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Ig Nobel prizes 2024: The surprising science that gained this 12 months New Scientist (Micael T)
Gorillas self-medicate with vegetation. We might quickly use them for our personal drugs ZMEScience (Dr. Kevin)
How the world’s smelliest fruit is making espresso dearer BBC (Robin Ok). Durian is meant to be delish. You see large piles of them in out of doors markets. so that they must promote nicely.
Skyscraper Tsunami Unleashed by Seismic Anomaly By no means Seen Earlier than Science Alert (Chuck L)
‘All good right here’: Final messages revealed from Titan submersible earlier than implosion: Coast Guard ABC (Kevin W)
Why You Can By no means Tune a Piano Open Tradition (Micael T)
Why Are Bands Mysteriously Disappearing? YouTube (Micael T)
Most cancers, the Grasp of Hijacking Eric Topol (Robin Ok)
#COVID-19
The Berkeley Repertory Theatre (Bay Space, CA) has necessary masked occasions on Sundays and Tuesdays.
That is inclusiveness. That is neighborhood care.
Weak folks need to expertise life, too. pic.twitter.com/ZPDD9ER4IO
— Covid Warning KP.2 + KP.3 + KP.3.1.1. + LB.1 (@CovidCaution) September 16, 2024
Actually, I’ve completely no thought how one can genuinely take a look at this graph and never perceive that ongoing waves of fixed repeat covid an infection are a principal trigger of the particular devastating enhance in long run incapacity.
How can folks be in such staggering denial? pic.twitter.com/6vxCQiDJy1— tern (@1goodtern) September 17, 2024
Local weather/Surroundings
London noticed a stunning profit to fining high-polluting vehicles: Extra lively children Grist
It took 50,000 gallons of water to place out Tesla Semi hearth in California, US company says Related Press (Kevin W)
As feared, Storm Boris is wreaking havoc throughout components of Central Europe with main flooding turning into widespread all through the area. Right here’s a 50-hour seen satellite tv for pc and radar loop courtesy of @zoom_earth pic.twitter.com/F9KRA2SKeO
— Nahel Belgherze (@WxNB_) September 15, 2024
Heavy flooding in central Europe has international locations search EU help, funds Euractiv
This can be a follow-up to the evaluation I shared final week on the profitability of the Chinese language NEV sector.
This time I centered on EV sector profitability within the U.S. pic.twitter.com/ALRKBrUTiS
— Glenn (@GlennLuk) September 15, 2024
AI ‘accelerating’ local weather disaster, makes use of 30 instances extra vitality than search engine: analyst South China Morning Submit
Local weather protesters block Dutch freeway whereas police strike Reuters
China?
China wants ‘bazooka stimulus’ to hit progress goal as financial system slows throughout the board Fortune
Decreasing charges has failed to spice up borrowing, as seen from a continued fall in excellent mortgage progress.
As @ChinaBeigeBook‘s August report concluded, “Beijing’s makes an attempt at coverage easing are doing little or no good for the financial system.”https://t.co/jbSUDMDRl7 pic.twitter.com/ftgdrN4Hpk
— Shehzad Qazi (@shehzadhqazi) September 16, 2024
China’s Fading Starvation for Grain Spells Hassle for World Farmers Bloomberg
Japan
Japan’s religion in US eroded by impolitic election rhetoric Asia Instances (Kevin W)
Down Below
Albanese has a second likelihood with AUKUS Pearls and Irritations (Kevin W)
Africa
Sudanese metropolis pounded as analysts report ‘unprecedented’ fight New Arab
Briton and People amongst 37 given demise sentence over DRC coup try Guardian
May Egypt and Ethiopia’s tensions escalate right into a struggle? DW
South of the Border
In Honduras, Libertarians and Authorized Claims Threaten to Bankrupt a Nation Inside Local weather Information
European Disunion
German Border Checks Take Impact as Tensions Over Migration Rise Bloomberg
Dresden bridge collapse symbolises German decay Unherd
Really terribly highly effective interview of Dominique de Villepin, former Prime Minister of France, on Gaza.
I can not stress sufficient how uncommon it’s to listen to a former French PM communicate like this.
He says France “now not has a voice on the worldwide scene”, as a result of (amongst different… pic.twitter.com/JFr7ZBCcHf
— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) September 13, 2024
Previous Blighty
Starmer beneath stress to distance UK from Italy’s hard-right immigration plans Guardian (Kevin W)
‘Our winter gas fee goes into the vacation kitty’ BBC (Kevin W)
Gaza
⚡️ ⭕️ #Lebanon, Hezbollah: Abstract of 12 operations in opposition to the positions and deployment of the #Israeli enemy military on the Lebanese-Palestinian border on Sunday 09-15-2024, based on the next:
1- Focusing on the headquarters of the armored battalions of the 188th Brigade… pic.twitter.com/lq7cvfNMyr
— Center East Observer (@ME_Observer_) September 15, 2024
New launch @NRC_Norway and 14 help orgs: “83% of required meals help doesn’t make it into Gaza, up from 34% in 2023. This discount means folks in Gaza have gone from having a median of two meals a day to only one meal each different day.” The intensification of hunger pic.twitter.com/4G6vjDXsYp
— Nicola Perugini (@PeruginiNic) September 17, 2024
The tents of displaced households alongside the seaside of central Gaza are being swallowed by rising waves, whereas the world drowns in its personal silence, detached to their struggling. pic.twitter.com/fEpKX6s3BP
— Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده (@RamAbdu) September 15, 2024
Hamas official says regardless of struggle losses, terror group has recruited ‘new generations Instances of Israel
New Not-So-Chilly Battle
Tons of of 1000’s of Ukrainians overseas reportedly need to surrender their citizenship Overton through machine translation (Micael T)
NATO Secretary Basic drops bomblets on method out the door Accountable Statecraft (Kevin W)
Ukraine struggle turns into Russian roulette Indian Punchline (Kevin W)
Seventy-two minutes to finish the world George Galloway, YouTube. Ritter could be excitable however he has sources….
US Provoked the 1979 Russian Invasion of Afghanistan: Parallel to the Ukraine Battle? Antiwar.com (Kevin W)
Imperial Collapse Watch
Canadian army admits new sleeping luggage aren’t suited to Canadian winters Guardian (Kevin W). Overly aggressive world warming estimates?
Bloomberg assessed chance of civil unrest in 20 largest economies in world… The US ranks third MSN
The Crumbling Nuclear Order International Affairs
BREAKING: A large pipeline hearth taking pictures a towering pillar of flame over suburban Houston, Texas
— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) September 16, 2024
Second Trump Assassination Try
Would-be Trump murderer exploited safety gap that Secret Service has identified about for years — and the images show it New York Submit
BREAKING: Meta has already scrubbed the Fb web page of the can be Trump Murderer Ryan Routh.
Watch it disappear in actual time: pic.twitter.com/nIhlsvJjMt
— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) September 15, 2024
Kamala
CNN’s Harry Enten Warns Harris At the moment In Polling ‘Hazard Zone’ pic.twitter.com/PmJrdZORV7
— Each day Caller (@DailyCaller) September 16, 2024
Kamala Harris helped shut down Backpage.com. Intercourse staff are nonetheless feeling the fallout. Politico
2024
Inflation has slowed, however the financial system stays a giant challenge for voters in choosing a president Kansas Reflector (Robin Ok)
Pennsylvania court docket rejects Cornel West’s bid to get on poll and clears method for mail voting Related Press
Police State Watch
This Is What Occurs When We Flood the Subway System With Police Intercept
Our No Longer Free Press
Some Fact Bombs On the UN Craig Murray
Lawsuit Takes on Federal Marketing campaign to Silence Vaccine Damage Claims Reclaim the Internet (Micael T)
So now @elonmusk and his platform have seemingly:
1) Deleted Ryan Routh’s account
2) Locked Max Blumenthal out of his account after posting about Routh’s Ukraine manifesto
3) Deleted a tweet about censorship the place folks began declaring the hypocrisy. https://t.co/BmE3pmAg4S
— Primo Radical (@PrimoRadical) September 17, 2024
Elon’s Brazilian Company Regulation Shock Adam Levitin, Credit score Slips
Mr. Market Will get What He Desires
It’s a giant week for central banks all over the world, with a slew of fee strikes on the desk CNBC
AI
Chat GPT’s new O1 mannequin escaped its setting to finish “unattainable” hacking process — ought to we be involved? ZMEScience (Dr. Kevin)
Nvidia CEO: “We will’t do laptop graphics anymore with out synthetic intelligence” TechSpot (Kevin W)
Class Warfare
Safety guard at Boeing attracts a gun in altercation with picket Seattle Instances
Radhika Desai’s Marxist lens illuminates the trail to a post-capitalist future Morning Star (Robin Ok)
Antidote du jour. Tracie H: “The San Diego Botanic Gardens in Encinitas California has a beautiful little pond that pulls these beauties.”
And a bonus (Robin Ok):
Nonetheless questioning how this species survive within the wild.. 😅 pic.twitter.com/aaTaqZNHE1
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) September 15, 2024
A second bonus (Chuck L):
Lynx and a hummingbird.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/pzDpuVD9Vf
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) September 16, 2024
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour right here.
