In the deep Indian Ocean, a team of biologists has discovered seven new species of annelids, including the genus Terebellosuctoria, known for its particular anatomy that resembles a tangle of pasta. #vermi #scoperta #oceanografia (translated)
RADIO ARC 101:“NEWSSTANDS, ‘ENDANGERED SPECIES’ LIKE CAFÉS: MONEY LOST AND HOPES FROM STANFORD” by NANDO SILVESTRI SOURCE: https://radioarc.it/edicole-razze-in-estinzione-come-i-bar-soldi-persi-e-speranze-da-stanford/ Newsstands are another repository of humanity and knowledge, in many respects similar to cafés, at least as far as the unfortunate fate that has befallen many of them is concerned. The smell of printed paper, coloured card, variegated covers, surprise packets and cellophane was an olfactory molasses that once intoxicated young and old alike and represented, at the same time, a sought-after destination for daily walks and pauses. Stopping by the newsstand meant drawing upon knowledge, entertainment, culture, imagination and creativity. All prerogatives lost on account of the shapeless and amorphous surrogates disseminated by the web. This is the principal reason for the cumulative and recurring closure of a great many Italian newsstands: in economics, one speaks of a sector in demand collapse. But it is not merely a newsstand that closes; a piece of the local and national economy closes with it. From 35,000 newsstands in 2005 to about 20,000 in 2024: -43%. With them goes direct turnover of over €400 million per year, but the real hole is the indirect economy that is never calculated. Each average newsstand in a small town generated distribution worth €15,000 per year in margins for local distributors, couriers, and printers. Moreover, the customer who bought the newspaper would have a coffee, buy a bus ticket, place a bet. Download the Medium App One must consider that without a newsstand, the village cinema loses its only physical promotional outlet, not to mention the losses in terms of advertising. When it closes, it is not only the newsagent who loses. The café loses, the driver loses, the printer loses. In Irpinia, over the last five years, Avellino has lost six newsstands, Ariano Irpino three, Sant’Angelo dei Lombardi two. The total loss in Irpinia amounts to about 22% of outlets. All this means that many of the closures mentioned above have deprived Irpinian cafés of several dozen customers, harming workers, distributors and suppliers. These are jobs that do not make the news, but they exist. Another hard blow inflicted upon the local and national economy in the name of a false progress that almost always favours the business of fixers and the usual suspects. However, what is happening in Puglia, a few kilometres from Irpinia, opens up scenarios of renewal based precisely upon the reconversion of disused newsstands. These are prospects so unique and innovative as to have aroused interest worldwide, especially at Stanford University. This is news of enormous significance that few news programmes have disseminated, in the name of a perennial pre-emption by technologies contemptuous of common sense, tradition and art. In San Severo, 40 km from Upper Irpinia, a newsstand abandoned for six years in Via Matteo Tondi became, on 27 March 2026, the Teatro-Edicola Foyer’97: six chairs, four square metres, an idea by Francesco Gavino. The well-received 10- to 15-minute shows have piqued the curiosity of Stanford University. Its academic journal, the Stanford Social Innovation Review [SSIR], has chosen the Teatro Edicola in San Severo as an international case study with the reportage “The Six-Seat Revolution”. Why is Stanford watching us? Because it has realised that those four square metres can once again generate indirect economic activity. Indeed, 60 spectators in an afternoon can become 60 coffees at the neighbouring café. With a symbolic ticket price of €5, we are talking about a cultural micro-economy. Not to mention the indirect income from tourists and journalists who arrive and frequent B&Bs and restaurants. It is the model Irpinia needs: not to leave the void, but to reconvert it virtuously. Every closed newsstand can become an information point, a micro-cinema, a service hub. Otherwise we shall continue to count only the lowered shutters, without counting the money that no longer circulates.
Annika Ström Melin criticizes the EU Commission's proposal which risks not sufficiently protecting against corrupt and authoritarian leaders, especially focusing on the fact that not only new member countries need measures against threats to democracy. #EUsamarbete #demokrati #korruption (translated)
The author wrote that the climate crisis threatened almost all of the world’s roughly 11,000 bird species, with particularly severe implications for seabirds because their life cycles were closely tied to the timing and abundance of food supplies.
The combination of rising diesel costs, the climate crisis, and the increase of alien species is causing a serious crisis in the fishing sector in northeastern Italy, with numerous boats idle and a significant decline in operating companies. #Pesca #SpecieInvasive #CambiamentiClimatici (translated)
Linus Carlstrand, who previously played for IFK Göteborg, is now preparing for a special match against his old team with AIK, where he expects strong reactions from the supporters. #Allsvenskan #AIK #IFKGöteborg (translated)
Some very good news for your Friday: 15 critically endangered frogs have hatched at London Zoo for the first time in captivity. A hopeful milestone for a critically endangered species and a reminder of what conservation can achieve. A tiny leap for frogs, a giant leap for conservation.
The author wrote that more than one million species faced extinction, warning that this brought the world closer to becoming uninhabitable. They said this outcome was not inevitable and reported urging leaders at the COP17 Biodiversity Conference to make peace with nature.
Marco M.M. had written that autumn was progressing in an unusual manner. After a few milder hours, according to his forecasts, an anticyclone between Scandinavia and the Baltic would reach peaks of 1040 hPa, while a large cold drop at altitude would affect the western Mediterranean, the Iberian Peninsula, and France. Between Sunday, October 18, and Tuesday, October 20, Italy would find itself between these two structures, with instability predicted in some western sectors of the peninsula. Marco M.M. had also predicted a decrease of 2-4 °C in maximum temperatures, especially in the Center-North, and had said that it remained to be seen whether the third decade of October would bring a more marked decrease. #meteo #autunno #Europa (translated)
The article discusses how companies in the artificial intelligence sector, having gone into debt for billions to build data centers and develop new models, have become too big to fail, similar to banks before the 2008 crisis, and analyzes the risks associated with this situation, especially in a context of growing international competition. #IntelligenzaArtificiale #Economia #Nvidia (translated)
A bill supported by the Green-Left Alliance and Compassion in World Farming Italy aims to ban intensive octopus farming and to halt the expansion of those for bluefin tuna, as well as calling for a moratorium on other intensive farming of marine carnivorous species. #AllevamentiIntensivi #CompassionInWorldFarming #PoliticaMarina (translated)
Aja baja criticized SVT's reporting and described Sweden as an absurd country. According to the post, SVT highlighted the Green Party's increase of 0.4 percent instead of the Moderates' increase of 4.0 percent. https://t.co/FY0ZKW3bRK #Sverige #politik #SVT (translated)
IMO, the Marine Stewardship Council (@mscecolabel.bsky.social) does more harm than good. It mis-rates species & spreads confusion, when it should be telling us to eat less fish/simply stop. Now, FFS, it has given bluefin tuna a green rating, despite v little data. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A new extinct species of prehistoric yak, called Yak X, has been discovered in Siberia, which coexisted with hominids and whose identification was made possible thanks to advanced DNA sequencing techniques. #YakPreistorico #Biodiversità #Paleogenetica (translated)
Fredric Morenius stated that Sweden had about six million ethnic Swedes and claimed that no parliamentary party wanted to represent their interests, even though, according to him, they were the country's largest group by a wide margin. He believed it was very foolish not to try to win the group's support and used a derogatory judgment about anyone who refrained from doing so. #Sverige #politik #identitet (translated)
Even for the Minister of Health Orazio Schillaci, who defined surgery as a "pillar of public health," the causes of the poor attractiveness are not only economic but also organizational and related to litigation. #Chirurgia #ProfessioniSanitarie #SpecieInEstinzione (translated)
The attractiveness of the surgical profession is declining in Italy, with the risk that within five years 10% of surgical interventions may not be guaranteed due to the aging workforce and the exodus of young specialists. #Chirurgia #ProfessioniSanitarie #SpecieInEstinzione (translated)
Marco M.M. has predicted a moderate increase in temperatures between Wednesday and Friday, especially in the western areas of the Peninsula, where temperatures could reach 25°C. According to his analysis, minimum temperatures would remain stable between 10 and 15°C, while the rise in temperatures would be more contained in the east; the weather would generally remain stable and sunny. For the weekend, he indicated the arrival of cooler air from Eastern Europe, which could bring a more significant drop in temperatures in the eastern areas and instability over the Tyrrhenian Sea, starting from Sardinia. Marco M.M. added that the evolution needed to be confirmed between the following day and the day after, although it already appeared quite solid to him. #MeteoItalia #PrevisioniMeteo #Temperature (translated)
The twenty thousand soldiers that U.S. President Donald Trump had planned as a "stabilization force," a sort of international peacekeeping mission, never arrived either. #Gaza #Israele #conflitto (translated)
A nearly two-meter-long Liuto turtle was found dead on the Feniglia beach after becoming entangled in fishing nets, representing a significant loss for this rare species of the Mediterranean. #TartarugaLiuto #ProtezioneAnimali #SalvaguardiaMarina (translated)
