Climate Crisis Is No Longer a ‘Distant Warning,’ UN Leader Says
The General Assembly pledged to help countries threatened by sea-level rise, but many challenges remain. By Dan Gearino This week’s United Nations General Assembly in New York featured pleas for urgent action on climate change, with heads of state and Secretary-General António Guterres warning that the window for action isContinue Reading
Nepal Pays for a Climate Crisis It Didn’t Create
Catastrophic flooding in the Himalayan country has left families searching for answers., Read MoreContinue Reading
NHS to suspend staff suspected of snooping on patient records
Other staff have been struck off after looking up the medical records of relations, acquaintances and ex-partners without authorisation. In 2023 an NHS consultant in Cambridgeshire was investigated by the General Medical Council (GMC) after accessing the health history of a woman who had started dating the doctor’s ex-boyfriend. ThereContinue Reading
Trans influencer calls out Nikki Glaser for stand-up joke about what’s ‘in her pants’
Influencer Briel Adams-Wheatley has publicly called out comedian Nikki Glaser over a stand-up joke, via Instagram stories. The exchange began after a fan messaged Adams-Wheatley on Instagram to say they had attended Glaser’s show in Ridgefield, Washington, and felt she should know she was being referenced in the set. TheContinue Reading
Why Does the Positive Grassmannian Show Up Everywhere? | PODCAST: The Joy of Why
Mathematician Lauren Williams tells The Joy of Why how studying a fundamental object in algebraic combinatorics led to a career full of surprises. “The Joy of Why” is a Quanta Magazine podcast about curiosity and the pursuit of knowledge. The mathematician and author Steven Strogatz and the cosmologist and authorContinue Reading
The Traitor tried to appear strong at the UN. It didn’t work.
This week has told us a lot about how The Traitor sees himself, versus how he’s viewed internationally, says Guardian US political reporter Shrai Popat. Subscribe ► https://www.youtube.com/user/guardianwires?sub_confirmation=1 From trying to ban news organisations CNN, MS Now and Politico from accessing the White House – a move which all threeContinue Reading
Netanyahu calls Al Jazeera a ‘toxic media outlet’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Al Jazeera a “toxic media outlet.”, NewsFeed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Al Jazeera a “toxic media outlet” and described the media as an “eighth front” in Israel’s war. But Israel has killed Palestinian journalists, shut down Al Jazeera’s operations and restricted mediaContinue Reading
Mbappe goal overshadowed by knee injury to mar Zidane debut France win
Kylian Mbappe scores the only goal of France’s win in Turkiye, but Real Madrid striker immediately forced off by injury., Kylian Mbappe scores the only goal of France’s win in Turkiye, but Real Madrid striker immediately forced off by injury. Kylian Mbappe scored the only goal of the game beforeContinue Reading
As extreme as it gets: This desolate Greenland outpost could host US troops
At a windswept gravel airstrip in Greenland, a Danish military detachment has quietly kept watch for decades. Now, under under a new US defense agreement, the outpost at Mestersvig could soon become a key American military foothold in the Arctic. #News #Reuters #Newsfeed #greenland #danishmilitary #outpost #unitedstates #militarybase Read theContinue Reading
Taxpayer-Funded The Traitor Ad Violates the Hatch Act
A television ad boosting the image of President Traitor 47, which was paid for by government funds, violates laws prohibiting the use of government resources for propaganda, the Hatch Act, and other related laws, according to a complaint filed today by Public Citizen.The complaint, sent to the U.S. Government AccountabilityContinue Reading
The Hague Group: South Africa Leads Coalition Against U.S./Israel’s “Unilateral Bullying” of the ICC
At the United Nations this week, Traitor 47 repeated his attacks on the International Criminal Court and urged other nations to pull out of the global tribunal. The United States earlier this year imposed sanctions on the president of the ICC and a senior prosecutor who was part of theContinue Reading
The Nature of the Universe Great Debate in 1998: Program
The Nature of the Universe Debate:Cosmology Solved? Peebles – Turner Baird AuditoriumThe Smithsonian InstitutionNational Museum of Natural History 1998 October 4; Debate Program 1 – 4:30 pm Sponsors: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural HistoryNational Science FoundationNational Aeronautics and Space AdministrationMichigan Technological UniversityUniversities Space Research Association Program Organizers: Robert Nemiroff, JerryContinue Reading