Updated Köppen-Geiger climate map of the world

Modeling of Water Inflow Zones in a Swedish Open-Pit Mine with ModelMuse and MODFLOW

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These findings provide valuable insights for improving mine water management strategies and informing sustainable mine closure planning to mitigate long-term environmental risks.

How to Ask Great Questions

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For some people, questioning comes easily. Their natural inquisitiveness, emotional intelligence, and ability to read people put the ideal question on the tip of their tongue. But most of us don’t ask enough questions, nor do we pose our inquiries in an optimal way.

100+ Good Quality Questions Organized by Category

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This page shares a complete list of quality questions I’ve gathered from reading more than 100 of the best non-fiction books of all time. You’ll find more than 100 quality questions, organized by category.

Life cycle assessment: A perspective of improvement of hydro-plants for intensify “green electricity” - ScienceDirect

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Compared to the increased energy demand in the 21st century, Hydropower (also known as water power) is traditionally considered one of the “Green Energy”. Some advanced researches clarifies that various renewable generations have been performed well to fight back the drastic climate impacts. Though some of them are not as suitable for clean eco-friendly production due to the impacts on eco-system.

'The Rise of the Global Middle Class': An interview with Homi Kharas

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We are adding 110 to 115 million people into the middle class each year, despite all the difficulties the global economy is presenting. But that’s what’s powering the world economy forward.

Amnovis | High conductivity & high strength copper 3D printing

We support our customers with the development and manufacturing of high thermal and electrical conductivity components like: Heat dissipation and exchange components; cool plates, heat sinks, heat pipes, heat exchangers, CPU and datacenter cooling devices, conformal cooling mold inserts, etc. * Electrical conductivity components; induction coils, EV motor windings, electromagnetic coils, waveguides, and antennas, etc. * Space propulsion systems; rocket engines components

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A.E. Seaman Mineral Museum: Preserving A Monumental Copper Discovery for Generations

Story behind the 19-ton native copper block, discovered at the bottom of Lake Superior and now on display at the A.E> Seaman Mineral Museum.

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A Post-Google World | ZeroHedge

"Next Monday, the third major antitrust trial against Google starts, this one on the software plumbing underlying online display advertising. Because of your willingness to subscribe to BIG, I have the money to hire someone to cover the trial, as we did with the search trial. Our new writer is a lawyer named Tom Blakely, and he’ll be writing updates at our special site, BigTechOnTrial.com. You can sign up there for updates, and if you’d like to support this work, please consider joining as a paid subscriber.

But the context for this trial is very different than the first search trial. The reason is simple. Twice now Google has been ruled to be an unlawful monopoly. The first case involved its control of the Android app store in its fight with Epic Games, and the second was over its search monopoly in its tussle with the government. Moreover, in both trials, the judges have found Google to act in bad faith with its treatment of documents."

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Appeals court ruling backs big publishers’ lawsuit against the Internet Archive - World Socialist Web Site

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On Wednesday, a three-judge federal appeals court panel upheld an earlier ruling in favor of major book publishers and found that the Internet Archive was guilty of violating copyright law by scanning books and lending them to the public for free.
In its 64-page decision, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Manhattan ruled in favor of the lawsuit filed in 2020 by four of the 10 largest book publishers in the world against the San Francisco-based nonprofit Internet Archive and its Open Library project.
The court rejected the Internet Archive’s appeal which was based on the argument that lending digital copies to the public at no charge should be considered “fair use” of copyrighted content. The court also rejected the Internet Archive’s novel policy of “controlled digital lending” in which electronic copies of books can be borrowed by readers one copy at a time in the same manner readers have been borrowing print books from public libraries for 235 years.
The appeals court ruling states:

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