2021-07-14

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• (2019) Mike Levin on electrifying insights into how bodies form

  • Life, death, and self: Fundamental questions of primitive cognition viewed through the lens of body plasticity and synthetic organisms - ScienceDirect

Horseshit

• MIT Predicted in 1972 That Society Will Collapse This Century. New Research Shows We're on Schedule

  In 1972, a team of MIT scientists got together to study the risks of civilizational collapse. Their system dynamics model published by the Club of Rome identified impending ‘limits to growth’ (LtG) that meant industrial civilization was on track to collapse sometime within the 21st century, due to overexploitation of planetary resources.

celebrity gossip

• Ex-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn: How I escaped Japan in a box

Obit

• Richard C. Lewontin, Eminent Geneticist with a Sharp Pen, Dies at 92

• Athan Theoharis, Chronicler of FBI Abuses, Dies at 84

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• A Shift in American Family Values Is Fueling Estrangement

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Twitter sees jump in govt demands to remove content of journalists, news outlets

• Outside Media Acquires Pinkbike, Cycling Tips, Trailforks

TechSuck

• AT&T will let unlimited-data customers pay more to avoid the slow lane

• A Facebook engineer abused access to user data to track down woman

• Amazon has acquired Facebook's satellite internet team

• Facebook Seeks Recusal of FTC Chair Lina Khan in Antitrust Case

Economicon

• Why cars are driving inflation

• Job Openings Are at Record Highs. Why Aren’t Unemployed Americans Filling Them?

• Fed’s Powell expects Inflation to stay hot for months

  • Futures, Treasurys Jump After Powell Says Economic Recovery Hasn't Progressed Enough To Begin Tapering | ZeroHedge

• Huge Dividend Cripples World’s Largest Oil Company | OilPrice.com

• The true extent of America's food monopolies, and who pays the price

• The five-day workweek is dead

Poilitcks

• The DNC Wants Phone Companies to Police Text Messages for Vaccine Misinformation

• Other States Look To Texas For Advice On How To Get Democrats To Leave.

• Author of the Mega-Viral Thread on MAGA Voters, Darryl Cooper, Explains His Thinking - by Darryl Cooper - Outside Voices

• Democrats unveil $3.5T go-it-alone plan to fulfill Biden’s agenda

• Schumer launches long-shot bid for legal weed

Security / Militaria / Crime / Police

• FBI Allegedly Had 12 Informants In Michigan Kidnapping Case

  The government employed at least a dozen confidential informants to infiltrate groups of armed extremists who allegedly plotted to kidnap the governor of Michigan, according to a new filing in federal court on Monday.

  The filing, made by one of the five defendants in the federal case, asked that prosecutors be ordered to share more information about those informants, their relationship with the FBI, and the specific roles they played in building the case.

World

• Online racists to be banned from football matches, vows Boris Johnson

• Hong Kong Wikipedia editors take precautions amid fears

• India bans MasterCard from adding new customers

• Iranian Operatives Planned to Kidnap a Brooklyn Author, Prosecutors Say

• One by One, My Friends Were Sent to the Camps

• Britain to ban all new diesel and petrol heavy goods vehicles from 2040

• Over 70 Killed As South Africa "Crumbles" Despite Military Intervention

  Over 70 have reportedly been killed since social unrest began last week after ex-president Jacob Zuma was jailed for failing to appear at a corruption inquiry. Supporters of Zuma, the nation's first Zulu president, have been on a looting spree that has crippled KwaZulu-Natal and parts of Johannesburg and disrupted national supply routes, resulting in food and fuel shortages in the affected area.

Health / Medicine / COVID

• The brain needs animal fat (2019)

• A Patient Got a Kidney Meant for Someone Else

• US drug overdose deaths hit record 93,000 last year

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Climate change is shrinking Italy's iconic Lake Como, and fast

• Amid a Megadrought, Federal Water Shortage Limits Loom for the Colorado River

• Moon wobble to bring surge in coastal flooding in 2030s, NASA study predicts

• Mixing trees and crops can help both farmers and the climate

• Goldfish dumped in lakes growing to more than 1ft, threatening ecosystems

• EU unveils sweeping climate change plan