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BBC
Ex-Google boss confirmed as new BBC director general: Matt Brittin says he's taking the top job at "a moment of real risk, yet also real opportunity".
Hospital waited two days before raising alarm about meningitis outbreak, BBC learns: Experts say the wait was indefensible and possibly delayed identification of the outbreak.
Bravery medal recipient 'hugged armed man to stop him bombing hospital': Nathan Newby, who persuaded the "lone-wolf terrorist" to abandon his plan, receives the George Medal.
Olivia Dean, Lola Young and Lily Allen nominated in top songwriting awards: CMAT, Little Simz and Florence and the Machine are among the stars in the running for top songwriting award

CBC
Ontario government planning to remove HST on new homes worth under $1M for 1 year:

Premier Doug Ford announced the plan Wednesday at a news conference in Mississauga, saying the full 13 per cent tax will be removed for new homes valued up to $1 million from April 1, 2026 to March 31, 2027.

N.B.'s new AI chatbot gives tourists wrong info, like suggesting they leave province to find seafood:

Experimenting with Explora in its first few days of operation, CBC News found dozens of factual errors.

A kitchen party at the bottom of the world: N.S. scientists return from Antarctic research trip:

Three Nova Scotian geoscientists have returned from a month-long expedition to Antarctica and now hope to inspire other women to enter their field of work.

New York Times Science
NASA Sets Out New Plans and Timelines for Moon Base and Nuclear Mars Mission: The agency’s leader said new plans and timelines for the coming decade aim to create a permanent foothold by humans on another world and inspire Americans.

Ancient Grapes Reveal Long History of Modern Wines: Genetic material preserved in ancient grape seeds reveals when, and how, humans meddled with wine grapes.

We’ve Been Underestimating Flying Foxes: Australia used to incinerate the large fruit bats, but research suggests they bring hundreds of millions of dollars in benefits to the country’s economy.

Wicked Stepmother No Longer, a Female Pharoah Gets a Reputational Makeover: A reassessment of damaged 3,500-year-old statuary adds to evidence that Queen Hatshepsut wasn’t the villain that scholars long took her to be.

New Spider Mimics ‘The Last of Us’ Zombie Fungus Cordyceps: A newly discovered species of spider in the Ecuadorean Amazon mimics a pathogen, known as a zombie fungus, to protect itself.


Visualizing Science

The oldest known human art is also the oldest known human attempt to record Nature.  This painting is 34,000 years old and was found in the Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave, which is the subject of Werner Herzog’s film: Cave of Forgotten Dreams. Herzog used a 3D camera to capture how the shapes of the walls were incorporated into the paintings.

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