"Before we start preparing the baptismal font, it’s worth noting that Dawkins says he remains “happy” with the UK’s declining Christian faith, and that those beliefs are “nonsense”. But he also says that he enjoys living in a Christian society. This betrays a certain level of cultural free-riding. The survival of society’s Christian undercurrent depends on others buying into the “nonsense” even if he doesn’t. "
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/03/christianity-decline-unleashed-terrible-new-gods/#:~:text=Before%20we%20start,if%20he%20doesn%E2%80%99t.%C2%A0

Structural behavior of cantilever beams
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Should be just wonderful, if we ever find ourselves at war with Russia
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/03/27/the-british-challenger-2-is-the-wrong-tank-for-ukraine/

"As (objectors say) the practice spreads, social and cultural pressure will grow on the terminally ill to hasten their own deaths so as “not to be a burden” on others or themselves.I believe this will indeed come to pass. And I would welcome it...within a decade or more be seen as a normal road for many to take, and considered socially responsible — and even, finally, urged upon people. A proportionately ever-smaller working population carries an ever-larger cohort of elderly and retired citizens, supported by state pensions and advances in medical science"

https://archive.ph/Y9lXy

"As the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) prepares to unleash the power of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on April 8, be ready for a historic moment."

https://wonderfulengineering.com/cern-is-going-to-test-worlds-most-powerful-particle-accelerator-during-aprils-solar-eclipse/

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Jeff Bezos has spent $42 million building a clock intended to outlast human civilisation; in a mountain in Texas.

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