Thursday, June 5
In The NEWS
Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Women's College World Series kicks off tonight (8 pm ET, ESPN) with Texas Tech taking on Texas in a best-of-three matchup for the NCAA softball national title (More) | Shigeo Nagashima, Japanese baseball legend, dies at age 89 (More)
> Washington, DC's Kennedy Center denies report of seeing a 36% drop in subscription sales compared to 2024 (More)
> President Donald Trump threatens hefty fines against California after state allowed a transgender female athlete to compete in track and field championships (More) | New York Knicks head coach Tom Thibodeau fired after five seasons despite team reaching Eastern Conference Finals for first time in 25 years (More)
Science & Technology
> China's DeepSeek may have trained its latest AI chatbot in part on Google's Gemini, new research suggests; the company made waves earlier this year for its low-cost model (More)
> Scientists make most precise measurement to date of the magnetic properties of the muon, a subatomic particle created by cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere; results confirm anomalous properties not explained by theory (More)
> New simulation reveals second-by-second details of what happens when a black hole consumes a neutron star; results let astrophysicists know what signals to look for to identify the events (More) | 1440 Topics: Black Holes (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +0.6%, Dow +0.5%, Nasdaq +0.8%); Nvidia overtakes Microsoft as world's most valuable company (More) | US tariffs on steel and aluminum imports to double starting today (More) | Ford reports 16% year-over-year US sales increase in May amid tariffs (More)
> US job openings rose to 7.4 million in April, up 191,000 from March and higher than expected, per Labor Department data (More) | Dollar General sets quarterly sales record of over $10B as Americans spend more at bargain stores (More)
> Walmart, Amazon, and UnitedHealth top Fortune 500 annual list of largest US companies by revenue (More) | Number of women CEOs leading Fortune 500 companies hits new record of 55 (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> White House proposes package to Congress to reclaim $9.4B in approved spending, mostly targeting foreign aid (More) | US immigration authorities detain family of suspect in Colorado attack (More) | Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth orders removal of gay rights activist Harvey Milk's name from a Navy oil ship (More)
> Liberal Lee Jae-myung wins South Korean presidency, ending months of political instability after the ousting of former conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol (More) | Mexico's ruling Morena party appears likely to control the Supreme Court in the country's first judicial election (More)
> Crimea bridge reopens after Ukraine carried out underwater explosion; bridge connects the Russian-occupied peninsula to Russia (More) | Gunfire near Gaza aid site kills at least 27 people; Israeli military says it fired near people who strayed from a designated route to the site and who did not respond to warning shots (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
Wars and Rumors of Wars
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Is war good for the USA?
Yes and no...
Not straddling the fence, that answer is accurate.
Yes, because of all the business it will create making items for war.
No, because supply chains will be disrupted and Americans will have to do without and/or pay higher prices.
However, I believe the Yeses outweigh the no's.
Why?
Money...
With this said, if there is a WORLD WAR like WWIII, then I believe the cons will outweigh the pros.
This is especially true, if the war is brought into our borders which it is hard to believe that this will ever happen again, but if it does, Americans are not mentally or physically equipped or prepared to fight a war inside our borders.
However, if something like that were to happen, it would be the wealthy who more than likely will survive the crisis as if there had been no crisis at all.
The average American and those who are poor who suffer the most, along with the elderly who by default would be more needy of things.
On the whole, WAR IS NOT GOOD... yet, Americans are constantly being sent overseas to fight wars. The countries they are sent to, don't want them there either... Our leaders send Americans there to try and convince those countries to become democracies, like us.
Very few countries and ethnic groups want to be like AMERICANS.
Scientists find a way to fit diamond quantum sensors inside living cells
What do luxury diamonds, quantum physics, and your flat-screen QLED TV have in common? Well, if you combine their characteristics, you could have quantum sensors that could fit inside your cell and detect diseases like diabetes, cancer, etc., at their earliest stages.
This isn’t some far-fetched idea, but the latest achievement from researchers at the University of Chicago and the University of Iowa.
Using a special shell, which is also used in QLED screens, they transformed ordinary diamond nanoparticles into advanced quantum sensors that can work inside living cells. This innovation could revolutionize how we monitor cellular health and detect diseases early.
Wednesday, June 4
Robert Reich
Friends,
Trump’s personal money-making schemes haven’t elicited the outrage that would once have generated huge political blowback, televised hearings, official investigations, and damage control.
Does the dearth (if not death) of outrage illustrate how far Trump has moved the norms of acceptable presidential behavior?
Or is outrage still there, but the American public has no means of calling him out because Trump has dismantled the system of accountability?
I’d appreciate your view about this, along with your sense of the most significant way Trump has dismantled the system of accountability.
Here’s my list of his dismantling:
At A Glance
How Scottsdale, Arizona, became the fastest-growing millionaire hub.
These 10 pennies could be worth a small fortune one day.
Ranking the states with the highest earners.
How a Japanese woman is reviving the cuisine of "the island of longevity."
What psychics can teach us about treating auditory hallucinations.
Meet a national park's five newest sled puppies. (w/livestream)
Why being "Type C" is one of the latest parenting trends.
Ultramarathoner breastfeeds while running—and wins.
Clickbait: Enjoy some photos of #owlsintowels.
In The NEWS
Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Novak Djokovic reaches French Open quarterfinals for a record-breaking 19th time (More) | ... and American Coco Gauff reaches French Open quarters for fifth consecutive year (More)
> Comedian Marc Maron's pioneering podcast "WTF" to end this fall after 16 years and nearly 2,000 episodes (More)
> Harvey Weinstein won't testify at his retrial on rape and sexual assault charges as closing arguments begin today (More) | John Brenkus, longtime host of Emmy-winning show "Sport Science," dies at age 54 after battle with depression (More)
Science & Technology
> Brain implant startup Paradromics completes its first human demonstration, inserting and removing the device into an epileptic patient; company is viewed as a potential competitor to Neuralink (More) | Neuralink raises $650M, investment round includes Founders Fund and Sequoia Capital (More)
> New simulation suggests the Milky Way has only a 50% chance of eventually colliding with the Andromeda Galaxy in roughly 10 billion years, potentially prevented by the pull of the Large Magellanic Cloud (More)
> Undergraduate student discovers fungus that produces compounds with effects similar to synthetic LSD (More) | LSD explained (1440 Topics)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +0.4%, Dow +0.1%, Nasdaq +0.7%); steel stocks, including Cleveland-Cliffs (+23%) and Steel Dynamics (+10%), rally after President Donald Trump announces doubling of tariffs on steel imports (More)
> Google to spend $500M over next decade to overhaul its compliance systems to settle shareholder antitrust lawsuit (More) | French drugmaker Sanofi to buy US-based Blueprint Medicines for up to $9.5B to boost position in rare immunology diseases (More)
> Office demolitions and conversions this year exceed new construction for first time in 25 years, per new data (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Russia and Ukraine meet for hourlong peace talks in Istanbul, agree to exchange more prisoners of war and return the bodies of 12,000 dead soldiers; no progress reached in proposed ceasefire (More)
> Italy's Mount Etna (Europe's tallest volcano) erupts, with the pyroclastic flow—made up of ash, rock, and gas—likely caused by the collapse of material from the side of a southeast crater (More, w/video)
> Populist-nationalist Karol Nawrocki wins Poland's presidential election, narrowly defeating pro-EU Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski; will take office Aug. 6 (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
Success
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This is an elusive term because it means different things to different people; however, success is typically measured by:
- WEALTH
- POWER
- POSITION
For others, success is measured by:
- one's level of faith
- one's longevity
- one's family
- one's friends
- one's health
- one's giving back
If you subscribe to the latter form of measurement then the former form of measurement is somewhat, if not altogether MEANINGLESS.
I consider myself to be successful because I worked for 45+ years and pretty much did exactly what I wanted even though I never made a large annual salary.
My friends you could count on one hand but they were all loyal and lifelong
My accomplishments focused around making sure others had a good chance at being successful too.
At 77 years of age and before 2025 ends, I will be 78, I consider myself having led a successful life and have ended up with enough savings to pay my bills and very little else.
I am happy and have contentment and joy for the most part; joy comes and goes but I am motivated by having gratitude with the life I have been given.
For me, wealth, power, position are overrated concepts.
Earth's Core Holds a Vast Reservoir of Gold, And It's Leaking Toward The Surface
New evidence suggests molten heavy metals such as gold are leaking out of Earth's core.
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Earth's core is rich with gold, and it's leaking out through the mantle and into the crust, new research has found.
A new study of isotopes found in the volcanic rock that oozed out from deep under the lithosphere has revealed precious metals in Earth's crust, including gold, initially leaked out of the core before beginning the long, long journey up to the surface, borne on convecting magma.
"When the first results came in, we realized that we had literally struck gold!" says geochemist Nils Messling of Göttingen University in Germany. "Our data confirmed that material from the core, including gold and other precious metals, is leaking into the Earth's mantle above."
Although we can access gold in Earth's crust, the amount there is an estimated minuscule fraction of the total quantity that our planet possesses. Like a dragon, Earth is hoarding most of its gold: research suggests more than 99 percent is in its metallic core – enough to cover all of Earth's land in gold 50 centimeters (20 inches) thick.
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