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Peter Higgs, physicist who theorised Higgs boson, dies aged 94
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68774195
Peter Higgs, physicist who theorised Higgs boson, dies aged 94
The renowned scientist won the Nobel prize for Physics in 2013.By Georgina Rannard (BBC News)
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All applied physics comes from what was once theoretical. The radio, mobile network and wifi couldn't work without James Clark Maxwell and and Heinrich Rudolph Hertz's studies of electromagnetic waves. GPS couldn't work without Eistein's relativity. Even electricity was first studies as a natural phenomenon by Galvani, Volta, etc...
They couldn't know what part of their works would be used or how, and they didn't need too, they worked to expand our understanding, and let the question of what to do with it to applied scientists and engineers. Likewise, we may not have practical applications to Higg's research now, maybe we'll have some later, but either way, that wasn't his job.
In Deutschland sind, nach Angaben des Bundesministerium für Umwelt, vier von fünf Bäumen krank. Das liegt zum großen Teil an der industriellen Forstwirtschaft. Fichten-Monokulturen haben sich weitgehend durchgesetzt, der Wald in Deutschland ist zum Rohstofflieferant geworden. Biodiversität: Fehlanzeige. Die Grundlage dafür ist das Bundeswaldgesetz, das fast fünfzig Jahre alt ist! 1975 hat noch niemand von “Klimakrise” gesprochen und dementsprechend wenig nimmt das Gesetz darauf Rücksicht.
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Doch jetzt gibts eine historische Chance: Das Bundesministerium für Landwirtschaft möchte das Bundeswaldgesetz neu auflegen. Aber leider ändert sich bei seinem aktuellen Entwurf fast nichts.
Dabei ist das DIE Chance, unsere Wälder wirklich vor Ausbeutung und Abholzung zu schützen - damit wir den Wald in Deutschland als Verbündeten im Kampf gegen die Klima- und Biodiversitätskrise sichern. Darum fordere ich gemeinsam mit Greenpeace Deutschland ein STARKES Waldgesetz!
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Wenn ihr das gut findet, unterstützt bitte jetzt die Petition "Echter Schutz für unsere Wälder". Darin fordert Greenpeace eine naturnahe Waldnutzung und besseren Schutz für alte Laubwälder. Außerdem sollen die Wälder durch das neue Bundeswaldgesetz endlich als wichtiger Beitrag im Kampf gegen die Klimakrise anerkannt werden. Die Petition findet ihr hier:
https://bit.ly/3vEK27p
Ende April wird sie an Cem Özdemir übergeben. Ich freue mich, wenn ihr sie bis dahin möglichst viel teilt. Danke! 🌳
Petition: Echter Schutz für unsere Wälder!
Schluss mit Waldpolitik von gestern! Wir fordern Sägen raus aus gefährdeten Laubwäldern, keine Aufforstung mit Nadelbäumen und mehr Schutzgebiete!bit.ly
New blog post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1020/the-end-of-peppercarrot-and-my-next-project
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wow, after a long period of hesitation I decided to make an account on mastodon, just in time to see you blogging about ending pepper & carrot...
It has been a great run and I have learned so much from your approach during it, and downloaded every brush etc.
Bonne chance avec ton projet nouveau! MFT FTW!
I believe it is a wise decision, especially considering that there won't be an abrupt end. I'm a relatively new reader (since 2022), but I think that P&C has been, in man ways, an incredible comic.
I'm eager to read what's to come and I hope MFT will be as good as P&C.
Still, since I first read it, I wanted Pepper&Carrot to go on forever, also thanks to your #FreeSoftware philosophy and choices.
Anyway, I perfectly understand and respect your choice and I'll continue follow you and your nice projects.
Thank you for entertaining us with your art. 🙏🏻
I think you are right. Going on forever isn’t a good idea, and a good story has a good ending. It’s not like you can’t revisit the characters in the future for a new story. I think you made the sane choice here. Both for yourself and for us, your audience.
(Also I still want an animated Pepper&Carrot:))
it's two days early for April the 1st!
The pace of your episodes has been slowing down, so I imagine a lot of us could see that coming. Please end it well 🙂
@aturff Haha, right! I added a small "edit" disclaimer on the article. Right now, for all timezone already +8 or +9 (in Asia) it's already April Fool, better to disambiguate the post.
Oh yes, the slow-down was caused by me getting new ideas, new formats, wanting to get free of some constrains and not being able to reform the project from the inside. For the next project, I'll study carefully all the bottleneck and simplify simplify simplify and put gatekeepers rules to not recomplexify 🙂
Episode 17: A Fresh Start - Pepper&Carrot
Official homepage of Pepper&Carrot, a free(libre) and open-source webcomic about Pepper, a young witch and her cat, Carrot. They live in a fantasy universe of potions, magic, and creatures.Pepper&Carrot
"Stare them down! Dominate them!"
Dammit. Now I am hooked.
You have a new reader 😁🥰
I am looking forward what comes next and wish you all the best, success and a lot of fun with the MFT project.
Je te soutiendrai bien sûr sans réserve sur ce nouveau projet (même si le mécénat passe de "par publication" à "mensuel", en ce qui me concerne)
Good luck, and nice work ❤
Oh yes, the similar shapes of the acronym with NFTs felt weird. Fortunately, I also found MFT is a short form of My Favorite Thing, and I like this 🙂
Ce n'est pas encore officialisé, mais très souligné dans mon brainstorming et pas motivé uniquement pour une histoire de compatibilité de licences pour caméos. Trop de dérivés de P&C (jeux de rôles/plateaux/vidéos) m'ont promis l'ouverture de licence et ne l'ont pas fait. Impossible de rétro bénéficier de leurs avancés...
Pepper & Carrot is my favourite comic series and I would have been sad to see them go...
...which is why it's good to know they'll still be around! It makes sense, to roll back and give yourself a clean slate without constraints. I know from running Snipette that even if you have something going for 10 years (or 6 in our case) it can get constraining to have to stick to your earlier conventions 🧹
Hope the MFT project sets you free, and looking forward to seeing Pepper and Carrot there as well as all the new characters! I didn't know MFT was the original project; it's an interesting story 🧙♀️
Also looking forward to the final few episodes, and I'm glad I know in advance rather than suddenly running up against it when the last one drops! 🥕
@ben Thank you! True, it will be always possible to make a new "special episode" later for the fun if I really miss the long chapter format of Pepper&Carrot.
I of course plan to reuse young Pepper and Carrot in Mini Fantasy Theatre. I'm not 100% sure about the format, but a strip in 4 panels like https://www.peppercarrot.com/0_sources/0ther/misc/hi-res/2022-01-20_Pepper-and-Carrot_mini-comic_02_Imagination_by-David-Revoy.jpg is right now an option I really consider for MFT.
@linebyline Hey, yes, I should probably edit the toot and add:
"edit: NOT a April Fool joke" or write it in the header of the blog post because if I edit the toot it will pollute all the notifications for those who already saw it.
I should have probably kept that for at least a big week away from the 1st April. But I couldn't keep this for me more: I started thinking about it in October...
And thank you!
As a proud owner of printed books 1-4 I am looking forward to have a complete collection :)
I liked all the characters, but I believe that a good story needs a good ending, and if you feel like it - then it is time.
I can't wait to also have the final book 5 in my bookshelf and see the series as "complete".
And now I'm looking forward to what's to come. 😊
Congratulations!
I had the experience of finishing a long term project rather than letting it end, and that difference was really good for me. I hope it gives you the same combination of closure and motivation to move forward.
@andre Thank you! I don't have a repository, it's just a single HTML right now temporary hosted in https://www.davidrevoy.com/minifantasytheater/ and it might stay like that until I finish Pepper&Carrot. 😅 I only took it to avoid trolls who would reserve
- https://www.minifantasytheater.com
- https://www.minifantasytheatre.com
(I took both US and UK variant 😆 )
Thanks if you want to improve this single html temporary file! You'll get the source with Ctrl+U on your browser and you can send me back a link with https://pastebin.com/
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Right now, the 4 panels square format (2x2), all in one image, attracts me a lot. I also like the 4 x 16:9 independant pictures.
I can understand this decision. I can imagine PnC is hard to shape. It has a slow paced approach, focussing more on little wholesome units rather than telling a story, though it has started to pick up more structure over the time.
I would still love to see maybe not more of PnC, but a new take on PnC. Starting on the story, not on the drawing board, and telling a nice story. I can imagine there are some writers and stuff around who'd love to take part in something like that.
Right now it looks my brain wants to start Mini Fantasy Theater and ending Pepper&Carrot simultaneously. I jump on one when I block on the other, and ideas rejected for one feed the other. An interesting period of overlap. 😆
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