Thursday, April 10
In The NEWS
Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Tom Cruise's "Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning," the eighth installment in the film franchise, will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival (May 13-24) in France; Cannes is set to release its full lineup tomorrow (More)
> UEFA Champions League quarterfinals kicks off; see latest schedule and bracket (More) | Denver Nuggets fire head coach Michael Malone less than two years after Malone helped lead the Nuggets to an NBA championship (More)
> "Adolescence" hauls in over 114 million views to become Netflix's fourth most-watched English-language show ever (More)
Science & Technology
> Renewable energy provided a record 32% of global electricity in 2024, analysis finds; overall demand rose 4%, driven by heat waves and power-intensive data centers (More)
> British doctors report the first baby in the country to be born via womb donation; the 36-year-old patient received the UK's first successful uterus transplant in 2023, gave birth in February (More)
> Engineers develop brain-computer interface thin enough to fit between individual hair follicles (More) | How BCIs work (1440 Topics)
Business & Markets
> US venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz seeks to raise $20B in the largest fund in its history amid global interest in US artificial intelligence startups (More) | What is venture capital? (1440 Topics)
> President Donald Trump signs executive order to boost US coal mining, including defining coal as a "mineral" and allowing some coal-fired power plants set for retirement to remain operational to meet rising AI power demand (More)
> Justice Department shuts down its national cryptocurrency fraud unit, orders prosecutors to narrow cryptocurrency investigations to focus on crimes involving drug cartels and terrorist groups (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> US Supreme Court temporarily clears the Trump administration's firing of roughly 16,000 probationary federal workers; employees will remain on paid administrative leave as a separate lawsuit moves through the courts (More) | Federal judge says White House can’t ban Associated Press from Oval Office, Air Force One (More)
> Department of Homeland Security ends legal status for roughly 985,000 people who entered the US and registered for court appearances using a Biden-era CBP One app (More) | IRS reaches deal with Homeland Security to provide names, addresses of migrants subject to deportation orders (More)
> Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirms Ukrainian forces operating in Russia's Belgorod region (More) | Two Chinese citizens captured while fighting alongside Russian soldiers, per Zelenskyy (More) | See war updates (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
Health
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In 2007, at the age of 60, I had a heart attack while walking on the treadmill that felt like a jabbing pain. I stopped for a minute then started up again, this time the pain was so intense it brought me to my knees. So, I stopped my exercising.
For several weeks after that I try to duplicate what happened by walking fast and uphill but it never replicated itself. I mentioned it to my Oncologist who sent me to a Cardiologist who performed an angioplasty surgery taking a look-see inside my heart arteries.
My LAD was 100% blocked and two other arteries on my left side were blocked 90%. What saved my life was that I was so damn healthy my body created dozens of other corollary arteries to push the flow of blood. In other words, my body created its own bypass. I avoided a triple bypass by having 5 stints inserted into my arteries.
Seventeen years later and because of my eating habits the stints are still as pristine as they were when they were first inserted.
At age 40, 1987, I stopped smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol, eating red meat, fried foods, and sugars... focusing instead on fish, turkey, chicken, vegetables, and beans...
HOWEVER... in order to keep myself focused, I have a hot dog/hamburger/pizza once or twice a month, along with fried foods, and sugars. With that said, for the last 8-10 years, I probably have only had 1-2 hamburgers and/or maybe a steak from Omaha Steaks, but no more. I found myself without a taste for red meat anymore.
Although, I have never lost my taste for fries.... go figure?
On way to harnessing nuclear fusion, Chinese HL-3 reactor hits ‘dual 100 million degrees’
China has announced a milestone in the development of its next-generation “artificial sun”, marking another step towards harnessing controlled nuclear fusion.
For the first time, the Huanliu-3 (HL-3) tokamak reactor in Chengdu has achieved a plasma state with ion temperatures of 117 million degrees Celsius and electron temperatures of 160 million degrees, edging closer to the extreme conditions required to ignite fusion – the same process that powers the Sun, according to researchers.
A tokamak is a doughnut-shaped device that uses powerful magnetic fields to confine superheated plasma, where hydrogen atoms – typically deuterium and tritium – fuse into helium and release vast amounts of energy.
Wednesday, April 9
What’s the most accurate historical parallel?
Friends,
Mark Twain famously said that history doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme. He was getting at a fundamental truth: Although history never follows precisely the same path as before, it can show similar patterns and provide useful lessons.
With that in mind, I asked several historians what they believed to be the closest analogy to the horrors we’re now living through with the Trump regime. All told me there were no exact parallels but offered similarities and hoped they were wrong in terms of their outcomes.
I found their answers fascinating. I hope you do, too. Which is why I’m presenting them to you today and asking you to select the historical parallel you believe will prove to be the most accurate.
At A Glance
What is your state's median household income?
Delaware tops list of best states for working from home.
People on average have over 1,000 unread emails.
The earliest known mention of time travel. (via YouTube)
Record number of sandhill cranes flock to Nebraska. (w/photo)
... and an Oklahoma boy imitates 50 different bird calls.
A 30-second test reveals how well you're aging.
The perfect cup of coffee, according to science.
Clickbait: Adult men trading cards.
In The NEWS
Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and "Giant" win top awards for best new musical and best new play at the 2025 Olivier Awards, the British equivalent of the Tony Awards (More)
> Jay North, child actor best known for playing titular role on "Dennis the Menace," dies at age 73 (More) | Clem Burke, longtime drummer for the rock band Blondie, dies at age 70 (More)
> Toronto Blue Jays sign Vladimir Guerrero Jr. to 14-year, $500M deal—the third largest contract in MLB history (More) | NBA regular season wraps up in one week; see the latest playoff picture (More)
Science & Technology
> New hormone found to stimulate ovulation in zebrafish; discovery may lead to new fertility treatments in humans (More)
> Study finds cytokines—small proteins that act as messengers between cells—that help fight infections can also infiltrate the brain, influencing behavior such as anxiety and sociability (More)
> Researchers discover a new family of microbes that live in the "critical zone" of the Earth's soil, the near-surface area that extends to depths of around 700 feet where groundwater is naturally cleaned of pollutants (More)
Business & Markets
> US Steel shares close up 16% after President Donald Trump orders national security panel to conduct new review of proposed US Steel sale to Japan's Nippon Steel; former President Joe Biden blocked the nearly $15B deal in January (More)
> Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke orders managers of the e-commerce software giant to prove AI can't perform a job before seeking permission to hire new workers (More)
> US crude oil falls below $60 a barrel midday to lowest level since 2021 as tariff tensions fuel recession concerns (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Supreme Court lifts order blocking deportations under 1798 Alien Enemies Act, says migrants must still get a court hearing before being deported from the US (More) | Supreme Court temporarily pauses lower court's deadline for the Trump administration to bring back wrongly deported Maryland man from El Salvador (More)
> President Donald Trump hosts Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for discussions covering tariffs, Gaza, and more; Trump also announces he will begin direct talks with Iran on its nuclear weapons program this weekend (More)
> Idaho mom Lori Vallow Daybell, who was convicted in 2023 of killing her youngest two children, begins trial over allegedly murdering her fourth husband (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
East Tennessee
WHY?
- Lower cost of living (food & housing)
- Low crime rate
- Moderate year long termperatures
- Less automobile traffic
- Excellent places to eat
- Outstanding recreational activities
- Proximity to healthcare & airports
- Good return on one's investment
Cons:
- low wages
- minimal job opportunities
- poor K-12 education
- high sales tax
- not modernized
- allergies
I moved from NC to TN because for my education and training, there were more opportunities here than in NC precisely because of the cons listed above. I remained precisely because of:
- the weather
- the low cost of living
- the low crime rate
- traffic
In 2015, my wife and I retired and it has been an EXCELLENT place for our retirement...
Lots of northerners move down to Florida to retire and move half way back to Tennessee because they have discovered the same issues that my wife and I have discovered.
TENNESSEE IS PERFECT FOR RETIREES
What to do in East TN:
1. NASCAR
2. Dollywood & Pigeon Forge
3. Great Smoky Mountains
4. TVA Lakes, parks, recreation
5. ORNL - Secret City (WWII - Atomic bomb)
6. Nashville - Country Music
7. Memphis - Elvis Presley
8. TN barbeque and moonshine
9. Chattanooga Zoo
10. Southern living and cooking
$8.4 Bn mine found in America — It will smash China, Russia and Ukraine
Tuesday, April 8
Robert Reich
In unity, there’s strength to confront Trump. In disunity, cowardice
Friends,
Let me first congratulate the 504 law firms that have thrown their support behind Perkins Coie in a friend-of-the-court brief. Perkins Coie was the first firm to receive a vindictive executive order from Trump that jeopardized its ability to represent government contractors and limited its access to federal buildings, all because one of its attorneys had helped investigate Russia’s support for Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
The 504 firms rightfully declare that Trump’s attack on law firms poses “a grave threat to our system of constitutional governance and to the rule of law itself.” Their brief goes on to say:
“Unless the judiciary acts decisively now, what was once beyond the pale will in short order become a stark reality. Corporations and individuals alike will risk losing their right to be represented by the law firms of their choice and a profound chill will be cast over the First Amendment right to petition the courts for redress.”
At A Glance
Visualizing concert ticketflation.
A day on Uranus is now 28 seconds longer.
The evolution of golf courses over the past 145 years.
America's 51 most beautiful places to visit.
How to make someone feel seen and heard.
Ronin the rat sets new landmine-sniffing record.
"Geesekeepers" protect goose nesting at Chicago's Wrigley Field.
The wild "freakosystem" born in Hawaii.
Clickbait: Cast your vote in the battle of the chickens.
In The NEWS
Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin scores his 895th goal, passing Wayne Gretzky to become the NHL's all-time leading goal scorer (More) | Carmelo Anthony and Sue Bird headline Basketball Hall of Fame's 2025 class (More)
> "A Minecraft Movie" hauls in $157M in its opening weekend, the top US domestic debut of 2025 and the biggest opening ever for a video game adaptation (More)
> Ed Sheeran and Weezer join Green Day, Lady Gaga, Travis Scott, and Post Malone as headliners for the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (April 11-13, 18-20) (More) | What is Coachella, anyway? This week's 1440 Society & Culture newsletter goes deep into the festival (Sign up here)
Science & Technology
> Meta releases Llama 4, the latest version of its flagship family of large language models (More) | Anthropic researchers suggest reasoning models—where chatbots explain how they arrived at an answer—cannot always be trusted (More)
> Researchers who discovered and characterized GLP-1, the hormone behind new weight-loss drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound, lead winners of 2025 Breakthrough Prizes (More) | How semaglutides work (1440 Topics)
> Scientists uncover new cellular mechanism that weakens bones as we age; cells that have stopped replicating release chemicals that make bone structures more brittle (More) | Aging 101 (1440 Topics)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets plunge Friday (S&P 500 -6.0%, Dow -5.5%, Nasdaq -5.8%) as countries respond to President Donald Trump's tariff plan (More) | Universal 10% tariff went into effect Saturday, additional tariffs that vary by country kick in Wednesday; see breakdown (More) | Trump adviser says multiple countries have signaled interest in beginning trade talks (More)
> Payment processor Klarna and ticket platform StubHub delay initial public offerings amid economic uncertainty (More)
> Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer, reports highest first quarter revenue on record and 24% year-over-year growth; growth driven by demand for AI products (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> "Hands off!" protests held in cities across the US Saturday; estimates say hundreds of thousands of demonstrators call for end to Trump administration efforts, from federal cuts to deportations (More) | See photos (More)
> Pope Francis makes surprise visit to crowds at the Vatican's St. Peter's Square; appearance comes two weeks after the 88-year-old pontiff was released from the hospital after a severe respiratory infection (More)
> Death toll from Myanmar quake rises above 3,350 as storms continue to slow rescue efforts (More) | See previous write-up (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
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