We may be underestimating the climate risk to crops: researchers
by Kelly MACNAMARA Physics.org 7/4/2023
Climate change is causing more frequent and intense weather extremes...
The risks of harvest failures in multiple global breadbaskets have been underestimated, according to a study Tuesday that researchers said should a "wake up call" about the threat climate
“On Monday, United Nations' human rights chief Volker Turk warned of a "truly terrifying" dystopian future of hunger and suffering as climate change-driven extremes hit crops, livestock and crucial ecosystems.
He told a UN debate on the right to food that more than 828 million people faced hunger in 2021 and climate change could increase that by 80 million by mid-century, and slammed world leaders for short term thinking.”
Is a global debt bomb about to explode? Al Jazeera 7/4/2023
The majority of low-income nations are on the cusp of a debt crisis, sparking fears of global contagion.
The majority of low-income developing countries are today either already in or near debt distress. Meanwhile, the world’s two large economies, the US and China, are expected to see a jump in their public debt at higher levels than before the pandemic.
Ghana and Sri Lanka defaulted on their external debt in 2022, two years after Zambia did. Pakistan and Egypt are on the verge of a default. On June 30, Pakistan secured a tentative $3bn funding deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), promising it potential, short-term relief.
Hichilema struck a note of caution. It had taken more than two years of talks for the approval of Zambia's (First African country to default on its debt) debt restructuring plan, he pointed out. "For the countries that are coming after us, there is a need to expedite the processes," Hichilema said. "Every day we don't deliver these things that are within our control, we are basically increasing the costs and the damage gets compounded."
The Universe has sped up to an extreme level, scientists confirm The independent. 7/3 ?
The universe went in “extreme slow motion” at its beginning, and has dramatically sped up since, scientists have found.
“If you were there, in this infant universe, one second would seem like one second – but from our position, more than 12 billion years into the future, that early time appears to drag.”
How a neuroscientist came to embrace the reality of acausal synchronicities
Metaphysics (Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that studies the fundamental nature of reality. This includes the first principles of: being or existence, identity, change, space and time, cause and effect, necessity, actuality, and possibility.)
Laleh K. Quinn, PhD | 2023-07-02
In Jung’s seminal work, “Synchronicity,” he argues for a fourth organizing principle—alongside space, time, and causality—at work in the universe. As Jung experienced himself, there are some events experienced by humanity that cannot be explained on the basis of the first three principles, and thus there must be a fourth. This fourth is what Jung referred to as “synchronicity.” He defined it as an “acausal” principle, in that it did not seem to be governed by causation as normally defined within the standard scientific model.
I was overwhelmed by the response. There were so many shocking moments where I would ask for something particular to be placed in front of me and I would receive it. Still I was hesitant to shake my materialist way of understanding the world. But one chain of signs I received finally resulted in the relaxation of my logical mind and allowed myself to jettison the last vestiges of doubt: I was driving north from San Diego to the Bay Area to visit my father in hospice. While on the highway, I asked my dead colleague to send me a sign that he was around me. I told him it didn’t matter what the sign was, just something I would understand.
Just after I asked, I heard some clicking sounds, then the song “Hello it’s Me” came on the radio. That jarred me.
Understand that dismissal of a hypothesis out of hand is anti-scientific. If you really want to know the truth, some dedication to rigorous research on the topic is required.
First programmable RNA- guided system found in eukaryotes (yoo keh ree owts) News Medical.net
Jun 28 2023
A team of researchers led by Feng Zhang at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT has uncovered the first programmable RNA-guided system in eukaryotes -; organisms that include fungi, plants, and animals.
In a study in Nature, the team describes how the system is based on a protein called Fanzor. They showed that Fanzor proteins use RNA as a guide to target DNA precisely, and that Fanzors can be reprogrammed to edit the genome of human cells
U.S. Advised Ukraine Against Covert Attacks in Russia During Mutiny, Officials Say NY TIMES June 29th
“But for reasons that are still not entirely clear, U.S. officials said, Russian ground units, including the Russian National Guard, did not fire on Mr. Prigozhin's advancing column”
Russian general who may have known about Wagner mutiny goes missing The Guardian June 28
Still-unconfirmed reports say that some fighter pilots refused to bomb the Wagner convoy as it approached Moscow and that border troops allowed the convoy to pass unmolested.th
“British intelligence sources estimate that Wagner's force deployed in Ukraine amounts to 15,000 and that the force marching on Moscow was a subset of that, estimated at 8,000 in a report in the Daily Telegraph, and "a few thousand" by Freedman - ostensibly a small force to capture a capital city of 13 million people.”
NATO warns not to underestimate Russian forces, and tells Moscow it has increased preparedness AP. June 27th
The mysteries of the icy cloud around our Solar System BBC Future June 20th 2021
One recent study, however, has offered some insights into what it may take for the Oort Cloud to have formed. Simon Portegies Zwart and his colleagues at Leiden University in the Netherlands, used a series of computer simulations to study how the cloud formed, in chronological order, over 100 million years. It's the first study to link every step in the cloud's formation together, rather than looking at them separately.
The results show that the cloud "did not form in a simple fashion, but by a sort of conspiracy of nature, where a number of processes have to follow suit", says Portegies Zwart. Planets, stars, and the Milky Way all had a role to play in its formation, he says. "The complication of the process surprised me."
Russian Security Council writes articles about the need for a nuclear strike on Europe
Ukrainska Pravda June 26, 2023
Sergey Karaganov Russian geopolitician
Wagner mutiny: Prigozhin's soldiers rage while others cry conspiracy June 26th BBC
Volodymyr Fesenko, head of the Penta Center for Applied Political Research in Kyiv, disagrees.
"If it was staged, what for? So everyone could see how weak Putin is?" he said. "What happened was a public humiliation of Putin. And Prigozhin? He partially lost his reputation: He used to demonstrate power, and then he simply retreated."
But Prigozhin's last public comment on the day of the mutiny, filmed after he agreed to stand down, continues to fuel speculation online. "We've had an OK result today," he said. "Cheered everybody up."
Putin revolt bolsters calls by US defense hawks The Hill 06/27/23
“This has shown real weakness in the political command — not just the military — of the Russian federation, and it’s an opportunity for us and the Ukrainians. Let’s get this war done. Let’s get the Russians while they’re disorganized politically and militarily and stop dragging it out,” said Evelyn Farkas, executive director of the McCain Institute and former deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia and Ukraine in the Obama administration.
"When you get opportunities like this, when the enemy has no real cohesion, these are the opportunities to strike," the (Unnamed republican aide) added, noted that the Ukrainian counteroffensive is expected to stretch into the fall.
Brick Top: Do you know what "nemesis" means? A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent Personified in this case by an 'horrible cunt. Me 😊.
Mysterious 6,000-year-old ‘Stonehenge’ structures reemerge in Poland. What are they?
Moira Ritter Miami Herald Yahoo news
June 26, 2023 In the 90s, a mysterious, Neolithic-aged structure was discovered in Poland.
Since then, archaeologists have uncovered about 20 more of the Stonehenge-like sites, and now — due to this year’s drought — they’ve found two more, according to Science in Poland, a subset of the national news agency.
Archaeologists unearth 4,000-year-old Stonehenge-like sanctuary in the Netherlands CNN Style June 22nd
One grave was of a woman buried with a glass bead from Mesopotamia, present-day Iraq. It’s the oldest bead ever found in the Netherlands and researchers said it proved people of this area were in contact with people almost 5,000 kilometers (about 3,100 miles) away.
Hundreds of elite Anglo-Saxon women were buried with mysterious ivory rings. Now, researchers know the ivory came from elephants living about 4,000 miles away from England. Live science.com June 30st? (19 days ago)
The finding indicates a trading network brought the objects from eastern Africa and across post-Roman Europe to England — perhaps one of the longest trade route distances known from that time.
"It's really a long way," study co-author Hugh Willmott, an archaeologist at the University of Sheffield in the U.K. told Live Science. "It's crossing the Mediterranean world, and then the Alps, and then probably going via the Rhineland… so it's crossing multiple cultures."
Mysterious rings
"Bag rings" have puzzled archaeologists for more than 200 years. Hundreds have been found at Anglo-Saxon burial sites in England, while a few have been found in other parts of northwestern Europe.
The rings measure between 4 and 6 inches (10 and 15 centimeters) across and they've been found only in the graves of wealthy Anglo-Saxon women. Much too large to fit a finger, they were once thought to be ornaments for the upper arm. But archaeologists now think the rings were tied around the waist and held bags that functioned as pockets, holding whatever small objects the women had to hand.
"We often find [the bags] contained objects, and they tend to be quite random," Willmott said. "Broken copper, Roman coins, things like that."
Their discovery only in wealthy graves may indicate status: "They may have been associated with women who had a special place in society," he said.
Genesis 6:1-2
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Understand that dismissal of a hypothesis out of hand is anti-scientific. If you really want to know the truth, some dedication to rigorous research on the topic is required.
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