The bond between humans and dogs goes way back. Still, it seems we’re always finding new evidence that proves just how special this bond truly is — both for us humans and our animal friends. There are numerous ways our dogs express their love for us, and one of the sweetest ways takes place in the viral video below. This special moment was shared by a pregnant woman named Heaven Leigh. In the video, we see Heaven and her dog relaxing together. Her dog, Rosie, looks oh-so cozy as she snuggles up against Mom’s belly. Then, something amazing happens: The baby kicks! Best of all, it’s clear Rosie feels it, too She expresses this by letting out emotional whines, all while wagging her tail. As Heaven explains, this seems to be her dog’s way of crying! @heavenly06241127 Now we’re both crying. She switched to straddling my belly to feel the kicks and was wagging her tail with each one #pregnant #kick #baby #pregnancy #dogsoftiktok #love #fyp ♬ come into my arms – november ultra But don’t worry, these aren’t cries of sadness. On the contrary, little Rosie couldn’t be happier about the new addition to their family. Not only can this be seen in her happy tail wags, but it’s also clear in the way she can’t get enough of feeling the baby kick. Truly, dogs are too precious for words! Sweet Dog Gets Emotional When She Feels Mom’s Baby Kick for the First Time “Now we’re both crying,” Heaven shares in the caption of her video. “She switched to straddling my belly to feel the kicks and was wagging her tail with each one.” “Oh she loves her tiny hooman already,” someone writes in the comments, with another adding, “Now [we’re] ALL crying.” “The purest, kindest, most undeserved love on the planet comes from dogs,” someone else points out. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here! The post Precious: Dog Feels Baby Kick In Mom’s Belly & Has Sweetest Reaction appeared first on InspireMore.

Coldplay, formed in 1996 at University College London, quickly rose to fame with their debut album Parachutes in 2000. The band consists of lead vocalist and pianist Chris Martin, guitarist Jonny Buckland, bassist Guy Berryman, and drummer Will Champion. Known for their melodic pop rock, Coldplay has released nine studio albums, achieving worldwide fame and numerous awards, including seven Grammy Awards. Their music has consistently topped charts globally, making them one of the best-selling music artists. Coldplay’s sound has evolved over the years, incorporating various styles including alternative rock, pop, and electronic. Chris Martin Chris Martin, the lead vocalist and The post Complete List Of Coldplay Band Members appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

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Millions of people will visit the USA's various national parks this summer. But as temperatures continue to rise, visitors are being urged to consider the risks of extreme heat; it is not only a threat to their health, but makes rescue missions more dangerous too.To say Death Valley is a hot place would be a hell of an understatement (pun intended). It is both the hottest place on Earth and the driest in North America. In summer, temperatures often tip over 49°C (120°F), and that’s in the shade!And yet the startlingly beautiful, if not hideously hot, national park is also a hot spot for tourists and avid hikers. Every year, park rangers in Death Valley have to respond to overheated visitors multiple times a week during the summer months. That’s becoming a predictable routine, but in recent years the extreme heatwaves have also led to a number of deaths annually, The Atlantic reports.Heat exhaustion and heatstroke are a big concern. When our bodies overheat, especially in hot conditions when we are exerting ourselves (such as hiking in summer heat), heat exhaustion can kick in. The symptoms vary, but can include nausea, headaches, heavy sweating, low blood pressure, muscle cramps, fatigue, cool and moist skin with goose bumps despite being in the heat, and even fainting.But if immediate action is not taken to seek medical aid and to cool off when this occurs, then things can get much worse. Heatstroke is the most serious form of heat injury. It can occur if your body temperature rises to 40°C (104°F) or higher. If untreated, heatstroke can lead to brain damage and also injury to your kidneys and muscles. It can also kill.This situation is bad enough in easy to reach locations, but for hikers who may experience issues out in the wilds of the USA’s national parks, it is even more troubling. For instance, the average summer temperatures at Death Valley impact air density. As temperatures rise, air expands and its density decreases. Essentially this means the air becomes too thin for helicopters to take off and to fly safely.When this happens, rescuers have to search by foot, which can also put them at risk from the same heat. So while they may want to do their utmost the help save struggling hikers, park managers also have to protect their teams' health too, especially if a lengthy search-and-rescue mission could result in more casualties.And the situation is likely to only get worse as the effects of climate change bring with them more frequent and increasingly severe heatwaves.Anyone visiting the parks this year should prepare for the hot weather and consult the National Park Service’s website for advice and updates on local conditions. Pack for heat, including the right food and plenty of water to stay hydrated, make sure you plan your routes and, above all, stop as soon as you start to experience heat-related issues.[H/T: The Atlantic]The content of this article is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of qualified health providers with questions you may have regarding medical conditions. 

The stuff that makes up animals, planets, and stars is just a small part of the matter scientists believe is out there. Five-sixths of all matter in the universe is believed to be an invisible substance known as dark matter. We do not know what it is because it doesn’t interact with light, only with gravity and with the weak nuclear force.That force is responsible for nuclear decay, and in the case of dark matter, it might lead the substance to annihilate. This process is expected to release ionizing radiation: light that can strip electrons from their molecules – and that's where Jupiter as a dark matter detector comes in.One of the most common ions in the universe is the trihydrogen cation (H3+). That is a molecule made of three hydrogen atoms that have lost one electron. Now imagine you have a large reservoir of hydrogen, massive enough to interact with the elusive dark matter: You could theoretically measure the amount of trihydrogen cations and work out the properties of dark matter."We point out that dark matter (DM) can produce an additional source of H3+ in planetary atmospheres," the study authors wrote in a paper on the topic. "This will be produced if DM scatters and is captured by planets, and consequently annihilates, producing ionizing radiation."The scientists, Carlos Blanco of Princeton University and Stockholm University, and Rebecca Leane of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University, looked at six hours' worth of data on Jupiter, three hours on either side of the planet's midnight. The data was collected by the Cassini mission as it passed by the night side of the planet in 2000Jupiter has a lot of hydrogen. It is very massive, the second heaviest object in the solar system. By looking at the night side, they looked at the portion hidden from the Sun. Sunlight can create these intriguing ions, so the approach reduces that contribution. The team found a signal – there is a certain amount of H3+  in the atmosphere of Jupiter’s nightside.Now, this doesn’t immediately mean that the signal is all caused by dark matter – it could be dark matter or other sources could cause it. But they can constrain some of the properties of the substance.The researchers believe that future observations might do even better. The European Space Agency’s JUICE mission can collect more sensitive measurements when it gets to Jupiter in the 2030s. It might also be possible to see the signal from more massive planets closer to the center of the Milky Way, where there’s more dark matter.A paper discussing the result is published in the journal Physical Review Letters.

The Left can’t stand that anyone would think Hunter Biden becoming a convicted felon waters down their talking point that Trump is a convicted felon. They worked hard to inflate some accounting entries for legal expenses into felonies. It’s much less serious in their minds that a crack addict lied about being an addict on a gun-purchase form so he was able to buy a gun that was later thrown in a trash can near a school. After Hunter Biden was found guilty of three felonies, Democrats tried to argue that having a “convicted felon” in both presidential families meant the Biden Justice Department wasn’t partisan or “weaponized.” Then the weaponizing began. Before the first presidential debate in Atlanta, the Democratic National Committee bought five billboards saying (in all capital letters) “Donald, welcome to Atlanta for the first time since becoming a convicted felon. Congrats – or whatever.” The Biden-Harris campaign also came out with a shameless ad slamming Trump with a litany of all the Democrat-prosecutor greatest hits: 34 felonies from Alvin Bragg, civil fraud from Letitia James, and department-store “sexual assault” in the nebulous E. Jean Carroll case. The Biden-Harris announcer proclaimed the race was a contrast “between a convicted criminal who’s only out for himself and a president who’s fighting for your family.” Biden’s for lowering health care costs, and making corporations “pay their fair share.” This partisan messaging was enhanced on MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki,” where the former White House press secretary touted this “very powerful” ad with a “very significant” budget.  She pressed deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks to provide a “fiery” spin from Biden and all his spokespeople, all the time. The pro-Biden media will find this to be eminently factual and unobjectionable. They won't question the Democrats any more than Psaki would. No one’s going to ask how all this "convicted felon" messaging clashes with Hunter Biden, who can be defined as “only out for himself,” except for enriching his family with millions from dubious foreign sources in China and Russia and elsewhere. They also claim Hunter Biden is "not running for office" and never took a White House job like Ivanka Trump, so you can't connect the father and son somehow. On the morning of the CNN debate, CNN's screen graphic implied any attack on Hunter is unduly personal: "Biden prepared for Trump to attack his family." It's painted as rude to bring up Hunter Biden. It was never rude to attack Trump's sons and daughters. But earlier that morning, CNN host Kasie Hunt asked Biden campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond if Biden would throw the "convicted felon" tag at Trump on stage. He said, hey, "if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's a duck. He's a convicted felon, and that's just who he is. And, by the way, he's a twice-impeached convicted felon. And so, it wasn't Joe Biden that did that. It was 12 American patriots who served as jurors that found him guilty, unanimously, on 34 counts." Their shamelessness extends to the forthcoming tax evasion trial for Hunter Biden in California. Unlike the gun case, this trial will deal with Hunter Biden's financial exploitation of his father's name when he was vice president. The gun case didn't connect to Joe Biden. The tax case clearly does. Democrats don't worry about how their "welcome, convicted felon" billboards might age. They count on a servile media to cry "no evidence" and "without evidence" about the Biden scandals from now until November.

Geoffrey Hinton made headlines for telling the BBC that artificial intelligence is an “extinction-level threat” to humanity. Hinton is no alarmist — he’s popularly dubbed the "godfather of AI" for creating the neural network technology that makes artificial intelligence possible. If anyone has authority to speak on the subject, it's him — and the world took notice when he did.In May of 2023, Hinton quit his decade-long career at Google to speak openly about what he believes are the existential dangers AI poses to us "inferior" carbon intelligences. Moreover, ChatGPT’s debut in November of 2022, just half a year earlier, had already sparked a global reaction of equal fascination and trepidation to what felt like our first encounter with an elusive technology that had now welcomed itself into our lives, whether we were ready for it or not.AI conjures up predictions of an Orwellian-like digital dystopia, one in which several oligarchs and AI overlords subject the masses to a totalitarian-like enslavement. There have been many calls for regulation over AI’s development to mitigate this risk, but to what extent would it be effective?Ironically, artificial intelligence was not elusive at all before November 2022; it had embedded itself into our lives long before ChatGPT made it en vogue. People were already unknowingly using AI whenever they opened their smartphone with facial recognition, edited a paper with Grammarly, or chatted with Siri, Alexa, or another digital assistant. Apple or Google Maps are constantly learning your daily routines through AI to predict your movements and improve your daily commute. Every time someone clicks on a webpage with an ad, AI learns more about his or her behaviors and preferences, which is information that is sold to third-party ad agencies. We’ve been engaging with AI for years and haven’t batted an eye until now.ChatGPT’s debut has become the impetus for the sudden global concern about AI. What is so distinct about this chatbot as opposed to other iterations of AI we have been engaging with for years that has inspired this newfound fascination and concern? Perhaps ChatGPT reveals what has been hiding silently in our daily encounters with AI: its potential or, as many would argue, its inevitability to surpass human intelligence.Prior to ChatGPT, our interactions with artificial intelligence were limited to "narrow AI," also known as “artificial narrow intelligence” (ANI), which is a program restricted to a single, particular purpose. Facial recognition doesn't have another purpose or capacity beyond its single task. The same applies to Apple Maps, Google's search algorithm, and other forms of commonplace artificial intelligence. ChatGPT gave the world its first glimpse into artificial general intelligence (AGI), AI that can seemingly take on a mind of its own. The objective behind AGI is to create machines that can reason and think with human-like capacity — and then surpass that capacity. Though chatbots similar to ChatGPT technically fall under the ANI umbrella, ChatGPT’s human-like, thoughtful responses, coupled with its superhuman capacity for speed and accuracy, are laying the foundation for AGI’s emergence. Reputable scientists with diverse personal and political views are divided over AGI’s limits.For example, the pioneering web developer Marc Andreessen says that AI cannot go beyond the goals that it is programmed with: [AI] is math—code—computers built by people, owned by people, controlled by people. The idea that it will at some point develop a mind of its own and decide that it has motivations that lead it to try to kill us is a superstitious hand wave.Conversely, Lord Rees, the former U.K. Astronomer Royal and a former president of the Royal Society, believes that humans will be a mere speck on evolutionary history, which will, he predicts, be dominated by a post-human era facilitated by AGI’s debut: Abstract thinking by biological brains has underpinned the emergence of all culture and science. But this activity—spanning tens of millennia at most—will be a brief precursor to the more powerful intellect of the inorganic, post-human era. So in the far future, it won’t be the minds of humans but those of machines that will most fully understand the cosmos.Elon Musk and a group of the world’s leading AI experts published an open letter calling for an immediate pause on AI development, anticipating Lord Rees’ predictions rather than Andreessen’s. Musk didn’t wait long to ignore his own call to action with the debut of X’s new chatbot Grok, which has similar capabilities to ChatGPT, along with Google’s Gemini and Microsoft’s new AI chatbot integrated with Bing’s search engine. Ray Kurzweil, trans-humanist futurist and Google’s head of development, famously predicted in 2005 that we would reach singularity by 2045, the point when AI technology would surpass human intelligence, forcing us to decide whether to integrate with it or be naturally selected out of evolution’s trajectory. Was he correct? The proof of these varying predictions will be in the pudding, which is being concocted in our current cultural moment. However, ChatGPT has brought timeless ethical questions in new clothing to the forefront of widespread debate. What does it mean to be human, and, as Glenn Beck poignantly asked in an op-ed, will AI rebel against its creator like we rebelled against ours? The fact that we are asking these questions on a popular scale is indicative that we are now in a new era of technology, one that strikes at deeply philosophical questions whose answers will set the tone for not only how we understand the nature of AI but moreover, how we grapple with our own nature. Living life without fearHow, then, should we mitigate the risk of our worst fears surrounding AI becoming a reality? Will we, its current master, inevitably become its slave?The latter fear often conjures up predictions of an Orwellian-like digital dystopia, one in which several oligarchs and AI overlords subject the masses to a totalitarian-like enslavement. There have been many calls for regulation over AI’s development to mitigate this risk, but to what extent would it be effective? The government will hold all the reins to AI’s power if directed toward private companies. If directed toward the government, tech moguls can just as easily become oligarchs as their rivals in the government. In either scenario, those at risk of AI’s enslavement have very little power to control their fate. However, one can argue that we have already dipped our toes into a Huxleyan-like enslavement, in which we have traded seemingly menial yet deeply human acts for the convenience technology serves on a digital platter. An Orwellian-like AI takeover won’t happen overnight. It will begin with surrendering the creative act of writing for an immediately generated paper “written” by an AI chatbot. It will progress when we forego the difficulty of forging meaningful human relationships with AI “partners” that will always be there for you, never challenge you, and constantly affirm you. An Orwellian future isn’t so unimaginable if we have already surrendered our freedom to AI on our own accord. Avoiding this Huxleyan-type of enslavement — the enslavement to AI’s convenience — requires falling deeply in love with being human. We may not be in charge of regulating the public and private roles in AI’s development, but we are responsible for determining its role in our daily lives. This is our most potent means of keeping AI in check: by choosing to labor in creativity, enduring the inconveniences and hardships of forging human relationships, and desiring things that ought to be worked for outside our immediate grasp. In short, we must work on being human and delighting in the fulfillment that emerges from this labor. Convenience is the gateway to voluntary enslavement. Our humanity is the cost of such a transaction and the anecdote.

Less investment, less entrepreneurship, lower incomes, and higher taxes affect many more than just ‘the rich.’

Blaming rising inflation on anything other than the federal government’s fiscal wastefulness and reckless monetary policies is misguided.

Making mutual male and female compassion ‘cool’ again.