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(max-width: 480px){\n\t\t#templateBody .mcnTextContent,#templateBody .mcnTextContent p{\n\t\t\tfont-size:16px !important;\n\t\t\tline-height:150% !important;\n\t\t}\n\n}\t@media only screen and (max-width: 480px){\n\t\t#templateFooter .mcnTextContent,#templateFooter .mcnTextContent p{\n\t\t\tfont-size:14px !important;\n\t\t\tline-height:150% !important;\n\t\t}\n\n}<\/style><\/head>\n <body style=\"height: 100%;margin: 0;padding: 0;width: 100%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;background-color: #1e1e1e;\">\n \n <span class=\"mcnPreviewText\" style=\"display:none; font-size:0px; line-height:0px; max-height:0px; max-width:0px; opacity:0; overflow:hidden; visibility:hidden; mso-hide:all;\">*|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|*<\/span>\n \n <center>\n <table align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" height=\"100%\" width=\"100%\" id=\"bodyTable\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;height: 100%;margin: 0;padding: 0;width: 100%;background-color: #1e1e1e;\">\n <tr>\n <td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" id=\"bodyCell\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;height: 100%;margin: 0;padding: 10px;width: 100%;border-top: 0;\">\n \n \n <table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"templateContainer\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;border: 0;max-width: 600px !important;\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" id=\"templatePreheader\" style=\"background:#1e1e1e none no-repeat center\/cover;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;background-color: #1e1e1e;background-image: none;background-repeat: no-repeat;background-position: center;background-size: cover;border-top: 0;border-bottom: 0;padding-top: 9px;padding-bottom: 9px;\"><table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding: 0px 18px 9px;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 12px;line-height: 150%;\" valign=\"top\">\n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" id=\"templateHeader\" style=\"background:#1e1e1e none no-repeat center\/cover;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;background-color: #1e1e1e;background-image: none;background-repeat: no-repeat;background-position: center;background-size: cover;border-top: 0;border-bottom: 0;padding-top: 9px;padding-bottom: 0;\"><table class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\" valign=\"top\">\n <table class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td class=\"mcnImageContent\" style=\"padding-right: 9px;padding-left: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\">\n \n \n <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/8fd36887-a600-462b-ab13-acf1928e1c8e.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 620px;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline !important;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" class=\"mcnImage\" width=\"564\" align=\"middle\">\n \n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \n\t<tbody class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockInner\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td style=\"padding-top: 9px;padding-left: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-right: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \n <table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100% !important;background-color: #B2880D;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding: 18px;color: #F2F2F2;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;\">\n <h3 class=\"null\" style=\"text-align: center;display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 20px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;\"><span style=\"color:#1e1e1e\"><span style=\"font-size:20px\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:arial,sans-serif\">Volume 25, Number 21 – 11\/1\/2022<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\" valign=\"top\">\n <table class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td class=\"mcnImageContent\" style=\"padding-right: 9px;padding-left: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\">\n \n \n <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/8b50581e-7f5b-460a-8c24-b318122581e5.png\" style=\"max-width: 1200px;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline !important;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" class=\"mcnImage\" width=\"564\" align=\"middle\">\n \n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\" valign=\"top\">\n \n <h2 class=\"null\" style=\"text-align: left;display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 22px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;\">FUTURE FACTS – FROM THINK LINKS<\/h2>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <ul>\n\t<li style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">The average American viewer watches TikTok for 80 minutes a day.<\/li>\n\t<li style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">At least in a petri dish, researchers can take skin cells from a 101-year-old person and rewind them so they act as if they\u2019d never aged at all. <\/li>\n\t<li style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">Just under 19 million electric vehicles are expected to be on the US roads by 2030, with a projected need for an extra 9.6 million charging stations. <\/li>\n\t<li style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">Between January and September this year people in more than 90 countries and territories took to the streets over the price or availability of fuel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnDividerBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;table-layout: fixed !important;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnDividerBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td class=\"mcnDividerBlockInner\" style=\"min-width: 100%;padding: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <table class=\"mcnDividerContent\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-top: 2px solid #B2880D;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <span><\/span>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\">\n <table align=\"left\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td class=\"mcnImageContent\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding-right: 9px;padding-left: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \n <a href=\"https:\/\/arlingtoninstitute.org\/transitiontalks\/upcoming-events\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" rel=\"noopener\">\n <img decoding=\"async\" align=\"center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/7992b346-6aa3-d71a-ef8f-4069e694b330.jpg\" width=\"564\" style=\"max-width: 601px;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline !important;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" class=\"mcnImage\">\n <\/a>\n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color:#7c1720\"><span style=\"font-size:54px\"><strong>Mark Gober<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\n\n<div><font color=\"#7c1720\"><span style=\"font-size:24px\"><strong>Turning Government Upside Down:<\/strong><\/span><\/font><br>\n<span style=\"color:#7c1720\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:24px\">A Vision for a New World<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br>\n <\/div>\n\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#ffffff\"><span style=\"font-size:20px\">Saturday, November 19th, 1:00-5:00<br>\nin Berkeley Springs, West Virginia<br>\nor via LIVESTREAM!<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnImageCardBlock\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnImageCardBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td class=\"mcnImageCardBlockInner\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \n<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnImageCardBottomContent\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: 5px none #ffffff;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td class=\"mcnImageCardBottomImageContent\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding-top: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-bottom: 0;padding-left: 0px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \n \n <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/y8yKUgVmkSs\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" rel=\"noopener\">\n \n\n <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/video_thumbnails_new\/be85796f2692b3bd9eab1719bf1117d4.png\" width=\"554\" style=\"max-width: 640px;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;vertical-align: bottom;\" class=\"mcnImage\">\n <\/a>\n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <tr>\n <td class=\"mcnTextContent\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding: 9px 18px;color: #F2F2F2;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 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100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody>\n <tr>\n <td align=\"center\" valign=\"middle\" class=\"mcnButtonContent\" style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: 16px;padding: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <a class=\"mcnButton \" title=\"Click Here for Tickets and More Info\" href=\"https:\/\/arlingtoninstitute.org\/transitiontalks\/upcoming-events\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight: bold;letter-spacing: normal;line-height: 100%;text-align: center;text-decoration: none;color: #1e1e1e;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;display: block;\" rel=\"noopener\">Click Here for Tickets and More Info<\/a>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n <\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <p style=\"margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">How should our world be structured? Author Mark Gober will tackle this big question by laying out a societal framework that blends metaphysics and politics. He will examine the nature of reality through an exploration of consciousness, quantum physics, philosophy, \u201cparanormal\u201d phenomena, and beyond. Within this context, politics takes on a whole new meaning. Many aspects of our existing governing structures, which are commonly taken for granted, make less sense from a more metaphysically evolved standpoint. Mark will highlight such often-overlooked political and economic assumptions to chart the path to a new organizational structure for our future. Ultimately, we may be in the midst of a metaphysical battle between Good and Evil\u2014including potential \u201caliens\u201d and \u201cmultidimensional\u201d lifeforms\u2014so these topics are essential for our survival. <\/p>\n\n<p style=\"margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">Join us Saturday, November 19th, in person or via livestream. Get tickets below.<\/p>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnDividerBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;table-layout: fixed !important;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnDividerBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td class=\"mcnDividerBlockInner\" style=\"min-width: 100%;padding: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <table class=\"mcnDividerContent\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-top: 2px solid #7C1720;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <span><\/span>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \n\t<tbody class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockInner\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td style=\"padding-top: 9px;padding-left: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-right: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \n <table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100% !important;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding: 18px;color: #F2F2F2;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;line-height: 150%;\">\n <div style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#7c1720\"><span style=\"font-size:54px\"><strong>Mark Gober<\/strong><\/span><\/span><br>\n<br>\n<span style=\"font-size:22px\"><span style=\"color:#7c1720\"><strong>Saturday, November 19th, 1:00-5:00<br>\nCoolfont Resort<br>\n$65<br>\nBerkeley Springs, WV<br>\n<br>\nGet Tickets at <\/strong><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/arlingtoninstitute.us3.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=916d9ff25098a781af857b468&id=dcfac74f69&e=3782fcbd95\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" style=\"color: #951716;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#7c1720\">TransitionTalks.org<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnCaptionBlock\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnCaptionBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td class=\"mcnCaptionBlockInner\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \n\n\n\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnCaptionRightContentOuter\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnCaptionRightContentInner\" style=\"padding: 0 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnCaptionRightImageContentContainer\" width=\"176\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td class=\"mcnCaptionRightImageContent\" align=\"right\" valign=\"top\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \n \n\n <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/52748f7b-fc58-67d3-086d-71a5dbab6378.jpg\" width=\"176\" style=\"max-width: 720px;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;vertical-align: bottom;\" class=\"mcnImage\">\n \n\n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <table class=\"mcnCaptionRightTextContentContainer\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"352\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n <em><strong>Mark Gober<\/strong> is the author of An End to Upside Down Thinking (2018), which was awarded the IPPY award for best science book of 2019. He is also the author of An End to Upside Down Living (2020), An End to Upside Down Liberty (2021), and An End to Upside Down Contact (2022); and he is the host of the podcast Where Is My Mind? 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Previously, Gober was a partner at Sherpa Technology Group in Silicon Valley and worked as an investment banking analyst with UBS in New York. He has been named one of IAM\u2019s Strategy 300: The World\u2019s Leading Intellectual Property Strategists. 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style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theflstandard.com\/vaccine-narrative-collapses-as-harvard-study-shows-jab-more-dangerous-than-covid\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">Vaccine Narrative Collapses as Harvard Study Shows Jab More Dangerous than COVID \u2013 (Florida Standard \u2013 September 14, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\nAs government officials and mainstream media urges the vaccinated to inject a second so-called \u201cbivalent\u201d booster said to be targeting the Omicron variant, it turns out that this substance hasn\u2019t been tested on humans. And the only animal trial that has been performed included eight mice. \u201cIt hasn\u2019t been proven in a clinical trial, because we don\u2019t have time to do a clinical trial because we need to get the vaccine out now because we have such a situation throughout the world and certainly in the United States, we\u2019re having 400 deaths per day and up to 5,000 hospitalizations a day,\u201d NIAID Dr Anthony Fauci explained in an interview. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky has also stated that the boosters must be expedited in order to work properly. A delay would potentially render the shots \u201coutdated\u201d as new variants would form, Walensky argues. A new <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4206070\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a> conducted by scientists from Harvard and Johns Hopkins, currently in pre-print, reveals that the COVID-19 vaccines were up to 98 times worse than the virus itself. The study is critical of the booster requirement for American university students, stating in the abstract: \u201cUsing CDC and sponsor-reported adverse event data, we find that booster mandates may cause a net expected harm: per COVID-19 hospitalization prevented in previously uninfected young adults, we anticipate 18 to 98 serious adverse events, including 1.7 to 3.0 booster-associated myocarditis cases in males, and 1,373 to 3,234 cases of grade =3 reactogenicity which interferes with daily activities.\u201d\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\">\n <table align=\"left\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td class=\"mcnImageContent\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding-right: 9px;padding-left: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \n \n <img decoding=\"async\" align=\"center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/e4f0dc92-815d-6e22-f007-4da205f51d5e.png\" width=\"564\" style=\"max-width: 1200px;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline !important;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" class=\"mcnImage\">\n \n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/the-future\/playing-god-metaverse-mind-control-free-will\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cPlaying God\u201d: How the Metaverse Will Challenge Our Very Notion of Free Will \u2013 (BigThink \u2013 October 25, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\nThe United Nations Human Rights Council recently adopted a draft resolution entitled \u201cNeurotechnology and Human Rights\u201d. It\u2019s aimed at protecting humanity from devices that can \u201crecord, interfere with, or modify brain activity.\u201d To describe the risks, the resolution uses euphemistic phrases like <em>cognitive engineering, mental privacy<\/em>, and <em>cognitive liberty<\/em>, but what we\u2019re really talking about is mind control. However, neurotechnology is not our greatest threat on this front. That\u2019s because it involves sophisticated hardware ranging from \u201cbrain implants\u201d to wearable devices that can detect and transmit signals through the skull. But individuals who submit themselves to implants or brain stimulation will likely do so with informed consent. On the other hand, there is an emerging category of products and technologies that could threaten our cognitive liberties across large populations, requiring nothing more than consumer-grade hardware and software from trusted corporations. These seemingly innocent systems, which will be marketed for a wide range of positive applications from entertainment to education, targeting both kids and adults, could be dangerously misused and abused without our knowledge or consent. A primary example is the Metaverse. To explain why, it helps to understand an engineering concept that addresses the potential dangers of interactive systems. The concept is <em>feedback control<\/em>, and it comes from a technical discipline called <em>control theory<\/em>. In the metaverse, you are the system being controlled. (Editor\u2019s note: We recommend this article. We also recommend browsing through the <a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/articles\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">BigThink.com<\/a> website for other off-beat and interesting articles.)\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/interactive\/2022\/tiktok-popularity\/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F3828acf%2F63498850f3d9003c58108cad%2F5e876a849bbc0f0a2e14608c%2F9%2F72%2F63498850f3d9003c58108cad&wp_cu=e9566cddf5919d659b8a87c177b08eff%7CA266C910E7810C4DE0530100007F0657\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">How TikTok Ate the Internet \u2013 (Washington Post \u2013 October 14, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\nIf you have not used TikTok, you are rapidly becoming the global exception. In five years, the app, once written off as a silly dance-video fad, has become one of the most prominent, discussed, distrusted, technically sophisticated and geopolitically complicated juggernauts on the internet \u2014 a phenomenon that has secured an unrivaled grasp on culture and everyday life and intensified the conflict between the world\u2019s biggest superpowers. Its dominance, as estimated by the internet firms Cloudflare, Data.ai and Sensor Tower, is hard to overstate. TikTok\u2019s website was visited last year more often than Google. No app has grown faster past a billion users, and more than 100 million of them are in the United States, roughly a third of the country. The average American viewer watches TikTok for 80 minutes a day \u2014 more than the time spent on Facebook and Instagram, combined. Two-thirds of American teens use the app, and 1 in 6 say they watch it \u201calmost constantly,\u201d a Pew Research Center survey in August found; usage of Facebook among the same group has been cut in half since 2015. Silicon Valley taught the world a style of online connectivity built on hand-chosen interests and friendships. TikTok doesn\u2019t care about those. Instead, it unravels for viewers an endless line of videos selected by its algorithm, then learns a viewer\u2019s tastes with every second they watch, pause or scroll. You don\u2019t tell TikTok what you want to see. It tells you. And the internet can\u2019t get enough. \u201cWe\u2019re not talking about a dance app,\u201d said Abbie Richards, a researcher who studies disinformation on TikTok, where she has half a million followers. But TikTok\u2019s ownership, by the Beijing-based tech giant ByteDance, has also made it one of the biggest pariahs in Washington. Former president Donald Trump tried to dismantle it. Top branches of the U.S. government and military have banned it from government-issued phones. And members of Congress insist it could be a Trojan horse for a secret Chinese propaganda and surveillance machine. \u201cWe\u2019re talking about a platform that\u2019s shaping how a whole generation is learning to perceive the world.\u201d (Editor\u2019s note: We recommend this article. It\u2019s information will surprise you \u2013 even if you already watch TikTok \u201calmost constantly\u201d.)\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2022\/10\/18\/1061320\/digital-clones-of-dead-people\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">Technology That Lets Us \u201cSpeak\u201d to Our Dead Relatives Has Arrived. Are We Ready? \u2013 (Technology Review \u2013 October 18, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\nDigital clones of the people we love could forever change how we grieve. The California-based company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hereafter.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">HereAfter AI<\/a> has created an app powered by more than four hours of conversations a person had with an interviewer about their lives and memories. The company\u2019s goal is to let the living \u201ccommunicate\u201d with the dead. Technology like this, which lets you \u201ctalk\u201d to people who\u2019ve died, has been a mainstay of science fiction for decades. It\u2019s an idea that\u2019s been peddled by charlatans and spiritualists for centuries. But now it\u2019s becoming a reality\u2014and an increasingly accessible one, thanks to advances in AI and voice technology. The author\u2019s real, flesh-and-blood parents are still alive and well, and their virtual versions were just made to help him understand the technology. But their avatars offer a glimpse at a world where it\u2019s possible to converse with loved ones\u2014or simulacra of them\u2014long after they\u2019re gone. From what I, author of this article, could glean over a dozen conversations with my virtually deceased parents, this really will make it easier to keep close the people we love. It\u2019s not hard to see the appeal. People might turn to digital replicas for comfort, or to mark special milestones like anniversaries. At the same time, the technology and the world it\u2019s enabling are, unsurprisingly, imperfect, and the ethics of creating a virtual version of someone are complex, especially if that person hasn\u2019t been able to provide consent. For some, this tech may even be alarming, or downright creepy. I spoke to one man who\u2019d created a virtual version of his mother, which he booted up and talked to at her own funeral. Some people argue that conversing with digital versions of lost loved ones could prolong your grief or loosen your grip on reality. And when I talked to friends about this article, some of them physically recoiled. There\u2019s a common, deeply held belief that we mess with death at our peril. But I\u2019m only human, and those worries end up being washed away by the even scarier prospect of losing the people I love\u2014dead and gone without a trace. If technology might help me hang onto them, is it so wrong to try?\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\">\n <table align=\"left\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td class=\"mcnImageContent\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding-right: 9px;padding-left: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \n \n <img decoding=\"async\" align=\"center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/05fa197f-59a2-431f-9c55-401a2efc8ef9.png\" width=\"564\" style=\"max-width: 1200px;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline !important;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" class=\"mcnImage\">\n \n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/hard-science\/speed-of-gravity\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">How Fast Is Gravity, Exactly? \u2013 (Big Think \u2013 October 24, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\nLet\u2019s start with a thought experiment. Suppose at this very instant, somehow the Sun was made to disappear \u2014 not just go dark, but vanish entirely. We know that light travels at a fixed speed: 300,000 kilometers per second, or 186,000 miles per second. From the known distance between the Earth and the Sun (93 million miles), we can calculate how long it would take before we here on Earth would know the Sun had disappeared. It would take about eight minutes and 20 seconds before the noon sky would go dark. But what about gravity? If the sun disappeared, it would not only stop emitting light, but also stop exerting the gravity that holds the planets in orbit. When would we find out? New research, based on new ways of measuring gravity, has answered that question \u2013 exactly.\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\" valign=\"top\">\n <table class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td class=\"mcnImageContent\" style=\"padding-right: 9px;padding-left: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\">\n \n \n <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/a03c0983-a12e-45bb-8928-c02a5c29b90e.png\" style=\"max-width: 1200px;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline !important;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" class=\"mcnImage\" width=\"564\" align=\"middle\">\n \n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/mouse-study-reveals-how-to-help-speed-up-the-livers-self-regeneration-process\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">Mouse Study Reveals How to Help Speed Up the Liver’s Self-Regeneration Process \u2013 (Science Alert \u2013 October 16, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\nThe liver is known for its ability to regenerate. It can completely regrow itself even after two-thirds of its mass has been surgically removed. But damage from medications, alcohol abuse, or obesity can eventually cause the liver to fail. Currently, the only effective treatment for end-stage liver disease is transplantation. But what if, instead of liver transplantation, there were a drug that could help the liver regenerate itself? Satdarshan Monga, founding director of the Pittsburgh Liver Research Center and his team found that activating a particular protein with a new medication can help accelerate regeneration and repair after severe liver injury or partial surgical removal in mice. Over the past two decades, research labs have identified one group of 19 proteins called Wnts that play an important role in controlling liver function and regeneration. We found that only two of 19 Wnt genes, Wnt2 and Wnt9b, were functionally present in the liver. This article further explains the research including research on a new drug could help recover liver zonation and regeneration. This drug, an antibody called FL6.13, shares similar functions with Wnt proteins, including activating liver regeneration. Lastly, the team wanted to test how well this drug worked to repair the liver after Tylenol overdose which can cause severe liver damage. Without immediate medical attention, it can lead to liver failure and death. Tylenol poisoning is one of the most common causes of severe liver injury requiring liver transplantation in the US. Their findings indicate that, in mouse studies, with the drug, liver cell repair and tissue regeneration are occurring.\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2022\/10\/25\/1061644\/how-to-be-young-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">How Scientists Want to Make You Young Again \u2013 (Technology Review \u2013 October 25, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\nA little over 15 years ago, scientists at Kyoto University in Japan made a remarkable discovery. When they added just four proteins to a skin cell and waited about two weeks, some of the cells underwent an unexpected and astounding transformation: they became young again. They turned into stem cells almost identical to the kind found in a days-old embryo, just beginning life\u2019s journey. At least in a petri dish, researchers using the procedure can take withered skin cells from a 101-year-old and rewind them so they act as if they\u2019d never aged at all. Now, after more than a decade of studying and tweaking so-called cellular reprogramming, a number of biotech companies and research labs say they have tantalizing hints the process could be the gateway to an unprecedented new technology for age reversal. By applying limited, controlled doses of the reprogramming proteins to lab animals, the scientists say, they are seeing evidence that the procedure makes the animals\u2014or at least some of their organs\u2014more youthful. One of the key promoters of this idea is Richard Klausner, the organizer and chief scientist of Altos Labs, a new research company seeded with more than $3 billion from ultra-wealthy figures in Silicon Valley and oil money from the Persian Gulf. Klausner and his financiers had swept up dozens of top scientists\u2014offering salaries of $1 million and more\u2014and set them to work on a technology the company now calls \u201crejuvenation programming.\u201d It seems to work at least in part by resetting what\u2019s called the epigenome\u2014chemical marks on DNA that control which genes are turned on, or off, in a cell. In aging, some of these markers get flipped to the wrong positions. Reprogramming is a technology that can flip them back. But it can also change cells in dangerous ways, even causing cancer. The objective of Altos is to tame this phenomenon, understand it, and eventually apply it as a treatment to reverse a wide range of diseases. This may be possible, Klausner says, because youthful cells have more resilience and can bounce back from biological stress in ways old ones don\u2019t. And Klausner has data to suggest it might already be working. During a talk, he showed slides claiming that fat mice had recovered from diabetes after treatment, and that others were able to survive normally lethal doses of painkillers\u2014all thanks to a healthy dose of the medical rejuvenation. Klausner is the former head of the National Cancer Institute and onetime leader for global health at the Gates Foundation. He is a heavy hitter who has also been behind some of today\u2019s most high-profile biotech ventures, like the cancer blood-test company Grail. Yet even for him, rejuvenation is wildly ambitious. That is because if you can make cells act younger, healthier, and more resilient, you might have a general-purpose means of forestalling many diseases all at once. \u201cThis is the opposite of precision medicine,\u201d Klausner said.\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\">\n <table align=\"left\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td class=\"mcnImageContent\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding-right: 9px;padding-left: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \n \n <img decoding=\"async\" align=\"center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/d28f8223-b7a8-4682-9198-1d41761ed998.png\" width=\"564\" style=\"max-width: 1200px;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline !important;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" class=\"mcnImage\">\n \n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/10\/13\/what-is-solar-geoengineering-sunlight-reflection-risks-and-benefits.html\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">White House Is Pushing Ahead Research to Cool Earth by Reflecting Back Sunlight \u2013 (CNBC \u2013 October 13, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"yiv7285812473css-axufdj\" style=\"margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">The White House is coordinating a five-year research plan to study ways of modifying the amount of sunlight that reaches the earth to temper the effects of global warming, a process called solar geoengineering or sunlight reflection. The research plan will assess climate interventions, including spraying aerosols into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight back into space, and should include goals for research, what\u2019s necessary to analyze the atmosphere, and what impact these kinds of climate interventions may have on Earth. Some of the techniques, such as spraying sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere, are known to have harmful effects on the environment and human health. But scientists and climate leaders who are concerned that humanity will overshoot its emissions targets say research is important to figure out how best to balance these risks against a possibly catastrophic rise in the Earth\u2019s temperature. Getting ready to research a topic is a very preliminary step, but it\u2019s notable the White House is formally engaging with what has largely been seen as the stuff of dystopian fantasy. A landmark report released in March 2021 from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine addressed three kinds of solar geoengineering: stratospheric aerosol injection, marine cloud brightening, and cirrus cloud thinning. Stratospheric aerosol injection would involve flying aircraft into the stratosphere, or between 10 miles and 30 miles skyward, and spraying a fine mist that would hang in the air, reflecting some of the sun\u2019s radiation back into space. Marine cloud brightening involves increasing the reflectivity of clouds that are relatively close to the surface of the ocean with techniques like spraying sea salt crystals into the air. Marine cloud brightening generally gets less attention than stratospheric aerosol injection because it affects a half dozen to a few dozen miles and would potentially only last hours to days. Cirrus cloud thinning involves thinning mid-level clouds, between 3.7 and 8.1 miles high, to allow heat to escape from the Earth\u2019s surface. It is not technically part of the \u201csolar geoengineering\u201d umbrella category because it does not involve reflecting sunlight, but instead involves increasing the release of thermal radiation. Doing research is important because many onlookers expect that some country, facing an unprecedented climate disaster, will act unilaterally to will try some version of sunlight modification anyway \u2014 even if it hasn\u2019t been carefully studied. \u201cIn my opinion, it\u2019s more than 90% likely that within the next 20 years, some major nation wants to do this,\u201d said Edward A. Parson, a professor of environmental law at UCLA\u2019s law school.<\/p>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\">\n <table align=\"left\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td class=\"mcnImageContent\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding-right: 9px;padding-left: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \n \n <img decoding=\"async\" align=\"center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/ed464269-0e91-40c9-bef0-858171dc33ec.png\" width=\"564\" style=\"max-width: 1200px;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline !important;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" class=\"mcnImage\">\n \n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/interactive\/2022\/amazon-smart-home\/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F38257b7%2F6346e0c3f3d9003c580db507%2F5e876a849bbc0f0a2e14608c%2F56%2F70%2F6346e0c3f3d9003c580db507&wp_cu=e9566cddf5919d659b8a87c177b08eff%7CA266C910E7810C4DE0530100007F0657\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">Tour Amazon\u2019s Dream Home, Where Every Appliance Is Also a Spy \u2013 (Washington Post \u2013 October 12, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"yiv7285812473css-axufdj\" style=\"margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">You may not realize all the ways in which Amazon is watching you. No other big tech company reaches deeper into domestic life. Two-thirds of Americans who shop on Amazon own at least one of its smart gadgets, according to Consumer Intelligence Research Partners. Amazon now makes (or has acquired) more than two dozen types of domestic devices and services, from the garage to the bathroom. All devices generate data. And Amazon collects more data than almost any other company. Amazon says all that personal information helps power an \u201cambient intelligence\u201d to make your home smart. It\u2019s the Jetsons\u2019 dream. But it\u2019s also a surveillance nightmare. Many of Amazon\u2019s products contribute to its detailed profile of you, helping it know you better than you know yourself. Amazon says it doesn\u2019t \u201csell\u201d our data, but there aren\u2019t many U.S. laws to restrict how it uses the information. Data that seems useless today could look different tomorrow after it gets reanalyzed, stolen or handed to a government. Scroll through this article to see what Amazon\u2019s products and services could reveal about you. For example, Amazon knows exactly how fast you read and how far you actually got through your last novel on your Kindle or Fire Tablet. (Editor\u2019s note: We recommend this article for its thoroughness.)<\/p>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jonathanturley.org\/2022\/10\/28\/the-gates-of-hell-opened-a-media-panic-ensues-as-musk-takes-over-twitter-and-fires-chief-censors\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cThe Gates of Hell Opened\u201d: Media Panic Ensues As Musk Takes Over Twitter and Fires Chief Censors \u2013 (Jonathan Turley \u2013 October 28, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"yiv7285812473css-axufdj\" style=\"margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">One of Elon Must’s first steps upon taking over Twiter was to fire CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal and head of legal policy, trust, and safety Vijaya Gadde, the primary figures responsible for creating one of the largest censorship systems in history. Their removal constitutes as singular advances in the cause of free speech around the world. As expected, this morning media figures are in full panic at the thought that one social media platform may restore free speech protections after years of biased and aggressive censorship. The controversial Washington Post columnist Taylor Lorenz lamented \u201cIt\u2019s like the gates of hell opened on this site tonight.\u201d That\u2019s right, the prospect of others having access to Twitter to express their own views is a hellish prospect for many in the media. Agrawal and Gadde personified the censorship culture at Twitter, figures who were unabashedly opposed to traditional views of free speech and viewpoint diversity. Led by President Joe Biden, Democratic leaders and media figures have demanded corporate censorship and even state censorship to curtail opposing views on issues ranging from climate change to election integrity to public health to gender identity. The Washington Post\u2019s Max Boot, for example, declared, \u201cFor democracy to survive, we need more content moderation, not less.\u201d Many of those same figures are now apoplectic at the thought that others may be able to express dissenting views on subjects ranging from climate change to election regulations to gender identity. The freak out from the Musk-phobic was triggered by the prospect of a single social media company offering greater free speech protections. Just one. However, they know that the effort to control political and social speech will be lost if people have an alternative. These companies are only able to sell censorship because they have largely been able to bar free speech competitors. Now there may be an alternative. We will see if Musk can remain faithful to his pledge to restore free speech protections to the site.<\/p>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\">\n <table align=\"left\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td class=\"mcnImageContent\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding-right: 9px;padding-left: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \n \n <img decoding=\"async\" align=\"center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/8b7b010a-45aa-41b7-832b-79a3b43ca7b5.png\" width=\"564\" style=\"max-width: 1200px;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline !important;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" class=\"mcnImage\">\n \n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/10\/19\/new-project-will-test-the-viability-of-large-scale-wave-energy.html\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">A New Four-year Project Will Test the Viability of Large-scale Wave Energy in Europe \u2013 (CNBC \u2013 October 19, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"yiv7285812473css-axufdj\" style=\"margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">A 19.6 million euro (around $19.3 million) initiative centered around commercializing large-scale wave energy projects is being launched by WEDUSEA, a collaboration of 14 partners from academia and industry, with funding coming from Innovate UK and the European Union\u2019s Horizon Europe program. WEDUSEA is being coordinated by OceanEnergy, an Irish firm that\u2019s developed the OE35, a piece of kit that\u2019s been dubbed \u201cthe world\u2019s largest capacity floating wave energy device.\u201d Capacity refers to the amount of electricity a generator is able to produce when operating at full volume. According to a statement released by the European Marine Energy Center (EMEC), WEDUSEA\u2019s initial phase will concentrate on the design of a 1 megawatt version of the OE35. \u201cThis will be followed by a two-year grid connected demonstration at the European Marine Energy Centre\u2019s Billia Croo wave energy test site in Orkney, Scotland,\u201d the statement added. a third phase of the project would look at commercialization, among other things. An overarching goal of the project is to \u201ccreate a technology deployment pathway for a 20 MW pilot farm,\u201d according to EMEC.<\/p>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\">\n <table align=\"left\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td class=\"mcnImageContent\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding-right: 9px;padding-left: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \n \n <img decoding=\"async\" align=\"center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/dc436ab3-c7e2-41d0-a460-a87c628031bb.png\" width=\"564\" style=\"max-width: 1200px;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline !important;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" class=\"mcnImage\">\n \n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/06\/28\/business\/candela-hydrofoil-boats-climate-hnk-spc-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">These \u2018Flying\u2019 Ferries Could Get You to Work in Half the Time \u2013 (CNN \u2013 June 28, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"yiv7285812473css-axufdj\" style=\"margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">Waves from fast-moving boats damage the seabed, engine noise disturbs wildlife, and leisure boating accounted for over 25% of Sweden\u2019s CO2 emissions from shipping in 2020. But one Swedish startup says its battery-powered boats can cut emissions while slashing journey times. Candela has designed fully electric, zero-carbon hydrofoils. The company says it sold more than 100 of its C-8 model, a 28-foot leisure boat, within six months of launching in August 2021. Its passenger ferries \u2014 unveiled on June 22 \u2014 are expected to hit the water next year. Hydrofoils have wing-like structures attached to the underside of the hull. As the vessels gather speed, these \u201cwings\u201d lift them out of the water, reducing friction and wake, which enables them to go faster and increases battery efficiency, said Gustav Hasselskog, founder and CEO of Candela. Made with a composite carbon fiber, the hull is ultralight \u2014 essential for making the boat \u201cfly\u201d across the water, he adds. Other companies are also working on high-end battery-powered leisure boats. Arc Boats, created by former rocket engineers from Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX, is releasing its 24-foot aluminum boat this summer, while another Stockholm-based startup, X Shore has raised over $74.8 million to ramp up production of its electric boat, which has a range of up to 100 nautical miles. But Hasselskog says that because the hydrofoils don\u2019t make waves, it creates a smoother ride at higher speeds. \u201cYou have this sense of flying.\u201d<\/p>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/10\/25\/1131369881\/electric-vehicles-home-apartment-renters-charging-evs\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">As Electric Vehicles Become More Popular, Home Renters Face a Charging Dilemma \u2013 (NPR \u2013 October 25, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"yiv7285812473css-axufdj\" style=\"margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">For millions of renters, access to EV charging remains a significant barrier. Fast chargers, also known as DC Fast, can fill up a car in 45 minutes or less. But slower Level 2 chargers, which take several hours, still outnumber DC fast chargers nearly four to one. Charging on a standard residential outlet, or Level 1 charger, isn’t practical unless you drive little or can leave the car plugged in overnight. Now, cities across the U.S. are trying to come up with innovative public charging solutions as drivers string power cords across sidewalks, erect private charging stations on city right-of-ways and queue at public facilities. Nationwide, there are about 120,000 public charging ports featuring Level 2 charging or above, and nearly 1.5 million electric vehicles registered in the U.S. \u2014 a ratio of just over one charger per 12 cars nationally, according to the latest U.S. Department of Energy data. A briefing prepared for the U.S. Department of Energy last year forecasts a total of just under 19 million electric vehicles on the road by 2030, with a projected need for an extra 9.6 million charging stations. In Los Angeles, for example, nearly one-quarter of all new vehicles registered in July were plug-in. In Los Angeles, the city has installed over 500 pole-mounted EV chargers \u2014 450 on street lights and 50 on power poles \u2014 and wants to add 200 more per year. Similar initiatives to install pole-mounted chargers are in place or being considered from New York City to Charlotte, N.C. to Kansas City, Missouri. The utility Seattle City Light is also in the early stages of a pilot project to install chargers in neighborhoods with limited private parking. London, for example, has 4,000 public chargers on street lights. That’s much cheaper \u2014 just a third the cost of wiring a charging station into the sidewalk, said Vishant Kothari, manager of the electric mobility team at the World Resources Institute. But London and Los Angeles have an advantage over many U.S. cities: Their street lights operate on 240 volts, better for EV charging. Most American city street lights use 120 volts, which takes hours to charge a vehicle. So cities must use a mix of solutions, from zoning changes to policies that encourage workplace fast-charging.<\/p>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\" valign=\"top\">\n <table class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td class=\"mcnImageContent\" style=\"padding-right: 9px;padding-left: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\">\n \n \n <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/b939ecee-ce36-47c0-a2fc-8c3c5a410a9a.png\" style=\"max-width: 1200px;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline !important;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" class=\"mcnImage\" width=\"564\" align=\"middle\">\n \n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.concordmonitor.com\/robot-milking-dairy-farm-new-hampshire-48477189?mc_cid=de4990e01a&mc_eid=88eaa51cbb\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">At Some Dairy Farms Robots Milk the Cows \u2013 (Concord Monitor \u2013 October 24, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"yiv7285812473css-axufdj\" style=\"margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">Lely Astronaut milking machines combine hydraulics, lasers, electronics and suction. Running around $420,000, the setup determines which cow has entered the milking stall via the RFD chip hanging around her neck, cleans the teats twice with little brushes that look like they came from a Matchbox car wash, attaches nozzles and drains 8 or 9 gallons of milk that gets pumped to various places depending on factors such as whether the cow is on antibiotics. (Milk from cows on antibiotics cannot be sold for human consumption.) This happens as often as four times a day for each cow and, importantly for the farmer\u2019s workload, happens on the cow\u2019s schedule. They can get milked whenever they feel like it rather than on the rigid twice-a-day schedule that is the usual dairy routine. \u201cWhenever\u201d includes the middle of the night. Lely is a Dutch farm-implement company specializing in dairies. It has been selling versions of its robot milker, which it calls Astronaut, since 2005. The company says more than 20,000 have been installed worldwide. Automation is showing up on many farms because of the labor situation. Self-driving tractors were on the market long before self-driving cars, while automated systems for planting, harvesting and even weeding crops (using lasers!) are all over the place. The ability for automated systems to do something as delicate and complicated as cleaning a cow\u2019s udder and attaching suction cups to the correct teats, when every cow is slightly different in size and shape, shows how far it has gone. Each cow must be manually placed in the system for the first usage to help the system\u2019s sensors determine the geometry of that animal. After that it adjusts automatically, detecting which cow has entered the stall to feed via RFID chips in collars they wear. Cows don\u2019t like novelty so it takes some time for them to get used to the system and the first few months of operation after installation can be tough. The upside is decreased labor costs and the fact that cows produce more milk if they\u2019re being milked three or four times a day rather than only twice.<\/p>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\" valign=\"top\">\n <table class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td class=\"mcnImageContent\" style=\"padding-right: 9px;padding-left: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\">\n \n \n <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/990684dc-d4a9-42f8-9778-7df045165e24.png\" style=\"max-width: 1200px;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline !important;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" class=\"mcnImage\" width=\"564\" align=\"middle\">\n \n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/10\/20\/mass-drones-are-a-worry-for-the-future-of-warfare\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">Mass Drone Attacks in Ukraine Foreshadow the Future of Warfare \u2013 Al Jazeera \u2013 October 20, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"yiv7285812473css-axufdj\" style=\"margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">The aircraft are called kamikaze drones because they attack once and don\u2019t come back. Ukrainian officials say the ones primarily being used in their airspace are the Iranian-made Shahed-136. About 2,400 were apparently purchased by Russia in August, and their first reported use in Ukraine was a month ago. They are far from top-end technology. The smallest costs just $20,000 while a traditional drone typically is at least 10 times that figure. They also carry 80 to 90 pounds of explosives, significantly smaller than most drones. But their value is in their numbers. They appear in large swarms and fly low enough to evade radar-defense systems. \u201cThey\u2019re relatively small, and they\u2019re single use,\u201d said Katherine Lawlor, a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of War. \u201cThey fly into something and then explode.\u201d She added. \u201cThese drones are effectively missiles \u2014 they loiter in place looking for their target.\u201d Even if they are shot down, they explode in the air and can spray potentially deadly debris. Those that hit their target detonate on impact. This strategy also potentially signals a wider trend worldwide. \u201cThese drones allow Russia to target Ukrainians far away from the front line, away from the primary battle space,\u201d says Ulrike Franke, a senior policy fellow at the European Council for Foreign Relations who leads its Technology and European Power Initiative. Like many trends of modern warfare, these techniques appear to have been tested during the decade-long war in Syria, where both Russia and Iran have reportedly used suicide drones. \u201cThere\u2019s been a lot of debates between experts about whether drones will be used in more advanced fights, like a potential US-China conflict,\u201d said Zachary Kallenborn, a policy fellow at the Schar School of Policy and Government who researches unconventional weapons and technology. \u201cThe technology is certainly going in a direction where these are the future of war,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-719836\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">New App Lets Civilians Help Shoot Down Drones and Missiles in Ukraine \u2013 (Jerusalem Post \u2013 October 17, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"yiv7285812473css-axufdj\" style=\"margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">Ukraine has created an application for mobile devices that will help air defense units supplement radar information about an air target to better the chances of taking it down, according to Ukraine’s Strategic Communications Department. “The Android version of the “ePPO” application is already available to download. Now every citizen of Ukraine can join the anti-missile and anti-aircraft defense of our skies,” the Strategic Communications Department of the Office of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said. To use the app, all that is needed is to install the “ePPO” application on your smartphone, pass a quick authorization process, click “Test” to make sure that everything works, and be ready to notify anti-aircraft fighters about perceived threats. How the app works: If you see an air target, for example, a cruise missile or a suicide drone, you need to open “ePPO” on your smartphone, select the type of air target, point your smartphone in the direction of the target and press the big red button. Air defense specialists will see a mark on the map, it will complement the radar information and the threat will be shot down. The ePPO app is currently available for the Android platform, iOS version is in the works. The Ministry offered advice on how to recognize UAVs and how protect yourself from these weapons. (Editor\u2019s note: This brings the idea of WWII\u2019s \u201ccitizens supporting the war effort\u201d, for example with citizen coastline surveillance, into the 21st century.)<\/p>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/pentagon-successfully-flight-tests-hypersonic-weapon-components-2022-10-26\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">Pentagon Successfully Flight Tests Hypersonic Weapon Components \u2013 (Reuters \u2013 October 26, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"yiv7285812473css-axufdj\" style=\"margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">The U.S. Navy and Army blasted off a rocket from a seaside launch pad in Virginia to test nearly a dozen hypersonic weapon experiments on October 26, 2022 to help develop the new class of weapon, the Pentagon said, calling the test successful. Sandia National Laboratories ran the test from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, which evaluated hypersonic weapon communications and navigation equipment as well as advanced materials that can withstand the heat in a “realistic hypersonic environment,” according to a Navy statement. Hypersonic glide vehicles are launched from a rocket in the upper atmosphere before gliding to a target at speeds of more than five times the speed of sound, or about 3,853 miles per hour. Glide bodies are different from their air-breathing hypersonic weapon cousins, which use scramjet engine technology and the vehicle’s high speed to forcibly compress incoming air before combustion to enable sustained flight at hypersonic speeds. The United States and its global rivals have quickened their pace to build hypersonic weapons – the next generation of arms that rob adversaries of reaction time and traditional defeat mechanisms. To speed the development the Pentagon launched these experiments and prototypes using a sounding rocket, a smaller and therefore more affordable test vehicle, to fill a critical gap between ground testing and full-system flight testing.<\/p>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\">\n <table align=\"left\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td class=\"mcnImageContent\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding-right: 9px;padding-left: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \n \n <img decoding=\"async\" align=\"center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/1f55c21a-4c06-4011-a5d0-718ccb33dd60.png\" width=\"564\" style=\"max-width: 1200px;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline !important;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" class=\"mcnImage\">\n \n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/hundreds-retired-us-military-officers-jobs-saudi-uae-say-reports\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">Hundreds of Retired US Military Officers Cash In with Jobs for Saudi Arabia, UAE \u2013 (Mid East Eye \u2013 October 18, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"yiv7285812473css-axufdj\" style=\"margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">Hundreds of retired US military officers, including former generals and admirals, have used their military backgrounds to ink lucrative deals working for foreign countries, mostly among the Gulf monarchies like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, according to two long-term investigations by The Washington Post. The highest-ranking officer in the report was retired General Jim Mattis, who served as former President Donald Trump’s secretary of defense. One of the generals is retired Marine General James L Jones, who served as former President Barack Obama’s national security adviser and started working with Riyadh in 2017. For the project, Jones enlisted the help of “about a dozen ??former senior Pentagon officials” including William Cohen, who served as secretary of defense in the Bill Clinton administration. The newspaper spent two years suing the federal government under the Freedom of Information Act for the records and obtained 4,000 documents under FOIA. The documents also revealed that 15 former generals and admirals have worked directly with Saudi Arabia’s defense ministry, headed by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Foreign governments often spend copious amounts of money in Washington on lobbyists, consultants and think tanks. However, The Washinton Post’s reporting reveals that the hiring of former military officers by Gulf monarchies has sharply risen in the past decade. While many of the forms are heavily redacted, the documents show that salary and benefits packages reach six and, sometimes, seven figures. Under US federal law, retired military personnel are barred from receiving anything of value from foreign governments that could compromise their sworn allegiance to the United States. But in 1977, Congress allowed the Pentagon and State Department to issue waivers to the law. The Washington Post noted that there is no criminal penalty for violating the law and the enforcement of it is “almost nonexistent”. The revelations add to concerns about the extent to which foreign countries, including many with authoritarian governments, have expanded their influence over US institutions. Retired US General John Allen stepped down as the president of the Brookings Institution think tank earlier this year, following the news that federal authorities believe he illegally lobbied for Qatar. Billionaire and Trump ally Tom Barrack is currently on trial for charges of illegally lobbying the Trump administration on behalf of the UAE. See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/investigations\/interactive\/2022\/australia-nuclear-submarines-us-admirals\/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F382e215%2F634ed23cf3d9003c581438c5%2F5e876a849bbc0f0a2e14608c%2F58%2F70%2F634ed23cf3d9003c581438c5&wp_cu=e9566cddf5919d659b8a87c177b08eff%7CA266C910E7810C4DE0530100007F0657\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">Retired U.S. Admirals Advise Australia on Deal for Nuclear Submarines<\/a>, which reports that two retired U.S. admirals and three former U.S. Navy civilian leaders are playing critical but secretive roles as paid advisers to the government of Australia during its negotiations to acquire top-secret nuclear submarine technology from the United States and Britain.<\/p>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2022\/10\/28\/advocating-world-war-three-is-just-mainstream-punditry-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">Advocating World War Three Is Just Mainstream Punditry Now \u2013 (Caitlin Johnstone \u2013 October 28, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"yiv7285812473css-axufdj\" style=\"margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">Mainstream punditry in the latter half of 2022 is rife with op-eds arguing that the US needs to vastly increase military spending because a world war is about to erupt, and they always frame it as though this would be something that happens to the US, as though its own actions would have nothing to do with it. As though it would not be the direct result of the US-centralized empire continually accelerating towards that horrific event while refusing every possible diplomatic off-ramp due to its inability to relinquish its goal of total unipolar planetary domination. The latest example of this trend is an article titled “<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/xNqEC\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">Could America Win a New World War? \u2014 What It Would Take to Defeat Both China and Russia<\/a>” published by <em>Foreign Affairs<\/em>, a magazine that is owned and operated by the influential think tank, Council on Foreign Relations. In “<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/a6GWc\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">The skeptics are wrong: The U.S. can confront both China and Russia<\/a>,” <em>The Washington Post<\/em>‘s Josh Rogin wags his finger at Democrats who think aggressions against Russia should be prioritized and Republicans who think that military and financial attention should be devoted to China, arguing <em>porque no los dos<\/em><em> (why not both)<\/em><em>?<\/em> In “<a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/08\/could-the-u-s-military-fight-russia-and-china-at-the-same-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">Could The U.S. Military Fight Russia And China At The Same Time?<\/a>“, <em>19FortyFive<\/em>‘s Robert Farley answers in the affirmative, writing that “the immense fighting power of the US armed forces would not be inordinately strained by the need to wage war in both theaters” and concluding that “the United States can fight both Russia and China at once\u2026 for a while, and with the help of some friends.” In “<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/sYmvN\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">Can the US Take on China, Iran and Russia All at Once?<\/a>” <em>Bloomberg<\/em>‘s Hal Brands answers that it would be very difficult and recommends escalating in Ukraine and Taiwan and selling Israel more advanced weaponry to get a step ahead of Russia, China and Iran respectively. In “<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/U5WR7\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">International Relations Theory Suggests Great-Power War Is Coming<\/a>,” the Atlantic Council’s Matthew Kroenig writes for <em>Foreign Policy<\/em> that a global democracies-versus-autocracies showdown is coming “with the United States and its status quo-oriented democratic allies in NATO, Japan, South Korea, and Australia on one side and the revisionist autocracies of China, Russia, and Iran on the other,” and that aspiring foreign policy experts should adjust their expectations accordingly. When they’re not arguing that World War Three is coming and we must all prepare to fight it and win, they’re arguing that a global conflict is already upon us and we must begin acting like it, as in last month’s <em>New Yorker<\/em> piece “<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/letter-from-bidens-washington\/what-if-were-already-fighting-the-third-world-war-with-russia\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">What if We\u2019re Already Fighting the Third World War with Russia?<\/a>” <\/p>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-63185186\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">Fuel Protests Gripping More Than 90 Countries \u2013 (BBC \u2013 October 18, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"yiv7285812473css-axufdj\" style=\"margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">Fuel costs affect many aspects of daily life – personal travel, transportation of goods, energy for electricity and heating. Around the world demonstrators have called for change. They’ve demanded that petrol be made more affordable or available at all. They’ve sat in peaceful protests and they’ve attacked governments. Some have paid an even higher price. For example, in August, violent clashes in the capital of Sierra Leone killed 25 people, including five police officers. Since March, the price of fuel in the country has nearly doubled, from 12,000 Leones ($0.86) per liter to a record high of 22,000 Leones ($1.58) in July. In July, the central bank introduced new banknotes – stripping three zeros off the Leone – in a move to restore confidence in its inflation-hit currency. By analyzing data on demonstrations worldwide, collected by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (Acled), the BBC has established that between January and September this year people in more than 90 countries and territories took to the streets over the price or availability of fuel. Article includes map and timeline of protests globally. BBC research has found that in the last nine months, more than 80 people have lost their lives due to protests over the cost of fuel. That includes individuals from Argentina, Ecuador, Guinea, Haiti, Kazakhstan, Panama, Peru, and South Africa as well as Sierra Leone. The war in Ukraine is just one of many factors driving up the global price of fuel. Crude oil was cheaper at the beginning of the Covid pandemic, because many businesses temporarily closed and the demand for energy collapsed. But as life returned to the “new normal” and energy demands increased, suppliers have struggled to keep up with demand which has pushed up prices. The US dollar is at an all-time high against other major currencies; the pound, the euro, China’s yuan and the Japanese yen. The oil used to make petrol is paid for primarily in US dollars. So a weak local currency against the dollar makes fuel even more expensive.<\/p>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/10\/22\/china\/china-party-congress-overseas-students-protest-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">Anti-Xi Protest Spreads in China and Worldwide as Chinese Leader Begins Third Term \u2013 (CNN \u2013 October 22, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"yiv7285812473css-axufdj\" style=\"margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">In Chinese, handwritten in red paint on a banner hanging over a busy overpass in Beijing, in a rare, bold protest against China\u2019s top leader Xi Jinping, appeared the following: \u201cLife not zero-Covid policy, freedom not martial-law type lockdown, dignity not lies, reform not cultural revolution, votes not dictatorship, citizens not slaves\u201d. The person who hung the banner has come to be known as the \u201cBridge Man,\u201d in a nod to the unidentified \u201cTank Man\u201d who faced down a column of tanks on Beijing\u2019s Avenue of Eternal Peace the day after the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989. Another banner on the Sitong Bridge denounced Xi as a \u201cdictator\u201d and \u201cnational traitor\u201d and called for his removal \u2013 just days before a key Communist Party meeting at which he secured a precedent-breaking third term. Both banners were swiftly removed by police and all mentions of the protest wiped from the Chinese internet. But the short-lived display of political defiance \u2013 which is almost unimaginable in Xi\u2019s authoritarian surveillance state \u2013 has resonated far beyond the Chinese capital, sparking acts of solidarity from Chinese nationals inside China and across the globe. In China, the slogans were scrawled on walls and doors in public bathrooms \u2013 one of the last places spared the watchful eyes of the country\u2019s ubiquitous surveillance cameras. Few of the slogan writers believe their political actions will lead to real changes on the ground. Having tightened its grip on all aspects of life, launched a sweeping crackdown on dissent, wiped out much of civil society and built a high-tech surveillance state, the party\u2019s hold on power appears firmer than ever. But the extensive censorship around the Sitong Bridge protest also betrays its paranoia. One person interviewed for this article said, \u201c(The Beijing protester) had sacrificed his life or the freedom of the rest of his life to do what he did.\u201d No one interviewed thought that the \u201cBridge Man\u201d would escape being identified.<\/p>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\">\n <table align=\"left\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td class=\"mcnImageContent\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding-right: 9px;padding-left: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \n \n <img decoding=\"async\" align=\"center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/cade09f9-5835-49cc-bfe7-6f5de1283b37.png\" width=\"564\" style=\"max-width: 1200px;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline !important;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" class=\"mcnImage\">\n \n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/27\/opinion\/global-sadness-rising.html?unlocked_article_code=KY7bEPwJRMyvAEMUS4-cxvvzCGb-b6yrLCAbVGzbWxPoQQ56vho4A3z0kX3s7jJ8YHOmAFBC_Y0LBMgctdhD9vQ1PYDixjdwGTPASLh8mHM5O9PryOwf6lFDEHH4IMil0JHNmOF4dEJetnrRYfafxZAlE51qa7uK6viqgkhsIYt5sXefTh7kNcQ8-YEmfnO9ifaLnXntU3lbQoYWEqzEuC24JkYp5WCrNUB1OOm0RgYYoLx6tWLo-O50piucp8QZ8-2f4mshf9kY4sAJOdZqbjYdy3CfH1KSKjdvb-z81n7ok9kiuhhxPo0MZWsgPL0LParfqIXAiB2H-WCt0vF3&smid=em-share\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">The Rising Tide of Global Sadness \u2013 (New York Times \u2013 October 28, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"yiv7285812473css-axufdj\" style=\"margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">Between 1965 and 2015, the appearance of the word \u201clove\u201d in top-100 hits roughly halved. Meanwhile, the number of times such songs contained negative emotion words, like \u201chate\u201d rose sharply. Analyzing 23 million headlines published between 2000 and 2019 by 47 news outlets popular in the United States found that headlines, too, grew significantly more negative, with a greater proportion of headlines denoting anger, fear, disgust and sadness. Headlines in left-leaning media got a lot more negative, and headlines in right-leaning publications got even more negative than that. The negativity in the culture reflects the negativity in real life. Between 1990 and 2018 the share of Americans who put themselves in the lowest happiness category increased by more than 50%. And that was before the pandemic. But the really bad news is abroad. Each year Gallup surveys roughly 150,000 people in over 140 countries about their emotional lives. Experiences of negative emotions \u2014 related to stress, sadness, anger, worry and physical pain \u2014 hit a record high last year. Gallup asks people in this survey to rate their lives on a scale from zero to 10, with zero meaning you\u2019re living your worst possible life and 10 meaning you\u2019re living your best. Sixteen years ago, only 1.6% of people worldwide rated their life as a zero. As of last year, the share of people reporting the worst possible lives has more than quadrupled. Part of the problem is declining community. The polls imply that almost two billion people are so unhappy where they live, they would not recommend their community to a friend. This is especially true in China and India. Part of the problem is hunger. In 2014, 22.6% of the world faced moderate or severe food insecurity. By 2020, 30.4% of the world did. Part of the problem is an increase in physical misery. In 2006, 30% of people who rated their lives the worst said they experienced daily pain. Last year, 45% of those people said they live with daily pain. If misery levels keep rising, what can we expect in the future? Well, rising levels of populism, for one. And second, greater civil unrest across the board. According to the Global Peace Index, civic discontent \u2014 riots, strikes, anti-government demonstrations \u2014 increased by 244% from 2011 to 2019.<\/p>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\" valign=\"top\">\n <table class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td class=\"mcnImageContent\" style=\"padding-right: 9px;padding-left: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\">\n \n \n <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/1955eac6-467c-41bd-a8b7-b2ccd4454d33.png\" style=\"max-width: 1200px;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline !important;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" class=\"mcnImage\" width=\"564\" align=\"middle\">\n \n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/dart-asteroid-impact-aftermath-hubble-spots-unexpected-twin-tails-in-stunning-surprise\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">DART Asteroid Impact Aftermath: Hubble Spots Unexpected Twin Tails in \u201cStunning Surprise\u201d \u2013 (SciTech Daily \u2013 October 22, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\nNASA carried out the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), a first-of-its-kind experiment, on September 26, 2022. The pioneering experiment was designed to intentionally crash a spacecraft into a small asteroid in the world\u2019s first-ever in-space test for planetary defense. According to NASA, the mission was successful in altering the orbit of Dimorphos, the asteroid moonlet of Didymos. However, there is still much to learn about the system. Follow-up observations show that the ejected material, or \u201cejecta,\u201d has expanded and faded in brightness as time went on after impact, largely as expected. Although the twin tail is an unexpected development, similar behavior is often seen in comets and active asteroids. The latest Hubble observations provide the best-quality image of the double-tail to date. Photos in article.\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/supernova-explosions-reveal-precise-details-of-dark-energy-and-dark-matter\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">Supernova Explosions Reveal Precise Details of Dark Energy and Dark Matter \u2013 (SciTech Daily \u2013 October 23, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\nA powerful new analysis has been performed by astrophysicists that places the most precise limits ever on the composition and evolution of the universe. With this analysis, dubbed Pantheon+, cosmologists find themselves at a crossroads. Pantheon+ is based on the largest dataset of its kind, comprising more than 1,500 stellar explosions called Type Ia supernovae. These bright blasts occur when white dwarf stars \u2014 remnants of stars like our Sun \u2014 accumulate too much mass and undergo a runaway thermonuclear reaction. Because Type Ia supernovae outshine entire galaxies, the stellar detonations can be glimpsed at distances exceeding 10 billion light years, or back through about three-quarters of the universe\u2019s total age. Pantheon+ convincingly finds that the cosmos is made up of about two-thirds dark energy and one-third matter \u2014 predominantly in the form of dark matter \u2014 and is expanding at an accelerating pace over the last several billion years. However, Pantheon+ also cements a major disagreement over the pace of that expansion that has yet to be solved. By putting prevailing modern cosmological theories, known as the Standard Model of Cosmology, on even firmer evidentiary and statistical footing, Pantheon+ further closes the door on alternative frameworks accounting for dark energy and dark matter. Both are bedrocks of the Standard Model of Cosmology but have yet to be directly detected. They rank among the model\u2019s biggest mysteries. Following through on the results of Pantheon+, researchers can now pursue more precise observational tests and hone explanations for the cosmos.\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\">\n <table align=\"left\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td class=\"mcnImageContent\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding-right: 9px;padding-left: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \n \n <img decoding=\"async\" align=\"center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/a548cf1d-25ea-4ca3-8d01-b718554683c8.png\" width=\"564\" style=\"max-width: 1200px;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline !important;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" class=\"mcnImage\">\n \n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/10\/14\/tech\/e-waste-tips\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">What to Do with Your Old Phones, Gadgets and Other e-Waste \u2013 (CNN \u2013 October 14, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\nThe collective impact of recycling e-waste can be staggering. For every 1 million cell phones that are recycled, the EPA says 35,000 pounds of copper, 772 pounds of silver, 75 pounds of gold and 33 pounds of palladium can be recovered. The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEE) Forum, a Brussels-based nonprofit, said its focus this year is on taking action with the small bits of e-waste many people may unintentionally hang on to, including not just your old cell phone, but your headphones, remote controls and computer mouse. The US Environmental Protection Agency says large swaths of e-waste are shipped to developing countries that lack the capacity to reject these imports or infrastructure to safely recycle them. The World Health Organization also warned that children, with their smaller hands, are often used to process mountains of e-waste in developing nations in search of valuable elements such as copper, silver, palladium and more. The WHO said more than 18 million children are exposed to a range of negative health impacts as they engage in this informal e-waste processing industry. This article outlines a few steps you can take with the phones, laptops and chargers you have stashed at home to alleviate the e-waste burden. For example, if you live in an area that offers e-waste disposal services (either via specific pickup dates or at a drop-off location), that\u2019s among the easiest ways to clear out old gadgets. Additionally, a growing list of major retailers \u2014 including Staples and Best Buy \u2014 also have programs that let customers bring in e-waste for recycling.\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\">\n <table align=\"left\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td class=\"mcnImageContent\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding-right: 9px;padding-left: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \n \n <img decoding=\"async\" align=\"center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/c1c5845a-2cc1-4f99-9312-ad9c819c9be2.png\" width=\"564\" style=\"max-width: 1200px;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline !important;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" class=\"mcnImage\">\n \n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-10-scientists-material-plastic-metal.html\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">Scientists Discover Material That Can Be Made Like a Plastic But Conducts Like a Metal \u2013 (PhysOrg \u2013 October 26, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\nScientists with the University of Chicago have discovered a way to create a material that can be made like a plastic, but conducts electricity more like a metal. The research shows how to make a kind of material in which the molecular fragments are jumbled and disordered, but can still conduct electricity extremely well. This goes against all of the rules we know about for conductivity\u2014to a scientist, it’s kind of like seeing a car driving on water and still going 70 mph. But the finding could also be extraordinarily useful; if you want to invent something revolutionary, the process often first starts with discovering a completely new material. Jiaze Xie, the first author on the paper, began experimenting with some materials discovered years ago, but largely ignored. He strung nickel atoms like pearls into a string of of molecular beads made of carbon and sulfur, and began testing. To the scientists’ astonishment, the material easily and strongly conducted electricity. What’s more, it was very stable. “We heated it, chilled it, exposed it to air and humidity, and even dripped acid and base on it, and nothing happened,” said Xie. That is enormously helpful for a device that has to function in the real world. But to the scientists, the most striking thing was that the molecular structure of the material was disordered. “From a fundamental picture, that should not be able to be a metal,” said John Anderson, an associate professor of chemistry at the University of Chicago and the senior author on the study. “There isn’t a solid theory to explain this.”\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/science\/bacteria-self-repairing-walls\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">Scientists Find a Surprisingly Small But Mighty Natural Force to Build Self-repairing Walls \u2013 (Inverse \u2013 October 9, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\nLike human cells, bacteria contain DNA that provides the instructions to build proteins. Bacterial DNA can be modified to instruct the cell to build new proteins, including ones that don\u2019t exist in nature. Researchers can even control exactly where these proteins will be located within the cell. A primary challenge for engineered living materials has been figuring out how to induce them to produce a matrix, or substances surrounding the cell, that allows researchers to control the physical properties of the final material, such as its viscosity, elasticity, and stiffness. To address this, Sara Molinari and her team created a system to encode this matrix in the bacteria\u2019s DNA. By surrounding each cell with this sticky, elastic material, bacterial cells will cluster together to form a living slime. Furthermore, we can modify the elastic proteins to change the properties of the final material. For example, we could turn bacteria into hard construction materials that have the ability to self-repair in the event of damage. Alternatively, we could turn bacteria into soft materials that could be used as fillers in products. The technology to make living materials is unsophisticated and cheap. It only takes a shaking incubator, proteins, and sugars to grow a multifunctional, high-performing material from bacteria. The incubator is just a metal or plastic box that keeps the temperature at about 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit (37 Celsius), which is much lower than a conventional home oven, and shakes the cells at speeds slower than a blender. Transforming bacteria into living materials is also a quick process. The team was able to grow bacterial living materials in about 24 hours. This is pretty fast compared to the manufacturing process of other materials, including living materials like wood, which can take years to produce. Article includes embedded TED talk, \u201cWhy Biofabrication Is the Next Industrial Revolution.\u201d\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\" valign=\"top\">\n <table class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td class=\"mcnImageContent\" style=\"padding-right: 9px;padding-left: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\">\n \n \n <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/33a86720-2925-4edd-a373-9d326d952424.png\" style=\"max-width: 1200px;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline !important;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" class=\"mcnImage\" width=\"564\" align=\"middle\">\n \n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inc.com\/minda-zetlin\/jeff-bezos-david-solomon-recession-forecasting.html\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">In 11 Words, Jeff Bezos Just Gave Some of the Best Advice You’ll Get This Year \u2013 (Inc. \u2013 October 23, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\nThose words are: \u201cYou can’t predict the future, but you can weigh the probabilities.\u201d Bezos\u2019 financial advice was offered when he counseled his Twitter followers that it’s time to prepare for possible economic turmoil. The probabilities in this economy tell you to batten down the hatches. He re-tweeted a CNBC clip of Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon (embedded in article) saying that businesses should lessen their exposure to risk these days. What makes this such good advice is that neither Bezos nor Solomon claims to know what will happen to the U.S. or world economy. The truth is, nobody knows. Zillow’s chief economist Skylar Olsen noted this month that forecasting is all about pattern recognition, and that today’s economic patterns are unrecognizable. Still, she said, forecasts seem to be trending toward the negative.\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2022\/10\/20\/ev-supply-chain-battery-tracking\/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F383115a%2F635174a5f3d9003c58161a06%2F5e876a849bbc0f0a2e14608c%2F62%2F72%2F635174a5f3d9003c58161a06&wp_cu=e9566cddf5919d659b8a87c177b08eff%7CA266C910E7810C4DE0530100007F0657\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">EV Supply Chains Have a Human Rights Problem. Can Tech Fix It? \u2013 (Washington Post \u2013 October 20, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\nThe difficulty electric carmakers face building supply chains free of human rights and environmental violations came into focus earlier this year, when U.S. investigators completed their probe of a massive mining tragedy in Brazil where 270 people were killed in a collapse of a dam holding iron ore mining waste \u2014 most of them buried alive in a deluge of toxic sludge. The SEC\u2019s federal lawsuit was a wake-up call for an auto industry straining to source massive amounts of new metals in a manner consistent with the green branding of electric vehicles. Now, with new federal rules that tie lucrative tax breaks to supply chain accountability, the world\u2019s major auto manufacturers are racing to get a better grip on the origin of their materials and who is being harmed by the way they are extracted and processed. Some of the EV tax incentives in the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act apply only to cars made from materials sourced in the U.S. or a handful of other nations. The financial risk of not tracking the origin of components just got much bigger. As companies scramble to build out and get control of their supply chains, they are finding out how much they don\u2019t know about them. They are learning that contractors who pledged to provide sustainable cobalt, for example, may be sneaking in sacks of the metal extracted with child labor, as detailed in lawsuits and a recent U.S. Department of Labor report. Some maybe concerned the nickel supplies they assumed meet the highest environmental and social standards are corrupted with product smuggled from Russian producers in violation of sanctions. Consumers, regulators and investors are increasingly demanding the car companies back their sustainability pledges with supply chain transparency. Central to the effort is the vision for battery passports that will reveal to consumers exactly where the materials in their EV battery were sourced. Creating a battery passport adds about $10 to the cost of a vehicle, according to auto industry officials. They argue it is a small price to pay for the assurance that cars qualify for thousands of dollars in tax breaks. Car manufacturers are also working with a rapidly expanding cottage industry of tracking firms that follow materials from the mine to the auto assembly line. The technology engages handheld scanning devices, QR codes and satellites to keep tabs on materials as they make their way around the globe. Article describes one specific company\u2019s tracking tools in detail.\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\">\n <table align=\"left\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td class=\"mcnImageContent\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding-right: 9px;padding-left: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \n \n <img decoding=\"async\" align=\"center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/e57d7e2e-387d-46bf-850a-ee877986658a.png\" width=\"564\" style=\"max-width: 1200px;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline !important;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" class=\"mcnImage\">\n \n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2022\/10\/26\/just-two-weeks\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">Just Two Weeks \u2013 (Caitlin Johnstone \u2013 October 26, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\nIn this moving poem, Johnstone acknowledges many of the real reasons why people are not more politically engaged even though their freedoms, the democracy of their country, and the health of the planet may be singularly at risk. Here are the opening lines: I stand here before you\/ in my mother’s hand-me-downs,\/ in this world where mothers must work like they don’t have children\/ and parent like they don’t have jobs,\/ keeping households running and bills paid\/ while their hearts run around outside their bodies\/ on tiny little legs that don’t yet know where the wolves are.\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\">\n <table align=\"left\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td class=\"mcnImageContent\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding-right: 9px;padding-left: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \n \n <img decoding=\"async\" align=\"center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/4063f239-99a1-4f52-a34a-427565a2378c.png\" width=\"564\" style=\"max-width: 1200px;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline !important;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" class=\"mcnImage\">\n \n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mymodernmet.com\/weather-photographer-of-the-year-2022\/?mc_cid=e41a67a36f&mc_eid=88eaa51cbb\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">Dramatic Storm Waves Crashing Into a Lighthouse Win Weather Photography Contest \u2013 (My Modern Met \u2013 October 12, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\nDramatic waves crashing into a lighthouse earned photographer Christopher Ison the title of Weather Photographer of the Year in the Royal Meteorological Society’s annual contest. Held in association with AccuWeather, the photo contest is a celebration of weather in all forms. And so, fittingly, the winning photos take us on a journey through icy storms and stunning rainbows. Ison’s win came after the judges sifted through entries from photographers in 119 countries and selected a shortlist of 22 images. But his photo stood above the rest for showing the power of nature and highlighting the dramatic movement and force of the sea together with the resistance offered by a man-made building. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Jamie Russell was rewarded for capturing a relatively calm moment in nature. His beautiful photo of a double rainbow on the Isle of Wight won the Public Favorite award. He beat out the other 22 shortlisted images after nearly 5,500 votes were cast by the public. 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class=\"mcnImage\" width=\"564\" align=\"middle\">\n \n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \n\t<tbody class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockInner\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td style=\"padding-top: 9px;padding-left: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-right: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \n <table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100% !important;background-color: #B2880D;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding: 18px;color: #F2F2F2;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;\">\n <h3 class=\"null\" style=\"text-align: center;display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 20px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;\"><span style=\"color:#1e1e1e\"><span style=\"font-size:20px\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:arial,sans-serif\">Volume 25, Number 21 – 11\/1\/2022<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\" valign=\"top\">\n <table class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td class=\"mcnImageContent\" style=\"padding-right: 9px;padding-left: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\">\n \n \n <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/8b50581e-7f5b-460a-8c24-b318122581e5.png\" style=\"max-width: 1200px;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline !important;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" class=\"mcnImage\" width=\"564\" align=\"middle\">\n \n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\" valign=\"top\">\n \n <h2 class=\"null\" style=\"text-align: left;display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 22px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;\">FUTURE FACTS – FROM THINK LINKS<\/h2>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <ul>\n\t<li style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">The average American viewer watches TikTok for 80 minutes a day.<\/li>\n\t<li style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">At least in a petri dish, researchers can take skin cells from a 101-year-old person and rewind them so they act as if they\u2019d never aged at all. <\/li>\n\t<li style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">Just under 19 million electric vehicles are expected to be on the US roads by 2030, with a projected need for an extra 9.6 million charging stations. <\/li>\n\t<li style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">Between January and September this year people in more than 90 countries and territories took to the streets over the price or availability of fuel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnDividerBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;table-layout: fixed !important;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnDividerBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td class=\"mcnDividerBlockInner\" style=\"min-width: 100%;padding: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <table class=\"mcnDividerContent\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-top: 2px solid #B2880D;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <span><\/span>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\">\n <table align=\"left\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td class=\"mcnImageContent\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding-right: 9px;padding-left: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \n <a href=\"https:\/\/arlingtoninstitute.org\/transitiontalks\/upcoming-events\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" rel=\"noopener\">\n <img decoding=\"async\" align=\"center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/7992b346-6aa3-d71a-ef8f-4069e694b330.jpg\" width=\"564\" style=\"max-width: 601px;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline !important;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" class=\"mcnImage\">\n <\/a>\n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color:#7c1720\"><span style=\"font-size:54px\"><strong>Mark Gober<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\n\n<div><font color=\"#7c1720\"><span style=\"font-size:24px\"><strong>Turning Government Upside Down:<\/strong><\/span><\/font><br>\n<span style=\"color:#7c1720\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:24px\">A Vision for a New World<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br>\n <\/div>\n\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#ffffff\"><span style=\"font-size:20px\">Saturday, November 19th, 1:00-5:00<br>\nin Berkeley Springs, West Virginia<br>\nor via LIVESTREAM!<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnImageCardBlock\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnImageCardBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td class=\"mcnImageCardBlockInner\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \n<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnImageCardBottomContent\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: 5px none #ffffff;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td class=\"mcnImageCardBottomImageContent\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding-top: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-bottom: 0;padding-left: 0px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \n \n <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/y8yKUgVmkSs\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" rel=\"noopener\">\n \n\n <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/video_thumbnails_new\/be85796f2692b3bd9eab1719bf1117d4.png\" width=\"554\" style=\"max-width: 640px;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;vertical-align: bottom;\" class=\"mcnImage\">\n <\/a>\n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <tr>\n <td class=\"mcnTextContent\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding: 9px 18px;color: #F2F2F2;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;line-height: 150%;\" width=\"546\">\n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n<\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnButtonBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnButtonBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 18px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\" align=\"center\" class=\"mcnButtonBlockInner\">\n <table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnButtonContentContainer\" style=\"border-collapse: separate !important;border-radius: 4px;background-color: #7C1720;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody>\n <tr>\n <td align=\"center\" valign=\"middle\" class=\"mcnButtonContent\" style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: 16px;padding: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <a class=\"mcnButton \" title=\"Click Here for Tickets and More Info\" href=\"https:\/\/arlingtoninstitute.org\/transitiontalks\/upcoming-events\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight: bold;letter-spacing: normal;line-height: 100%;text-align: center;text-decoration: none;color: #1e1e1e;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;display: block;\" rel=\"noopener\">Click Here for Tickets and More Info<\/a>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n <\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <p style=\"margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">How should our world be structured? Author Mark Gober will tackle this big question by laying out a societal framework that blends metaphysics and politics. He will examine the nature of reality through an exploration of consciousness, quantum physics, philosophy, \u201cparanormal\u201d phenomena, and beyond. Within this context, politics takes on a whole new meaning. Many aspects of our existing governing structures, which are commonly taken for granted, make less sense from a more metaphysically evolved standpoint. Mark will highlight such often-overlooked political and economic assumptions to chart the path to a new organizational structure for our future. Ultimately, we may be in the midst of a metaphysical battle between Good and Evil\u2014including potential \u201caliens\u201d and \u201cmultidimensional\u201d lifeforms\u2014so these topics are essential for our survival. <\/p>\n\n<p style=\"margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">Join us Saturday, November 19th, in person or via livestream. Get tickets below.<\/p>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnDividerBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;table-layout: fixed !important;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnDividerBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td class=\"mcnDividerBlockInner\" style=\"min-width: 100%;padding: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <table class=\"mcnDividerContent\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-top: 2px solid #7C1720;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <span><\/span>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \n\t<tbody class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockInner\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td style=\"padding-top: 9px;padding-left: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-right: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \n <table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100% !important;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding: 18px;color: #F2F2F2;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;line-height: 150%;\">\n <div style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#7c1720\"><span style=\"font-size:54px\"><strong>Mark Gober<\/strong><\/span><\/span><br>\n<br>\n<span style=\"font-size:22px\"><span style=\"color:#7c1720\"><strong>Saturday, November 19th, 1:00-5:00<br>\nCoolfont Resort<br>\n$65<br>\nBerkeley Springs, WV<br>\n<br>\nGet Tickets at <\/strong><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/arlingtoninstitute.us3.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=916d9ff25098a781af857b468&id=dcfac74f69&e=3782fcbd95\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" style=\"color: #951716;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#7c1720\">TransitionTalks.org<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnCaptionBlock\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnCaptionBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td class=\"mcnCaptionBlockInner\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 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src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/52748f7b-fc58-67d3-086d-71a5dbab6378.jpg\" width=\"176\" style=\"max-width: 720px;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;vertical-align: bottom;\" class=\"mcnImage\">\n \n\n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <table class=\"mcnCaptionRightTextContentContainer\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"352\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n <em><strong>Mark Gober<\/strong> is the author of An End to Upside Down Thinking (2018), which was awarded the IPPY 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He is also the author of An End to Upside Down Living (2020), An End to Upside Down Liberty (2021), and An End to Upside Down Contact (2022); and he is the host of the podcast Where Is My Mind? (2019). <\/em>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n<\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <em>Additionally, he serves on the board of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and the School of Wholeness and Enlightenment. Previously, Gober was a partner at Sherpa Technology Group in Silicon Valley and worked as an investment banking analyst with UBS in New York. He has been named one of IAM\u2019s Strategy 300: The World\u2019s Leading Intellectual Property Strategists. 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src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/468c380e-2290-450d-a201-08a79541c4d3.png\" style=\"max-width: 1200px;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline !important;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" class=\"mcnImage\" width=\"564\" align=\"middle\">\n \n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theflstandard.com\/vaccine-narrative-collapses-as-harvard-study-shows-jab-more-dangerous-than-covid\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">Vaccine Narrative Collapses as Harvard Study Shows Jab More Dangerous than COVID \u2013 (Florida Standard \u2013 September 14, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\nAs government officials and mainstream media urges the vaccinated to inject a second so-called \u201cbivalent\u201d booster said to be targeting the Omicron variant, it turns out that this substance hasn\u2019t been tested on humans. And the only animal trial that has been performed included eight mice. \u201cIt hasn\u2019t been proven in a clinical trial, because we don\u2019t have time to do a clinical trial because we need to get the vaccine out now because we have such a situation throughout the world and certainly in the United States, we\u2019re having 400 deaths per day and up to 5,000 hospitalizations a day,\u201d NIAID Dr Anthony Fauci explained in an interview. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky has also stated that the boosters must be expedited in order to work properly. A delay would potentially render the shots \u201coutdated\u201d as new variants would form, Walensky argues. A new <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4206070\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a> conducted by scientists from Harvard and Johns Hopkins, currently in pre-print, reveals that the COVID-19 vaccines were up to 98 times worse than the virus itself. The study is critical of the booster requirement for American university students, stating in the abstract: \u201cUsing CDC and sponsor-reported adverse event data, we find that booster mandates may cause a net expected harm: per COVID-19 hospitalization prevented in previously uninfected young adults, we anticipate 18 to 98 serious adverse events, including 1.7 to 3.0 booster-associated myocarditis cases in males, and 1,373 to 3,234 cases of grade =3 reactogenicity which interferes with daily activities.\u201d\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\">\n <table align=\"left\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td class=\"mcnImageContent\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding-right: 9px;padding-left: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \n \n <img decoding=\"async\" align=\"center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/e4f0dc92-815d-6e22-f007-4da205f51d5e.png\" width=\"564\" style=\"max-width: 1200px;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline !important;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" class=\"mcnImage\">\n \n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/the-future\/playing-god-metaverse-mind-control-free-will\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cPlaying God\u201d: How the Metaverse Will Challenge Our Very Notion of Free Will \u2013 (BigThink \u2013 October 25, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\nThe United Nations Human Rights Council recently adopted a draft resolution entitled \u201cNeurotechnology and Human Rights\u201d. It\u2019s aimed at protecting humanity from devices that can \u201crecord, interfere with, or modify brain activity.\u201d To describe the risks, the resolution uses euphemistic phrases like <em>cognitive engineering, mental privacy<\/em>, and <em>cognitive liberty<\/em>, but what we\u2019re really talking about is mind control. However, neurotechnology is not our greatest threat on this front. That\u2019s because it involves sophisticated hardware ranging from \u201cbrain implants\u201d to wearable devices that can detect and transmit signals through the skull. But individuals who submit themselves to implants or brain stimulation will likely do so with informed consent. On the other hand, there is an emerging category of products and technologies that could threaten our cognitive liberties across large populations, requiring nothing more than consumer-grade hardware and software from trusted corporations. These seemingly innocent systems, which will be marketed for a wide range of positive applications from entertainment to education, targeting both kids and adults, could be dangerously misused and abused without our knowledge or consent. A primary example is the Metaverse. To explain why, it helps to understand an engineering concept that addresses the potential dangers of interactive systems. The concept is <em>feedback control<\/em>, and it comes from a technical discipline called <em>control theory<\/em>. In the metaverse, you are the system being controlled. (Editor\u2019s note: We recommend this article. We also recommend browsing through the <a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/articles\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">BigThink.com<\/a> website for other off-beat and interesting articles.)\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/interactive\/2022\/tiktok-popularity\/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F3828acf%2F63498850f3d9003c58108cad%2F5e876a849bbc0f0a2e14608c%2F9%2F72%2F63498850f3d9003c58108cad&wp_cu=e9566cddf5919d659b8a87c177b08eff%7CA266C910E7810C4DE0530100007F0657\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">How TikTok Ate the Internet \u2013 (Washington Post \u2013 October 14, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\nIf you have not used TikTok, you are rapidly becoming the global exception. In five years, the app, once written off as a silly dance-video fad, has become one of the most prominent, discussed, distrusted, technically sophisticated and geopolitically complicated juggernauts on the internet \u2014 a phenomenon that has secured an unrivaled grasp on culture and everyday life and intensified the conflict between the world\u2019s biggest superpowers. Its dominance, as estimated by the internet firms Cloudflare, Data.ai and Sensor Tower, is hard to overstate. TikTok\u2019s website was visited last year more often than Google. No app has grown faster past a billion users, and more than 100 million of them are in the United States, roughly a third of the country. The average American viewer watches TikTok for 80 minutes a day \u2014 more than the time spent on Facebook and Instagram, combined. Two-thirds of American teens use the app, and 1 in 6 say they watch it \u201calmost constantly,\u201d a Pew Research Center survey in August found; usage of Facebook among the same group has been cut in half since 2015. Silicon Valley taught the world a style of online connectivity built on hand-chosen interests and friendships. TikTok doesn\u2019t care about those. Instead, it unravels for viewers an endless line of videos selected by its algorithm, then learns a viewer\u2019s tastes with every second they watch, pause or scroll. You don\u2019t tell TikTok what you want to see. It tells you. And the internet can\u2019t get enough. \u201cWe\u2019re not talking about a dance app,\u201d said Abbie Richards, a researcher who studies disinformation on TikTok, where she has half a million followers. But TikTok\u2019s ownership, by the Beijing-based tech giant ByteDance, has also made it one of the biggest pariahs in Washington. Former president Donald Trump tried to dismantle it. Top branches of the U.S. government and military have banned it from government-issued phones. And members of Congress insist it could be a Trojan horse for a secret Chinese propaganda and surveillance machine. \u201cWe\u2019re talking about a platform that\u2019s shaping how a whole generation is learning to perceive the world.\u201d (Editor\u2019s note: We recommend this article. It\u2019s information will surprise you \u2013 even if you already watch TikTok \u201calmost constantly\u201d.)\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2022\/10\/18\/1061320\/digital-clones-of-dead-people\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">Technology That Lets Us \u201cSpeak\u201d to Our Dead Relatives Has Arrived. Are We Ready? \u2013 (Technology Review \u2013 October 18, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\nDigital clones of the people we love could forever change how we grieve. The California-based company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hereafter.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">HereAfter AI<\/a> has created an app powered by more than four hours of conversations a person had with an interviewer about their lives and memories. The company\u2019s goal is to let the living \u201ccommunicate\u201d with the dead. Technology like this, which lets you \u201ctalk\u201d to people who\u2019ve died, has been a mainstay of science fiction for decades. It\u2019s an idea that\u2019s been peddled by charlatans and spiritualists for centuries. But now it\u2019s becoming a reality\u2014and an increasingly accessible one, thanks to advances in AI and voice technology. The author\u2019s real, flesh-and-blood parents are still alive and well, and their virtual versions were just made to help him understand the technology. But their avatars offer a glimpse at a world where it\u2019s possible to converse with loved ones\u2014or simulacra of them\u2014long after they\u2019re gone. From what I, author of this article, could glean over a dozen conversations with my virtually deceased parents, this really will make it easier to keep close the people we love. It\u2019s not hard to see the appeal. People might turn to digital replicas for comfort, or to mark special milestones like anniversaries. At the same time, the technology and the world it\u2019s enabling are, unsurprisingly, imperfect, and the ethics of creating a virtual version of someone are complex, especially if that person hasn\u2019t been able to provide consent. For some, this tech may even be alarming, or downright creepy. I spoke to one man who\u2019d created a virtual version of his mother, which he booted up and talked to at her own funeral. Some people argue that conversing with digital versions of lost loved ones could prolong your grief or loosen your grip on reality. And when I talked to friends about this article, some of them physically recoiled. There\u2019s a common, deeply held belief that we mess with death at our peril. But I\u2019m only human, and those worries end up being washed away by the even scarier prospect of losing the people I love\u2014dead and gone without a trace. If technology might help me hang onto them, is it so wrong to try?\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\">\n <table align=\"left\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td class=\"mcnImageContent\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding-right: 9px;padding-left: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \n \n <img decoding=\"async\" align=\"center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/05fa197f-59a2-431f-9c55-401a2efc8ef9.png\" width=\"564\" style=\"max-width: 1200px;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline !important;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" class=\"mcnImage\">\n \n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/hard-science\/speed-of-gravity\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">How Fast Is Gravity, Exactly? \u2013 (Big Think \u2013 October 24, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\nLet\u2019s start with a thought experiment. Suppose at this very instant, somehow the Sun was made to disappear \u2014 not just go dark, but vanish entirely. We know that light travels at a fixed speed: 300,000 kilometers per second, or 186,000 miles per second. From the known distance between the Earth and the Sun (93 million miles), we can calculate how long it would take before we here on Earth would know the Sun had disappeared. It would take about eight minutes and 20 seconds before the noon sky would go dark. But what about gravity? If the sun disappeared, it would not only stop emitting light, but also stop exerting the gravity that holds the planets in orbit. When would we find out? New research, based on new ways of measuring gravity, has answered that question \u2013 exactly.\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\" valign=\"top\">\n <table class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td class=\"mcnImageContent\" style=\"padding-right: 9px;padding-left: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\">\n \n \n <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/a03c0983-a12e-45bb-8928-c02a5c29b90e.png\" style=\"max-width: 1200px;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline !important;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" class=\"mcnImage\" width=\"564\" align=\"middle\">\n \n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/mouse-study-reveals-how-to-help-speed-up-the-livers-self-regeneration-process\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">Mouse Study Reveals How to Help Speed Up the Liver’s Self-Regeneration Process \u2013 (Science Alert \u2013 October 16, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\nThe liver is known for its ability to regenerate. It can completely regrow itself even after two-thirds of its mass has been surgically removed. But damage from medications, alcohol abuse, or obesity can eventually cause the liver to fail. Currently, the only effective treatment for end-stage liver disease is transplantation. But what if, instead of liver transplantation, there were a drug that could help the liver regenerate itself? Satdarshan Monga, founding director of the Pittsburgh Liver Research Center and his team found that activating a particular protein with a new medication can help accelerate regeneration and repair after severe liver injury or partial surgical removal in mice. Over the past two decades, research labs have identified one group of 19 proteins called Wnts that play an important role in controlling liver function and regeneration. We found that only two of 19 Wnt genes, Wnt2 and Wnt9b, were functionally present in the liver. This article further explains the research including research on a new drug could help recover liver zonation and regeneration. This drug, an antibody called FL6.13, shares similar functions with Wnt proteins, including activating liver regeneration. Lastly, the team wanted to test how well this drug worked to repair the liver after Tylenol overdose which can cause severe liver damage. Without immediate medical attention, it can lead to liver failure and death. Tylenol poisoning is one of the most common causes of severe liver injury requiring liver transplantation in the US. Their findings indicate that, in mouse studies, with the drug, liver cell repair and tissue regeneration are occurring.\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2022\/10\/25\/1061644\/how-to-be-young-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">How Scientists Want to Make You Young Again \u2013 (Technology Review \u2013 October 25, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\nA little over 15 years ago, scientists at Kyoto University in Japan made a remarkable discovery. When they added just four proteins to a skin cell and waited about two weeks, some of the cells underwent an unexpected and astounding transformation: they became young again. They turned into stem cells almost identical to the kind found in a days-old embryo, just beginning life\u2019s journey. At least in a petri dish, researchers using the procedure can take withered skin cells from a 101-year-old and rewind them so they act as if they\u2019d never aged at all. Now, after more than a decade of studying and tweaking so-called cellular reprogramming, a number of biotech companies and research labs say they have tantalizing hints the process could be the gateway to an unprecedented new technology for age reversal. By applying limited, controlled doses of the reprogramming proteins to lab animals, the scientists say, they are seeing evidence that the procedure makes the animals\u2014or at least some of their organs\u2014more youthful. One of the key promoters of this idea is Richard Klausner, the organizer and chief scientist of Altos Labs, a new research company seeded with more than $3 billion from ultra-wealthy figures in Silicon Valley and oil money from the Persian Gulf. Klausner and his financiers had swept up dozens of top scientists\u2014offering salaries of $1 million and more\u2014and set them to work on a technology the company now calls \u201crejuvenation programming.\u201d It seems to work at least in part by resetting what\u2019s called the epigenome\u2014chemical marks on DNA that control which genes are turned on, or off, in a cell. In aging, some of these markers get flipped to the wrong positions. Reprogramming is a technology that can flip them back. But it can also change cells in dangerous ways, even causing cancer. The objective of Altos is to tame this phenomenon, understand it, and eventually apply it as a treatment to reverse a wide range of diseases. This may be possible, Klausner says, because youthful cells have more resilience and can bounce back from biological stress in ways old ones don\u2019t. And Klausner has data to suggest it might already be working. During a talk, he showed slides claiming that fat mice had recovered from diabetes after treatment, and that others were able to survive normally lethal doses of painkillers\u2014all thanks to a healthy dose of the medical rejuvenation. Klausner is the former head of the National Cancer Institute and onetime leader for global health at the Gates Foundation. He is a heavy hitter who has also been behind some of today\u2019s most high-profile biotech ventures, like the cancer blood-test company Grail. Yet even for him, rejuvenation is wildly ambitious. That is because if you can make cells act younger, healthier, and more resilient, you might have a general-purpose means of forestalling many diseases all at once. \u201cThis is the opposite of precision medicine,\u201d Klausner said.\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\">\n <table align=\"left\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td class=\"mcnImageContent\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding-right: 9px;padding-left: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \n \n <img decoding=\"async\" align=\"center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/d28f8223-b7a8-4682-9198-1d41761ed998.png\" width=\"564\" style=\"max-width: 1200px;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline !important;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" class=\"mcnImage\">\n \n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/10\/13\/what-is-solar-geoengineering-sunlight-reflection-risks-and-benefits.html\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">White House Is Pushing Ahead Research to Cool Earth by Reflecting Back Sunlight \u2013 (CNBC \u2013 October 13, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"yiv7285812473css-axufdj\" style=\"margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">The White House is coordinating a five-year research plan to study ways of modifying the amount of sunlight that reaches the earth to temper the effects of global warming, a process called solar geoengineering or sunlight reflection. The research plan will assess climate interventions, including spraying aerosols into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight back into space, and should include goals for research, what\u2019s necessary to analyze the atmosphere, and what impact these kinds of climate interventions may have on Earth. Some of the techniques, such as spraying sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere, are known to have harmful effects on the environment and human health. But scientists and climate leaders who are concerned that humanity will overshoot its emissions targets say research is important to figure out how best to balance these risks against a possibly catastrophic rise in the Earth\u2019s temperature. Getting ready to research a topic is a very preliminary step, but it\u2019s notable the White House is formally engaging with what has largely been seen as the stuff of dystopian fantasy. A landmark report released in March 2021 from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine addressed three kinds of solar geoengineering: stratospheric aerosol injection, marine cloud brightening, and cirrus cloud thinning. Stratospheric aerosol injection would involve flying aircraft into the stratosphere, or between 10 miles and 30 miles skyward, and spraying a fine mist that would hang in the air, reflecting some of the sun\u2019s radiation back into space. Marine cloud brightening involves increasing the reflectivity of clouds that are relatively close to the surface of the ocean with techniques like spraying sea salt crystals into the air. Marine cloud brightening generally gets less attention than stratospheric aerosol injection because it affects a half dozen to a few dozen miles and would potentially only last hours to days. Cirrus cloud thinning involves thinning mid-level clouds, between 3.7 and 8.1 miles high, to allow heat to escape from the Earth\u2019s surface. It is not technically part of the \u201csolar geoengineering\u201d umbrella category because it does not involve reflecting sunlight, but instead involves increasing the release of thermal radiation. Doing research is important because many onlookers expect that some country, facing an unprecedented climate disaster, will act unilaterally to will try some version of sunlight modification anyway \u2014 even if it hasn\u2019t been carefully studied. \u201cIn my opinion, it\u2019s more than 90% likely that within the next 20 years, some major nation wants to do this,\u201d said Edward A. Parson, a professor of environmental law at UCLA\u2019s law school.<\/p>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\">\n <table align=\"left\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td class=\"mcnImageContent\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding-right: 9px;padding-left: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \n \n <img decoding=\"async\" align=\"center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/ed464269-0e91-40c9-bef0-858171dc33ec.png\" width=\"564\" style=\"max-width: 1200px;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline !important;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" class=\"mcnImage\">\n \n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/interactive\/2022\/amazon-smart-home\/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F38257b7%2F6346e0c3f3d9003c580db507%2F5e876a849bbc0f0a2e14608c%2F56%2F70%2F6346e0c3f3d9003c580db507&wp_cu=e9566cddf5919d659b8a87c177b08eff%7CA266C910E7810C4DE0530100007F0657\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">Tour Amazon\u2019s Dream Home, Where Every Appliance Is Also a Spy \u2013 (Washington Post \u2013 October 12, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"yiv7285812473css-axufdj\" style=\"margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">You may not realize all the ways in which Amazon is watching you. No other big tech company reaches deeper into domestic life. Two-thirds of Americans who shop on Amazon own at least one of its smart gadgets, according to Consumer Intelligence Research Partners. Amazon now makes (or has acquired) more than two dozen types of domestic devices and services, from the garage to the bathroom. All devices generate data. And Amazon collects more data than almost any other company. Amazon says all that personal information helps power an \u201cambient intelligence\u201d to make your home smart. It\u2019s the Jetsons\u2019 dream. But it\u2019s also a surveillance nightmare. Many of Amazon\u2019s products contribute to its detailed profile of you, helping it know you better than you know yourself. Amazon says it doesn\u2019t \u201csell\u201d our data, but there aren\u2019t many U.S. laws to restrict how it uses the information. Data that seems useless today could look different tomorrow after it gets reanalyzed, stolen or handed to a government. Scroll through this article to see what Amazon\u2019s products and services could reveal about you. For example, Amazon knows exactly how fast you read and how far you actually got through your last novel on your Kindle or Fire Tablet. (Editor\u2019s note: We recommend this article for its thoroughness.)<\/p>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jonathanturley.org\/2022\/10\/28\/the-gates-of-hell-opened-a-media-panic-ensues-as-musk-takes-over-twitter-and-fires-chief-censors\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cThe Gates of Hell Opened\u201d: Media Panic Ensues As Musk Takes Over Twitter and Fires Chief Censors \u2013 (Jonathan Turley \u2013 October 28, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"yiv7285812473css-axufdj\" style=\"margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">One of Elon Must’s first steps upon taking over Twiter was to fire CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal and head of legal policy, trust, and safety Vijaya Gadde, the primary figures responsible for creating one of the largest censorship systems in history. Their removal constitutes as singular advances in the cause of free speech around the world. As expected, this morning media figures are in full panic at the thought that one social media platform may restore free speech protections after years of biased and aggressive censorship. The controversial Washington Post columnist Taylor Lorenz lamented \u201cIt\u2019s like the gates of hell opened on this site tonight.\u201d That\u2019s right, the prospect of others having access to Twitter to express their own views is a hellish prospect for many in the media. Agrawal and Gadde personified the censorship culture at Twitter, figures who were unabashedly opposed to traditional views of free speech and viewpoint diversity. Led by President Joe Biden, Democratic leaders and media figures have demanded corporate censorship and even state censorship to curtail opposing views on issues ranging from climate change to election integrity to public health to gender identity. The Washington Post\u2019s Max Boot, for example, declared, \u201cFor democracy to survive, we need more content moderation, not less.\u201d Many of those same figures are now apoplectic at the thought that others may be able to express dissenting views on subjects ranging from climate change to election regulations to gender identity. The freak out from the Musk-phobic was triggered by the prospect of a single social media company offering greater free speech protections. Just one. However, they know that the effort to control political and social speech will be lost if people have an alternative. These companies are only able to sell censorship because they have largely been able to bar free speech competitors. Now there may be an alternative. We will see if Musk can remain faithful to his pledge to restore free speech protections to the site.<\/p>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\">\n <table align=\"left\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td class=\"mcnImageContent\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding-right: 9px;padding-left: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \n \n <img decoding=\"async\" align=\"center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/8b7b010a-45aa-41b7-832b-79a3b43ca7b5.png\" width=\"564\" style=\"max-width: 1200px;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline !important;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" class=\"mcnImage\">\n \n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/10\/19\/new-project-will-test-the-viability-of-large-scale-wave-energy.html\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">A New Four-year Project Will Test the Viability of Large-scale Wave Energy in Europe \u2013 (CNBC \u2013 October 19, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"yiv7285812473css-axufdj\" style=\"margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">A 19.6 million euro (around $19.3 million) initiative centered around commercializing large-scale wave energy projects is being launched by WEDUSEA, a collaboration of 14 partners from academia and industry, with funding coming from Innovate UK and the European Union\u2019s Horizon Europe program. WEDUSEA is being coordinated by OceanEnergy, an Irish firm that\u2019s developed the OE35, a piece of kit that\u2019s been dubbed \u201cthe world\u2019s largest capacity floating wave energy device.\u201d Capacity refers to the amount of electricity a generator is able to produce when operating at full volume. According to a statement released by the European Marine Energy Center (EMEC), WEDUSEA\u2019s initial phase will concentrate on the design of a 1 megawatt version of the OE35. \u201cThis will be followed by a two-year grid connected demonstration at the European Marine Energy Centre\u2019s Billia Croo wave energy test site in Orkney, Scotland,\u201d the statement added. a third phase of the project would look at commercialization, among other things. An overarching goal of the project is to \u201ccreate a technology deployment pathway for a 20 MW pilot farm,\u201d according to EMEC.<\/p>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\">\n <table align=\"left\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td class=\"mcnImageContent\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding-right: 9px;padding-left: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \n \n <img decoding=\"async\" align=\"center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/dc436ab3-c7e2-41d0-a460-a87c628031bb.png\" width=\"564\" style=\"max-width: 1200px;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline !important;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" class=\"mcnImage\">\n \n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/06\/28\/business\/candela-hydrofoil-boats-climate-hnk-spc-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">These \u2018Flying\u2019 Ferries Could Get You to Work in Half the Time \u2013 (CNN \u2013 June 28, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"yiv7285812473css-axufdj\" style=\"margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">Waves from fast-moving boats damage the seabed, engine noise disturbs wildlife, and leisure boating accounted for over 25% of Sweden\u2019s CO2 emissions from shipping in 2020. But one Swedish startup says its battery-powered boats can cut emissions while slashing journey times. Candela has designed fully electric, zero-carbon hydrofoils. The company says it sold more than 100 of its C-8 model, a 28-foot leisure boat, within six months of launching in August 2021. Its passenger ferries \u2014 unveiled on June 22 \u2014 are expected to hit the water next year. Hydrofoils have wing-like structures attached to the underside of the hull. As the vessels gather speed, these \u201cwings\u201d lift them out of the water, reducing friction and wake, which enables them to go faster and increases battery efficiency, said Gustav Hasselskog, founder and CEO of Candela. Made with a composite carbon fiber, the hull is ultralight \u2014 essential for making the boat \u201cfly\u201d across the water, he adds. Other companies are also working on high-end battery-powered leisure boats. Arc Boats, created by former rocket engineers from Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX, is releasing its 24-foot aluminum boat this summer, while another Stockholm-based startup, X Shore has raised over $74.8 million to ramp up production of its electric boat, which has a range of up to 100 nautical miles. But Hasselskog says that because the hydrofoils don\u2019t make waves, it creates a smoother ride at higher speeds. \u201cYou have this sense of flying.\u201d<\/p>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/10\/25\/1131369881\/electric-vehicles-home-apartment-renters-charging-evs\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">As Electric Vehicles Become More Popular, Home Renters Face a Charging Dilemma \u2013 (NPR \u2013 October 25, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"yiv7285812473css-axufdj\" style=\"margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">For millions of renters, access to EV charging remains a significant barrier. Fast chargers, also known as DC Fast, can fill up a car in 45 minutes or less. But slower Level 2 chargers, which take several hours, still outnumber DC fast chargers nearly four to one. Charging on a standard residential outlet, or Level 1 charger, isn’t practical unless you drive little or can leave the car plugged in overnight. Now, cities across the U.S. are trying to come up with innovative public charging solutions as drivers string power cords across sidewalks, erect private charging stations on city right-of-ways and queue at public facilities. Nationwide, there are about 120,000 public charging ports featuring Level 2 charging or above, and nearly 1.5 million electric vehicles registered in the U.S. \u2014 a ratio of just over one charger per 12 cars nationally, according to the latest U.S. Department of Energy data. A briefing prepared for the U.S. Department of Energy last year forecasts a total of just under 19 million electric vehicles on the road by 2030, with a projected need for an extra 9.6 million charging stations. In Los Angeles, for example, nearly one-quarter of all new vehicles registered in July were plug-in. In Los Angeles, the city has installed over 500 pole-mounted EV chargers \u2014 450 on street lights and 50 on power poles \u2014 and wants to add 200 more per year. Similar initiatives to install pole-mounted chargers are in place or being considered from New York City to Charlotte, N.C. to Kansas City, Missouri. The utility Seattle City Light is also in the early stages of a pilot project to install chargers in neighborhoods with limited private parking. London, for example, has 4,000 public chargers on street lights. That’s much cheaper \u2014 just a third the cost of wiring a charging station into the sidewalk, said Vishant Kothari, manager of the electric mobility team at the World Resources Institute. But London and Los Angeles have an advantage over many U.S. cities: Their street lights operate on 240 volts, better for EV charging. Most American city street lights use 120 volts, which takes hours to charge a vehicle. So cities must use a mix of solutions, from zoning changes to policies that encourage workplace fast-charging.<\/p>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\" valign=\"top\">\n <table class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td class=\"mcnImageContent\" style=\"padding-right: 9px;padding-left: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\">\n \n \n <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/b939ecee-ce36-47c0-a2fc-8c3c5a410a9a.png\" style=\"max-width: 1200px;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline !important;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" class=\"mcnImage\" width=\"564\" align=\"middle\">\n \n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.concordmonitor.com\/robot-milking-dairy-farm-new-hampshire-48477189?mc_cid=de4990e01a&mc_eid=88eaa51cbb\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">At Some Dairy Farms Robots Milk the Cows \u2013 (Concord Monitor \u2013 October 24, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"yiv7285812473css-axufdj\" style=\"margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">Lely Astronaut milking machines combine hydraulics, lasers, electronics and suction. Running around $420,000, the setup determines which cow has entered the milking stall via the RFD chip hanging around her neck, cleans the teats twice with little brushes that look like they came from a Matchbox car wash, attaches nozzles and drains 8 or 9 gallons of milk that gets pumped to various places depending on factors such as whether the cow is on antibiotics. (Milk from cows on antibiotics cannot be sold for human consumption.) This happens as often as four times a day for each cow and, importantly for the farmer\u2019s workload, happens on the cow\u2019s schedule. They can get milked whenever they feel like it rather than on the rigid twice-a-day schedule that is the usual dairy routine. \u201cWhenever\u201d includes the middle of the night. Lely is a Dutch farm-implement company specializing in dairies. It has been selling versions of its robot milker, which it calls Astronaut, since 2005. The company says more than 20,000 have been installed worldwide. Automation is showing up on many farms because of the labor situation. Self-driving tractors were on the market long before self-driving cars, while automated systems for planting, harvesting and even weeding crops (using lasers!) are all over the place. The ability for automated systems to do something as delicate and complicated as cleaning a cow\u2019s udder and attaching suction cups to the correct teats, when every cow is slightly different in size and shape, shows how far it has gone. Each cow must be manually placed in the system for the first usage to help the system\u2019s sensors determine the geometry of that animal. After that it adjusts automatically, detecting which cow has entered the stall to feed via RFID chips in collars they wear. Cows don\u2019t like novelty so it takes some time for them to get used to the system and the first few months of operation after installation can be tough. The upside is decreased labor costs and the fact that cows produce more milk if they\u2019re being milked three or four times a day rather than only twice.<\/p>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\" valign=\"top\">\n <table class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td class=\"mcnImageContent\" style=\"padding-right: 9px;padding-left: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\">\n \n \n <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/990684dc-d4a9-42f8-9778-7df045165e24.png\" style=\"max-width: 1200px;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline !important;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" class=\"mcnImage\" width=\"564\" align=\"middle\">\n \n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/10\/20\/mass-drones-are-a-worry-for-the-future-of-warfare\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">Mass Drone Attacks in Ukraine Foreshadow the Future of Warfare \u2013 Al Jazeera \u2013 October 20, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"yiv7285812473css-axufdj\" style=\"margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">The aircraft are called kamikaze drones because they attack once and don\u2019t come back. Ukrainian officials say the ones primarily being used in their airspace are the Iranian-made Shahed-136. About 2,400 were apparently purchased by Russia in August, and their first reported use in Ukraine was a month ago. They are far from top-end technology. The smallest costs just $20,000 while a traditional drone typically is at least 10 times that figure. They also carry 80 to 90 pounds of explosives, significantly smaller than most drones. But their value is in their numbers. They appear in large swarms and fly low enough to evade radar-defense systems. \u201cThey\u2019re relatively small, and they\u2019re single use,\u201d said Katherine Lawlor, a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of War. \u201cThey fly into something and then explode.\u201d She added. \u201cThese drones are effectively missiles \u2014 they loiter in place looking for their target.\u201d Even if they are shot down, they explode in the air and can spray potentially deadly debris. Those that hit their target detonate on impact. This strategy also potentially signals a wider trend worldwide. \u201cThese drones allow Russia to target Ukrainians far away from the front line, away from the primary battle space,\u201d says Ulrike Franke, a senior policy fellow at the European Council for Foreign Relations who leads its Technology and European Power Initiative. Like many trends of modern warfare, these techniques appear to have been tested during the decade-long war in Syria, where both Russia and Iran have reportedly used suicide drones. \u201cThere\u2019s been a lot of debates between experts about whether drones will be used in more advanced fights, like a potential US-China conflict,\u201d said Zachary Kallenborn, a policy fellow at the Schar School of Policy and Government who researches unconventional weapons and technology. \u201cThe technology is certainly going in a direction where these are the future of war,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-719836\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">New App Lets Civilians Help Shoot Down Drones and Missiles in Ukraine \u2013 (Jerusalem Post \u2013 October 17, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"yiv7285812473css-axufdj\" style=\"margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">Ukraine has created an application for mobile devices that will help air defense units supplement radar information about an air target to better the chances of taking it down, according to Ukraine’s Strategic Communications Department. “The Android version of the “ePPO” application is already available to download. Now every citizen of Ukraine can join the anti-missile and anti-aircraft defense of our skies,” the Strategic Communications Department of the Office of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said. To use the app, all that is needed is to install the “ePPO” application on your smartphone, pass a quick authorization process, click “Test” to make sure that everything works, and be ready to notify anti-aircraft fighters about perceived threats. How the app works: If you see an air target, for example, a cruise missile or a suicide drone, you need to open “ePPO” on your smartphone, select the type of air target, point your smartphone in the direction of the target and press the big red button. Air defense specialists will see a mark on the map, it will complement the radar information and the threat will be shot down. The ePPO app is currently available for the Android platform, iOS version is in the works. The Ministry offered advice on how to recognize UAVs and how protect yourself from these weapons. (Editor\u2019s note: This brings the idea of WWII\u2019s \u201ccitizens supporting the war effort\u201d, for example with citizen coastline surveillance, into the 21st century.)<\/p>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/pentagon-successfully-flight-tests-hypersonic-weapon-components-2022-10-26\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">Pentagon Successfully Flight Tests Hypersonic Weapon Components \u2013 (Reuters \u2013 October 26, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"yiv7285812473css-axufdj\" style=\"margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">The U.S. Navy and Army blasted off a rocket from a seaside launch pad in Virginia to test nearly a dozen hypersonic weapon experiments on October 26, 2022 to help develop the new class of weapon, the Pentagon said, calling the test successful. Sandia National Laboratories ran the test from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, which evaluated hypersonic weapon communications and navigation equipment as well as advanced materials that can withstand the heat in a “realistic hypersonic environment,” according to a Navy statement. Hypersonic glide vehicles are launched from a rocket in the upper atmosphere before gliding to a target at speeds of more than five times the speed of sound, or about 3,853 miles per hour. Glide bodies are different from their air-breathing hypersonic weapon cousins, which use scramjet engine technology and the vehicle’s high speed to forcibly compress incoming air before combustion to enable sustained flight at hypersonic speeds. The United States and its global rivals have quickened their pace to build hypersonic weapons – the next generation of arms that rob adversaries of reaction time and traditional defeat mechanisms. To speed the development the Pentagon launched these experiments and prototypes using a sounding rocket, a smaller and therefore more affordable test vehicle, to fill a critical gap between ground testing and full-system flight testing.<\/p>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\">\n <table align=\"left\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td class=\"mcnImageContent\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding-right: 9px;padding-left: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \n \n <img decoding=\"async\" align=\"center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/1f55c21a-4c06-4011-a5d0-718ccb33dd60.png\" width=\"564\" style=\"max-width: 1200px;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline !important;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" class=\"mcnImage\">\n \n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/hundreds-retired-us-military-officers-jobs-saudi-uae-say-reports\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">Hundreds of Retired US Military Officers Cash In with Jobs for Saudi Arabia, UAE \u2013 (Mid East Eye \u2013 October 18, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"yiv7285812473css-axufdj\" style=\"margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">Hundreds of retired US military officers, including former generals and admirals, have used their military backgrounds to ink lucrative deals working for foreign countries, mostly among the Gulf monarchies like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, according to two long-term investigations by The Washington Post. The highest-ranking officer in the report was retired General Jim Mattis, who served as former President Donald Trump’s secretary of defense. One of the generals is retired Marine General James L Jones, who served as former President Barack Obama’s national security adviser and started working with Riyadh in 2017. For the project, Jones enlisted the help of “about a dozen ??former senior Pentagon officials” including William Cohen, who served as secretary of defense in the Bill Clinton administration. The newspaper spent two years suing the federal government under the Freedom of Information Act for the records and obtained 4,000 documents under FOIA. The documents also revealed that 15 former generals and admirals have worked directly with Saudi Arabia’s defense ministry, headed by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Foreign governments often spend copious amounts of money in Washington on lobbyists, consultants and think tanks. However, The Washinton Post’s reporting reveals that the hiring of former military officers by Gulf monarchies has sharply risen in the past decade. While many of the forms are heavily redacted, the documents show that salary and benefits packages reach six and, sometimes, seven figures. Under US federal law, retired military personnel are barred from receiving anything of value from foreign governments that could compromise their sworn allegiance to the United States. But in 1977, Congress allowed the Pentagon and State Department to issue waivers to the law. The Washington Post noted that there is no criminal penalty for violating the law and the enforcement of it is “almost nonexistent”. The revelations add to concerns about the extent to which foreign countries, including many with authoritarian governments, have expanded their influence over US institutions. Retired US General John Allen stepped down as the president of the Brookings Institution think tank earlier this year, following the news that federal authorities believe he illegally lobbied for Qatar. Billionaire and Trump ally Tom Barrack is currently on trial for charges of illegally lobbying the Trump administration on behalf of the UAE. See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/investigations\/interactive\/2022\/australia-nuclear-submarines-us-admirals\/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F382e215%2F634ed23cf3d9003c581438c5%2F5e876a849bbc0f0a2e14608c%2F58%2F70%2F634ed23cf3d9003c581438c5&wp_cu=e9566cddf5919d659b8a87c177b08eff%7CA266C910E7810C4DE0530100007F0657\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">Retired U.S. Admirals Advise Australia on Deal for Nuclear Submarines<\/a>, which reports that two retired U.S. admirals and three former U.S. Navy civilian leaders are playing critical but secretive roles as paid advisers to the government of Australia during its negotiations to acquire top-secret nuclear submarine technology from the United States and Britain.<\/p>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2022\/10\/28\/advocating-world-war-three-is-just-mainstream-punditry-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">Advocating World War Three Is Just Mainstream Punditry Now \u2013 (Caitlin Johnstone \u2013 October 28, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"yiv7285812473css-axufdj\" style=\"margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">Mainstream punditry in the latter half of 2022 is rife with op-eds arguing that the US needs to vastly increase military spending because a world war is about to erupt, and they always frame it as though this would be something that happens to the US, as though its own actions would have nothing to do with it. As though it would not be the direct result of the US-centralized empire continually accelerating towards that horrific event while refusing every possible diplomatic off-ramp due to its inability to relinquish its goal of total unipolar planetary domination. The latest example of this trend is an article titled “<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/xNqEC\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">Could America Win a New World War? \u2014 What It Would Take to Defeat Both China and Russia<\/a>” published by <em>Foreign Affairs<\/em>, a magazine that is owned and operated by the influential think tank, Council on Foreign Relations. In “<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/a6GWc\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">The skeptics are wrong: The U.S. can confront both China and Russia<\/a>,” <em>The Washington Post<\/em>‘s Josh Rogin wags his finger at Democrats who think aggressions against Russia should be prioritized and Republicans who think that military and financial attention should be devoted to China, arguing <em>porque no los dos<\/em><em> (why not both)<\/em><em>?<\/em> In “<a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/08\/could-the-u-s-military-fight-russia-and-china-at-the-same-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">Could The U.S. Military Fight Russia And China At The Same Time?<\/a>“, <em>19FortyFive<\/em>‘s Robert Farley answers in the affirmative, writing that “the immense fighting power of the US armed forces would not be inordinately strained by the need to wage war in both theaters” and concluding that “the United States can fight both Russia and China at once\u2026 for a while, and with the help of some friends.” In “<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/sYmvN\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">Can the US Take on China, Iran and Russia All at Once?<\/a>” <em>Bloomberg<\/em>‘s Hal Brands answers that it would be very difficult and recommends escalating in Ukraine and Taiwan and selling Israel more advanced weaponry to get a step ahead of Russia, China and Iran respectively. In “<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/U5WR7\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">International Relations Theory Suggests Great-Power War Is Coming<\/a>,” the Atlantic Council’s Matthew Kroenig writes for <em>Foreign Policy<\/em> that a global democracies-versus-autocracies showdown is coming “with the United States and its status quo-oriented democratic allies in NATO, Japan, South Korea, and Australia on one side and the revisionist autocracies of China, Russia, and Iran on the other,” and that aspiring foreign policy experts should adjust their expectations accordingly. When they’re not arguing that World War Three is coming and we must all prepare to fight it and win, they’re arguing that a global conflict is already upon us and we must begin acting like it, as in last month’s <em>New Yorker<\/em> piece “<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/letter-from-bidens-washington\/what-if-were-already-fighting-the-third-world-war-with-russia\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">What if We\u2019re Already Fighting the Third World War with Russia?<\/a>” <\/p>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-63185186\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">Fuel Protests Gripping More Than 90 Countries \u2013 (BBC \u2013 October 18, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"yiv7285812473css-axufdj\" style=\"margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">Fuel costs affect many aspects of daily life – personal travel, transportation of goods, energy for electricity and heating. Around the world demonstrators have called for change. They’ve demanded that petrol be made more affordable or available at all. They’ve sat in peaceful protests and they’ve attacked governments. Some have paid an even higher price. For example, in August, violent clashes in the capital of Sierra Leone killed 25 people, including five police officers. Since March, the price of fuel in the country has nearly doubled, from 12,000 Leones ($0.86) per liter to a record high of 22,000 Leones ($1.58) in July. In July, the central bank introduced new banknotes – stripping three zeros off the Leone – in a move to restore confidence in its inflation-hit currency. By analyzing data on demonstrations worldwide, collected by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (Acled), the BBC has established that between January and September this year people in more than 90 countries and territories took to the streets over the price or availability of fuel. Article includes map and timeline of protests globally. BBC research has found that in the last nine months, more than 80 people have lost their lives due to protests over the cost of fuel. That includes individuals from Argentina, Ecuador, Guinea, Haiti, Kazakhstan, Panama, Peru, and South Africa as well as Sierra Leone. The war in Ukraine is just one of many factors driving up the global price of fuel. Crude oil was cheaper at the beginning of the Covid pandemic, because many businesses temporarily closed and the demand for energy collapsed. But as life returned to the “new normal” and energy demands increased, suppliers have struggled to keep up with demand which has pushed up prices. The US dollar is at an all-time high against other major currencies; the pound, the euro, China’s yuan and the Japanese yen. The oil used to make petrol is paid for primarily in US dollars. So a weak local currency against the dollar makes fuel even more expensive.<\/p>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/10\/22\/china\/china-party-congress-overseas-students-protest-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">Anti-Xi Protest Spreads in China and Worldwide as Chinese Leader Begins Third Term \u2013 (CNN \u2013 October 22, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"yiv7285812473css-axufdj\" style=\"margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">In Chinese, handwritten in red paint on a banner hanging over a busy overpass in Beijing, in a rare, bold protest against China\u2019s top leader Xi Jinping, appeared the following: \u201cLife not zero-Covid policy, freedom not martial-law type lockdown, dignity not lies, reform not cultural revolution, votes not dictatorship, citizens not slaves\u201d. The person who hung the banner has come to be known as the \u201cBridge Man,\u201d in a nod to the unidentified \u201cTank Man\u201d who faced down a column of tanks on Beijing\u2019s Avenue of Eternal Peace the day after the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989. Another banner on the Sitong Bridge denounced Xi as a \u201cdictator\u201d and \u201cnational traitor\u201d and called for his removal \u2013 just days before a key Communist Party meeting at which he secured a precedent-breaking third term. Both banners were swiftly removed by police and all mentions of the protest wiped from the Chinese internet. But the short-lived display of political defiance \u2013 which is almost unimaginable in Xi\u2019s authoritarian surveillance state \u2013 has resonated far beyond the Chinese capital, sparking acts of solidarity from Chinese nationals inside China and across the globe. In China, the slogans were scrawled on walls and doors in public bathrooms \u2013 one of the last places spared the watchful eyes of the country\u2019s ubiquitous surveillance cameras. Few of the slogan writers believe their political actions will lead to real changes on the ground. Having tightened its grip on all aspects of life, launched a sweeping crackdown on dissent, wiped out much of civil society and built a high-tech surveillance state, the party\u2019s hold on power appears firmer than ever. But the extensive censorship around the Sitong Bridge protest also betrays its paranoia. One person interviewed for this article said, \u201c(The Beijing protester) had sacrificed his life or the freedom of the rest of his life to do what he did.\u201d No one interviewed thought that the \u201cBridge Man\u201d would escape being identified.<\/p>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\">\n <table align=\"left\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td class=\"mcnImageContent\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding-right: 9px;padding-left: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \n \n <img decoding=\"async\" align=\"center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/cade09f9-5835-49cc-bfe7-6f5de1283b37.png\" width=\"564\" style=\"max-width: 1200px;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline !important;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" class=\"mcnImage\">\n \n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/27\/opinion\/global-sadness-rising.html?unlocked_article_code=KY7bEPwJRMyvAEMUS4-cxvvzCGb-b6yrLCAbVGzbWxPoQQ56vho4A3z0kX3s7jJ8YHOmAFBC_Y0LBMgctdhD9vQ1PYDixjdwGTPASLh8mHM5O9PryOwf6lFDEHH4IMil0JHNmOF4dEJetnrRYfafxZAlE51qa7uK6viqgkhsIYt5sXefTh7kNcQ8-YEmfnO9ifaLnXntU3lbQoYWEqzEuC24JkYp5WCrNUB1OOm0RgYYoLx6tWLo-O50piucp8QZ8-2f4mshf9kY4sAJOdZqbjYdy3CfH1KSKjdvb-z81n7ok9kiuhhxPo0MZWsgPL0LParfqIXAiB2H-WCt0vF3&smid=em-share\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">The Rising Tide of Global Sadness \u2013 (New York Times \u2013 October 28, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"yiv7285812473css-axufdj\" style=\"margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">Between 1965 and 2015, the appearance of the word \u201clove\u201d in top-100 hits roughly halved. Meanwhile, the number of times such songs contained negative emotion words, like \u201chate\u201d rose sharply. Analyzing 23 million headlines published between 2000 and 2019 by 47 news outlets popular in the United States found that headlines, too, grew significantly more negative, with a greater proportion of headlines denoting anger, fear, disgust and sadness. Headlines in left-leaning media got a lot more negative, and headlines in right-leaning publications got even more negative than that. The negativity in the culture reflects the negativity in real life. Between 1990 and 2018 the share of Americans who put themselves in the lowest happiness category increased by more than 50%. And that was before the pandemic. But the really bad news is abroad. Each year Gallup surveys roughly 150,000 people in over 140 countries about their emotional lives. Experiences of negative emotions \u2014 related to stress, sadness, anger, worry and physical pain \u2014 hit a record high last year. Gallup asks people in this survey to rate their lives on a scale from zero to 10, with zero meaning you\u2019re living your worst possible life and 10 meaning you\u2019re living your best. Sixteen years ago, only 1.6% of people worldwide rated their life as a zero. As of last year, the share of people reporting the worst possible lives has more than quadrupled. Part of the problem is declining community. The polls imply that almost two billion people are so unhappy where they live, they would not recommend their community to a friend. This is especially true in China and India. Part of the problem is hunger. In 2014, 22.6% of the world faced moderate or severe food insecurity. By 2020, 30.4% of the world did. Part of the problem is an increase in physical misery. In 2006, 30% of people who rated their lives the worst said they experienced daily pain. Last year, 45% of those people said they live with daily pain. If misery levels keep rising, what can we expect in the future? Well, rising levels of populism, for one. And second, greater civil unrest across the board. According to the Global Peace Index, civic discontent \u2014 riots, strikes, anti-government demonstrations \u2014 increased by 244% from 2011 to 2019.<\/p>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\" valign=\"top\">\n <table class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td class=\"mcnImageContent\" style=\"padding-right: 9px;padding-left: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\">\n \n \n <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/1955eac6-467c-41bd-a8b7-b2ccd4454d33.png\" style=\"max-width: 1200px;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline !important;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" class=\"mcnImage\" width=\"564\" align=\"middle\">\n \n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/dart-asteroid-impact-aftermath-hubble-spots-unexpected-twin-tails-in-stunning-surprise\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">DART Asteroid Impact Aftermath: Hubble Spots Unexpected Twin Tails in \u201cStunning Surprise\u201d \u2013 (SciTech Daily \u2013 October 22, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\nNASA carried out the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), a first-of-its-kind experiment, on September 26, 2022. The pioneering experiment was designed to intentionally crash a spacecraft into a small asteroid in the world\u2019s first-ever in-space test for planetary defense. According to NASA, the mission was successful in altering the orbit of Dimorphos, the asteroid moonlet of Didymos. However, there is still much to learn about the system. Follow-up observations show that the ejected material, or \u201cejecta,\u201d has expanded and faded in brightness as time went on after impact, largely as expected. Although the twin tail is an unexpected development, similar behavior is often seen in comets and active asteroids. The latest Hubble observations provide the best-quality image of the double-tail to date. Photos in article.\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/supernova-explosions-reveal-precise-details-of-dark-energy-and-dark-matter\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">Supernova Explosions Reveal Precise Details of Dark Energy and Dark Matter \u2013 (SciTech Daily \u2013 October 23, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\nA powerful new analysis has been performed by astrophysicists that places the most precise limits ever on the composition and evolution of the universe. With this analysis, dubbed Pantheon+, cosmologists find themselves at a crossroads. Pantheon+ is based on the largest dataset of its kind, comprising more than 1,500 stellar explosions called Type Ia supernovae. These bright blasts occur when white dwarf stars \u2014 remnants of stars like our Sun \u2014 accumulate too much mass and undergo a runaway thermonuclear reaction. Because Type Ia supernovae outshine entire galaxies, the stellar detonations can be glimpsed at distances exceeding 10 billion light years, or back through about three-quarters of the universe\u2019s total age. Pantheon+ convincingly finds that the cosmos is made up of about two-thirds dark energy and one-third matter \u2014 predominantly in the form of dark matter \u2014 and is expanding at an accelerating pace over the last several billion years. However, Pantheon+ also cements a major disagreement over the pace of that expansion that has yet to be solved. By putting prevailing modern cosmological theories, known as the Standard Model of Cosmology, on even firmer evidentiary and statistical footing, Pantheon+ further closes the door on alternative frameworks accounting for dark energy and dark matter. Both are bedrocks of the Standard Model of Cosmology but have yet to be directly detected. They rank among the model\u2019s biggest mysteries. Following through on the results of Pantheon+, researchers can now pursue more precise observational tests and hone explanations for the cosmos.\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\">\n <table align=\"left\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td class=\"mcnImageContent\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding-right: 9px;padding-left: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \n \n <img decoding=\"async\" align=\"center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/a548cf1d-25ea-4ca3-8d01-b718554683c8.png\" width=\"564\" style=\"max-width: 1200px;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline !important;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" class=\"mcnImage\">\n \n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/10\/14\/tech\/e-waste-tips\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">What to Do with Your Old Phones, Gadgets and Other e-Waste \u2013 (CNN \u2013 October 14, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\nThe collective impact of recycling e-waste can be staggering. For every 1 million cell phones that are recycled, the EPA says 35,000 pounds of copper, 772 pounds of silver, 75 pounds of gold and 33 pounds of palladium can be recovered. The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEE) Forum, a Brussels-based nonprofit, said its focus this year is on taking action with the small bits of e-waste many people may unintentionally hang on to, including not just your old cell phone, but your headphones, remote controls and computer mouse. The US Environmental Protection Agency says large swaths of e-waste are shipped to developing countries that lack the capacity to reject these imports or infrastructure to safely recycle them. The World Health Organization also warned that children, with their smaller hands, are often used to process mountains of e-waste in developing nations in search of valuable elements such as copper, silver, palladium and more. The WHO said more than 18 million children are exposed to a range of negative health impacts as they engage in this informal e-waste processing industry. This article outlines a few steps you can take with the phones, laptops and chargers you have stashed at home to alleviate the e-waste burden. For example, if you live in an area that offers e-waste disposal services (either via specific pickup dates or at a drop-off location), that\u2019s among the easiest ways to clear out old gadgets. Additionally, a growing list of major retailers \u2014 including Staples and Best Buy \u2014 also have programs that let customers bring in e-waste for recycling.\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\">\n <table align=\"left\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td class=\"mcnImageContent\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding-right: 9px;padding-left: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \n \n <img decoding=\"async\" align=\"center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/c1c5845a-2cc1-4f99-9312-ad9c819c9be2.png\" width=\"564\" style=\"max-width: 1200px;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline !important;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" class=\"mcnImage\">\n \n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-10-scientists-material-plastic-metal.html\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">Scientists Discover Material That Can Be Made Like a Plastic But Conducts Like a Metal \u2013 (PhysOrg \u2013 October 26, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\nScientists with the University of Chicago have discovered a way to create a material that can be made like a plastic, but conducts electricity more like a metal. The research shows how to make a kind of material in which the molecular fragments are jumbled and disordered, but can still conduct electricity extremely well. This goes against all of the rules we know about for conductivity\u2014to a scientist, it’s kind of like seeing a car driving on water and still going 70 mph. But the finding could also be extraordinarily useful; if you want to invent something revolutionary, the process often first starts with discovering a completely new material. Jiaze Xie, the first author on the paper, began experimenting with some materials discovered years ago, but largely ignored. He strung nickel atoms like pearls into a string of of molecular beads made of carbon and sulfur, and began testing. To the scientists’ astonishment, the material easily and strongly conducted electricity. What’s more, it was very stable. “We heated it, chilled it, exposed it to air and humidity, and even dripped acid and base on it, and nothing happened,” said Xie. That is enormously helpful for a device that has to function in the real world. But to the scientists, the most striking thing was that the molecular structure of the material was disordered. “From a fundamental picture, that should not be able to be a metal,” said John Anderson, an associate professor of chemistry at the University of Chicago and the senior author on the study. “There isn’t a solid theory to explain this.”\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/science\/bacteria-self-repairing-walls\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">Scientists Find a Surprisingly Small But Mighty Natural Force to Build Self-repairing Walls \u2013 (Inverse \u2013 October 9, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\nLike human cells, bacteria contain DNA that provides the instructions to build proteins. Bacterial DNA can be modified to instruct the cell to build new proteins, including ones that don\u2019t exist in nature. Researchers can even control exactly where these proteins will be located within the cell. A primary challenge for engineered living materials has been figuring out how to induce them to produce a matrix, or substances surrounding the cell, that allows researchers to control the physical properties of the final material, such as its viscosity, elasticity, and stiffness. To address this, Sara Molinari and her team created a system to encode this matrix in the bacteria\u2019s DNA. By surrounding each cell with this sticky, elastic material, bacterial cells will cluster together to form a living slime. Furthermore, we can modify the elastic proteins to change the properties of the final material. For example, we could turn bacteria into hard construction materials that have the ability to self-repair in the event of damage. Alternatively, we could turn bacteria into soft materials that could be used as fillers in products. The technology to make living materials is unsophisticated and cheap. It only takes a shaking incubator, proteins, and sugars to grow a multifunctional, high-performing material from bacteria. The incubator is just a metal or plastic box that keeps the temperature at about 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit (37 Celsius), which is much lower than a conventional home oven, and shakes the cells at speeds slower than a blender. Transforming bacteria into living materials is also a quick process. The team was able to grow bacterial living materials in about 24 hours. This is pretty fast compared to the manufacturing process of other materials, including living materials like wood, which can take years to produce. Article includes embedded TED talk, \u201cWhy Biofabrication Is the Next Industrial Revolution.\u201d\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\" valign=\"top\">\n <table class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td class=\"mcnImageContent\" style=\"padding-right: 9px;padding-left: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\">\n \n \n <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/33a86720-2925-4edd-a373-9d326d952424.png\" style=\"max-width: 1200px;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline !important;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" class=\"mcnImage\" width=\"564\" align=\"middle\">\n \n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inc.com\/minda-zetlin\/jeff-bezos-david-solomon-recession-forecasting.html\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">In 11 Words, Jeff Bezos Just Gave Some of the Best Advice You’ll Get This Year \u2013 (Inc. \u2013 October 23, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\nThose words are: \u201cYou can’t predict the future, but you can weigh the probabilities.\u201d Bezos\u2019 financial advice was offered when he counseled his Twitter followers that it’s time to prepare for possible economic turmoil. The probabilities in this economy tell you to batten down the hatches. He re-tweeted a CNBC clip of Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon (embedded in article) saying that businesses should lessen their exposure to risk these days. What makes this such good advice is that neither Bezos nor Solomon claims to know what will happen to the U.S. or world economy. The truth is, nobody knows. Zillow’s chief economist Skylar Olsen noted this month that forecasting is all about pattern recognition, and that today’s economic patterns are unrecognizable. Still, she said, forecasts seem to be trending toward the negative.\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2022\/10\/20\/ev-supply-chain-battery-tracking\/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F383115a%2F635174a5f3d9003c58161a06%2F5e876a849bbc0f0a2e14608c%2F62%2F72%2F635174a5f3d9003c58161a06&wp_cu=e9566cddf5919d659b8a87c177b08eff%7CA266C910E7810C4DE0530100007F0657\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">EV Supply Chains Have a Human Rights Problem. Can Tech Fix It? \u2013 (Washington Post \u2013 October 20, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\nThe difficulty electric carmakers face building supply chains free of human rights and environmental violations came into focus earlier this year, when U.S. investigators completed their probe of a massive mining tragedy in Brazil where 270 people were killed in a collapse of a dam holding iron ore mining waste \u2014 most of them buried alive in a deluge of toxic sludge. The SEC\u2019s federal lawsuit was a wake-up call for an auto industry straining to source massive amounts of new metals in a manner consistent with the green branding of electric vehicles. Now, with new federal rules that tie lucrative tax breaks to supply chain accountability, the world\u2019s major auto manufacturers are racing to get a better grip on the origin of their materials and who is being harmed by the way they are extracted and processed. Some of the EV tax incentives in the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act apply only to cars made from materials sourced in the U.S. or a handful of other nations. The financial risk of not tracking the origin of components just got much bigger. As companies scramble to build out and get control of their supply chains, they are finding out how much they don\u2019t know about them. They are learning that contractors who pledged to provide sustainable cobalt, for example, may be sneaking in sacks of the metal extracted with child labor, as detailed in lawsuits and a recent U.S. Department of Labor report. Some maybe concerned the nickel supplies they assumed meet the highest environmental and social standards are corrupted with product smuggled from Russian producers in violation of sanctions. Consumers, regulators and investors are increasingly demanding the car companies back their sustainability pledges with supply chain transparency. Central to the effort is the vision for battery passports that will reveal to consumers exactly where the materials in their EV battery were sourced. Creating a battery passport adds about $10 to the cost of a vehicle, according to auto industry officials. They argue it is a small price to pay for the assurance that cars qualify for thousands of dollars in tax breaks. Car manufacturers are also working with a rapidly expanding cottage industry of tracking firms that follow materials from the mine to the auto assembly line. The technology engages handheld scanning devices, QR codes and satellites to keep tabs on materials as they make their way around the globe. Article describes one specific company\u2019s tracking tools in detail.\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\">\n <table align=\"left\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td class=\"mcnImageContent\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding-right: 9px;padding-left: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \n \n <img decoding=\"async\" align=\"center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/e57d7e2e-387d-46bf-850a-ee877986658a.png\" width=\"564\" style=\"max-width: 1200px;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline !important;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" class=\"mcnImage\">\n \n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2022\/10\/26\/just-two-weeks\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">Just Two Weeks \u2013 (Caitlin Johnstone \u2013 October 26, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\nIn this moving poem, Johnstone acknowledges many of the real reasons why people are not more politically engaged even though their freedoms, the democracy of their country, and the health of the planet may be singularly at risk. Here are the opening lines: I stand here before you\/ in my mother’s hand-me-downs,\/ in this world where mothers must work like they don’t have children\/ and parent like they don’t have jobs,\/ keeping households running and bills paid\/ while their hearts run around outside their bodies\/ on tiny little legs that don’t yet know where the wolves are.\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\">\n <table align=\"left\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td class=\"mcnImageContent\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding-right: 9px;padding-left: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \n \n <img decoding=\"async\" align=\"center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/4063f239-99a1-4f52-a34a-427565a2378c.png\" width=\"564\" style=\"max-width: 1200px;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline !important;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" class=\"mcnImage\">\n \n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mymodernmet.com\/weather-photographer-of-the-year-2022\/?mc_cid=e41a67a36f&mc_eid=88eaa51cbb\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">Dramatic Storm Waves Crashing Into a Lighthouse Win Weather Photography Contest \u2013 (My Modern Met \u2013 October 12, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\nDramatic waves crashing into a lighthouse earned photographer Christopher Ison the title of Weather Photographer of the Year in the Royal Meteorological Society’s annual contest. Held in association with AccuWeather, the photo contest is a celebration of weather in all forms. And so, fittingly, the winning photos take us on a journey through icy storms and stunning rainbows. Ison’s win came after the judges sifted through entries from photographers in 119 countries and selected a shortlist of 22 images. But his photo stood above the rest for showing the power of nature and highlighting the dramatic movement and force of the sea together with the resistance offered by a man-made building. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Jamie Russell was rewarded for capturing a relatively calm moment in nature. His beautiful photo of a double rainbow on the Isle of Wight won the Public Favorite award. He beat out the other 22 shortlisted images after nearly 5,500 votes were cast by the public. Article includes photos taken by second and third place entries and winners in more specific categories.\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\" valign=\"top\">\n <table class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td class=\"mcnImageContent\" style=\"padding-right: 9px;padding-left: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\">\n \n \n <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/4b1d941b-2379-417f-8bee-de3a64265174.png\" style=\"max-width: 1200px;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline !important;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" class=\"mcnImage\" width=\"564\" align=\"middle\">\n \n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The best way to predict the future is to change it.<\/em><br>\n\u2013 George M. Church, American geneticist widely regarded as the “Founding Father of Genomics”<\/div>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\" valign=\"top\">\n <table class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n <tbody><tr>\n <td class=\"mcnImageContent\" style=\"padding-right: 9px;padding-left: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\">\n \n \n <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/7540453d-569f-3570-f009-7b8a52f55149.png\" style=\"max-width: 940px;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline !important;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" class=\"mcnImage\" width=\"564\" align=\"middle\">\n \n \n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody><\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n <tr>\n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n \t\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\n <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n <tbody><tr>\n \n <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #ffffff;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n \n <strong>A special thanks to<\/strong>: Chas Freeman, Ursula Freer, Diane Petersen, Abby Porter, Bobbie Rohn, Steve Ujvarosy and all of you who have sent us interesting links in the past. 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