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This article is part of NeglectedA series of necrologists on extraordinary people whose deaths, starting from 1851, have not been reported on time.Joyce Brown's New York minute lasted longer than most. Secretary of the past, Brown became homeless in 1986 and began to camp on a heating grid on the second Avenue and the 65th Street in Manhattan.About a year before being taken from the city's officials, involuntarily engaged in a psychiatric hospital - where it was declared a mind of mind - and with data force. Brown, who was better known as Billie Boggs, was the first homeless man to become at the center of the recently expanded initiative of the mayor I. Koch to face the growing visibility of the homeless and the not treated mental illness.But, as he would have said later in the int...

Great Britain has bathed in abundance of sunshine and temperatures above average this week, leading to a record maximum on Thursday, beating the previous record in 1990. However, a public bathroom may have downloaded the hopes that a London park would have been home to a record reading. The unusually hot and sunny conditions were driven by a high pressure system located on the country and the temperatures have constantly climbed throughout the week. Monday, St. James's Park in central London, hidden between Buckingham Palace and Westminster Abbey, has recorded its maximum temperature so far this year, just to be passed every following day, culminating on another record day on Thursday.But not so quickly, custodians of records.The observations from a meteorological station in the park h...

A federal judge issued a reference sentence last year, stating that Google had become a monopolist in the internet research. But in an audition that started last week to understand how to solve the problem, the emphasis has often landed on a different technology, artificial intelligence.In the District Court of the United States in Washington last week, a lawyer of the Department of Justice claimed that Google could use his research monopoly to become the dominant player in the Google Executives revealed internal discussions on the expansion of Gemini's scope, the company chatbot. And the managers of the artificial intelligence companies rival have said that Google's power was an obstacle to their success.Last Wednesday, the first substantial question posed to the CEO of Google, Su...

Israel launched aerial attacks on Syria on Wednesday and threatened to hit the government forces if the clashes persisted between pro-government and militia fighters from the minority of druses.Taking the last eruption of sectarian violence in the country, the Israeli military said that his plane has affected a group of "agents" accused of having "attacked the civil civilians" to spread the violence around the periphery of the capital, Damascus. The Syrian governor of the area, Amr Al-Sheikh, said in a press conference on Wednesday evening that the air attack had killed a member of the general security forces of the Syrian government and a civil.The Israeli army did not identify the "agents", but the forces aligned with the Islamist government were blocked in ferocious clashes in the area ...

Consciousness can be a mystery, but this does not mean that neuroscientists have no explanation for this. Far from it."In the field of consciousness, there are already so many theories that we do not need more theories," said Oscar Ferrante, neuroscientist of the University of Birmingham.If you are looking for a theory to explain how our brains give rise to subjective and inner experiences, you can verify the theory of adaptive resonance. Or consider the theory of the dynamic nucleus. Do not forget the representative theory of the first order, not to mention the theory of competition of the semantic pointer. The list continues: a 2021 survey identified 29 different theories of consciousness.Dr. Ferrante belongs to a group of scientists who want to lower that number, perhaps even to one. Bu...

The European car manufacturers, including Mercedes-Benz, Stellantis and Volkswagen, said on Wednesday that the chaos and further upheaval caused by the rates introduced by President Trump had left them fighting to evaluate the impact and unable to plan the future.After years of slow demand and high inflation, the European car manufacturers went in 2025 with a series of new battery models and large hopes that would have attracted customers.Instead, they face the global uncertainty that surrounds the supply chains and customers' demand, started by Mr. Trump to impose rates of 25 % on all cars, steel and aluminum that arrive in the United States.Wednesday, Mercedes-Benz suspended his financial forecasts for 2025, as well as Stellantide, which includes Fiat, Peugeot and Opel between its br...

When I travel to Asia this summer, I intend to leave my iPhone at home. Instead, I will put a different phone without my basic apps, such as Instagram, Slack and Signal. Access to my and -workmail will not be carried out.No, I'm not planning digital detoxification. I am choosing to travel with what is known as a burner phone because my personal device contains sensitive data that I do not want others, in particular the protection of the protection of US borders.For over a decade, the Federal Government has had the authority to conduct the border research of the personal electronics of travelers, including phones, laptops and tablets. In recent years, these inspections have constantly increased, although they only occur to a small part of the people who enter the United States.Last year...

The United Nations, anticipating that President Trump will cut the contributions of the United States to the global organism, told his departments to process plans for budget cuts, also through staff transfers from New York and Geneva to less expensive cities.The instructions-delineate in a two-page note of April 25 who was revised by the New York Times-S-shed by the office of the Secretary General António Guterres to the leaders of all the agencies that refer directly to him. The memo has set a deadline for May 15 for all proposals so that they can be added to the 2026 budget."Your goal is to identify as many functions as possible that could be transferred to existing low -cost positions", reads the memo, "or otherwise reduced or abolished whether they are duplicates or no longer vital".I...

On April 1, the efforts of the Trump administration to cut the government funding arrived in Morgantown, W.Va., where federal scientists spent their days studying health and safety threats to American workers. That morning, hundreds of employees of the National Institute for occupational Safety and Health were informed that they had been closed and that they would lose access to the building.The shoulders were more than 900 laboratory animals. In the end, the Institute managed to move about two third-thirds-proves, as well as a handful of mice-invading them to university laboratories, according to two employees of the structures that have recently been interrupted. The remaining 300 animals, however, were euthanous last week.In recent months, the Trump administration has targeted the Ameri...

The traffic lights were turning again from red to green. The trains in the Madrid subway system were rolling on all lines except one. And the waiters were serving food and generous slopes of beer and wine to customers in the terraces of a long -haired road restaurant than normal.A day after Spain and Portugal were affected by large blackouts, electricity had returned to most areas of both countries on Tuesday, leaving many raised but also clearly critical on what had caused exactly the widespread energy insufficiency.Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of Spain said that his country recovered over 95 percent of the total offer by 6.30 on Tuesday. In the nearby Portugal, a spokesman for the electricity and gas supplier Ren said that the energy had been restored to all subsits of the country's ...