Month: May 2020

Among the rule changes for 2021 ratified by the FIA’s World Motor Sport Council on Wednesday is a reduction in aerodynamic testing determined by a team’s finishing position in the Constructors’ standings. In short, the higher a team finishes in the championship, the less windtunnel time they will enjoy relative to their rivals. On paper, at the start of the 2021 season, a baseline 40 windtunnel sessions shall be allocated to all teams, with an…

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The Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode, the body responsible for the fashion shows in Paris, has announced it will launch an online AW20/21 Haute Couture event from 6 to 8 July. It comes after the federation announced in March that it had cancelled its July Haute Couture Week as well as its Paris menswear season in June. “This event will be structured around a dedicated platform. The principle of the official…

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Une recherche menée sur plus de 300 familles montre que forcer les enfants à manger de tout pourrait accentuer le tempérament "mangeur difficile" de leur progéniture. C’est l’heure du déjeuner et vous poussez un énième soupir devant le spectacle de votre enfant qui, la mine dégoûtée, repousse son assiette à laquelle il n’a quasiment pas touché. Si votre bambin gravite autour de l’âge de quatre ans, rien de surprenant à ce qu’il fasse la fine…

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Global brand agency FutureBrand has launched a 2-metre rule social distancing campaign, with a range of T-shirts and pin-badges supporting social distancing rules as the UK government begins reviewing lockdown. All proceeds from the #TooCloseforCovid charitable initiative will be donated to World Health Organisation’s COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund. The range of T-shirts and pins playfully educates using the slogan “If you can read this, you’re too close for Covid” in a font size of 16,…

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This story on the new coronavirus is updated throughout the day with national news and developments from around our network of local Patches. Scroll down for links, helpful for day-to-day living and the most recent stories. Jerome H. Powell, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, has a simple message for Americans gearing up for another week amid the coronavirus pandemic. “This economy will recover. It may take a while,” Powell said in a preview of…

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ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — “They stole my baby’s life.” This lamentation from a devastated mother – whose son died from coronavirus while awaiting furlough from a New Jersey prison – is just one of many heartbreaking tales of loss to emerge from the state’s penal system. As of Wednesday, there were 515 inmates with confirmed cases of COVID-19 in state-run prisons. Of those, 41 deaths have been linked to the disease, a 7.9 percent fatality…

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L’épidémie de surdiagnostics du cancer de la thyroïde est en "expansion rapide" dans le monde et aurait déjà touché plus d’un million de personnes dans une trentaine de pays, selon une nouvelle étude de l’agence du cancer de l’Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS). De plus en plus de cancers de la thyroïde diagnostiqués inutilement<br /> Le surdiagnostic, dont l’augmentation est observée ces dernières décennies, consiste à diagnostiquer des cancers peu susceptibles de provoquer des…

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TAMPA, FL – Scientists at The Florida Aquarium in Tampa have again made history for the second time in eight months, this time becoming the first in the world to reproduce ridged cactus coral in a laboratory. The breakthrough happened over several nights in late April at The Florida Aquarium’s Center for Conservation at the Florida Conservation Technology Center in Apollo Beach, Florida. The work is part of a collaborative effort with the Florida Fish…

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SVS’s recently introduced SB-3000 is a compact powered subwoofer that’s $600 cheaper, a few cubic inches smaller, and 37lb lighter than the model it replaces, the SVS SB13-Ultra. Its amplifier is less powerful (800W vs 1000W), but its rated frequency response extends lower: a stygian 18Hz, compared to the SB13-Ultra’s merely stentorian 20Hz. The SB-3000’s newly designed 13″ driver has a vented aluminum cone, an injection-molded gasket and surround, and a polyimide-impregnated fiberglass former, surrounded…

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When I performed the measurements of the Q Acoustics Concept 500 loudspeaker to accompany Thomas J. Norton’s review in March 2019, I was impressed by what I found. The floorstanding Concept 500 offers a high level of audio engineering excellence for its price of $5999.99/pair. When I attended a Q Acoustics press briefing a few months back, where the English company announced the US availability of their stand-mounted Concept 300, I didn’t hesitate to ask…

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