1,938 years ago today Antoninus Pious, the fourth of the Five Good Emperors of Rome, was born. Keeping in mind that ‘good’ in this case did not mean morally upright, but rather effective. But the 23 years of the Principate under Antoninus Pious were probably the most peaceful in its 400-year history, and there are […] The post Good News in History September 19 appeared first on Good News Network.

Dogs have been loyal companions to humans for thousands of years. They’ve earned their place as “man’s best friend” through their unwavering loyalty, intelligence, and ability to adapt to human life. But despite our deep connection with these wonderful animals, many misconceptions still circulate about them. Some of these misunderstandings can affect how we care […] The post 10 Popular Misconceptions about Dogs appeared first on Listverse.

Technology is constantly evolving, and its true impact often comes in ways we least expect. While some advancements grab headlines, it’s the practical, behind-the-scenes innovations that are quietly transforming the world. From AI preventing theft in small businesses to nanorobots treating brain aneurysms, cutting-edge technology is solving real-world problems with surprising ingenuity. In this list, […] The post 10 Surprising Stories Made Possible by Cutting-Edge Technology appeared first on Listverse.

Less than a week after Vice President Kamala Harris claimed “it’s up to the American people to stop him,” referring to Donald Trump at their presidential debate, Secret Service thwarted a second assassination attempt targeting the former president at his golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida.  Just over two months after an assassin opened fire at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, Ryan Wesley Routh camped outside of Trump International Golf Club with an AK-47, a GoPro camera, and a backpack. Trump was at the fifth hole when a Secret Service agent saw Routh with what appeared to him to be a rifle. The would-be assassin was less than 500 yards away when the agent discharged 4-6 rounds at him.  Routh now faces two gun charges, but many Americans, including the former president, blame politicians and the media for continuing to push dangerous rhetoric that incites this kind of violent behavior.  Who could forget comedian Kathy Griffin posing holding a bloody Trump mask as if it were his severed head or California Representative Maxine Waters encouraging her supporters to harass Trump administration officials?  In a recent post on X, Trump directly called out Harris’ rhetoric and lies during their presidential debate. He even blamed this type of language from the Left for the second gunman’s behavior.  The Rhetoric, Lies, as exemplified by the false statements made by Comrade Kamala Harris during the rigged and highly partisan ABC Debate, and all of the ridiculous lawsuits specifically designed to inflict damage on Joe’s, then Kamala’s, Political Opponent, ME, has taken…— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 16, 2024 Those in the Left have raised similar concerns regarding rhetoric following the presidential debate. However, they point specifically to Trump’s accusations that illegal Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are eating residents’ cats and dogs.  CNN’s Dana Bash scrutinized the legitimacy of such claims while interviewing Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance. During a particularly heated exchange, Bash accused Vance of putting his constituents ‘at risk’ with his claims about the Haitians. While the specific facts of these stories may leave much room to speculate, one thing remains clear: The rhetoric this election cycle is becoming deadly.  Tune into the “Problematic Women” podcast here live at noon Eastern on Thursday, September 19, for more: The post ‘They’re Eating the Cats,’ and the Second Assassination Attempt: How Toxic Rhetoric Can Be appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Syria was one of the last countries left on Sam Goodwin’s list. He was young and on a mission to join a small group of people alive today who have visited every country in the world.  By 2019, Goodwin had already traveled to 180 countries, including those with hostile regimes in Iran, North Korea, and Venezuela.  “I had always traveled, because it was fun and I enjoyed it, but most importantly, I learned from it,” Goodwin says. “Travel was always the best education I’d ever had.” With fewer than 20 U.N.-recognized sovereign states left to visit at the time, Goodwin—then 30—arrived in Syria on May 25, 2019. He had been in the country only for a couple hours when, while walking to meet his guide, “this black pickup truck abruptly pulled up next to me, two armed men jumped out of the back seat, and instructed me to get inside,” he said in an interview on “The Daily Signal Podcast.” Goodwin would spend the next 27 days in solitary confinement in a prison cell with no windows.  “Everything had been taken from me, my material possessions, my communication, my freedom,” he said. “But no matter what, I knew that my faith was absolute, and I would have been in a completely different situation without it. What I learned most significantly in that cell is that we’re never less alone than when we’re totally alone with God.”  After those first 27 days, Goodwin was transferred to a cell with other prisoners, where he spent an additional 35 days. While in prison and accused of espionage, Goodwin had no idea the efforts that his family was making to rescue him, and the unlikely friend God would use to help set him free.  Sam Goodwin is reunited with his parents in Beirut, Lebanon, on July 26, 2019, after spending 63 days in prison in Syria. In his new book, “Saving Sam: The True Story of an American’s Disappearance in Syria and His Family’s Extraordinary Fight to Bring Him Home,” Goodwin details his travels across the globe and how his faith gave him the strength to endure 63 days of captivity in the Middle East.  Listen to Goodwin’s conversation on “The Daily Signal Podcast” below.  The post Held Hostage in Syria, He Says ‘Everything’ Was Taken From Him, but His ‘Faith Was Absolute’ appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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Experts conducted a thorough analysis of a metal fragment for potential signs of extraterrestrial origin. According to IFLScience, the fragment was allegedly part of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon (UAP) that reportedly fell to Earth in the late 1940s. This strange fragment eventually came into the possession of the UFO research group, To The Stars. In 2019, a representative of the organization claimed that the fragment contained “exotic UFO materials.” Some conspiracy theorists even speculated that it originated from the infamous Roswell UFO crash site. Recently, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), which investigates various UAPs, requested the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to analyze a sample of the mysterious metal. The results were published, shedding new light on the fragment’s composition. The analysis revealed that the material is primarily an alloy of magnesium (Mg), with zinc, bismuth, lead, and traces of other elements. UFO enthusiasts are convinced of the fragment’s unusual properties, suggesting it could function as a terahertz waveguide—an idea some claim might support “antigravity capabilities” used by aliens. Waveguides are metal objects designed to transmit electromagnetic waves, like the ones used in microwave ovens to direct waves into the heating chamber. Conspiracy theorists believe that if this technology were scaled up, it could potentially act as a terahertz waveguide capable of lifting objects. However, ORNL’s analysis determined the sample was of terrestrial origin and did not meet the theoretical criteria to function as a terahertz (THz) waveguide. This conclusion was based on the elemental and structural composition of the material. For a waveguide to work, it would need to consist of a single layer of pure bismuth sandwiched between layers of magnesium alloy. In this case, the fragment’s configuration was far from ideal—the bismuth wasn’t pure enough, and there were only a few layers between the magnesium, greatly diminishing the fragment’s potential as a waveguide. “The physical properties of the sample are consistent with materials of terrestrial origin,” the experts concluded. Had the material been of extraterrestrial origin, its isotopic composition would differ from Earth-based elements. However, the analysis showed that the isotopic signatures of both magnesium and lead in the fragment were entirely terrestrial. The post “Alien Ship Fragment” Tested at US National Laboratory appeared first on Anomalien.com.

For the past century, physicists derived a better understanding of the physical reality in terms of the relativity of space and time, the curvature of spacetime as a manifestation of gravity, quantum mechanics and the standard model of particles and their four known interactions. Clearly, this is work in progress. The inference of dark matter, dark energy and spacetime singularities, indicates that we have a lot more to learn about the physical world. Nevertheless, the limited scientific knowledge we gained thus far was employed to advance computer and information technologies to levels that allow us to simulate reality in virtual worlds with unprecedented details. These amazing advances gave birth to the simulation hypothesis, which postulates that our perceived world is actually a simulated reality similar to a computer simulation. Whereas this notion may apply to speculative mathematical worlds with no experimental verification, such as string theory, it stands in stark contrast to the tradition of empirical science which is founded on testing theoretical ideas by experimental data, collected by well-calibrated instruments from an external reality. The use of experimental data to gain scientific knowledge about a reality that is independent from our mind underpinned the foundation of modern science and technology. Of course, one can argue that these experiments are also part of the simulation, but there is no added value to this notion if it cannot be distinguished from a world in which it is absent. We must keep in mind that a simulation always occurs in the background of an underlying physical reality. If our world is a simulation, what is the reality in which this simulation is embedded? Without specifying that reality, the simulation conjecture is empty of testable content. The known laws of physics were derived by observing the physical reality with instruments, not as a result of our brain philosophically insisting that they must be this way. The history of science is full of examples where evidence provided a different answer compared to what the human brain anticipated. Examples include the duality of the waves and particles in quantum mechanics, time dilation and the equivalence of mass and energy in Special Relativity, gravity not being a force in General Relativity, and that the observable Universe contains trillions of billions of planets and is not centered on us. If the observable Universe happened to be a simulation, there is certainly a lot of wasted memory space dedicated to parts of it that we cannot see. Whoever created this simulation was very wasteful or did not consider us important in the global scheme of things. The human brain is not a reliable detector and our senses are limited in sensitivity. This is why physicists use instruments. When terrestrial astronomers study the Universe with telescopes, the collected data has little to do with the human brain. Instrumental data is not hallucinations of the brain. Of course, physicists can ignore or misinterpret data by wishful thinking and be misguided by hubris or other evolutionary traits. All of these deficiencies slow down the progress of physics. Two decades ago, Nick Bostrom suggested that if “posthuman” civilizations become capable of creating simulations, there would be so many simulated beings that a randomly chosen conscious entity will very likely be in a simulation. However, we must keep in mind that even if aliens created a simulated new world on their computer, neighboring civilizations could still live in their physical reality. Just like in Vegas: what happens on an exoplanet, could stay on that exoplanet. Even if advanced scientific civilizations figure out how to produce a baby universe in their laboratory, this baby universe is expected to pinch off from our spacetime and not interact with us. A conjecture must be falsifiable in order for it to be scientifically credible. If we ever discover experimental evidence for pixelization of reality or for a computer bug in the code that simulates the world, I will reconsider my stand against the simulation hypothesis. As of now, believing in the simulation hypothesis appears to me like choosing to be high on drugs. This choice does not lead to a productive life, but there will always be people who choose this lifestyle as an escape route from our shared physical reality. Similarly, there would always be people who believe that we live in a simulation as a way of avoiding the frustrating constraints of life as we know it. My personal choice is not to belong to any of these communities. Instead, I am dedicating my remaining time on planet Earth to the scientific search for technological relics of aliens. If extraterrestrial sentient beings chose to live in a virtual world simulated on their computers with no engagement with the physical Universe at large, then the only way to find that they exist is from the trash they disperse into interstellar space. But if aliens are truly intelligent, they would aspire to send functional gadgets that could arrive in our backyard. By discovering technological probes among the interstellar rocks that arrive near Earth, we can expand our current scientific knowledge because these probes might represent technologies of our future. In order to learn from extraterrestrials, we must be humble and admit that there is a world out there independent of our mind. It would be self-limiting if we closed ourselves in a philosophical bubble by forgetting the curiosity and humility that advanced our scientific knowledge until now. Only those who believe that there is a real, awe-inspiring world beyond what we imagine, will be fortunate enough to learn something new. Whereas simulated worlds are limited by the imagination of their creators, scientific curiosity is the engine that helps these creators grow beyond their limited imagination. All simulation creators are embedded in a physical reality that is bigger than their imagination. The goal of physicists is to figure out this underlying reality, whether it contains creators of simulations or not. Who cares? The creators are part of that physical reality. The post Simulation Creators Live in a Reality Bigger Than Their Imagination appeared first on Anomalien.com.