
Onlinezahlung: Digitale Girocard bekommt mehr Funktionen
Girocard will eine Alternative zu Paypal, Apple Pay und anderen werden. Noch sind die Nutzerzahlen bei der Konkurrenz deutlich höher. (Fintech, Paypal)
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Girocard will eine Alternative zu Paypal, Apple Pay und anderen werden. Noch sind die Nutzerzahlen bei der Konkurrenz deutlich höher. (Fintech, Paypal)
Blackout-Prävention: Konzepte der Kommunen rücken neu in den Blick. Private Verbraucher müssen selbst Vorsorge treffen
Scientists have finally found Antarctica’s missing groundwater.
Enlarge (credit: De Agostini Picture Library | Getty Images)
Lake Whillans is a strange body of water, starting with the fact that there is liquid to fill it at all. Though buried under more than 2,000 feet of Antarctic ice, its temperatures climb to just shy of 0° Celsius, thanks to a combination of geothermal warmth, intense friction from ice scraping rock, and that thick glacial blanket protecting it from the polar air. Given the immense pressure down there, that’s just balmy enough to keep the lake’s water watery. Stranger still, Lake Whillans is also teeming with life. One survey a decade ago found thousands of varieties of microscopic critters, thought to be feeding on nutrients left by seawater that sloshed into the basin several millennia ago, when the glaciers last pulled back.
More recently, Chloe Gustafson, a geophysicist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, arrived on the remote stretch of ice above Lake Whillans with a different mystery in mind: What’s happening underneath that lake? Antarctic researchers had long suspected the plumbing below the glacier went much deeper than they could see. Any groundwater beneath the lake would have implications for how the ice up above moves oceanward, and thus for how quickly it might contribute to rising seas. But they couldn’t definitively prove what groundwater was there. It was too deep, too ice-covered to map with the traditional tools of glaciology, like bouncing radar signals off the ice or setting off explosives and listening to the shockwaves.
Statt E-Scooter zu bekämpfen, integrieren erste Städte die Roller in die Innenstädte. Es scheint zu funktionieren. (E-Scooter, Internet)
Sollen die Energie- und Klimaziele erreicht werden, muss der Bau von Windkraftanlagen erheblich beschleunigt werden
Ein kleiner Amiga und eine große Handheld-Konsole: die Woche im Video. (Golem-Wochenrückblick, Steam)
Herbert W. Franke ist Autor, Wissenschaftler und Künstler. Golem.de hat den 95-Jährigen zu seiner Sicht auf aktuelle Entwicklungen befragt. Ein Interview von Martin Wolf (Interview, Computer)
Deutschland: Dreht sich die Stimmung zu Waffenlieferungen im Ukraine-Krieg?
Spinoff series has more in common with Netflix Defenders shows than the broader MCU.
Enlarge / Oscar Isaac is a tormented man with multiple personalities who becomes the avatar of the Egyptian moon god Khonshu in Moon Knight. (credit: YouTube/Marvel Studios)
Can anything good ever come of gods interfering in the affairs of men? That's the underlying conundrum posed in Moon Knight, the latest spinoff series in the MCU's Phase Four, and in the case of the series, the answer is a resounding yes. Starring Oscar Isaac as a tormented man with dissociative identity disorder (DID), the series has more in common with the Netflix Defenders series than with recent Marvel fare like WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and Loki. But instead of taking place in New York City's Hell's Kitchen, it's telling a unique superhero origin story rich in symbolism and Egyptian mythology.
(Some spoilers below for the comics and the TV series. Any major reveals are at the very end, and we'll give you a heads-up when we get there.)
As I've written previously, in the comics, Marc Spector (aka Moon Knight) is the son of a rabbi, marked at a young age by the Egyptian moon-god Khonshu to be the god's avatar on Earth. But Khonshu is a supernatural entity with many aspects to his nature—and also exists out of phase with normal time and space—so forging a psychic connection with the human Marc harms the man's mental health.
Wer sich angesichts der Spannungen zwischen Nato und Russland einen Schutzraum zulegt, gibt sich einer gefährlichen Illusion hin. Im Ernstfall sind die Anlagen letztlich nutzlos