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A daily brief on how monkey laundering undermines research
Universities in Israel, Palestine and the West Bank work extensively with institutions overseas, but there’s little in the way of cooperation between Israeli and Palestinian institutions. Bar-Ilan University President Arie Zaban has said that the campus is empty because the start of academic year has been postponed and many PhD students and younger researchers have…
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Biden and China’s Xi did disagree on a few things, but they did agree on some things
Chinese President Xi Jinping said that the pandas gifted to the US zoo in 1972 are no longer counted as the “s stabilizer” in US-China relations. “Bilateral trade…is no longer counted as the stabilizer,” he added. The pandas have been a symbol of US-China friendship since China gifted them to the US zoo in 1972.
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There is an opinion about anti-Zionism and antisemitism
In her book “Antisemitism and Racism in the US: The Myth, the Reality, and the Myth”, historian Naomi Klein wrote, “I’ve always said that there is no such thing as anti-Zionism…There is no such thing as anti-Semitism.” Klein, who holds a PhD from Harvard, also said, “Anti-Zionist narratives say that Jews are more powerful, richer,…
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In the United States major climate disasters occur every three weeks
The US on Wednesday said its greenhouse gas emissions fell by around 17% between 2005 and 2021, according to the latest US Emissions Report to the UN Climate Convention. US President Joe Biden has announced over $6 billion in new investments for climate action, $3.9 billion of which is going towards modernizing the grid.
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The US wants China to talk more about the use of artificial intelligence
US President Joe Biden’s meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in San Francisco is a “high-profile meeting” and will focus on “resilient use of AI”, a US official said. “We hope to discuss [it] further with China,” the official added. “We have acollective interest in reducing potential risks from the deployment of unreliable AI applications,”…
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Here are some things to look out for in Biden and Xi’s meeting
Former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, during her visit to Taiwan in 2018, had said that US military leaders’ exposure to China has increased their “moderateness”. She added that it has also affected how they view the situation and they become “more moderate”. Pelosi was on a two-day visit to Taiwan in October last year.
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There is a quiet discussion of war and race across the chamber
Morgan Oliver, an American who lost her family in Israel’s war with Gaza, said, “I’ve seen too often the hijacking of the cause of Palestinian liberation to stand against the lives of Israeli children who have been in captivity for four weeks.” “I hear… Israel is a country of oppressors. For now, the Israel Defense…
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Thousands of people Protest Israel’s Retaliation in Gaza
Thousands of people took to the streets in several US cities on Saturday to demand a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. The protests, organised in New York, Nashville, Cincinnati, Las VEGAS and San Francisco, extended a stretch of calls for a cease-fire and lifting of the siege. Hundreds of people were also injured during the…
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In Israel-Gaza war, recycled images from past conflicts can cut true Toll
US lawmaker and Palestinian-American Rashida Tlaib on Thursday said that President Joe Biden’s support for Israel has enabled the deaths of Palestinian civilians in its response to the recent terror attack in Gaza. “As the Israeli government carries out ethnic cleansing in Gaza, President Biden is cheering on Netanyahu, whose own citizens are protesting his…
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The New York Times said that it was Losing Sight of a shared humanity in Israel and Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, while talking about the conflict between Israel and Hamas, said, ” God commanded that every Israeli would die, and Israel would die.” The Prime Minister added, “At the end of the day, you have to choose between the two. I don’t want to talk about that. My objective is to…
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Getting to the heart of thick-filament structure
A comparison of X-ray and MRI patterns in the lattice of intact muscle tissue was made. The MRI pattern showed a wide-angle pattern of intact muscle at the same scale as that in intact muscle. We compared our reconstruction with X-ray diffraction data, which provide information on filament structure in the lattice of intact muscle.
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Western politics will be shaped by the Israel-Hamas war
The US, Israel’s largest trading partner, gave Israel “gifts of assistance” in the 1970s that are still being given today, an expert said. Stephen Walt from Harvard University’s Kennedy School said that the United States gave Israel “generous” support in the 1970s. Walt also said that Israel has had right-leaning prime ministers for much of…
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Moon-forming impactor is a source of Earth’s mantle anomalies
A new study shows that Earth’s basal mantle anomalylies are caused by a Moon-forming impactor, which is a high-energy neutron smash-up. It found that if the Earth’s mantle had been melted, there would have been two layers: a molten top and a mostly solid bottom. The research suggests that a Moon-forming impactor could be a…
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The carbon-to-nitrogen transmutation of azaarenes
Researchers have revealed that nitrogen atoms can be substituted with carbon atoms in quinolineN-oxides. In this paper, a single-atom substitution of carbon with a nitrogen atom in quinolineN-oxides is shown. The study also discovered that nitrogen atoms can be substituted with carbon atoms in two other nitrogen-containing molecules, quinolineS-oxide and quinolineE-oxide.
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The Supreme Court has the final say on whether public officials can block someone from using social media
US Supreme Court heard a case in which the school board members blocked two parents, who had been critical of the board, from their social media pages. The school board claimed the pages were extensions of their campaign pages and thus were purely personal. The parents had sued the school officials for violating their First…
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The Muslim Girl Scouts of Astoria have an opinion
Amira Rayan, a 35-year-old Palestinian girl, had written a letter to her mother in 2021 accusing a progressive candidate for US Senate of violating child labour laws while purporting to promote working class in New York. “My life and my very bright future as a 15-year-old activist will not be defined by the failures and…
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The New York Times reported on the statue of Robert E. Lee being surrendered to the furnace
A statue of Robert E Lee is being melted down in Charlottesville, Virginia, to make way for a new art form that aims to “deconstruct” Lee’s myth and remove it from the public imagination. The monument, which was built in 1885, has been vandalised over the past few years, sparking protests across the US. Lee…
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Does Trump’s lawyers go down?
Three lawyers who represented Donald Trump in Georgia’s election case, including one of Trump’s attorneys, have entered guilty pleas in a federal court in Washington, DC. Kenneth Chesebro, Sidney Powell and Scott Hall entered guilty pleas last week before their trial was set to begin. They were not charged with federal crimes in the Georgia…
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TheU.S. raised concerns about Israel’s plan of action in Gaza
An Israeli student has tweeted that he feels isolated after a professor at her school commented that Gaza is “the most beautiful place on Earth”. The professor had made the comments after Israel launched an offensive against Hamas on Saturday, killing over 200 Palestinians. The student said she had never heard of an Israel-Palestine conflict…
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Developing world sees double standard in actions of the west
The White House has said that the US is concerned that Israel lacks ” achievable military objectives” in Gaza and that Israel Defense Forces are not yet ready to launch a ground invasion with a plan that can work. However, it also said that the US had not told Israel what to do. The US…
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After attacks in the West Bank, the Palestinians are bracing for more violence
Gaza’s Hamas rulers “have been under siege for so long and have been killed in such a way, this is why the war took place”, Abu Alaa, Mayor of the occupied village of Qusra in West Bank, said. “These people in Gaza have been under siege for so long and have been killed in such…
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The U.S. says that China’s military is making risky moves
The US has said that the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China is preparing to unite Taiwan with the country by force if necessary by Beijing. A senior Defence Department official added that those were demonstrated in certain respects during their response to then-Speaker Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, to President Tsai’s transit of the US.
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Biden pledged support in his visit to Israel
During his visit to Israel, US President Joe Biden said, “You can not look at what happened to your parents, fathers, grandparents, daughters, sons, and even babies and not scream out for justice.” “Shock, pain, rage, an all-consuming rage,” he added. Biden further said, “Justice has to be done. Don’t be consumed by the rage…
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The massive ice sheet in Greenland is starting to melt
Scientists at the Norwegian Research Center (NORCE) have discovered a new kind of anti-CRISPR system based on RNA, which neutralises viruses by mimicking a part of the CRISPR-Cas system. The team claimed that this is the first case of anti-CRISPRs protecting viruses by mimicking a part of CRISPR-Cas system. The researchers hope it will lead…
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The critical threshold for the ice sheet of the island is exceeded
A hybrid model of the ice-sheet/iceshelf is proposed which combines the shallow-ice approximation (SIA) with shallow-shelf approximation (SSA) of the non-Newtonian Stokes model. It can be modeled from icesheet flow zone with grounded ice to iceshelf flow zones using this approach. It can be used to model Earth’s deformation owing to changes in the ice…