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A new analysis by the World Weather Attribution (WWA) network of scientists found warming driven by the use of fossil fuels had exacerbated the flooding in Sudan. The researchers also said climate change would have made this year's torrential rains around five to 20 percent more intense across the Niger and Lake Chad basins, citing a previous WWA study of similar floods in 2022.

Global warming is not just about rising temperatures -- the extra heat trapped in the atmosphere and seas has knock-on effects and can result in more intense downpours and storms. The researchers said there was a clear link between the extreme rainfall and a warming planet.

The scientists used modelling to compare weather patterns in our world and one without human-induced warming, and found that month-long spells of intense rainfall in parts of Sudan had become heavier and more likely due to climate change. At the current 1.3 degrees Celsius of warming, they said similar periods of rainfall are expected to occur on average about once every three years, and have become about 10 percent heavier due to climate change.

The role of climate change in the floods was compounded by other human-made problems, the researchers said, and they called for better maintenance of dams and investment in early warning systems.

A driver who ran over a cyclist following an altercation in central Paris has been charged with murder in a case that shocked the capital.

The 52-year-old driver of the SUV is accused of having deliberately targeted the cyclist, who was named as Paul Varry, 27.

According to witnesses, the driver, trying to make progress on the congested road, steered his car onto the adjacent cycling path for about 200 metres (650 feet), where he drove over the cyclist's foot, prosecutors said.

Varry, the cyclist, banged his fist on the bonnet of the car to alert the driver, who backed up at first. Varry then stood in front of the car expressing his anger at the driver, who started driving towards him.

-_-...

An autopsy showed that Varry's lethal injuries had been caused by the car.

No joke !

CCTV footage showed the vehicle rising once when the left front tyre rolled over the body, and then again when the back tyre went over.

A test for alcohol and drugs came back negative.

The man's lawyer, Franck Cohen, told AFP that his client "has no explanation for what happened".

lol, good defense.

Hey now look at that 👇

A judge will now rule whether he should be held in custody ahead of trial.

-_-

You wanna commit murder ?!

Forget about gun, just by a big shitty car.

Society will forgive you faster.

Fuck cars forever

Recently I decided to start writing a science fiction novel. I reserved a desk in my room for this purpose, I also picked up an old Thinkpad X200 on which I installed Lubuntu 24.04 and plugged in a gaming keyboard for night writing. I chose to install a minimum of applications in order to stay focused.

My main writing App for the moment is Joplin

And you?

Are you writing a book or have you already written one?

What type of tool do you use to write?

Do you have some advice to share?

This site contains the mathematical archives of Alexander Grothendieck from 1949 to 1991. There you will find manuscripts, "typescripts", sometimes printed documents, in a classification essentially faithful (when it existed) to the author's classification . Of the 28,000 (approximately) pages in this collection, only 18,000 (approximately) are currently accessible

I hope some of us will benefit from his knowledge.

Once I read that it could be good to have 2 helmets.

• One to deal with freezing/cold temperatures
• One to deal with hot/warm temperatures

I guess that both types can be used for cooler temperatures.

What is you opinion about that ?

Do you have some suggestions of helmets, some models you like, or even different advices to share with us ?

Please let us know the reason !

*Just snapping your fingers, no violence

The art of scientific prediction has seeped into every aspect of our lives, influencing our habits and perspectives. Weather, transport, space conquest, architecture and even agriculture: our daily lives are inextricably linked to forecasts. In this first season, Cédric Villani takes us into the thrilling story of the invention of differential equations, calling on Isaac Newton, Christian Huygens, Leonhard Euler, Henri Poincaré...

Podcast (4x15min) by Cédric Villani

Very nice vulgarization !

The Collège de France promotes and teaches research currently being carried out in sciences, letters and the arts. Courses, seminars and conferences are open to all and free.

Everyone is welcome as long as places are available.

Just love this concept

MacTutor is a free online resource containing biographies of more than 3000 mathematicians and over 2000 pages of essays and supporting materials.

MacTutor is constantly expanding and developing.

MacTutor was created and is maintained by Edmund Robertson and John O'Connor of the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of St Andrews, and is hosted by the University Their contributions to the history of mathematics have been recognised by Numerous Awards including the Hirst Prize of the London Mathematical Society in 2015.

Created in 2023 by CNRS Mathématiques (Insmi) , this map illustrates the areas of research in mathematics and shows that mathematics answers concrete questions in our everyday lives. 👍

Mir Publishers (a Soviet Era publishing house) does not exist anymore. They published great textbooks/workbooks in Mathematic and other domains. Feel free to download, print, and share them 👍

Hi, just wanna share it here !