During the grilling of Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle yesterday, she refused to say if there was a second shooter and referred that and most questions to the FBI, a weaponized agency of the government. Her response added to speculation. According to officials at his high school who posted information about him on their website, […] The post Heritage Oversight Project Tracked Crooks’s Visitors appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

On July 19, 2024, a Houthi drone strike on Tel Aviv resulted in one fatality and eight injuries, marking a significant escalation in the conflict between Yemen's Houthi rebels and Israel. The attack, which targeted a residential building, caused substantial damage and sent shockwaves throughout the city. This incident underscores the increasing reach and sophistication of the Houthi's drone capabilities, a concerning development for regional security. The drone strike occurred in the early morning hours, causing a large explosion that shook the building and surrounding area. One person was killed, and eight others were hospitalized with varying degrees of injuries. Eyewitnesses described the scene as chaotic, with emergency services quickly arriving to provide aid and secure the area. This attack follows a series of attempted strikes by the Houthis, though this one notably resulted in casualties and significant property damage​. Checked the footage, and that is indeed the US embassy in Tel Aviv. That drone flew around 2000km from Yemen, past all Israeli defences, the Royal Navy, US Navy, and more. The humiliation. This is a new era. And the image of Israeli or Western military superiority is gone. pic.twitter.com/gIduh7qZkN — Richard Medhurst (@richimedhurst) July 19, 2024 The Houthi rebels, who are backed by Iran, claimed responsibility for the drone strike, declaring it a response to Israel's actions in Gaza. This claim was made through their media channels, which celebrated the attack as a successful operation against what they termed "Israeli aggression." In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the strike, vowing retaliation and increased defensive measures. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have been on high alert, with increased patrols and air defense deployments to counter further threats​. The Houthis' use of drones has been a growing concern for both regional and international security. Their ability to launch drones capable of reaching Tel Aviv from Yemen demonstrates significant advancements in their military technology. Analysts suggest that these capabilities are likely enhanced by Iranian support, which includes providing the Houthis with more sophisticated weaponry and training​. #BreakingNews The resistance warned and delivered. Tel Aviv attacked by drone for the first time ever and israelis media are denying it yet the proof below pic.twitter.com/cBxt3AERje — Firstblood (@FirstbloodH) July 19, 2024 The international community has expressed concern over the escalating violence. The United States and several European countries have called for restraint and urged both sides to engage in dialogue to prevent further escalation. The United Nations has also condemned the attack and called for an immediate ceasefire. Meanwhile, Israel's regional allies have voiced their support for Israel's right to defend itself and have condemned Iran's role in supporting the Houthis​​. This drone strike is part of a broader pattern of increasing Houthi attacks on regional targets, including shipping lanes in the Red Sea and military installations in Saudi Arabia and the UAE. These actions are seen as part of Iran's strategy to exert influence and destabilize the region. For Israel, the attack represents a new front in its security challenges, highlighting the need for enhanced defenses against aerial threats. The incident is likely to prompt further military actions by Israel in Yemen, potentially increasing the complexity of the ongoing conflict​. As the situation develops, the international community will be closely watching how Israel responds and what measures will be taken to prevent future attacks. The potential for further escalation remains high, and the region's stability hangs in the balance as both sides prepare for the possibility of more intense confrontations. The post Houthi Drone Strike on Tel Aviv Kills One, Injures Eight appeared first on The Conservative Brief.

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Our “10 Best 1980s Debut Singles In Rock Music” article presents a fun look back at the most exciting debut singles of the 1980s. As we were putting this list together, we decided to include many legendary rockers who had left their bands and released their first solo albums. This definitely opened up the doors for a lot more choices and, of course, made it more difficult to narrow down to just 10. Overall, the article is a mix of brand-new artists and debut solo albums from legendary rockers. It’s not easy leaving a band, and not many people always The post 10 Best 1980’s Debut Singles In Rock Music appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

A man is preparing to travel the width of Scotland and back again in a bicycle canoe built by hand according to the time-honored British tradition of performing adventurous feats for charity. The 36-year-old spent two months building his unique contraption, which has been dubbed Pedal Paddle, and will see him take on over 150 miles […] The post Man Traveling the Width of Scotland in a ‘Bicycle Canoe’ Entirely Made by Hand appeared first on Good News Network.

Books Five Books Five Books Whose Physics Broke My Head Open From teleportation to time dilation, these 5 books push the boundaries of real-world physics. By Yoon Ha Lee | Published on July 23, 2024 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Weird things about (real) physics drew me to science fiction in the first place. I attempted to duplicate Young’s double slit experiment in elementary school in my bedroom using an index card and a flashlight. I begged my parents to let me mail-order lasers so I could take up holography in high school; my parents wisely said no. My boyfriend-now-husband had concerns about my interest in that hypothetical vacuum bubble instanton experiment where, if there exists a lower-energy-state parallel universe to our own, it would have the side effect of destroying our universe. These days I destroy fictional worlds. My YA novel Moonstorm (Delacorte) is the first in a mecha space opera trilogy and features outré physics, including temporarily breathable aether rather than vacuum, and gravity maintained through ritual. Moonstorm runs off the sci-fantasy metaphor that conformity = LOTS OF GRAVITY, but too much nonconformity = WORLDS FLY APART. I absolutely go to the MOAR GRAVITY = BLACK HOLE place with this book, although fortunately, real-world physics and high school do not work like this! But let me tell you about some books I read as a kid that inspired my space opera and which explore physics ideas in nifty ways. Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonflight When we were young, my friend Gwyn got into McCaffrey’s Harper Hall trilogy and was excited about fire lizards, but Dragonflight was the one I read first. A major plot point involves dragonriders who have mysteriously vanished from the past, leaving the present-day world of Pern in danger when they’re needed to defend the land from an interstellar spore. The heroine, Lessa, figures out that someone—herself—time-traveled via dragon ride to bring them to her present (their future). What’s interesting here is that Einstein’s insight that our three dimensions of space and one of time are woven together in a four-dimensional space-time fabric is relevant to the plot. Lessa lives on a lost colony where advanced science has been lost, but it’s established that dragons can teleport between places, which then implies that they can also travel between times, an epiphany Lessa comes to through clues she laid for herself. Joan D. Vinge’s The Snow Queen The Snow Queen was my first encounter with consequences of relativity as a plot point. Moon is a sibyl of the world of Tiamat, ruled by the eponymous Snow Queen of whom she is unknowingly a clone. Access to Tiamat is limited by a destabilizing nearby star that shuts off access to the interstellar community for 150 years at a time—and Tiamat is valuable to the offworlders because it’s the source of an elixir that halts aging. The Snow Queen created Moon as part of a plan to free Tiamat from offworlder exploitation. Moon inadvertently leaves Tiamat and discovers the truth of the offworlders’ designs during a journey that takes weeks for her but several years for people back on Tiamat, including her estranged lover—an example of relativistic time dilation exploited narratively for plot and interpersonal implications. (Hint: Time dilation does not help Moon’s relationship problems, but in fairness, the lover doesn’t help Moon’s relationship problems.) Incidentally, I enjoy Lewis Carroll Epstein (physicist)’s explanation of time dilation in special relativity as, approximately, “You’re always traveling, but some is in the space directions and some is in the time direction, so if you go faster in the space directions, you slow down in the time direction.” Greg Bear’s Blood Music I read the short story version of this in an anthology back in high school and chased down the novel later. I have run into people espousing extremely bizarre and not even wrong interpretations of quantum physics (think “healing energies and vibrations”), but the late Greg Bear was a physicist! In Blood Music, a scientist creates and makes contact with sentient nanoscale biological organisms (noocytes). At first the noocytes “improve” their human hosts in a neighborly nanovirus way. Then the improvements go to the creepy body horror place. Then the noocytes multiply so wildly that they take over the world. It’s a “mad science, whoops” story, but not without moments of grace and humor: The carefully timed appearance of a can opener made me cry. That isn’t the brain-breaking bit! The brain-breaking bit is where the noocytes have become so numerous, their density so high, that their amassed, intentional control of the observer effect can collapse quantum states to the point of active reality warping. As you might imagine, the question of whether reality-warping nanocritters and humans can coexist, with or without dubcon body modifications, is a major source of tension. John E. Stith’s Redshift Rendezvous My first encounters with Stith’s science fiction were via his satiric sci-fi gumshoe tales “Naught for Hire” and “Naught Again.” Redshift Rendezvous is seasoned with that sardonic wit. It’s also a murder mystery with a spectacular premise: It takes place aboard a starship where, during hyperspace travel, the speed of light is 10 m/s as opposed to 3×108 m/s. Relativistic effects, such as red-shifted light, are now visible at human running speeds; you can even see light travel when you flip a switch. At first, the death of a crew member on this ship is ruled a suicide, but it emerges that there are hijackers with a darker agenda, and the story follows the ship’s first officer attempting to stop them on this unusual battleground. The book rigorously explores the implications of this counterfactual leading up to the solution in a way that I found extremely satisfying. Thematically, the slowness of light means everything that’s seen is notably in the past, and the past remains alive and visible in an eerie way. This idea is also famously explored in Bob Shaw’s story “Light of Other Days,” although the counterfactual mechanism there is different: “slow glass,” a material with a refractive index so high that it takes years for light to pass through it, and which reveals a years-old tragedy captured as though in amber. William Sleator’s The Boy Who Reversed Himself Surprise! You thought I’d name Sleator’s Singularity. I inhaled all the Sleator I could find during middle school. This one features a boy who has figured out how to reverse himself by walking through a fourth spatial dimension; he gives himself away to a girl because the reversed version of him has his hair parted on the other side. They become friends, and all’s fun and games in the fourth dimension until they encounter hostile fourth-dimension aliens and have to outwit the would-be invaders of Earth. There is a delightful detail that reversed ketchup tastes intriguingly weird. I suspect now that there would be possibly fatal biochemical implications involving chirality (left- vs. right-handed version of molecules), but chemistry is not my field. I imagine the antecedent to this book is Edwin A. Abbott’s Flatland, a mathematical exploration of spatial dimension as well as a satire/critique of Victorian culture and its hierarchies, including the roles of women. But Flatland’s narrator, A. Square, didn’t have to contend with a hostile visitor from a higher dimension! This book and Flatland were the first time I thought about dimension in a mathematical sense. Innocent of linear transformations or orientability, I spent a happy afternoon at the chalkboard in physics class a few years later trying to figure out how the left-right reversal worked. All of these books are fabulous and tremendously educational: Follow in their footsteps, and you, too, can earn a reputation for destroying readers![end-mark] Buy the Book Moonstorm Yoon Ha Lee Buy Book Moonstorm Yoon Ha Lee Buy this book from: AmazonBarnes and NobleiBooksIndieBoundTarget The post Five Books Whose Physics Broke My Head Open appeared first on Reactor.