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As <keyword id="19896017" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Karnataka" source="keywords">Karnataka</keyword> grapples with a rising number of <keyword id="20075342" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="dengue" source="keywords">dengue</keyword> cases, the state government has officially declared dengue fever an <keyword id="20462436" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="epidemic" source="keywords">epidemic</keyword>. This declaration comes with a set of strict regulations designed to prevent the spread of the disease by targeting <keyword id="21283114" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="mosquito-breeding" source="keywords">mosquito breeding</keyword>, which is the primary mode of transmission. To avoid <keyword id="20041636" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="penalties" source="keywords">penalties</keyword>, it is crucial to understand and adhere to these new regulations. <h2>Understanding dengue</h2>Dengue is a viral infection transmitted by the bite of an infected female Aedes mosquito, primarily Aedes aegypti. The virus causes flu-like symptoms, including high fever, severe headache, pain behind the eyes, joint and muscle pain, rash, and mild bleeding (such as nose or gum bleeding). In severe cases, dengue can lead to dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) or dengue shock syndrome (DSS), which are potentially fatal <div type="Article" hostid="261" msid="111981382" title="BBMP’s newest contest can earn you up to Rs 1 lakh for uploading &amp;#39;Dengue Warrior&amp;#39; reels on social media!" mstype="2" mssubtype="0"></div>Karnataka’s tropical climate, combined with rapid urbanisation and inadequate waste management, has created ideal conditions for the proliferation of these Aedes mosquitoes, with cases exceeding 25,000 since the beginning of the year. The urban centres, particularly Bengaluru, have seen alarming spikes in dengue cases, straining the healthcare infrastructure and prompting urgent government interventions. The situation has been exacerbated by the accumulation of stagnant water in both residential and commercial areas, which serves as breeding grounds for mosquitoes. <h2>Preventative measures</h2>The government has mandated that all property owners, including households, commercial establishments, and construction site managers, must take immediate and effective steps to eliminate potential mosquito breeding sites. As per the new regulations, authorities can inspect any land or building between sunrise and sunset after giving reasonable notice. The owner or occupier must facilitate the inspection and provide necessary information. If mosquito breeding is found, the authority can issue a notice requiring action within a specified time, not less than 24 hours, to eliminate the breeding ground using suitable methods. This includes ensuring that all water storage containers, such as tanks, barrels, and drums, are properly covered to prevent mosquitoes from laying eggs. Moreover, residents and business owners are required to properly dispose of solid waste, including items like old tires, broken pots, and unused containers, which could otherwise collect water and become breeding grounds. <h2>Fines for non-compliance</h2>In addition to these preventive measures, the government has implemented a structured penalty system for non-compliance. Households in <keyword id="19924983" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="urban-areas" source="keywords">urban areas</keyword> are subject to a fine of Rs 400, while those in rural areas face a Rs 200 fine. Commercial establishments, such as offices, restaurants, and schools, are liable for a Rs 1,000 fine in urban areas and Rs 500 in rural areas. Construction sites, whether active or abandoned, face the heaviest fines — Rs 2,000 in urban areas and Rs 1,000 in rural areas. <div type="Article" hostid="261" msid="111316992" title="Dengue in obese children is more likely to result in hospitalisation, study finds" mstype="2" mssubtype="0"></div>For those who fail to comply with these regulations, the consequences are more severe. Authorised officers from the <keyword id="19898915" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="health-department" source="keywords">Health Department</keyword> have been empowered to inspect properties and enforce these rules. If a property owner fails to comply with a notice to eliminate mosquito breeding sites, the authorities are authorised to take the necessary actions themselves and recover the costs from the defaulter. Additionally, if violations continue, an extra 50% of the total fine may be imposed each week until compliance is achieved. It is imperative to act swiftly if you receive a notice regarding mosquito breeding on your property. Ignoring such a notice not only increases your financial burden due to accumulating fines but also puts your community at greater risk of dengue. By adhering to these regulations and taking proactive steps to prevent mosquito breeding, you can avoid penalties and contribute to the larger public health effort to control the spread of dengue in Karnataka.

Dengue fine? Here's what you must do to avoid government penalty as Karnataka declares dengue an epidemic

<a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-chatgpt-openai-ceo-career-net-worth-ycombinator-prepper-2023-1">Sam Altman</a> is already a tech titan. Somehow, at 38, he's been coding for three decades, and with the advent of ChatGPT and (more recently) <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-openai-video-text-model-creator-sora-leading-google-2024-2">Sora</a>, he's quickly amassed nearly as much hype and influence as <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-elon-musk-fight-share-similarities-ai-tech-2024-3">Elon Musk</a> and Mark Zuckerberg.As <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/openai">OpenAI</a>'s CEO, Altman is widely considered to be the face of artificial intelligence, reprogramming the way we'll live and work for years to come. His relentless push into the future of tech — including early <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/list-of-companies-openai-sam-altman-invested-in-2023-2">investments in Reddit</a>, Stripe, Airbnb, and Instacart — has made him a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-01/sam-altman-is-a-billionaire-thanks-to-vc-funds-startups">billionaire</a> at least a couple of times over.But computers aren't his only passion. Over the past three years, Altman has been quietly spending a considerable amount of time and money on a more biological kind of moonshot: trying to reprogram the human body.In 2021, during a relative "lull" between becoming the CEO of OpenAI and unveiling ChatGPT to the world, Altman started a $180 million side project. Called Retro Biosciences, the startup's goal is simple yet supremely ambitious: Add 10 healthy, enjoyable years onto the back end of our lifetimes.To pull this off, Altman teamed up with Joe Betts-LaCroix, a Harvard, MIT, and Caltech-trained scientist, biophysicist, and computer whiz who once developed the world's smallest personal computer. While he isn't trained in geroscience, Betts-LaCroix has been a longtime promoter of more hard science and "deep biology" for longevity through his nonprofit Health Extension Foundation.To the casual observer, biohacking might seem like Altman's quirky pet project, a distraction from his day-to-day steeped in the business of all things tech. But Retro Biosciences actually fits quite neatly into Altman's futuristic worldview.As a doomsday prepper who says he has a stash of guns, gold, and land tucked aside for a just-in-case scenario, it makes sense that Altman is concerned with the future of society, and focused on <a target="_blank" href="https://apnews.com/article/uae-openai-sam-altman-artificial-intelligence-9593a03830c0ef83fdef76c68bb87118">identifying threats</a> to our existence. He also feels strongly that he is someone who can help solve all of these existential problems, future-proofing our world.Is this just what happens when you become rich and powerful in Silicon Valley, you become convinced you can fix everything? Or is it Altman's rugged, take-charge and fend-for-yourself ethos as a prepper that drives him to tackle both the future of fusion <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/helion-energy-fusion-company-backed-by-sam-altman-and-microsoft-2023-5">energy</a> and human longevity, in addition to all the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-openai-raise-trillions-supercharge-chip-production-report-2024-2">chips</a> and AI stuff?Whatever it is that drives him, shockingly, this slightly longer-lived timeframe he imagines for our bodies is actually plausible.<h2>Betting big on 3 trendy anti-aging techniques</h2><div type="image" title="retro biosciences team" height="900" width="1600" msid="108730483" hostid="261" sizebytes="236036"></div>Retro Biosciences sits about 30 miles south of OpenAI's San Francisco headquarters, where ChatGPT was hatched. In true Silicon Valley startup fashion, it's closer to the campuses of Meta, Apple, and Stanford University than the Golden City.The company <a target="_blank" href="https://retro.bio/careers/">ethos</a> is pure Silicon Valley: "More pirate than navy." HQ is a warehouse-like office, filled with bold, bright murals of plants and glass beakers. The labs are a set of shipping containers that they built and ventilated themselves. Desks sit perched on a platform just high enough to let employees peek through narrow, barred windows. The whole aesthetic is "move fast and break things," but for longevity.<div type="image" title="clean rooms at retro bio" height="800" width="1200" msid="108730486" hostid="261" sizebytes="65960"></div>Since the shipping container experiments started in July 2021, Retro's divided its ambitions into three buckets. Essentially, much like the startup incubator Y Combinator (which Altman used to run), Retro's placing separate bets on what might work to extend human lifespan.While munching on some nuts at his desk, Betts-LaCroix told Business Insider the Retro model is "breaking all the rules of early-stage biotech, in which you're supposed to focus on one specific platform or one specific target, and pour everything into that." Here's where they're placing their bets:<ol><li>Autophagy</li></ol>The built-in recycling process that keeps our cells healthy and spry is probably the ripest research area of the three for a potential "quick" fix for aging, since (in theory) it could be tweaked with a pill. Right now, the closest we have to a pill to improve cellular efficiency is either <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-rapamycin-and-how-does-it-help-prevent-aging-2023-3">rapamycin</a> or <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/metformin-diabetes-weight-loss-anti-aging-drug-long-covid-prevention-2023-2">metformin</a>. These two existing medications (for kidney transplants and diabetes, respectively) show promise for boosting longevity, and some biohackers are using them off-label as DIY aging interventions already. But as of yet, there's no drug that directly, definitively, and officially targets this cellular housekeeping issue.<ol start="2"><li>Cellular reprogramming</li></ol>One of the trendiest ideas floating around in longevity science today. This one is also logistically tricky. The idea is to make old cells act young again by "reprogramming" them into a slightly younger state using four well-known Yamanaka Factors (Japanese stem cell researcher Shinya Yamanaka won a Nobel Prize in 2012 for discovering this can be done.) But experimentally, it's been hard to accomplish this kind of remodeling in a way that doesn't potentially cause cancer or other health issues.Here, Betts-LaCroix imagines starting very slowly — extracting cells from people's ears or knee joints, partially reprogramming them to de-age them just a bit, then inserting them back in to people once they've been deemed safe for treatment."Don't even go straight into the person to start with," he said. "Take cells out of their body to program, make sure you're hunky-dory."If those experiments help with issues like age-related hearing loss or joint mobility, for example, Retro could then try something more advanced.<ol start="3"><li>Plasma therapy</li></ol>The concept that sounds the most Dracula-esque of all. Betts-LaCroix points to "promising rejuvenation" research that's been done in mice by <a target="_blank" href="https://engineering.berkeley.edu/news/2023/05/forever-young/">diluting their blood plasma with saline</a>. (This appears to work better than just giving old mice <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/millionaire-bryan-johnson-swapped-blood-with-teenage-son-young-blood-2023-5">young blood</a>.)In aging mice that have undergone plasma dilution, a wide array of age-related issues improve. The procedure reduces inflammation, improves muscle and liver health, and boosts the formation of brain cells. Nascent research in people, including some underway at Retro, suggests the technique might work for us non-rodents too.<h2>Altman is very hands-on at Retro.bio, CEO says</h2><div type="image" title="guys working around laptop" height="1080" width="1620" msid="108730489" hostid="261" sizebytes="119042"></div>It's a gargantuan mission. And one that Altman believes in so strongly that he works on it literally all the time.Betts-LaCroix says he meets with Altman once a week, going over successes and failures in Retro lab experiments and chatting strategy. Somehow, amidst all the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-openai-raise-trillions-supercharge-chip-production-report-2024-2">chip manufacturing plans</a>, and unveiling of new <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-openai-video-text-model-creator-sora-leading-google-2024-2">AI tools like Sora</a>, Altman consistently fits this meeting in."The board is me and Sam Altman, and he is a very rational and technically capable person," Betts-LaCroix told BI."We don't have to wait for three months to go by for our quarterly board meeting and build up a big slide deck and get everybody all nervous and sweaty about 'should we actually show this data?' I show everything, all the warts."<h2>Altman is in a longevity race against Bezos, Thiel, and other billionaires</h2>These days it appears as if it's almost obligatory for tech titans like Altman to invest in life extension, in some way or another.Amazon's Jeff Bezos is widely believed to have poured hundreds of millions into the extremely secretive San Diego-based Altos Labs, which has plucked some of the most impressive and decorated longevity scientists out of universities around the world. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/altos-labs-launches-with-the-goal-to-transform-medicine-through-cellular-rejuvenation-programming-301463541.html">With $3 billion fully committed</a> from Bezos, Yuri Milner, and others, Altos may be the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/meet-20-best-funded-biotech-startups-pioneering-age-inaki-berenguer/">best-funded longevity lab</a> around.<a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-antiaging-investor-billionaire-longevity-routine-2023-11">Billionaire Peter Thiel</a> has famously agreed to have his body cryogenically frozen when he dies, so he can be brought back to life later. He's also donated cash to Aubrey de Grey, who touts the idea that we might be able to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/longevity-escape-velocity-what-is-it">"escape" the velocity of death</a> someday soon.Then there's German Billionaire Christian Angermayer, the chairman of Cambrian Bio, focused on developing a wide range of pills and treatments for improving aging, at various startups — including <a target="_blank" href="https://www.ovivatx.com/">one</a> that's aimed at keeping women's ovaries younger, prolonging their fertility window.<div type="image" title="Joe Betts-Lacroix" height="1080" width="1620" msid="108730493" hostid="261" sizebytes="124998"></div>Betts-LaCroix sees what Retro is doing as a moral calling more so than a savvy business model for increasing a billionaire's net worth."It's an obvious public good to create more health," he said.But not all experts agree. Some question whether tacking an extra 10 years of life onto the bodies of the richest, most privileged among us should really take precedence over finding ways that we might all live a little longer, by reducing health disparities, and implementing more <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/loma-linda-blue-zone-longevity-secrets-of-seventh-day-adventists-2023-11">systemic changes</a> that would improve the social, mental, and emotional health of all of us. There are things we already know work super well to improve human longevity, like exercise, diet, faith, and social support. (Presumably, the billionaire class is already adhering to these well-known pillars of health, which can <a target="_blank" href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/648593">extend healthy human lifespan by about 10 years</a>.)"If the geroscientists are successful at making people live five or ten years longer by taking a pill, the effects on the business world, on the insurance industry, on the healthcare industry, on social security will be a tsunami," biogerontologist Daniel Promislow, who directs <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/drugs-to-help-dogs-and-people-live-longer-2023-3">the Dog Aging Project</a>, previously told BI.Will Altman's approach, which worked so well for discovering several blockbuster Silicon Valley startups, win him the big race to a longevity-boosting product for people's bodies? It is possible that Retro will get there first, and unlock a huge windfall of <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/age1vc/status/1734344711304057246">hundreds of billions</a> of dollars. But nobody really knows who's leading the pack just yet. It's still way too early to pick winners and losers in this industry.Matt Buckley, one of Retro's co-founders, recently told <a target="_blank" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-12-19/longevity-startup-retro-biosciences-is-sam-altman-s-shot-at-life-extension?itm_source=record&amp;itm_campaign=Longevity_Issue&amp;itm_content=Inside_Sam_Altman%27s_Lab-2">Bloomberg</a> that the company probably has until about 2030 to run with Altman's cash. Then they'll need to consider going public, or finding some more investors. By then, Betts-LaCroix says maybe, just maybe, they'll have some first breakthroughs in hand, similar to what's happened recently with OpenAI and ChatGPT."Back in 2000, I was like, 'man, I hope I get to live through the time that AI starts to sweep across society,'" Betts-LaCroix said.That time has come."And yay! I'm alive," he said.

Sam Altman's mission to increase human lifespan with a $180 million shipping container experiment at Retro Biosciences

<ul class="summary-list"><li>At least 56 containers of hazmat goods were on board the Dali when it crashed, the NTSB said.</li><li>Some of the containers were "significantly breached" and some are in the water, officials said.</li></ul>The 984-foot container vessel that crashed into the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/livestream-video-francis-scott-key-bridge-ship-crash-maryland-2024-3">Francis Scott Key Bridge</a> was carrying at least 56 containers of hazardous material, some of which have fallen into the water, the National Transportation Safety Board said.The board's chair, Jennifer Homendy, told <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwWVqTy4Ofg&amp;ab_channel=NTSBgov">reporters on Wednesday </a>that <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwWVqTy4Ofg&amp;ab_channel=NTSBgov">officials boarded</a> the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-we-know-dali-francis-scott-crash-collapse-maryland-bridge-2024-3">Singapore-flagged Dali</a> for an inspection on Tuesday evening.A senior NTSB hazmat investigator identified the 56 hazardous containers while observing the cargo and manifest, Homendy said."That's 764 tons of hazardous materials. Mostly corrosives, flammables, and some miscellaneous hazardous materials," said the board chief.Some containers held "class 9" materials, which may include lithium-ion batteries, she said.Homendy added that she saw that some hazardous material containers were "breached significantly" and several had fallen into the Patapsco River, but did not have "an exact number."Officials have also "seen sheen on the waterway," she added.NTSB officials said the exact kinds of hazardous materials on the Dali have yet to be identified, and could not speak to the risks posed to the public.When asked whether people should be concerned about the "sheen" on the river, Homendy said the transportation safety agency had referred the information to other federal and state authorities.The Environmental Protection Agency and the Maryland Department of the Environment did not immediately respond to requests for comment sent outside regular business hours by Business Insider.BI also contacted two organizations researching water quality in the area, the Chesapeake Research Consortium and Blue Water Baltimore."It's a massive undertaking for an investigation," Homendy said, adding that the total probe into the ship's malfunctions could take 12 to 24 months.The Dali lost power on Tuesday morning and crashed into Baltimore's Key Bridge, causing its span to collapse. Six construction workers who were on the bridge have died or are presumed dead, with four bodies still unrecovered.The vessel has a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-the-increasing-size-of-container-ships-collapsed-baltimore-bridge-2024-3">gross tonnage of 95,000 tons</a>, meaning the containers carrying hazardous materials would have taken up a small fraction of its total carrying capacity.While the Key Bridge's collapse has not been declared a chemical-related emergency as of Wednesday evening, hazardous materials will likely complicate the city's clean-up process."It's a pretty dangerous situation in that area, and we can't go in there," Homendy said.A recent major disaster, when a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ohio-train-derailment-could-cause-explosion-east-palestine-authorities-warn-2023-2">train carrying toxic chemicals derailed in East Palestine, Ohi,o</a> in February 2023, still <a target="_blank" href="https://www.post-gazette.com/news/transportation/2024/03/27/east-palestine-norfolk-southern-train-derailment-aid/stories/202403270080">affects residents more than a year after the event</a>.Delays in freeing up the Patapsco River also <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/baltimore-port-closure-could-cost-15-million-per-day-2024-3">threaten major economic consequences.</a> The <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/baltimore-port-closure-could-cost-15-million-per-day-2024-3">Port of Baltimore</a> — the ninth busiest US port for international cargo and a major hub for the automotive industry — is closed to vessels until further notice as wreckage blocks the waterway.The loss of the bridge itself is likely to become a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-fedex-deliveries-baltimore-could-be-impacted-by-bridge-collapse-2024-3">pain point for Baltimore commuters</a> since 11.3 million vehicles plied the Key Bridge annually. It was also the only land transport route for hazardous materials, posing another complication for local industries.Authorities are still investigating how the Dali lost power as it tried to navigate under the Key Bridge.The <a target="_blank" href="https://www.mpa.gov.sg/media-centre/details/vessel-dali-passed-previous-foreign-port-state-inspections">Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore</a> said on Wednesday that the ship had passed two foreign port inspections, one in June and another in September.

The ship that crashed into the Baltimore bridge carried 764 tons of hazardous material, and some containers have been breached, NTSB says

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The Texas Attorney General's office is suing Houston's home county over a guaranteed income pilot.</li><li>The Uplift Harris pilot program provides $500 monthly for 18 months to 1,928 selected families.</li></ul>The Texas Attorney General's office sued <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/universal-basic-income-texas-houston-harris-county-covid-relief-2023-12">Harris County</a>, which contains Houston, over its new <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/basic-income-funding-comes-from-philanthropy-federal-budget-housing-taxes2024-4">guaranteed income</a> pilot that would give nearly 2,000 residents $500 a month for 18 months with no strings attached.Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton called <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/houston-ubi-guaranteed-basic-income-uplift-harris-housing-finances-rent-2024-4">Uplift Harris</a> an "unlawful" program that "redistributes public money in a manner that violates the Texas Constitution," according to a press release. The lawsuit filing calls the pilot the "Harris Handout" and a "socialist experiment."The state is seeking to block Harris County from giving its first payments to participants, which are slated to start in April."There is no such thing as free money—especially in Texas," the filing states. "The Texas Constitution expressly prohibits giving away public funds to benefit individuals—a common sense protection to prevent cronyism and ensure that public funds benefit all citizens."The program selected 1,928 families out of 82,500 applicants for monthly payments, which begin this month. The program's $20.5 million in funding came from the <a target="_blank" rel="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-biden-economy-is-bidenomics-working-policies-progress-unnoticed-2023-9">American Rescue Plan Act</a>, which provided financial support to Americans and state and local governments during the pandemic. Many other cities and states have <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/basic-income-funding-comes-from-philanthropy-federal-budget-housing-taxes2024-4">used leftover funds from that law for basic-income pilots</a> and programs.In response, Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee said that the lawsuit is "nothing more than another attack" on the county government. Menefee said in a statement that the pilot is working to better people's lives by giving out direct cash assistance, which he argued governments have always done."When corporations are given taxpayer dollars Republican leaders in Austin call it 'economic development.' When governments use federal dollars to actually help people, Republican leaders in Austin call it socialism," Menefee said in a statement.Participants were randomly selected via a lottery, and most applicants live in high-poverty ZIP codes with a household income below 200% of the federal poverty line."This is a type of support not available to this magnitude within the wider US safety net," Dustin Palmer, US country director at GiveDirectly, a nonprofit that's administering the program, previously told Business Insider. "The interest comes from people's expression of themselves imagining what they could do with this money to fit their unique needs."Paxton's office noted that the Texas Constitution forbids counties and cities in the state from granting public money to aid individuals, arguing the pilot does not guarantee public benefit or control over what the money is spent on. The office also argued that the program's selection process is arbitrary, thus violating the Constitution's protections for equal rights."Taxpayer money must be spent lawfully and used to advance the public interest, not merely redistributed with no accountability or reasonable expectation of a general benefit," Paxton said in a statement.The lawsuit comes after State Sen. Paul Bettencourt <a target="_blank" rel="" href="https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/request-files/request/2024/RQ0529KP.pdf">sent a letter</a> in January asking Paxton to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/texas-paul-bettencourt-guaranteed-basic-income-ubi-uplift-harris-houston-2024-1">issue an opinion</a> on the constitutionality of guaranteed income programs.Other Texas cities have launched basic income pilots with promising results. The <a target="_blank" rel="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/austin-guarunteed-basic-income-gbi-ubi-housing-security-homeless-2024-1">Austin Guaranteed Income Pilot</a> has distributed $1,000 a month to 135 low-income families, who reported using their money for housing, food, and other daily costs. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/san-antonio-ubi-guaranteed-basic-income-housing-finances-austin-rent-2024-3">San Antonio</a>'s basic-income pilot gave participants $5,108 total over 25 months.Republican lawmakers are trying to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/guaranteed-basic-income-ban-ubi-arizona-texas-houston-homelessness-poverty-2024-2">ban guaranteed income programs</a> in states such as Arizona, Iowa, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.

Texas AG sues county over Houston-area guaranteed income program giving participants $500 a month no strings attached

<ul class="summary-list"><li>UC Berkeley is trying to build a new $312 million housing complex on the iconic People's Park.</li><li>But activists have delayed its plans for months, camping out on the site and tearing down a fence.</li></ul>UC Berkeley's had to get creative when dealing with protestors trying to stop the university from building a new housing site.The university on Thursday said it's stacking shipping containers to create a "secure perimeter" around the historic People's Park in Berkeley, California, which activists say should be preserved."Over the next few days, surrounding streets will be closed to traffic while crews install a secure perimeter consisting of double-stacked shipping containers," the university said in a public statement.The rows of containers were set up after a previous effort by UC Berkeley to maintain a fence around the area was <a target="_blank" href="https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/uc-berkeley-clears-peoples-park-17348176.php">foiled by protestors in August.</a>The makeshift wall is around "15 to 16 feet high," UC Berkeley spokesperson Kyle Gibson told <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSZFEL36zIo">The Associated Press.</a>UC Berkeley's $312 million housing complex is set to provide apartments for students and local people without lodgings on a 2.8-acre site at People's Park. Around 60% of the site will be left as an open park space, the university said.Protestors are opposing the redevelopment because the park was central to the counterculture movement of the 1960s. Some people without permanent housing have also been camping on the site, though UC Berkeley said it recently offered them accommodation elsewhere.<div type="image" title="People's Park on a night that UC Berkeley and other authorities prepare to cordon off People's Park on Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024 in Berkeley, CA." height="3717" width="5576" msid="106562032" hostid="261" sizebytes="5783672"></div>Activists have delayed UC Berkeley's construction plans for months. In August, people in a mass protest <a target="_blank" href="https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/uc-berkeley-clears-peoples-park-17348176.php">pushed down</a> a fence that UC Berkeley tried to use to cordon off the area.But the university <a target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/us/peoples-park-berkeley-california.html">swept through the site</a> in an early Thursday morning takeover, with armed police officers cutting down trees and clearing the area of activists and campers.Several people tried to hold out in a treehouse, but eventually left on condition of them not being arrested, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/04/uc-berkeley-peoples-park-police-operation">per The Guardian.</a>Seven people were arrested by the end of the takeover, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/east-bay/peoples-park-berkeley-closed-off-protests/3412856/">per local media reports.</a><div type="image" title="Activist refuses to come down from a treehouse as UC Berkeley and other authorities clear People's Park on Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024 in Berkeley, CA." height="4000" width="6000" msid="106562034" hostid="261" sizebytes="2863110"></div>Despite gaining control of People's Park, UC Berkeley can't start construction until the California Supreme Court resolves legal efforts filed to block the building attempt, the university said."The site is being closed now to lessen the possibility of disruption for the city of Berkeley and campus communities," read its Thursday statement.The university added that its new housing complex is "urgently needed," with the UC Berkeley campus hosting enough housing for only 23% of its students.The empty shipping containers around People's Park echo <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-arizona-makeshift-shipping-container-border-wall-2022-12">the hundreds of containers</a> set up to fill gaps on the Arizona-Mexico border in 2022. State officials had lined the top of those containers with barbed wire.

UC Berkeley is using a wall of shipping containers to block activists from the new site of its student housing complex

An <keyword id="6354427" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="apple" source="Orion">Apple</keyword> campus here was partially evacuated after an envelope containing a white powder substance was discovered by first responders, the media reported on Wednesday. According to a report in <keyword id="13393883" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="nbc-bay-area" source="Orion">NBC Bay Area</keyword>, emergency personnel from the <keyword id="13393882" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="santa-clara-county-fire-department" source="Orion">Santa Clara County Fire Department</keyword> attended to a possible hazmat situation but found nothing dangerous. "Officials later deemed the situation under control and said employees could go back inside. Officials did not immediately say what the substance was," the report noted. Apple told employees at Apple Park that "authorities concluded that there was no presence of hazardous materials," according to an email obtained by The Verge. The email says that operations were back to normal, and that "all sections are open." Apple did not immediately commented. Tech giant Apple's employees will start to return to offices on April 11. According to reports, the news came more than two years after the majority of Apple's corporate workforce started working from home because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The move signals that big employers in <keyword id="2379" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="california" source="Orion">California</keyword> are comfortable enough with risks regarding Covid-19 infection to reopen offices as cases drop in the state and across the country. The global return-to-office plan for Apple comes after Google said this week that its employees would return on April 4. Apple was one of the first companies to tell its employees to work from home in March 2020, even though the company's culture emphasises in-person collaboration and that the development of new hardware products is best performed by on-site employees. Apple's retail stores are now open around the world. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/microsoft-is-reportedly-testing-ads-in-windows-11-file-explorer/articleshow/90217254.cms">Microsoft is reportedly testing ads in Windows 11 File Explorer</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/mobile/news/apple-supplier-foxconn-halts-production-at-its-shenzhen-plants-after-sudden-covid-19-outbreak/articleshow/90215795.cms">Apple supplier Foxconn halts production at its Shenzhen plants after sudden COVID-19 outbreak</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/cryptocurrency/news/amex-reveals-its-metaverse-ambitions-in-a-patent-filing-for-tech-to-let-people-to-use-its-payment-cards-in-virtual-worlds/articleshow/90236616.cms">AmEx reveals its metaverse ambitions in a trademark filing for tech to let people to use its payment cards in virtual worlds</a>

Apple campus evacuated after envelope containing white powder substance discovered, situation now under control

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A top cheesemaker recalled four of its products as they may contain E.coli.</li><li>The UK's food-standards agency issued a warning about the cheese just in time for Christmas Day.</li></ul>A high-end cheesemaker warned people not to eat its products this Christmas over concerns that they may contain E.coli.<a target="_blank" href="https://www.food.gov.uk/news-alerts/alert/fsa-prin-50-2023">The UK's Food Standards Agency issued a recall</a> on four products from Mrs Kirkham's Lancashire Cheese Ltd, saying any of them bought after October 1 this year might be contaminated.Its latest warning came on Sunday — just ahead of Christmas Day — when many families would have been readying to tuck into festive cheeseboards.The recall affects the company's Mild &amp; Creamy Lancashire, Tasty Lancashire, Mature Lancashire, and Smoked Lancashire products."The cheeses are sometimes sold as a full block or served as individual portions, it may have been provided as part of a hamper you've purchased or been gifted," the FSA wrote."In some cases it's been sold as part of a charcutier grazing platter," the watchdog explained.In cases like that "it may not always be clear whether you have purchased an affected product."The cheese may be contaminated with a variety of E.coli — Shiga toxin-producing E. coli, or STEC — that can cause severe diarrhoea, abdominal pain, and potentially haemolytic uremic syndrome, the FSA wrote.HUS is "a serious condition that can lead to kidney failure and can be fatal," the warning continued.Lancashire cheese is a creamy cow's milk cheese from the northwestern English county of the same name, and has been made there for centuries.One variety, the Beacon Fell Traditional Lancashire Cheese, has <a target="_blank" href="https://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/eambrosia/geographical-indications-register/details/EUGI00000013114">Protected Designation of Origin status</a> from the European Commission — an accolade it shares with products like Champagne, affirming that it's made in one area, and has distinct characteristics from that area.Per its website, Mrs Kirkham's Lancashire Cheese company has operated since 1978 and is one of the UK's only remaining dairies to use traditional methods. It also claims to be the last maker of Lancashire cheese to use unpasteurized milk.The company is not the only one to recall cheese before Christmas. On Friday, artisanal French maker Route des Terroirs recalled its Morbier Maison Monts &amp; Terroirs Chalet De Vevy variety of cheese, as sold in England, over the same concerns about harmful E.coli, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.food.gov.uk/news-alerts/alert/fsa-prin-49-2023">the FSA announced</a>.The company did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment, sent outside of working hours.

A fancy cheese retailer had its products recalled just before Christmas because they might contain E. coli

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Hammerhead worms are turning up all over Washington, DC and northern Virginia, the Washington Post reported.</li><li>The worms carry the same toxins as puffer fish though a single worm probably couldn't kill a human.</li></ul>An invasive, toxic worm has been found all over the Mid-Atlantic region — and they could invade the whole East Coast in the coming years thanks to a warming climate, experts say.Researchers have spotted the hammerhead worm hundreds of times in the area of Washington, D.C. and northern Virginia over the last 15 years, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/07/22/hammerhead-worms-invasive-poisonous-dc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Washington Post reported.</a>While a human would have to ingest several of these worms to feel the negative effects of their poison, they carry the same venom that can prove deadly when eating poorly-prepared <a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/deadly-pufferfish-poison-relieves-stress-deadly-pufferfish">puffer fish.</a> These worms, however, can prove deadly for other invertebrates — like the snails and slugs they prey upon — and even household pets.The species has spread across the world, becoming an invasive species in several other regions as well. Computer models developed by climate researchers showed that the wider East Coast of the United States will warm enough over the next several years to become prime habitat for the toxic creatures, according to the Post.Thankfully, if you spot one of these worms in your yard, you can easily stop them with a dose of salt before placing them in a bag with vinegar, alcohol, or salt for disposal. However, experts told the Post to ensure you're wearing gloves and to freeze the worms inside the bag before throwing them away.

Worms that contain the same lethal neurotoxin as puffer fish are invading the East Coast

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Moon Hough is an Airbnb owner whose property is about 30 minutes from Nairobi, the capital of Kenya.</li><li>Hough's property is built from reused shipping containers, and guests can see resident wildlife.</li></ul>This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Moon Hough, an Airbnb owner in Kenya. It has been edited for length and clarity. A few years ago, when I was 25 years old, my husband and I bought the land our <a href="https://affiliate.insider.com?h=f7876cf725b3981596e6b5b6709ca62b402336f7073f6f06dcdaef0a27e6d39d&amp;postID=64022df9507e5b49e4769ec4&amp;site=bi&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.airbnb.com%2Frooms%2F42886495%3Fsource_impression_id%3Dp3_1664481605_GA%252F0RXnx8R9TFSiq" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unique Airbnb</a> now sits on. It was about 30 minutes from Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. We weren't thinking of even building anything at first, because the land was remote, quiet, empty of people, and full of wildlife. When we did decide to build, we chose <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/man-renovated-old-shipping-container-into-spacious-house-2020-4">shipping containers</a> primarily because the area had no electricity or running water. If we had to add in all those amenities, there was no option of building a home on-site and staying within our budget of $20,000.<h2>We wanted to build something sustainable</h2>The <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/backcountry-containers-shipping-container-tiny-home-2020-5">shipping containers were reused</a> from a shipping company. They were "created" off-site in Nairobi's industrial area, where welders spent about two months cutting and shaping the three containers.Once ready, the shipping containers were moved by lorry into place. It was a scary experience — the containers were placed on concrete bollards, so they could hang off the cliff overlooking Rift Valley. <div type="image" title="Kenya Airbnb" height="1085" width="1447" msid="100898149" hostid="261" sizebytes="155642"></div><h2>By the end of the build, we'd either made everything ourselves or bought locally</h2>My husband loves learning from videos he sees on YouTube and applying what he learns. We employed experts for the more technical jobs, of course, like building the shipping containers.Meanwhile, I decorated the house only using designers from inside Kenya, which makes the residence feel homely and fun.<div type="image" title="Kenya Airbnb made from shipping containers living room" height="1143" width="1524" msid="100898152" hostid="261" sizebytes="164870"></div><h2>We decided to make the house into an Airbnb</h2>By 2019, my husband and I left Nairobi and opened our own <a href="https://safari-series.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tented safari camp</a> in the north of Kenya. We had planned to keep the container house as our Nairobi base, but three months later, we found ourselves in lockdown during COVID-19 and with no earnings for our new business. I thought about putting the home on Airbnb as a way of making some extra cash. The container house was 100 meters inside the<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/26/world/covid-kenya-surge-variant.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Nairobi lockdown zone</a>, and it was an instant success because of Nairobians who stuck inside the city found the space as an escape. Not to mention, its cool exteriors looked great on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/containerhousekenya/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instagram</a>. <h2>It's hugely fun to own and run this property</h2>I love how Nairobi's coolest come and stay in our property. We've had music videos filmed here, Kenya's elite party here, and fashion brands use it as a shoot location.The house is currently $160 per night and sleeps four people, and it's booked 25% to 60% per month (depending on seasonality). <div type="image" title="Kenya Airbnb made from shipping containers kitchen" height="1125" width="1500" msid="100898155" hostid="261" sizebytes="160542"></div><h2>Aside from the location, there's plenty for guests to enjoy </h2>Guests love my dog, Rangi, who lives at the house. There's the amazing deck and a stunning view with miles of emptiness and only the sound of cattle bells to wake you up. Guests can also play farmer during their stay by picking home-grown veggies in the garden, milking the goats on site, or collecting eggs from the chicken coop. They're surprised that we have so much wildlife still living near the house — a resident leopard can often be heard at night. <h2>I've been surprised by how expensive it is to run an Airbnb</h2>There's a lot of maintenance and things get broken in an Airbnb. Plus, I've made bigger changes in the years since opening it, like adding solar power for the house (although the fridge is still gas-powered). I also like to keep the house feeling fresh, so I add new items to it often, as we get a lot of repeat visitors. For example, I'm currently adding finds from the local mitumba (secondhand clothes market).<h2>Overall, having a unique Airbnb has been a great experience</h2>I love how Airbnb makes hosting so easy and makes you feel protected. I really value it the more I use the platform. One of the few drawbacks I've noticed, however, is the fees can be too high. This decreases my bookings, as it makes a decently priced getaway expensive. But this drawback hasn't prevented us from continuing to work with the platform. In fact, we've since moved on from containers to building a new Airbnb (at a different site) — this time out of <a href="http://www.instagram.com/cobhousekenya" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cob</a> (a mud mix) to take environmental housing to the next level.

I built an Airbnb in Kenya from old shipping containers and it was an instant success

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Thinx settled a lawsuit claiming its period product contained harmful chemicals called PFAS. </li><li>The company denied the claim. It is paying up to $5 million in reimbursements to customers.</li></ul>People who wear period-proof underwear made by Thinx might be questioning what's in their menstrual products. The company <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63337079/24/1/dickens-v-thinx-inc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">just settled</a> <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63337079/1/dickens-v-thinx-inc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a class-action lawsuit</a> that alleged the underwear contained long-lasting and potentially toxic chemicals called PFAS. Thinx has <a href="https://www.thinxunderwearsettlement.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denied the claims</a>, though the company has committed to paying up to $5 million in reimbursements to customers. But finding an unquestionably chemical-free replacement menstrual product may not be so easy. Some pads, tampons and <a href="https://www.mamavation.com/health/period-underwear-contaminated-pfas-chemicals.html">other brands of period underwear</a> may contain the same chemicals allegedly found in Thinx underwear, exposing an already sensitive area of the body to potential toxins. <h2>PFAS are chemicals that have been linked to cancer and pregnancy complications</h2>Research has linked the presence of PFAS in the body to various <a href="https://www.insider.com/pfas-forever-chemicals-takeout-boxes-linked-to-liver-disease-risk-2022-5">health harms</a>, including an increased risk of some cancers, high blood pressure, complications during pregnancy, and low birth weight.Some customers who wore Thinx claimed they developed other health problems affecting the area that came in contact with Thinx underwear: irregular menstrual cycles, urinary tract and yeast infections, and unexplained infertility, according to the <a href="https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/consumer-products/apparel/class-action-lawsuit-filed-against-thinx-period-proof-underwear/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">class-action suit</a> filed in California.In a statement to Insider, Felicia Macdonald, vice president of strategic communications and public affairs for Thinx wrote, "We can confirm that PFAS have never been part of our product design. We will continue to take measures to help ensure that PFAS are not added to our products." Macdonald added that the company denies the allegations made in the lawsuit.<h2>PFAS indicators have allegedly been detected in some popular pad and tampon brands</h2>The same chemicals allegedly found in Thinx underwear may be present in other sanitary pads, tampons and incontinence pads, according to reports by <a href="https://www.mamavation.com/beauty/pfas-tampons.html#Mamavation_Finds_Indications_of_PFAS_Forever_Chemicals_in_Tampons">Mamavation</a> and <a href="https://www.ehn.org/pfas-sanitary-pads-2658810347.html">Environmental Health News</a> that were published last year. Menstrual cups were not studied in the reports. The consumer studies, conducted at labs certified by the US Environment Protection Agency, tested 23 types of tampons and 46 pad products for fluorine, an indicator of PFAS. Five popular tampon brands and 22 types of pads — even some advertised as organic — were found to detectable levels of fluorine between 11 and 154 parts per million, which strongly suggests that PFAS are present, according to the report. However the Mamavation report pointed out that this does not mean PFAS were added deliberately to the products; sometimes PFAS can be introduced to a commercial product accidentally in the supply chain.Insider could not independently verify these reports. Some of the pads and tampons that reportedly included indications of PFAS include:<ul><li>Playtex SPORT Regular &amp; Super Tampons</li><li>Tampax Cardboard Applicator Unscented Tampons</li><li>Up &amp; Up Regular Tampons</li><li>Always No Feel Protection Thin Liners</li><li>Amazon Basics Daily Pantiliners Long Length</li></ul>A past Mamavation investigation also looked at <a href="https://www.mamavation.com/health/period-underwear-contaminated-pfas-chemicals.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PFAS indicators in period underwear</a> and found that in addition to Thinx, underwear from the brands Knix and Proof also contained fluorine. A representative of Knix wrote in an email to Insider: "We conduct regular testing for PFAS, and we have never intentionally added them to our products." The makers of the other period products mentioned above did not respond to Insider's requests for comment.<h2><div type="image" title="Tampons" height="2649" width="3532" msid="97263312" hostid="261" sizebytes="142134"></div></h2><h2>Some period products might be safer to use than others</h2>There are more than 9,000 types of PFAS, so it is impossible to say with certainty if any period product is truly PFAS-free.However, there were some brands that were found to have non-detectable levels of fluorine in the Mamavation consumer report. These included:<ul><li>Live Better Organic Cotton Pantiliners</li><li>Lola Ultra Thin Liners Made with 100% Organic Cotton</li><li>o.b. Organic 100% Organic cotton – regular</li><li>Seventh Generation Organic Cotton Tampons</li><li>Natracare Organic Tampons with applicator</li></ul><h2>Vaginas can be extra sensitive to chemicals</h2>It's still not entirely clear how much exposure to PFAS via the skin affects our health, and women's health advocates are calling for more research regarding PFAS in period products specifically.Period products are <a href="https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/facts-tampons-and-how-use-them-safely" target="_blank" rel="noopener">classified as medical devices</a> by the US Food and Drug Administration, meaning that they are not as heavily regulated as medications. However new laws in <a href="https://womensvoices.org/2021/10/20/nations-first-menstrual-products-disclosure-law-goes-into-effect-in-new-york/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York</a> and <a href="https://chemicalwatch.com/161003/california-governor-signs-bill-requiring-ingredient-disclosure-in-menstrual-products" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a> aim to increase transparency around what ingredients are used in pads, tampons, and other menstrual products."We already know that PFAS has the ability to impact almost every organ of the body," Linda Birnbaum, former director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, told Mamavation. "The vagina is an incredibly vascular area and dermal exposure is often higher there than in other places of the body."That's because it's not just PFAS that can affect your health. Period products containing fragrances, synthetic fibers, and other chemicals are also on the market, and have the potential to cause health issues.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Archaeologists recently found straight lines of 25 pits dating to around 8,000 years ago.</li><li>The Mesolithic pits contain animal bones, including those of an extinct species of cattle.</li></ul>The discovery of 25 large pits in Bedfordshire, England, created around 8,000 years ago, has surprised and excited archaeologists.Radiocarbon dating puts the pits during <a href="https://www.insider.com/the-prehistoric-paleo-diet-actually-did-include-cereals-2016-9">the Mesolithic period</a>, making the find "incredibly significant" because of the rarity of such sites in the UK, the <a href="https://www.mola.org.uk/blog/nationally-significant-prehistoric-site-uncovered-bedfordshire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Museum of London Archaeology</a>, which was involved in the study, said in a press release.The pits are arranged in straight lines, and a few contain animal bones with marks suggesting people ate them."While we know of other large and enigmatic pits dug by hunter-gatherers from elsewhere in Britain, including at Stonehenge, the Linmere pits are striking because of their number and the wide area they cover," Joshua Pollard, an archaeology professor at Southampton University, said in the release.<h2>Digging the pits took a lot of work</h2><a href="https://www.albionarchaeology.co.uk/news/2023-04-28-its-the-pits-or-is-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Albion Archaeology</a> found several of the pits in 2019, and MOLA archaeologists excavated more of them in 2021. The arrangement of the pits appears intentional, dug in several straight lines covering an area of up to about 1,600 feet.<div type="image" title="An archaeologist in an orange jumpsuit excavates an animal bone from a Mesolithic-period pit in Bedfordshire, England." height="1498" width="1998" msid="101524661" hostid="261" sizebytes="614662"></div>The pits measure between up to 16 feet wide and up to 6 feet deep. Some had rounded bottoms, while others were flat. Digging the holes would've required significant effort, the release said.Six of the pits contained about 400 fragments of animal bone, most of which belonged to a species of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/could-gene-editing-bring-back-aurochs-2016-3">wild cattle known as aurochs</a>, <a href="https://www.albionarchaeology.co.uk/news/2023-04-28-its-the-pits-or-is-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Albion Archaeology</a> said in a press release. Aurochs went extinct in the 1600s. The majority of the bones were distributed across two pits. Flint was found in two pits, as well. Red deer, roe deer, and pig bones were also found in the pits.While Mesolithic pits in France and other European countries are believed to have been dug as traps for animals, Pollard told Albion Archaeology that it's unlikely the ones in Bedfordshire served a similar purpose.Instead, the hunter-gatherer societies may have had a symbolic reason for constructing them, which may have been related to a nearby body of water, the Ouzel Brook.<h2>Similarities to Stonehenge pits</h2>In 2020, archaeologists found a series of similarly sized pits <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/stonehenge-origins-purpose-built-in-wales-moved-to-england-2021-2">near Stonehenge</a>, the 5,000-year-old stone monument, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/nov/23/new-tests-show-neolithic-pits-near-stonehenge-were-humanmade" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Guardian reported</a>.Though some experts said the holes were natural features, it was soon determined that they were human-made and dug around the time the monument was built.Two years later, an electromagnetic induction survey of the area around Stonehenge revealed thousands of pits, some of which were dated to 10,000 years ago, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-wiltshire-61408488" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the BBC reported</a>.The monument aligns with the sunrise's rays on the summer solstice, but the presence of the pits could indicate that Stonehenge held significance for millennia before its construction, Nick Snashall, an archaeologist with the Stonehenge and Avebury World Heritage Site, told the BBC.Ice sheets began disappearing during the Mesolithic period. Rising sea levels isolated Britain from Europe about 8,500 years ago, which is one reason why archaeologists are interested in studying the Bedfordshire site and learning more about the communities that lived in the area.The researchers at MOLA plan to investigate whether the Bedfordshire pits' arrangement coincides with the solstice or other celestial events. If so, it could suggest why the area held meaning for the people who dug them.

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