RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, DECEMBER 12

Twitter does not have separate development, test, staging, and production environments. At least 5,000 employees had privileged access to production systems.

US Vegetable Prices Soar Nearly 40% as Water Cuts Crush Supply From this I learned that farmers in Arizona(!!!!!) provide more than 90% of the US’s leafy greens each November through March. So not only is US leafy green production highly concentrated, it is highly concentrated in a desert state.

Higher Nuclear Output Helps France Meet Rising Power Demand

FOLLOWING THE SCIENCE?

NH hiker falls to death off mountain cliff while taking photos with wife

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, DECEMBER 11

Japan was once known for ultra-low birthrates. Though still low, it now actually has the highest fertility rate in developed E. Asia, and is tied with China, where fertility is still tumbling.

Airlines Are Pushing to Legalize One-Pilot Cockpits

String of electrical grid attacks in Pacific Northwest is unsolved

US gas prices lower than they were a year ago

US scientists reportedly make fusion energy breakthrough

Venomous snakebites kill between 81,000 and 138,000 people each year, and leave another 400,000 with permanent disabilities. This ranks it among the deadliest of neglected tropical diseases, alongside better-known ailments such as typhus and cholera.

Experimental cancer therapy shows success in more than 70% of patients in global clinical trials

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, DECEMBER 10

Putin Makes New Nuclear ‘First Use’ Threat

Crews race to contain biggest oil spill in Keystone pipeline history: Mystery breach sends 14,000 barrels of crude gushing over Kansas countryside

INSIDE THE FACTORY THAT ONLY BUILDS WHITE TOYOTAS

COVID-19 rapid home tests not highly sensitive for Omicron

Researchers Link Aspartame Sweetener To Anxiety

The Motley Crew that Wanted to Topple the German Government

Study of twins shows exercise can alter genetic markers of disease

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, DECEMBER 9

West Asks Turkey To Help Clear Tanker Jam

South Korean truckers end 16-day strike without gains

CPS: Mom Can’t Let Her 3 Kids—Ages 6, 8, and 9—Play Outside by Themselves

“The second time as farce”: the bizarre Reichsbürger plot in Germany

AZ Sen. Kyrsten Sinema Leaving Democrat Party, Registers as Independent

Meet Aryeh Deri: Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox strongman in Netanyahu’s cabinet

Trashed lithium-ion batteries caused three garbage truck fires in California

Scientists have measured the highest toughness ever recorded, of any material, while investigating a metallic alloy made of chromium, cobalt, and nickel

Record breaking DNA shows Mastodons roaming a hot North Greenland 2 million years ago

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, DECEMBER 8

The Last 747 Ever Built Has Rolled Off Boeing’s Production Line

There is still a national diesel fuel shortage, but a small price drop and the reactivation of a few American refineries have avoided disruptions in the crucial traffic of trucks, trains and ships.

Feds Link Attack on North Carolina Substations to Attacks on Oregon, Washington Power Stations

Worst flu outbreak in more than a decade spikes hospitalizations

Six children die with Strep A bacterial infection

Even With Help From Biden the Baby Formula Shortage is Expected to Last Until Spring 2023

Nature’s pick of the sharpest science shots this month is dedicated to the James Webb Space Telescope

How come GPT can seem so brilliant one minute and so breathtakingly dumb the next?

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, DECEMBER 7

Germany arrests 25 accused of plotting coup

I used to think that no nation would go to the extreme of just stopping having any children at all. But my notions of what the lower bound is keeps getting changed by reality. South Korea recently broke its own record for the world’s lowest fertility rate. Figures released in November showed the average number of children a South Korean woman will have in her lifetime is down to just 0.79.

After recently denying a permit to an enormous U.S. refinery in St. Croix, U.S Virgin Islands, which could supply petroleum products to the Northeast, President Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is denying a renewal permit to a coal-fired plant in Ohio that generates 11 percent of the state’s electricity.

Volcanic Eruptions Now Occurring in Indonesia and Italy

Tokyo Researchers Discover New Mechanism To Stabilize Lithium Batteries

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, DECEMBER 6

Supply Disruption From Russia Price Cap Is Here: Tanker Jam Forms Off Turkey

Switzerland may ban electric vehicles from being used except for “essential” purposes this winter as government officials plan for a possible energy crisis during the winter months.

Calgary pediatric hospice discharging all respite patients, redeploying staff to children’s hospital

Manufacturing orders from China down 40% in unrelenting demand collapse

Building Fast and Slow Part III: Design of the World Trade Center

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, DECEMBER 5

Why Did the Pentagon Choose Today to Reveal Secret Modifications to Ukraine’s HIMARS Launchers?

Army plans ‘dramatic’ ammo production boost as Ukraine drains stocks

North Carolina county under curfew after power station attack, FBI investigating. More here about how Christians are likely to blame.

Ohio measles outbreak nearly triples, expected to last “several months”
Reporters against reporting

I wonder if this will come to New York State. NJ Governor Murphy Turns to Private Sector to Take Over State Government-Run Nursing Homes for Veterans

Microsoft has become the latest big-name publisher to jump to a $70 asking price for the launch of big-budget games.

As Europe and the United States shutter their refineries, Asia, the Middle East and Africa are building more refining capacity.