Former President Trump’s question and answer session at the National Association Of Black Journalists (NABJ) 2024 Conference in Chicago, Illinois on Wednesday was contentious and marred by technical difficulties and internal conflict. The event’s disorder began days before, as NABJ24 Chair Tia Mitchell laid out in a Wednesday Twitter thread. Mitchell said both Trump and … Read more
Artist impression of ESA’s Hera mission to Didymos and Dimorphos. Credit: ESA/Science Office NASA’s DART mission—Double Asteroid Redirection Test—was humanity’s first real-world planetary defense mission. In September 2022, the DART spacecraft smashed into the companion “moon” of a small asteroid 11 million kilometers from Earth. One goal was to find out if we can give … Read more
Sitting outside the Old Spaghetti Factory in Vancouver’s Gastown, Peter Buckley looks out at an empty patio. While it could just be Wednesday’s cooler, cloudier weather, Buckley, CEO of Old Spaghetti Factory Canada, says this is the busiest time of the year and the patio is normally full of tourists and locals. “We’re experiencing volume … Read more
The June quarter inflation figures released yesterday brought a sigh of relief from those worried the Reserve Bank might be about to raise rates next week. But the data on retail spending showed that, regardless of what inflation is doing, Australians are doing it tough. The inflation figures get all the headlines but, for me, … Read more
The ‘Kamala is Brat’ TikTok trend, among other viral Kamala Harris meme videos, are likely an astroturfed effort by the Harris campaign and her allies to manufacture appeal to young voters, several Gen-Z online content creators told the Caller. Almost immediately after Harris became the presumptive Democratic nominee, old clips of her speaking spread online … Read more
Keywords: Science Highlight 31.07.2024 The efficiency of a PEC cell depends on many factors, including the size of the gas bubbles. Credit: Feng Liang /HZB Hydrogen can be produced via the electrolytic splitting of water. One option here is the use of photoelectrodes that convert sunlight into voltage for electrolysis in so-called photoelectrochemical cells (PEC … Read more
There’s a community in Ontario called Dutton which, right now, seems appropriate given the number of times Peter Dutton has name-checked the Canadian province over the last 12 months. In dozens of media interviews and speeches, Dutton (the opposition leader, not the township) has said Ontarians are getting cheap electricity because of their 20 nuclear … Read more
The socialist dictator of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro announced on Tuesday that his regime’s VenApp social media platform will be used to report dissidents and “go against them” amid growing protests against Maduro’s attempt to steal the July 28 presidential election. Nationwide protests against what is widely considered a sham election have so far left roughly … Read more
Artistic representation of hyper-Raman optical activity: twisted light (red helices) incident on molecules arranged on a helical scaffold (white dots) produce hyper-Raman scattering spectra (multicolored light patches) that express “chirality” (patches in spiral patterns and broken mirror). Credit: Ventsislav Valev and Kylian Valev A new optical phenomenon has been demonstrated by an international team of … Read more