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Yahoo
17 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Oppenheimer Festival back in Los Alamos for its 3rd year
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (KRQE) – The Oppenheimer Festival is returning to Los Alamos from August 16 – 31. The theme for the 2025 festival is 'Peace, Legacy & Explore.' The festival received New Mexico's 2024 Top HAT Award for best new experience. What is the Farmers' Almanac predicting for the 2025-26 winter season in New Mexico? The festival includes an opening day walk to the Oppenheimer house and a tribute to Nancy Bartlit. There will be daily screenings of the Manhattan Series, VR experiences and short films. There will be guided and self-guided audio driving tours, festival tour with Augmented Reality and Road to The Hill. Guests can enjoy guest appearances by historians, filmmakers and activists. Peace Week is August 21 – 21 and Legacy Week is August 28 – 31. Guests will have an opportunity to explore the city through film, museums, history and augmented reality. The festival is timed alongside Santa Fe Indian Market (Aug 21-24) and Zozobra (Aug 29). For more information, click here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Solve the daily Crossword
BBC News
2 days ago
- Science
- BBC News
ChatGPT answers humans through Telex message machine in Amberley
Historians at a museum have connected a 50-year-old Telex machine to modern day artificial intelligence (AI), creating "a conversation spanning decades".Telex was a message transfer service where text would be typed into one machine and printed out on the recipient' users of the machine at Amberley Museum, in West Sussex, will not get a response from another human, instead it will be ChatGPT answering their museum said visitors had been testing out the new machine, which was built "thanks to the ingenuity" of volunteer David Waters. Users can type in questions and receive a printed response from ChatGPT - an AI chatbot.A spokesperson for the museum said: "The experience begins by using a rotary dial to make the initial connection, creating an unforgettable meeting of communication technologies separated by half a century."They said the project "perfectly captures the spirit of Amberley Museum - celebrating our technological past while engaging with the innovations of today."It's a conversation across decades."
The Guardian
7 days ago
- Politics
- The Guardian
Imperial War Museum rejects criticism of caption in Holocaust display
The Imperial War Museum has declined to change an information board in its Holocaust Galleries that two eminent historians say is incorrect. The information board refers to the Nuremberg race laws passed by the Nazi regime in Germany in 1935, which included a definition of who was Jewish. The laws said anyone with three or four Jewish grandparents was a Jew and anyone with one or two Jewish grandparents was Mischlinge, or mixed race. The IWM's information board states: 'Under the provision of the law, a person was defined as Jewish based on how many observant Jewish grandparents they had, even if they were not personally Jewish themselves.' The inclusion of the word 'observant' raised concerns for a retired academic from New York who was visiting the Holocaust Galleries in London last year. She wrote to the IWM saying the 'wording referring to observant Jewish grandparents with its lack of historical accuracy must be changed'. The former academic, who asked not to be named, said she had been 'extraordinarily impressed' with the material displayed at the galleries. 'Then I came to the race laws, and I know that 'observant' Jewish grandparents just made no sense. It disregards the vast majority of the Jewish population who are not observant,' she told the Guardian. The Nazis were intent on eradicating all Jews, regardless of whether they were observant or not, she said. 'This is such a misleading impression of the Nazi outlook that for me it's reprehensible that it stays in the public domain.' Caro Howell, the IWM's director general, told the former academic that 'full and sincere consideration' had been given to the points she had raised 'but we stand by the curatorial choices that we have made and that our expert advisers have reviewed'. In an email seen by the Guardian, Howell said the integrity of the IWM would be undermined if it made changes every time 'questions of interpretative nuance' were raised. The retired academic sought the views of two highly regarded Holocaust historians. Christopher Browning, who has written numerous books on the Holocaust and was an expert witness in the David Irving libel trial in 2000, said: 'The issue was not whether the grandparent was observant but whether his or her birth had been registered with the Jewish community. The grandparent could later even have converted to Christianity but if the grandparent had been registered as Jewish at birth, that for the Nazis was the deciding factor.' Timothy Snyder, who has also written extensively about the Nazis, said: 'It did not matter whether the grandparents were observant … No one was saved from persecution, as the wording incorrectly implies, by having grandparents who were not observant.' He added: 'As worded, the suggestion is that 'bad Jews', ie those with a secular (or even Reform) background, might have been spared from the persecutions that preceded the Holocaust, whereas 'good Jews', those with religious (or Orthodox) backgrounds, were the victims. This is nonsense.' Browning and Snyder have not contacted the IWM directly but the former academic forwarded their comments to the museum. In response, Howell told the former academic that she was 'unable to engage in any further correspondence' and that pursuit of the issue 'risks sowing division among people who really should pull together'. The IWM is understood to believe that other information displayed in the Holocaust Galleries makes it clear that the Nazis persecuted all Jews regardless of their religious practice. A spokesperson for the museum said: 'IWM takes comments regarding our interpretation very seriously and we acknowledge the points made and the sensitivities regarding this caption. 'It is inevitable that, in a history as complex – and sometimes contested – as the Holocaust, questions of interpretation and nuance will be raised by audiences from time to time. The [information board] was rigorously reviewed and edited by IWM's curators, a number of leading international scholars and members of Jewish communities before being printed.'
CBS News
04-08-2025
- General
- CBS News
Chicago's Serbian community marks Day of Remembrance for those killed, expelled in Operation storm
Chicago's Serbian community gathered for a solemn ceremony was held on Chicago's Far Northwest Side Sunday. A service was held at Holy Resurrection Serbian Orthodox Cathedral, at 5701 N. Redwood Dr. in the Norwood Park community, to mark the Day of Remembrance for Serbs killed in Operation Storm 30 years ago. In 1995, hundreds of thousands of Serbs were forced from the Krajina region in Croatia, and nearly 2,000 were killed. The service included prayers and presentations from Serbian dignitaries and historians.
BBC News
14-07-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Visit Guernsey highly commended at marketing awards in London
Guernsey official tourism body has won second place at the international Travel Marketing Awards for its Liberation 80 Guernsey said it was proud to put the island "on the global map" after it was shortlisted for the Best Use of Content marketing company said its Liberation 80: Keeping Our War Stories Alive focused on Guernsey's wartime history, which involved historians, local experts and "well-known" content campaign reached more than 3.3 million people via social media and generated more than £5m in media value, bosses said. It added it was the only team out of 163 entries to receive a "highly commended" recognition from the judges at the event in London. Lead marketing officer Zoe Gosling said team members were proud of their said: "To make the shortlist and be in the room with the best in the business was a triumph. "We were the only team on the night to be awarded a highly commended - a clear nod from industry leaders that this work made an impact."
