[Ráfaga] #2094: eratosthenes, pandemic, ukraine

[Jorge Sanz]

#2094: eratosthenes, pandemic, ukraine

Mon, 26 Jun 2023 by Raf

* Young students from Spain, Argentina and New Caledonia have teamed
up to repeat the experiment of the Greek astronomer Eratosthenes of
Cyrene and have obtained a measurement that deviates only about 10 km
from the true value

https://www.agenciasinc.es/Noticias/Escolares-de-tres-continentes-aciertan-al-medir-el-radio-de-la-Tierra

* The global destruction of areas rich in bats, carriers of viruses,
is sowing the risk of a new pandemic in the so-called "jump zones"
where humanity could be infected

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/global-pandemic-bats-jumpzones/

* The Ukrainian city of Kharkiv began to change in 2014 with Russia's
first geopolitical games, but a walk through its landmarks shows the
total change wrought by the war

https://www.vox.com/c/world-politics/2023/5/10/23630754/russia-ukraine-war-kharkiv-city-transformed

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