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Litterman Testifies for U.S. Senate Budget Committee on Climate Risk and Responses
When the stakes are high, as they are with our planetary future, uncertainty often compels more action rather than less. And in the presence of such large risks, delay in responding is costly. The post Litterman Testifies for U.S. Senate Budget...
Conspiracy Beliefs are Not Increasing or Exclusive to the Right
Supporters of the QAnon conspiracy theory were implicated in the January 6th storming of the capitol. Former supporters have even been elected to Congress. Is conspiracy thinking on the rise? Has it taken over the Republican Party? Joseph Uscinski finds little...
OPEC&C: The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and Company
Today OPEC has become OPEC&C: the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and Company. The nations remain the same. However, the organization seems to have been joined by at least one U.S. company. The post OPEC&C: The Organization...
Opinion | The Guardian
Seamus Jennings on Boris Johnson and the language of lobbying – cartoon
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The Guardian view on football’s failed super league: hit back hard | Editorial
The ESL has bitten the dust. Now is the time for radical reform of the game’s structure, not a return to business as usualSome radical changes to failing institutions emerge well matured after long debate. Others happen suddenly because...
The Guardian view on poverty and crime: speaking truth to Priti Patel | Editorial
The bluntness of the departing Merseyside police chief Andy Cooke was refreshing. Reducing inequality would help reduce law-breaking“Why do people get involved in crime and serious crime? It’s because the opportunities to make money...
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Research on shaken baby syndrome helps free 15-year inmate in California
A California man imprisoned for 15 years in the death of his month-old son is free after prosecutors and a judge agreed that the scientific research underlying what was once called 'shaken baby syndrome' has changed significantly in recent...
N.S. announces "near full-lockdown measures" for Halifax area as COVID-19 cases continue to climb
As Nova Scotia reports 38 new cases of COVID-19 – the largest single-day case increase in nearly one year – the province's premier announced tighter restrictions in the Halifax area and some surrounding communities in order to help curb...
SickKids surgeons give Winnipeg baby another shot at life after removing nearly 3-pound tumour
Hope dwindled for Julie and Paul Devigne as a treatment-resistant tumour in their baby's belly swelled so large it restricted his ability to eat, sleep and breathe. Then, in a surgical feat, doctors at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children...
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Met Office and Microsoft to build climate supercomputer
Before they even build it, everyone knows what kind of answers the ‘climate supercomputer’ will be required to produce. These will then be presented as evidence of the pre-conceived climate theories, which will be tagged as ‘science’...
Albert Einstein said no to CO2 radiative warming of the atmosphere
Originally posted on Odyssey: The hypothesis of global warming from man made CO2 depends on a much-repeated narrative about CO2 trapping infrared (IR) photons leaving the earth. Although a beguilingly simple idea, a host of assumptions...
Climate mania: California says it’s time for giant carbon vacuums
Climate mania is now in full swing as catastrophism takes over. What difference its supposed remedies will make to the climate remains to be seen – or not seen. At vast cost and effort, greenhouse gas theories of climate modellers are being...
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Apple pips Samsung to take 2nd spot in India tablet market
In the first quarter, Apple iPad 8 garnered 17 per cent market share while Apple iPad Air 2020 had a 9 per cent market share in India.
Twitter users, this website will help you find oxygen, hospital beds, and more near you
Many people have successfully found access to hospital beds, oxygen cylinders, plasma and Remdesivir injections for their loved ones with the help of Twitter.
Google searches for ‘oxygen cylinder’, ‘Remdesivir’ surge with rising Covid-19 cases
With Covid-19 cases spiking in India, there has been an increased demand for oxygen cylinders and ‘Remdesivir’ injections. Both have become elixirs amid the pandemic, and in their search, people are flocking to Google. ...
Zee News :Sci-Tech
NASA's Perseverance rover creates history, extracts oxygen from Mars surface
MOXIE is an exploration technology investigation - as is the Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer (MEDA) weather station - and is sponsored by NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) and Human Exploration and Operations Mission...
Deep neural networks ‘see’ same things, but differently from humans: Study
A team of researchers at Centre for Neuroscience (CNS) at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) recently conducted a study to compare the visual perception of the deep neural networks to that of humans...
NASA's 'Wright Brothers' moment on Mars after Ingenuity's first successful flight - Watch
NASA made history by flying the Ingenuity Mars helicopter successfully, which is the first powered flight on another planet.
Zee News :World
Global climate summit: President Joe Biden sets new target for US to halve emissions by 2030
In his opening address at the virtual summit, Biden called on the world leaders gathered at the summit on Earth Day to take action within their own countries to curb emissions. "No nation can solve this crisis on our own," said Biden, who restored...
India doing its part, carbon footprint 60% lower than global average: PM Modi at Climate Summit 2021
On the ocassion, PM Modi said that the US President Joe Biden and he are launching the “India-US climate and clean energy Agenda 2030 partnership” to help mobilise investments, demonstrate clean technologies, and enable green collaborations...
Vanita Gupta to be first Indian -American Associate Attorney General of US
US senate chose Vanita Gupta as associate attorney general which made her the first Indian-American person to be confirmed for this rank.
Zee News :India National
PM Modi chairs high-level meet on oxygen supply, asks states to come down heavily on hoarders
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that states should come down heavily on hoarding and stressed the need to ensure faster transportation of oxygen.
Maharashtra government orders inquiry against Param Bir Singh on corruption charges
The allegations were made by police inspector Anup Dange, who was suspended last year and reinstated in the force recently.
First-of-its-kind `breathing bank` set up by local social workers in Jodhpur
People of Rajasthan's Jodhpur district have set up a breathing bank that will supply portable oxygen machines to reduce the oxygen crisis.
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France may grant early COVID-19 vaccine access to obese people, says minister
French Health Minister Olivier Veran said on Thursday the authorities were considering granting early access to COVID-19 vaccine to people suffering from obesity, adding that this should be put in place starting from mid-May...
French PM confirms COVID-19 travel restrictions to be lifted May 3
French Prime Minister Jean Castex confirmed on Thursday (Apr 22) that domestic travel restrictions will be lifted on May 3 and that secondary schools will reopen that same day, the first steps toward the country exiting its new COVID-19 lockdown...
Czechs to cut Russian diplomat numbers amid spat
The Czech government said Thursday it would slap a ceiling on the Russian embassy workforce as part of a spiralling diplomatic row, which means dozens of staff will have to leave by next month.
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India COVID-19 variant: What we know so far
SINGAPORE: India is battling a record-breaking rise in COVID-19 infections that has overwhelmed hospitals and led to severe bed and oxygen shortages. A key question is whether a new variant with potentially worrying mutations - B1617...
Myanmar crisis summit a test for ASEAN's credibility: Thailand
A weekend summit on the Myanmar coup crisis will be a test for ASEAN's credibility and unity, a senior Thai official said on Thursday (Apr 22), amid an escalating death toll and violence across its western border...
South Korea ends aid for coal plants overseas
South Korea will stop funding coal-powered plants overseas, President Moon Jae-in told a US-led summit Thursday, as he vowed a larger role in fighting climate change.
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Cristante stunner earns Roma draw with 10-man Atalanta
Atalanta missed the chance to go second in Serie A on Thursday as AS Roma fought back to earn a 1-1 draw against the 10-man visitors at the Stadio Olimpico.
France may grant early COVID-19 vaccine access to obese people, says minister
French Health Minister Olivier Veran said on Thursday the authorities were considering granting early access to COVID-19 vaccine to people suffering from obesity, adding that this should be put in place starting from mid-May...
French PM confirms COVID-19 travel restrictions to be lifted May 3
French Prime Minister Jean Castex confirmed on Thursday (Apr 22) that domestic travel restrictions will be lifted on May 3 and that secondary schools will reopen that same day, the first steps toward the country exiting its new COVID-19 lockdown...
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