Новости за 11.05.2021

BEIJING: China’s population has grown at its slowest pace in decades, reaching 1.41 billion, census results showed yesterday, highlighting fears of a looming crisis over an ageing society. The growth of 5.4 percent over the past decade was the slowest since the 1960s, and comes alongside a sharp drop in the number of working-age people. […]

It's been just over a year since people began to realize that quarantine was a long-haul thing — cueing a spike in pet adoptions through most of spring and summer of 2020. Anyone who got a cat during quarantine has a new item on their to-do list this relatively normal summer: Figuring out how to take care of said cat during post-quarantine vacations.

If even an unbending, anti-personal-freedom (e.g., gay marriage, marijuana consumption), staunch conservative like Liz Cheney agrees with the majority of Americans – that January 6 was an existential threat to US democracy – then any thinking Republican should pay attention and see through the the Trumpist bullshit and Big Lie that is rapidly destroying their party and threatening our country. — Read the rest

Big changes may come with the state's plan to phase out the sale of gas-powered cars in the state by 2035.

The £10.99 REVLON Tangle Free Hot Air Styler is currently the number one bestseller in Amazon's Hot Air Styler category, with over 1,500 shoppers awarding the hair tool a flawless five-star review.

Renewable energy projects are under investigation across the entire AngloGold Ashanti group, AngloGold Ashanti VP: environment Tony Da Cruz told Mining Weekly on Tuesday. Da Cruz reported that the gold mining company is also working with industry peers and vehicle original-equipment manufacturers through an initiative of the International Council on Mining and Metals initiative – the Innovation for Cleaner, Safer Vehicles – to bring about feasible and accessible technology to reduce diesel particulate matter towards zero. Читать дальше...

With an almost impressively small team of editors, animators, and sound designers, "The Shiny" is suspenseful, inventive, and a little sexy (if you're into invisible men).

Information is sought to help locate a teen who has been reported missing from Sutton-at-Hone.

Ethen Kim Lieser

Stimulus Money,

In what already has been tabbed as a “fourth” stimulus check, keep in mind that beginning in July, millions of eligible parents will be able to get their hands on a $250 or $300 payment each month under the expanded child tax credit. And there is more where that came from for sure. 

Know that to date, the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department have disbursed one hundred sixty-four million coronavirus stimulus checks under President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan. Читать дальше...

Kris Osborn

Israel, Middle East

It’s possible that Iran’s best hope for actually destroying Israel would be to launch a ground invasion.

Iran regularly calls for, and threatens, the complete destruction of Israel, but what could it actually do about it? Apart from the obvious risk of some kind of future nuclear attack, and an ongoing threat of terrorism, what kind of actual threat would Iran pose to Israel? Clearly, Iran does not have comparable airpower, given that Israel... Читать дальше...

Everyone likes a bumbling heist story, right? I like when people do ridiculous things and then get caught, like the time a pantsless dude fell through the ceiling of a Waffle House in Alabama. He was ID’d when someone discovered his pants in the bathroom containing his wallet and driver’s license. This is a true…

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1. Voyager spacecraft detects 'persistent hum' beyond our solar system  CNN
2. Voyager 1 detects 'hum' while in interstellar space: report  Fox News
3. The Voyager 1 probe is now so far away that it can hear the background "hum" of interstellar space  Salon
4. Humanity's most distant space probe captures a strange sound  Big Think
5. In the emptiness of space, Voyager 1 detects plasma 'hum'  Phys.org
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(Telecompaper) The company NanoAvionics, a smallsat bus manufacturer and mission integrator, has signed a contract with OQ Technology, a multinational satellite IoT...

Renewable energy projects are under investigation across the entire AngloGold Ashanti group, AngloGold Ashanti’s VP: Environment Antonio Da Cruz told Mining Weekly on Tuesday. Da Cruz reported that the gold mining company is also working with industry peers and vehicle OEMs through an initiative of the International Council on Mining and Metals initiative – the Innovation for Cleaner, Safer Vehicles – to bring about feasible and accessible technology to reduce diesel particulate matter towards zero. Читать дальше...

A TEENAGER who died from sepsis on a school trip to New York could have been saved by antibiotics, an inquest heard. Ana Uglow, 17, collapsed in her hotel room and was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai West hospital on December 19 in 2019. Avon Coroner’s Court heard that Ana, a senior prefect at Bristol […]

Nearly 37 Australian cricketers, officials and coaches were rattled by the sonic boom of Chinese rocket debris that crashed into the Indian Ocean on Sunday. The Aussies, including Test stars Steve Smith, David Warner and Pat Cummins, are quarantining at a resort in Maldives after the Indian Premier League was postponed indefinitely due to bio-bubble breach.

"RBI timely intervention for the sector and its recent announcement of special long-term repo operations (SLTRO) of Rs 10,000 crore for Small Finance Banks and categorization of lending by SFBs to MFIs under Priority Sector Lending has been of immense help," Sa-Dhan executive director P Satish said.

The International Energy Agency said on May 11 renewable sources of electricity such as wind and solar grew at their fastest rate in two decades… Read More »

Sports Mole previews Thursday's La Liga clash between Real Valladolid and Villarreal, including predictions, team news and possible lineups.

Mysterious remains known only as “Christy Crystal Creek” have been identified more than 35 years after they were first discovered by a bear hunter in Montana.

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers posted a record number of available jobs in March, illustrating starkly the desperation of businesses seeking to find new workers as the economy expands.

Paying the ransom just tells cyber criminals that ransomware attacks are a good way to make money - and there's no guarantee they'll keep their word anyway, warns Home Secretary Priti Patel.

Rolls-Royce has been selected to supply its mtu naval generator sets for phase one of the US Navy’s Constellation (FFG-62) class frigate program, previously known as the FFG(X) program.