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Friday January 17, 2025


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Any legal system has loopholes built upon the assumption that truth will out. When it doesn't, the system fails, and the laws don't matter.


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Joe Biden's Farewell Address


The Journey of the Bloodline Shifts




January 2025 Israel-Hamas Deal


A two-state solution is needed. Don't expect events to happen as described. This is political. Netanyahu needs to leave but he won't. In the news




Time Is Running Out


Good-bye TikTok. Creators and users are facing the reality that the popular short-video app will likely be banned in the United States. A law that would effectively shut down TikTok nationwide would take effect Sunday if its China-based parent company, ByteDance, does not sell off the app or if the Supreme Court does not block the law. In the News


I joined TikTok years ago to follow my granddaughter Joie dancing alone or with friends. I also discovered fun ways to cook, style hair, and more, though I rarely use to the app and never posted on it.


Is TiKTok a major security threat or is it an economic boom of the greater economy or neither or both? The answer is both. China is engaged in an ongoing and unrelenting effort to hack the United States to gather our personal and financial information - to hack into our electrical grid, our water systems, our financial systems and more.


This Chinese software can amass all of this data, harvest it together and build a large dossier of American personal information for nefarious reasons. Small business owners, who earn a living on TikTok will suffer but could find their way on other social media platforms. Here are the alternative apps users are flocking to





Ellie's 2025 California Wildfire Blogs


A Sense of Community


Friday 1/17/25


Even as the Los Angeles wildfires continue to burn - the real material toll is already apparent. Homes, businesses, jobs, schools, supermarkets, houses of worship, medical care facilities and more gone - the fires likely to smolder for weeks as new ones kindle every day.


Wildfires have also robbed some Californians of something more intangible - a sense of community. What defines a community? Though often a physical space, it's also more energy-based and amorphous - the networks of feeling among its members and their environment.


What do you do when your life drastically changes - never to be the same. Many will see it as a way build something new from the ashes. But should these communities be rebuilt as climate change increases?


Everyone will have a story, screenplay, and experience to share no matter how they do it. It is part of the emotional catharsis of the experience, whether one was anticipating this or living in a dream that it wouldn't happen in their lifetime.


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Coping with abrupt loss after natural disasters


LA Wildfire Relief Benefit Concerts on January 30, 2025


Los Angeles fire evacuees told no return for at least a week


Here's What Wildfire Smoke Does To Your Body And Why It's So Dangerous For You To Breathe




Planet Earth in the News


Planet Earth and Climate Change Files


Live - Kilauea  volcano enters fourth eruption phase


Thousands flee as Indonesia raises Ibu volcano alert to highest level


Study examines how climate change has shaped coastal forests over the last decade


Volcanic eruptions linked to Neolithic 'sun stone' sacrifices in Denmark


Ancient Stones Were Mysteriously 'Sacrificed' around 4,900 years ago when a volcano erupted so massively that it would have blotted out the Sun - prompting the ritual sacrifice of sun stones in a bid to restore it


Japan has increased the estimated probability of a magnitude 8 and 9 megaquake occurring in the Nankai Trough within the next 30 years to around 80% on January 16, 2025, after an M6.8 earthquake hit near the coast of Kyushu. The probability was previously estimated at 70 to 80%.


One dead - 200,000 homes without power as severe thunderstorms with large hail hit New South Wales, Australia


Critical ocean current has not declined in the last 60 years study finds


La Nina Has Developed In The Pacific Ocean And Will Likely Persist Through Early Spring, NOAA Says


Powerful earthquake swarm begins in Bardarbunga caldera, Iceland


Svalbard's radioactive 'Bear Island' surrounded by rare cloud swirls and a giant algal bloom


The Amazon River Flows Backwards, What Reversed The Flow?





Antarctica In the News


Antarctica - Science and Pseudoscience


'Warm water' from deep sea flowing towards one of Antarctica's largest ice shelves





Archaeology in the News


Archaeology Index


'Once-in-a-century' discovery reveals spectacular luxury of Pompeii


Secrets of Alexander the Great mosaic revealed after 1st-of-its-kind analysis


Huge Ancient Inca Underground Labyrinth Discovered Beneath Cusco, Starting At Sun Temple


Excavations at Queen Hatshepsut's mortuary temple reveal elaborate burials, decorated blocks and ancient tools


Egypt; Ancient Mummies With Golden Tongues Revealed in Stunning Discovery


Breathtaking Tattoos Revealed on Peruvian Mummies From 1,200 Years Ago


Book of Kells: A 1,200-year-old manuscript made by monks escaping the Vikings


Doban-kun: A 'cute' human-shaped counting tool from prehistoric Japan


Ancient artifacts unearthed in Iraq shed light on hidden history of Mesopotamia


Archaeologists reveal 8,000-year-old bone powder cooking practice in ancient China





Paleontology in the News


Paleontology Index


Ancient genomes reveal an Iron Age society centered on women


Giant horned dinosaur's fossils were destroyed in WWII - but photos reveal it was an unknown species


The Silurian Hypothesis Suggests An Advanced Civilization Lived On Earth Before Humans


Early Humans Adapted To Extreme Deserts More Than A Million Years Ago


Stone Age people made sun stone 'sacrifice' to banish 'darkened sun' after a volcanic eruption, archaeologists say


Volcanic eruptions linked to Neolithic 'sun stone' sacrifices in Denmark


World's tiniest cat was a palm-sized tiddler that lived in China 300,000 years ago


Stone Age Artisans Chose Their Materials For A Reason. A New Study Is Figuring Out Why


Enormous skull of 200-million-year-old giant dinosaur discovered in China




Space in the News


Astronomy Index


SpaceX catches Starship booster again, but upper stage explodes


SpaceX Starship spacecraft is lost on 7th test flight


Astronomers capture unprecedented view of supermassive black hole in action


Gaia Detected an Entire Swarm of Black Holes Moving Through The Milky Way


Earth's Temporary Extra Moon May Have an Unexpected Origin


Supermassive black hole spotted 12.9 billion light-years from Earth - and it's shooting a beam of energy right at us


For Possibly The First Time Ever, A Meteorite Was Captured Hitting The Ground On Video And Audio


Blue Origin's New Glenn reaches orbit on maiden voyage


Blinking radio pulses from space hint at a cosmic object that 'shouldn't exist'


Rare string of 'cosmic pearls' dance together in the universe


NASA celebrates Edwin Hubble's discovery of a new universe


Signatures of ice-free ancient ponds and lakes found on Mars


A NASA satellite has spotted frozen "kidney beans" on Mars' sand dunes trapped in place until springtime. Photographing them can help us determine if there was ever enough water on Mars to sustain life


See Mercury's frigid north pole in extraordinary new images from the BepiColombo spacecraft


"Mountains" On Neutron Stars Could Be Detected With Gravitational Waves


Super-Earth vs. sub-Neptune? The winner is super-Venus as Webb confirms a new type of planet


The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 trillion observations of about 2 billion stars and other objects over the last decade to revolutionize the view of our home galaxy and cosmic neighborhood.


Do aliens exist? We studied what scientists really think





Physics in the News


Physics Index


Researchers create world's brightest X-ray source with high-power laser beam and novel metal foams


'Spooky' quantum entanglement discovered inside individual protons for 1st time ever


Multi-Ion Optical Atomic Clock Takes A Step Towards Changing The Definition Of A Second


Quantum engineers create a Schrodinger's cat inside a silicon chip


Quantum breakthrough may lead to sustainable chiral spintronics


Physicists develop the 'perfect' recipe for a well-known Italian pasta dish





Technology in the News


These Are The Six Times The USA Lost Nuclear Weapons. The US military has had at least 32 "Broken Arrow" incidents.


In 1863, Samuel Butler Predicted Predicted AI Would Rise - And Rule Over Humanity


New AI tool detects fake news with 99% accuracy


The Spiking Neural Processor T1 is an AI chip that's modeled on the way the brain detects patterns and could extend the battery life in smart devices


AI Babel Fish becomes reality, allowing direct speech-to-speech translations





Children in the News


Children Files


A HREF="https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-01-children-theyre-paying-attention-psychologists.html">Children learn even when they're not paying attention, psychologists find





Health in the News


Health Files ~ ~ Alternative Healing


Breakthrough Global Research Finds 293 New Genetic Links to Depression


Argyria: The rare disease that turns people blue. Argyria is caused by the ingestion of - or exposure to - silver or silver-containing compounds


Over 97 million US residents exposed to unregulated contaminants in their drinking water, analysis reveals


Obesity label is medically flawed, says global report


These Are The Key Takeaways in The New US Alcohol-Cancer Guidelines


Trump's return puts Medicaid on the chopping block


Unexpected twist: Pharma mergers may reduce drug prices


Sierra Leone declares public health emergency over mpox


Discovery of gut microbe's role in progesterone metabolism offers new fertility insights


Elon Musk says a third patient got a Neuralink brain implant. The work is part of a booming field


How does the brain encode pain? Scientists uncover neuronal mechanisms in the cortex


As dengue cases rise, researchers point to simple solution: Trash cleanup


Brain's visual processing areas still light up when aphantasia patients try to conjure an image, research finds


Serious Head Trauma May Awaken Dormant Viruses Inside Your Body


Older adults who experience injurious falls are more likely to develop dementia within a year of their accident compared to people of the same age who have other kinds of physical injuries


Researchers Have Found a Way to Help Erase Bad Memories





Animals in the News


Animal Files


Octopus Arms Are Controlled by a Nervous System That's Like No Other


Do Cows Really Align With The Electromagnetic Field Of The Earth?










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