Electric vehicles pass tipping point, breaking the link with oil prices $120 oil didn’t start this EV transition. And cheaper oil won’t stop it.

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EVs are all the rage, again.

Do the economics outweigh the serious human costs in the communities that mine them.

News Wrap: DOJ seeks to erase Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy convictions Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

When silence is not golden:

DOJ seeks to erase Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy convictions

Natural compound found in dark chocolate is linked to slower aging Animal and human studies suggest a natural compound found in dark chocolate, theobromine, influences multiple factors linked to slower aging.

Natural compound found in dark chocolate is linked to slower aging: 👍👍

Misreading Success: Life’s Most Underrated Virtue We’re told that confidence is the key to winning. But what if the engine for long-term success and the good life is a different, quieter, and vastly misunderstood strength?

Misreading Success: Life’s Most Underrated Virtue

The daffodil's guide to outliving the winter What a fragile flower can teach us about resilience, death, and becoming someone new.

What a fragile flower can teach us about resilience, death, and becoming someone new.

GOP weighs health care cuts to pay for Iran war New efforts to rein in health programs open the GOP up to attacks that they're cutting health care to pay for an unpopular war.

GOP weighs health care cuts to pay for Iran war

Poem about ‘relentlessness of the news cycle’ wins National Poetry Competition Judges praised the ‘emotional stakes’ of Partridge Boswell’s poem The Gathering, which took the £5,000 top prize

#Booksky

Wealthy people choose personal protection over shared climate action When people can protect themselves, they stop investing in shared climate solutions. New research shows how inequality weakens cooperation.

Wealthy people choose personal protection over shared climate action:

Well isn’t that special. 🤨

The Importance of an Ordinary Day We plan for future successes but rarely consider how we’ll actually live day to day. Yet, happiness, and a meaningful life, may depend more on how we spend our ordinary days.

The Importance of an Ordinary Day.

How the idea of human superiority over nature was invented Scientific discoveries are increasingly eroding the human–animal divide and challenging long-standing assumptions about human exceptionalism.

How the idea of human superiority over nature was invented.

Can You Believe It! — The Whisper Before the Wave The moon does not shine. The sun does not set. If the reality our five senses report is already a distortion, what does it mean to filter it through 24 hours of fake news, propaganda, and algorithmic ...

The moon does not shine. The sun does not set. If the reality our five senses convey is already a distortion, what does it mean to filter it through 24 hours of fake news, propaganda, and algorithmic outrage?

The eternal relevance of Ludwig Wittgenstein As a new biography shows, Wittgenstein is eternally relevant—perhaps especially as we grapple with chatbots and large language models

#philosophy #AI

‘Godfather of AI’ says tech companies aren’t concerned with the AI endgame. They’re focused on short-term profits instead | Fortune “Researchers are interested in solving problems that have their curiosity. It’s not like we start off with the same goal of, what’s the future of humanity going to be?”

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Can We Talk? — The Whisper Before the Wave In 1973, a thirteen year old boy sat at a kitchen table and called Richard Nixon a scoundrel. His father's response stayed with him for fifty years. This post traces the arc from that conversation to ...

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Can We Talk?
Not shout. Not argue. Not react, deflect, or perform. Just talk. The way people used to. One person speaks. Another listens...

Iran war update: Conflict blocks vital oil shipping route | DW News YouTube video by DW News

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A little bit on what’s being reported on the other side of the pond by DW News. The German equivalent of the BBC. If you’re interested.

What If They Were White? — The Whisper Before the Wave Firearms are the leading cause of death for children and teenagers in America. For Black children, that has been true for over two decades. This post asks one question: What if they were white? A refl...

#gunviolence

How the Trump administration is dismantling science in the U.S. The scientific workforce, biomedical research, and global health initiatives all face widespread, perhaps permanent damage

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How the Trump administration is dismantling science in the U.S.

Dario Amodei Dario Amodei is the CEO of Anthropic, a public benefit corporation dedicated to building AI systems that are steerable, interpretable and safe.

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Interesting article by the CEO of Anthropic.

When Ideals Become Ideology — The Whisper Before the Wave Walk into an old growth forest and you are standing inside one of the most complex cooperative systems on earth. Thousands of species occupying different niches, performing different functions, contri...

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There is a field of study called biomimicry. The premise is simple and quietly humbling: Architects model ventilation systems on termite mounds. Surgeons study the hypodermic needle of a mosquito to design painless injections. It's time we set our social issues on nature's door.

New psychology research reveals that wisdom acts as a moral compass for creative thinking New research published in Intelligence provides evidence that wisdom guides our creative abilities toward benefiting others. The findings suggest that while creativity is powerful, it requires the mor...

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New psychology research reveals that wisdom acts as a moral for creative thinking.

The Day Dostoyevsky Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Dream “And it is so simple… You will instantly find how to live.”

#Philosophy

Iran's foreign minister rejects calls for a ceasefire: 'We need to continue fighting for the sake of our people' Pressed about whether Iran is receiving Russian support, Abbas Araghchi told NBC News' "Meet the Press" that "they are helping us in many different directions."

This is not going to end well.

Music to my ears 🎶

Live Nation, Ticketmaster agree to settle antitrust lawsuit with Justice Department

How U.S. Politics Became Religion — The Whisper Before the Wave Politics did not become religion overnight. People did not start viewing someone with an opposing political view as a sinner overnight. Canyons are not curved overnight.

Let's Do Human Better :)

The TRUTH about BASIC ECONOMY (AA vs Delta vs United) YouTube video by Jeb Brooks

Major airline carriers are once again giving its coin-conscious customers the bird.

Red, White, Blue and You — The Whisper Before the Wave Red, White, Blue and You explores the global consequences of American beliefs, decisions, and elections through the lens of the February 2026 bombing of Tehran. It reflects on the fragile diplomatic p...

Read, White, Blue and YOU.

"Once a belief becomes a badge of identity, it stops being something we hold and starts being something that holds us..."

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300 released Ukrainian prisoners of war return home on second day of exchange with Russia Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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300 released Ukrainian prisoners of war return home on second day of exchange with Russia

Four specific ages are the 'most crucial' for human brain development, maturity, intelligence, and overall ability Study maps five major eras of brain wiring from birth to old age, revealing the key turning points that shape how we learn, think, and age.

Four specific ages are the 'most crucial' for human brain.

Psychologists say the bond between a person and the dog that sleeps in their bed isn't comparable to human attachment. It's actually more stable, because the dog never withdraws affection as punishmen... The relationship you have with the dog sleeping at your feet may be the most psychologically honest bond in your life, and that says something uncomfortable about the way humans love.

#dogs #relationships