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An animation depicting how the doomed Titan sub imploded has been viewed more than 5 million times in the 11 days since the video was posted to YouTube. The 6-minute, 20-second clip was uploaded to the video-sharing site on June 30 by AiTelly, a YouTube channel that posts original 4K and 3D engineering animations, according to the account’s “about” page. Titan is believed to have imploded on June 18 — less than two hours into its dive to the famed Titanic shipwreck at a depth of about 5,500 feet in the North Atlantic. All five voyagers aboard the submersible were...

On Wednesday’s broadcast of NBC’s “MTP Now,” host Chuck Todd and NBC News Business and Data Reporter Brian Cheung discussed the latest inflation report and noted that prices aren’t falling, they’re just “going up by a slower rate,” and are “higher than pre-pandemic during the Trump administration as well.” Todd said that while the report is “good” news, “It doesn’t mean that prices still aren’t going up. They are.” He added, “The good news is, prices are going up slower. This doesn’t mean prices have somehow dipped below where they were say, two years ago at this time.” Cheung responded,...

The end of affirmative action was inevitable. The only surprise was that such intentions gone terribly wrong lasted so long. First, supporters of racial preferences always pushed back the goal posts for the program’s success. Was institutionalized reverse bias to last 20 years, 60 years, or ad infinitum? Parity became defined as an absolute equality of result. If “equity” was not obtained, then only institutionalized “racism” explained disparities. And only reverse racism was deemed the cure. Second, affirmative action was imposed on the back end in adult hiring and college admissions. However, to achieve parity, remediation early at the K-12...

He came from nothing. He conquered everything. From acclaimed director Ridley Scott, #Napoleon is exclusively in movie theaters this Thanksgiving. Watch the official trailer now.

Here in my retirement, my remaining law practice consists almost entirely of working on one case in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, going by the caption Concerned Household Electricity Consumers Council v. EPA. From time to time when there is a development in the case, I will report on it in a post here. My most recent update on the case was on May 25, when the DC Circuit issued a decision throwing us out on the ground of “standing.” When a case challenges a regulation issued by a government agency, the “standing” doctrine requires that a party bringing...

Chip designer Nvidia (NVDA.O) will invest $50 million to speed up training of Recursion's (RXRX.O) artificial intelligence models for drug discovery, the companies said on Wednesday, sending the biotech firm's shares surging about 83%. Recursion, whose advisers include AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio, will use its biological and chemical datasets exceeding 23,000 terabytes to train AI models on Nvidia's cloud platform. Nvidia, seen as a big winner of the boom in artificial intelligence, could then license those models to biotech firms through BioNeMo, a generative AI cloud service for drug discovery that it rolled out earlier this year. The company sold...

Armed America: The Remarkable Story of How and Why Guns Became as American as Apple Pie by Clayton E. Cramer 300 pages, published in 2006 by Nelson Current. Currently available at Barnes & Noble for $17.99 paperback and $7.49 ebook.In 1996, a professor of history at Emory University, Michael A. Bellesiles, published a paper in the Journal of American History which upended traditional thought on guns in American history. The paper claimed guns were not common in the colonial period or in the early Republic, at least before the Mexican War. It was marketed by Samuel Colt, and inexpensive firearms...

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As another punishing heat wave sets in, it’s worth remembering that home isn’t much of a refuge for many Californians when temperatures climb. It can be hotter inside, especially in older, poorly insulated buildings without air conditioning, than outside, increasing the risk of getting sick or dying from heat-related illness. And as climate change brings more periods of extreme heat, our homes become more hazardous too. Residents must be protected from life-threatening heat inside their homes and apartments. That’s why Los Angeles officials deserve credit for looking into requiring every rental housing unit to have some air conditioning or cooling...

NEW YORK (AP) — A former White House aide to President Donald Trump who became a prominent congressional witness against him and his allies in the wake of the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol has a book deal. Cassidy Hutchinson’s “Enough” will be released Sept. 26 by Simon & Schuster. “With ‘Enough,’ she provides a riveting account of her extraordinary experiences as an idealistic young woman thrust into the middle of a national crisis,” according to the publisher’s announcement. “She risked everything to tell the truth about some of the most powerful people in Washington and some of...

A university in a prominent Scottish fishing sector cautions its students that a classic Ernest Hemingway novel contains “graphic fishing scenes” that may upset some readers. Students at the University of the Highlands and Islands are informed prior to their reading assignment that “The Old Man and the Sea” includes descriptive fishing passages, reported the Daily Mail, which obtained a copy of the warning through a public records act request. University of the Highlands declined The College Fix’s request for comment, but a university spokesman told the Mail: “Content warnings enable students to make informed choices.” Several professors told The...

A Tennessee lawmaker issued a dire warning after claiming to have seen classified UFO footage that hasn't been released to the public. Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., speculated extraterrestrial life forms could have technology that humanity "can't handle" during an appearance on the "Event Horizon" podcast. "If they’re out there, they’re out there, and if they have this kind of technology, then they could turn us into a charcoal briquette," Burchett said. "And if they can travel light years or at the speeds that we’ve seen, and physics as we know it, fly underwater, don't show a heat trail, things like...

Weaponizing public schools for sinister purposes, an obscure United Nations institute is quietly working to transform education worldwide to impose radical political and spiritual values and beliefs on children. It is all happening under the guise of “social-emotional learning,” or SEL, a scheme hatched at a New Age organization whose founder and namesake was a follower of Lucifer Publishing Company chief Alice Bailey.The organization in question, part of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), is known as the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development, or UNESCO MGIEP for short. Dominated by pagans, communists, New...

Three of America's largest tax preparation companies have been accused of sharing tens of millions of taxpayers' sensitive financial data with tech giants Google and Meta without their consent. A seven-month congressional probe, led by Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, alleges H&R Block, TaxAct and TaxSlayer used visitor tracking technology embedded in websites to share the information. In a potential violation of federal law, the investigation found data was in some cases misused by Facebook parent company Meta for targeted advertising. According to the report, alongside sharing data such as addresses and phone numbers, companies also shared details about taxpayers' filing...

An FBI investigation is underway after Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo's email was hacked into by Chinese cyberspies. U.S. officials say that Raimondo is the only Cabinet-level official whose account was compromised in the attack, according to The Washington Post – but a congressional staffer, human rights advocate and think tank were also targeted. The State Department discovered a vulnerability in Microsoft's cloud last month. The only two executive branch agencies known to have emails breached are the Commerce and State Departments. The targeted cyber espionage campaign has been mitigated. But not before the hackers had access to the email accounts...

Residents of one Seattle neighborhood are furious vagrants living in an encampment have been spending summer days installing a blow-up pool to enjoy between hits of fentanyl. Highland Park homeowners - many who are elderly - say the addition of a pool in the area feels like a slap in the face after months of voicing their concerns. Video captured by KOMO in the Seattle neighborhood shows one woman sitting on a couch next to the pool and smoking fentanyl in broad daylight. 'These people come in and totally trash the place. Someone told me they hooked up a hose...

Harris faced criticism over her remarks at a round table on AI on Wednesday 'AI is kind of a fancy thing. First of all, it's two letters,' she explained It came a day after Harris delivered a memorable explanation of transportation Vice President Kamala Harris is facing ridicule over her latest awkward turn of phrase, after she delivered a jumbled explanation of artificial intelligence. 'AI is kind of a fancy thing. First of all, it's two letters. It means 'Artificial Intelligence," Harris told a roundtable gathering of labor and civil rights leaders in Washington DC on Wednesday. She continued: 'It's...

On July 12 1926, English writer and archaeologist Gertrude Bell died of an overdose of sleeping pills in Mandatory Iraq. (British ruled.) Bell seems an attractive woman to me, but she never married. Her work for understanding another culture came first. Wikipedia reports: ”She was simultaneously an Iraqi nationalist and a British imperialist.” She saw clearly how hard it is for The West to impose its ways on The East. She wrote of Arab leaders: “Men who have the tradition of a personal independence ……. will not in a day fall into step with European ambitions, nor welcome European methods....

The Black Lives Matter movement hits a milestone on Thursday, marking 10 years since its 2013 founding in response to the acquittal of the man who fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. […] BLM activists and organizations plan to mark a decade of the movement with in-person and virtual events. Calls to action include a renewed push to defund police departments and reinvest in (b)lack communities that have suffered disproportionately from police brutality, unequal treatment in criminal justice systems and mass incarceration. In the wake of Supreme Court decisions that stymied relief from student loan debt held disproportionately by (b)lack borrowers...