Starlink is helping protect one of the world's rarest big cats. 🛰️🐅 In Malaysia's Belum-Temengor Rainforest, RIMAU conservation teams use Starlink to stay connected in remote areas, sharing real-time updates on poaching threats, tiger sightings, and village safety. Technology making a real difference for wildlife conservation.

CATS The Musical is officially on sale now! A global stage legend for over 40 years, featuring the unforgettable “Memory,” spectacular visuals, and the magical world of the Jellicle Cats. 🎫 Limited tickets available — book now: #CATS# #catsthemusical# #musical# #hongkong# #貓音樂劇# #香港citywalk# #香港#

Lost tapes from the Ice Age have surfaced. A film crew stands on a platform as a colossal woolly mammoth advances through the snow, flanked by saber-toothed cats and other beasts that should have vanished tens of thousands of years ago. The cameras keep rolling. No official expedition has claimed these sequences. The frames continue to circulate. Pure cinematic invention… or the closest visual record yet of a world that was never supposed to be filmed? Buz devri gerçek #LostTapes# #IceAge# #WoollyMammoth# #ForbiddenFootage# #Prehistoric# #Unexplained# #FoundFootage# #AncientBeasts#

11 Great Christopher Hitchens Quotes. “I’ll try anything once except incest and folk dancing.” “To whom do you award the right to decide which speech is harmful or who is the harmful speaker? To whom would you delegate the task of deciding for you what you could read?” “I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.” “Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realise that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.” “If someone tells me that I’ve hurt their feelings, I say, ‘I’m still waiting to hear what your point is.’ I’m very depressed how in this country you can be told, ‘That’s offensive!’ as if those two words constitute an argument.” “Those who are determined to be ‘offended’ will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt.” “I have one consistency, which is being against the totalitarian – on the left and on the right. The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy; the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.” “When you hear people demanding that the Ten Commandments be displayed in courtrooms and schoolrooms, always be sure to ask which set. It works every time.” “The four most overrated things in the world are champagne, lobster, anal sex and picnics.” “Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay.” — h/t @CosmicSkeptic and @SteveStuWill

The Lost World at the Bottom of the Deepest Hole on Earth Drop the Empire State Building into the ground, and it would vanish without a trace. That's the scale of the Xiaozhai Tiankeng — a 662-meter wound in the limestone karst of Chongqing, China, the deepest sinkhole on the planet. It wasn't dug. It collapsed. Hundreds of thousands of years ago, the roof of an enormous underground cavern gave way, and the earth simply fell in on itself — twice. The result is a double-nested abyss: an upper bowl plunging 320 meters to a sloping terrace, which then drops another 342 meters into the pit. Stand at the rim and you're staring into a geological Russian doll. But the part that sounds like fiction: at the bottom, there's a forest. A primeval one. The sinkhole's sheer vertical cliffs act like the walls of a thermos — blocking cold winds, trapping humidity — while an underground river runs eight kilometers beneath the floor, breathing moisture up into the chasm. The result is a warm, eerily stable microclimate: a natural greenhouse sealed off from the world above. Inside it, more than 1,280 documented plant species thrive. Towering trees stretch dozens of meters toward the distant rim. Among them grow living fossils — the dove tree, the Chinese yew, wild ginkgoes — ancient relict species that survived the ice ages here while their cousins outside perished. Rare ferns and thick moss carpets cover the limestone floor. And it isn't just plants. Clouded leopards prowl the understory. Leopard cats, Asian black bears, and masked palm civets move through the green dark below, while swallows nest in cities along the rock faces. A whole ecosystem — predators, prey, and thousand-year-old trees — living at the bottom of a hole, in a climate of its own making, that almost no one will ever see. The planet keeps its best secrets underground.

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For National Geographic Fellow @SandeshKadur, the natural world has always been a source of wonder—especially when it comes to big cats. It’s those rare moments that stay with him.

NEW STARTUP: Europe also has its own automous construction tech! Gravis Robotics @GravisRobotics is a 2022 ETH Zurich spinout (Zurich, about 75 people) that makes existing construction machines autonomous instead of building new robots. Similar to @BedrockRobotics I talked about recently. Its Gravis Rack is a hardware-agnostic retrofit kit (sensors, onboard compute and a touchscreen) that clamps onto excavators and other heavy equipment across a dozen-plus brands, from a compact machine to one five times its size, building a 3D map of the terrain and driving the machine's own hydraulics to dig, trench, grade, load trucks and manage stockpiles. Two lighter products flank it: Gravis Copilot keeps a human operator in the cab with real-time 3D guidance and hazard detection, and Gravis Slate is the worksite interface. It is deployed on real fleets across four continents (clients include Holcim, Boskalis, Morgan Sindall and ArmaSuisse; an active UK job with Flannery Plant Hire). On 17 August 2026, it announced a $200M Series A led by SoftBank. Gravis makes no excavators; the Rack bolts sensors and compute onto machines that already exist and drives their hydraulics, and it is deliberately cross-vendor (a compact excavator or one five times its size, across Caterpillar, JCB, Volvo, John Deere and a dozen more). The vision is that the world already has millions of capable machines on site, so the missing piece is a vendor-agnostic autonomy kit, not a new body. The IP is the software stack; the hardware is a commodity you clamp onto, the same retrofit-someone-else's-hardware logic as Asylon on Boston Dynamics Spot, but aimed at the trillion-dollar installed base of heavy equipment. Caterpillar and the other makers can build autonomy into new machines, but heavy equipment lasts 15 to 20 years, so a build-it-into-new-Cats strategy leaves the entire existing fleet untouched for a decade. Gravis reaches that fleet today, on any brand, which is exactly the market a single-OEM autonomy play cannot serve, and it is why SoftBank's money is a bet on the cross-vendor aftermarket rather than on one manufacturer's roadmap. The $200M SoftBank Series A is a European frontier-robotics event in a file otherwise all US and China. Gravis is Swiss (ETH Zurich), and SoftBank's round, which the company calls the largest Series A in construction-robotics history, is a bet that Europe's robotics edge is field and industrial autonomy, not humanoids or foundation models. It is the commercialization of Marco Hutter's ETH Robotic Systems Lab (co-founder and board member; the lab behind the ANYmal quadruped and the HEAP autonomous walking excavator), Europe turning a decade of legged and heavy-machine research into a category leader.

Louis Wain was born in London in 1860 and became one of Britain’s most recognizable illustrators through his highly anthropomorphic cat drawings, which often showed felines dressed in human clothing or engaging in everyday social activities. His love of cats reportedly deepened through his wife Emily, who was diagnosed with cancer shortly after their marriage. To comfort her, Wain frequently sketched their pet cat, Peter, helping inspire the style that would define his career. At the height of his fame in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Wain’s work appeared widely in newspapers, magazines, postcards, and children’s books, greatly influencing popular perceptions of cats and helping transform them into beloved household companions. Despite his success, Wain struggled financially throughout much of his life due to poor business decisions, limited copyright protections, and supporting his mother and sisters. As he aged, his mental health declined, and he was eventually committed to psychiatric institutions. Though commonly labeled with schizophrenia, modern experts debate this diagnosis. Public concern over his welfare, including support from figures such as H. G. Wells, helped improve his living conditions, and he spent his later years in more comfortable hospitals where he continued creating art. #archaeohistories#