Friday, March 14
At A Glance
Visualizing the annual migration of half a billion birds.
Inside the steam pipe network keeping New Yorkers warm.
How the oven has evolved over the decades. (via YouTube)
Engineers use worm robots to install underground power lines.
America's workers are clocking out earlier.
Mapping Earth's wandering magnetic north pole.
What makes cockroaches so resilient.
Giant sea turtle returns home after flipper surgery. (via YouTube)
Clickbait: How to glamp like a nomad (w/video).
In The NEWS
Sports, Entertainment, & Culture> Harvey Weinstein's retrial of his 2020 rape and sexual assault conviction set for April 15; Weinstein's conviction was thrown out last year by the New York Court of Appeals (More)
> UEFA Champions League quarterfinals set after second leg of Round of 16 wraps (More) | See latest bracket (More) | Tiger Woods biopic film in the works, to be produced by Barack and Michelle Obama (More)
> Spotify paid out all-time high of $10B in royalties to music industry in 2024, including more than $1M to nearly 1,500 individual artists (More) | Sequel to 1984 cult comedy "This Is Spinal Tap" set for Sept. 12 release (More)
Science & Technology
> The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration lays off more than 1,000 people as part of Trump administration's workforce reduction plan; agency's duties include collecting data to monitor and predict storms, coastal restoration, and more (More)
> DNA analysis reveals Stone Age Europeans successfully voyaged overseas to North Africa roughly 8,000 years ago; marks the first evidence of sea voyaging across the Mediterranean during this period (More)
> Google reveals Gemma 3, an open-access AI model for developers that can interpret text, images, and short videos (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 +0.5%, Dow -0.2%, Nasdaq +1.2%) after cooler-than-expected inflation data and as traders scoop up tech stocks, including Nvidia (+6.4%) (More) | US consumer price index rises 2.8% year over year in February, down from 3% in January (More)
> iRobot shares fall over 35% after Roomba maker raises doubt about its future (More) | Intel shares rise over 11% in after-hours trading after former board member Lip-Bu Tan named as CEO; comes three months after former CEO's ousting (More)
> US budget deficit rises in February, surpasses $1T for first five months of fiscal year 2025; the figure sets a record and is up $318B from the same period in 2024, or roughly 38% higher (More) | Understanding the deficit (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Senate Democrats expected to reject GOP-led House-passed funding bill as Friday midnight shutdown nears; House adjourns for the week (More) | Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) won't run for reelection in 2026, adds to list of open seats in states like Michigan and Minnesota as Democrats seek to regain Senate majority (More)
> Immigration officials arrest more than 32,000 migrants who have been living in the US without legal status since Jan. 21, per latest Homeland Security data (More)
> Pakistan's army says insurgents who attacked passenger train Tuesday killed 21 hostages; security forces rescued more than 300 others and killed all 33 assailants (More)
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 +0.5%, Dow -0.2%, Nasdaq +1.2%) after cooler-than-expected inflation data and as traders scoop up tech stocks, including Nvidia (+6.4%) (More) | US consumer price index rises 2.8% year over year in February, down from 3% in January (More)
> iRobot shares fall over 35% after Roomba maker raises doubt about its future (More) | Intel shares rise over 11% in after-hours trading after former board member Lip-Bu Tan named as CEO; comes three months after former CEO's ousting (More)
> US budget deficit rises in February, surpasses $1T for first five months of fiscal year 2025; the figure sets a record and is up $318B from the same period in 2024, or roughly 38% higher (More) | Understanding the deficit (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Senate Democrats expected to reject GOP-led House-passed funding bill as Friday midnight shutdown nears; House adjourns for the week (More) | Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) won't run for reelection in 2026, adds to list of open seats in states like Michigan and Minnesota as Democrats seek to regain Senate majority (More)
> Immigration officials arrest more than 32,000 migrants who have been living in the US without legal status since Jan. 21, per latest Homeland Security data (More)
> Pakistan's army says insurgents who attacked passenger train Tuesday killed 21 hostages; security forces rescued more than 300 others and killed all 33 assailants (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
My Sick Vostro
HP Chromebook was probably one of the worst computers, I have ever had the unfortunate experience of owning. My HP's software is more like APPLE than Microsoft so that may have something to do with it...
My Dell Vostro 7620 replaced the HP Chromebook and right now I am using my HP Chromebook because my Dell Vostro is at the Advance Repair Center since the online tech support cannot locate the issue. I have had the hinges on the case replaced, the power port replace, the power source replaced, and the keyboard/touch pad replaced FOUR times... not to mention the hours I have spent on the phone troubleshooting with the techs who take remote control of my laptop.
Surely, Dell has spent more trying to fix this damn computer than I spent buying it.
I was told by the Dell Technician that he hardly ever has a service call to work on a BAD LATTITUDE, just the lower priced units. Of course that does not make me feel any better.
I usually buy a new laptop every five years but with the way technology is advancing and the more power, speed, and space, laptops need, one needs to upgrade every three years. Hard to believe that the owners of these computer companies have become BILLIONAIRES... lol
I was told that my Vostro will be gone 5-7 days... they did not specify business days but I am sure that is what they meant, not including travel time either, I suppose, although they did not say that either.
We'll see...
Albert Camus: Intellectual Titan
French author Albert Camus at the office of his Paris publishing house, 1957. “I don’t like to work sitting down,” Camus said. “I like to stand up—even at my desk. I probably need to wear myself out.” Loomis Dean/Life Picture Collection/Shutterst
In 1968 LIFE magazine summed up the appeal of French philosopher and author Albert Camus with a single sentence: “Camus looked directly into the darkness as saw sun—the human spirit.” The line came from a review of Camus’ book “Lyrical and Critical Essays.” And the fact that LIFE was reviewing such books at all is a throwback to a time when mainstream American media regularly chronicled the doings of French intellectuals.
LIFE ran its biggest story on Camus in October 1957, right around the time he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for fictional works such as The Stranger, The Plague and The Fall, and philosophical writings such as “The Myth of Sisyphus.” Camus was a mere 44 years old at the time, and he remains the second-youngest person to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, after Rudyard Kipling. READ MORE...
Thursday, March 13
How to see tonight's lunar eclipse.
The actor who inspired Homer Simpson's "D'oh!"
Australian school learns boulder is actually dinosaur fossil.
The short and somewhat odd history of pickleball. (via YouTube)
How animals sound across languages.
Boy calls the cops after his mother ate his ice cream.
The hair fashion show at Minnesota's high school hockey tournament.
B-Dubs unveils multivision goggles for March Madness fans.
Clickbait: TSA finds live turtle in man's pants.
In The NEWS
Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> "Othello," starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal, hauls in $2.8M to break record for highest-grossing week for a Broadway play (More)
> Wendy Williams taken to hospital after being removed from her assisted-living home following a wellness check by NYC police (More) | Stanley R. Jaffe, Oscar-winning producer known for "Kramer vs. Kramer" and "Fatal Attraction," dies at age 84 (More)
> College basketball conference championship week is under way; see schedules and odds for the men's tournaments (More) | ... and complete schedule for the women's tournaments (More)
Science & Technology
> Researchers demonstrate recycling process that breaks down common plastics using only an inexpensive catalyst and moisture pulled from the air (More)
> Scientists create "berkelocene," the first metallic compound using the element berkelium; with an atomic number of 97, the achievement sheds light on chemistry with elements heavier than uranium (More)
> Water droplets flowing across a surface generate as much as 10 times more electric charge than previously believed; results shed light on the microscopic physics of interfaces, may lead to improved fuel systems (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close lower (S&P 500 -0.8%, Dow -1.1%, Nasdaq -0.2%) amid trade policy uncertainty (More)
> Ontario, Canada, temporarily suspends planned 25% surcharge on electricity exported to US states; comes after President Donald Trump vowed to raise Canadian steel and aluminum imports tariffs to 50% before reversing course (More)
> US job openings rose to 7.7 million in January, after falling in December, per the Labor Department’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey report (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Education Department sends reduction-in-force notices to 1,315 staffers yesterday evening, while 572 employees have accepted separation packages in recent weeks and 63 probationary workers were laid off last month; roughly 50% of around 4,000 agency employees have been let go (More)
> House Republicans vote 217-213 to pass bill to fund the government through Sept. 30, includes increasing military spending by $6B and rolling back $20B in IRS funding; bill heads to Senate ahead of shutdown deadline at midnight Friday (More) | Former US Rep. Katie Porter (D, CA-47) to run for California governor (More)
> UK police arrest 59-year-old man on suspicion of manslaughter a day after a container ship struck an oil tanker in the North Sea, leaving one crew member missing and presumed dead; 36 others were rescued alive (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
y (More) > Ontario, Canada, temporarily suspends planned 25% surcharge on electricity exported to US states; comes after President Donald Trump vowed to raise Canadian steel and aluminum imports tariffs to 50% before reversing course (More) > US job openings rose to 7.7 million in January, after falling in December, per the Labor Department’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey report (More) Politics & World Affairs > Education Department sends reduction-in-force notices to 1,315 staffers yesterday evening, while 572 employees have accepted separation packages in recent weeks and 63 probationary workers were laid off last month; roughly 50% of around 4,000 agency employees have been let go (More) > House Republicans vote 217-213 to pass bill to fund the government through Sept. 30, includes increasing military spending by $6B and rolling back $20B in IRS funding; bill heads to Senate ahead of shutdown deadline at midnight Friday (More) | Former US Rep. Katie Porter (D, CA-47) to run for California governor (More) > UK police arrest 59-year-old man on suspicion of manslaughter a day after a container ship struck an oil tanker in the North Sea, leaving one crew member missing and presumed dead; 36 others were rescued alive (More) |
POV of a layman
to see what global countries in 2022 charged a tariff on imported goods from the USA.
While I did not count myself, it appears that almost every country in the world charged us some sort of tariff to protect their own goods.
What do tariffs accomplish?
Simply put...
I place a tariff on the goods I import from your country, it makes your goods more expensive relative to the cost of my goods, so my citizens in order to save money, will buy local goods rather than imported goods.
IN MY OPINION...
The problem with tariffs, especially in the USA, is that, if the US goods are cheaper to buy than imported goods, like:
- Cars
- Computers
- Cell phone
Then what incentive, do I have as a company, to invest money into my manufacturing process to improve the quality of my product?
I have no incentive because my goods are cheaper and the consumer will buy my product.
So, why would any government want to protect their companies like that so their citizens are buy poor quality products?
Does not seem very smart to me unless the GENERAL PUBLIC is not that smart and does not realize what is happening to them...
Something to ponder.
New Theory Bridges Quantum Mechanics and Gravity
Diagrammatic representation of the entropic quantum gravity action. The action for gravity is given by the quantum relative entropy between the metric of the manifold and the metric induced by the matter field and the geometry. Image Credit: Queen Mary University of London
In a recent study that was published in Physical Review D, Queen Mary University of London Professor Ginestra Bianconi, offered a novel framework with the potential to completely alter knowledge of gravity and how it relates to quantum mechanics.
The study bridges the gap between Einstein's general relativity and quantum mechanics, two of the most fundamental but seemingly incompatible theories in physics, by introducing a novel method that derives gravity from quantum relative entropy.
The Challenge of Quantum Gravity
Physicists have been trying for decades to make sense of the differences between general relativity and quantum mechanics. General relativity explains the force of gravity on cosmic scales, whereas quantum mechanics controls the behavior of particles at the smallest scales. One of the most elusive objectives in contemporary science has been to bring these two frameworks together. READ MORE...
The study bridges the gap between Einstein's general relativity and quantum mechanics, two of the most fundamental but seemingly incompatible theories in physics, by introducing a novel method that derives gravity from quantum relative entropy.
The Challenge of Quantum Gravity
Physicists have been trying for decades to make sense of the differences between general relativity and quantum mechanics. General relativity explains the force of gravity on cosmic scales, whereas quantum mechanics controls the behavior of particles at the smallest scales. One of the most elusive objectives in contemporary science has been to bring these two frameworks together. READ MORE...
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