Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) slammed Vice President Kamala Harris during a rally on Wednesday for avoiding the media and interactions with the American people. Vance took the shot at the Democrat presidential nominee while hitting the stump for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. He said anyone who wanted to represent Americans owed it to voters to answer their questions and try to earn their vote. “You have got to stand before the American people and answer tough questions if you want to do this job,” he said. “And it is scandalous that Kamala Harris is running from the media, but more importantly, she’s running from the American people. That’s a disgrace. I’ve never seen a presidential campaign in the history of my life where a person is asking to be the President of the United States, but she’s afraid of you guys [the media].” WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI “If you can’t answer questions from the media, do you think you’re gonna be able to take on Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping?” he asked. “If you’re afraid of answering before the American people, how can we possibly trust you to sit in a room with world leaders and represent the American people?” Vance added that Harris’s avoidance of the media and voters showed she “has no vision” and “no policies.” “Go to her website, ask yourself, what is it that Kamala Harris wants to do for this country? And the answer is, she has no idea. None of us have any idea,” he said. “What Kamala Harris is going to do for the American people is exactly what she’s done for the last three and a half years, which is fail. So we cannot give her a promotion. We’ve got to say, ‘You are fired.'” WATCH: JD Vance absolutely wrecks Kamala Harris for hiding from the media and refusing to answer any tough questions ? “It is scandalous that Kamala Harris is running from the media, but more importantly, she’s running from the American people.” pic.twitter.com/wYiubNVKKs — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) August 14, 2024

It’s tough enough to be a woman traveling alone, but one mom was especially nervous about taking a trip with her toddler. How would she manage in a strange place without her usual support network? What about the dangers of solo travel? These were definitely reasonable concerns, but this mom found that people are sometimes kinder than you expect them to be. In a video on social media, the woman recounted the many strangers who helped her while she was traveling alone. Keeping a toddler entertained during a long trip can be a challenge, so Mom was relieved when other travelers played with her son. One elderly man even held the little boy on his lap so that he could see out the window! @notaregularnanny Sobbing crying making this video my faith in humanity was restored after this whole experience #ittakesavillage #myvillage #motherhood #solotravel #solomom #travelingwithkids #stranded #momsoftiktok #faithinhumanityrestored ♬ Outro by m83 – ???? Obviously, the biggest concern for a woman traveling alone is safety. Luckily, this mom encountered some really sweet people who were happy to look out for her and her son. An Uber driver, for example, didn’t want these two to be stranded at the station late at night, so he let them stay in his car until their train arrived. “Sometimes it’s not the village you bring with you, it’s the village you find along the way,” wrote the mom at the end of her post. Many commenters said that seeing so many acts of kindness in one video filled them with hope! “You had like 8 of the best possible human experiences in one trip,” wrote one user. Another added, “Sobbing for the humanity left in this world that surrounded you when you really needed it.” Screengrab from TikTok It’s always important to exercise caution around strangers, especially as a woman traveling alone. However, it’s heartwarming to see so many people willing to help a single mom get to her destination safely. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Woman Traveling Alone With Toddler Shares Heartwarming “Village” Of Help From Strangers appeared first on InspireMore.

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In China, a landscape architect is reimagining cities across the vast country by working with nature to combat flooding through the ‘sponge city’ concept. But just as the Chinese Communist Party famously describes its policies as “Socialism: China style,” Yu Kongjian has put a decidedly Middle Kingdom spin on this concept which has taken root […] The post ‘Sponge’ Cities Combat Urban Flooding by Letting Nature Do the Work appeared first on Good News Network.

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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Two years on, the Biden-Harris administration’s so-called Inflation Reduction Act has been “devastating” for Americans who rely on the pharmaceutical industry, according to a memo from a think tank founded by former Vice President Mike Pence. “The American people have been forced to live with the disaster of the Inflation Reduction Act for the past two years, and it’s a burden of legislation that has only worsened with time,” Tim Chapman, president of Advancing American Freedom, told The Daily Signal. “The Inflation Reduction Act has failed its name and has instead tripled in cost; it has given green tax credits to CCP-aligned companies, and has devastated the pharmaceutical industry by increasing drug prices,” Chapman said in an email, referring to the Chinese Communist Party. AAF IRAs disasterous impact on drug pricing FINAL BHDownload “Repealing the Inflation Reduction Act should be a top priority for Congress. The American people don’t deserve to foot the bill for this progressive wish-list legislation,” he added. Democrats in the House and Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act in August 2022 without a single Republican vote. President Joe Biden said the measure would lower inflation as well as fight climate change, but the opposite has been true, Advancing American Freedom argues. Founded by Pence in 2021, Advancing American Freedom is a conservative think tank dedicated to promoting the policies of the Trump-Pence administration, according to the organization’s website. Pence, who dropped out of this year’s Republican primary race for president, has said he will not endorse Donald Trump in his bid for a second term because of their well-known differences after the pair’s loss in the 2020 election. However, he continues to tout the successful policies of the Trump-Pence administration from 2017 to 2021. Advancing American Freedom argues that the Inflation Reduction Act serves the Chinese Communist Party more than the American people. For example, the law provides subsidies via green tax credits to CCP-aligned companies such as Gotion Inc. The cost of the Inflation Reduction Act has almost tripled from the Congressional Budget Office’s original predictions, Pence’s think tank argues. The CBO predicted the law would cost $391 billion over 10 years; now, the investment banking company Goldman Sachs predicts it will cost closer to $1 trillion over 10 years. Medicare premiums for Part D prescription drug plans rose by over 20% because of the new law, Advancing American Freedom argues. And for 8 million Medicare users, premiums increased by more than 25% so far this year, it says. Plan options also decreased for elderly Americans as a result of the law, Chapman’s organization says. The Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA, allows the government to set prices for certain drugs. If pharmaceutical companies refuse to comply with government price setting, they could be required to pay up to a 95% tax on the gross sale of new drugs, Advancing American Freedom argues.  “The Biden-Harris IRA is undermining the American people’s way of life and should be repealed by the next unified conservative government,” the organization says. “If spending money that we do not have tamed inflation and fixed the alleged climate crisis, maybe the Biden-Harris IRA would have had a chance to succeed.” John Podesta, Biden’s senior adviser for clean energy innovation, gave a speech Tuesday defending the Inflation Reduction Act on its second anniversary. “That law makes the largest investment in climate and clean energy in not only the history of America …but the history of the world,” Podesta said. The post EXCLUSIVE: Inflation Reduction Act ‘Abject Disaster’ for Americans, Free Market Org Says appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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NASA's planetary defense telescope Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) has sent back its final image, ending 10 years of searching for and monitoring potential threats to Earth.NEOWISE began its mission as plain old WISE in December 2009, when it was launched to scan the entire sky in infrared. It completed this task in seven months, surveying the sky with a sensitivity that previously wasn't possible. Unfortunately, the coolant that kept the heat from the spacecraft from interfering with infrared observations ran out a few months later. But the spacecraft was still operational, and though the telescope was no longer able to see the faintest infrared objects, it was more than capable of observing the strong infrared signals given off by asteroids and comets being heated by the Sun's radiation as they move further towards the center of the Solar System.NEOWISE was brought out of hibernation to survey asteroids and comets. Since its new mission began in 2013, it has made 1.45 million infrared measurements of over 44,000 objects within the Solar System. Of the over 3,000 near-Earth objects it monitored,  an impressive 215 of them were first spotted by NEOWISE.“The NEOWISE mission has been an extraordinary success story as it helped us better understand our place in the universe by tracking asteroids and comets that could be hazardous for us on Earth,” Nicola Fox, associate administrator at Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters, said in a statement. “While we are sad to see this brave mission come to an end, we are excited for the future scientific discoveries it has opened by setting the foundation for the next generation planetary defense telescope.”But now, NEOWISE's mission is at an end after more than 10 years, with the telescope sending back its final image before NASA shut down its transmitter.NEOWISE's 26,886,704th (and last) exposure.Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/IPAC/UCLAWhy end the mission, when asteroids and comets are still whizzing around up there? You can blame the increase in the Sun's activity as we move through the peak of its 11-year cycle.“The mission has planned for this day for a long time. After several years of calm, the Sun is waking back up,” Joseph Masiero, NEOWISE’s deputy principal investigator and a scientist at IPAC, a research organization at Caltech in Pasadena, California, explained in an earlier statement. “We are at the mercy of solar activity, and with no means to keep us in orbit, NEOWISE is now slowly spiraling back to Earth.”Without enough propellant to keep it in orbit, the craft will burn up in the Earth's atmosphere towards the latter part of 2024. Its successor, NEO Surveyor, is set to be launched sometime after 2027.

The mpox outbreak that is sweeping through at least 13 countries in Africa has been declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) by the World Health Organization (WHO). Just days after the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) made a similar, first-of-its-kind declaration for the continent of Africa, the WHO announced that an emergency committee had found mpox is once again a threat to global public health.“The emergence of a new clade of mpox, its rapid spread in eastern DRC [Democratic Republic of the Congo], and the reporting of cases in several neighbouring countries are very worrying,” said WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in a statement. “On top of outbreaks of other mpox clades in DRC and other countries in Africa, it’s clear that a coordinated international response is needed to stop these outbreaks and save lives.”We’ve been here before with mpox (formerly known as monkeypox). Back in 2022, the declaration of a PHEIC was made by the WHO after an outbreak of the disease spread to over 60 countries with no previously reported cases, largely via sexual transmission. The symptoms of mpox usually begin with a fever, sore throat, muscle aches – general signs of illness that can easily be mistaken for something else. Once the characteristic rash appears, patients develop blisters that can be itchy or painful, and can affect skin anywhere on the body. Someone with mpox can spread the disease until all the blisters are fully healed.A poxvirus from the same family as smallpox, mpox is thankfully far less lethal than the disease that used to kill hundreds of thousands of people each year in Europe alone. Most people do recover within 2-4 weeks, but the disease can still have serious consequences, particularly for young children, pregnant people, and those with compromised immune systems. Complications like secondary bacterial infections can be fatal.Vaccines were what saw off smallpox, and there are vaccines available for mpox too – but “available” does not necessarily equal “accessible”.During the 2022 outbreak, criticism was leveled at a global response that appeared to neglect the African nations that were hardest hit by the disease. While rapid public information campaigns and vaccine rollouts helped get protective shots to those most at risk in some regions, attention turned away from countries like the DRC – even as cases there were actually increasing, Africa CDC argues. “Mpox, originating in Africa, was neglected there, and later caused a global outbreak in 2022,” said Committee Chair Professor Dimie Ogoina. “It is time to act decisively to prevent history from repeating itself.” In the last month, over 100 lab-confirmed cases of the clade 1b strain of mpox have been detected in Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda, all countries that have not previously seen an mpox outbreak. Clade 1b has been “associated with more severe disease and higher death rates,” than the strain behind the 2022 outbreak, commented infectious disease specialist Associate Professor Sanjaya Senanayake of the The Australian National University. According to Africa CDC, issues with testing and contact tracing mean that case numbers are likely being underestimated, with suspected cases so far this year exceeding a staggering 17,000 on the continent. It’s hoped that the declaration of a PHEIC from the WHO will help accelerate and shore up the response.“Significant efforts are already underway in close collaboration with communities and governments, with our country teams working on the frontlines to help reinforce measures to curb mpox,” said Dr Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa. “With the growing spread of the virus, we’re scaling up further through coordinated international action to support countries bring the outbreaks to an end.”

A study on the movement of molecules within glass has found something pretty astonishing, assuming that the results can be replicated. Processes within glass, as well as a few other materials with similar properties, appear to be time-reversible, potentially telling us something interesting about the second law of thermodynamics.Have you ever noticed, while walking down a beach, that the wind never whips the sand into the specific shape of the Taj Mahal or Danny DeVito? Or that when you're sitting in a room the atoms that make up the air never clump together in the corner, leaving you to die in the oxygen-less environment of a slightly different part of the room?These things never happen, and it's all thanks to the one law that seems to reign supreme, known as the second law of thermodynamics. Simply put, everything tends toward disorder. Heat flows from hot areas to cold areas, and in an isolated system, entropy – the measure of disorder within a system – can only increase. Just about all physical laws are time reversible, from the Schrödinger equation to Newton’s laws of classical mechanics. Play them back in reverse, and they will look the same either way. But the second law of thermodynamics is different, and shows us an arrow of time. If you see a system heading towards disorder, you can bet your bottom dollar that it is going forward in time. You cannot un-cook an egg.This is why it's so weird that, inside glass and a few other similar materials studied, this defining arrow of time does not appear to be there, or at least looks the same in both directions.                        In glass and plastic, though they may look solid, the molecules within are able to move around and seek more favorable energetic states. These rearrangements can affect their properties, making the study of this process worthwhile for manufacturing. In the study, researchers attempted to look at the physical aging of glass."In contrast to degradation involving chemical reactions as in corrosion, physical ageing involves changes of material properties that are caused exclusively by molecular rearrangements," the team explains in their study. "Non-crystalline materials such as ordinary glass, polymers and metallic glasses are all subject to physical ageing because the glassy state relaxes continuously towards a state of metastable equilibrium."This change takes far too long to be observed by humans. However, the aging of glass can be studied using the concept of "material time". In this concept, time within materials ticks differently depending on how long it takes the molecules within a material to rearrange themselves. "The material time may be thought of as time measured on a clock whose rate changes as the glass ages," the team explains. "Conceptually, this is analogous to the proper-time concept of the theory of relativity, the time measured on a clock following a moving observer."To study this, the team pointed a laser at a sample of glass, monitoring it closely with a state-of-the-art camera. As the light hit the molecules, it scattered, and the team was able to then statistically analyze the patterns of light and dark to determine how fast the material's molecules rearrange themselves, or how fast the material time ticks by.And here's where they found something really weird. The fluctuations of the molecules within glass, and the other materials studied so far, appear to be time reversible. Play it backward, and it would look the same.“However, this does not mean that the ageing of materials can be reversed,” study author Till Böhmer of the Institute for Condensed Matter Physics at the Technical University of Darmstadt stressed in a statement. Glass still ages, and the aging process happens over glass's long, slow material time.Some resulting questions from this study include whether this time reversibility is present in other materials, how much their internal clock differs, and also "what the hell?""Our results give rise to a number of questions," the team added in their study. "Whether material time reversibility is a universal characteristic of ageing; whether it is possible to formulate generalized fluctuation–dissipation relations based on material time instead of laboratory time, possibly on a coarse-grained level, and if so, how this would relate to the effective-temperature concept introduced long ago for the description of ageing; whether material-time reversibility reflects the reversibility of the fundamental laws of physics and thereby connects to the fluctuation theorem that quantifies a consequence of microscopic time reversibility."The team hopes to explore these questions further with different material. Weird and exciting results may soon follow.The study is published in the journal Nature Physics.