Tuesday, May 6
In The NEWS
Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Sovereignty edges race favorite Journalism to win 151st Kentucky Derby; the Preakness Stakes, the second leg of horse racing's Triple Crown, is set for May 17 (More) | See photos of this year's Derby hats (More)
> Jury selection begins today in the trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs on charges of sex trafficking and racketeering; Combs turned down a plea deal last week (More)
> Bomb attack thwarted at free Lady Gaga concert at Rio de Janeiro's world-famous Copacabana Beach; concert drew a record crowd of more than 2 million attendees (More)
Science & Technology
> National Science Foundation to cap indirect costs—funding attached to research and development grants to support operations and administrative functions—at 15%; follows similar efforts at the Department of Energy and National Institutes of Health (More)
> Common gut fungus is found to help treat certain types of fatty liver disease; study sheds light on the complex influence of the gut microbiome on the body (More) | Gut microbiome 101 (More)
> Sperm cells switch to a hyperactive swimming state in warmer temperatures, new study finds; research may help lead to new fertility treatments (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher Friday (S&P 500 +1.5%, Dow +1.4%, Nasdaq +1.5%), with the S&P 500 notching its ninth consecutive day of gains, the longest winning streak since November 2004 (More)
> OPEC+ countries reportedly agree to hike oil output to nearly 1 million barrels per day in April, May, and June; decision comes despite oil prices reaching a four-year low last month amid concerns over a trade war and economic slowdown (More)
> Apple ends policy barring cryptocurrency apps from directing their users to off-app payment systems; decision follows judge's April 30 ruling the company's behavior violated a 2021 injunction (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Yemen's Houthi rebels fire missile at Israel's main international airport in Tel Aviv, wounding eight people; Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vows to respond (More)
> Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, of the center-left Labor Party, becomes the country's first prime minister to win reelection in 21 years; conservative opposition leader Peter Dutton loses parliamentary seat (More) | Singapore's People’s Action Party extends 66-year rule (More)
> Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey experiences air traffic control staffing issues, prompting hundreds of flight delays; United Airlines cancels all round-trip flights from the airport, impacting 35 flights per day (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
Time & its passing
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How often do you think about time?
When you are late for work maybe or late for a date. When you are bored, but you cannot leave yet. Perhaps, you might think about time on the last day of your vacation or a cruise or the last hour of a party or the last time you will see someone.
There are instances that force us to think about time but outside of those influences we seldom, if ever think about TIME and the PASSING OF TIME.
But the fact remains, our lives constantly are revolving and evolving around time and once time is gone, you can never get it back.
What happened to you a minute ago or a second ago is GONE FOREVER.
When we are young, we usually think TIME moves too slow and as we get older and older, we perceive that TIME moves too fast.
Our entire transportation system is predicated on shortening time.
- walking
- riding in a wagon
- riding an animal
- riding in a train
- riding in a car
- riding in an airplane
- riding in a jet
When all is said and done and get to that age where we can retire, we wonder where all the time went - how fast our lives passed by - wishing we could do it all again - the changes we would make - the mistakes we would not make...
This happens to most of us and when we trying to pass that knowledge on to young people, they look at us as if we have our heads up our asses. They believe very little, if anything, regarding what we have tried to share.
All of this was told to me and I ignored it, just like you are ignoring me.
Lucid Dreaming Isn't Sleep or Wakefulness—It’s a New State of Consciousness, Scientists Find
Have you ever had a dream in which you realized you were dreaming?
When you become conscious of the fact that you are dreaming, you can take advantage of that knowledge and manipulate the dream. If you want to do something that is physically impossible in the real world, such as flying, you can leap into the air and take flight. Someone who realizes they are trapped in a nightmare can convince themselves to wake up.
The state known as lucid dreaming is an unquestionably surreal one, and it just got even more so. A team of researchers—led by Çağatay Demirel from the Donders Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging at Radboud University Medical Center, the Netherlands—has discovered that lucid dreaming has now been found to be a state of consciousness separate from both wakefulness and REM sleep (the state usually associated with dreams), and is in fact associated with its own unique type of brain activity. They published a study on their findings in the Journal of Neuroscience.
Monday, May 5
Robert Reich
They’re corruption.
Friends,
Words matter. When the media points out Trump’s “potential conflicts of interest,” as it has in recent days when describing Trump’s growing crypto enterprise, it doesn’t come close to telling the public what’s really going on — unprecedented paybacks and self-dealing by the president of the United States, using his office to make billions.
The correct word is corruption.
Trump holds a private dinner at the White House for major speculators who purchase his new cryptocurrency, earning him and his allies $900,000 in trading fees in just under two days. One senator calls this “the most brazenly corrupt thing a president has ever done.”
At A Glance
Workers install chimney on Sistine Chapel ahead of conclave.
Two-seater couch becomes travel destination.
The most beautiful English words, according to linguists.
How habits are formed. (w/video)
Debunking common travel myths.
1440 Topics: Everything you wanted to know about K-pop.
World's tallest and smallest dogs have a playdate. (w/photo)
... and the most popular dog name in your state.
Meet the world's oldest living woman.
Clickbait: "Star Wars"-styled airbike takes flight. (w/video)
The Pulitzer Prize
Joseph Pulitzer and yellow journalism
One way Joseph Pulitzer revolutionized the newspaper industry was by mainstreaming “yellow journalism,” or reporting that relied on sensationalism and could be a little loose with the facts. This video explains how the struggle for readers between Pulitzer and rival William Randolph Hearst pushed that sensationalism to the next level. Watch it here.
A ranking of the 100 best Pulitzer-winning books
No ranking is definitive, but this site compiled expert analysis with book sales and other factors to rank the best books to win the Pulitzer. The list is topped by Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” and includes fiction and nonfiction winners, providing a starred fan ranking and endorsements from experts and famous people. Check out the list here.
The Pulitzers' biggest controversies
From fabricated articles to fiction that inspired FBI surveillance, these are five of the most controversial moments in Pulitzer Prize history. Among them: the Pulitzer board’s decision not to give novelist Sinclair Lewis the 1921 award for fiction. This snub led the author of “Main Street” to become the first recipient to reject the prize in 1926. Read more here.
How the Pulitzer jury made its first hip-hop selection
Kendrick Lamar’s 2017 Pulitzer made history as the firs hip-hop artist ever to receive the award. Get a behind-the-scenes look at how the jury made its groundbreaking selection in this interview with music professor Farah Jasmine Griffin. She discusses the selection process, reactions, and hip-hop's growing significance. Listen to the story here.
Do Pulitzers help newspapers keep readers?
This historical look at the correlation between winning a Pulitzer and reader numbers comes from data expert Nate Silver. Silver argues the awards mostly don’t affect readership. But his data was restricted to newspapers between 2004-13—the rise in hyperlocal online outlets receiving awards over the last few years could change the game completely. Read here.
Visualizing 100 years of Pulitzers
This fascinating data visualization breaks down a century of Pulitzer Prizes. Award categories are laid out against a timeline, and the symbols used to represent each winner indicate the topic of the winning work, the number of prizes won by that outlet thus far, and whether the prize was awarded to an individual or a newsroom. Zoom in on the data here.
One way Joseph Pulitzer revolutionized the newspaper industry was by mainstreaming “yellow journalism,” or reporting that relied on sensationalism and could be a little loose with the facts. This video explains how the struggle for readers between Pulitzer and rival William Randolph Hearst pushed that sensationalism to the next level. Watch it here.
A ranking of the 100 best Pulitzer-winning books
No ranking is definitive, but this site compiled expert analysis with book sales and other factors to rank the best books to win the Pulitzer. The list is topped by Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” and includes fiction and nonfiction winners, providing a starred fan ranking and endorsements from experts and famous people. Check out the list here.
The Pulitzers' biggest controversies
From fabricated articles to fiction that inspired FBI surveillance, these are five of the most controversial moments in Pulitzer Prize history. Among them: the Pulitzer board’s decision not to give novelist Sinclair Lewis the 1921 award for fiction. This snub led the author of “Main Street” to become the first recipient to reject the prize in 1926. Read more here.
How the Pulitzer jury made its first hip-hop selection
Kendrick Lamar’s 2017 Pulitzer made history as the firs hip-hop artist ever to receive the award. Get a behind-the-scenes look at how the jury made its groundbreaking selection in this interview with music professor Farah Jasmine Griffin. She discusses the selection process, reactions, and hip-hop's growing significance. Listen to the story here.
Do Pulitzers help newspapers keep readers?
This historical look at the correlation between winning a Pulitzer and reader numbers comes from data expert Nate Silver. Silver argues the awards mostly don’t affect readership. But his data was restricted to newspapers between 2004-13—the rise in hyperlocal online outlets receiving awards over the last few years could change the game completely. Read here.
Visualizing 100 years of Pulitzers
This fascinating data visualization breaks down a century of Pulitzer Prizes. Award categories are laid out against a timeline, and the symbols used to represent each winner indicate the topic of the winning work, the number of prizes won by that outlet thus far, and whether the prize was awarded to an individual or a newsroom. Zoom in on the data here.
Peace of Mind
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Peace of mind is directly correlated to one's sense of success and accomplishment, consequently, this state of mind is not realized until much later in life, like right before retirement or right after retirement, so one might say between the ages of 60-70.
However, since peace of mind is often related to MONEY, many artists and musicians, for instance reach a sense of accomplishment, success, and contentment (peace of mind) early in life, well before the age of 40-50. BUT, there is a downside to that early success that revolves around: WHAT DO I DO NEXT?
Since peace of mind is multifaceted, I can only describe my peace of mind because that is the one which I am obviously directly connected with.
Throughout my working career, I was relatively content and happy because I was doing what I enjoyed but constantly stressed out because of my supervisors, management, and co-workers who tried to undermine so they could be promoted to my position.
I was clever enough to survive all of that but the stress that was associated with that took a toll on me both mentally and physically.
RETIREMENT... got me away from that pressure and it took several years to cleanse my body of that toxicity and influence on my behavior.
Fortunately, my wife and I had the mindset to plan for our retirement and when it came time for that to happen at ages 67 and 62, we were both pleasantly surprise to see how much wealth we had amassed. While we are NOT WEALTHY, we have enough saved to live a comfortable life, very similar if not identical to the one we were living while working.
That financial security gave us both a high level of PEACE OF MIND.
With finances out of the way, we could focus on enriching our own lives, doing what we wanted to do and not what we had to do.
- My wife stopped cooking, so I took up the task of cooking.
- My wife got involved with K-Dramas and now is involved in teaching herself the history of Korea, China, and Japan
- We go on two vacations a year
- We enjoy family and friends
- We downsized our house and yard to lessen the upkeep and maintenance required.
- We exercise, eat healthy, and get plenty of sleep.
- I make sure that I leave the house for appointments, so I don't have to drive fast.
- I maintain two blogs daily and write novels
This is what peace of mind means to my wife and I.
Big Bang Theory Debunked? A Physicist Presents An Alternative
A groundbreaking cosmological theory is taking the scientific community by storm, suggesting that the universe did not originate from a single Big Bang. Instead, this bold idea proposes that the cosmos has evolved through multiple, rapid bursts of energy known as temporal singularities.
Temporal Singularities: The Universe’s Hidden Forces
In a new paper published in Classical and Quantum Gravity, Dr. Richard Lieu, a physics professor at The University of Alabama in Huntsville, introduces a fresh perspective on the universe’s expansion.
According to Lieu, the cosmos is not the product of a one-time Big Bang. Rather, it has grown through a series of ultra-fast, step-like bursts that release energy and matter across the entire universe.
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