony. (The latter two terms are sometimes used to refer to the related subject of hominization.)

    Primates diverged from other mammals about 85 million years ago (mya), in the Late Cretaceous period, with their earliest fossils appearing over 55 mya, during the Paleocene. Primates produced successive clades leading to the ape superfamily, which gave rise to the hominid and the gibbon families; these diverged some 15–20 mya. African and Asian hominids (including orangutans) diverged about 14 mya. Hominins (including the Australopithecine and Panina subtribes) parted from the Gorillini tribe between 8 and 9 mya; Australopithecine (including the extinct biped ancestors of humans) separated from the Pan genus (containing chimpanzees and bonobos) 4–7 mya. The Homo genus is evidenced by the appearance of H. habilis over 2 mya, while anatomically modern humans emerged in Africa approximately 300,000 years ago. (Full article...)

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22 de octubre de 2024 – Elecciones presidenciales de Estados Unidos de 2024
La campaña presidencial del expresidente estadounidense Donald Trump presentó una queja formal ante la Comisión Federal Electoral contra el Partido Laborista del Reino Unido , acusando al Partido Laborista de "flagrante interferencia extranjera" en las elecciones para apoyar la campaña presidencial de Kamala Harris . (BBC News)
12 de octubre de 2024 – Elecciones presidenciales de Estados Unidos de 2024
Incidentes de seguridad que involucran a Donald Trump
Un hombre es arrestado afuera del mitin del expresidente Donald Trump en Coachella , California , Estados Unidos , con armas de fuego cargadas, una matrícula falsa y varios pasaportes, en lo que se cree que fue un intento de asesinato contra Trump, según el sheriff del condado de Riverside . (Reuters)
27 de septiembre de 2024 – Relaciones entre Irán y Estados Unidos
El Departamento de Justicia de Estados Unidos acusa a tres miembros del Cuerpo de la Guardia Revolucionaria Islámica de Irán de piratear la campaña presidencial del candidato republicano Donald Trump y de "intentar perturbar las elecciones presidenciales de 2024 ". (Reuters)
24 de septiembre de 2024 – Intento de asesinato de Donald Trump en Florida
Ryan Wesley Routh está acusado formalmente de intentar asesinar al expresidente estadounidense y candidato del Partido Republicano Donald Trump en el Trump International Golf Club en West Palm Beach , Florida , Estados Unidos . (NBC News)
19 de septiembre de 2024 – Interferencia iraní en las elecciones estadounidenses de 2024
La Oficina Federal de Investigaciones de Estados Unidos y otras dos agencias estadounidenses anuncian que piratas informáticos iraníes enviaron correos electrónicos no solicitados a personas asociadas con la campaña presidencial de Joe Biden que incluían material robado de la campaña de Donald Trump . (NBC News)
16 de septiembre de 2024 – Relaciones entre Ucrania y Estados Unidos , Estados Unidos y la invasión rusa de Ucrania
Las autoridades ucranianas se distancian públicamente del sospechoso del tiroteo de Donald Trump y advierten que Rusia utilizará la situación para hacer propaganda contra Ucrania , tras informes de que el sospechoso protestaba por la Brigada Azov y pedía regularmente apoyo internacional y tropas para Ucrania. (Reuters) (Reuters 2)
16 de septiembre de 2024: tiroteo en el Trump International Golf Club
Ryan Wesley Routh está acusado de dos delitos relacionados con armas en un tribunal federal tras ser sospechoso de intentar asesinar al expresidente de Estados Unidos Donald Trump . (Reuters)
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Se escuchan disparos cerca del expresidente estadounidense Donald Trump en el Trump International Golf Club en West Palm Beach , Florida , Estados Unidos . (AP)

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26 October 2024 – 2024 Iran–Israel conflict
October 2024 Israeli strikes on Iran
Israel launches military action against Iran, with explosions in the cities of Tehran and Karaj according to Iranian state media. Residents report several blasts at Imam Khomeini International Airport. (Sky News) (Reuters) (Axios)
The Israel Defense Forces says it is carrying out "precise strikes on military targets in Iran" in response to recent ballistic missile attacks launched from Iran. (The Telegraph)
26 October 2024 –
At least 10 police officers are killed in an attack on a police convoy in Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran. (AP)
26 October 2024 – Tropical Storm Trami
At least 115 people are killed after massive flooding and landslides caused by Tropical Storm Trami in the Philippines. (CTV News)
26 October 2024 – Killing of Odair Moniz
Portuguese police activate special security protocols in response to two large demonstrations in Lisbon following the fatal shooting of Cape Verde immigrant Odair Moniz at the hands of a police officer that caused widespread riots. (RTP News)
26 October 2024 – 2024 Georgian parliamentary election
Georgians vote for the 150 seats of the parliament. (BBC News)
25 October 2024 – Israel–Hamas war
Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
Siege of Jabalia
Kamal Adwan Hospital siege
Israeli troops storm the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Jabalia in the Gaza Strip. (Reuters)
Three Israeli soldiers from the Armored Corps are killed in an IED blast in Jabalia in the Gaza Strip. (Haaretz)
Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
Israeli airstrikes in Gaza kill 72 people, including at least 38 in Khan Younis. (Reuters)
25 October 2024 – Israel–Hezbollah conflict
2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
Two people are killed and six others are injured when a rocket fired from Lebanon hits a building in the town of Majd al-Krum in northern Israel. (The Jerusalem Post)
Two cameramen and a technician working for Al Mayadeen and Al-Manar are killed and several other people are injured when an Israeli airstrike hits a guest house housing journalists in Hasbaya, Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
The Israeli Air Force strikes the Syrian military-controlled Jusiyah–Qaa border crossing on the Lebanon–Syria border, accusing Hezbollah of using the border crossing to transfer weapons from Syria. (The Times of Israel)
25 October 2024 – Kurdish–Turkish conflict
2024 Turkish Aerospace Industries headquarters attack
The Kurdistan Workers' Party claims responsibility for Wednesday's attack on the headquarters of the Turkish Aerospace Industries in Ankara Province, Turkey, which killed five people and injured dozens of others, saying that the attack had been "planned for a long time". (France 24)
25 October 2024 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
2024 Kursk offensive, Foreign involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Ukraine reports that the first North Korean units have entered the active "warzones" in Russia's Kursk Oblast. The North Korean soldiers are reportedly under the command of Deputy Defence Minister Yunus-bek Yevkurov. (Yonhap News Agency)
Kyiv strikes, Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
One person is killed and five others are injured when a Russian drone strikes a residential building in Solomianskyi District, Kyiv, Ukraine. (Reuters)
25 October 2024 –
A police officer is killed and another is injured in a stabbing attack at a police station in Bosanska Krupa, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The perpetrator, a 15-year-old boy, is arrested. (AP)
25 October 2024 – 2024 Pacific typhoon season
The death toll from Tropical Storm Trami's landfall in central and northern Philippines increases to 76 people, with more than 320,000 people evacuated. (Al Jazeera)
25 October 2024 –
The number of people who have become ill in an E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald's Quarter Pounder hamburgers increases to 75. (Reuters)
25 October 2024 – 2024 CrowdStrike-related IT outages
Delta Air Lines files a lawsuit against cybersecurity company CrowdStrike after Crowdstrike's global outages in July forced the airline to cancel more than 7,000 flights, costing Delta Air Lines over $500 million. (Reuters)
25 October 2024 –
A high court in Gulu, Uganda, sentences former Lord's Resistance Army commander Thomas Kwoyelo to 40 years in prison on 44 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including enslavement, torture, and rape. (DW)
25 October 2024 – 2024 Kiribati presidential election
Citizens of Kiribati vote for the President between three candidates, incumbent Taneti Maamau, Bautaake Beia from the Tobwaan Kiribati Party, and independent Kaotitaake Kokoria. (The Nikkei)
25 October 2024 – 2024 World Series
In baseball, Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman hits the first ever walk-off grand slam in World Series history to win the first game of the 2024 World Series against the New York Yankees. (Fox News)
24 October 2024 – Israel–Hezbollah conflict
2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
Five Israeli soldiers are killed and seven others are injured in gun battles with Hezbollah militants in southern Lebanon. (Reuters)
Assassination of Hashem Safieddine
Hezbollah confirms that Hossein Ali Hazimeh, head of its intelligence headquarters, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon, on October 3. (Webangah) (Mehr News Agency)
24 October 2024 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
Eastern Ukraine campaign
The Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that Russian Armed Forces have made significant advances in the strategic city of Selydove, predicting that it could be captured in a few days. (Euronews)
24 October 2024 – Israel–Hamas war
At least 17 Palestinians, including children, are killed in an Israeli airstrike on a school in Nuseirat refugee camp. (Reuters)
Israel says that it killed Muhammad Abu Attawi, a commander in Hamas' Nukhba forces who participated in the Nova music festival massacre, in an airstrike in Gaza yesterday. (Reuters) (The Times of Israel)
24 October 2024 – Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
Islamist insurgents target an Indian Army vehicle with small arms fire near Gulmarg, Jammu and Kashmir, India, killing two soldiers and two civilian porters and injuring three other soldiers. (The Indian Express)
24 October 2024 – Mexican drug war
Two car bombs explode outside police stations in Acámbaro and Jerécuaro, Guanajuato, Mexico, injuring three police officers in Acámbaro. (AP)
24 October 2024 – Regulation of electronic cigarettes, Smoking bans in the United Kingdom
The British government announces that single-use vapes will be banned in England and Wales beginning on 1 June 2025. (BBC News)
24 October 2024 – 2024 Pacific typhoon season
Tropical Storm Trami makes landfall in northeastern Luzon, Philippines, killing at least 26 people. (BBC News) (Reuters)
24 October 2024 –
Eight people are killed when a NNPC Limited Sikorsky S-76C+ helicopter crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Bonny Island, Rivers State, Nigeria. (Daily Maverick) (BBC News Pidgin)
Four people are killed and one other is seriously injured when a Tesla car crashes into a guardrail and struck a concrete pillar at high speed after losing control causing a fire in Toronto, Canada. (CTV News Toronto)
24 October 2024 – North Korea–South Korea relations
Balloon propaganda campaigns in Korea
North Korea sends a wave of trash balloons over South Korea, with one balloon falling on the presidential compound in central Seoul. The balloon reportedly contained leaflets criticizing South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife Kim Keon-hee. (ABC News)
24 October 2024 –
Four people, including the perpetrator, are killed in a mass stabbing in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. (WLWT-TV)
24 October 2024 – 2024 Montserratian general election
Residents of Montserrat vote to elect nine of the eleven members of the Legislative Assembly under plurality block voting. (Loop News)
Former Premier of Montserrat Reuben Meade and his newly established party United Alliance wins five seats in the general election, establishing a majority and the ability to form a new government. The People's Democratic Movement party wins three seats and the Movement for Change and Prosperity party wins one seat. (St. Vincent Times) (Loop News)
24 October 2024 –
The European Parliament awards the Sakharov Prize to Venezuelan opposition leaders María Corina Machado and Edmundo González for their activism. (Reuters)
23 October 2024 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
Eastern Ukraine campaign
The Russian Defense Ministry claims that Russian forces have captured the villages of Mykolaivka and Serebrianka in Donetsk Oblast, while Ukrainian military newspage DeepState reports heavy conflict surrounding Selydove. (Reuters)
Foreign involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
The U.S. State Department reports that it has confirmed evidence that North Korean troops are now present in Russia and are preparing to travel to the battlefield in Ukraine. South Korea says that Pyongyang has promised to send up to 10,000 troops to support the war effort. (The Guardian)
United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
The U.S. Defense Department finalizes a US$20 billion loan to Ukraine for military and economic support as part of a collective US$50 billion loan between G7 members. (Reuters)
23 October 2024 – Kurdish–Turkish conflict
2024 Turkish Aerospace Industries headquarters attack
Five people are killed and 22 more injured during a bombing–shooting attack at the Turkish Aerospace Industries headquarters in Kahramankazan, Ankara Province, Turkey. The perpetrators are later killed during a shootout with security forces. The Turkish government suspects the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to be behind the attack. (Al-Monitor) (Reuters) (DW)
The Turkish Air Force launches airstrikes on PKK targets across northern Syria and Iraqi Kurdistan in response to the attack, with Turkish drone strikes in Kobani, Syria, injuring three Asayish officers. (Reuters) (ANHA)
23 October 2024 – Israel–Hezbollah conflict
Assassination of Hashem Safieddine
Hezbollah confirms that Hashem Safieddine, head of their executive council, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon, on October 3. (BBC News)
23 October 2024 – Israel–Hamas war
Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip reportedly kill at least 42 people. UNRWA says one of their staff members was killed after their vehicle was hit by Israeli forces in Deir al-Balah. (Reuters)
23 October 2024 – Mexican drug war
Nineteen suspected cartel members are killed and one local cartel leader is arrested in a shootout between gunmen and police officers in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico. (Reuters)
23 October 2024 –
Two people are killed and 11 injured after an explosion at a Toyota Material Handling factory in Bologna, Italy. (Stato Quotidiano)
Three people are found deceased and seven are hospitalized due to carbon monoxide poisoning at a care home in Swanage, Dorset, England. (Sky News)
23 October 2024 – Demographics of Germany, German economic crisis
The Ifo Institute for Economic Research reports that Germany experienced a 13% birth rate decline nationally and up to a 17.5% birth rate decline in eastern Germany between 2021 and 2023, with the institute attributing the decline to several reasons including the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russo-Ukrainian war, and high inflation. (DW)
23 October 2024 – China–Holy See relations
China and the Holy See agree to extend their 2018 provisional agreement on the appointment of Catholic bishops in China for a further four years. (Vatican News)
23 October 2024 – China–India relations
Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi holds a bilateral meeting with President of China Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the 16th BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia. This is the first bilateral meeting between India and China in five years and comes in the aftermath of the 2020 border skirmishes between Indian and Chinese troops. (India Today)
23 October 2024 – 2024 social unrest in Martinique
Protesters with automatic weapons target police and firefighters in Martinique, where protests over the high cost of living have prompted France to deploy forces to the island. (AP)
23 October 2024 –
A court in Munich, Germany, charges a Russian man for stabbing two Ukrainian soldiers at a shopping center in Murnau am Staffelsee, Bavaria, Germany, in April. (DW)
A man kills two of his relatives and wounds two more during a mass shooting at their home in Novo Hamburgo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. A policeman and the perpetrator are killed during the ensuing shootout, while three more officers are wounded. (The Brazilian Report)
Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre announces that his government will raise the minimum age limit to use social media from 13 to 15 in order to protect children from the "power of the algorithms". (The Guardian)
22 October 2024 – 2024 Iran–Israel conflict
Israeli retaliation leak, Israel–United States relations
The FBI announces an investigation into the leaking of classified U.S. intelligence documents regarding military plans for Israeli retaliation against Iran. (Reuters)
22 October 2024 – Israel–Hamas war
Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
An Israeli drone strike on Beit Lahia in the Gaza Strip, kills at least fifteen people, including several women and children. (Al Jazeera)
22 October 2024 – Islamic State insurgency in Iraq
Prime Minister of Iraq Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani announces the death of several Islamic State senior members, including the group's leader in Iraq, in a military operation in Saladin Governorate, Iraq. (The Washington Post)
22 October 2024 –
Eleven people are killed after a fuel truck explosion on a highway near Kampala, Uganda. (AP)
The U.S. Center for Disease Control announces that one person has died and at least 48 others have become ill in an E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald's Quarter Pounder beef sandwiches in ten western and midwest states with the first case confirmed on 27 September. (BBC News)
22 October 2024 – 2024 United States presidential election
Foreign interference in the 2024 United States elections
The presidential campaign of former U.S. President Donald Trump files a formal complaint to the Federal Election Commission against the United Kingdom's Labour Party, accusing the Labour Party of "blatant foreign interference" in the election to support the Kamala Harris presidential campaign. (BBC News)
21 October 2024 – Sudanese civil war
2024 New Way Cargo Airlines Ilyushin Il-76 shootdown
An Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane crashes in North Darfur, Sudan, killing its crew of two Russians and three Sudanese nationals. The Rapid Support Forces claim that they shot down the aircraft with a surface-to-air missile and say that they have recovered the airplane's flight recorder. Russia says that its diplomats in Sudan are currently investigating the crash. (Sudan Tribune) (AP)
A Sudanese Armed Forces jet bombs a mosque in Wad Madani, Gezira State, killing at least 31 people. The attack coincides with the RSF launching an assault across the state following the defection of the Rapid Support Forces' top commander in the state to the SAF. (Sudan Tribune)
21 October 2024 – Israel–Hezbollah conflict
Thirteen people are killed and 57 more wounded during Israeli airstrikes near Rafik Hariri University Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
Israel launches airstrikes across Lebanon, including in Beirut and the Beqaa Valley, targeting financial institutions that are allegedly linked to Hezbollah. (AP)
21 October 2024 – Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
Seven people are killed and five others are injured in a mass shooting at a camp for construction workers near Sonamarg, Jammu and Kashmir, India. (Al Jazeera)
21 October 2024 – 2024 Talerddig train collision
Two passenger trains collide head-on at Talerddig, Powys, Wales, killing one passenger and injuring 15 others. (BBC News)
21 October 2024 –
The World Health Organization declares Egypt to be malaria-free. (BBC News)
21 October 2024 – China–India relations
India and China reach a breakthrough in discussions on disengagement and border patrol along the disputed Line of Actual Control. (Zee News) (DW)
21 October 2024 – 2000 Sipadan kidnappings
A trial court in Taguig, Philippines, convicts 17 leaders and members of Abu Sayyaf, including two top officials of the Rajah Sulaiman Movement who were on the United Nations Security Council's Sanctions List, of the kidnapping of 21 tourists from Sipadan, Malaysia, in 2000. The convicts are sentenced to reclusión perpetua. (AFP via SCMP) (PNA)
21 October 2024 – Operation Car Wash
A court in Peru sentences former president Alejandro Toledo to 20 years and six months in prison for receiving bribes. (Reuters)
21 October 2024 –
Five members of a family, including three teenagers, are killed in a mass shooting in Fall City, Washington, United States. (USA Today)
Former Albanian president Ilir Meta is arrested on accusations of corruption. (Reuters)
The National Assembly of Vietnam appoints army general Lương Cường as the country's president, succeeding Communist Party General Secretary Tô Lâm. (VOA) (AP) (VnExpress)
A 52nd Mersenne prime is discovered by a participant of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, six years after the last new Mersenne prime was discovered in 2018. The prime number is 41,024,320 digits in length, making it the largest known prime number. (Mersenne.org)
20 October 2024 – Israel–Hamas war
Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
October 2024 Beit Lahia attacks
Hamas reports that the number of dead and missing following an Israeli bombardment of residential areas in northern Gaza yesterday increases to 87, becoming among the highest single-incident death tolls in the past few months and also prompting condemnation from the United Nations. (Reuters)
Siege of Jabalia
The Israel Defense Forces announce that Colonel Ehsan Daxa, the commander of the 401st Armored Brigade, was killed by an IED in Jabalia in northern Gaza, becoming one of the most senior officers to have been killed in the fighting in Gaza. (The Times of Israel)
20 October 2024 – 2024 Iran–Israel conflict
Israeli retaliation leak
Two confidential U.S. intelligence documents are leaked to a pro-Iranian Telegram channel. The documents contain military assessments describing the detailed preparation of Israel's retaliatory attacks against Iran for striking Israel. (NPR)
20 October 2024 – Israel–Hezbollah conflict
2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
Israeli troops open fire on a truck belonging to the Lebanese Armed Forces near Hanine, killing three soldiers. Israel later issues a formal apology for the attack, stating that its forces mistakenly believed they were targeting a vehicle used by Hezbollah to transport rockets. (The Times of Israel)
20 October 2024 – Sudanese civil war
Battle of Khartoum, 2024 Sudan famine
The Sudan Tribune reports disease outbreaks and starvation in Khartoum North, Sudan, as a military offensive and fighting continues in the city. (Sudan Tribune)
20 October 2024 – 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
Hurricane Oscar makes landfall in Cuba amid a national electrical blackout. (USA Today)
20 October 2024 –
At least two people are killed and 309 others are rescued in flash flooding in Roswell, New Mexico, United States. (The New York Times) (NBC News)
Four people are killed when a helicopter crashes into a radio tower in Houston, Texas, United States. (ABC News)
20 October 2024 – 2024 Moldovan presidential election, 2024 Moldovan European Union membership referendum
Moldovans vote for a president and also vote in a referendum that would amend the constitution to include a commitment for Moldova to join the European Union. (Le Monde)
The presidential election goes to a second-round between current president Maia Sandu and politician Alexandr Stoianoglo of the pro-Russian Party of Socialists. (BBC)
The European Union referendum is narrowly approved by voters, with president Maia Sandu alleging foreign electoral intervention from Russia. (Reuters)
20 October 2024 – Inauguration of Prabowo Subianto
Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka are inaugurated as the 8th president and 14th vice president of Indonesia, respectively. (AP) (Reuters)
20 October 2024 – 2024 WNBA Finals
In basketball, the New York Liberty defeat the Minnesota Lynx in 5 games to win their first WNBA championship. (CTV News)
19 October 2024 – Israel–Hamas war
Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
October 2024 Beit Lahia attacks
Hamas claims that at least 73 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes on Beit Lahia in the Gaza Strip, although the Israel Defence Forces dispute this claim. (Al Ahram)
Refugee camp airstrikes in the Israel–Hamas war
Israeli forces strike the Gaza Strip, killing at least 50 people, including at least 33 people in an airstrike on the Jabalia refugee camp. (NPR) (BBC News)
19 October 2024 – Israel–Hezbollah conflict
2024 drone attack on Benjamin Netanyahu's residence
Hezbollah launches around 200 drones and other projectiles from Lebanon toward locations in northern Israel, killing one person and injuring thirteen others. One of the targets is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's house in the resort town of Caesarea. (Star Tribune) (AP)
2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
Israeli strikes on a vehicle and an apartment building in Baaloul, Lebanon, and areas north of Beirut, Lebanon, kill seven people, including the mayor of the town of Sohmor. (Boston25 News)
The Israel Defense Forces says that the Israeli Air Force killed Hezbollah's deputy commander Naser Abed al-Aziz Rashid in Bint Jbeil, Lebanon, yesterday. (The Washington Times) (The Jerusalem Post)
19 October 2024 – Sapelo Island dock collapse
At least seven people are killed and several others are reported missing when a dock collapses on Sapelo Island in Georgia, United States. (AP)
19 October 2024 –
Protesters storm and damage the office of the Saudi-owned MBC TV channel in Baghdad, Iraq, after the channel aired a programme which called Hamas and Hezbollah leaders "terrorists". The Iraq Communications and Media Commission later suspends MBC's operations in Iraq in response to the incident. (New Arab) (Roya News)
Three people are killed and eight others are injured in a mass shooting when at least two gunmen opened fire on people at a school's football homecoming win celebration in near Lexington, Mississippi, United States. (AP)
Intelsat communications satellite Intelsat 33e breaks up in Earth's orbit, resulting in network disruptions to customers in Europe, Africa and parts of the Asia-Pacific region. The United States Space Force says they are tracking at least "20 associated pieces" of the satellite. (BBC News)
18 October 2024 – Israel–Hamas war
Killing of Yahya Sinwar
Hamas confirms that its leader, Yahya Sinwar, was killed in action during a shootout with Israeli soldiers two days ago in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Palestine. (Al Jazeera)
18 October 2024 – 2024 Neot HaKikar shooting
Two gunmen entering Israel from Jordan are killed in a shootout with border guards near the Dead Sea. (Al Jazeera)
18 October 2024 – 2024 Cuba blackout
A nationwide power outage occurs in Cuba following a critical failure at the Antonio Guiteras power station in Puerto Padre, Las Tunas Province. (CNN)
18 October 2024 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
Foreign involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, North Korea–Ukraine relations
The South Korean National Intelligence Service says that North Korea has started sending troops to fight with Russia in Ukraine. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol calls for a security meeting and says the international community must respond with "all available means". (BBC)
18 October 2024 – Swiss neutrality
Switzerland joins the European Sky Shield Initiative to contribute to building a pan-European air and missile defense system, while also allowing the nation to train and purchase military systems with other European nations. (Reuters)
18 October 2024 – Western Sahara conflict
Morocco rejects a proposal put forward by the UN envoy for Western Sahara Staffan de Mistura that would partition Western Sahara with the northern part being annexed by Morocco and the southern part forming an independent state controlled by the Polisario Front. (Atalayar)
18 October 2024 –
Four people, including the gunman, are killed in a school shooting in Heliópolis, Bahia, Brazil. (CNN Brazil)
Kenya's National Assembly unanimously approves Interior Secretary Kithure Kindiki as the new Deputy President following his nomination by President William Ruto. However, the High Court temporarily suspends the impeachment of former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua in order to hear challenges. (AP)
Clashes between protestors and police break out over demonstrations of arrested activists in Nasiriyah, Iraq. (CityNews)
17 October 2024 – Israel–Hamas war
Killing of Yahya Sinwar
The Israeli military announces that Yahya Sinwar, the de facto leader of Hamas and the mastermind of the October 7 attack, was killed along with two other militants in a shootout with Israeli forces in Rafah Governorate, Gaza. (AzerNews) (CNN)
Attacks on schools during the Israeli invasion of Gaza
An Israeli airstrike on a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in Jabalia, northern Gaza, kills 28 people, including at least five children. (Sky News) (Al Jazeera)
17 October 2024 – Israel–Hezbollah conflict
2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
Five Israeli soldiers from the Golani Brigade are killed in fighting with Hezbollah forces in southern Lebanon. IDF Spokesman Daniel Hagari says several Hezbollah operatives have been captured during the clashes. (The Times of Israel)
17 October 2024 – Red Sea crisis
2024 missile strikes in Yemen
U.S. B-2 Spirit stealth bombers carry out raids on underground bunkers used by the Houthis in Sanaa Governorate, Yemen. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says that five underground facilities were targeted in the strikes. (AP)
17 October 2024 – Colombian conflict
FARC dissidents open fire against a prison convoy in Cauca Department, Colombia, killing two prison guards and serial killer Manuel Octavio Bermúdez. Six others are wounded. (Infobae)
17 October 2024 – Somali Civil War
A suicide bombing at a restaurant in Mogadishu, Somalia, kills at least seven people and injures at least six others. Islamic terrorist group al-Shabaab claims responsibility for the attack. (AL24 News) (Daily Sabah)
17 October 2024 – South Africa–Taiwan relations
The Government of South Africa orders Taiwan to relocate its representative office from the South African capital of Pretoria, allegedly due to pressure from China. (Focus Taiwan)
17 October 2024 –
A court in Vietnam sentences tycoon Trương Mỹ Lan to life in prison for fraud, in addition to a death sentence that Lan received in April for embezzlement. (Radio Free Asia)
A court in Bangladesh orders the arrest of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 45 others for crimes against humanity. Hasina is in exile in India. (AP)
The Senate of Kenya convicts Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua on 5 out of 11 charges, thereby removing him from office. (BBC News)
16 October 2024 – Israel–Hezbollah conflict
2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
Attack on Nabatieh municipal council
At least 16 people, including the mayor are killed in an IAF airstrike on a municipal building of Nabatieh, southern Lebanon, with Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati condemning the attack. (BBC News)
16 October 2024 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
Foreign involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, North Korea–Ukraine relations
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that North Korea has now become directly involved in the war in Ukraine, with a senior Ukrainian intelligence official saying that around 3,000 North Korean troops are currently in Russia and are training for deployment to Russian-occupied territories. (Politico)
United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
U.S. President Joe Biden announces a new $425 million military aid package for Ukraine, containing long-range weaponry. (The Kyiv Independent)
16 October 2024 – 2024 Majiya fuel tanker explosion
At least 180 people are killed and dozens of others are injured when a gasoline tanker overturns and explodes in Majiya, Jigawa State, Nigeria. (Al Jazeera)
16 October 2024 –
Bodies of five Russian climbers that disappeared on October 6 while summiting Mount Dhaulagiri in Nepal are discovered near the peak and retrieved. (AP)
An explosion at a house in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, kills at least two people and injures six others. An investigation to determine the cause of the explosion by the Health and Safety Executive is underway. (BBC News)
Three workers are killed and four others are injured when a bridge collapses into the Strong River ahead of it's demolition in Mississippi, United States. (ABC News)
16 October 2024 – 2023 Brazilian Congress attack
The Supreme Court of Brazil determines the government must seek the extradition of Brazilian nationals accused of participating in the 2023 attack on government buildings in Brasília who are currently residing in Argentina. (Reuters)
16 October 2024 – 2024 Indian bomb hoaxes
It is reported that at least 10 flights operated by Indian airlines have received bomb threat hoaxes over the past 48 hours, causing the flights to be delayed or diverted. (BBC News)
16 October 2024 –
Attorney General of Spain Álvaro García Ortiz is charged by the Supreme Court for revealing secrets about a tax fraud case involving the boyfriend of the president of the Community of Madrid Isabel Díaz Ayuso. However, García Ortiz announces that he will not resign. (RTVE)
15 October 2024 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
Eastern Ukraine campaign
Governor of Kharkiv Oblast Oleh Syniehubov orders the mandatory evacuation of all civilians from Kupiansk and Borova in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. (Reuters)
15 October 2024 – Highway 4 shooting
A police officer is killed and four others are injured in a mass shooting on Highway 4 near Ashdod, Israel. The gunman is killed by a passing armed civilian. (Al Jazeera) (The Times of Israel)
15 October 2024 –
Models Alex Consani and Valentina Sampaio become the first transgender women to walk the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. (Hindustan Times)
The United States Department of Transportation fines the German airline Lufthansa $4 million for its mistreatment of Orthodox Jewish passengers during a flight from New York to Hungary through Germany in 2022. (AP)
Google signs an agreement with Kairos Power to use small nuclear reactors to generate the energy to power its artificial intelligence (AI) data centers. (BBC News)
A car driving in the wrong direction collides with another car on the M6 motorway in Cumbria, England, killing five people, including two children and seriously injuring another. (BBC News) (Sky News)
15 October 2024 – Climate change and food security in Africa
The World Food Programme says that millions of people in southern African countries are facing a food crisis, with more than 21 million children currently malnourished. (Reuters)
15 October 2024 – Israel–Hamas war, Israel–United States relations
The Biden administration sends a letter to the Israeli government, urging it to take action to improve the humanitarian crisis in Gaza within 30 days. (CNN)
15 October 2024 – Iran–European Union relations
The European Union sanctions fourteen Iranian individuals and firms, including Iran Air and several high-ranking members of the Quds Force, for allegedly transferring missiles and drones to Moscow in order to help Russia in its invasion of Ukraine. (Al Jazeera)
15 October 2024 – North Korea–South Korea relations
North Korea announces that it has destroyed portions of an unused road that linked North Korea with South Korea. (AP)
15 October 2024 – Philippines–United Arab Emirates relations
Following a phone call with Emirati president Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, Philippine president Bongbong Marcos confirms that 143 Filipinos in the United Arab Emirates have been pardoned by the Emirati government. (Philippine News Agency)
15 October 2024 –
The Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is designated as a terrorist group by the Canadian government and is sanctioned by the U.S. government, due to the group's alleged ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. (CTV News)
14 October 2024 – Israel–Hezbollah conflict
2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
October 2024 Aitou airstrike
At least 21 people are killed and eight others are injured when an Israeli airstrike hits an apartment building in the village of Aitou in northern Lebanon. (CTV News)
The Israel Defense Forces say that they killed Muhammad Kamel Naim, the head of the anti-tank missile array of Hezbollah's elite Redwan Force, in an airstrike in Nabatieh, Lebanon. (Times of Israel)
14 October 2024 – Israel–Hamas war
Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
At least four people are killed and dozens of others are severely injured when an Israeli airstrike hits a tent camp at a hospital in Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip, causing the tents to catch fire. (Al Jazeera)
At least ten people are killed by Israeli artillery fire at a food distribution centre in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. (BBC News)
14 October 2024 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
Southern Ukraine campaign
Russian forces claim that they took the village of Levadne in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine. (Voice of America)
14 October 2024 – Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
This year's Nobel Prize in economics is awarded to Turkish-American economist Daron Acemoglu, British-American economist Simon Johnson, and British economist James A. Robinson for their studies "of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity". (The New York Times) (Nobel Prize)
14 October 2024 –
Twelve people are killed and 33 others are injured when a bus carrying students from Galala University overturns in Al Galala, Suez Governorate, Egypt. (AP)
One person is killed and 23 others are injured when an NJ Transit River Line train collides with a tree that had fallen onto the tracks in Mansfield Township, New Jersey, United States. (CTV News)
14 October 2024 – Israel–Hamas war protests in the United States
Over 200 pro-Palestinian demonstrators against American involvement in Israeli attacks on civilians in the Gaza Strip, many from Jewish Voice for Peace, are arrested outside of the New York Stock Exchange for attempting to block it. (Reuters)
14 October 2024 –
The Papua New Guinea Defence Force shoot six people, killing one, during an operation against illegal mining near Porgera Gold Mine in Enga Province, Papua New Guinea. (BenarNews)
Mexican National Guard finds the decapitated bodies of five men on a road in Ojuelos de Jalisco, Jalisco, Mexico. (Al Jazeera)
SpaceX launches NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, United States, to study Jupiter's moon Europa, with the spacecraft expected to arrive in April 2030. (BBC News)
13 October 2024 – Israel–Hezbollah conflict
2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
Israeli attack on Ramyah UNIFIL post

Me (incomplete), described in userboxes...

History and contributions...

Awards and praise I've received over the years...


Tip of the day April 21, 2006: Thanks for helping a newbie!

Filmcom 14:36, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
I award this random acts of kindness Barnstar to Go for It! for being very helpful to a newcomer wikipedian, without being asked to.Filmcom 19:41, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
I award this random acts of kindness Barnstar to Go for It! for being very helpful to a newcomer wikipedian, without being asked to.Filmcom 19:41, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

I just want to thank you for building on my tip and making it a true wikipedia tip of the day. I'm still learning a lot about how to do things around here, so your help was greatly appreciated! Keep up the great work, and keep on Going for it!

Smashing!

Smashing job on Tip of the day!
You've done a great job getting the Tip of the Day off the ground. As a result, I think you deserve this! smurrayinchester(User), (Talk) 17:52, 9 March 2006 (UTC)


Barnstar

This Working Man's Barnstar is awarded to Go for it! for your tireless and diligent work on the reference desk templates! -- Natalya 19:37, 25 March 2006 (UTC)


Barnstar

For going above and beyond the call of duty at Esperanza/Admin coaching, I award you this Original Barnstar. Good work! --Fang Aili talk 18:34, 1 November 2006 (UTC)


Award

!!!

<O.o --The Prophet Wizard of the Crayon Cake 01:45, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome. The Transhumanist 01:55, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar

!

Cool signature Kamope · talk · contributions 12:58, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks.   The Transhumanist 05:52, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks so much!

Thanks so much for the hints in your userpage tutorial. . I am a new user and familiar with HTML markup, but not so with Wikimark up. Your userpage tutorial really helped! Real96 06:14, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome. I'm glad you found it useful. If you see any way to improve it, by all means, please feel free to do so.   The Transhumanist 06:36, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

WC

How can I sum the above up....? Oh yes:

WOW!!

as a near- noob, this is by far the most detailed and useful article on wikipedia for me! Excellent! I really wish I had a user page like this after two years...Snailey! 15:42, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar

Just a few words...

TT, my friend, my mop would never have been gained without your incredible expertise. My kindest regards to you, and drop by as often as possible! Now, a little token of my appreciation...

The Golden Wiki Award;
This, the Golden Wiki Award, the highest attainment level of awards and barnstars, goes to you - The Transhumanist - for being one of the most helpful, kind, resourceful and generous Wikipedians I've had to utmost fortune to meet. Your contributions around the Wiki - at the WikiClassroom, in Dispute Resolution, at the Welcoming Committee, but most of all being a genuinely fun guy, are an amazing feat, and if half the trolls I'll undoubtedly meet after gaining my mop (thanks to you) took a leaf from your book, Wikipedia would be a nicer place.

My kindest possible regards,
Anthony 21:38, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar

Award

Hello The Transhumanist, (Hold on, can I say that or is it "Hello Transhumanist")
I was going to give you an award but there wasn't one good enough, so I made one better than any that has ever been seen before - This message. Yes, yes, I know, you don't think your worthy of it, but I assure you, you are the only one good enough for it - Pheonix 19:34, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

A Help:Contents Barnstar

Barnstar

:D

Hi there Trans Face!X××x××pink×jellocreature××x××X (talk) 01:36, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

You won an award!

Fractional-reserve banking

You deserve a barnstar for your efforts. I can't think of anyone who has contributed more to Wikipedia, except maybe Jimbo. I'm not sure where to put this on your frontpage, so here it is:

Barnstar

My Userpage

Hi There First id like to thank you immensly for your pages about creating a decent userpage!! They are great and I would be lost without them!! Just one question, On my userpage i have a small welcome banner up the top. How do I make this text larger and change the font? Sorry if you have already covered this somewhere. Thanks in advanceCstubbies (talk) 12:40, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

A valuable service

I think you need recognition for doing the job of ten other editors, and doing it out of altruism and genuine belief in Wikipedia. Not many editors here have the same good attitude and provide the same service as you - I don't have any specific point to put across, but I thought you should just be prodded and reminded that you do a lot of good around here, in the hope you'll keep it up. Kudos! Seegoon (talk) 17:43, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

:)


Welcoming committee

Just a note, I've made a minor update to your contributions. To reiterate my edit summary, you put in a tonne of effort there, and you deserve to be credited for it :) Feel free to revert, nonetheless. Regards, AGK (contact) 16:44, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

List of basic space exploration topics

Hi there TTH, Just wanted to thank you for your labors on this page, which is a great resource for us. Bill Wwheaton (talk) 17:48, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

You'd better hope there is a humour barnstar

... because you just gave me the biggest laugh in weeks. Good stuff giving that RfA spammer what-for here. αѕєηιηє t/c 22:03, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

List of basic Canada topics

Nice work -- I will withdraw the AfD nom. – ukexpat (talk) 00:55, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Done

Fictional lists

The deletion review was approved for recreation: Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2008 March 10. Just letting you know, in case you weren't watchlisting it. I'm not sure what you have to do next to get the old version undeleted though (if that's what you wanted :) Nice catch on rescuing that grouping. -- Quiddity (talk) 00:21, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

'Tis for you

Barnstar


List_of_basic_France_topics

Hi Transhumanist, I wanted to note that I saw all of your work on the List of Basic France topics, and I appreciate it! Lazulilasher (talk) 02:12, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

From Zach...

(next page...)

Guidance Star

Happy Transhumanist's Day!

→ Dylan620 (Toolbox Alpha, Beta) 00:26, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Happy The Transhumanist's Day!

Congrats. :) –Juliancolton | Talk 23:44, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

I think...

...you need a barnstar for all of the hard work you have put into the WP:WPOOK!


Barnstar

Transhumanist my friend,

It's about time you deserve a barnstar for all your contributions to outlines on Wikipedia, and also for being the promoter that you are for outlines. If it wasn't for you we might not have outlines as they are, so it is my honor to present to you the Special Barnstar because no other barnstar could merit what you do for outlines on Wikipedia.  :-) Burningview (talk) 03:42, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Well done

Made me laugh

You once said in a AFD: "If you are building a robot, you can start with just the left pinky." I love that. Happy New Year! Jerry delusional ¤ kangaroo 20:34, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

another thanks

I appreciate you pointing me in the direction of a formatted signature. For some reason I couldn't find any reference to how it is done in the years I have been here. Cheers. ◦◦derekbd◦◦my talk◦◦ 12:16, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Impressed

I just wanted to tell you (probably not the 1st ^^ ) that your are an incredible wikipedia member, your userpage is simply amazing and your contribution is...gigantic? huge? Incredible? not for the number edits (still high) but rather over the appropriateness of the things that you have created, especially the outline project. I wont give you another award, you already have billions, but simply a modest "Bravo!". -- Offiikart (Talk) 05:23, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi, thanks a lot for the barnstar, you are truly a user with whom it is pleasant to interact. I greatly appreciate your help, your tips and you recognition on the work done, even if only very minimal compared to the work you have done.

I think you, more than everyone else, deserve a special recognition. Here is the first Barnstar I ever awarded :


ps. I did put the page alert on my watchlist

A barnstar for you!

Note to user getting this message: Please respond on Pinkstrawberry02's talk page. If for some reason you cannot, please send them a {{talkback}} and reply on your own talk page. Thanks for your understanding in this manner. See ya around the wiki!

barnstar

A barnstar for you!

You're first one? Wonderful! I can't wait to see what you come up with next. And I also look forward to seeing what you have in store for this outline. Thank you for the barnstar. It's very nice to feel appreciated. The Transhumanist 22:10, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!


A barnstar for you!


A cookie for you!

Thank you

A barnstar for you!

A barnstar for you!

Thank you. The Transhumanist 07:45, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you!

Thank you. The Transhumanist 06:56, 5 October 2015 (UTC)


Do have an e-cookie and enjoy!
Greetings The Transhumanist,

Want to let you know the value of your insights & feedback!
Regards, JoeHebda (talk) 21:53, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

Thank you. Keep up the good work. The Transhumanist 16:50, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

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Thanks again :) -- Doc James along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 03:59, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

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Thank you. The Transhumanist 15:31, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

Love the outlines

Hi there! I just wanted to let you know that I think your planet outlines are really cool. I have long thought it was a shame that only Wikipedians seem to know about Books or Portals, because they are really great tools for structuring knowledge (while everyone loves diving down the Wikipedia rabbit hole, we could really do with some better content organization). The outlines strike me as a great way to bring that sort content organization to mainspace, where it will actually reach a large number of readers. I notice that I am the first one to edit them besides yourself, and I hope you know that I do so with love.

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Transhumanist, thank you for your extraordinary efforts on behalf of portals. It reminds me of the time when a series of attacks on scientific bibliographies led to the formation of WikiProject Bibliographies. I don't understand why your detractors are so passionate about deleting portals, but your actions have been a model for how to deal with an attack constructively. RockMagnetist(talk) 16:10, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

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@RightCowLeftCoast: Thank you. I feel honored. Please keep in mind that I have not been working alone. Credit goes to the nearly 400 editors who came forward to speak up for the keeping of portals. And although the RfC to delete all portals is over, the job of defending portals from deletion is not. For the portal namespace to be retained in the long term, the portals in it will need to be improved to a worthy quality level, otherwise we may see more deletion attempts. This task is far more than a single editor can handle. Fortunately, many editors have come forward to meet the challenge. Working to develop portals and the entire portal system, is a team of 80 editors who are diligently redesigning, upgrading, updating, and maintaining portals. They are the members of the Portals WikiProject, and without them there might be no portals. They are doing a wonderful job, and I am very proud of them. Thank you.    — The Transhumanist   17:22, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

Precious

thinking-related topics

Thank you for organising a list of thinking-related topics, for Shift work sleep disorder and the index of oral health and dental articles, for your thoughts and efforts regarding portals, and beginnings such as Portal:Thinking/Selected picture, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:53, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

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Thank you for your thoughts and efforts regarding portals, for the concept of outlines, for sectional redirects, for articles such as Life Extension Foundation, for service from 2006, including portal philosophy and user page design center, - repeating (1 & 4 June 2009): you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:54, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

Thank you. I looked, but couldn't figure out what 1 & 4 June 2009 were referring to. Just curious.    — The Transhumanist   19:26, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

Follow the link "awesome W." and look for your name: 2 others said it before me! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:48, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Executive director of portals

Moxy, thank you. I'm honored, and I receive this praise for the team, without whom there would be very little progress on portals. They are literally transforming them into something new. I'm glad to be a part of that.    — The Transhumanist   18:20, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

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You are welcome, formerly Wpgbrown. Nice new name. ;)    — The Transhumanist   10:26, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

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You have made immense contributions to outlines over the years, and have encouraged many more Wikipedians to follow your lead. The impact of your contributions are great. Keep doing the good work! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ambujshukla2004 (talk • contribs) 19:16, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

Thank you.    — The Transhumanist   00:06, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

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