At A Glance

Ten films that circumvented Hollywood's mid-century censorship code.

How the fear of the self fuels obsessive-compulsive disorder.

The renaissance in the ancient art of calligraphy.

How much of your life do you actually control?

What makes the B-2 Bomber so sophisticated.

Everything you need to know about the Vietnam War.

Why are subway walls tiled?

Explaining galactic archaeology in 10 minutes.

Gen Z men are driving perfume sales.

How maps were made before modern times.

The stunning advances in observing living cells.

Fanfiction communities want AI off their work.

A method for remembering everything.

How "turn on, tune in, and drop out" became a hippie anthem.

My 6-Step Framework for Eating a Balanced Diet

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In The NEWS

Trump ends trade talks with Canada over digital services tax.

President Donald Trump said yesterday he is halting trade talks with Canada in response to a new tax on companies making more than $15M off Canadian internet users. The tax, for which first payments will be collected Monday, is estimated to cost US companies up to $3B. Trump said he would inform Canada of the tariff levels he plans to impose within seven days; Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has not responded at the time of this writing.



Son of Norway's crown princess charged with sexual assault.

Marius Borg Høiby, the eldest son of Norway's Crown Princess Mette-Marit, has been charged by Oslo police with multiple offenses, including rape, sexual assault, and bodily harm, after an investigation involving a "double-digit" number of alleged victims. The 28-year-old Høiby denies most of the accusations. See an overview of the royal family here.



Scientists discover how squids make themselves transparent.

A research team led by scientists at the University of California, Irvine, has revealed how squids manipulate light to shift from transparent to vividly colored. They found cells composed of stacked, spiraling columns of platelets from a protein called reflectin function as reflectors, selectively transmitting and reflecting light at specific wavelengths. The breakthrough could inspire advances in adaptive camouflage, responsive fabrics, and optical technologies.



Fed's preferred inflation gauge rises more than expected in May.

The core personal consumption expenditures price index, which measures costs consumers pay across a wide range of items, excluding food and energy, rose 2.7% year over year and 0.2% month over month. The annualized rate is up 0.1 percentage point from April. The Federal Reserve targets 2% annual inflation. Learn more about the index here.



Lalo Schifrin, composer of the 'Mission: Impossible' theme, dies at 93.

The Grammy-winning Argentine composer passed away from complications of pneumonia. During his career, Schifrin created more than 100 film and television scores. He was best known for composing the "Mission: Impossible" theme's "dun dun dun-dun dun dun" hook, which became a signature for both the original 1960s TV series and the Tom Cruise film franchise.



Tectonic forces may create a new ocean in Africa.

British university researchers say pulsing waves of molten rock deep beneath Ethiopia’s Afar region are slowly stretching and thinning Africa's crust; the motion is guided by the tectonic plates above. Although the continent isn't expected to split for millions of years, growing insights into the relationship between deep Earth pulses and tectonic activity could enhance understandings of surface volcanism and earthquakes.

SOURCE:  1440 NEWS

Something About Religion

 

According to what I remember reading in the Bible, God made heaven and earth in six days and on the seventh day, he rested, hence SUNDAYS.

Why did it take GOD, the ALMIGHTY, seven days to create the universe?

Were each of those days, 24 hours in length?

Did God work at his creation for the entire 24 hours or did he work just a few hours a day?

If he worked straight through, then God worked 144 hours without stopping.

My first question is that if God is God, why did it take him so long?

The stories in the Bible remind me of the stories that I read about Greek, Roman, and Norse Mythology, except those mythologies revolve around many gods and the Bible only talks about one...  still the stories are similar.

Special people with special powers coming down from the heavens, trying to influence and control how we live our lives.

Jesus dying on the cross for instance was SYMBOLIC in that through his death, all our sins were overlooked.

One Death for BILLIONS perhaps TRILLIONS of sins given all the people ever born...  that is EXCEPT all those people born before JESUS.  Those people are SOL.

We are taught by our religious leaders that we are born into SIN and yet, we had no say so in our own birth.  If we had a choice in our own birth would we have chosen NOT TO BE BORN?  So that we would not be born into sin and therefore have no need for religion or the Bible.

Were we born to justify what was going to be written in the Bible...  something like a self-fulfilling prophecy?

We cannot control our own birth and yet we are expected to be able to control our own SINS...

We can also commit sins all our lives and right before our death, ask for forgiveness, and say we believe in Jesus, and we are forgiven...

Lots of death row inmates find religion right before their execution...

<<<The last shall be first and the first shall be last>>>

Somewhat Political

 

The ocean is changing colors, researchers say. Here's what it means.

The researchers analyzed satellite data on the open ocean collected from 2003 to 2022 by a NASA instrument that combs through the planet every two days to measure light wavelength, according to the paper.

The presence of chlorophyll in open ocean is a proxy for concentrations of phytoplankton biomass. The colors indicate how chlorophyll concentration is changing at specific latitudes, in which the subtropics are generally losing chlorophyll, and the polar regions -- the high-latitude regions -- are greening, the researchers said.

Green areas became greener, especially in the northern hemisphere, and blue regions "got even bluer," according to a press release by Duke University.

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Summer Mountains

 

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Azalea

 

Brookings Brief

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The Big THINK

 

Breaking the thought trap of anger

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Trump ends trade talks with Canada over tech tax. President Trump posted to Truth Social yesterday that the US would be “terminating ALL discussions on Trade with Canada, effective immediately” and would set new tariffs on Canadian goods within a week. Trump cut off trade negotiations after feeling that US Big Tech companies weren’t experiencing the famous Canadian friendliness because the country is imposing a new digital services tax similar to the one tech giants loathe in Europe. Canada has long been an ally and one of the US’ largest trading partners, but recent US tariffs have raised tensions.

Consumers spent less in May, but were happier in June. Last month, US consumers pulled back for the first time since January, and personal incomes also fell, data released yesterday by the Commerce Department showed. Meanwhile, the personal consumption expenditures price index—the Fed’s favorite inflation gauge—ticked up slightly. But the economic data wasn’t all a bummer, because as the most recent survey results from the University of Michigan revealed, consumer sentiment rose this month, with Americans feeling rosier about their economic future as the initial fears raised by the president’s aggressive tariffs began to subside.

University of Virginia president resigns amid DEI fight. A day after the New York Times reported that the Department of Justice had urged UVA President James Ryan to step down to resolve an investigation into the school’s diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, he did just that. “I cannot make a unilateral decision to fight the federal government in order to save my own job,” he said in a letter to the university community. Ryan, who had led the school since 2018, drew criticism from conservatives for the school’s DEI practices, and the DOJ claimed that the university had failed to comply with a Trump executive order that banned schools with federal funding from having them. The resignation comes as the Trump administration has also put pressure on other universities, including Harvard and Columbia.—AR

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At A Glance

Bookkeeping
> $520K: Hammer price of Princess Diana's "Caring Dress" at a charity auction.
> 11 days, 19 hours, 23 minutes: Quickest time to scuba dive on every continent.

Browse
> Can the social media app BeReal make a comeback?
> Two brothers have a vision for their abandoned $10K Boeing 727.
> Ranking the best (and worst) states for summer road trips.
> Meet the man who photographs insects in extreme detail.
> Transform gifts into perfectly baked loaves of bread.

Listen
> Is location sharing changing relationships for better or worse?
> The rise and continued reign of the American sleepaway camp.

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> Former CIA officer shares the art of uncovering and concealing secrets.
> Filipino chocolate is melting away. What will it take to save it?
> How grocery stores transformed the world and human health.
> Brighten your weekend with some baby giggles.

Long Read
> A plea from a millennial to Gen Z to bring back house parties.
> Childhood through the eyes of a drug dealer’s innocent daughter.

Most Clicked This Week: Telegram CEO to give $14B fortune to his 100+ kids.

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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> The 2025 NHL Draft kicks off tonight (7 pm ET, ESPN); see complete first round mock draft (More) | ... and NBA Draft wraps up; see complete draft results (More)

> Ariana Grande, Kieran Culkin, and Mikey Madison among 534 invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, organizers of the Oscars (More) | Denis Villeneuve tapped to become director of latest James Bond film (More)

> Kenya's Faith Kipyegon runs fastest-ever mile for a woman but fails to break the four-minute mile barrier (More) | PayPal signs multiyear deal with Big Ten and Big 12 to facilitate payments to student-athletes (More)


Science & Technology
> Meta hires top OpenAI researcher, Trapit Bansal, to help lead new "superintelligence" unit; poaching is the latest in a reported multi-hundred-million-dollar hiring spree by Meta to jump-start lagging AI program (More) | Meta explained (1440 Topics)

> World's oldest rocks confirmed to be almost 4.2 billion years old; region along Canada's Hudson Bay shore is the only known formation to remain from Earth's Hadean Eon (More) | What was the Hadean Eon? (More, w/video)

> New study suggests babies born prematurely may feel pain before developing the brain circuitry needed to understand and react to the experience (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +0.8%, Dow +0.9%, Nasdaq +1.0%); S&P 500, Nasdaq briefly trade above all-time closing highs as White House signals July 8-9 tariff deadlines could be extended (More)

> The US economy shrank at 0.5% annual rate during the first three months of 2025, faster than previous estimate of 0.2%, per final report; decline was driven partly by slowdown in consumer spending and a surge in imports ahead of tariffs (More)

> Core Scientific shares close up 33% following report AI infrastructure provider CoreWeave is in talks to buy the bitcoin mining firm (More) | Nike beats Q4 estimates, but reports 12% year-over-year drop in sales (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei downplays US strikes and warns against further attacks in first public remarks since ceasefire (More) | Iran's centrifuges at Fordo are no longer operational, per UN watchdog's head, citing their susceptibility to vibrations (More)

> Ukrainian forces stop Russian advance in the northern region of Sumy, per top general (More) | At least 29 students dead, more than 250 injured in stampede following electric transformer explosion in the Central African Republic (More)

> Ecuador's most wanted man—drug lord Adolfo Macías Villamar—captured in underground bunker beneath luxury home in 10-hour operation; Villamar, also known as "Fito," was the leader of cocaine-trafficking Los Choneros (More)

SOURCE:  1440 NEWS

Owning a Home

 

I have heard from several news outlets like CNN, FOX News, CBS, MSNBC, and ABC that the AMERICAN DREAM is no longer available to Americans, especially when it comes to home ownership.

They blame the reason for this on low wages and the high cost of living.  Both of those reasons are accurate - wages are low and the cost of living is high, especially in the SOUTH.

However, that has never stopped the low wage earners in Tennessee from buying a house, like the people in the north and other parts of the USA claim it does them.

People in Tennessee and I would assume in other states as well, buy cheap homes as a starter home, usually around $50,000.  Then after five years, they upgrade to a $100,000 home.  Again, after five years, they upgrade to a $200,000 home.  Five more years go by and they acquire a $300,000 that they live in for maybe ten years this time before buying a $400,000 home.

After twenty-five years, they are now able to afford a really nice home.  When I say really nice home, a $400,000 home in the south is like buying an $800,000 to a $1,000,000 home up north or out west in California.

It is my guess that those who are bitching about not being able to buy a home, are those who want a $200,000 to $300,000 home from the getgo and who have no desire to pay their dues.

People in Tennessee especially East Tennessee, work as electrician, carpenters, bank tellers, retail clerks, etc.  and have no problem buying themselves starter homes.

Tennessee is one of the lowest wage-earning states in the USA and yet home ownership is never out of the question either as a single person or a couple.

This is one of the reasons why I don't trust or believe mainstream media news outlets.

Somewhat Political

 

New theory proposes time has three dimensions, with space as a secondary effect

Time, not space plus time, might be the single fundamental property in which all physical phenomena occur, according to a new theory by a University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist.

The theory also argues that time comes in three dimensions rather than just the single one we experience as continual forward progression. Space emerges as a secondary manifestation.

"These three time dimensions are the primary fabric of everything, like the canvas of a painting," said associate research professor Gunther Kletetschka at the UAF Geophysical Institute. "Space still exists with its three dimensions, but it's more like the paint on the canvas rather than the canvas itself."

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