Crafty cuttlefish employ several different camouflaging displays while hunting their prey, according to a new paper published in the journal Ecology, including mimicking benign ocean objects like a leaf or coral, or flashing dark stripes down their bodies. And individual cuttlefish seem to choose different preferred hunting displays for different environments. It’s well-known that cuttlefish … Read more
Im aktuellen Bundestagswahlkampf regnet es private Großspenden. Während insbesondere CDU, FDP und AfD auf Spendenrekorde zusteuern, steht die AfD nun wegen einer fast 2,35 Millionen Euro schweren Spende aus Österreich im Zentrum eines neuen Skandals. Besonders alarmierend ist jedoch der allgemeine Transparenzverlust in der Parteienfinanzierung, der bereits zu einem Abrutschen Deutschlands im Korruptionsindex von Transparency … Read more
The complexity of IT and security infrastructure was highlighted as the greatest obstacle to achieving cyber resilience according to new research, Unlock the Resilience Factor from Zscaler. Forty-three percent of 1,700 IT and security leaders worldwide ranked the challenge as a major barrier to an improved ability to recover from serious cyber events, nine percentage … Read more
On the 4th of February 2025, the President of El Salvador offered the United States of America ‘the opportunity to outsource part of its prison system’, transferring convicted U.S. criminals into the Salvadoran mega-prison (CECOT) ‘in exchange for a fee.’ Amidst an increasingly fragile rule of law, mounting carceral expansion and documented human rights abuses … Read more
The Lebanon Valley Conservancy (TLVC) recently preserved two farms along Fort Swatara Road in Union Township, near Swatara State Park, Fort Indiantown Gap, and within the Kittatinny Ridge Sentinel Landscape. The land in and around the Kittatinny Ridge is a strategic area of focus for TLVC, serving as a crucial corridor for songbird migration and … Read more
