For the purposes of their proposal, Leo and Shanshan Rodriquez, both assistant professors of physics at Grinnell College, compared two types of black hole: stellar-sized, with roughly the same mass as our sun, and supermassive, with a mass millions or even billions of times larger. The former does not rotate, …
Read More »TARA READE: I believe AOC when she says she is a survivor of sexual assault. Why could she not say the same about me?
As I watched AOC’s online discussions about trauma and being afraid for her life at the Capitol building in Washington, DC, I felt compassion and the pain of recognition. I had something dark and life-altering happen to me there. Something that shattered my future until I finally spoke out. In …
Read More »Washington could put US tech in danger by going after Huawei, Professor Wolff tells Boom Bust
The ‘phase one’ trade deal “was a temporary stopgap measure to get across a period of time; that time has gone, and a new regime is in power in the United States,” says Professor Richard Wolff. He tells Boom Bust that “Everything now depends on what initiatives the Biden administration …
Read More »Silver spike could mean bubbles in metals & other commodities, warns Commerzbank
The bank’s head of commodities research, Eugen Weinberg, told CNBC that “The excess liquidity in the system, it is likely to create bubbles not only in silver but also probably commodities and other asset classes going forward.” He suggested that the vast liquidity made available by central banks in the …
Read More »Covid-19 school closures could cost UK children £350bn in lost earnings, economy research group says
The independent economy research organisation has released a report into the effects of Covid-19 lockdowns on children across the country, as school closures force pupils to learn from home. Citing research by the World Bank, the IFS suggested that by losing half an academic year, equivalent to five percent of …
Read More »Bing there, done that: Microsoft could step in if Google exits Australia over content licensing row, PM Morrison says
Australia is mulling legislation that would require Google and Facebook to pay domestic media outlets for using their content on their platforms, a move that the two tech giants strenuously oppose. Google has claimed that the licensing fees would make their services financially unviable, warning last month that the company …
Read More »Appeals to bring more young Russians to US as ‘soft power’ tool could backfire, there’s no guarantee they will like what they see
I once communicated with a young journalist from a well-known Russian newspaper who had received his undergraduate degree at a good, and very expensive, university in the United States. He ticked all the boxes of your prototypical pro-Western, anti-Putin Russian: a young, intelligent member of the professional ‘creative classes’, with …
Read More »Gazprom warns investors that Nord Stream 2 could be canceled as Trump announces more US sanctions in ‘parting gift’
Despite agreement from the Russian and German governments that the project must be completed, the company fears that it could eventually be derailed. As a partially public company, it is required to let its investors know about future risks. On Monday, the White House informed Berlin that it would be …
Read More »‘Show me something spectacular’: Dana White says Khabib COULD REVERSE retirement decision… if lightweight rivals impress
White met with Khabib on Friday at a UAE Warriors event in Abu Dhabi, as the internet melted down amid rumors and speculation of how their much-anticipated face-to-face meeting played out. Early on Saturday, White said that he would reveal the outcome of their conversation before the start of the …
Read More »Hollywood could teach Joseph Stalin some new tricks about erasing history amid calls to remove Trump’s ‘Home Alone’ cameo
If you blinked, you’d have missed it – a brief cameo appearance by Donald Trump speaking to child actor Macaulay Culkin in the 1992 film ‘Home Alone 2: Lost in New York’. The now notorious scene takes place inside the iconic Plaza Hotel where Trump tells Culkin, playing the role of …
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