Humans are very good at spotting patterns, or repeating features people can recognize. For instance, ancient Polynesians navigated across the Pacific by recognizing many patterns, from the stars’ constellations to more subtle ones such as the directions and sizes of ocean swells. Very recently, mathematicians like me have started to study large collections of objects […]
The nation’s energy secretary defended a recent federal agreement on the lower Snake River dams after Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., said breaching the dams would be “catastrophic.” He questioned Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm earlier this week at a hearing of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water. The agreement made public in December lays […]
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin on Friday said Western banks’ legal departments understand the “catastrophic consequences” that would follow should the EU proceed with plans to confiscate Russian assets. Some western banks are lobbying against EU proposals to redistribute billions of euros in interest earned on frozen Russian assets, senior industry sources said, fearing it […]
“Rich Dad Poor Dad” author Robert Kiyosaki recently sounded the alarm about a looming crisis for baby boomers’ retirement savings. In a social media post, he warned that the “biggest bubble in history will wipe out baby boomers” because they are “the first generation with flimsy 401(k)s.” Kiyosaki advised his followers to “buy real assets: […]
A 3,300-year-old clay tablet from central Turkey describes a catastrophic foreign invasion of the Hittite Empire, a mysterious Bronze Age state. The invasion took place during a Hittite civil war, apparently in an effort to aid one of the warring factions, according to a translation of the tablet’s cuneiform text. The palm-size tablet was found […]
The Tánaiste has said a ground invasion in Rafah would be “absolutely catastrophic” as he called on the EU to review whether Israel is complying with human rights obligations in its trade agreement with the bloc. Speaking ahead of a meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council on Monday, Micheál Martin said everything possible must […]
A baby was “shaken and battered” by his father days before he died of catastrophic injuries in his mother’s arms in hospital, a court has heard. David Hollick, 29, denies murdering his six-month-old son Kairo Jax Hollick, who died at Birmingham Children’s Hospital on February 12th, 2020. A jury of 10 women and two men […]
RICHMOND, Ind. — A Richmond mother whose infant daughter suffered what authorities described as “catastrophic” injuries has been sentenced to eight years in prison. Casey Renee Miller, 29, had pleaded guilty to neglect of a dependent resulting in serious bodily injury, a Level 3 felony carrying up to 16 years in prison. Under the terms […]
Vadym Prystaiko, the former Ukrainian ambassador to the UK, has claimed that the UK is one of the countries that, in the event of a “catastrophic development of the war” in Ukraine, could send its armed forces there. Source: Prystaiko in an interview with Radio Svoboda, as reported by European Pravda Details: Prystaiko commented on […]
Chief among the report’s recommendations is a rapid phase-out of greenhouse gas emissions from human land use and the burning of fossil fuels. Countries have agreed to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius, or as close to that target as possible — a goal that requires global emissions to reach net zero by 2050. […]