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The Venezuelan gang TdA has arrived in the U.S. 1,000 strong according to intelligence services. It's all part of the Biden-Harris border crisis and made worse by sanctuary cities. [...]
Douglas Hohman, a 22-year-old newly registered voter, said economic considerations are leading him to vote for former President Donald Trump in November. [...]
Americans are more impatient than ever-and it's affecting everything from our waistlines to our relationships. [...]
The election could come down to just a tiny number of voters in Pennsylvania. There are four things that might sway them and one of them is something Pennsylvanians won't soon forget. [...]
Springfield Ohio and the Two Americas [...]
Donald Trump and JD Vance's claims about Haitian immigrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio are baseless and deranged. But there is a political logic behind them. [...]
Since he became Kamala Harris's running mate, Tim Walz has attracted attention for his folksy charm, his life as a [...]
Four years ago, the historic Abraham Accords between the UAE, Bahrain, and Israel were signed on the White House lawn. Morocco and Sudan soon followed. In the midst of the extremely challenging COVID- [...]
It's certainly understandable that many millions of Americans have focused on Springfield, Ohio, after the debate between Donald Trump and [...]
Kamala Harris's debate performance didn't shift polls amid rising concerns over missile escalation and weak leadership. [...]
Each year the world produces around 400 million tonnes of plastic waste, much of it discarded after just a few minutes of use.Negotiators hope to reach the world's first treaty on plastic pollution this year, but across five very different countries, AFP found single-use plastic remains hugely popular as a cheap and convenient choice, illustrating the challenges ahead:BangkokOn a Bangkok street lined with food vendors, customers line up for Maliwan's famed traditional sweets. [...]
Conservationists at Persepolis, Iran's most iconic ancient site, are waging a delicate battle against an unlikely adversary: tiny but persistent lichens eroding the millennia-old monuments.The fight, which began years ago, is aimed at stopping the threat to the integrity of the site's structures and its intricate carvings from lichens, organisms that grow on surfaces like stone and can slowly break them down over time. [...]
Moroccan police pushed back hundreds of people on Sunday who headed towards the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, an AFP photographer said, after social media posts encouraged crossing attempts.Ceuta and its sister territory of Melilla, wedged on the North African kingdom's Mediterranean coast, have long been a magnet for irregular migrants, being the only European Union territories that share a land border with the African continent. [...]
Israeli police shot dead an attacker after he stabbed a border officer at a gate to Jerusalem's Old City on Sunday evening, police said.The attacker stabbed the border police officer near the Damascus Gate in the historic walls of the Old City."The stabbed officer was lightly wounded and was evacuated for medical treatment," the police said in a statement."Border Police officers engaged with the terrorist, neutralised him with gunfire, and concluded the attack swiftly," the police said. [...]
Hundreds of people marched through Paris on Sunday in support of women's rights and the opposition in Iran, two years after the death of Mahsa Amini sparked protests against the country's religious authorities.A 22-year-old Iranian Kurd, Amini died in custody after being arrested for allegedly violating the Islamic Republic's strict dress code for women.The march, organised by around 20 human rights associations, took place as 34 women began a hunger strike in a Tehran prison to mark the two-year anniversary of her death. [...]
Thirty-four women prisoners went on hunger strike in an Iranian prison Sunday to mark two years since protests erupted against clerical authorities, the foundation of Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi said."Today, on the 15th September 2024, 34 female political prisoners in Evin Prison have gone on a hunger strike in commemoration of the second anniversary of the 'Woman, Life, Freedom' movement and the killing of Mahsa (Jina) Amini," it said. [...]
A senior Hamas official told AFP on Sunday that the Palestinian Islamist movement had ample resources to continue fighting Israel despite losses sustained over more than 11 months of war in Gaza."The resistance has a high ability to continue," Osama Hamdan told AFP during an interview in Istanbul. "There were martyrs and there were sacrifices... but in return there was an accumulation of experiences and the recruitment of new generations into the resistance." [...]
Israel dropped leaflets over a Lebanon border village Sunday urging residents to leave, state-run media said, but Israel's military told AFP a brigade had taken the initiative without approval.It was the first time Israelis had told residents of south Lebanon to evacuate in 11 months of cross-border fire between Hezbollah and Israel over the Gaza war, triggered by Hezbollah ally Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel. [...]
Novelist Elias Khoury, one of Lebanon's most renowned writers and a fervent advocate of the Palestinian cause, died on Sunday from illness aged 76, sources close to his family told AFP.Khoury, who was born in 1948 to a Christian family in Beirut, died in the Lebanese capital where he had been hospitalised for months, the sources said. [...]
Iran's Chamran-1 satellite was reportedly put into orbit with a rocket that uses solid-state fuel in its third stage just a week after the IRGC sent short-range ballistic missiles to Russia for use in Ukraine. [...]
Iran's Chamran-1 satellite was reportedly put into orbit with a rocket that uses solid-state fuel in its third stage just a week after the IRGC sent short-range ballistic missiles to Russia for use in Ukraine. [...]
Iran's Chamran-1 satellite was reportedly put into orbit with a rocket that uses solid-state fuel in its third stage just a week after the IRGC sent short-range ballistic missiles to Russia for use in Ukraine. [...]
Pope Francis expressed his closeness Sunday to relatives of six Israeli hostages whose bodies were recovered from Gaza earlier this month, saying he had met the mother of one of them. The six were among about 251 hostages taken from southern Israel during Hamas's unprecedented October 7 attack, which triggered the ongoing war. Of them, 97 hostages are still held in the Gaza Strip, including 33 the Israeli military says are dead. [...]
A missile launched by Yemen's Hamas-aligned Huthi rebels hit central Israel on Sunday, a rare incident which caused no casualties but added to regional tensions nearly a year into the Gaza war.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Iran-backed Huthis will pay a "heavy price" for the attack, which started a fire and caused some damage near Tel Aviv, Israel's commercial hub. [...]
If they had tried to do this a few years ago, the group of Iraqi women enjoying a night out in Mosul would probably have risked severe punishment.The northern city was under the harsh rule of the Islamic State group until the jihadists were ousted from their last major Iraqi bastion in 2017.Seven years later, Mosul's streets truly come alive at nightfall, and residents are rediscovering the art of having a good time. [...]
Persecution of bereaved relatives. Impunity for perpetrators. Rampant executions and infighting among the opposition.A bleak picture confronts opponents of Iran's clerical authorities two years after a protest movement erupted that they hoped would be a turning point in the four-and-a-half-decade history of the Islamic republic. [...]
Thousands of people again took to the streets of Israel's main cities on Saturday in a bid to increase pressure on the government to secure the release of hostages in Gaza.Of 251 captives seized during Hamas's October 7 attack on southern Israel that triggered the ongoing war, 97 are still held in the Gaza Strip including 33 the Israeli military says are dead.Weekly rallies have sought to keep up pressure on the Israeli government, accused by critics of stalling on a deal to free the remaining hostages. [...]
Hezbollah's second-in-command warned on Saturday that an all-out war by Israel aimed at returning 100,000 displaced people to their homes in areas near the Lebanon border would displace "hundreds of thousands" more.Naim Qassem, number two in the Iran-backed Lebanese group, was speaking after Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said Israel was determined to restore security to its northern front.Gallant told Israeli troops last week that "we are preparing for anything that may happen in the north". [...]
A senior UN official said Saturday that teachers and other UN staff working in Gaza fear they are now targets after an Israeli air strike hit a school-turned-shelter in the territory this week.Wednesday's strike on the UN-run Al-Jawni School in central Gaza, which is housing displaced Palestinians, killed 18 people. including six employees of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA). It was the deadliest single incident for the agency in more than 11 months of war and drew international condemnation. [...]
Heavy fighting on Saturday shook a Sudanese city besieged by paramilitaries, witnesses told AFP, as US researchers reported unprecedented and escalating combat in the North Darfur state capital.El-Fasher is one of five state capitals in Sudan's western Darfur region and the only one not in the hands of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), who have been battling the regular army since April 2023. [...]
Charles Gasparino, New York Post Jamie Dimon fashions himself the "least woke person you will ever meet," his colleagues say. [...]
Jeff Sommer, The New York Times Nvidia designs most of the advanced chips that power artificial intelligence, and that has made it an earnings machine, producing astonishing profits that have [...]
Market Minder, Fisher What do Defense stocks, IPOs and stock index charts have in common? You asked us about them! [...]
Rachel Cohen, Vox Factory-built housing, ADUs, and community land trusts — all at once. [...]
Tim Carney, Washington Examiner Democrats like to attack Republican states for having too many old people and not enough rich people. [...]
Sean Rushton, Asia Times Former president Donald Trump has talked a lot about inflation in his presidential campaign. Moreover, his campaign has spoken about the importance of [...]
Alexander Salter, RealClearMarkets Vice President Kamala Harris's [...]
Chris Brennan, USA TODAY Swing voters from both parties don't like Project 2025. But they come at it from different directions. [...]
Mark Dittli, The Market Marko Papic, Chief Strategist at BCA Research, talks about the risk of a bond riot in the US, scenarios for the presidential election, and the most attractive investment [...]
Jon Decker, RealClearMarkets Chevron recently announced that it is moving out of California after almost a century and a half in the state. No wonder, since Sacramento sued the company, [...]
Editorial, Issues & Insights We have to "fix individualism" if we're to stop climate change. In other words, we have to surrender to the yoke of the collective. [...]
Roben Farzad, BusinessWeek September is that cruelest month for the stock market. It's the only month that has dropped on average since the Roaring Twenties. Come Monday night, when Wall [...]
Donald Lambro, Washington Times Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has to do two things really well at his convention: Lay out in dramatic terms how bad the Obama economy is and [...]
Carla Fried, CNNMoney Income-starved investors looking to amp up their portfolios have been turning to foreign bonds -- for obvious reasons. The 4.2% payout on the average foreign [...]
Ezra Klein, WonkBlog I see that the Republican convention will feature a debt clock ticking away behind the speakers. It will also, as I understand it, consist entirely of speakers who [...]
R. Ponnuru, Bloomberg While the Romney and Obama camps have made increasingly bitter accusations about each otherâ??s plans for Medicare, a bipartisan consensus on entitlements has emerged [...]
Rick Newman, US News By now, everybody knows what's wrong with the economy: There aren't enough jobs, Europe is stuck in a financial quagmire and Washington is playing chicken with tax and [...]
Doug Schoen, Forbes It's a testament to how bad the American employment market has gotten that the most recent jobs report was met with applause. The Labor Department's July jobs figures [...]
Jason Ma, IBD Corporations are scaling back investment, hiring and inventories ahead of steep year-end tax hikes and spending cuts, the most concrete sign to date that uncertainty over the [...]
For people driving an electric vehicle in the U.S., there’s good news and bad news. The good news is that companies are building more and more chargers, meaning that it’s easier and easier to find a place to refill your battery close to home. The bad news? Just because a charging station exists doesn’t mean […] The post Repairing Broken EV Chargers Is a Growing Industry appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
How well do you hold up under pressure? Some people claim to thrive on it; for most of us, though, raising the stakes can also raise the likelihood of making a mistake in a big way. This can play out in a variety of settings, from work or home life to professional sports and quiz […] The post Exploring the Science Behind Making Mistakes Under Pressure appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
In October, automotive enthusiasts will descend on central Arizona for Barrett-Jackson’s Scottsdale Fall Auction, set to run from October 10-13. Among the cars set to be featured at the event are a 1966 Shelby 50th Anniversary GT40 MKII and a 1970 Ford Mustang Mach 1 Twister Special. Classic vehicles won’t be all that’s up for […] The post A Piece of Cadillac EV History Is Heading to Auction appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
There’s a long history of professional athletes making a splash on the big (or small) screen. Jim Brown’s long career as an actor is one example; more recently, John David Washington and Wyatt Russell have made that career change seamlessly. There’s also a long history of athletes testing their onscreen charisma via an appearance hosting […] The post “Mr. Throwback” Is Just the Beginning of Steph Curry’s Acting Career appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
It’s a nightmare for any journalist: doing your job, breaking a huge story — and then facing a lawsuit over the revelations your work has turned up. In the case of Ben Rothenberg, that involves reporting on allegations of domestic violence made against Alexander Zverev, recently seen in the quarter-finals of this year’s U.S. Open. […] The post Tennis Star Sues Journalist Over Domestic Violence Reporting appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
One of the big retail stories in the last decade has been the rise of companies like Shein and Temu. Both based in China, the retailers have found a growing following for their low-priced goods and affordable shipping, though that hasn’t come without some criticism — including a legal feud between the two companies. Their […] The post New Government Policy Could Change the Way You Buy Clothes Online appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
There was a presidential debate this week, an event that Bill Maher would compare to a cockfight on this week’s Real Time. For a show with politics on its mind, you might think that the debate would be at the center of most of the latest episode’s discussions — but instead, a combination of current […] The post A Post-Debate “Real Time” Had Surveillance on its Mind appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
When it comes to high-profile auctions of high-end items, Christie’s is one of the biggest names out there. Depending on the event, you can bid on everything from works of art to sports memorabilia to noteworthy watches. Now, the company is set to make a big splash in the automotive world via the acquisition of […] The post Christie’s Is Getting Back Into the Car Auction World in a Big Way appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Consider the glass bottle. While it might seem ubiquitous — in part because it is — creating one is a more delicate balance than you might think. How do you find the right middle ground between a bottle that’s durable enough to withstand being transported while also being light enough that picking it up doesn’t […] The post How Do You Make a Glass Bottle Lighter? Ask Johnnie Walker. appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
“Just hold on and you’re goin’ home!” Jovy yells. We don’t always have a finisher, but today we do — everyone is instructed to grab two extremely heavy weights, one for each hand, and stand in place, farmer’s carry-style, scapulae set back, for two minutes. If the dumbbells slip out of your hands, the whole […] The post How Aussie “Squad Training” Became the Hottest Thing in Fitness appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Having a functional internet connection while flying has become more and more important for travelers. It isn’t just about being able to check email or watch a movie; having a working internet connection is crucial for anyone planning to get work done while in transit. Trouble is, in-flight wifi isn’t always as reliable as its […] The post United Teams With Starlink for Free In-Flight Wifi appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Each week, our inbox runneth over with news of gear, apparel and tech releases from around the world. In this feature, we’ll parse through the best of it. Today: Sporty & Rich drops a collab of the year with ’47 bringing us delicious Yankees merch, Dr. Martens grace us with more fall-centric staple shoes and […] The post Products of the Week: Dr. Martens, Filson Jackets and Yankees Apparel appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
When it comes to wellness, we say the more ways to relax, rejuvenate and increase our mental and physical wellbeing the better. That’s why when we heard an entire island dedicated to luxury wellness was coming to the United Arab Emirates, we perked up. In true UAE fashion, and as the land of glitz, glamor […] The post An Entire Man-Made Island Dedicated to Wellness Is Coming to the UAE appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Top-hatted doormen, afternoon tea and sparkling chandeliers are the hallmarks of a luxury stay in London. And while the British capital has always been a go-to for the glitterati, its hotel scene has gotten even swankier over the past few years. In 2023, the city saw a huge influx of new hotels, opening close to […] The post I Stayed in 15 London Hotels in 30 Days. These Are My Favorites. appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
On Sunday night, the 76th Primetime Emmys will honor the best in television, and if you’re making wagers, you’d be wise to put your money on The Bear. The chef-centered show is nominated for a whopping 23 awards this year, setting a new record for the most nominations for a comedy series in a single […] The post The Emmys Have a Category Problem appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
The history of America is a story of immigration, with lapping waves of hopeful newcomers bringing with them not only their dreams and aspirations, but also the flavors, aromas and recipes that defined the essence of their homelands. Common misconception might dictate that the immigrant enclaves which have formed (and continue to evolve) are solely […] The post The United States of Diaspora appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
I was never a huge CBD user, that was until my anxiety started to creep in before bedtime. I am generally cautious when it comes to taking sleep supplements, because sleep is a pretty sacred and automated process you don’t want to mess with if you don’t absolutely have to. I’ve had the privilege of […] The post Cornbread Hemp CBD Is for the Label-Conscious Buyer appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
When it comes to gardening, timing is everything. If you live in the northern part of the U.S., October is the perfect time to prepare your yard for winter and next year to come. (But your window is closing, because you need to act before the frost.) For the rest of the continental U.S., you’ve […] The post The Fall Gardening Essentials You Need to Prep and Future-Proof Your Yard appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
I love wine tourism. There are few better ways to get to know a place than through their vines, which are ultimately defined by the climate, soil, winemaking traditions and producers who are working so hard to shine a light on the bounty of the region. In 2022, I had the pleasure of visiting AOP […] The post The Magic of France’s Most Vibrant Wine Scene Is Coming to NYC appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
American closets have been defined by their steadfast embrace of blue jeans for over a century, but have we finally reached peak denim? That’s a question keeping certain players in the fashion industry up at night as a new item looks to become the garment of the century: sweatpants. Yes, sweatpants. Their proliferation has been […] The post How Sweatpants Became the Jeans of the 21st Century appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Staff, Kansas City Star Kansas City's heritage includes numerous historical trails and sites scattered throughout the region, many of which are being commemorated or restored. Other [...]
Ratha Tep, HISTORY The Tyrannosaurus rex fossil known as Sue carries a controversial past—and has revealed fearsome facts about its species. [...]
Mike Cote, Providence Magazine The 1970s were a tumultuous and negative decade for the United States. It saw a rise in political violence, from assassination attempts to terrorist [...]
Owen Rust, TheCollector Some US presidential elections are rather calm and predictable, while others cause outrage and soul-searching. Here's a look at the eight most divisive in the nation's [...]
Kristine De Abreu, Explorersweb In 1820, a valuable cargo was en route to Mexico. Along the way, the treasure was stolen and buried somewhere in the jungle, it remains there to this day. [...]
Vishwam Sankaran, The Independent Romans launched brutal attack, capturing hilltop fortress within few weeks, researchers say [...]
Eshete Bekele, Deutsche Welle Haile Selassie, Ethiopia's former emperor, was dethroned 50 years ago. The king, who befriended leaders in the US, Europe and China, left a mixed legacy in his [...]
E. Wilkinson, king5.com Ralph Henry Keil died during the 1941 attack, but his remains were unidentified for nearly 80 years. [...]
Katie Shepherd, Washington Post The 58-foot-long bronze sculpture follows the story of an unnamed World War I soldier, beginning on the day he takes his helmet from his daughter's hands and [...]
Eric Tucker, ABC News A top U_S_ government codebreaker who decrypted secret Soviet communications during the Cold War concluded that Ethel Rosenberg knew about her husband's activities but [...]
Barry M. Mitnick, Time A 19th century definition of 'character' had more to do with strength than integrity. [...]
Michael Arditti, The Spectator Three-and-a-half miles south-west of Nuremberg in the small town of Stein stands the Schloss Faber-Castell, a 19th-century neo-Renaissance castle built for a [...]
Michael Scanlon, SSRN This is a near-author's cut of an essay entitled "Odysseus Lost" that was published by Chronicles on January 26, 2024. The Chronicles version, which benefited f [...]
Andrew J. Bacevich, New York Times An implicit question haunts this illuminating and richly detailed memoir by Michael G. Vickers, the senior intelligence official at the center of [...]
Sean Durns, Washington Examiner "Someday science may have the existence of mankind in its power," the American intellectual Henry Adams wrote in 1862, "and the human race commit suicide, [...]
Jonathan Jarry, McGill University Did Nazis love yoga? That is the provocative title of one chapter in the recently published book Conspirituality: How New Age [...]
Reuters History buffs will be able to stroll close to the spot where legend says Julius Caesar met his bloody end, when Rome authorities open a new walkway on the ancient site on [...]
Hannah Osborne, Live Science A giant predator that lived 240 million years ago was decapitated with a single, brutal bite from a deadlier creature, scientists have said. [...]
Christine Chung, New York Times A submersible craft carrying five people in the area of the Titanic wreck in the North Atlantic has been missing since Sunday, setting off a search and [...]
Agence France-Presse MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Uruguay will melt down a bronze eagle found on a sunken World War II-era German destroyer off its coast 13 years ago, and recast it as a dove [...]
The SWGO Collaboration (SWGO stands for Southern Wide-Field Gamma Observatory) met this week in Heidelberg, hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (MPIK) to discuss progress in the many activities that its members are carrying forward to prepare for the finalization of the design of the observatory and the following construction phase. As a member of the collaboration I could learn of many new developments in detail, but I cannot discuss them here as they are work in progress by my colleagues. What I can do here, however, is to describe the observatory as we would like to build [...]
Dry eye disease is a chronic condition estimated to affect around 360 million people. Common symptoms include uncomfortable, red, scratchy or irritated eyes.Anecdotal claims are that laughter therapy alleviates depression, anxiety, stress, and chronic pain, while strengthening immune function but if you have clinical depression, please don't limit yourself to people saying you need to smile more and get scientific help. Laughter therapy for dry eye disease is a much less risky proposition.read more [...]
Getting enough sleep is correlated to brain and heart health and after a stroke that is even more important. A new survey finds that is when people who need it are least likely to get it. A cohort of 39,559 people were asked every two years how much sleep they usually get at night on weekdays or workdays. Sleep duration was divided into three categories: short, less than six hours; normal, six to eight hours; and long, eight or more hours of sleep. The group included 1,572 people who had a stroke.Image: Storyblocksread more [...]
A health data simulation has concluded that a single dose of the Modified vaccinia Ankara-Bavarian Nordic (MVA-BN) was 58% effective in protecting again mpox infection, a disease caused by infection with the Monkeypox virus, which is most likely in men who have sex with men and which causes a rash, along with other symptoms. read more [...]
The Biden-Harris administration is under fire from Native-American and agriculture groups for repeating a food shortage fiasco that also occurred during the Obama-Biden administration.The United States Department of Agriculture met with tribal leaders earlier this year and said they were switching to a single warehouse and sole contractor. Native leaders, concerned about a repeat of 2014, protested but USDA went ahead and food shortages, canceled food deliveries, and deliveries of expired products occurred starting in April.Stacy Dean, Deputy Under Secretary of Agriculture for the Federal Nutrition Program read more [...]
The neurons in our brains are protected by an insulating layer called myelin. In diseases like multiple sclerosis, this protective layer is damaged and lost, leading to death of neurons and gradual disability.read more [...]
Researchers in Scientific Reports are claiming the first non-human instance of an animal possessing some mental states (e.g., mental body image, standards, intentions, goals), which are elements of private self-awareness.They show that Labroides dimidiatus (bluestreak cleaner wrasse) checked their body size in a mirror before choosing whether to attack fish that were slightly larger or smaller than themselves. The authors say the cleaner wrasse’s behavior of going to look in the mirror installed in a tank when necessary indicated the possibility that the fish were using the mirror to check their own body size against that of other fish and predict the [...]
Inquiry-based learning is at the heart of the controversial read more [...]
In 1929, an experiment with 28 barley varieties showed why barley, one of the world’s most important cereal crops for at least 12,000 years, has been so adaptable, growing everywhere from Norway to the mountains of South America, and why that means the future remains bright for whiskey and beer.In most cases, random changes to DNA allowed it to survive in each new location so scientists nearly 100 years ago set out to discover the genes that changed to predict which varieties will thrive in which places. Modern work is highlighting for media its implications in a world of future climate [...]
Nippon Shinyaku Co., Ltd. has received rare pediatric disease designation for NS-050/NCNP-03, being developed for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (Duchenne). The FDA's rare pediatric disease designation is for treatments of serious or life-threatening diseases in children where there are fewer than 200,000 patients in the United States.read more [...]
Influences buoyed by epidemiological claims about gimmick diets can make fitness intimidating but ignore them. Even if you don't lose weight, if you exercise your belly fat is still going to be healthier than someone who does nothing.It just takes some consistency. read more [...]
Prior to the takeover of environmentalism by Earth Day's overt communist malcontents (1) it was devoted to clean water and neighborhoods in cities, where the poorest lived.To get attention and money from other wealthy elites, it pivoted to rural rivers and streams and minorities were marginalized in the rush to control government that would control conservation and "endangered" species(2) and clean water for people of colors stopped being important.read more [...]
If your theory of everything has tensors set equal to scalars then it is wrong. Simply put, a scalar is a single number that is widely recognized. A vector consists of 3-4 numbers arranged in a specific sequence, typically representing coordinates and time. A tensor is an array of these numbers in a 3x3 or 4x4 matrix. There are nuanced details to this; for instance, in certain complex scenarios, a set of numbers can be defined where scalars are represented as pairs of numbers, like complex numbers in the form of a+bi. However, to maintain simplicity, we will not delve into [...]
American health care is expensive as are drugs. Both are due to government involvement. If a company is forced to spend 10 years and a billion extra dollars in clinical trials that don't improve safety, they are just placebos so government can say they held companies "accountable", that raises costs for everyone.Other countries exploit America that way. They wait until the costs are incurred and approval is set in the US, and then tell the company they can only sell in that country for less. The company has to get its biggest profit in the country that made the success [...]
Robots have a 200-year-old problem: motors. Even walking robots feature arms and legs that are powered by motors and that is a barrier to helping the living but a new muscle-powered robotic leg can jump and move and fast while detecting and reacting to obstacles. read more [...]
While the Biden administration brags about the stock market gains for its voters - and he is smart to do so, nearly 80% of America's wealthiest counties vote Democrat - the less fortunate are feeling the impact of a $4 trillion stimulus plan that was great for government workers but just caused inflation to spike upward for everyone else. Food, for example, is up 44% since Biden took office.read more [...]
I will start this brief post with a disclaimer - I am not a nuclear physicist (rather, I am a lesser being, a sub-nuclear physicist). Jokes aside, my understanding and knowledge of the dynamics of high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions and the phases of matter that can exist at those very high densities and temperatures is overall quite poor. read more [...]
There are about 3X as many white women as black in the US but white women get 8X as much for donated eggs and Diane M. Tober in "Eggonomics" suggests wealthy people looking for specific traits has gotten to the point of being eugenics.read more [...]
The Biden administration is in its waning days, but he is not letting up on his breathtaking levels of social authoritarianism. It's not bad enough that the average age of the young people who put men on the moon and World War II are no longer adult enough to be off mommy's health insurance, he has now declared that if they buy pipe tobacco they are at risk for cancer. Or becoming a hobbit.So if you are under age 30, get ready to show ID. It is federal law and one more thing store clerks have to obey government about.read [...]
One way to groom people into a social authoritarian, centralized government mindset is to keep them in a panic about everything. Then you give everyone a diagnosis and tell them it's not their fault. Using his agencies, President Biden has done a lot to erode confidence in government science and health. He bizarrely tried to use CDC to create nationwide rent control, he got EPA epidemiologists to hijack ponds on family farms under the pretense that they were "navigable waters of the United States", the list goes on.read more [...]