What Caused a Plane to Fall From the Sky in Brazil?
Brazilian investigators on Saturday began analyzing the black boxes from a São Paulo-bound flight to try to understand why the passenger plane fell from 17,000 feet on Friday, in a…
Ancient Calendar, Recently Discovered, May Document a Long-Ago Disaster
A researcher at the University of Edinburgh has discovered what he believes is the earliest calendar of its kind at Gobekli Tepe, an archaeological excavation site in what is now…
Three Rings, Two College Students and One Big Risk
Meeting someone from a dating app no longer seems like the perilous concept it once did — for most people. The risk assessment was different for Arya Channeng Singh, who…
Disney Details Vast Theme Park Expansion Projects
When Disney announced last year that it planned to spend $60 billion over the next decade to expand its theme park and cruise businesses, double the amount spent over the…
How Kamala Harris’s ‘weird and free’ messaging is striking through
AFP “They’re weird.” With that simple diss – as well as an overall more streamlined message – Vice-President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign has shifted the conversation away from the weaknesses…
Trump campaign says its internal messages hacked by Iran
Donald Trump’s campaign has said some of its internal communications have been hacked and suggested it was targeted by Iranian operatives. US news website Politico reported on Saturday that it…
Celine Dion ‘does not endorse’ Trump’s use of Titanic song
Celine Dion’s team has criticised former US President Donald Trump for the “unauthorised” use of a clip of one of her hits at a presidential campaign event. The song My…
YouTube’s former chief Susan Wojcicki dies aged 56
Susan Wojcicki, the former boss of YouTube and one of Google’s earliest employees, has died aged 56. Google’s chief executive Sundar Pichai announced that Ms Wojcicki had passed away after…
Links 8/11/2024 | naked capitalism
The Forgotten History of the Financial Crisis Foreign Affairs How the world’s oldest bank brought a city to its knees FT Climate Paris Agreement thresholds crossed Arctic News The Global…
Between Optimism and Despair: The Messy Middle Paths Through Climate Breakdown | naked capitalism
Lambert here: Carpe diem…. By Jamie Bristow, who currently leads on public narrative and policy development for the Inner Development Goals and Rosie Bellon, a writer working primarily in public…