Jane Goodall: Into the Heart of the Wild On October 1, 2025, the Jane Goodall Institute announced the passing of its founder, Dame Jane Goodall, at the age of 91. Ethologist, primatologist, and United Nations Messenger of Peace, she devoted more than six decades to studying chimpanzees and promoting a sustainable relationship between humanity and the natural world. Early Life and the Making of a Naturalist Born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall on April 3, 1934, in London, she was the daughter of Mortimer Herbert Morris-Goodall, a businessman and pilot, and Margaret Myfanwe Joseph, a writer. From an early age, she displayed an intense curiosity about animals. The Groundbreaking Work at GombeIn July 1960, on Leakey’s recommendation, Jane Goodall established her camp on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, in what became the Gombe Stream National Park. Recognition and the Establishment of a Research CenterIn 1961, Leakey arranged for Goodall to enter Cambridge University as a PhD candidate without prior academic degrees. Sources
10 jan 2009 | hal finney | "running bitcoin" Is YouTube Killing Music Piracy? For years the top record label executives have been claiming that it's impossible to compete with free, but YouTube is proving them wrong. With billions of views every month the major record labels are making millions by sharing their music for free. For many people YouTube takes away the incentive to 'pirate,' but at the same time it may also cannibalise legal music sales. The music industry has witnessed some dramatic changes in recent years, even when piracy is left out of the picture. We’ve previously documented how people moved from buying albums to buying singles. If we go back in time 5 or 6 years, people had only one option if they wanted to listen to their favorite artists online without paying for the pleasure. Although true music aficionados are hard to please, the majority of the public appreciates the option of listening to their favorite tunes for free on YouTube. But what about the record labels, are they happy too? That’s great news for the labels right?
S.S. BIG BRAIN - BrainForce V edition.cnn Who doesn’t need a dancing gorilla to spark some joy in their life right now? A windswept gannet, laughing lions and a sleepy frog could also lift the mood, which is probably why they have all been chosen as finalists in this year’s Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards. Judges of the annual contest have selected 40 images that are guaranteed to raise a smile, as well as three portfolio category images and 10 videos of some of nature’s most hilarious offerings. The competition, which has been going for a decade, received almost 10,000 entries from applicants in 108 countries this year, organizers said. The finalists will be judged in a range of categories, including ones for reptiles, insects and fish, as well as for younger photographers. “These images combine wit and wonder to celebrate nature’s character, while emphasising the urgency of conservation,” said Stefan Maier, Nikon Europe senior general manager of marketing, in the press release Thursday.
1972 | Finding Lena Forsen, the Patron Saint of JPEGs Why YouTube Adopting Creative Commons Is a Big Deal Online Video News edition.cnn An image of a rare hyena standing in front of an abandoned building in a former diamond mining town in Namibia has won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025 award. Shot by South African photographer Wim van den Heever in the town of Kolmanskop, “Ghost Town Visitor” is the product of 10 years’ work using camera trap technology, according to a statement from the organizers on Tuesday. The photograph, which was one of 60,636 entries, shows a brown hyena – a member of the rarest hyena species in the world. Nocturnal and largely solitary, brown hyenas are rarely seen, so van den Heever started to use a camera trap after noticing their tracks in the area. Kathy Moran, chair of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year jury, said that the image showed how wildlife had repopulated a town abandoned by humans. “How fitting that this photograph was made in a ghost town,” she said in the statement. “You get a prickly feeling just looking at this image and you know that you’re in this hyena’s realm.”
23 april 2005 | The first ever YouTube video was uploaded 15 years ago The first ever YouTube video was uploaded on April 23, 2005 -- exactly 15 years ago, today. YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim posted the 18-second video, titled "Me at the zoo." It has since garnered over 90 million views. To this day, it is the only video on Karim's channel. Upon clicking play, the screen fills with a young Karim's face, his disheveled hair taking up the screen front and center. "Alright," Karim begins. There he is. "The cool thing about these guys is that they have really, really, really long, um, trunks," he continues. So. Unlike many YouTube creators' videos these days, Karim's video does not include what's considered the more traditional sign off: "Subscribe to my channel!" He ends the video simply by stating: "And that's pretty much all there is to say." A year after "Me at the zoo," Karim and fellow co-founders sold the platform to Google for a whopping $1.65 billion. Now, the platform boasts more than 2 billion logged-in users visit each month, according to YouTube.
Yup, YouTube Counts Video Ads As Regular Views Movie trailers are among the most popular videos on YouTube. A typical movie trailer gets millions of views, but how many of those views are natural and who many are pushed as paid-for ads? Yes, movie trailers are all ads in a sense. But people seek them out just like any other 2-minute video. The same movie trailers are also promoted through various means and shown as prerolls before other videos or via paid links and those views can also count towards the total. This is not an isolated incident. Not all ads count towards a view, but many do: Promoted Videos, skippable TrueView ads, homepage ads or search ads that drive traffic to the video page. I find this practice to be surprising, so I asked YouTube for an explanation. When it comes to paid advertising, view count of a video increases only when it’s clear that a viewer has made a choice to watch a video. There is nothing wrong with movie studios using their trailers as ads.
'Their resilience is a lesson to us all': The maritime lions hunting seals on the beach These animals have adapted to live in "the most inhospitable terrain you can imagine, a huge sea of sand dunes, with no vegetation", says Stander, who founded the non-profit Desert Lion Conservation Trust in 1997. "The desert lions are incredibly unique," says Stander. They have the largest home range of any lion, he says, adding: "They are super fit, top athletes." The average home range of a desert lion is around 12,000 sq km (4,600 sq miles), he says, adding that a lion in the Serengeti would typically have a home range of around 100 sq km (39 sq miles). They have even adapted to survive without water. "We're so used to seeing lions in a savannah habitat or lying on top of a big rock, like in The Lion King, so it's really striking to see one on a beach. The desert lions tend to travel in much smaller groups than savannah lions, says Cooper. This makes the task of photographing the lions even more challenging.
1973 | not exactly internet | cut copy paste - Larry Tesler, the UI pioneer responsible for cut, copy, and paste, dies at 74 Larry Tesler, a computer scientist who is most well-known for creating the seminal computer concepts cut, copy, and paste, died on Monday at age 74. Tesler was born in 1945 in New York and studied computer science at Stanford, according to Gizmodo. After working in AI research, he joined Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in 1973, where he developed cut, copy, and paste. PARC is most famous for its early work on graphical user interfaces and how to navigate them with a mouse — and because Apple co-founder Steve Jobs saw this early research and used it as inspiration to develop better iterations of the ideas for Apple products. Tesler was also a champion of a concept called “modeless” computing, which is the idea that a program shouldn’t have different “modes” where a user’s input does different things based on whichever mode you’re in. In 1980, Tesler joined Apple and worked at the company until 1997. In 1980, Tesler joined Apple and worked at the company until 1997.