From Jenna Orkin

U.S., Chinese Planes Nearly Collide in South China Sea Scuffle

These Forgotten Nuclear Tunnel Borers Were Designed to Melt Tunnels Through the Earth

Why some scientists are throwing shade about glitter.

Once it's finally off your hands, where does that glitter go?

Senate investigators to probe tumult in Social Security watchdog division

This doctor prescribes ketamine to thousands online. It’s all legal.

How the marijuana ‘green rush’ fell apart

1. Putin took cancer drugs that warped decision-making on Ukraine, Danish intel says
2. Idaho student killings suspect once studied emotion around crimes
3. Why organic eggs are suddenly cheaper than conventional ones

4. Did we get Egyptian mummification totally wrong? It might have nothing to do with preserving the body after death, experts say.

 

From Jenna Orkin

Forced participation in religious activities to be classified as child abuse in Japan

Turkey Bets On Black Sea Gas To Slash Import Dependence

Gold buyers binge on biggest volumes for 55 years

Ukraine’s cities targeted in massive Russian missile attack, Belarus claims it was hit

The lawsuit comes a month after two anonymous women who accuse the late Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse filed civil lawsuits against JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank, claiming the big banks enabled and benefited financially from Epstein’s alleged sex trafficking operation.

Lawsuit Against Apple for Inequitable Results in Blood Oximeter

A Detailed Look at How We Age 

Inside the Ukrainian counteroffensive that shocked Putin and reshaped the war

District attorney in New York opens investigation into Rep.-elect George Santos

An Indian student activist spoke out about government discrimination. They demolished her house.

From Jenna Orkin

Facial Recognition Software - Didn't work for me at all. 

Visualizing 25 Years of Lithium Production, by Country

After years with little covid, videos show China is now getting hit hard

How fast is gravity, exactly?

Thanks to observations of gravitational waves, scientists were able to settle a longstanding debate over the speed of gravity.

Johnson & Johnson Files Lawsuit Against Mesothelioma Expert (She's one of the main doctors serving Ground Zero workers)

China Job Prospects, Income Confidence Plunge to New Lows

Police criticised for failing to solve one million thefts and burglaries

The end is nigh? Climate, nuclear crises spark fears of worst

Indonesian woman flogged 100 times for adultery, man gets 15 lashes

Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin announces he has ‘serious but curable form of cancer’

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Goldman Sachs to lay off up to 4,000 people

Meta Will Pay $725 Million to Settle Lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica Data Leak

As Pro-Union Sentiment Reaches a Fifty-Year High, U.S. Law Remains Pro-Management

The End of Netflix Password Sharing Is Nigh

Bill McKibben examines the immense promise—and potential perils—of the Inflation Reduction Act, 

Share of Americans living paycheck to paycheck rises to 63% — here’s how to get your finances back on track

Kosovo: Serbia puts troops on high alert over rising tensions

Japan to begin extracting rare earth metals from seabed in 2024

The US military is planning for a 'transformative' year in Asia as tensions with China continue to rise

A teacher facing an 'Armageddon of luggage' texted the phone numbers on tags to reunite holiday travelers with their missing bags

 

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China is losing its place as the center of the world's supply chains. Here are 5 places supply chains are going instead.

At least 25 dead in Buffalo’s worst blizzard in 50 years  As Egypt’s economic crisis deepens, an affordable meal is hard to find With forests in peril, she’s on a mission to save ‘mother trees’ Another Putin critic died after falling out of a window Taiwan extends mandatory military service to combat Chinese threat

Growing vaccine hesitancy fuels measles, chickenpox resurgence in U.S. Meet the covid super-dodgers Moorish Americans take over a rural gun range, sparking a strange showdown

 

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Creepy-crawly gel robots being trained to root out disease in body

China estimates 250mn people have caught Covid in 20 days

Researchers use quantum mechanics to see objects without looking at them

Vintage Diseases Making a Comeback

How to Make a Snowflake

Scientists say Arctic warming could be to blame for blasts of extreme cold

3 power substations vandalized in Washington state, over 14K lost power

A New Chat Bot Is a ‘Code Red’ for Google’s Search Business

Nearly 10,000 flights have been canceled or delayed so far this holiday weekend due to severe weather. Here are the 5 cities most plagued by delays and cancellations at the airport.

Record levels of snowfall in Japan leave 17 dead and 90 people injured, report says

 

From Jenna Orkin

As flu and RSV surge early in the season, how many children's hospital beds are free in your state?

Neuralink - Musk

People Isolated by COVID Suffer from Long COVID 

Humans Are Destroying Animals’ Ancestral Knowledge

Bighorn sheep and moose learn to migrate from one another. When they die, that generational know-how is not easily replaced.

Is climate change triggering extreme cold? The debate is super hot.

Nearly two years after the unprecedented attack on the U.S. Capitol, the House select committee investigating the events of January 6th has released its full report and recommendations for criminal charges against Donald Trump. The New Yorker is publishing the complete report, in partnership with Celadon Books. The edition contains a foreword by the magazine’s editor, David Remnick, and an epilogue by Representative Jamie Raskin, a member of the committee. Kathy Hochul Pushes New York’s Highest Court to the Right

The Devastating New History of the January 6th Insurrection

What Donald Trump’s Trial Might Look Like More than a million without power as frigid air overtakes eastern U.S.   Key findings from the Jan. 6 committee’s final report  Deep secrecy, high risk: How Zelensky’s improbable D.C. visit came together

From Jenna Orkin

China to track Covid-19 mutations through national hospital network

Afghanistan’s Taliban Ban All Education for Girls

The overall child homicide rate (per 100 000 children) has increased annually, on average 4.3% since 2013, with a precipitous rise from 2019 to 2020 (2019 rate, 2.2; 2020 rate, 2.8; overall increase of 27.7%). 

Volodymyr Zelensky’s Critical Visit to Washington

NYC universities pioneered long COVID studies. A look at what they know (and don't) years in.

39 PLA aircraft and 3 PLAN vessels around Taiwan were detected by 6 a.m.(UTC+8) today. R.O.C. Armed Forces have monitored the situation and tasked CAP aircraft, Navy vessels, and land-based missile systems to respond these activities.

China is likely seeing over a million COVID cases and 5,000 deaths a day, report says. But Beijing's official data is showing 7 deaths so far this week.

Putin said he wants the 'war' in Ukraine to end, acknowledging for the first time it's more than just a 'special military operation'

Millions of Americans will face 'life-threatening' cold that can cause frostbite within minutes as an arctic blast sweeps through over Christmas weekend

Google will soon kill the cookie, and 2023 will be the year to show whether the technology invented to replace it can save the ad industry's revenue

 

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Biden in newly surfaced video: Iran nuclear deal is "dead"

Ukraine to boost Belarus border defences as Putin meets Lukashenko

Russia's Oil Exports Collapsed Since G-7 Sanctions Began

China races to bolster health system as COVID surge sparks global concern

First ‘Vagina-on-a-Chip’ Will Help Researchers Test Drugs

“Since the fall of Roe, six months ago, at least sixty-six clinics in fifteen states have closed, limiting the choices of nearly twenty-two million women of reproductive age who reside in them,” Stephania Taladrid writes, in a moving and unsettling report from Texas about the distances that women must now go to obtain abortions. 

Wells Fargo to Pay $3.7 Billion Over Consumer Banking Violations

Adults are buying toys for themselves, and it’s the biggest source of growth for the industry

1. Why Musk, Bezos, and Gates are investing in brain implants

2. Our addiction to quick, cheap fashion is adding 101 million tons to landfills each year — and the holidays are only going to make it worse

From Jenna Orkin

Avian flu outbreak wipes out 50.54 mln U.S. birds, a record

Turkmenistan Is The Center Of A Geopolitical Tug Of War

The Era Of Cheap Oil Has Come To An End

This little-known bottleneck is blocking clean energy for millions

To protect lobstermen, spending bill may speed whales’ extinction, activists say INTIMATE PHOTOS BY ROOMBA VACUUMS LEAKED ONLINE The cryptocurrency-trading platform FTX billed itself to customers and investors as a bold break with the past, but, when it came to securing influence in Washington, the company followed the familiar playbook of donating extensively to lawmakers in both parties. The result, as John Cassidy explores in his latest column, was a proposed regulation structure for crypto co-sponsored by Democrats and Republicans that aligned closely with the industry’s preferences, and which some experts have argued would leave consumers at risk. “In a properly functioning political system,” Cassidy writes, “the collapse of FTX would generate a reckoning and a full-scale reconsideration of crypto policy.” But the lobby in D.C. for digital currency remains strong, even as the risks that crypto poses to the wider economy have never been clearer. “One vital imperative is to prevent future crypto disasters from spreading to the biggest banks and non-bank financial institutions,” he writes. “So far, we’ve been lucky.” 2022 in Review The Climate Changed Fast This Year, and Institutions Responded

 

9/11 health fund spending for ill responders left out of Congress budget deal as Schumer blames McConnell

Satellite images show Russia is growing its Arctic military bases, including ones near Europe, report says

 

From Jenna Orkin

COMEX: Silver Registered Ratio Falls to 11.1% – Lowest in 22 Years

El Paso mayor declares state of emergency over influx of migrants from Mexico border

Henry Kissinger

How to avoid another world war

Musk blamed a Twitter account for an alleged stalker. Police see no link.

Amid allegations at Juilliard, classical music leaders demand change

They Fought the Lawn. And the Lawn’s Done.

Everything in the Universe is Waves

Remote workers are blowing the whistle on the shady practices their companies are up to

Researchers find new biomorphs hidden within Peru's mysterious Nazca lines

Nike employees described 'sloppy drunk' men, witnessing oral sex, and requests to 'dress sexier' at work in newly unsealed surveys

 

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DeSantis reverses himself on coronavirus vaccines, moves to right of Trump

Ship in German ‘Titanic’ film sank, killing far more than the real one

Rice Farming with Fish

An unknown weed made spinach eaters hallucinate. The greens were recalled. Rare home movies show rural Jewish life before the Holocaust A Guided Audio Tour of the C.I.A. Museum

1. Amazon "saved the Ukrainian government" with suitcase-sized hard drives
2. Russian elites say Putin tricked them into backing war: report

3. Twitter users just voted for Elon Musk to step down as head of the company

   Elon Musk is cracking down on employees at Twitter. His fellow tech founders are thrilled.