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In a recent newsletter titled Mammal.ai , Scott Galloway refers to a recent PNAS paper " The global biomass of wild mammals" and states:

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East Antarctica, the coldest place on Earth, is experiencing an incredible heatwave unlike any ever observed, according to model-based data sources and on-site measurements performed in the last few days.

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The warmest temperature ever recorded in a permanent weather station of the Antarctic Plateau in 66 operational years has been reached during an unprecedented heatwave in the Concordia-Dome C research station on March 18th, 2022. A powerful inflow of warm winds from Australia brought temperatures over East Antarctica up to 47 degrees C or 85 degrees Fahrenheit, above average. This unusual and unprecedented warmth is smashing temperature records in the coldest location on the planet.

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Insightful and challenging lecture by Baroness Beeban Kidron OBE for the Voice of the Listener & Viewer on the serious challenges society now faces with the emerence of generative AI such as ChatGPT. The VLV also provides a PDF for anyone wanting to read or reference the content of the lecture.

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Organisations looking for an economical and secure (99.999999999%) way to store large quantities of information that will only be retrieved once a year or so could consider the AWS S3 Glacier Storage Class service to store long-life files in the Deep Archive class: the cost is £0.70p per Terabyte.

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Confusingly, AWS also provides the AWS S3 Glacier Vault service which is better suited to large archives to be stored/retrieved as a whole, rather than individual files within an archive. Either service can be managed progammatically, using the AWS CLI or, for the S3 Glacier Storage Class service, via the AWS Management Console.

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The UK edition of the Guardian is running a series of articles exploring the many myths about EVs that circulate on various social media platforms and are encouraged by the e-fuel and big oil lobby.

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DAVE TAKES IT ON is a great YouTube channel primarliy to inform and educate EV drivers about UK charging infrastructure and prices: it also attempts to address the many myths and misunderstandings about owning and driving an EV.