At A Glance

Experts share 65 essential children’s books.

The two numbers making math teachers miserable.

How HBO became one of the most influential networks in television. (via YouTube)

Why some get a "second wind" at bedtime.

The rapper 50 Cent, adjusted for inflation.

ChatGPT to soon allow sexting for verified adults.

... and how people around the world view AI.

The origins of witch symbols like hats and broomsticks.

In partnership: This is shaping up to be the "it card" of 2026.*

Clickbait: Chicago's "rat hole" wasn't a rat after all.

Historybook: Marie Antoinette executed (1793); Author Oscar Wilde born (1854); The Walt Disney Co. founded (1923); Actress Angela Lansbury born (1925); Tony-, Academy-, and Emmy-winning actress Shirley Booth dies (1992).

Once You Try This Tofu Technique, You'll Never Stop Making It

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In The NEWS

Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> D'Angelo, four-time Grammy-winning R&B artist who helped pioneer neo-soul music, dies of cancer at age 51 (More) | Music world reacts to D'Angelo's death (More)

> Defending champs UConn top women's basketball preseason AP Top 25 poll with South Carolina and UCLA rounding out the top three (More)

> Spotify and Netflix announce partnership that will see select Spotify video podcasts streamed on Netflix beginning in early 2026 (More)


Science & Technology
> Instagram to limit content shown to teenage users by applying PG-13 movie rating standards to accounts of individuals under 18 years old; feature expected to be fully rolled out in the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia by end of year (More)

> Researchers excavate three Iron Age shipwrecks off the coast of Israel using advanced 3D modeling and digital mapping; discovery offers rare maritime evidence of Mediterranean trade from the 11th to sixth century BCE (More)

> MRI brain scans show premature babies who regularly listen to recordings of their mothers' voices develop stronger language pathways; intervention could be used to mitigate risk of language delays often associated with premature birth (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 -0.2%, Dow +0.4%, Nasdaq -0.8%) as Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell hints at interest rate cuts and US-China trade tensions escalate (More)

> Stellantis to invest $13B in US manufacturing over the next four years; plans to create five new vehicles, increase domestic production by 50%, and create 5,000 jobs at Midwestern plants (More)

> Walmart enters partnership with OpenAI to let customers search for and purchase products directly from ChatGPT; retail giant's shares closed up 5% (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> Man who set fire to Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro's (D) home sentenced to at least 25 years in prison (More) | Supreme Court rejects Infowars founder Alex Jones' appeal of nearly $1.5B Sandy Hook defamation penalty (More)

> President Donald Trump posthumously awards Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom (More) | Congress remains at an impasse over spending proposals after House-passed measure fails to advance in the Senate for the eighth time (More)

> Hamas returns the bodies of four more hostages after an Israeli military agency warned it would halve the number of aid trucks entering Gaza over concerns Hamas is returning bodies more slowly than agreed (More)

SOURCE  1440 NEWS

Amazement

 

There is always something happening in the world today that amazes me...  so, recent events should not surprise me...  and yet, they do.

President Trump has negotiated a tentative peace deal between Hamas and Israel that has resulted so far, in the remaining hostages being released, and all the Palestinian prisoners being released as well.

The WORLD has stated quite unequivocally that this would never have happened under the administration of any other President...

AND YET...

The Biden administration is now claiming credit for laying the necessary foundation that, in and of itself, was necessary in order for Trump to accomplish this magnificent feat.

What a stockpile of GARBAGE...

THE DEMOCRATS...

HAVE A HATE FOR DONALD TRUMP

so deep

they cannot stand it when he accomplishes anything, so they resort to the claim that it started with them...

How untrue is this.,

In Trump's first term he laid the foundation for this to happen in the middle east with the Abraham Accords.

No Democrat ever thought about doing something like that.

No Democrat ever GAINED THE RESPECT of middle eastern leaders that Trump has gotten and those LEADERS in the middle east will be the first to tell you that.

The hypocrisy and the LIES that the Democrats continue to spout out of mouths is astounding and provides constant fuel for my amazement.

Somewhat Political

 

China unveils ‘world’s first’ humanoid robot that resists dust, rain, heat

Chinese technology company Deep Robotics has unveiled the DR02 humanoid, an industrial robot designed to function in all weather conditions.


The Hangzhou-based company also claimed that it’s the first humanoid robot in the world to achieve an IP66 protection rating, capable of resisting dust and rain.


Most robots in the market struggle to work in real-world conditions with temperature changes, which limits their practical use.

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Wonderings 12

 What is our purpose?

I don't think we are here to serve God, believe in Jesus, and get into Heaven for the rest of eternity.

Although,

the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rules are excellent as well as outstanding tenants to follow.

I also don't think that we are here to become wealthy and/or powerful, acquire as many assets as we can, or advance technology as quick as we can.

Those are smokescreens and diversions...  odd as that may sound to you.  I think they were put here intentionally to see how we would deal with them.

AHHHHH, 

did you catch that?

They were put here...

That assumes that someone or something put them here.

So, who would that be?

The Bible's God or someone else?

I vote for someone else...  with the understanding that this someone else is an EXTRATERRESTRIAL.

I also believe that the Bible's God, and our Creator are extraterrestrials from another spacetime or perhaps from another dimension or universe. (SEE WHITE HOLES)

This/These extraterrestrials created by setting into motion events that lead to the creation of our universe.

HOW?

Well...

project yourself millions of years into the future and imagine an extraterrestrial race that had evolved from evolution.  These extraterrestrials were alive just before the universe ended...

OR...

just before the universe reached that point of singularity where the end connected to the beginning.  It is inside this point of singularity where spacetime stands still.  It is at this point of singularity that a black holes entropy creates a white hole and a brand new universe is formed...  that we refer to as the BIG BANG.

The last person living inside that singularity, that extraterrestrial (what humans might have evolved into) becomes the GOD/CREATOR of this new universe...  and rules and guidelines are shared in the hopes that this new universe will somehow benefit from the old one's experience.

This never happens.

So, our purpose is to just live and want for nothing except that for which you really need to survive.

Red Daisey

 

VIMCE

 

Mountain Dawn

 

The Shannon Joy Show

 

Bongino Report

 

Kittens

 

Dinesh D"Souza

 

The Alex Jones Show

 

Wood Carving

 

The White House

 

TimcastIRL

 

Evening Water

 

The Big Think

The world’s largest library of lies has good news about fake news

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Business is booming at big banks. The biggest banks in the US started earnings season off with a bang yesterday, with JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, and Citigroup all beating Q3 profit forecasts, as dealmaking, trading, and corporate lending all surged. Goldman is headed toward its best year ever for its main investment banking unit, the Wall Street Journal reports, and JPMorgan took in $8.9 billion in trading revenue last quarter, a record for Q3. But even with the stock market soaring and businesses diving back into mergers and acquisitions, choppier waters may lie ahead. JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon noted that recent auto industry bankruptcies flashed a red flag for the private credit market, saying, “When you see one cockroach, there are probably more.”

Bodies of some deceased hostages returned to Israel as ceasefire is tested. Yesterday, Hamas released the bodies of four hostages under the first stage of a peace agreement that had previously seen the release of all 20 living Israeli hostages in exchange for nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners. However, with the next steps still needing to be worked out, both sides accused the other of violating the ceasefire. Earlier, Israel said it would only allow half of the agreed-upon humanitarian aid into Gaza in a bid to push Hamas to release the remains of the rest of the deceased hostages as promised. Meanwhile, Hamas said Israeli troops had killed several people in Gaza, in violation of the ceasefire deal. One issue that remains is whether Hamas will disarm—something the group has not publicly agreed to but President Trump said yesterday they would do or “we will disarm them.”

JPow hints at more interest rate cuts to come. While Fed Chair Jerome Powell didn’t outright say the central bank would continue to chop interest rates, his remarks at an economic conference in Philadelphia suggested that the weakening labor market will require further cuts despite inflation. Although the government shutdown precludes new official economic data, Powell said “the outlook for employment and inflation does not appear to have changed much since our September meeting,” which is when the Fed cut rates for the first time this year. The speech left economists anticipating a rate cut at the Fed’s next meeting on Oct. 28–29, with another cut to follow. Powell also suggested the Fed may soon stop shrinking its portfolio of assets, a move that could also slightly lower borrowing costs.—AR

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At A Glance

Practical tasks Americans can and cannot do.

Five horror stories that double as philosophy lessons.

TikTok says these are the spookiest US towns.

A quarter-century of game-changing inventions.

Why sharks go into feeding frenzies.

... and how vampire bats survive solely on blood. (w/video)

Contest honors street photographers who freeze fleeting moments.

Did Shakespeare help translate the Bible? Probably not.

In partnership: The gut health breakthrough backed by science.*

Clickbait: Cats are taking over Cyprus.

Historybook: "I Love Lucy" airs for first time (1951); Sarah “Fergie” Ferguson, the Duchess of York, born (1959); Black Panther Party is created (1966); Wayne Gretzky becomes all-time NHL points leader (1989); Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen dies (2018).

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In The NEWS

Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Taylor Swift's "Eras Tour" six-part docuseries coming to Disney+ on Dec. 12 (More) | ... and "The Life of a Showgirl" album becomes Swift's 15th No. 1 album, with all 12 songs topping the Billboard Hot 100 chart (More)

> Purdue tops men's basketball preseason AP Top 25 poll for first time with Houston and reigning champs Florida rounding out the top three (More)

> Comedian Marc Maron's pioneering "WTF" podcast ends after 16 years and more than 1,600 episodes with former President Barack Obama as Maron's final guest (More)


Science & Technology
> California passes first-in-the-nation safety protocols for AI chatbots; follows the death of a teenager who had suicidal conversations with ChatGPT (More) | Hear an interview with the parents (More, w/video)

> New AI-powered model predicts which children are most at risk of developing sepsis—when the immune system overreacts to an infection—within 48 hours of an emergency room visit (More)

> Scientists grow embryo-like structures that produce human blood cells; discovery may eventually produce a source for personalized blood transfusion (More) | How new blood cells are created (1440 Topics, w/video)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +1.6%, Dow +1.3%, Nasdaq +2.2%) after President Donald Trump softens stance on China (More) | Silver prices hit first all-time high since 1980 (More)

> JPMorgan Chase to invest up to $10B in companies tied to US national security, including defense and aerospace, energy independence, quantum computing, and AI (More) | Goldman Sachs to acquire $7B venture capital firm Industry Ventures (More)

> Amazon to hire 250,000 full-time, part-time, and seasonal holiday workers nationwide, matching hiring levels from 2023 and 2024 (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> US Senate returns today, is expected to vote on measures to reopen the federal government as shutdown enters third week; see live updates (More)

> Venezuela closes its embassy in Norway days after the Nobel Committee reveals it will award the peace prize to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado (More) | Madagascar's president leaves the country amid protests (More)

> India and Canada agree to reset relations roughly two years after Canada accused India of complicity in the killing of a Sikh activist on its soil (More) | See previous write-up (More)

SOURCE:  1440 NEWS

October

 

The month of October represents to me, the month that mowing the lawn ends and the month where I am another year older.  

Actually, it is the beginning of another year older, I still have 12 months to live that year.  October is also the month of Halloween and somewhat of a transition month into Fall, although that actually started with September.  

October is a month of chilly mornings and warm afternoons and this trend can last through November if we are lucky.  

However, many people are tired of summer weather and look forward to the colder months of fall and winter, until winter has been here a few weeks then they long for spring and summer.

Personally, I like all seasons except for winter, and it seems that the older I get the more dislike I have for winter.

Throughout the winter months, I am constantly concerned that my doctor appointments and/or infusion appointments (with infusion being the more important of the two) will be cancelled because of inclement weather or snow on the ground which sometimes is one and the same.

October is a long month which is good money that is put into CDs as you earn another day of interest.  On the other side of the coin there are months with 30 days and 28 days (February) so in the long run it all equals out; therefore 31 days is meaningless for extra interest, but it is still nice to think that way.

All in all, October is one of the nicer months of the year in terms of weather and one's ability to remain outside.  It is also a good month to drive into the Smokies and see the different colored leaves.

Somewhat Political

 

Harvard-Smithsonian study reveals super-Earths are far more common and diverse across the Milky Way than we thought

Imagine entire worlds larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune scattered throughout our galaxy far more often than we ever imagined. This isn’t just a flight of fancy—it’s a stunning revelation from astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Their groundbreaking research is completely rewriting what we thought we knew about the Milky Way and the cosmic neighborhood we call home.

These so-called super-Earths are turning out to be some of the most common and diverse planets in our galaxy, challenging long-standing assumptions about planetary formation and distribution.

For years, super-Earths—planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune—were mostly found orbiting very close to their stars, baked in tight, scorching orbits. That led scientists to believe they were quite rare or even exotic. But this new study using advanced methods reveals that many super-Earths actually hang out much farther from their stars—roughly the equivalent distance from Jupiter to our Sun.

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