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BBC
Olympics opening ceremony wows rain-soaked Paris crowds: The 2024 Olympics opens with teams parading along the River Seine in boats and performances from Celine Dion and Lady Gaga.
Spectacular photos from the Paris 2024 opening ceremony: A selection of eye-catching moments from the opening ceremony for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
Celine Dion makes stirring comeback at Olympics: It's the superstar singer's first performance since revealing a serious health condition two years ago.
Who could have attacked France's high-speed rail?: France's interior minister vows the attackers will be arrested fast, but does not say who was to blame.

CBC
One-third of structures in Jasper, Alta., damaged by massive wildfire:

Community rallies around 7-year-old Saskatoon girl robbed of cash, candy at lemonade stand:

Madison Vanden Dungen's week started sour and ended sweet.

What happens to Jasper's animals when wildfire rips through their home?:

Thousands of people have fled the raging wildfires that ripped through Jasper National Park and its town this week. But what about the parks' wild residents, such as caribou and elk? Here's how conservationists think they'll fare.

New York Times Science
NASA Moves Toward Boeing Starliner Return to Restore Space Station Traffic: With the Falcon 9 rocket set to fly again, and testing of the Starliner capsule progressing, the agency is seeking to turn the page on a brief, troubled chapter in orbit.

AlphaProof, a New A.I. from Google DeepMind, Scores Big at the International Math Olympiad: A.I. is getting good at math — and might soon make a worthy collaborator for humans.

The Chimps Who Learned to Say ‘Mama’: Old recordings show captive chimps uttering the word, which some scientists believe may offer clues to the origins of human speech.

Championship Snail Racing at 0.006 M.P.H.: Last one to the finish line is a miserable slug.


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The oldest known human art is also the oldest known human attempt to record Nature.  This painting is 34,000 years old and was found in the Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave, which is the subject of Werner Herzog’s film: Cave of Forgotten Dreams. Herzog used a 3D camera to capture how the shapes of the walls were incorporated into the paintings.

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