iNaturalist works by crowdsourcing, by asking many, many people to work on the project. Some of the people who send information to iNaturalist are professional scientists and some are citizen scientists, ordinary people who want to help scientific projects. iNaturalist sends information to International Union for the Conservation of Nature and other projects that watch endangered animals and other populations. iNaturalist users can help park rangers and other people who work in forests find and identify invasive species, for example kudzu. According to one park ranger from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the United States, rangers usually already know an invasive plant is in their park, but iNaturalist and programs like it help them find out exactly where it is. Then they can gather people to remove it.
Parks, conservation programs and research teams in many countries have used iNaturalist, for example the United States, Canada and New Zealand.
Students at the University of California at Berkeley founded iNaturalist in 2008. It was a master's thesis project. Since 2014, the California Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society have run iNaturalist together.
People use their smart phones to look at or send information to iNaturalist, usually photographs. Then other users on the website figure out what the is in the picture.
In 2020, iNaturalist launched a smaller program called Seek. Users with Seek can point their phones at a plant or animal and the program will try to tell them its name. According to iNature's Tony Iwane, "Seek's machine-learning model is based entirely on observations from . . the iNaturalist community, so it's really the hard work of thousands and thousands of people on iNaturalist that enables Seek to function."
Prezi
Prezi is used by 50 million users and 80 % of Fortune Global 500 companies. The project was created in Budapest, and the very name "prezi" translated from Hungarian — abbreviated form of the word "presentation".
The Prezi project (or Prezi.com) was created with the help of Kitchen Budapest and Magyar Telekom. Immediately after launch, the company entered the international market.
During the first year, the company had virtually no funding. After 18 months in April 2009, Prezi launched in Budapest, and 5 months later opened an office in San Francisco. The founders of the company won a prize in the European competition of startups The Europas in the nomination "Best founder and co-founder of a startup". Among investors   — Sunstone Capital, TED Conferences and Accel Partners.
A Prezi iPhone app was launched in late 2012.
In March 2014, Prezi pledged $100M in free licenses to Title 1 schools as part of the Obama administration's ConnectED program
Prezi for Android was launched in 2015, and in June 2016.
Prezi is developed on Adobe Flash, Adobe AIR and Django, but since 2014 it is also possible to work on Javascript.
The product has become extremely popular in education systems and among universities. It is used, in particular, by The Guardian and the TED conference.
The company runs on the Freemium model, so free users should publish their presentations publicly on the Prezi website. There is a paid service that avoids this.
Prezi Viewer is a program designed for the iPad that allows you to view presentations created on the Prezi Desktop. Up to 10 users can participate in Prezi Collaborate at the same time.
The entertainment application Nutshell for iPhone allows you to glue photos into a comics with moving elements.
Nutshell creates a small square clip based on three images, which can then be posted to Instagram or Twitter.
Blackadder
Blackadder is a British sitcom that first broadcast on BBC1 between 1983 and 1989. There were four parts to the sitcom. All of them were set in different parts of history. All of the series starred Rowan Atkinson, as Edmund Blackadder; and Tony Robinson, as Baldrick. The four series were "The Blackadder", set at the end of the British Middle Ages; "Blackadder II", set in England during Queen Elizabeth I's rule; "Blackadder the Third", set during the British Regency; and "Blackadder Goes Forth", set during World War I.
"Blackadder Goes Forth" was at number 16 in the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes, which was a list made by the British Film Institute. "Blackadder" was at number 2 in the TV poll Britain's Best Sitcom in 2004. "Empire" magazine said it was the 9th-best television show of all time.
George Polk Awards
The George Polk Awards in Journalism are American journalism awards given every year by Long Island University in the U.S. state of New York. A writer for a PBS group blog named the awards as "one of only a couple of journalism prizes that means anything".
In 1949, Long Island University started the awards in memory of CBS journalist George Polk. Polk was murdered in 1948 while reporting on the Greek Civil War. In 2009, former "New York Times" editor John Darnton was named curator of the George Polk Awards.
Zombie Land Saga
In 2008, high school student Sakura Minamoto plans to become an idol. However, a truck kills her on the morning she goes to submit her application. Ten years later, Sakura is one of seven "legendary" girls from many parts of Japanese history who return as zombies in an idol group known as . They are brought back to life by a man who plans to revive Saga Prefecture.
Cygames announced the anime on July 5, 2018. On August 31, 2018, voice actor Mamoru Miyano announced the anime's cast members.
Crunchyroll streamed the Japanese version with English subtitles. Funimation simulcasted an English version of the anime.
A second season, titled "Zombie Land Saga Revenge", was announced on July 27, 2019.
The opening theme song is . The ending theme song is . Both songs are sung by Franchouchou (Kaede Hondo, Asami Tano, Risa Taneda, Maki Kawase, Rika Kinugawa, and Minami Tanaka).
The opening theme song, "Adabana Necromancy", charted at #13 in the Oricon Singles Chart on December 10, 2018. It charted at #1 in the Billboard Japan Download Songs chart on the same day.
One of the anime's characters, Lily Hoshikawa, is transgender. "Anime News Network" named the revelation of Lily's gender identity as "the [eighth] episode's biggest talking point". "The Daily Dot" named Lily as "trans Twitter’s latest role model".
"Zombie Land Saga" won the 2019 Tokyo Anime Awards Festival award for Animation of the Year.
A manga adaptation by Megumu Soramichi began on Cygames' "Cycomi" website on October 8, 2018. A stage adaptation, titled "Zombie Land Saga Stage de Do-n!", was scheduled for March 11 to 14, 2020. However, it was delayed to September 5 and 6 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
A special featuring Franchouchou and Dempagumi.inc, , aired on September 1, 2020.
A visual fan book, , was released on September 3, 2020. It has a collaboration song between the two idol groups, .
The Simpsons (season 2)
The 2nd season of "The Simpsons" first started showing on the Fox network from October 11, 1990 to July 11, 1991. It has 22 episodes. The season started with the episode "Bart Gets an "F"" and ended with "Blood Feud". The season was first put on DVD for Region 1 on August 6, 2002, Region 2 on July 8, 2002, and Region 4 on July 24, 2002. The season's executive producers were Matt Groening, James L. Brooks, and Sam Simon. They were the executive producers for the first season. The episode "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment" won a Primetime Emmy Award.