Super ambitious! Mega productive!

Mortgage debt soars while starter homes get out of reach for many Canadians https://globalnews.ca/news/11688304/mortgage-debt-soars-starter-homes/

Idiots: "Beyond spreading ideas, social media have the power to push authorities into action. In Malaysia everyday choices can quickly become matters of state concern once they are amplified online. On January 16th a Zumba instructor went viral dancing in a headscarf and an outfit that did not cover her knees. She apologised, but the Islamic department in the state of Selangor opened an inquiry into whether she had brought “Islam into disrepute”."
#religion #Islam
https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/02/25/modernisation-is-making-south-east-asia-more-islamic

The study found that so-called super-agers — people 80 and up who have the memory ability of someone 30 years younger — had roughly twice as many new neurons as older adults with normal memory for their age, and 2.5 times more than people with Alzheimer’s disease. The research focused on an area of the brain called the hippocampus, which is important for learning and memory and is thought to be the primary birthplace of new neurons.
#BrainScience #science #aging
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/well/mind/super-agers-brain-neurons.html

As the Riddler said in The Batman (2022), "If you are justice, please do not lie". We are all taken for fools. Clinton's AG gave Epstein a sweetheart deal. Obama admin lawyer "Kathryn Ruemmler" resigned as lead lawyer at Goldman Sachs last week for sandbagging for Epstein. The entire Trump admin is deeply connected to Epstein. Now, this POS lawyer would like you to know, you the public should not know who the child r*pists are.
#corruption #Epstein #plutocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/opinion/epstein-files-justice-department.html

There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold/ And she's buying a stairway to Heaven:
"Prominent economists... calculate that the AI buildup was directly responsible not for 92 percent or 39 percent of gains to the U.S. economy in 2025, but as little as zero... Briggs and his Goldman Sachs colleagues recently said that investment spending on AI made “basically zero” difference in U.S. economic growth last year."
#economics #AI #technology
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/23/ai-economic-growth-gdp-mirage/

Name an undesirable trait a person might have, and this book will demonstrate Andrew having it. He is, supposedly, in addition to being a sex offender, cruel, easily enraged, stupid, boring, naive, attention-seeking, unfunny, childish, arrogant, and out of touch, as well as a misogynist, a liar, a thief, a bully, a pervert, a bad lover, a bad husband, a bad father, a brat as a child, a brat as a teenager, and a brat as an adult.
#UKpolitics #RoyalFamily #Epstein
https://slate.com/culture/2025/08/royal-family-harry-meghan-william-andrew-entitled-book.html

As corporate profits soar, the labor share of income in the US has cratered. The last two years saw wages and compensation fall to the lowest levels since 1941. And these two developments — workers get less money, corporations get more — are absolutely related. Meanwhile, CEO compensation has skyrocketed over the past six decades, rising from 21 times that of the average worker to 281 times.
#economics #labor #rigged #jobs #employment #markets
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-02-23/corporate-america-s-new-slogan-make-more-pay-less

This vaccine, what we term a universal vaccine, elicits a far broader response that is protective against not just the flu virus, not just the Covid virus, not just the common cold virus, but against virtually all viruses, and as many different bacteria as we've tested, and even allergens.
#science #vaccine #health #publichealth #medcine #research #microbiology #virology
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2g8rz7yedo

Researchers from the University of Michigan, Harvard University and Duke University argue that many ultraprocessed foods—including packaged snacks, sugary beverages, ready-to-eat meals and many fast foods—aren't simply junk food or bad nutritional choices. They're industrially engineered products designed to keep you coming back—using strategies once used to sell cigarettes.
#food #science #nutrition #health #obesity #diabetes #marketing #PublicHealth https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02-ultraprocessed-foods-addictionlike-patterns-tobacco.html

Chronic pain lasts longer for women than men, and new research suggests differences in hormone-regulated immune cells, called monocytes, may help explain why.
#science #immunology #gender #physiology #medicine #pain #pathology #diseases
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02-chronic-pain-longer-women-immune.html

Since 2016, price gouging has become an even more pressing issue. Businesses across industries are increasing profits by exploiting what economists call situational market power — the ability to raise prices when there’s limited choice or urgent need... Companies increasingly know exactly when they have pricing power and how best to exploit it.
#markets #economics #antitrust #regulations #rigged #corruption
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/opinion/price-gouging-mamdani.html

#science #health
Psychologists have been investing the 'doorway effect' We have all succumbed to this at some point- where you walk into a room and forget what you had gone in there for. Apparently the brain divides memories into episodes and when we enter a room it creates a new episode. But the impact is greater if you are distracted or the change of environment. Their advice is to stay focused or write a note on the back of your hand. 😀 https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/psychology-doorway-effect-memory

Palantir raus aus Deutschland

No other European country has been so consistently sceptical about the dependability of its transatlantic ally... Musing about the shifting balance of world power, le général told an adviser: “Any day the most extraordinary events could happen…America could…become a threat to peace.” By 1966 de Gaulle had built a bomb, pulled out of NATO’s integrated military command and booted American soldiers off French soil.
#history #France #Europe #strategy https://www.economist.com/europe/2026/02/18/that-irritating-feeling-that-france-was-right

Middle class businesses are doing well.

"Catalyst Brands, which runs Eddie Bauer’s stores, is looking to sell the business while it liquidates its Canadian and American shops. All sales at those stores are final, meaning returns will not be accepted on merchandise bought during liquidation."
#economics #MiddleClass #commerice #retail #capitalism
https://www.thestar.com/business/eddie-bauer-sets-march-12-deadline-to-use-gift-cards-loyalty-points-in-stores-docs/article_68cf669a-cf87-513e-8e06-0c8b6ac448dc.html

The strength of the splendid new exhibition... is the delight it takes in myth-busting. Far from avoiding the complexity of the samurai, whose image has been warped and co-opted by successive generations of Japanese and foreigners alike, the curators delight in playing with our misconceptions and subtly straightening them out. The samurai, right back to their misty origins in the eighth-century Heian period, created their own half-truths and origin stories.
#Japan
https://www.ft.com/content/0734d489-34f2-42d7-991e-785aa1102c29

So who were the samurai and how did their story begin? "They were not a unitary group of people, the same throughout history," the exhibition's curator Rosina Buckland tells the BBC. "I think the perception in the West is that samurai are warriors – and they certainly were. That's how they emerged and rose to positions of power in the Middle Ages. But that's not everything."
#history #Japan #Bushido #culture #Samurai
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260210-the-true-story-of-japans-mysterious-samurai

Meteorologist Nahel Belgherze called it a “hydrologically absurd” amount. It is more than what would typically fall in an entire year at that location. Last week’s deadly storm, named Leonardo, came as part of a sequence of atmospheric rivers that has hit Spain since the start of the year, leading to swollen rivers, landslides and evacuations.
#climatechange #climatecrisis #climateemergency #collapse #globalwarming #ecocide #Spain #españa #climate
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026/02/10/grazalema-spain-record-rain/

NEW | Ireland, Spain, and Greece Move to Expel Israeli Union from Global Social Workers Federation

Ireland, Spain, and Greece have called for a vote to expel the Israeli Union of Social Workers from the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW), for ethical violations amid Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.

The countries argue that the Israeli union failed to uphold professional ethics by not seeking military service exemptions for its members or issuing a clear call for peace, citing federation rules that prohibit social workers from using weapons in personal or professional capacities.

Their move escalates a January 2025 censure issued against the Israeli union. The expulsion vote, scheduled for February 18, will require a 75% majority among the federation’s 141 member associations.

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Genocide

Sales of electric vehicles have plummeted since the end of September, when federal tax credits worth up to $7,500 ended. The Trump administration has cut subsidies and loans for clean energy projects, while seeking to eliminate regulations that encouraged automakers to sell low-emission vehicles.
#economics #cleantechnology #cars #sustainability #Ford #Trump #subsidies #microeconomics
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/business/energy-environment/ford-trump-electric-vehicles-kentucky.html