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Table

 

A Simple Than YOU

 

The Storm is Upon Us

 

Evidence

 

American Democracy

 

This is an interesting time of the year as one party gradually gives up control and the other party gradually assumes control...

The party that is leaving is saying that all of Trump's cabinet appointment suggestions are bad...

I have learned over the last eight years that whatever the Democrats say, one should believe the opposite.

But whatever the issues that arise, these liberals and democrats will always blame Trump and his team no matter what happens.

My gut feeling is that they will not stop until 2029 when Trump is out of office and the court of appeals has overturned his felony charges.

This is how democracy in America operates and why the rest of the world is looking at us with amusement.

Somewhat Political

 

All Electromagnetic Waves Absorbed

A new composite material developed by KIMS researchers absorbs over 99% of electromagnetic waves from different frequencies, improving the performance of devices like smartphones and wearables.

A team of scientists from the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS) has developed the world’s first ultra-thin film composite material capable of absorbing over 99% of electromagnetic waves from various frequency bands, including 5G/6G, WiFi, and autonomous driving radar, using a single material.

This novel electromagnetic wave absorption and shielding material is less than 0.5mm thick and is characterized by its low reflectance of less than 1% and high absorbance of over 99% across three different frequency bands.     READ MORE...

Led Zeppelin Stairway To Heaven

In The NEWS

Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Disney+ integrates ESPN live sports and other select content into its offering, including two new Disney+ exclusive sports studio shows (More)

> Texas, Georgia, and Alabama highlight top 2025 recruiting classes for college football's national signing day (More) | Sports streamer DAZN signs roughly $1B deal for broadcast rights to all 63 matches for the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup (More)

> Taylor Swift named Spotify's most-streamed artist worldwide for second straight year; The Weeknd, Bad Bunny, Drake, and Billie Eilish round out the top five (More)


Science & Technology
> Drugmaker Eli Lilly reports its weightloss drug Zepbound showed more than 20% reduction in body weight, roughly 50% more effective than rival Wegovy in randomized control trials (More) | See comparison between the two (More)

> Researchers discover brain circuit linked to resilience against stress in mice; findings may lead to new treatments for chronic depression (More)

> Engineers develop new catalyst that efficiently turns methane gas into useful polymers; reaction produces formaldehyde, which can be combined with urea to create a resin found in common consumer goods (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +0.6%, Dow +0.7%, Nasdaq +1.3%), with all three indexes reaching all-time session highs and closing at records (More) | Bitcoin surpasses $100K in value for the first time; the cryptocurrency has jumped over 45% in value since the US presidential election last month (More)

> Amazon sued by Washington, DC, Attorney General Brian Schwalb (D) for allegedly excluding two historically underserved communities from access to Prime's expedited two-day delivery (More)

> General Motors to record over $5B hit to Q4 profit as it aims to restructure an unprofitable joint venture in Shanghai that has lost market share to Chinese manufacturers in recent years (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> South Korea's opposition parties submit motion to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol following martial law declaration this week; vote could come as early as tomorrow (More) | See previous write-up (More)

> President-elect Donald Trump to nominate cryptocurrency advocate Paul Atkins to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission (More) | Former Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R) selected to lead Small Business Administration (More) | Peter Navarro selected as top trade adviser (More) | Jared Isaacman—first billionaire to conduct private spacewalk—chosen to lead NASA (More) | Army veteran Dan Driscoll selected for Army secretary (More) | See list of key appointments and nominations (More)

> Final House race called as Democrat Adam Gray is declared winner of California's 13th District; Republicans to hold five-seat majority (220-215) (More)

SOURCE:  1440 NEWS

Rivalries

 

Work

 

City

 

Never

 

GIRLS

 

In The NEWS

Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Oregon, Texas, Penn State, and Notre Dame top final College Football Playoff rankings before conference championship week; see complete 12-team bracket (More) | Israel Vázquez, three-time boxing world champion, dies of cancer at age 46 (More)

> Georgia's longest-ever criminal trial, which involved Grammy-winning rapper Young Thug and 28 total codefendants, ends as two codefendants found not guilty of racketeering charges (More)

> "A Different Man" wins best feature at Gotham Awards for independent films (More) | Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Rihanna, and Drake top Billboard's list of the 21st century's greatest pop stars (More)


Science & Technology
> Amazon reportedly partnering with AI startup Anthropic to build an AI supercomputer; "Ultracluster" will combine hundreds of thousands of Amazon's in-house Trainium chips (More)

> Theoretical study suggests evidence for primordial black holes—hypothetical objects made right after the Big Bang that could be microscopic in size—may be found in hollowed planetoids (More) | Heard about black holes but don't know how they work? Click here (More)

> Researchers discover gene involved in photosynthesis that can boost poplar tree height by about 30% in the field, 200% in a greenhouse; gene also increases the biomass of other plant species (More)

Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 +0.1%, Dow -0.2%, Nasdaq +0.4%), with S&P 500, Nasdaq closing at record highs (More) | US job openings rose to 7.7 million in October, beating analyst expectations; the figure is up 372,000 jobs from September's 3.5-year low (More)

> Walmart buys TV maker Vizio for $2.3B in all-cash deal; the acquisition, first announced in February, enables Walmart to expand its advertising business and collect data on customers' viewing, shopping habits to serve targeted ads (More) | BlackRock to buy credit manager HPS Investment Partners for $12B (More)

> Food production giant Cargill, the US' largest privately held company, says it will lay off 5% of its global workforce, or an estimated 8,000 employees, amid dropping food prices following the COVID-19 pandemic (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> US Supreme Court to hear oral arguments today in US v. Skrmetti, a case surrounding a Tennessee law banning puberty blockers, hormones for minors; decision expected by June (More) | See map of 25 states with similar ban (More)

> Florida Sheriff Chad Chronister withdraws as President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Drug Enforcement Administration (More) | Trump says he will block Japanese Nippon Steel's $14.9B acquisition of US Steel (More)

> Bangladesh summons India's top envoy after an attack on a consulate in India sparks protests in Bangladesh's capital; tensions between the two countries have been elevated as India refuses to extradite former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was ousted in August (More)

SOURCE:  1440 NEWS

Workforce LAMBS

 

Billionaires, and multi-millionaires have a good life as long as you are in the TOP 10% of the population.  

Most of these people made their money by 90% of the population buying their product or service.  

The workforce NEVER participates in the real profits of the company other than keeping their job from one year to the next and the closer they get to a certain age, the more expendable they are for younger employees.

This is Capitalism at its worst, but it is the best system around because it is associated with the Democratic Republic government of the USA.

NO GOVERNMENT will ever destroy the wealthy...

And the wealthy will never share their money with the general public.

I find it rather humorous that the general public is larger in numbers and has decided not to do anything about this situation.

The general public bitches, understands computers, smart phones, and the internet but never wants to have anymore that what they already have.

Those of us who are older have played the game and survived and in some cases survived well which is a relative term - suffice it to say, better than most.

LUCK FAVORS THE PREPARED

Somewhat Political

 

A Quirk in SPACE-TIME

Gravitational lensing of galaxy cluster Abell 2390. (ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre (CEA Paris-Saclay), G. Anselmi)



The fabric of space and time is not exempt from the effects of gravity. Plop in a mass and space-time curves around it, not dissimilar to what happens when you put a bowling ball on a trampoline.


This dimple in space-time is the result of what we call a gravity well, and it was first described over 100 years ago by Albert Einstein's field equations in his theory of general relativity. To this day, those equations have held up. We'd love to know what Einstein was putting in his soup. Whatever it was, general relativity has remained pretty solid.


One of the ways we know this is because when light travels along that curved space-time, it curves along with it. This results in light that reaches us all warped and stretched and replicated and magnified, a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing. This quirk of space-time is not only observable and measurable, it's an excellent tool for understanding the Universe.         READ MORE...

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