Tropical Storm Chris became the second hurricane of the 2018 Atlantic season at 5 pm EDT Tuesday afternoon. Located about 200 miles east-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, Chris was packing top sustained winds of 85 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC). Chris underwent a striking burst of intensification on Tuesday, giving every appearance of being a hurricane hours before that status became official. In a flight Tuesday afternoon, hurricane hunters found a central pressure of 980 mb, with flight-level winds as strong as 88 knots (101 mph). The stepped frequency microwave radiometer aboard the hurricane-hunter flight detected near-surface winds of 84 – 89 mph, which supports the NHC intensity estimate of 85 mph.
Physicists have observed the Higgs boson decaying into a pair of b quarks, confirming the predictions of the Standard Model of particle physics. The Higgs boson is an elementary particle essential to the Standard Model. It is associated with the Higgs field, an energy field that gives particles their mass. Scientists use particle accelerators to smash particles against each other, yielding a variety of exotic and subatomic particles. ATLAS is one of six particle accelerators at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider facilities in Switzerland.
Trump on Tuesday issued full pardons to Oregon ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond, the father-and-son duo whose imprisonment sparked an armed takeover of a federal facility led by Ammon and Ryan Bundy.
Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has issued a stark warning to humanity: advances in artificial intelligence could lead to a world which humans will no longer be able to understand — and we should start preparing now.
What if machines learn to communicate with each other? What if they begin to establish their own objectives? What if they become so intelligent that they are making decisions beyond the capacity of the human mind?
Those are some of the questions the 95-year-old Kissinger poses in a piece published by the Atlantic under the apocalyptic headline: ‘How The Enlightenment Ends.’
An Israeli organization said Tuesday that it hopes to become the first non-governmental entity to land a spacecraft on the moon when it attempts to launch a module later this year.
SpaceIL and the state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries plan to launch their unmanned craft in December, the team said at a press conference at an IAI facility outside Tel Aviv. If successful, Israel would become the fourth country to land a craft on the moon, after the U.S., the Soviet Union and China.
Turn on the TV or spend any time on Twitter and you will be comfortably, numbly, reassured that everything is awesome – stocks are up (well FANGs are up), confidence is up (as is credit card debt), and the economy is “SOARING” (as long as you don’t pay attention to the weakness in income growth). However, reality is that the so-called economic data that the mainstream relies upon is ‘soft’ survey-based perceptions skewed by ‘hope’ and ‘expectations’, and while that is rising once again, ‘hard’ real economic data continues to languish awkwardly unchanged from the start of President Trump’s reign..
The Steamboat Geyser in Yellowstone National Park erupted for the eleventh time in 2018 on Friday, July 6, 2018, at 1:37 p.m. and the eruption lasted 32 minutes.
USGS said the geyser has decided to follow a semi-regular pattern of erupting every 6-8 days over the past two months; however, it has been 20 days 20 hours 42 minutes since the last eruption on June 15.
Mexico placed its capital and 10 states on alert after thieves stole a vehicle with a container full of radioactive materials. A private company employee left it in the back of his pickup truck.
“If you see the container, don’t open it,” the head of the nation’s civil protection agency Luis Felipe Puente tweeted on Sunday as he announced the alert. The agency, tasked with securing the public’s well-being, reported that the stolen substance presents a “low risk” but can cause cancer and other permanent health damage to any person who might try to open the container or be in contact with it “for a few hours.”
1) CNN goes sniffing . . . .
2) Reddit Round-table, on the addictiveness
3) Froot loops not so good for you
4) Petro-masculinity
5) live insect jewellery
With the US and China contemplating their next moves in what is now officially a trade war, a parallel narrative is developing in the world of energy where Asian oil refiners are racing to secure crude supplies in anticipation of an escalating trade war between the US and China, even as Trump demands all US allies cut Iran oil exports to zero by November 4 following sanctions aimed at shutting the country out of oil markets.
Concerned that the situation will deteriorate before it gets better, Asian refiners are moving swiftly to secure supplies with South Korea leading the way. Under pressure from Washington, Seoul has already halted all orders of Iranian oil, according to sources, even as it braces from spillover effects from the U.S.-China tit-for-tat on trade.
Here’s why I’m harping so much on strategy: the US is operating without a viable one.
We neither have a compelling Vision of where we want to go, nor any sense of the Resources required to change with the many transitions underway around us.
The current ‘strategy’ (if we can be so generous as to call it that), is nothing more than “business-as-usual” (BAU).
The US is assuming it is always going to have more cars and trucks on the road this year than last year, more goods sold, a larger economy, more jobs, and the world’s most powerful military. That’s the BAU model. And it has largely worked for the past century.
But it can’t work going forward. And the longer we pursue it, the more of our future prosperity we ruin.
Why? Because the future of everything is dependent on energy. More specifically: net energy.
Having a powerful military consumes a tremendous annual quantity of energy. The US military eats up 100 million barrels of oil each year. By itself, America’s Department of Defense is the 34th largest consumer of oil in the world.
The internet was built through a vast network of copper wires. In the future, it could be diamonds.
Researchers at Princeton University are creating diamonds that they think will be able to store and transmit micro-messages called “qubits.”
In a press release, they explain that their man-made diamonds could be used to build the new super-secure — and super-smart — internet of the future, called the quantum internet.
One of the vehicles involved in a crash that shut down a section of Interstate 66 in northern Virginia on Sunday morning had fled after a Secret Service officer tried to initiate a traffic stop in Washington, D.C.
The driver of the suspect vehicle fled the scene and remains at large.
“Today at 4:35 am, a Secret Service Uniformed Division Officer observed a vehicle traveling in the wrong direction on I Street NW, Washington, DC,” the Secret Service said in a statement tweeted by NBC Washington reporter/anchor Adam Tuss. “The Uniformed Division Officer attempted to initiate a traffic stop of the suspect vehicle; however, the vehicle failed to yield and exited onto I-66 traveling westbound in the eastbound lanes.
The volcanic unrest continues around the world with new eruptions occurring around the world. The latest are the explosions of Agung volcano (Indonesia), Anak Krakatau (Indonesia), Mayon volcano (Philippines), the volcanic unrest of White Island (New Zealand). Finally some updates on the Kilauea eruption (Hawaii) and the Fuego eruption (Guatemala).
Hundreds of thousands of US citizens may have to scrap their holiday plans, the Internal Revenue Service said, as it is enforcing a law allowing authorities to revoke and deny passports to those owing over $51,000 in unpaid taxes.
Some 362,000 people may fall under the scope of the 2015 law as early as the end of this year, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing an IRS spokesperson.
The Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, which became a law in December 2015, allows the State Department and the IRS to refuse to issue passports to those with “seriously delinquent” debts that are defined as “an unpaid, legally enforceable federal tax liability” of more than $51,000, including interest and penalties. That rule envisions denying first-time passport applications, as well as the renewal of the travel document. In a worst-case scenario, a valid passport can be revoked by the State Department.
Record-breaking torrential rains struck western Japan, causing at least 44 deaths and leaving dozens injured. The authorities have ordered mass evacuations in the affected areas.
Others regions have witnessed excessive heat. Parts of the united states seeing both within the past week.
Alexandra talks about why so many people are grieving, and explains why she was called to create a new formula called “This Hug’s For You”.
This formula was created in response to so many struggling to find their center through the “death” process of anything we feel is dear to our hearts.
Paired with that, for the July ‘Independence’ Promotion, is the Joy formula, to uplift your spirits and help you to move through the darkness and despair.
Read more here: https://ift.tt/2KZWnGy
1) One thousand points of light
2) Orwell vs Huxley
3) Generation Z changing
4) the world, of deleted opinion
5) Red rain in Russia
6) Moon-eyed people of Appalachians
President Trump raised eyebrows Thursday night when he criticized the “thousand points of light” slogan coined by former President George H.W. Bush.
Hello everyone, its ED – this seems like the best way to explain a delay in the video – my microphone plug snapped, when I moved my computer – so i have no working mic to make a video at the moment – however, I am just about to get into the car to drive and get a new one. This of course, will cause a delay in today’s video. I hope the microphone is not broken and it is just the cable plug. I am getting into the car just after this video. Sorry about this! I wanted to update you so you did not wait around. I just found out about this like 30min ago, after searching to try and find a new cable. But no luck. So, will get new cable, and then be back and record video and put it up. But it will likely be an hour or so late today.
Sorry everyone!
Here are the topics i will be covering when I get back:
1) One thousand points of light
2) Orwell vs Huxley
3) Generation Z changing
4) the world, of deleted opinion
5) Red rain in Russia
6) Moon-eyed people of Appalachians
BREAKING: Tropical Depression Three has formed offshore of the North & South Carolina coastline. The storm is forecast to meander and strengthen into a hurricane. Interests along the coast of North Carolina should monitor the progress of this system. pic.twitter.com/uAqVaXb0O6
Whether this is a coordinated response is unclear – and certainly on a much smaller scale – but Bloomberg reports that Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree this morning imposing higher tariffs on U.S. products in retaliation for U.S. duties on metals imports, according to Economy Ministry statement.
In another example which proves Britain isn’t used to having excessive amounts of heat. a man has been rescued by firefighters after he became stuck in melted tarmac.
Melted tarmac. Apparently, it’s entirely down to the glorious and now tarmac-melting weather the UK is experiencing.
The 24-year-old was left without recourse after his leg sank ‘thigh deep’ into the road on a back lane in Newcastle, forcing him to call the local fire department for help.