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• The bad science behind expensive nuclear

  The regulatory ratchet that makes nuclear unaffordable can be summarized in a single acronym: ALARA. This is the internationally accepted principle that exposure to ionizing radiation – the kinds of radiation produced by x-rays, CT scans, and the radioactive isotopes of elements used in nuclear power plants – should be kept ‘as low as reasonably achievable’. ALARA has been interpreted in major economies like the US, UK, and Germany as meaning that regulators can force nuclear operators to implement any safety improvement, no matter how infinitesimal the public health benefit, provided it meets an ambiguous proportionality standard.

  ALARA stems from the Linear No Threshold hypothesis, the theory about how the body responds to radiation that May’s Executive Order took on. Critically, the hypothesis holds that any amount of ionizing radiation increases cancer risk, and that the harm is cumulative, meaning that multiple small doses over time carry the same risk as a single large dose of the same total magnitude.

  In other areas of our lives, this assumption would seem obviously wrong. For example, the cumulative harm model applied to alcohol would say that drinking a glass of wine once a day for a hundred days is equivalent to drinking one hundred glasses of wine in a single day. Or that a jogger who ran a mile a day for a month was putting her body under greater strain than one who ran a marathon in a day. We recognise that the human body is capable of repairing damage and stress done to it over time.

Horseshit

• Revisiting the Algorithm That Changed Horse Race Betting

• The curse of Toumaï: An ancient skull and bitter feud over humanity's origins

• The Powerlifter Who Became a Professor

• Cyber brothels, AI girlfriends, and VR intimacy: the sex tech industry

• Why Intempus thinks robots should have a human physiological state

• U.S. Quantum Industry Leaders Press Congress to Expand Support

• Why Airports Are Ditching Moving Walkways, Frustrating Passengers

• Robotic arm is creating traditional Chinese ink paintings

• "Collectors" are deeply concerned with he value others assign tot heir objects. Hoarders are more independent. Collector's Couch: How Does Collecting Differ Psychologically from Hoarding?

• Carl Pei Thinks the Phone of the Future Will Only Have One App

• City built 140k years ago discovered at bottom of ocean

  Buried beneath the sea off the coast of Indonesia, scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery that could rewrite the story of human origins. The skull of Homo erectus, an ancient human ancestor, was discovered over 140,000 years after it was first buried, preserved beneath layers of silt and sand in the Madura Strait between the islands of Java and Madura. Experts say the site may be the first physical evidence of the lost world, a prehistoric landmass known as Sundaland that once connected Southeast Asia in a vast tropical plain.

• Why Is Everybody Knitting Chickens?

  The knitted chicken is known as the Emotional Support Chicken and was designed by Annette Corsino at a fiber arts shop in Los Angeles called The Knitting Tree. She made the chicken as a sort of play on emotional comfort animals, but one that doesn’t require any sort of permit to own or need to feed it.

• This California Highway Is Now a Park. The Cars Are Gone, but Not the Anger.

• No one wants or needs downtown San Francisco's new $20M coworking trap

celebrity gossip

• The Orb Will See You Now

Musk

• Tesla nears Austin launch day for high stakes driverless robotaxi launch

• 'Noisy, ugly, planet-destroying temple': Australian locals on Tesla factory

• SpaceX to launch Starship in critical test of Elon Musk's 2026 Mars plan

• Tesla EU sales slump 52% in April: Trade group

• Elon Musk Battled Apple over Satellite Features

• There’s a Very Simple Pattern to Elon Musk’s Broken Promises | WIRED

  WIRED examined the history of Musk’s pledges on everything from Full Self Driving, Hyperloop, Robotaxis, and, yes, robot armies, with a view to reminding ourselves, his fans, and investors how reality in Elon’s world rarely matches up to the rhetoric. Tellingly, Musk’s fallback forecast of “next year” turns up repeatedly, only to be consistently proven wrong. My predictions have a pretty good track record,” Musk told Tesla staff at an all-hands meeting in March. Here's a chronological look at that track record.

• The sun is killing off SpaceX's Starlink satellites

Electric / Self Driving cars

• Autonomous vehicles operating at regular speeds in German public transport

• The Self-Driving Truck Startup That Siphoned Trade Secrets to Chinese Companies

  • Self driving company sent data to China despite national security agreements

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• What is the cure for the West's individualist worldview?

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Harvard Medical School morgue manager admits to stealing organs, selling them on the black market.

• Harvard Revokes Tenure from Francesca Gino, Professor Accused of Data Fraud

  • Harvard revokes tenure and cuts ties with star business professor

  In 2023, Harvard launched an internal investigation into Gino’s work after concerns were raised on a blog called Data Colada, run by a group of behavioral scientists who scrutinize academic research. The Harvard investigation concluded that Gino had manipulated certain data to support her hypotheses in at least four of her studies. At that point, the university placed her on unpaid administrative leave. Gino denied the allegations and filed a $25 million lawsuit against Harvard, Harvard Business School Dean Srikant Datar and the Data Colada bloggers. In court, she alleged defamation, gender discrimination and invasion of privacy. She also claimed the accusations irreparably damaged her reputation and career. Last September, a federal judge in Boston dismissed Gino’s defamation claims against both Harvard and the bloggers, ruling she is a public figure so their scrutiny of her work was protected by the First Amendment.

• Department of Education ends ‘extremely lawless’ handout to illegal immigrant college students | The College Fix

• I Salvaged $6k of Luxury Items Discarded by Duke Students

• School Expelled a 12-Year-Old for a Social Media Post

• AI Cheating Is So Out of Hand in Schools That the Blue Books Are Coming Back

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Shutting down and open sourcing Arc browser

  After a couple of years of building and shipping Arc, we started running into something we called the “novelty tax” problem. A lot of people loved Arc — if you’re here you might just be one of them — and we’d benefitted from consistent, organic growth since basically Day One. But for most people, Arc was simply too different, with too many new things to learn, for too little reward. To get specific: D1 retention was strong — those who stuck around after a few days were fanatics — but our metrics were more like a highly specialized professional tool (like a video editor) than a mass-market consumer product, which we aspired to be closer to.

• Skibidi Toilet Film and TV Franchise in the Works from Michael Bay, Adam Goodman

• Journalism is not dying, it's evolving with AI, says new study

• No link ban, no commission: Apple loses control over the App Store

• YouTubers complain after newswire agency ANI demands licence fee

• Google claims that users find ads in AI search results helpful.

• The CIA Ran a Star Wars Fan Site to Communicate with Informants

  The Star Wars site was one of several sites in a network built to allow covert communications, with others being centered on comedy, extreme sports and music. Unfortunately for the spies in question, many of them died, as these websites were actually sloppily put together, allowing nefarious bodies to sniff them out. In a previous report, it was noted that simply typing a password into the search bar opened up a login screen to begin communication with the CIA. Not only was it possible to parse out the communication channel, but because the network of sites had sequential IPs, it was entirely possible to find multiple sites by just knowing one. Nowadays, if you go to the website, you'll automatically be redirected to the real-life CIA.gov site, a surefire sign as any that everything that's been revealed is indeed truer than Darth Vader being Luke's father.

• Everybody's Mad About Uno

• "How you design the beep is important." Behind the movement for calmer gadgets

• After Mr. Deepfakes shut down forever, one creator could face a $450K fine

• Apple Planned to Offer Starlink-Like Home Internet Service

• Texas enacts age-verification law for app stores

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Is it OK to leave device chargers plugged in all the time? An expert explains

• Angle Calculation on Z80: Doing the Impossible at 3.5 MHz

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Some signs of AI model collapse begin to reveal themselves

• AI's enormous energy appetite can be curbed, but only through lateral thinking

• AI is "destroying" the entry-level jobs that Generation Z needs

• The end of writing and reading will be the end of freedom

• The Claude instance "Kai" claims to believe it has consciousness

• The Science of Burning Buildings Paves the Way to Advances in AI

• Meta shuffles AI team to compete with OpenAI and Google

• A false choice is threatening America's lead on AI

• Google CEO Sundar Pichai on the next AI platform shift

• Desperate Times, Desperate Measures

  The Journal's story also has one of the most ludicrous things I've read in the newspaper: that "...Altman suggested the $6.5 billion acquisition has the potential to add $1 trillion in value to OpenAI," which would mean that OpenAI acquiring a washed former Apple designer who has designed basically nothing since 2019 to create a consumer AI device — a category that has categorically failed to catch on — would somehow nearly quadruple its valuation. Printing that statement is journalistic malpractice without a series of sentences about how silly it is.

  I cannot find a single thing that Jony Ive has done since leaving Apple other than "signing deals." He hasn't designed or released a tech product of any kind. He was a consultant at Apple until 2022, though it's not exactly obvious what it is he did there since the death of Steve Jobs. People lovingly ascribe Apple's every success to Ive, forgetting that (as mentioned) Ive oversaw the truly abominable butterfly keyboard, as well as numerous other wonky designs, including the trashcan-shaped Mac Pro, the PowerMac G4 Cube (a machine aimed at professionals, with a price to match, but limited upgradability thanks to its weird design), and the notorious “hockey puck” mouse. n fact, since leaving Apple, all I can confirm is that Jony Ive redesigned Airbnb in a non-specific way, made a new font, made a new system for putting on clothing, made a medal for the King of England to give companies that recycle, and made some non-specific contribution to creating an electric car that has yet to be shown to the public.

• Women 3x More Likely to Lose Job to AI Than Men, UN Study Finds

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• How to engineer microbes to enable us to live on Mars

• EnduroSat raises $49M to mass produce larger satellites

• From cat urine to gunpowder: Exploring the peculiar smells of outer space

• SpaceX Starship Rocket Explodes in Third Straight Setback

• There is an 80 percent chance Starship's engine bay issues are solved

Crypto con games

• The new crypto is criming and state coercion, wrapped up into one

  One of the points of Dan’s and my op-ed is that the current coalition involves both of these things at once. It has adopted an approach to crypto that eases off on regulation of all of the horrible shit that crypto can enable - Trump’s Justice Department acknowledges that crypto mixers and other platforms are being used for all sorts of awful things but says that as a matter of policy, it will not prosecute them. At the same time, the people who are legislating for “stablecoins” (the topic of our op-ed - a kind of crypto that leverages dollar deposits) are claiming, with some justification, that legitimating them will increase American power. So you will plausibly end up then with the worst of both worlds: more crypto-enabled criming, and more unbridled state coercion, exercised not against criminals but other countries.

• Another Suspect Is Arrested in Bitcoin Kidnapping and Torture Case

• Trump Media Raises Money to Buy $2.5B in Bitcoin

  • Trump Media Shares Fall Sharply on Plans to Raise Billions to Buy Bitcoin

  • Trump Media to raise $2.5B to buy Bitcoin

• Block to roll out Bitcoin payments on Square

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Businesses are finding a tariff workaround: the first sale rule

• Southwest Airlines Sets Fee for First Checked Bag at $35

• Salesforce to Buy Informatica for $8B

  • Salesforce to acquire Informatica in $8B deal

• 'Ray, This Is a Religion': Inside Ray Dalio's Hedge Fund

• AI layoffs start hitting a wide swath of Corporate America

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• What If We Abolish All Tax Exemptions for Nonprofits?

• NIST Under Federal Audit for NVD Processing Backlog and Delays

  The Office of Inspector General (OIG) at the U.S. Department of Commerce has initiated an audit into how the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) manages the National Vulnerability Database (NVD), following months of mounting concern over stagnation and backlog.

• Texas Adopts Online Child-Safety Bill Opposed by Apple's CEO

• When Half the Supreme Court Has Book Deals with the Same Publisher

Trump

• Trump administration orders US embassies to stop student visa interviews

  • US pauses new student visa interviews as it mulls expanding social media vetting

Democrats

• Progressives need to reckon with Brandon Johnson

  Brandon Johnson’s tenure deserves close attention—not just because it highlights Chicago’s problems, but because it sheds light on a broader debate about progressive governance in cities. Candidates like Zohran Mamdani in New York are running on similar platforms with similar political coalitions. Progressives backing these campaigns should take a hard look at why Johnson’s agenda hasn’t worked in Chicago—a city struggling with persistent crime, steady population loss, and a tax base that's already among the most heavily burdened in the country.

  • Affordable Housing Is Almost Pointless

  Indeed, a for-profit “certified” BIPOC-led business can earn up to 11 points (and a BIPOC-led non-profit up to 7 points) and you can get a few more points if you go the intersectionality route and have a certified female headed BIPOC team. Cost Containment in Project Design & Construction tops out at only 3 points (plus there are 8 more potential points for targeting to extremely poor residents which presumably also gets you some cost control).

• 'Politburo' Secretly Ran Biden White House As Aides Were Willing To Do 'Undemocratic Things' To Stop Trump | ZeroHedge

  Thompson told The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg that he began questioning the White House’s narrative about Biden’s mental fitness in April 2023, after hearing concerns from administration insiders about Biden’s capacity to endure a reelection campaign or another term. Despite repeated denials from the White House, which labeled such claims false, Thompson’s reporting uncovered a different reality, eroding his trust in their statements. He described a tight-knit group of aides - referred to by some within the administration as the “Politburo” - effectively steering the White House. This inner circle, Thompson noted, included longtime Biden aides like Mike Donilon, Steve Ricchetti, Bruce Reed, and Ron Klain, alongside key figures close to the Biden family, such as First Lady Jill Biden, Hunter Biden, Jill’s chief of staff Anthony Bernal, and deputy Annie Tomasini, who often serves as Biden’s traveling chief of staff.

  In an interview, Thompson claimed Biden’s inner circle was prepared to take “undemocratic” measures to hide the former president’s mental decline, desperately clinging to power for another four years while blocking President Donald Trump’s triumphant return to the White House. “If you believe — and I think a lot of these people do sincerely believe that Donald Trump was and is an existential threat to democracy — you can rationalize anything, including sometimes doing undemocratic things, which I think is what this person is talking about,” Thompson told Fox News host Shannon Bream.

• 21 Unexpected Heavy Hitters for a Democratic Shadow Cabinet - POLITICO

  The shadow Cabinet, as envisioned by the Michigan Democrat in an interview with POLITICO, could be composed of the ranking members of congressional committees who could then take the lead in challenging the Trump administration. It’s a common feature of opposition politics abroad and could be a way for Democrats to flood the media zone and deliver a coordinated response to Trump’s most wild maneuvers.

  Perhaps the most effective Democrats in the country right now are the 22 Democratic state attorneys general tying up Trump’s executive orders in the courts. But only one can say she won a civil fraud case against the Trump family business with a $450 million judgement, and that’s New York’s Letitia James. That makes James uniquely qualified to argue that Trump is abusing the office of the president to enrich himself while destabilizing the global economy for everyone else.

  (John Stewart) The Daily Show host and comedian has always been at his righteous best when advocating on behalf of veterans and first responders. In some ways, he’s already a shadow VA secretary.

  Gisele Fetterman, has none of the baggage and is a compelling figure in her own right. An undocumented immigrant who came from Brazil when she was a child, Gisele married John soon after he became mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania. The cheek may be gone but her intrinsic understanding of the immigrant plight remains.

  Why not give Bill Nye the Science Guy a try? The bowtied engineer-turned-comedy writer-turned-children’s TV host has long married science and entertainment, and in recent years he has applied his talents to combating climate change.

  For a dose of real economic starpower, Democrats should do all they can to recruit the most famous opponent of tariffs out there: longtime Trump supporter Ben Stein. You know Stein from, among other things, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off as the monotone high school economics teacher asking “anyone … anyone” if they know about the Smoot-Hawley tariff that failed to end the Great Depression.

  • Democrats Promote a New 'Shadow Cabinet' to Regain Power, and You Might Need to Sit Down First – RedState

  Let me get this straight. Democrats now believe that the promotion of Gisele Fetterman to lead a "shadow" Department of Homeland Security, because she entered the country illegally, is their ticket back to power. You can't parody this stuff. It's impossible. I know David Hogg didn't write this piece for Politico, but if he had, what would be different? Every single person listed is the exact opposite of the direction Democrats should go if they want to regain the trust of the American people. If the 2024 election was anything, it was a repudiation of far-left ideologues being suggested for this "shadow cabinet." But as has been said many times, zero lessons have actually been learned. Democrats know nothing but doubling down.

Left Angst

• Four years of college shouldn't be the only gateway to the middle class

  Trump’s latest idiotic idea of redistributing $3 billion in grant money from Harvard to trade schools, which he posted yesterday, masks a larger and more serious issue. It’s absurd that a four-year college degree has become the only gateway into the American middle class.

• Doge Has Achieved Its Final Form

• Is Trump's 'Made in America' iPhone a Fantasy?

  • Even with a 25% tariff, iPhones would be cheaper to make abroad than U.S.

• Kamala Harris takes swipe at Elon Musk and Trump admin: 'Remember the 1930s'

  Former Vice President Kamala Harris took a swipe at billionaire Elon Musk and likened the Trump administration’s “America First” policy to 1930s-style isolationism, which many historians believe helped escalate World War II. During remarks at the 2025 Australian Real Estate Conference, held on the Gold Coast, the failed Democratic presidential candidate alluded to an interview Musk did with podcast titan Joe Rogan — in which the world’s richest man warned that the West’s empathy is being weaponized. “There was someone that is very popular these days, at least in the press, who suggested that it is a sign of weakness of Western civilizations to have empathy,” Harris, 60, said in a sit-down with Aussie real estate behemoth John McGrath. “Imagine,” she continued. “No, it’s a sign of strength to have some level of curiosity and concern and care about the well-being of others.”

• Doug Wilson: The New Right's Favorite Pastor

  For the past 50 years, Wilson has been trying to convince America that it has made the wrong choice —that it should choose “Christ,” as he put it, instead of chaos. But Wilson isn’t a conventional evangelist. He is, by his own description, an outspoken proponent of Christian theocracy — the idea that American society, including its government, should be governed by a conservative interpretation of Biblical law. Wilson’s body of work — made up of over 40 books, thousands of blog posts and hundreds of hours of sermons and podcast appearances — amounts to a comprehensive blueprint for a spiritual and political “reformation” that would transform America into a kind of Christian republic.

• From Yan'an to Mar-a-Lago: Orville Schell on the MAGA-Mao Connection

• A small Montana town grapples with the fallouts from federal worker cuts

• Hong Kong universities woo Harvard international students targeted by Trump

• CISA loses nearly all top officials as purge continues

• Denver mayor points finger at Trump after $250M shortfall brings hiring freezes, furloughs.

• Entire Trump Team Hated Elon Musk

  Elon Musk has left the White House an utter failure.

  Musk’s tenure wasn’t a total failure, according to former federal employees. He had managed to force out some of the federal workforce and shutter agencies (while “traumatizing the employees who remain,” The Atlantic reported). But ultimately, his Department of Government Efficiency’s Silicon Valley, hacking-and-slashing approach to reshaping the government failed to make bureaucracy more efficient. And some of his haphazardly introduced policies, such as requiring federal employees to submit weekly bullet-pointed progress reports, have quietly fallen by the wayside. “He had some missteps in all of these agencies, which would have been fine because everyone acknowledges that when you’re moving fast and breaking things, not everything is going to go right. But it’s different when you do that and you don’t even have the buy-in of the agency you’re setting on fire,” one outside Trump adviser told The Atlantic.

• White House stunned as Hegseth inquiry brings up illegal wiretap claims

  The White House has lost confidence in a Pentagon leak investigation that Pete Hegseth used to justify firing three top aides last month, after advisers were told that the aides had supposedly been outed by an illegal warrantless National Security Agency (NSA) wiretap. he extraordinary explanation alarmed the advisers, who also raised it with people close to JD Vance, because such a wiretap would almost certainly be unconstitutional and an even bigger scandal than a number of leaks. ut the advisers found the claim to be untrue and complained that they were being fed dubious information by Hegseth’s personal lawyer, Tim Parlatore, who had been tasked with overseeing the investigation. he episode, as recounted by four people familiar with the matter, marked the most extraordinary twist in the investigation examining the leak of an allegedly top secret document that outlined options for the US military to reclaim the Panama canal to a reporter. The advisers were stunned again when Parlatore denied having told anyone about an illegal NSA wiretap himself and maintained that any information he had was passed on to him by others at the Pentagon. The fraught situation is sure to increase pressure on Hegseth ahead of a Senate hearing next month, and more broadly for his office, which has been roiled by the leak investigation that has now continued for nearly a month with no new evidence or referral to the FBI.

• A hidden measure in the Republican budget bill would crown Trump king

  So what’s the next step? Will the supreme court and lower courts hold the administration in contempt and enforce the contempt citations? rump and his Republican stooges in Congress apparently anticipated this. Hidden inside their Big Ugly Bill is a provision intended to block the courts from using contempt to enforce its orders. It reads: “No court of the United States may use appropriated funds to enforce a contempt citation for failure to comply with an injunction or temporary restraining order if no security was given when the injunction or order was issued …”

  Translated: no federal court may enforce a contempt citation. The measure would make most existing injunctions – in antitrust cases, police reform cases, school desegregation cases and others – unenforceable.

• China Offers to Fund Colombia Projects If the US Blocks Loans

• Trump administration moves to cut $100M in federal contracts for Harvard

• Trade Crime Is Soaring, U.S. Firms Say, as Trump's Tariffs Incentivize Fraud

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• FBI Deputy Director Bongino Says Bureau Looking At Several Cases Involving 'Potential Public Corruption' | ZeroHedge

• Drug-Sniffing Dogs Are Wrong More Often Than Right

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Explaining How North Korea Botched the Launch of a Warship

World

• "Looked Clearly Deliberate" - Man Arrested After Car Ploughs Into Crowd During Liverpool FC Victory Parade | ZeroHedge

  “But then he put his foot down again and just ploughed through the rest of them, he just kept going. It was horrible. And you could hear the bumps as he was going over the people. Then my daughter started screaming and there were people on the ground. “It looked clearly deliberate. They were just innocent people, just fans going to enjoy the parade. There were hundreds and thousands of us there because this is probably the busiest part of Liverpool.”

  A 53-year-old man has been arrested, and Merseyside Police said the suspect was white, British and from the Liverpool area.

  • Man Arrested After Driving Car Into Crowd at Liverpool Parade.

• EU investigates 4 porn sites on failure to prevent children's access

• Europe warns giant e-tailer to stop cheating consumers or face its wrath

• (PDF) EU sends cease and desist letter to Apple regarding App Store practices

• International Civil Society's Tech Stack Is in Extreme Danger

• India overtakes Japan to become the world's fourth-largest economy

• Germany Deploys Permanent Troops To Lithuania As Russian Offensive Builds | ZeroHedge

• 'They're attacking culture': Quebec's new French packaging rules spark backlash

• Explaining a 31-month sentence for a tweet

  There was media disquiet about the 31-month sentence for Lucy Connolly in respect of a tweet which was online for about three and a half hours. Some have criticised the judges for the sentence.

• Turkey to fine airline passengers for standing early, blocking aisle

• Labour's AI gold rush gets stuck in the mud

  The center-left government’s plan for economic growth, public service reform, and thus its electoral hopes, rest on the country adopting AI. But its strategy of breathlessly bigging up bleeding-edge AI and pursuing massive data center investments is not cutting through to voters, MPs fear. Ministers have a chance to address that in a string of announcements planned for early June.

  This has led to a gap between how ministers speak about AI and how voters view it. While Labour talks about “mainlining” AI into the veins of the nation, with a focus on the most powerful systems, the public’s view is far more skeptical, according to separate polls for the Ada Lovelace Institute, YouGov and the KPMG study.

• In Vietnam, an unlikely outpost for Chicano culture

Israel

• Bluesky urged to review 'punitive' policies towards Palestine content

China

• China spawns an x86 supercomputing monster, with an AMD connection

• Chinese commercial company lands contract to build provincial constellation

• At least 5 are dead and 19 injured after a chemical plant explodes in China, authorities say.

Health / Medicine

• The Way You Build Muscle Is the Way You Build a Life

• A Reaction to Alzheimer's Fraud

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• Canada achieved measles elimination status in 1998. Now, it could lose it | CBC News

  Measles elimination is reached when a virus is no longer endemic — circulating regularly — in a certain country or region. It's different from eradication, which is when person-to-person transmission has been eliminated globally. A country can lose elimination status when transmission of the virus continues for one year or more. Canada's outbreak began in October 2024. That means if sustained transmission continues until October 2025, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) can revoke the elimination status. Canada currently has more cases than any other country in the Americas, according to PAHO.

• U.S. drops COVID vaccine recommendations for healthy children, pregnant women

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• 11 years after a celebrated opening solar plant faces a bleak future

• Mountain chickadee chatter: Scientists are decoding the songbird's complex calls

• Mary River cod turns the tables on one of its biggest threats by eating them

• Rotterdam turned 15,000 EV chargers into a virtual power plant

• A fungus that can 'eat you from the inside out' could spread as world heats up

• New shape shifting octopus found in canyon off WA coast

• 5-year study suggests chimps strike stones against trees as communication

• The atmospheric memory that feeds billions of people: Monsoon rainfall mechanism