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    Japan set to develop railguns to counter hypersonic missiles
    https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Japan-set-to-develop-railguns-to-counter-hypersonic-missiles
    Defense Ministry expects to have a bolstered intercept system by late 2020s
    Submitted at 01-04-2022, 11:47 AM by David Icke's Stool Sample
    The World
    2 Comments
    Just How Big A Problem Is Nepotism In NFL Coaching? | Defector
    https://defector.com/just-how-big-a-problem-is-nepotism-in-nfl-coaching/
    “Just read their bio, that’s all you need. Remove the name and tell me what you have." After looking through every team’s coaching staff as of March 2021, I found that Adam and Mike and Nate and Pete are among 111 NFL coaches who are related biologically or through marriage to current or former NFL coaches, out of a total of 792 coaches employed by NFL teams. That’s 14 percent of all coaches. (I hand-counted this total based on my own research parameters: coaches listed on team website and anyone with the coaching assistant title. The NFL’s official coach count is 822: They count all coaching contracts submitted to the league office, which includes all interns who may not be listed on a staff website.) Mike Zimmer and Pete Carroll are two of five head coaches entering this season who oversaw a relative they hired onto their staff. Belichick has sons Steve and Brian as his outside linebackers and safeties coach; Jon Gruden had his son Deuce, whose first NFL job was on uncle Jay Gruden’s Washington staff, as his assistant strength coach in Las Vegas; and Ron Rivera has his nephew Vincent on staff as a defensive quality control coach.
    Submitted at 01-04-2022, 02:37 AM by sleeppoor
    Sports
    0 Comments
    Insurance executive says death rates among working-age people up 40 percent
    https://www.wfyi.org/news/articles/insurance-death-rates-working-age-people-up-40-percent
    As COVID-19 deaths approach 19,000 in Indiana, the insurance industry has been processing claims at a record rate. Nationally, more than 824,000 people have died from the virus. “We’re seeing right now the highest death rates we’ve ever seen in the history of this business,” said Scott Davison, the CEO of OneAmerica, a $100 billion life insurance and retirement company headquartered in Indianapolis.  “The data is consistent across every player in the business.” Davison said death rates among working age people – those 18 to 64-years-old – are up 40 percent in the third and fourth quarter of 2021 over pre-pandemic levels. “Just to give you an idea of how bad that is, a three sigma or 200-year catastrophe would be a 10 percent increase over pre-pandemic levels,” Davison said. “So, 40 percent is just unheard of.”
    Submitted at 01-04-2022, 12:31 AM by Forensic
    Health & Beauty
    3 Comments
    Elizabeth Holmes: Theranos founder convicted of fraud
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59734254
    A jury found the Silicon Valley ex-CEO guilty on four of 11 counts after seven days of deliberations.
    Submitted at 01-04-2022, 12:53 AM by SCarterE
    Crime
    5 Comments
    Texas Pollution Soars After Cold Snap Upends Natural Gas Sector
    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-03/plunging-gas-supplies-show-texas-still-hasn-t-prepared-for-cold
    Texas’s natural gas industry had almost a year to prepare for last weekend’s cold blast and avoid another loss of production. But yet again, instruments froze, output plunged and companies spewed a miasma of pollutants into the atmosphere in a bid to keep operations stable.
    Submitted at 01-03-2022, 10:58 PM by Forensic
    The Economy
    0 Comments
    Schumer tees up vote on rules change if voting rights legislation is blocked
    https://www.npr.org/2022/01/03/1069888391/schumer-tees-up-vote-on-rules-change-if-voting-rights-legislation-is-blocked
    This source said the discussions have focused on how to preserve the character of the Senate: "No one wants the Senate to be a hundred-member version of the House."
    Submitted at 01-03-2022, 07:01 PM by Nibbles
    Politics
    4 Comments
    Which economies have done best and worst during the pandemic?
    https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/which-economies-have-done-best-and-worst-during-the-pandemic/21806917
    Some governments more than made up for people’s lost labour income by sending them vast amounts of money. That was America’s strategy: although unemployment soared as the economy locked down, households received more than $2trn in government transfers in 2020 and 2021, in the form of topped-up unemployment benefits and stimulus cheques. Canada did something similar. Other countries, however, such as the Baltics, focused their fiscal firepower on protecting firms’ cashflow or expanding health-care capacity. Austria and Spain seemed neither to preserve jobs nor compensate the losers: in both countries real household income is still around 6% below its pre-pandemic level.
    Submitted at 01-03-2022, 05:19 PM by Nibbles
    The Economy
    1 Comment
    Americans seeking to renounce their citizenship are stuck with it for now
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/31/americans-seeking-renounce-citizenship-stuck
    The US state department says giving up citizenship requires a face-to-face interview with a government official, and that it is too risky given coronavirus.
    Submitted at 01-03-2022, 05:17 PM by Nibbles
    The World
    6 Comments
    NASA’s Chief Scientist Quits, Says He Has a Plan to Terraform Mars
    https://futurism.com/nasa-chief-terraform-mars
    Fake Plan: And on his way out the door, according to the New York Times, Green is touting a plan to geoengineer Mars into a planet habitable for humans. Green’s plan, published in November, hinges on warming and thickening Mars’ atmosphere by using a giant magnetic shield between the Red Planet and the Sun, which would bring temperature and pressure levels above the point at which humans could walk on the surface without a space suit, without their blood boiling inside their bodies. Real Plan: $$$$ -> Jim Green
    Submitted at 01-03-2022, 05:37 PM by Nibbles
    Horseshit
    0 Comments
    Republicans aim to sow outrage, Trump-style, with an eye on 2022 midterms
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/01/republicans-sow-outrage-trump-style-2022-midterms-house-senate
    The debate was ostensibly over a stop-gap spending bill that would avert a government shutdown. But Chip Roy, a Republican congressman from Texas, seized the opportunity to accuse Democrats of supporting “unconstitutional” vaccine mandates, critical race theory, “woke gender ideology” and open borders. A vote to fund the federal government, he warned, was a vote to allow “tyranny over the American citizen”.
    Submitted at 01-03-2022, 05:23 PM by Nibbles
    Politics
    3 Comments
    The Next Video Game From BioShock’s Creator Is in Development Hell
    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-03/bioshock-creator-s-next-game-and-its-narrative-legos-in-turmoil
    Ken Levine’s highly anticipated project was supposed to be out in 2017. People who worked on it explainhow things went awry.
    Submitted at 01-03-2022, 05:17 PM by Wreckard
    Games
    0 Comments
    Two California teachers were secretly recorded speaking about LGBTQ student outreach. Now they’re fighting for their jobs
    https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Two-California-teachers-were-secretly-recorded-16732562.php
    The controversy has roiled the small district south of Salinas and east of Monterey, alarming advocates for LGBTQ youth and marking one of several recent incidents in which influential conservative voices have forced the hands of local officials. The episode raises broader questions about educators’ growing ability to monitor what students do online, which accelerated during the pandemic, and about what responsibility schools have to provide safe spaces such as gay-straight alliances for LGBTQ students who may not have support from peers and parents.
    Submitted at 01-03-2022, 04:42 AM by sleeppoor
    Education
    1 Comment
    'Pooh,' 'Sun Also Rises' among works going public in 2022 | AP News
    https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-business-ernest-hemingway-poetry-arts-and-entertainment-e8b403aba5e41b654924e8c67c27e80a
    The long U.S. copyright period adopted in recent decades has meant that many works that would now become available have long since been lost, because they were not profitable to maintain by the legal owners, but couldn’t be used by others. “The fact that works from 1926 are legally available does not mean they are actually available,” Jennifer Jenkins, director of Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain, said in a post celebrating Saturday’s “Public Domain Day.” “After 95 years, many of these works are already lost or literally disintegrating (as with old films and recordings), evidence of what long copyright terms do to the conservation of cultural artifacts.”
    Submitted at 01-03-2022, 04:40 AM by Agent #1
    Arts
    0 Comments
    Mapped: 30 Years of Deforestation and Forest Growth, by Country
    https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-30-years-of-deforestation-and-forest-growth-by-country/
    Africa along with South America and the Caribbean were the regions with the greatest amount of deforestation, both losing more than 15% of their forests over the past 30 years. This is largely because these two regions have large amounts of forest area available, with the underlying land in high demand for agriculture and cattle-raising.
    Submitted at 01-03-2022, 01:21 AM by Nibbles
    The World
    1 Comment
    Money has never felt more fake
    https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22832438/nft-gamestop-amc-crypto-bubble
    Always has been
    Submitted at 01-03-2022, 01:16 AM by Nibbles
    The Economy
    12 Comments
    Doctors say it’s time Apple Watch ticked all the health boxes
    https://www.ft.com/content/03bffd0f-e011-48ad-8660-62881882884c
    “If they were really interested in making a difference in health, then they’d open the watch to work with Android,” Milanesi said. “But they’re not doing that.”
    Submitted at 01-03-2022, 01:13 AM by Nibbles
    Health & Beauty
    1 Comment
    COVID, Capitalism, and Collapse: A Roundtable Discussion with NYC Nurses and Teachers — Strikewave
    https://www.thestrikewave.com/original-content/covid-capitalism-and-collapse-a-roundtable-discussion-with-nyc-nurses-and-teachers
    The United States has averaged a thousand people a day dying from COVID since August and the total number of lives lost is approaching a million. The number of children hospitalized with COVID has hit an all-time high nationally. During all of that, the rich have only gotten richer. On the same day we set a new national record for COVID cases, Wall Street hit a record high. Labor journalist and NewsGuild organizer Chris Brooks sat down with a group of New York City nurses and teachers to talk about how the institutions they work for are collapsing and what labor activists can do about it.
    Submitted at 01-02-2022, 09:17 PM by sleeppoor
    The Economy
    2 Comments
    Twitter Permanently Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Account
    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/02/technology/marjorie-taylor-greene-twitter.html
    The social media service said the Republican congresswoman had repeatedly violated its policy on coronavirus misinformation.
    Submitted at 01-02-2022, 07:36 PM by sleeppoor
    Podcasts Etc
    4 Comments
    China’s bookstores are booming — and their looks can matter more than their books
    https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/30/china-bookstore-boom-fueled-by-visual-appeal-social-media-traffic.html
    Elaborate interior designs — sometimes amplified by mirrors — have not only caught the attention of “Architectural Digest” but also young Chinese searching for new experiences.
    Submitted at 01-02-2022, 06:58 PM by Nibbles
    The World
    0 Comments
    China’s Reform Generation Adapts to Life in the Middle Class
    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/03/chinas-reform-generation-adapts-to-life-in-the-middle-class
    My students from the nineteen-nineties grew up in rural poverty. Now they’re in their forties, and their country is unrecognizable.
    Submitted at 01-02-2022, 05:22 PM by Nibbles
    The World
    0 Comments
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