Author: KnowledgeHippo
The outbreak of bird flu in dairy cattle has so far spread to just three farmers in the United States, as far as public health officials know. All of them had mostly mild symptoms.But that doesn’t guarantee the virus, called H5N1, will remain benign if it starts spreading among people. Evidence from the animal world is piling up, and data from other parts of the planet, in fact, suggests the opposite.Some dairy cows never recovered from H5N1 and died or were slaughtered because of it. Infected terns appeared disoriented and unable to fly. The elephant seal pups had trouble breathing…
Then I started watching his latest content. His real-world vlogs may be clunky, but they’re just as fascinating as his masterful geo-locations. Maybe it’s just the dim dystopia of it all: Rainbolt is a man whose experience of moving through the world is destined to be that of Google Street View. There’s a very short story by Jorge Luis Borges, “On Acactitude in Science,” about a life-size, one-to-one scale map that stretches over the area it represents — an absurd response to the fantasy of exhaustive knowledge. But this is precisely the kind of cartographic perfection that Google aspires to…
When the German army finally broke into central Ukraine in September 1941, pasting orders around Kiev to announce a new occupying authority, they had only a few days of peace. Less than a week after the occupation began, an explosion occurred in a children’s toy store on Khreshchatyk Street – the capital’s grand shopping boulevard, the equivalent of Kiev’s Fifth Avenue or the Champs Elysees. Soon the city hall and the headquarters of the Communist Party collapsed. Fires spread from Khreshchatyk to the old houses and apartment buildings of the city center: The Soviets dynamited Kiev, turned their city into…
Recent college graduates have a lot on their minds this summer: The national unemployment rate rose last month, and a widening generational wealth gap is making it harder than ever to buy a first home. Where should they go now?A new study by Zumper may help. It analyzed the nation’s 100 most populous cities to find the best for new graduates based on various metrics (where sufficient data was available). They include per capita one-bedroom rentals and restaurants, as well as U.S. Census Bureau data on the population of people ages 18 to 34, the number of 25-year-olds with a…
The Bank of England kept interest rates on Thursday at their highest level since 2008, even as inflation in Britain slowed to 2% in May, an important milestone.Policymakers kept interest rates at 5.25%, where they have been for 10 months. Officials said high interest rates were working and cooling the labor market, easing price pressures, but added that monetary policy should remain accommodative until they were sure the risk of inflation overshooting their target had subsided.”It is good news that inflation has returned to the 2 percent target,” Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England, said in a statement.…
Remo Saraseni, a sculptor, toy inventor and technological visionary best known for creating the Walking Piano that Tom Hanks and Robert Loggia danced to in a beloved scene from the 1988 hit movie “Big,” died June 3 in Swarthmore, Pa. 89.The cause was heart failure, said Benjamin Medaugh, his assistant and caregiver. Mr. Saraceni died at Mr. Medaugh’s home, where he had lived in recent years.Mr. Saraceni’s specialty was “interactive electronics,” he told New York magazine in 1976. His other inventions included a watch that could answer aloud when you asked it the time, a stereo stethoscope system that could…
Break. Crack. Crotos. Those sounds, which once sold a popular breakfast cereal, are now luring people to see the doctor thanks to a wave of chiropractic videos sweeping social media.The most popular videos follow a familiar pattern: A patient comes in with a debilitating condition. A chiropractor manipulates the patient’s limbs and joints in gruesome ways, causing a series of breaks and sprains. And the patient is relieved of years of pain — all within minutes.For viewers, the clips can be both creepy and satisfying ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response) content. For chiropractors, they are valuable marketing, helping to build…
Smoke in the cabin. A tire blowout. A cracked windshield. No shortage of problems can affect a flight, fueling traveler anxiety and contributing to thousands of daily delays and cancellations around the world.But despite the frustration and concern that such events cause, it can be difficult to interpret and understand their seriousness. Here’s how aviation safety experts say travelers should think about vacations when they happen.Problems happen.Several troubling air travel incidents have made headlines in recent weeks – a steep dive into an ocean, a disturbing wobble that damaged a plane’s tail, and an aborted departure after an apparent engine…
Ecuador was plunged into a nationwide blackout Wednesday afternoon, and the country’s public works minister blamed the emergency on the failure of a key transmission line.The minister, Roberto Luque, said in a statement to X that he received a report from the national electricity operator, CENACE, about “a fault in the transmission line that caused a successive disconnection, so there is no energy service throughout the country.”He said authorities were working to resolve the outage “as soon as possible.” Within hours, power had begun to return to some areas of Quito, the capital.The South American country of 18 million people…
Gov. Jeff Landry signed legislation Wednesday requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed on every public order in Louisiana, making the state the only one with such a mandate and reigniting the debate over how porous the lines between church and state should be.Critics, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the Freedom From Religion Foundation, have vowed a legal battle against the law, which they say is “blatantly unconstitutional.” But it’s a battle supporters are prepared, and in many ways, willing, to take on.”I can’t wait to be sued,” Mr. Landry said Saturday at a Republican fund-raiser in Nashville,…