Sunday, June 11, 2023

From Jenna Orkin ExxonMobil: New Fracking Technology Can Double Oil Output Scientists are trying to find a mystery person in Ohio who has a new kind of COVID Kim Jong Un orders North Koreans to stop killing themselves after number of suicides skyrocketed Tokyo Electric Power Company started to send seawater from Monday afternoon into an underwater tunnel that has been built to release Fukushima nuclear contaminated water into the sea, Japan's public broadcaster NHK said on Tuesday. According to TEPCO, the tunnel will be filled with some 6,000 tons of seawater by around noon on Tuesday. The process was carried out secretly on Monday because Japan's unilateral decision of dumping more than 1.3 million metric tons of treated but still radioactive water into the ocean provoked consistent protests from neighboring countries, Pacific Island communities and civil society groups in the most affected prefectures such as Fukushima, Iwate and Miyagi. According to the Executive Director of the IEA, the most important factor for oil prices this year will be China’s economy and its oil demand. The Ukrainian offensive is beginning. David Petraeus is optimistic. The Bizarre True Story of The Nightmare Woman Haunting The Internet 4 kids who survived a plane crash in the Amazon have been found alive 40 days later 2 of Donald Trump's lawyers just quit A. G. Sulzberger on the Battles Within and Against the New York Times

Friday, June 02, 2023

From Jenna Orkin A catatonic woman awakened after 20 years. Her story may change psychiatry. New research suggests that a subset of patients with psychiatric conditions like schizophrenia may actually have autoimmune disease that attacks the brain. While COVID and RSV rates were decreasing this spring, a lesser-known virus was on the rise Ukraine says Russia again blocking Black Sea grain export deal American life expectancy is dropping — and it’s not all covid’s fault Can humans ever understand how animals think? Analysis Pipelines Regulation Mountain Valley Pipeline United States West Virginia Virginia Mountain Valley Pipeline debt deal undercuts U.S. governing values The judge assigned to hear Disney's lawsuit against Ron DeSantis just disqualified himself from the case because a 'third-degree' relative owns stock in the company. A Trump appointee will replace him. Was mass hysteria behind the mysterious case of 227 middle school students fainting last fall? The students were hundreds of miles apart. Drugs were blamed at first. But now, researchers believe the truth was far stranger: It was likely one of the first cases of mass hysteria spreading online. Twitter’s Top Content Moderation and Safety Executive Leaves Ella Irwin departed on a day when Elon Musk said Twitter employees erred in how they handled a documentary In the next few years, it is expected that artificial intelligence will have a significant impact on the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry. This technology has the potential to revolutionize the way that transactions are processed and verified, making the entire system more efficient and secure.