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Music for today ·Gaia Blu completed HYDROSENSE on 12 November. Fibre optics will help study seafloor signals; this is not a validated eruption-warning service.
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NASA’s new Flow Country feature uses a 2024 image to explain a landscape where water, moss and peat store plant material over millennia.
Launched on 12 November, the platform aims to fund earlier action. Protecting 75 million people by 2030 remains a target.
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A consultation launched on 12 November proposes reducing some disclosure requirements while retaining safeguards for the most serious offences.
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The updated calendar highlights free Scandellara sessions where people knit together and prepare warm clothing intended for the Community of Sant’Egidio.
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England’s 12 November competition seeks a delivery partner for up to £158.8 million between 2027 and 2036. The money has not already been distributed.
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Opened in Piazzale Selinunte on 12 November, the FIGC activity runs through Sunday the 15th. Players can sign up without an existing team.
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Design · Philosophy · Plants · Curiosities · Words · Food · Cultures & peoples. Ideas worth a closer look.
Harry Beck’s Underground diagram changes the distances on paper to make the available connections easier for passengers to understand.
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A provocation from Schopenhauer separates the accumulation of reading from the work needed to understand the ideas we encounter.
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Clivia keeps its green leaves while a cooler, drier winter period can help prepare the plant for its next flowering.
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Turn over a spoon and you meet two different mirrors: the surface shape changes the paths taken by reflected light.
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Italian panorama arrives through English and combines Greek elements, carrying a history of circular pictures into our everyday views.
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Beneath a potato’s skin is a storage organ: its eyes help reveal the tuber’s identity as a modified underground stem.
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In Kaustinen’s fiddle tradition, listening and playing together pass on details that a collection of written scores cannot fully capture.
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Enlarge the chart In 2025, 35.7% of people in Italy could not afford one week of annual holiday away from home, compared with 27.5% in the European Union: a gap of 8.2 percentage points. The indicator measures reported affordability, not the number of people who actually travelled. [1]
The other items tell different stories. For an unexpected expense, the shares are 25.6% in Italy and 29.2% in the EU; for keeping the home adequately warm, 8.6% and 8.8%; for a meal with meat, chicken, fish or a vegetarian equivalent every second day, 9.3% and 8.5%. Arrears on mortgages or rent, utility bills or hire purchase affect 6.8% in Italy and 9.2% in the EU. These categories can overlap and should not be added together. [2][3][4][5]
These are shares of people living in private households in EU-SILC, not shares of household budgets. The selected Datobello chart is dated 12 November 2026; here we use Eurostat values before rounding to whole percentages, from data updated on 20 October and read on 13 November. The graphic and text are a Positive Times adaptation, for which Eurostat is not responsible. [6][7]
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That is quite a lot of good for one day.
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