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(5/21/25) The 30-second rule for conversations.

(5/12/25) Doctor gives science-backed advice for aging.

(5/16/25) Video captures "fog tsunami" rolling over Lake Michigan.

(5/5/25) The most beautiful English words, according to linguists.

(5/7/25) What's on the menu in the papal conclave cafeteria?

(5/19/25) US News ranks all 50 states.

(5/21/25) Newly discovered bright blue frog with copper legs.

(5/18/25) Airlines with the most (and least) complaints in 2024.

(5/13/25) Stonehenge-like structure found in Lake Michigan.

(5/6/25) Where US home prices are rising (and falling) the most.

Clickbait: World's first flying car prototype makes public debut. (w/video)

Historybook: Joan of Arc is executed (1431); Historian and philosopher Voltaire dies (1778); First Indianapolis 500 is held (1911); Lincoln Memorial is dedicated (1922); Crew Dragon Demo-2 becomes first commercial flight to International Space Station (2020).

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In The NEWS

Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Oklahoma City Thunder top Minnesota Timberwolves 4-1 to advance to NBA Finals for first time since 2012 (More) | Defending champs Florida Panthers beat the Carolina Hurricanes to reach the NHL Stanley Cup Final for a third straight year (More)

> Broadway hauls in $1.9B across all productions for the 2024-25 season, an all-time record and 23% jump from last year (More)

> Women's College World Series kicks off today with eight teams vying to become the NCAA softball national champion (More) | Onosato Daiki becomes first Japanese sumo grand champion, or yokozuna, since 2017; six of the last seven yokozunas were Mongolian (More)


Science & Technology
> Astronomers discover unexplained celestial object emitting both X-rays and radio waves roughly every 44 minutes; candidates—including a strongly magnetized neutron star and a white dwarf—fit some, but not all, of the data (More)

> Researchers successfully extract proteins from 200-year-old brain tissue, opening a new way to study the biology of deceased communities; technique relies on urea, the main component of urine, to break open cells in recovered tissue (More)

> New fuel cell design stores three times the energy of best-in-class battery technology; prototype uses liquid sodium metal as fuel, may have applications in electric planes (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close lower (S&P 500 -0.6%, Dow -0.6%, Nasdaq -0.5%) (More) | Federal court blocks Trump administration's reciprocal tariffs, saying president exceeded authority in using 1977 law to justify imposing duties (More)

> Nvidia beats estimates with 69% year-over-year Q1 revenue growth (More) | GameStop shares down nearly 11% after purchasing over $500M in bitcoin (More) | Elon Musk's xAI to pay messaging app Telegram $300M to integrate xAI's Grok chatbot for one year (More) | Anthropic appoints Netflix cofounder to board (More)

> Joby Aviation shares rise nearly 29% after electric air taxi maker receives $250M from Toyota (More) | Hailey Bieber's skincare brand Rhode to be acquired by e.l.f. Beauty in up to $1B deal (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> Justice Department opens investigation into decade-old California law allowing transgender athletes to compete in sports teams aligning with gender identity (More) | Transportation Department moves to end program carving out $37B for women- and minority-owned businesses in highway, transit contracts (More)

> European Union lifts all non-security-related sanctions on Syria, following US decision to lift sanctions earlier this month (More) | See previous write-up (More)

> Swiss glacier collapses, burying almost the entire village of Blatten; 300-person town had evacuated earlier in the month at geologists' warning (More)

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Simplicity of Life

 

Life for some is simple, for others it is complicated.  Life is only complicated if you try to make it be what you want it to be, rather than just letting it happen and enjoying what happens around you as it unfolds.

For example, many people think that money, power, influence, position, assets will make you happy...   It may provide you with a better lifestyle than others, but it will not make you happy.

My brother told me once that he was not retiring until he earned every last dollar that he could, then there would be nothing left for him to do except die.

IS THAT HAPPINESS?

Never being satisfied with how much money you have earned, always wanting or needing more...

That, in my opinion, is living a complicated life.

Life needs to be simple.

Earn what you can as best as you can - get whatever training you can afford...

then base your lifestyle on what you can afford...

Accept what you have -  NOT WHAT YOU WANT.

Accepting what you have is YOUR CHOICE...

No one can make that decision for you and once you accept what you have, you will instantly realize you are happy...  if you are still unhappy, then you have failed to accept what you have...

IT'S JUST THAT SIMPLE...

Somewhat Political

 

Physicists confirm the incredible existence of "time mirrors"

For decades, theoretical physicists tossed around the idea that time reflection, also known as “time mirrors,” might one day be demonstrated in a real-world experiment.  This idea seemed too big and wild, yet it kept popping up in serious discussions of quantum mechanics where equations hinted at surprising behavior.

A team led by Hady Moussa from the Advanced Science Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center (CUNY ASRC) in New York City has now confirmed that these mysterious events actually exist.

They pulled off a successful test by changing the properties of a device in a quick, uniform way so that signals reversed direction in time.

Understanding time mirrors
This sort of time flip has been described as looking into a mirror and spotting your back instead of your face. It sounds like science fiction, but it has a basis in real physics.

Researchers had predicted for more than 50 years that sudden shifts in a wave’s environment could trigger such reversals.

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We don't walk this way often, in fact, we only walk this way ONCE in our lifetimes that I know about...  maybe you know about others...  iffen you do, pls to let me know...

As I understand it, we have three branches of government...

• the executive
• the judicial
• the legislative

and one branch cannot tell the other branch how to execute its authorities...  however, the supreme court is the final authority when it comes to whether something is constitutional or not.

Normally, the supreme court has a strict interpretation of the constitution, or it does not.  If it is a strict interpretation then the court is believed to be conservative, if it is not then it is believed to be liberal.

We typically fail to understand that INTERPRETATION is what it is which mean a ruling might only be temporary.

What has got my feathers up is how part of the country, not really half no longer, hate DONALD TRUMP so much that they would hurt their own country to destroy him.

My feeling is that no group of people such as our founding fathers would have created or wanted our country to end up like this...  but unfortunately, it has; we are at a crossroads in our evolution that could ultimately determine our future role in the world.

China and Russia, along with Iran and North Korea are waiting for us to FALL AND FAIL...

They are playing the LONG GAME while many of us here in the good ole US of A are playing the MICROWAVE GAME of instant gratification.

Change things now without worry about any UNINTENTIONAL CONSEQUENCES...

Personally, I think it is time for us old folks to let these youngins have their way so that they can begin to learn like we did from our mistakes...  providing that is what they do these days.

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A federal trade court blocked Trump’s tariffs. You may not have heard of the Court of International Trade before, but you’re about to hear about it a lot: A three-judge panel knocked down most of President Trump’s tariffs yesterday, saying the emergency law he invoked to impose them (the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977) didn’t give him the power to do so. The panel said Congress couldn’t delegate “unbounded tariff power” to the president and that the US trade deficit didn’t meet the law’s definition of an extraordinary threat. The president used the law to impose the so-called reciprocal tariffs on almost all trading partners, as well as additional tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China. The Trump administration filed a notice saying it plans to appeal, and final say is likely to rest with the Supreme Court.

Nvidia’s sales still ripping despite lack of access to China market. Looks like CEO Jensen Huang isn’t going to regret his logo tattoo after all, since business is good at Nvidia. Yesterday, the chipmaker reported a profit of $18.8 billion, a 26% YoY increase, and $44.1 billion in revenue, a 69% jump. And it expects to keep the good times rolling next quarter, forecasting $45 billion in revenue, despite US restrictions that keep it from sending chips to China, one of the world’s biggest markets. Noting that “half of the world’s AI researchers” are based there, Huang told analysts that “shielding Chinese chip makers from US competition only strengthens them abroad.”

Elon Musk is “disappointed” by the Republican tax bill. Though President Trump has championed the megabill laying out taxes and spending that’s being considered by the Senate after passing the House, his confidant Musk isn’t sold on it because it adds to the deficit and “undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing.” Musk added in an interview clip released by CBS on Tuesday that he thinks “a bill can be big or it could be beautiful, but I don’t know if it could be both.” Then yesterday, Musk announced he was leaving his government role. When asked about Musk’s criticism of the bill, the president noted that negotiations are ongoing, and that compromises had to be made given the lack of support from Democrats and the GOP’s narrow House majority.—AR

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