Child moose trapped in a lake is saved by Alaska man and police as its apprehensive mother watches AP
Stonehenge solstice dawn attracts 15,000 individuals BBC
Disaster reminiscence, geopolitics and the dangers of economic contagion Gillian Tett, FT
Local weather
Relations seek for lacking in Saudi Arabia as hajj dying toll tops 900 France24
Heatwave in Mexico claims lives of greater than 150 since March France24
Why some scientists suppose excessive warmth may very well be the explanation individuals preserve disappearing in Greece CNN
India heatwave sparks spate of fires, ignites requires stricter security regulation enforcement Channel Information Asia. Commentary:
each floor is sizzling to the touch. The human physique cannot endure a heatwave this nonstop with out respite. ACs working nonstop, however rooms are barely cool, home crops are dying – it’s important to water them with boiling sizzling water. Struggling to breathe within the thick scalding air
— Rituparna Chatterjee (@MasalaBai) June 19, 2024
NCR = Nationwide Capital Area (India).
Bats drop useless from bushes in Kanpur because of excessive heatwave India At the moment
* * * Economist suggests storing grain to arrange for subsequent world emergency Guardian
* * * Occasional paper: Fungal banking Crooked Timber
E book Evaluation – Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World The Inquisitive Biologist
Water
What occurs if we break the Colorado River? Salt Lake Tribune
Syndemics
The destruction of public well being and the rising risk of an H5N1 fowl flu pandemic WSWS
Human SARS-CoV-2 problem uncovers native and systemic response dynamics Nature
China?
Xi Jinping’s thriller PBoC plans floor with largest shift in years Enterprise Normal
China goals to unravel property puzzle with reasonably priced housing push, however debt cloud stays South China Morning Put up
* * * South China Sea: Philippines suggested to stake declare on disputed shoal with civilian web site South China Morning Put up
Philippines secretly reinforces ship at centre of South China Sea dispute FT
Putin, Kim and new multipolar world. Sullivan, putting Russia is widespread sense. Battle in Lebanon (video) Alex Christoforou, YouTube. See at 8:30.
The Koreas
‘We’ll proceed our wrestle’: South Korea’s physician strike disaster deepens as extra be a part of walkout Channel Information Asia
Hanwha strikes $100m deal for Philly Shipyard Splash 247
May CIA Sabotage North Korean Arm Shipments to Russia? Spy Speak
Contained in the Success of South Korean Manufacturers Harvard Enterprise Evaluation
Vietnam’s ‘bamboo diplomacy’ triumphs with visits from Biden, Xi and now Putin FT
Putin’s State Go to to Vietnam karlof1’s Geopolitical Gymnasium
5 Many years On, Cambodia Is Taking Possession of Its Troubled Previous The Diplomat
Syraqistan
Infinite Battle, Not ‘Complete Victory’: IDF Desires to Go away Gaza, however Netanyahu Has Different Concepts Haaretz. Commentary:
“What we’ve heard from the detainees: there may be torture with electrical energy in addition to suspension and stretching and there may be additionally nail-pulling and the largest affliction we’ve got heard from some, which has been reported by a couple of particular person, that the occupation tortured them in a… https://t.co/IGA2ZoGCqY
— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) June 20, 2024
IDF transfers powers in occupied West Financial institution to pro-settler civil servants Guardian
The U.S. energy construction is blindly devoted to Israel Mondoweiss
Apologies Sir Atrios, Eschaton
European Disunion
French ladies voters swing sharply to far proper Politico
Why the Greens are shedding within the EU and what Ukraine ought to be taught from it European Pravda
EU cancels vote on little one sexual abuse regulation amid encryption considerations Politico
Expensive Outdated Blighty
The Leaving of Blackburn Craig Murray
Sunak might sanction UK youth in the event that they refuse obligatory nationwide service Al Mayadeen
New Not-So-Chilly Battle
Zelensky’s peace summit flop The Spectator
* * * US says Ukraine can hit inside Russia ‘anyplace’ its forces assault throughout the border Politico. Caption: “‘This isn’t about geography. It’s about widespread sense,’ nationwide safety adviser Jake Sullivan instructed PBS.”
U.S. will increase Ukraine’s air protection by pausing exports to allies WaPo
* * * EU Ambassador: “The ‘international brokers’ regulation has frozen Georgia’s European integration” JAM Information
Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan & China: When is a completed deal actually completed? BNE Intellinews
Digital Watch
This Week in AI: Generative AI is spamming up tutorial journals TechCrunch
Neo-Nazis Are All-In on AI Wired
Hackers ‘jailbreak’ highly effective AI fashions in world effort to spotlight flaws FT
Meta warns bit flips, different {hardware} faults trigger AI errors The Register
The Bezzle
Ditching paper cash has made Sweden a haven for on-line scams Straits Instances
Quick Crimes at Lambda College Sandofsky
Provide Chain
Transhipment ports challenged by modifications in name patterns amid the Crimson Sea disaster Hellenic Transport Information
Liberia blocks Russia’s Ingosstrakh from insuring ships in transfer towards sanctions-busting “shadow fleet” BNE Intellinews
Healthcare
Drug Shortages Preserve Rising. Older, Injectable Brokers Are Among the many Most Weak. MedPage At the moment
The Remaining Frontier
Cosmic kidney illness: an built-in pan-omic, physiological and morphological research into spaceflight-induced renal dysfunction Nature. From the Introduction:
The renewed zeitgeist for house journey, ushered in by the appearance of economic spaceflight and tourism, has spurred on state-funded companies to embark on much more formidable exploratory ‘Deep House’ missions. The primary of those, particularly the Artemis Program, Lunar Gateway house station and later the Deep House Transport/Mars Missions, will for the first-time place people outdoors of Earth’s protecting magnetic discipline uncovered to vital portions of unmitigated house radiation and weightlessness for a lot of months to years at a time.
The well being results of low Earth orbit (LEO) spaceflight (e.g. the Worldwide House Station) are a number of, with a lot of the analysis communities’ intense focus centred on the musculoskeletal, neurological, ocular and cardiovascular degeneration that may manifest as early as just a few weeks right into a mission. Notably, the consequences of LEO spaceflight on many different organ programs are much less clear, with indispensable organs such because the kidneys receiving comparatively little consideration within the absence of overt signs. Nevertheless, within the face of prolonged durations of deep house journey well being points might solely current with late onset because of cloaked subclinical pathophysiology and power injury consuming into the intensive practical reserves of such organs.
This Revolutionary New Observatory Will Find Threatening Asteroids and Thousands and thousands of Galaxies Smithsonian
Class Warfare
America’s Sweethearts Is a Surprisingly Infuriating Portrait of the Final Pink-Collar Job TIme
Excessive Expectations The Baffler
‘These Shops Are Unhealthy for Our Communities’: FAIR
Bella Baxter and the Machine: On Yorgos Lanthimos’s “Poor Issues” and Julie Wosk’s “Synthetic Ladies” LA Evaluation of Books
Hear To Your Personal Soul’s Warning Day by day Stoic
Antidote du jour (Harald Wehner):
Bonus antidote:
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— andy 🌷🫧🍓 (@frogclubs) June 21, 2024
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