Russia achieves its largest advance on the frontlines in Ukraine since 2024

I am so old that I remember when a total fertility rate below 1.5 was considered ultra low. Now we have multiple nations with TFR below 1!!! Taiwanese TFR fell below South Korea thus far 2025

South Korea’s military shrank by 20% in the past six years to 450,000 troops, largely due to a sharp drop in the population of males of enlistment age for mandatory service in the country with the world’s lowest birthrate.

Wikipedia loses UK Safety Act challenge, worries it will have to verify user IDs

Are the Amish the Canaries in the NYS Coal Mine?

The Grid Reliability Crisis Is Here

‘I am a disgrace to my species’: Google’s Gemini suffers self-loathing spiral. Google DeepMind’s group project manager Logan Kilpatrick said, “This is an annoying infinite looping bug we are working to fix! Gemini is not having that bad of a day : )”

I forgot to hit publish. I was doing so well too.

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 10, 2025

Russian occupation authorities publish database of Ukrainian children for adoption, sortable by hair and eye color

With Desertions, Low Recruitment, Ukraine’s Infantry Crisis Deepens

Turkey: 6.1 magnitude earthquake kills 1 in Balikesir

The number of Japanese nationals living in the country fell by over 900,000 last year, a record decline for the aging population.

Mexico Approves Fracking to Reverse Sagging Oil and Gas Production

Trump Reached a Preliminary Trade Deal with the E.U.

Record US Honey Bee Losses And What ‘Mite’ Be Behind Them

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 9, 2025

Swedish PM Slammed After Admitting He Uses ChatGPT To Help Run Government

AOL Announces It’s Discontinuing Dial-Up Internet on September 30

Unprecedented Chinese Icebreaker Deployment Off Alaska Being Monitored By U.S.

Last time this happened everyone upstate got hit with more rules and regulations even though the culprits down state were not following the existing rules. Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreak in Harlem Leaves 3 Dead and Over 65 Sick

Major Pipeline Moves Closer to Approval in New York as Critics Decry ‘Bargain’ with Trump

Meta-Analysis of Over 100 Studies Shows Gas Stoves Pose No Increased Risks of Asthma

Trend Of Adults Using Pacifiers To ‘Relieve Stress’ Is Snowballing

Russian Drone Innovations are Likely Achieving Effects of Battlefield Air Interdiction in Ukraine

Ukraine Situation Report: Attacks on the bridge linking Korabel Island with central Kherson City have sparked concerns of a Russian incursion.

Trump’s 15% tariffs on imports from Israel take effect as part of sweeping global regime

Mexico has been in President Donald Trump’s crosshairs over border security and fentanyl for more than a decade. Yet it is the sole country to win a 90-day extension on trade talks, after steep penalties on dozens of other countries kicked in Thursday.

Trump vows 100% tariff on chips, unless companies are building in the U.S.

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 6, 2025

‘We never see kids like this:’ Israeli doctors speak out on emaciated Gazan children

Staged Suffering? German Investigation Exposes Hamas’s Photo Propaganda Machine

Refinery Outages Force Russia to Redirect Crude to Export Markets

A heat wave and water shortages are paralyzing public life in Iran.

China Battling Another Virus: Mosquito-Borne Chikungunya. Chinese authorities have decided to use some moves from their covid playbook in response.

China’s biggest solar firms fired nearly one-third of their workforces last year, a Reuters analysis of company filings shows, as one of the industries hand-picked by Beijing to drive economic growth grapples with falling prices and steep losses.

France’s biggest wildfire of the summer has eclipsed the size of Paris and is still spreading

The Sri Lankan economic recovery
Trump Wants Copper Smelted in America—But It’s a 30-Year Wait

Discovery of lithium’s essential role in Alzheimer’s disease opens a hopeful avenue for treatment

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 5, 2025

Southern Kamchatka shifted nearly two meters (almost 7 feet) in July 30 quake

Lebanon wants army plan to disarm Hezbollah by end of year

Denmark zoo asks people to donate pets to feed predators

A small earthquake rocked parts of New York and New Jersey on Tuesday — the second to be felt in the region in just a matter of days.

“Red meat allergy” from tick bites is spreading both in US and globally

Enough is enough—I dumped Google’s worsening search for Kagi

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

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.