This is #56 in a series of month-end reflections on the state of the world, and other things that come to mind, as I walk and hike in my local community. Two teenagers, possibly a younger brother and older sister, are sitting opposite each other at the café at the table beside mine. They are playing a…
DARPA is looking to model just about every aspect of human health, biology, and physiology to advance military medicine with its proposed Multiscale Reasoning for Human Physiology program. On Monday, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) put out a request for information (RFI) for its planned Multiscale Reasoning For Human Physiology program. For the military and operational medicine applications, DARPA is…
Comic-Con is Marvel’s biggest stage of the year, and this weekend it delivered the first on-screen collision of the X-Men and the Avengers. At Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds appeared together for the April 27, 2025 screening of “Another Simple Favor.” Photo by Michael Loccisano / Getty…
by Michelle Lewis: Utah’s largest solar and battery storage project is now officially generating electricity. Developer rPlus Energies announced that the $1.1 billion Green River Energy Center in Emery County, Utah, is now commercially online. The commissioning ceremony took place on June 22. The project combines 400 megawatts (MW) of solar with a 400 MW/1,600…
Donna Quesada: how do we take responsibility and acknowledge that interconnectedness that you were just speaking of… There is no wall. We are all a part of it. And part of taking responsibility is acknowledging my role. How do you reconcile that in getting past the victim consciousness? Karen Maezen Miller: That’s a complex question….
by Chantal Pierrat: When I was working in publishing, we had a name for the January publishing season: New Year, New You. We would publish books that focused on fresh starts for healing and change… I am not against change — our evolution gives our lives meaning and direction — but I do object to…
In the summer of 2019, Chennai reached ‘Day Zero’. As the city’s reservoirs shrank to 0.1% of their capacity, the crisis exposed a brutal hierarchy. While millions queued for hours at street corners for government tankers, the city’s luxury hotels continued to operate, fuelled by a fleet of private water tankers siphoning groundwater from surrounding…
The White House has now released a series of declassified election-integrity documents that the administration says expose what it describes as the largest compromise of American voter data in history. The release followed President Trump’s heated nationally televised address Thursday night, where he argued that China systematically acquired sensitive voter information during the 2020 election cycle and…
Screencap of Twitter/X video. Michael Smerconish of CNN, who is billed as a conservative commentator, said that he was wrong to dismiss the idea of illegal immigrants voting during a recent conversation with journalist Mark Halperin. Their discussion was focused on the discovery of thousands of illegal immigrants who were registered to vote in the…
Karmelo Anthony mug shot Defense attorneys for Karmelo Anthony, who was found guilty of murdering Austin Metcalf by stabbing him to death at a school sporting event, are seeking a new trial for their client, alleging bias from the judge in the case, unclear instructions given to the jury, and a host of other issues….
