RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 2, 2023

Ukraine Situation Report: Kyiv Changes Counteroffensive Tactics

The Money that the US gives to China.

The worst US bridges are getting fixed

The Secret Life of the 500+ Cables That Run the Internet

A Room-Temperature Superconductor? New Developments

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 1, 2023

At least a half dozen ships have ignored Russian warnings and appear to be headed to a Ukrainian port on the Danube River.

Ukrainian assault commander reveals horrific encounter with one of Russia’s fake trench traps

Saudi Arabia borrowing rate hits new high

Oil Prices Balloon On Largest Single-Week Crude Inventory Crash In Years

Flesh-rotting tranq infects cocaine supply, takes aim at new, unsuspecting victims

It’s 3am. Paul, the head of PayPal database administration carefully enters his elaborate passphrase at a keyboard in a darkened cubicle of 1840 Embarcadero Road in East Palo Alto, for the fifth time. He hits Return. The green-on-black console window instantly displays one line of text: “Sorry, one or more wrong passphrases. Can’t reconstruct the key. Goodbye.” There is nerd pandemonium all around us. James, our recently promoted VP of Engineering, just climbed the desk at a nearby cubicle, screaming: “Guys, if we can’t get this key the right way, we gotta start brute-forcing it ASAP!”

Blood clots in a fossil that is supposed to be 270-300 million years old

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JULY 31, 2023

Ukraine Situation Report: Key Crimean Railway Bridge Targeted In Missile Strike

Officials found suspected Chinese malware hidden in various US military systems. Its intended use is disruption rather than surveillance, a ‘disturbing’ change in intent, experts say.

Chinese Ex-Foreign Minister Disappears in Apparent Power Struggle

Top Israeli official says country won’t block Saudi civil nuclear program

Niger coup sparks concerns about French, EU uranium dependency

Google Unveils Multimodal Generative AI Model Med-PaLM M for Healthcare

America Flips Switch On First New Nuclear Reactor in 7 Years

Instead of obtaining a warrant, the NSA would like to keep buying your data

What NASA and the European Space Agency are admitting but the media are failing to report about our current heat wave

CDC Warns Red Meat Allergy Caused By Ticks An ‘Emerging Public Health Concern

Public Health Officials Identify 20 Infectious Agents Found at Unlicensed California Laboratory

Just a sign of how little people think about these things.

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JULY 28, 2023

Main Thrust of Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Has Begun

Ukraine Situation Report: S-200 Missile Slams Into Russian Town

North Korea’s New Nuclear Underwater Drone-Torpedo Follows Russia’s Playbook

Israel’s Judicial Reckoning

In a major reshuffle, the Turkish president has dismissed all three deputy Central Bank governors as his government ramps up efforts to regain the confidence of Western investors.

Gasoline prices have gained around 20% year-to-date.

Can This Medication Reverse Multiple Sclerosis? Brain Biomarker Shows It Can

A growing body of research indicates there are potentially large health benefits to improving indoor air quality.

Let Me Repeat Myself: The SAT’s Predictive Power for College Grades is Systematically Underestimated Because of Range Restriction

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT JULY 27, 2023

Calling it a city is a a little misleading. Ukraine Situation Report: Key Donetsk City Liberated

Lack of Western Weapons Slows Progress in Ukraine Counteroffensive

I always thought stories about a government just giving up was really stupid prepper fiction. To be fair, Hezbollah still functions. Lebanon void expands as Central Bank, security, presidential posts go vacant

Japan’s population drops by nearly 800,000 with falls in every prefecture for the first time

Yellow freight looks like it’s going under

Hawaii Gov Takes Dramatic Action To Solve Housing Crisis. But Is He Going Too Far?

Hunter Biden’s Hearing Transcript Shows How Defense, Prosecution Tried to Slip In ‘Blanket Immunity’

“NLRP11 is present in humans and other primates but absent in mice, likely explaining why it has been missed previously, as most screens looking for innate immune signaling molecules have been carried out in mice”

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JULY 26, 2023

Pentagon officials told the New York Times that the full weight of the Ukrainian counteroffensive is now underway.

Hunter Biden Plea Deal Implosion Links. More drama then I was expecting. Not entirely surprised that a judge was reluctant to sign off on it but was surprised by the drama between the legal teams.

The rush is on for rice

Over 230 people get puzzling neurological disorder in Peru; emergency declared

Vitamin D may ease severity of psoriasis