“Make no mistake, this will not be the last time the world faces the threat of pandemic,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the UN agency’s annual assembly of health ministers from its 194 member states on Monday. “It’s an evolutionary certainty that there will be another virus with the potential to be …
Read More »‘Weapons of the future’: Russia launches mass production of autonomous WAR ROBOTS, Defense Minister says
“These are not just some experimental prototypes but robots that can really be shown in sci-fi movies since they can fight on their own,” the minister told the Russian Zvezda broadcaster during the ‘New Knowledge’ forum. Being held in several Russian cities from May 20 to May 22, the forum …
Read More »Near future novel ‘2034: The Next World War’ is a cautionary tale of American military hubris and overreach
This is a review of a novel. I feel that I need to make this point up front, lest people read too much into what I have to say about it. It is a work of fiction – and an admirable one at that, extremely readable and possessing a narrative …
Read More »‘Global reset’ needed to fight future pandemics, as creation of WHO research hub announced
Spahn highlighted the findings of a review into the global response to the Covid-19 pandemic, which will be officially announced at the WHO’s World Health Assembly later this month. The authors of the report will call for “nothing less than a global reset in pandemic preparedness” and say that the …
Read More »FDR’s Second Coming? Biden’s vision of America’s future is straight out of the 1930s
Wednesday night’s speech to the joint session of Congress was uncharacteristically long for Biden, clocking in at over an hour. However, it was very much his speech, including occasional shouting and emotional manipulation woven throughout. Someone’s cell phone rang at one point, echoing around the mostly empty chamber. Only 200 …
Read More »‘A bunch of people will probably die,’ Musk says of future Mars tourism, ‘but it’s a glorious adventure’
Musk spoke with Dr Peter Diamandis on Thursday in Cape Canaveral, Florida during a livestream event announcing the $100-million Carbon Removal project, aimed at helping to keep the Earth habitable while humanity seeks to become an interplanetary species. The conversation quickly turned to the potential future human colonization of the …
Read More »Putin WON’T meet Biden in near future, Kremlin says. Moscow not ruling out talks, but disappointed about new sanctions speculation
Speaking to reporters on Thursday morning, Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said that the White House’s invitation to meet “in a third country in the coming months” would not be possible to organise, at least in the short term. Asked whether the talks were likely to go ahead on that timeframe, …
Read More »‘I used to be great’: UFC wildman Mike Perry faces uncertain future after busting nose, enduring mockery for latest defeat (VIDEO)
Heavy-handed Perry lost by unanimous decision to relative newcomer Rodriguez, taking a beating that left his nose well out of shape and his face a bloody mess as he suffered a fourth defeat in five fights. While Rodriguez claimed that the contest had played out “exactly” as he had expected, …
Read More »Existing climate model simulations overestimate future sea-level rise by up to 25%, new study shows
Their new, higher-resolution climate model simulation reveals a slower ocean temperature increase than predicted by current models. The reason for this comes courtesy of ocean eddy processes, which were left out of many, lower-resolution models which inform public policy today. The climate models involve vast amounts of data from numerous …
Read More »Putin poised to set out vision for future in dramatic speech, in what allies say will be ‘world’s most important political event’
The chairwoman of the Russian Senate, Valentina Matvienko, told reporters on Tuesday that the speech would set out answers to a number of challenges facing the world. “This will be a message for a new age,” she said. “But at the same time, as always, current issues will be addressed, …
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