Monthly Archives: August 2025

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 4, 2025

Netanyahu said set to order full takeover of Gaza, despite IDF qualms

Long dormant Russian volcano erupts, spews ash 4 miles high

Britain’s free expression crisis: Earlier this year, Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine — the parents of a 9-year-old girl in Hertfordshire — were arrested in front of their daughter after exchanging messages critical of her school’s new headteacher in a WhatsApp group. Six officers arrived at their home, seized their devices, and the couple was interrogated for hours over allegations of malicious communications.

These responses suggested that the brain can maintain normal blood sugar levels even in the absence of insulin. At the time, the diabetes research community didn’t know what to make of the discovery.

Box Tree Moth Invades Virginia: 10th U.S. State Confirms Pest Presence

For the Baby Dinosaur Objects should shut up

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 3, 2025

New Syria Fighting Erupts Overnight, Shattering Fragile US-Backed Truce

How Pakistan shot down India’s cutting-edge fighter using Chinese gear

3.0 magnitude earthquake strikes New Jersey, tremors felt in parts of NY

NY Times Op-Ed: Expanding the Definition of Death Could Mean More Donor Organs

Trump Is Openly Using the Presidency To Enrich the Trump Brand

At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery. After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture.

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 1, 2025

US imposes 15% tariff on goods from Israel as part of sweeping new trade policy

China has begun construction on the world’s largest hydropower dam, known as the Motuo Hydropower Station, on the eastern rim of the Tibetan Plateau, which will cost $170 billion and is expected to generate 300 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity annually, about the amount of electricity consumed by Britain last year.

Google now spends more on physical capital like datacentres ($85 billion / year) than the entire UK defence budget ($79 billion / year).

ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results