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Coffee in a Can
Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ever found
Will Nations Fund Fertility?

if it is going to make sense for nations today to pay folks to have kids so that those kids can later pay that nation back, the current situation for nations will need to be much closer to the US south slave case than it is to the usual case of parents or slaves in history.
Early humans deliberately made mysterious stone 'spheroids'
Electric cars have a road trip problem, even for the secretary of energy

I helped bring harvests in the dark in 1985; i suspect the idea goes back to the time when farm machinery got electric lights, or earlier: Extreme heat forcing America’s farmers to go nocturnal
When Tail Lights Lose Touch With Reality | Hackaday

JFK Assassination Witness Breaks His Silence and Raises New Questions
- New JFK Assassination Revelation Could Upend the Long-Held “Lone Gunman” Theory
Landis saw and did something that he has kept secret for six decades, he says now. He claims he spotted a bullet resting on the top of the back of the seat. He says he picked it up, put it in his pocket, and brought it into the hospital. Then, upon entering Trauma Room No. 1 (at that stage, he was the only nonmedical person in the room besides Mrs. Kennedy, and both stayed for only a short period), he insists, he placed the bullet on a white cotton blanket on the president’s stretcher.

This secret, as it turns out, may upend key conclusions of the Warren Commission, the body created by President Lyndon Johnson to investigate the assassination. The sad fact is that Landis—though required to provide his version of events to the Secret Service (and, in a second report, to what would become the Warren Commission)—never sat for an interview before the FBI and never testified before the commission itself. He left the Secret Service months after the assassination and before the panel had finished its work and issued its report.
Massive errors in FBI’s Active Shooting Reports from 2014-2022 regarding cases where civilians stop attacks: Instead of 4.6%, the correct number is at least 35.7%. In 2022, it is at least 41.3%. Excluding gun-free zones, it averaged over 63.5%.
It’s way past time to stop police ‘testilying’

What is killing white Britons?
Weight Loss Drugs Stopped a Danish Recession
District cooling: A better alternative to air conditioning?
- Wouldn't it be more efficient if we gave up the notion of individual housing, and all lived in barracks? Group kitchens, communal bathrooms, the whole deal. We could probably arrange for people to never leave the building, thus minimizing their impact on Nature and vice versa.