Friday, October 10
Headlines
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Trump says Israeli hostages will be returned early next week. A day after Israel and Hamas said they had agreed to the first phase of a US-brokered ceasefire in Gaza, President Trump said that Hamas will return the 20 surviving hostages on “Monday or Tuesday” in exchange for Israel releasing hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. Israel’s Cabinet voted last night to formally approve the agreement, which will also see the Israeli military withdraw to a line that leaves it in control of 53% of the Gaza Strip, a spokesperson said. The agreement does not address what’s to come of postwar Gaza and whether Hamas will disarm. Trump plans to travel to the Middle East this weekend to speak to Israel’s Parliament and attend a signing of the agreement in Egypt.
Rare earth stocks soar after China further curbs exports. Several US rare earth mining companies surged by double digits yesterday after China announced it was tightening exports of the metals, which are crucial in the development of the computer chips powering AI and other technologies. Investors speculated that the increased scrutiny of rare earths leaving China would encourage the US to ramp up investment in its own supply chain. China’s move comes ahead of an expected meeting between President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping later this month. China has been limiting exports of the important metals in response to Trump’s tariffs.
Tesla is under investigation again. It’s a day that ends in “y,” and so that means Elon Musk’s automaker must be under investigation. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is probing Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) feature after 58 incidents of traffic violations, including cars running red lights and driving on the wrong side of the road while operating in the mode. Tesla says drivers still need to pay attention to the road when FSD is equipped. The investigation follows a slew of government inquiries this year looking at other Tesla features, as well as the company’s crash reporting practices.—AE
At A Glance
Princess Catherine of Wales pens essay on human connection.
Understanding the naked mole rat's long lifespan.
See trailer for upcoming "Game of Thrones" prequel.
The unpopularity behind RSVP'ing "maybe."
See playground made by Nike and Lego.
Evidence of kings on Scotland’s western isles.
Supermodel Tyra Banks teases hot ice cream.
Monarch butterfly receives wing transplant.
Dreams of having a private chef: answered.*
Clickbait: Hair today, gone tomorrow.
Historybook: United States Naval Academy opens (1845); American actress Helen Hayes born (1900); Filmmaker Orson Welles dies (1985); Hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship ends (1985); "Superman" actor Christopher Reeve dies (2004).
In The NEWS
Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> The 2025 MacArthur Foundation's "genius grant" recipients announced; each of this year's 22 winners gets a no-strings-attached $800K award (More)
> Cristiano Ronaldo becomes first soccer player to top $1B net worth, combining his career salary, investments, and endorsements (More)
> Taylor Swift's "The Life of a Showgirl" breaks Adele's record for most albums sold in one week with 3.5 million sold in just five days (More)
Science & Technology
> Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to US-, Australia-, and Japan-based scientists for developing porous molecular architecture used to extract pollutants from water, capture carbon dioxide from air, and store hydrogen for energy (More)
> Scientists identify brain area linked to chronic pain, which affects one in five people worldwide; finding could lead to interventions that mute pain signals (More)
> SoftBank strikes $5.4B deal to buy robotics arm of Swiss engineering firm ABB; Japanese tech conglomerate seeks to merge artificial intelligence and robots (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 +0.6%, Dow -0.0%, Nasdaq +1.1%), Nasdaq and S&P 500 close at record highs after Federal Reserve meeting minutes from September show officials see at least two more rate cuts this year (More)
> Elon Musk agrees to settle $128M lawsuit over unpaid severance with four former Twitter executives, who were fired after Musk took over the company in 2022 (More)
> Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $966M in talc-based baby powder cancer case after jury finds company liable (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Internal Revenue Service furloughs over 34,000 employees—nearly half its staff—amid government shutdown; workers guaranteed back pay, despite President Donald Trump's earlier objections to the policy (More) | Read previous write-up (More)
> Supreme Court appears poised to revive Republican challenge to Illinois law accepting late-arriving mailed ballots; Illinois is among 18 states and the District of Columbia that accept ballots postmarked on or before Election Day (More)
> Myanmar military strike kills at least 24 people and wounds nearly 50 during Buddhist candlelight vigil opposing military rule, per government-in-exile (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
Vanderbilt - Hip Surgery
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A few years ago, she had her left hip replaced and had a terrible experience in Knoxville, and decided when she needed the other one done, she was going to Vanderbilt in Nashville.
The hip surgeon operates out of Vanderbilt, Lebanon which is why we are here.
Before the procedure on Wednesday, several doctors came in to visit with her before surgery, explaining to her what they were going to do and how they were going to manage her pain, and if she needed more just to let them know.
Right from the very beginning, she was feeling very good about what was going to happen because of how concerned they appeared to be over her pain management.
One can go to the best surgeon in the world, but if the people around that surgeon don't manage the patient's pain, then the surgery is perceived as not being A+.
Now...
one must also bear in mind that the pain after the surgery, can only be managed based upon one's tolerance for pain. Some people tolerate pain better than others... Pain meds can offset that to some degree... and, that pain is not always the fault of the surgeon.
My body for instance tolerates pain much better than my wife's body. I had five lower back disks fused a three years ago and the first night out of surgery, I slept on my back and never took any pain meds. My wife is not that fortunate and still experienced pain even after taking the pain meds and it took her almost a year to recover from her first hip surgery.
The last comment I made to her before they took her to the operating room was, it will be different this time.
Information could be a fundamental part of the universe, and may explain dark energy and dark matter
For more than a century, physics has been built on two great theories. Einstein's general relativity explains gravity as the bending of space and time.
Quantum mechanics governs the world of particles and fields. Both work brilliantly in their own domains. But put them together and contradictions appear—especially when it comes to black holes, dark matter, dark energy and the origins of the cosmos.
My colleagues and I have been exploring a new way to bridge that divide. The idea is to treat information—not matter, not energy, not even spacetime itself—as the most fundamental ingredient of reality. We call this framework the quantum memory matrix (QMM).
Thursday, October 9
Wonderings 6
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What is my purpose?
I would suspect that who one is changes every decade or more...
- 1-2
- 3-5
- 6-12
- 13-19
- 20-29
- 30-39
- 40-49
- 5-59
- 60-67
- 68-75
- 76-85
- 86-95
- 96+
Again, this is an generalization, and if it fits most of the people, it will never fit all the people.
Who we are again is impacted by:
- Family and Friends
- Teachers and Professors
- Religious Leaders
- Political Leaders
- Financial Status
- Work Associates
- Military
- Spouses
- Children
- Divorce
- Retirement
- Health
Another issue about WHO WE ARE... focuses around looking back once we are retired.
We spend all of our lives (or most of it anyway) making decisions, making choices, taking risk or risk aversion as we try to mold our career and our FUTURE WHO ARE WE...
And yet, when we look back at retirement, most of us realize that we ended up in a place that we had no idea that our decisions would take us there.
So, how did that happen if we made all our own decisions to take us in another direction???
ALSO...
as we look back (from retirement) we quickly realized that Who we are and What is our purpose while sometimes mutually exclusive, are very much intertwined.
Therefore...
we can assume our purpose changes with age as well.
MEANING what exactly?
That purpose is oftentimes not known until after we retire... as it may take our entire life to discover what our purpose was meant to be or not meant to be.
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