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#HurricaneMilton’s fast spin-up in the Gulf of Mexico has been one of the most rapid intensifications of a hurricane on record.
Less than 2 weeks after #Helene, this is the last thing Florida wanted to see.
2 meteorologists explain what’s going on: 
#weather #News #breakingnews
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Hurricane Milton explodes into a powerful Category 5 storm as it heads for Florida − here’s how rapid intensification works
Milton’s fast spin-up in the Gulf of Mexico was one of the most rapid intensifications on record. Two scientists who study hurricanes explain why...
Beethoven is A great composer, but not THE great composer, according to a music professor who believes it’s time to reframe Beethoven’s greatness “within the context of historic ideals of whiteness and patriarchy.”
“If Americans could acknowledge that our music and music education are deeply rooted in these two ideologies, then we could realize that Beethoven, surely a good composer, was simply one of many.”
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Was Beethoven truly the greatest?
Deifying the composer and his work only serves to reinforce America’s white patriarchy at the expense of countless others who were no less great.
Iran’s president and foreign minister died yesterday in a helicopter crash, leaving the country without two of its most influential politicians at a moment of regional and domestic disorder.
#Iran will now need to hold presidential elections within 50 days. Will the country’s ruling conservatives quickly move to repress political expression and manipulate elections?
We have more from an expert on Iran’s #politics
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Iran crash: President Raisi’s death leaves Tehran mourning loss of regime loyalist
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei announced a five day period of mourning following the discovery of wreckage on hillside.
Fiber-optic cables laid on the ocean floor and used to transmit data between continents are the backbone of the global internet, carrying the bulk of emails, webpages and video calls.
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Undersea cables are the unseen backbone of the global internet
The 485 multiterabit-per-second undersea data cables that span the world’s oceans link the globe and maintain the digital realm.
Gen-Z doesn’t get its music from the radio. “AI-generated playlists have disrupted this, and the two of us don’t see that as necessarily a bad thing. A stunning range of music is available to young people, and no longer do radio DJs, ratings and record companies serve as gatekeepers.”
By 2 music education scholars:
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How AI is shaping the music listening habits of Gen Z
In the past, adolescents’ musical palettes were dominated by the Top-40 artists, creating a widely shared – if perhaps narrow – repertoire of...