Could they not think of something better than "cold blob" or "warming hole"?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/mysterious-cold-blob-ocean-puzzled-095207654.html

"Aesop’s work is often counted among “children’s literature” along with folktales, proverbs, and other traditional material,1 but as with all such material, it is placed at the beginning of education not because it is elementary, but because it is elemental. From the corpus of Aesopic fables we can sift at least three core motifs which lay the foundation for a proper moral education—a foundation worth returning to throughout life."

https://open.substack.com/pub/imperiumpress/p/optimism-is-cowardice?r=lp6h7&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

NEW: Stanford grads walk out as Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes the stage as commencement speaker.

@police_frequency

America's gold is missing and President Trump knows it.

A 1974 article in a New York periodical stated that the Rockefeller family was directing the Federal Reserve to liquidate Fort Knox gold at below-market prices to unnamed European buyers.

3 days after her tip launched that story, Louise Auchincloss Boyer, Nelson Rockefeller's personal secretary, fell to her death from her 10th floor Manhattan apartment.

The investigation ended there and the gold was gone. For 14 years, industrialist Ed Durrell wrote to over 1,000 government and banking officials demanding a full accounting of what remained in the vaults of Fort Knox.

European financial circles were already treating the disappearance as a fact while Washington refused to schedule an audit. Then Reagan's Gold Commission told Congress in 1982 that the Treasury owned none of that gold. Imagine that!

Whatever gold remained in Fort Knox had been transferred to the Federal Reserve — a private banking cartel — and was being held as collateral against the national debt. The American people were never asked for it and they were never told it was stolen from them.

A full audit conducted under media cameras could settle this within days. 5 decades later, it still has not happened, and no administration has ever explained why it hasn't.

The gold belonged to the public. The vaults are in American soil. So why has every administration from Nixon refused to open those doors to a transparent, independent audit to show what's inside the vaults?

Estimated map of Hunnic political control under Attila (c. 450 CE)
https://redd.it/1tvv164
@r_mapporn

🇲🇽 Fans who attended the World Cup opening game at Mexico's main football arena in Mexico City were shocked when they noticed big holes in its structure, which let you see the ground dozens of meters below your tribune.

Spanish plan to conquer China in 16th century
https://redd.it/1tz6bsz
@r_mapporn

"Fully autonomous drones with no human oversight have killed soldiers on the battlefield for the first time. This is according to a senior figure in the Ukrainian defence industry, marking a watershed moment in warfare.

"The one-off test involved 10 AI-controlled “Terminator” drones on the front line of the Ukraine war. Russian soldiers were killed."
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2529849-fully-autonomous-drones-have-killed-human-soldiers-for-the-first-time/#:~:text=Fully%20autonomous%20drones%20with,Russian%20soldiers%20were%20killed.

Barsoom's top wordsmith, Dr. John Carter, interviews me about Fields & Energy and the state of modern physics.

Can you provide an extremely brief, non-technical, high-level summary of Fields & Energy for the benefit of readers who might not have the background to follow discussions that get down into the weeds of the intersection between mathematical physics, experimental physics, and the historical development of science? What should their main takeaway be?

"Physics has long insisted that electromagnetism springs from one paradoxical entity, a photon which somehow simultaneously combines the mutually contradictory properties of non-localized wave and localized particle. My research reveals a simpler truth: two distinct actors share the stage, first fields that move as a wave, the other an energy flow that traces definite paths and appears as particles at the smallest scales. My Fields & Energy model follows from an understanding of electromagnetic theory, yet looks suspiciously like the long neglected pilot-wave interpretation of quantum mechanics. Fields guide energy.

"The takeaway is that electromagnetism isn’t just a magic black box where things happen and we can only hope to “shut up and calculate” with tedious formulas. Instead, there’s a deep, rich, and intuitive understanding possible.

"Electromagnetism is not just math to muddle through, but rather a mindset to master."

https://open.substack.com/pub/barsoom/p/fields-and-energy?r=lp6h7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Source: ‘Disruptive’ science has declined — and no one knows why’, Max Kozlov, 2023, Nature.