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Nell Stevens’s two works of nonfiction, Bleaker House and Mrs Gaskell & Me, are about her attempts to write, respectively, a novel and a PhD. The young author travels, falls in and out of love, and studies writers from the 19th century as she tries both to make sense of and escape from an uncertain present. Her own prose is frank and companionable, shrewd and funny, capturing the privileged peripatetic grind of the archive stacks and the writers’ retreat. The narrator navigates a path between an obsessive work ethic…

Ever since Facebook announced its plan to rebrand as “Meta” and focus on building the metaverse, interest in the metaverse has skyrocketed. Not only the general public but blockchain developers have also begun crafting cryptos based around it. The meaning of the metaverse is quite simple. A future, more immersive version of the internet to be experienced through the use of avatars in shared 3d spaces. This potential online virtual world will grant us the ability to shop, play, socialize, bond and work within…

All cryptocurrencies other than Bitcoin (BTC) are referred to as altcoins. Nevertheless, due to the fact that most cryptocurrencies are branched from either Bitcoin or Ethereum (ETH), some individuals believe altcoins to be all other cryptocurrencies. For the purpose of validating transactions and opening new blocks, other cryptocurrencies use alternative consensus algorithms. Others attempt to set themselves apart from Bitcoin and Ethereum by providing unique functionality. The majority of altcoins are created…

American translator Daisy Rockwell on translator recognition and remuneration, among other things. It has been heartwarming to see a global online community of translators rooting for you to win the International Booker Prize, and now rejoicing in your victory. Do translators live in a parallel universe where people support and encourage each other? Or are you blessed to have kind friends, colleagues, peers and mentors? Well, certainly I am blessed with kind friends, colleagues, peers and mentors, but I also believe…

Today's filtration technologies do a wonderful job of producing potable water, but the spread of plastic waste throughout the environment means there are new threats to contend with. A new study has investigated the performance of different techniques when it comes to removing nanoplastics from water, and shown that biologically active systems known as slow sand filters can remove the tiny particles with 99.9 percent efficacy.As the even smaller sibling of already troubling microplastics, nanoparticles have come into…

Here are the top metaverse coins you should be watching: Gala, Sandbox, and Mehracki The metaverse is an immersive online experience powered by VR, communities, gaming, and blockchains. Since the explosion of Decentraland (MANA), there have been other crypto projects looking to copy its success. What many investors and crypto enthusiasts in the metaverse space are asking is: What is going to be the next big crypto metaverse project? It can be pretty hard keeping up with happenings in the metaverse space as…

A Delhi-based writer Geetanjali Shree has become the first Indian writer to win the International Booker Prize. Her novel titled Ret Samadhi, translated into English as Tomb of Sand by Daisy Rockwell, won the International Booker Prize. It was the first Hindi-language book to be shortlisted for the £50,000 prize. Take a look at the moment Geetanjali Shree and @shreedaisy found out that they had won the #2022InternationalBooker Prize! Find out more about ‘Tomb of Sand’ here: https://t.co/VBBrTmfNIH@TiltedAxisPress…

What is it like to be on the surface of Mars or Venus? Or even further afield, such as on Pluto, or Saturn's moon Titan? This curiosity has driven advances in space exploration since Sputnik 1 was launched 65 years ago.But we're only beginning to scratch the surface of what is knowable about other planetary bodies in the Solar System.Our new study, published today in Nature Astronomy, shows how some unlikely candidates – namely sand dunes – can provide insight into what weather and conditions you might experience if you…

Experts at the Kenya-based United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has raised an alarm marking the worrisome rate at which sand is getting depleted from the face of Earth.  Sand is deemed the most-extracted solid material in the world, and the second-most used global resource behind water. However, sand's use is largely ungoverned. Unregulated extraction of sand has created  a huge gap in the utilisation and generation process. Sand takes thousands of years of…

Concrete is a very popular building material, enough so that one of its key ingredients – sand – is in increasingly short supply. Scientists are thus now exploring the possibility of replacing that sand with glass waste that would otherwise end up in landfills.Although glass is considered a recyclable material, it quite often doesn't get recycled. This may be due to a lack of properly equipped recycling facilities, or the fact that glass waste frequently takes the form of numerous fragments that are too small to sort by…