Buyers of electric cars in California may not have been aware of the new tax-by-the-mile plan before they decided to purchase their vehicles. Had they known about the potential added cost, they […]

from Great Game India: House investigators on the Energy and Commerce Committee released a 73-page report detailing how NIH officials, including Fauci, misled the media and Congress about risky gain-of-function research involving viruses. A 73-page report (pdf below) detailing NIH officials’ deceit to the media and withholding of information from Congress regarding risky research involving […]

Ukraine and NATO have slammed the conditions set out by Russian President Vladimir Putin for initiating Ukraine peace talks. The Ukrianian foreign ministry called Putin’s peace proposal “manipulative” and “absurd” and the NATO chief Jens [...] The post Zelensky & NATO Chief Slam Putin’s Peace Proposal appeared first on The People's Voice.

Edmond de Rothschild is making a major entry into Saudi Arabia. The Swiss asset management and private banking specialist Edmond de Rothschild Group will be opening an office in Saudi Arabia this year. The news [...] The post Edmond de Rothschild Bank Opens Saudi Office appeared first on The People's Voice.

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So-called “Palestinian” Muslims are asked if their pre-Islam ancestors were Jewish or Christian?   

This 100-year-old woman discovered a hilarious glitch in the system when she was booking an airline ticket. The system wasn’t ready to handle someone with as much experience as her! Mildred Kirschenbaum, the 100-year-old woman in question, sent a video to Good Morning America explaining the glitch she was running into when booking her airline ticket. Rather than letting her put her birth year in (1924), she can only put in “24,” as the code is two digits for the month, day, and year. When she puts in 24, the ticketing system reads it as 2024, and the airline goes expecting a newborn. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Good Morning America (@goodmorningamerica) Mildred is even a travel agent. She’s able to issue tickets herself, but it doesn’t help this issue one bit. Thankfully, she’s got a great sense of humor. But she’s making an appeal to the airline companies to include the ability to mark her age! Traveling is already a hassle, and Mildred has to take a few extra steps because of this funky age glitch! This image is from Instagram. When talking about the airline ticket glitch, Mildred joked that she’s going through her second childhood. When she’s booking solo, the airline registers as an unaccompanied minor, so a guard has to come and accompany her all the way through security when her age can be validated. Thankfully, Mildred has met some nice people along the way. What a trooper! This image is from Instagram. Mildred took to her own Instagram to share the ins and outs of the ticket glitch. Her pal joked about her “baby stroller” which was a wheelchair. She captioned the video with some insightful details, but finished the post off with some powerful gratitude. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Gayle Kirschenbaum (@glkirschenbaum) “Here’s a toast to still traveling the world and enjoying life at nearly 101 years old.” What an incredible woman! The featured image for this post is from Instagram. The post 100-Year-Old Shares Hilarious Glitch She Found In Airline Ticketing Systems appeared first on InspireMore.

A new potential world record has been set and achieved by an enormous, finned critter. Back in March this year, a Western Pacific Leatherback turtle left its nesting sites in the Solomon Islands and then dove 4,409 feet (1,344 meters) below the waves.This achievement beat the previous record holder by 210 feet (64 meters), which was set by another leatherback turtle in 2006, according to the Guinness World Record. This, LiveScience has shown, is deeper than submarines are recorded as going (they tend to go down to depths of 2,950 feet (900 meters). In contrast, human divers have only gone down as far as 1,090 (332 meters).Leatherback turtles have long been known to be the deepest-diving reptiles in the world. Their ability to disappear into the ocean’s depths puts them among the ranks of diving mammals, such as the earless seals and whales.Unlike other species of sea turtle, leatherbacks do not graze in shallow waters. In fact, they barely ever come close to land unless it is to nest. It is only the females who return to land, which means scientists known very little about the lives or males or even juvenile specimens.From the moment they reach the water for the first time, these large reptiles head out into the open ocean where they feed on jellyfish that move around at various depths.When they dive, these turtles can hold their breath for around 90 minutes each time. Their shells (known as a carapace) are specially adapted to contract and expand with changes in pressure as the animals dive and then resurface again.The turtle that recently broke the world record was being tracked as part of an ongoing satellite tracking study that is trying to protect leatherback turtles.According to researchers, the turtle, known as “Uke Sasakolo” laid her eggs at the Sasakolo nesting beach in the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific. She then set off back to the open ocean where she and most of the other nesting turtles headed south into southern Australian and New Zealand waters. It was soon into this migration that Uke Sasakolo, which means “From Sasakolo”, undertook her record-breaking dive.The Solomon Island’s nesting leatherback turtles may be incredible divers, but they are also critically endangered. At the moment it is estimated that there are only 1,400 breeding adults on the planet.Their numbers are so low that conservationists are desperate to track all the breeding adults they can find, so they can help protect their nests. Females like Uke Sasakolo are often tagged, which allows researchers to track their movements and, in this instance, bath in awe that their amazing ability to dive.[H/T LiveScience]

Once viewed as a surprisingly stable bastion, the South Pole is starting to show some worrying signs of change. Antarctic sea ice reached historically low levels last year and climate change is almost certainly to blame. In 2023, the Antarctic had 2 million square kilometers (772,204 square miles) less ice cover than usual during winter.Antarctica's sea ice is influenced by many complex and interweaving factors, involving both natural and human-driven changes to the atmosphere and ocean. This means the situation often defies a simple, straightforward explanation.However, new research suggests that last year’s record-breaking minimum sea ice extent was very likely driven by a single factor: climate change. Without the influence of climate change, we'd only expect to see this level of sea ice demise every 2,000 years or so. “According to the models, the record-breaking minimum sea ice extent would be a one-in-a-2000-year event without climate change. This tells us that the event was very extreme – anything less than one-in-100 is considered exceptionally unlikely,” Rachel Diamond, lead author from the University of Cambridge and the British Antarctic Survey, said in a statement. “Strong climate change – i.e. the temperature changes we’re already seeing, and those expected if emissions continue to rise rapidly – in the models makes it four times more likely that we see such a big decline in sea ice extent. This suggests that 2023’s extreme low was made more likely by climate change,” added Caroline Holmes, a co-author of the study from the British Antarctic Survey.  Understanding sea ice levels in Antarctica is a tricky business because satellite imagery has only been keeping tabs on the situation for less than five decades. It is evident, however, that ice melt in the Antarctic is a more recent phenomenon compared to the Arctic, which has been progressively melting since the late 1970s. Between 1978 and 2015, the Antarctic sea ice extent was actually increasing slowly and steadily, before entering a notable decline. In 2017, Antarctic sea ice crashed to a record low, followed by several years of relatively low sea ice extent. More bad news came in 2022 and – most significantly – in 2023 when it reached a new record low. Scientists are now curious (and concerned) to see how sea ice levels look in the years and decades ahead. The current models indicate that an extreme bout of sea ice loss, such as the decline in 2023, can take at least 20 years to return to normal. If that’s accurate, some worrying times could be ahead for Antarctica and its residents.“The impacts of Antarctic sea ice staying low for over twenty years would be profound, including on local and global weather and on unique Southern Ocean ecosystems – including whales and penguins,” said Louise Sime, another co-author on the study from the British Antarctic Survey.The new study was published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.