A new UN-backed scientific report warns that even a temporary breach of the 1.5C Paris warming threshold could cause irreversible loss of glaciers, snow and polar ice sheets. It finds Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are already melting roughly six times faster than in the 1990s, and that returning warming to 1.5C after an overshoot would not stop continued ice loss. The report's authors argue long-term global temperatures need to fall closer to 1C, or lower, to protect the cryosphere.
news.slashdot.org
· 2026-11-07
Ariarne Titmus, who won eight Olympic medals before retiring from swimming last year at 25, says she is reassessing the all-or-nothing mentality that drove her competitive career. The 26-year-old Australian told The Guardian she had viewed many aspects of life in black-and-white terms, and that a 2023 surgery to remove an ovarian growth prompted her to reconsider her priorities beyond the pool.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-11-03
Emmaüs Solidarité, a nonprofit homeless shelter in Paris, installed an outdoor gym in its courtyard over the summer. Residents, many of whom struggle with sleepless nights, now have access to exercise equipment on site as a way to cope with stress.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-11-02
Jules Verne wrote a futuristic novel in 1863 imagining Paris in 1960, depicting a society shaped entirely by science, machinery and commerce. His publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel rejected the manuscript as implausible and too pessimistic, and Verne shelved it. The book stayed hidden until it was found in a family safe and finally published in France in 1994.
blue-continuum.com
· 2026-10-30
An Entrepreneur opinion piece recounts how Gustave Eiffel faced a public letter from roughly 40 artists and writers, including Charles Garnier and Guy de Maupassant, condemning his planned 300-meter tower before the 1889 Paris World's Fair. Despite the backlash, Eiffel completed the tower, which drew nearly two million visitors during the fair. The author uses this history to argue that founders often keep seeking validation from critics even after customers or results have already settled the question.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-10-28
Anthropologists Chris Knight and Jerome Lewis trace the long, often taboo history of speculation about how human language began, from Plato to the 1866 Paris Linguistic Society ban on the topic to Noam Chomsky's dismissal of the question. Their new book, The Revolutionary Origins of Language, argues that speech emerged from collective social and cooperative behaviour rather than as an individual cognitive leap, with women's roles featuring prominently in their account.
nature.com
· 2026-10-26
Tech critic and podcast host Paris Marx has published a book, 'Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech's Data Empires,' examining decades of opposition to data center growth worldwide, from Vietnam War-era protests to recent fights in Ireland, Chile and New Zealand. In an interview, Marx traces his interest to 2019 moratoriums in the Netherlands and Singapore, Ireland's 2022 grid strain debates, and Google's effort to conceal its water usage in The Dalles, Oregon, where the company was later found to consume 29 percent of the town's water.
wired.com
· 2026-10-25
The UN Environment Programme's latest Emissions Gap Report states that breaching the Paris Agreement's 1.5C warming threshold is now inevitable, marking the first time the UN has made this declaration. The report shifts focus from closing the emissions gap to 1.5C toward managing 'overshoot' scenarios, outlining a path to limit peak warming to 1.7-1.8C before cutting it back to 1.5C by 2100 through steep emissions reductions and carbon removal technology.
news.slashdot.org
· 2026-10-23
Paris Hilton held a gathering at her Beverly Hills home last week, bringing together around 200 influencers, entrepreneurs, actors, musicians, authors and other public figures who identify as neurodivergent. The event was timed to mark ADHD Awareness Month, which takes place in October.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-23
Mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal, near the end of his life, launched a network of horse-drawn carriages in Paris called carrosses a cinq sols, or 'five penny carriages.' The eight-passenger vehicles ran on fixed, interconnecting routes at regular intervals of 7.5 to 15 minutes, rather than traveling point-to-point on demand.
humantransit.org
· 2026-10-22
A new UN Environment Programme report finds global warming is now projected to reach 2.2°F (1.2°C) above current temperatures if countries meet their pledges, worse than last year's forecast. The report attributes this partly to the US formally withdrawing from the Paris Agreement and says US emissions rose by 133 megatons of CO2 equivalent in 2025, far more than any other nation, driven by higher electricity demand and increased coal power use.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-21
The NFL has had artist Jammie Holmes's 2024 painting Untitled, depicting a child emerging from morning glory flowers, hand-painted onto strips of turf for a football field. The reproduced artwork is being shipped from New York City to Paris ahead of an NFL game there.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-21
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