Saturday, November 18, 2023

From Jenna Orkin Trump’s radical second-term agenda would wield executive power in unprecedented ways Exporting US Fracked Gas Is Far Worse for the Climate Than Coal, Study Finds My totally radical, completely sure-fire plan to blanket the country with affordable homes and clean energy and mass transit — fast Facebook cofounder calls on Elon Musk to resign after Tesla CEO calls antisemitic tweet 'the actual truth' A Stanley cup appears to have survived a car fire in a TikTok video. A woman who went viral on TikTok after saying the ice in her insulated Stanley cup survived a car fire is being offered a new car by the bottle brand This study confirms the considerable health burden of infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the EU/EEA. It also highlights the increasing burden of these infections, with an exception in 2020 when the overall burden was estimated to decrease. Changes in annual burden estimates can be affected by changes in surveillance, or changes in healthcare practices, such as in 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic put pressure on all health services in EU/EEA countries. Part of the decrease in 2020 can also be explained by measures taken to control the spread of COVID-19, including changes in infection prevention and control, and changes in the patient mix in hospitals due to the different hospitalisation practice during the pandemic. Police escort Jewish students from ASU meeting after rocks thrown Cephalopods Have Passed a Cognitive Test Designed For Human Children How Osama bin Laden’s ‘Letter to America’ reached millions online MAGA Throws Its Weight Behind Tucker Carlson for VP

Thursday, November 16, 2023

From Jenna Orkin Scientists Say There May Have Been a Second Big Bang Panel finds 80 alleged abuse cases tied to WHO’s Congo work Viruses can prey on other viruses to replicate themselves and may hold the key to new antiviral therapies. South China Morning Post: China has beaten a global deadline, launching the world’s first next-generation internet service – more than 10 times faster than existing major routes – two years ahead of industry predictions. The backbone network – so called because it forms a principal data route between cities – can transmit data at 1.2 terabits (1,200 gigabits) per second between Beijing in the north, central China’s Wuhan and Guangzhou in the southern province of Guangdong. Most of the world’s internet backbone networks operate at just 100 gigabits per second. Even the United States only recently completed the transition to its fifth-generation Internet2 at 400 gigabits per second. A boom of ballot initiatives is reshaping this state’s democracy Scientists have discovered what may be the first ‘vampire’ virus Inside Hamas Terrorist Tunnel Under Rantisi Hospital in Gaza Trump's Fascistic Rhetoric What the Doomsayers Get Wrong About Deepfakes • As a surging blob of magma under an Iceland peninsula threatens to erupt, it is causing earthquake swarms and forcing evacuations. Police and protesters clash outside Democratic HQ during demonstration over the Israel-Hamas war