Thursday, November 21
In The NEWS
Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Katie Taylor-Amanda Serrano boxing match brought in 74 million live viewers; the match was the co-main event to the Mike Tyson-Jake Paul fight and is now the most-watched professional women's sporting event in US history (More)
> Bob Love, three-time NBA All-Star, dies at age 81 (More) | Colin Petersen, founding member and drummer for the Bee Gees, dies at age 78 just four days after another Bee Gees drummer, Dennis Bryon, passed away (More)
> Tennis great Rafael Nadal plays in last match of his more than 20 year career as Spain loses to the Netherlands in the Davis Cup quarterfinals (More)
Science & Technology
> SpaceX makes sixth test launch of its massive Starship space vehicle; skips second attempt at a "chopstick" catch of the Super Heavy rocket booster using giant mechanical arms (More) | SpaceX's "chopstick" method explained (More, w/video)
> Embattled physicist Ranga Dias ousted from the University of Rochester following retractions of controversial papers claiming room-temperature superconductivity (More) | Breaking down the scandal (More)
> Octopuses expend significant amounts of energy to change color, new study finds; amount is roughly equal to what is needed to maintain all bodily functions while at rest (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 +0.4%, Dow -0.3%, Nasdaq +1.0%) (More) | Nvidia stock rises over 4% ahead of third-quarter earnings report today (More)
> Justice Department will reportedly ask federal judge to force Google to sell Chrome—the world's most popular internet browser—today; expected proposal follows August ruling the company operates an illegal search monopoly (More)
> President-elect Donald Trump nominates Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick for commerce secretary, pending Senate confirmation (More) | Dr. Mehmet Oz nominated to oversee Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (More) | Linda McMahon nominated to lead Education Department (More) | See list of Trump appointees so far (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Major storm expected this week in Northern California and Pacific Northwest as plumes of moisture known as atmospheric rivers are expected to combine with bomb cyclone to bring heavy rainfall, flash flooding (More) | Bomb cyclone 101 (More) | See live updates (More)
> Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) agrees to postpone sentencing in Trump hush money case (More) | Hacker accesses depositions in since-dropped investigations on former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R); includes remarks from woman who says she had sex with the attorney general nominee when she was 17 (More)
> Two undersea cables in the Baltic Sea have been damaged, per European officials, raising suspicions of foul play; one connected Finland and Germany, the other connected Sweden and Lithuania (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
Life
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Life is different for all of us.
Different if you live in the USA or some other country in the world.
Different in the USA if you live in the north or in the south.
Different in the USA if you are wealthy or poor, white or black or of another minority.
Why is the USA divided like that?
We are divided because we are not equal other that equal in being alive.
A test of this life is how we accept this life and how we try to change this life to make it better for ourselves and our family.
This is a basic desire of human beings - to make life better for us and our families... we spend the rest of our lives trying to achieve that goal, some of us achieve that goal but a majority of us do not.
In other parts of the world, like India for example, there is a vast majority of the people in that country who just accept what they have and have no desire to make it better.
In that acceptance, they find contentment and happiness and peace of mind.
Who is right about the way life is meant to be lived?
New Physics Through BOSONS
Since the launch of the Large Hadron Collider, researchers have been studying Higgs bosons and searching for signs of physics beyond the current model of elementary particles.
Scientists working with the ATLAS detector have combined these two goals: their latest analysis has not only deepened our understanding of how Higgs bosons interact with each other but also placed stronger limits on potential “new physics” phenomena.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) achieved a major success with the discovery of the Higgs boson, the final missing piece of the Standard Model and a key to understanding the origin of mass in elementary particles.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) achieved a major success with the discovery of the Higgs boson, the final missing piece of the Standard Model and a key to understanding the origin of mass in elementary particles.
However, despite this breakthrough, researchers have yet to find any evidence of physics beyond the Standard Model, which has been a source of ongoing frustration. Scientists at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Geneva are now working to address this by improving the precision of Higgs boson measurements while actively searching for signs of “new physics.” READ MORE...
Wednesday, November 20
In The NEWS
Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Shaboozey's "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" tops Billboard Hot 100 for 18th week, one week from tying record for most weeks at No. 1 (More)
> Beyoncé tapped to perform at halftime at Baltimore Ravens-Houston Texans Christmas Day matchup on Netflix (More) | LeBron James' production company merges with UK company behind Grammy Awards and "The Kardashians" (More)
> Pittsburgh Pirates' Paul Skenes, New York Yankees' Luis Gil win MLB's National and American League Rookie of the Year awards (More) | CC Sabathia, Ichiro Suzuki headline group of 14 debuting on baseball Hall of Fame ballot (More)
Science & Technology
> Pennsylvania school closes after a student creates and distributes explicit AI-generated deepfakes of a reported 50 students; head of school reportedly first learned of the issue in November 2023 (More) | How we've entered the age of deepfakes (More, w/video)
> Researchers use AI to identify three subtypes of the congenital brain disorder known as Chiari type 1; affecting roughly 4% of the population, condition occurs when the cerebellum protrudes through a gap in the skull (More)
> Study reveals how dust mites trigger the immune system and cause allergic reactions after being inhaled (More) | See image of a dust mite under a scanning electron microscope (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 +0.4%, Dow -0.1%, Nasdaq +0.6%); Nasdaq boosted by Tesla, with EV maker's shares closing up nearly 6% on report of President-elect Donald Trump seeking to relax US self-driving vehicle rules (More)
> Super Micro Computer shares rise 40% in after-hours trading after hiring BDO as its new auditor and filing a compliance plan with the Nasdaq composite to avoid delisting; move comes amid scrutiny on Super Micro's accounting practices (More)
> Boeing to lay off more than 2,000 workers in Oregon and Washington next month as part of broader plan to cut 17,000 jobs or roughly 10% of its global workforce (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Brazil hosts annual G20 summit this week in Rio de Janeiro, the first to be held in South America's largest economy; early discussions center around Ukraine, China, and Trump (More) | President Joe Biden becomes first sitting US president to visit the Amazon rainforest (More)
> At least one person dead following E. coli outbreak linked to organic carrots from grocery stores; at least 39 cases have been reported across 18 states so far, with 15 people hospitalized (More, w/map)
> At least seven people dead from landslide in the northern Philippines triggered by Typhoon Man-yi (More) | Emergency declared in India's capital, New Delhi, as toxic smog clouds northern parts of the country (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
What Is In It For Me???
WHAT IS IN IT FOR ME???
You may be a college graduate
a community college graduate
a technical school graduate
a high school graduate
and while each of the kinds of people have unique needs and desires, their careers are based entirely on what they are going to get out of it... for example,
- What's my title
- What's my position
- What's my salary
- What power do I have
- What are my benefits
- What are my growth options
If I do this for you - what are you going to do for ME?
Granted there are some people who want to be teachers regardless of what they get back from their employers and there are some people who want to be pilots because all they care about is flying and there are people who just want to be cooks...
But for the most part, people only work due to what their employers are giving them... and if it is not enough, they look for another job or STRIKE.
What got me involved in politics was JFK when he said:
ASK NOT WHAT YOUR COUNTRY... CAN DO FOR YOU BUT WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR COUNTRY...
Ancient Galaxies Challenging Cosmic Theories
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the largest and most advanced space telescope ever constructed, has been making remarkable discoveries since its launch in December 2021. Among its achievements is the identification of the earliest and most distant galaxies known, which formed just 300 million years after the Big Bang.
When we observe distant objects in space, we are also looking far back in time. This is because the light from these objects takes billions of years to reach our telescopes. Through the JWST, astronomers have detected several of these ancient galaxies, providing us a glimpse of the universe as it appeared shortly after its inception.
Surprising Brightness of Early Galaxies
The data collected by the JWST aligns well with existing theories of cosmology—the study of the universe’s origin and evolution—and galaxy formation. However, these observations have also brought some surprises. Notably, many of these early galaxies are much brighter than expected, challenging previous assumptions about galaxy brightness and activity shortly after the Big Bang. READ MORE...
The data collected by the JWST aligns well with existing theories of cosmology—the study of the universe’s origin and evolution—and galaxy formation. However, these observations have also brought some surprises. Notably, many of these early galaxies are much brighter than expected, challenging previous assumptions about galaxy brightness and activity shortly after the Big Bang. READ MORE...
Tuesday, November 19
Liberal Americans
BLUESKY is really composed of a lot of Twitter/"X" users who left the social media platform after it was purchased by Musk. Musk has refused to censor the conservative voice.
Today on BLUESKY, I have been chatting with liberals who have called me a BIGOT, a RACIST, and a FASCIST because I refuse to agree with them. Additionally, they have refused to continue to chat with me because I do not agree with them.
These liberals do not understand how dangerous their attitudes are for the future of this country. If we cannot agree to disagree, then how are we, as a country, going to move forward?
When the liberals are in charge, they change everything the GOP did before them. When the conservatives are in charge, they change everything the liberals did before them.
How do we, as a nation, move forward.
These liberal views are coming from all different age groups. What is sad is that these LIBERAL AMERICANS believe that:
- Trump is going to put Americans in determent camps
- Trump is going to use the military against Americans
- They don't believe that Trump has done anything good for America
- They believe that Trump was and is currently a Russian Spy for Putin
- They believe Trump is a rapist and a liar
- They do not believe Biden weaponized the DOJ
- They do not believe that the 34 felony convictions will be overturned by the Court of Appeals
- They believe Trump will deport Americans
- They are convinced that Trump will be a dictator as President
- They believe Trump's economy was created by O'bama
- They believe that Biden had closed the border to illegal immigration
It is difficult for me to understand why and how someone could believe all of this... but they do... and they are convinced they are correct. They believe everything the liberal news outlets have printed negative about Trump.
In The NEWS
Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Miss Denmark Victoria Kjaer Theilvig crowned 2024 Miss Universe; Miss Nigeria Chidimma Adetshina named first runner-up (More)
> Bela Karolyi, controversial longtime coach of Team USA gymnastics, dies at age 82 (More) | Vladimir Shklyarov, Russian ballet star, dies at age 39 after fall from fifth-floor building (More)
> US Postal Service to honor actress Betty White and musician Allen Toussaint with postage stamps in 2025 (More) | Netflix hauls in 60 million households for Friday night's Mike Tyson-Jake Paul fight (More)
Science & Technology
> President-elect Donald Trump selects Chris Wright, CEO of Denver-based fracking company Liberty Energy, to lead the Department of Energy; choice faces Senate confirmation (More) | See running list of Trump appointees (More)
> Researchers create first fully mechanical qubit, the basic processing unit for quantum computers (More) | The amazing science behind quantum computers (More, w/video)
> Stress disrupts memory formation and leads to anxiety in nonthreatening situations, mouse study finds (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close lower Friday (S&P 500 -1.3%, Dow -0.7%, Nasdaq -2.2%) (More) | October retail sales rise 0.4%, beating expectations (More)
> The Federal Trade Commission is reportedly planning to investigate Microsoft's cloud computing business; allegations of anticompetitive practices include steep exit fees, other terms preventing clients from migrating data to competitors (More)
> The Exploration Company, European competitor to SpaceX, announces it has raised $160M to develop Nyx, its reusable space capsule (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> President Joe Biden approves Ukrainian use of US-made long-range weapons into Russia in policy reversal (More) | Russia launches 120 missiles, 90 drones into Ukraine in attack on country's power grid, per Ukrainian government, killing at least eight people and prompting blackouts (More) | See war updates (More)
> Israeli strike on Beirut kills Hezbollah's spokesperson (More) | Israeli strikes in northern Gaza kill dozens of people; Israel says it intercepted two rockets launched from the area (More) | See war updates (More)
> California confirms first US case of mpox variant originally identified in eastern Congo; the variant—clade I—is associated with more severe illness than the variant currently circulating at low levels in the US (More) | See overview of cases (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
Government SHAKE-UP
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On November 5th, 2024 I voted like so many other Americans voted, and while my vote is PRIVATE, I am pleased with the results. It has nothing to do with if my vote made a difference or not.
What I am pleased about is, the new administration is about to shake up Washington by reducing the size of government.
Financially, and being retired, I would have fared better under Harris because my Social Security check would have been HIGHER since Dems love to spend money and the CD interest rates would have remained higher as well.
BUT...
Government would have remained FAT and a FAT government has never been what I wanted.
To me, a FAT government, is a government that employs more people than it needs to which is the number one reason why bureaucracies as so DAMN ineffective and inefficient.
Have you ever driven by city workers working on the road, where 2 workers are doing the work, and a half dozen are standing around watching???
Every time I think about that, it pisses me off that my tax dollars are being WASTED LIKE THAT.
Trump wants to reduce government and most, if not all, of his cabinet choices have been selected by their desire to REDUCE GOVERNMENT...
Sec of Defense, Pete Hegseth, has been criticized because he is only 44 years of age, not a general and has no PENTAGON experience.
Let me draw your attention to JFK's secretary of defense, McNamara, who was not a general either, had no pentagon experience, was simply an officer, and was 44 years of age.
JFK was a Democrat, and it was ok for him but not ok for Trump???
Looks like a double standard to me...
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