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UTMB World Series moves to New Zealand as star names flock to Tarawera Ultra-Trail

2 months ago | run247.com | Paul Brown

The UTMB World Series 2025 kicked off in style last weekend with the Arc of Attrition, one of nine exciting new events on the calendar of the global trail running circuit this year. And now the series moves on to the Tarawera Ultra-Trail, a 102km race that is once again a HOKA Golden Ticket qualifier with the top two male and female athletes qualifying directly for the 2025 Western States.
Triathlete given eight-year ban for second anti-doping rule violation

2 months ago | tri247.com | Paul Brown

The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has announced that Polish triathlete Robert Karaś has been given an eight-year ban after testing positive for a banned substance. An independent arbitrator issued the sanction after an evidentiary hearing on December 20, 2024 – with the length of the ban explained by the fact this is the Warsaw athlete’s second violation in a decade.
Advancing alternative methods to reduce animal testing

Nov 14, 2024 | science.org | Junhua Lyu |BaoJun Yang |Xinglin Yang |Paul Brown

Information & AuthorsInformationPublished In ScienceVolume 386 | Issue 672315 November 2024CopyrightCopyright © 2024 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Article versionsSubmission historyPublished in print: 15 November 2024PermissionsRequest permissions for this article. AcknowledgmentsThe authors thank D. G. Strauss and D. L.
The Saxon Mill that changed the course of the River Ouzel

May 23, 2024 | leightonbuzzardonline.co.uk | Paul Brown

Watch more of our videos on Shots! and live on Freeview channel 276Visit Shots! nowLeighton Buzzard had a mill driven by water power from the River Ouzel from Saxon times for nearly 1,000 years until it was bought and closed down by Rank Hovis McDougall Ltd in 1964.The Mill stood at the bottom of Mill Lane on the edge of the water meadows, a site now occupied by Pledge Chairs.
The sugar jar: Paul Brown on climate change, evolution and AI

Feb 14, 2024 | bcs.org | Paul Brown

The question of whether AI can really create art is a popular one, especially with recent developments in readily accessible generative AI. In 2002, Rob Saunders did his PhD on intelligent observers: not things to make art, but things to perceive art. Any period of history and the art it produced are highly integrated; artists are very much embedded in their time, and the ability to perceive and comprehend is as, if not more, important than creative ability.
TVA Celebrates 90 Years of Taming the Tennessee River

Nov 8, 2023 | tnhomeandfarm.com | Paul Brown

Most people know the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) as a government-owned utility provider that operates dams and various plants in Tennessee and bordering states. Power generation has been the thrust of daily operations for much of the agency’s history. However, this wasn’t one of the primary objectives assigned when Congress first created TVA.
Gap Between IPCC’s Science, National Actions Sets Challenge for COP 28

Mar 20, 2023 | theenergymix.com | Mitchell Beer |Paul Brown

With the COP 28 climate summit set to open eight months from now in Dubai, this week’s synthesis report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) underscores the yawning gap between the actions scientists say are required to prevent catastrophic climate change and the real political steps governments are taking. Scientists have been ringing alarm bells ever more loudly in the last five years.