Friday, April 11
In The NEWS
Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> The 2025 Masters—one of four major championships in men's golf—begins today (3 pm ET, ESPN) from Augusta, Georgia; 2022 and 2024 winner Scottie Scheffler enters as favorite to win (More)
> Universal set to open a theme park in Bedford, UK, its first in Europe, in 2031; Universal currently has theme parks in Los Angeles, Orlando, Japan, Singapore, and China (More)
> "Hamilton" cast album and music by Elton John and Tracy Chapman among 25 recordings added to the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry (More) | See complete Library of Congress registry list (More)
Science & Technology
> Google unveils Ironwood, its most advanced dedicated AI processor to date; chips are designed to run in clusters of more than 9,200, capable of more than 42 quintillion operations per second (More)
> Engineers develop first wearable device to monitor health by analyzing gases going out of and into the skin (More)
> Complete genomes of six separate ape species fully detailed for the first time; results expected to provide insight into human evolution, inform conservation efforts (More)
Business & Markets
> Apple shares rise 15% in best day since 1998 on President Donald Trump's 90-day tariff pause (More) | Bitcoin surges more than 7% to over $82K as part of broader market rally (More) | Everything you want to know about bitcoin (1440 Topics)
> Delta Air Lines withdraws full-year financial guidance due to global trade disruptions (More) | Walmart pulls guidance for Q1 operating profit growth, vows to keep delivering low prices amid tariff uncertainty (More)
> Former Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams testifies before Senate Judiciary Committee alleging Meta compromised national security by sharing US artificial intelligence initiatives with China to expand its business there (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Trump administration pauses $1B in federal funding for Cornell University and $790M for Northwestern for allegedly violating civil rights on campus (More) | Federal judges in Texas, New York block Justice Department from removing plaintiffs in deportation cases tied to 1798 Alien Enemies Act (More)
> FBI Director Kash Patel removed as acting head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, replaced with Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll (More) | Acting IRS commissioner plans to resign after data-sharing deal with federal immigration authorities (More)
> Death toll from roof collapse at Dominican Republic music venue rises to at least 124 people (More) | See previous write-up (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
Our Govrnment
I grew up in the 1960s, graduated from high school and entered college. The Vietnam War was in full swing and I HATED THE GOVERNMENT for getting America into that war.
From the 1960s until the 2000, up through 2025, our government, mainly the CONGRESS and the PRESIDENT have done very little to change things from the standpoint that the same problems we had in the 1960s are still around today.
The only thing that Congress has done successfully is get themselves re-elected over the years.
- We still had racial issues
- We still have healthcare issues
- We still have drug issues
- We still have crime issues
- We still have educational issues
- We still have wealth gap issues
- We still have the wealthy not paying their fair share of taxes
Care to ask yourself why these issues are still around?
I want the Federal Government to stay the hell out of my life and to quit telling me what to do and how to do it and sometimes when to do it.
Mind your own frigging business...
Give me
- LOW TAXES
- No interference
- Safety and security
- Make the wealthy pay
- keep inflation down
- protect our workers
- educate us
- keep us healthy
Why in the hell would you allow ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS to enter our country when you cannot properly take care of the people who are already here?
What are you really doing to make life better for all of us?
- better jobs
- better pay
- safety
- water
- food
- shelter
What has the government done to make life better for those who are currently or will be in Congress???
Quantum Teleportation Achieved Over Internet For The First Time
A quantum state of light was successfully teleported through more than 30 kilometers (around 18 miles) of fiber optic cable amid a torrent of internet traffic – a feat of engineering once considered impossible.
The impressive demonstration by researchers in the US in 2024 may not help you beam to work to beat the morning traffic, or download your favourite cat videos faster.
However, the ability to teleport quantum states through existing infrastructure represents a monumental step towards achieving a quantum-connected computing network, enhanced encryption, or powerful new methods of sensing.
Thursday, April 10
Robert Reich
Trump only simulates madness
The rest of us pay the price
Friends,
In the last week, Trump has gone wild on the global economy, saying tariffs are the key to American prosperity.
As a result, global stock and bond markets tanked.
Today — telling reporters that “you have to be flexible” and conceding that “over the last few days it looked pretty glum” — Trump paused his tariffs for most countries for the next 90 days, backing down on his policy that had sent markets into a tailspin and threatened to upend global trade.
The reversal prompted the S&P 500 stock index to climb over 7 percent in just minutes.
Traders with inside information about what Trump was about to do — some of them, presumably, Trump family members and cronies — just made a fortune.
It looks like chaos, but Trump’s chaos always creates winners and losers, and Trump makes sure he’s on the winning side.
At A Glance
Explore religious demographics in all 50 states.
What makes some people so sensitive to allergies? (via YouTube)
Ranking the 100 best sci-fi movies ever made.
How shorthand texting makes for terrible dialogue.
Chimpanzee gets curious about a wildlife camera. (w/video)
Cadbury unveils the world's largest creme egg.
Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has feisty ostrich enc
ounter.
Clickbait: Angry Canadian geese trap students in home for days.
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.
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