Apache fire, which prompted evacuation orders, was contained 15% due to ‘favorable’ weather conditions

A wildfire is threatening a community in rural northern California near Paradise, where the state’s deadliest wildfire struck six years ago.

The blaze, dubbed the Apache fire, broke out on Monday and grew to more than 600 acres, prompting evacuation orders.

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As he began observing and talking to the inmates, he realised that he had it all wrong. The teenagers joked and played around with each other, as millions around the world at that age do, and Oshagan found their demeanours instantly relatable. from Fragile, intimate portraits of California's imprisoned youth [Huck]

For years, mycologists and hobbyists alike have been using DNA sequencing on foraged fungi.

California legislators have made the biggest push to pass new laws to rein in the technology. Colorado passed one protecting consumers.

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Wickwire recalls instances where other climbers lied about their ascents and were quickly banished. "No one would climb with them or believe what they said," he points out. But when it came to stories about Barrett's violence against women, people were too willing to look the other way—even after Barrett was arrested and a detailed indictment from a federal investigation was posted online. "There is a dissonance between how climbers think of themselves and what they actually do," says Kimbrough Moore, a longtime climber, a guidebook author, and a philosophy professor at San Francisco State University. "In my experience, the climbing community has been hostile to women who have come out saying they were assaulted." As for Barrett, Moore says: "I have never heard of anyone doing more to harm the climbing community than Charlie. He has used his status as an elite climber to hurt people for a very long time." from How Did This Climber Get Away with So Much for So Long? [Outside; ungated] [CW: rape, sexual violence, violence to animals, stalking, harassment, enabling]

Edward Dwight was among the first pilots that the United States was training to send to space in 1961, but he was passed over. On Sunday, he finally made it on a Blue Origin flight.

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A new program, backed by Cornell Tech, M.I.T. and U.C.L.A., helps prepare lower-income, Latina and Black female computing majors for artificial intelligence careers.

Officials said the decision would lower bills and encourage people to use cars and appliances that did not use fossil fuels, but some experts said it would discourage energy efficiency.

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