Doctor’s bills often come with sticker shock for patients − but health insurance could be reinvented to provide costs upfront
#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: https://theconversation.com/hurricane-milton-explodes-into-a-powerful-category-5-storm-as-it-heads-for-florida-heres-how-rapid-intensification-works-240754
#weather #News #breakingnews
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.”
https://theconversation.com/was-beethoven-truly-the-greatest-229660
#BlackMastodon nostr:npub1e4zk4g2em55zyrurxy20kqy988eha5qnl2mk97r03qyjvjxrk48sy6xz2t #Music
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
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.
https://theconversation.com/undersea-cables-are-the-unseen-backbone-of-the-global-internet-226300
#technology #science
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:
https://theconversation.com/how-ai-is-shaping-the-music-listening-habits-of-gen-z-224053
#artificialintelligence #music