SocietyThe good news
Guardea celebrates a nursery serving neighbouring towns
The 24 October ceremony marked a nursery with room for 27 children. The service was already operating before the celebration.
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Music for today ·Edition of 26 October 2026
N° 048 8 stories to take with youPerspectives.
ScienceThe bright side
NASA and Virginia bring sky data into energy planning
A 23 October agreement connects solar and weather information with Virginia’s energy models. Its benefits still need to be assessed.
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EnvironmentThe bright side
Scotland funds habitat recovery, including after wildfire
The government announces £1,347,018 for nature, with £150,100 allocated to recovery following the Abernethy fire.
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WorldThe bright side
In Somalia, basketball creates space for a conversation about polio
A women’s match in Mogadishu supports awareness. The announcement reports neither eradication nor a count of children vaccinated at the event.
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Moving forward.
SocietyThe good news
The San Benedetto Po bridge is open to traffic again
The municipality reported the reopening on 23 October, following a closure scheduled for demolition of the old bridge deck.
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CultureThe good news
Novara explores books and symbols for shared reading and play
The online session on 26 October offers accessible communication tools for parents, educators and librarians, with advance registration required.
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CultureThe good news
Modena’s libraries make room for difficult subjects through stories
From 26 October to 7 November, readings, talks and workshops explore death, mystery and memory for different age groups.
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WorldThe bright side
Kunming opens a support pathway for Bangladeshi eye patients
The announced service coordinates documents, appointments, interpretation and follow-up; clinical outcomes and lower costs have not been reported.
AI illustration · Positive Times · ImageGen
A little more to discover.
Design · Philosophy · Plants · Curiosities · Words · Food · Cultures & peoples. Ideas worth a closer look.
01Design
Ingo Maurer: a light bulb becomes the whole lamp
With Bulb in 1966, Ingo Maurer enlarged a familiar shape and brought an ordinarily functional object into the foreground of design.
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Bergson: the time an idea takes is more than a number
A sentence by Bergson raises a question about lived time: making something means passing through a process that is not already complete.
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Coleus: colour does not have to wait for flowers
Coleus carries colour in its leaves, but different cultivars need different care: the label matters as much as the windowsill display.
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Why does a screen go dark when you turn your sunglasses?
Polarized sunglasses and an LCD screen reveal a property of light that the colour of an image cannot describe on its own.
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Paesaggio: a place, a view and its representation
The Italian word paesaggio connects a territory with its view and representation; comparison with French helps us follow its linguistic history.
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Nutmeg and mace: two spices inside one fruit
Two names on a spice shelf can hide one botanical origin: nutmeg and mace come from different parts of the same fruit.
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Uilleann pipes: a tradition carried by elbows as well as hands
Irish uilleann pipes receive air from bellows: listening to this music also means noticing gestures, instruments and teaching passed between people.
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A chart a day
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Enlarge the chart An anomaly, a shared reference
- Data period
- 1880–2025; annual anomalies relative to 1951–1980
- Datobello chart dated
In the NASA GISTEMP series, 2025 is +1.18 °C above the 1951–1980 average; 2024 is +1.28 °C. The chart follows all 146 years from 1880 to 2025, using annual estimates from the file accessed on 26 October 2026. There is no complete annual value for 2026 yet, so it is excluded. [1][2]
An anomaly is a departure from a reference, not an absolute temperature or a departure from the pre-industrial period. The series combines land and ocean information and can be updated with late reports and corrections. We show central estimates without uncertainty intervals: one lower year is insufficient to describe a trend spanning many decades. [3][4]
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- GISTEMP v4: Global Land-Ocean Temperature Index, annual J-D estimates NASA GISS · Published · Accessed
- GISS Surface Temperature Analysis, version 4 NASA GISS · Published · Accessed
- GISTEMP: Frequently Asked Questions NASA GISS · Published · Accessed
- Lenssen et al. (2024): A GISTEMPv4 observational uncertainty ensemble NASA GISS / Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres · No publication date provided · Accessed
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