,1,Hurricane winds, drought conditions, and...cow fodder?
Be sure to check out this super informative piece from Hawaii Business Magazine. They get into way more detail about the role of invasive grasses in Hawaii's increasingly frequent wildfires
https://www.hawaiibusiness.com/wildfires-hawaii-invasive-plants-environmental-community-action/
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,1,Trump appointed more federal judges in 4 years than any other modern president. Biden is trying to catch up, but there’s a problem: Senator Dianne Feinstein, the crucial vote on judges, is MIA and no one knows when she’s coming back.
Correction: Senator Feinstein was hospitalized two months ago, but has spent most of the time since recuperating at home.
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,1,Ukraine is under attack. Follow Vox for the latest: https://bit.ly/3Kcg9Nb
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On February 24th, Russia launched a military invasion of Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin called it a “special military operation,” but the scale of the attack shows this is a full-scale war that has already caused more than 100 casualties and forced more than half a million Ukrainians to flee their homes.
Ukraine and Russia’s conflict goes back to 2014, when Russia invaded and annexed Crimea and Russian-backed separatist forces took over parts of southeastern Ukraine’s Donbas region. But to understand the full context behind the invasion, it’s important to go even farther back, to the time when Europe’s current-day divisions began, and see how that shaped Europe’s power balance today.
To understand the current conflict’s history in less than 10 minutes, watch the video above.
Further reading:
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For more information on the human impact this war is having on the ground, check out Human Rights Watch:
https://www.hrw.org/europe/central-asia/ukraine
For the UN’s latest information on the displacement of Ukrainians click here:
https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/02/1112872
For the latest on the situation on the ground you can check out the daily updates from the Institute for the Study of War:
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/ukraine-conflict-update-9
And the International Crisis Group:
https://www.crisisgroup.org/europe-central-asia/eastern-europe/ukraine
For a detailed look at Ukraine’s decision to pull out from the 2013 EU agreement, check this out:
https://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje/analyses/2013-11-27/ukraine-withdraws-signing-association-agreement-vilnius-motives-and
To better understand the annexation of Crimea and what that meant for Ukraine, click here:
https://carnegieendowment.org/2014/03/13/use-of-russia-s-military-in-crimean-crisis-pub-54949
To understand Putin’s grip on power, we recommend this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Putin-v-People-Perilous-Politics/dp/0300238398
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,1,The partisan pandemic, explained in 15 charts.
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President Donald Trump presided over the fastest vaccine development process in history, leading to abundant, free vaccines in the US by the spring of 2021. Although the mRNA Covid-19 vaccines haven’t been able to stop transmission of the virus, they have been highly effective against hospitalization and death, saving hundreds of thousands of lives and rendering the majority of new Covid-19 deaths preventable.
Trump has received three doses of the vaccine. But many of his most dedicated supporters have refused, and many have died as a result. Why? Obvious culprits include misinformation on social media and Fox News and the election of Joe Biden, which placed a Democrat at the top of the US government throughout the vaccine distribution period. But if you look closely at the data, you’ll see that vaccine-hesitant conservatives largely made up their mind well before the vaccines were available and before Donald Trump lost the 2020 election.
To understand why, I took a deep dive into the data, interviewed researchers, and spoke to people who lost loved ones to preventable severe Covid-19 infections. What I found is a stark cautionary tale for the country and for Republican political elites. Partisan polarization takes on a life of its own; once set into motion it’s nearly impossible to stop, even when the fallout is immense and irreparable.
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Sources:
https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-by-Sex-and-Age/9bhg-hcku
https://data.cdc.gov/Vaccinations/COVID-19-Vaccinations-in-the-United-States-Jurisdi/unsk-b7fc
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#rates-by-vaccine-status
https://data.cdc.gov/Public-Health-Surveillance/Rates-of-COVID-19-Cases-or-Deaths-by-Age-Group-and/3rge-nu2a
https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/poll-finding/kff-covid-19-vaccine-monitor-january-2022/
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/42MVDX
https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/news-polls/reuters-ipso
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/01/07/more-americans-now-see-very-high-preventive-health-benefits-from-measles-vaccine/
https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2020/01/24/democrats-report-much-higher-levels-of-trust-in-a-number-of-news-sources-than-republicans/
https://www.kff.org/report-section/kff-covid-19-vaccine-monitor-january-2021-sources-of-information/
https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/poll-finding/kff-covid-19-vaccine-monitor-media-and-misinformation/
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/27-vaccinated-coronavirus-republicans-conservatives-poll/story?id=70962377
https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/poll-finding/importance-of-partisanship-predicting-vaccination-status/
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/01/27/attention-to-covid-19-news-increased-slightly-amid-omicron-surge-partisans-differ-in-views-about-the-outbreak/ft_2022-01-27_covidnews_03/
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0250123
https://www.pascl.stanford.edu/
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/12/05/1059828993/data-vaccine-misinformation-trump-counties-covid-death-rate
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/08/briefing/covid-death-toll-red-america.html
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,1,Year two of the coronavirus pandemic was filled with vaccines and variants, summer Olympics, joys, and sorrows.
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2021 was a year like no other. Vox looks back on the biggest moments that defined an unpredictable year.
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,1,This photo of Lee Harvey Oswald has been analyzed for decades.
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Lee Harvey Oswald was murdered two days after he was arrested for assassinating US President John F. Kennedy. But before Oswald died, he claimed that a damning piece of evidence against him — a photo showing Oswald holding the rifle that killed the president — was fake. In fact, he said his face was superimposed onto another person’s body to set him up.
The photo’s authenticity has been in question ever since, and it plays a key role in the conspiracy theory surrounding JFK’s death. The shadows in the photo seem inconsistent, and Oswald’s crooked stance under the weight of the rifle looks like he is about to tip over. Plus, his face doesn’t look the same as it does in his mug shot.
For decades, conspiracy theorists have used this image as key evidence to suggest that Oswald was framed. But decades of analysis — including recent 3D forensic analysis — has proved over and over that the photo is likely authentic.
Darkroom is a history and photography series that anchors each episode around a single image. Analyzing what the photo shows (or doesn't show) provides context that helps unravel a wider story. Watch previous episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ8cMiYb3G5ce8J4P5j5qOEtYR94Z3DQs
Here’s the full copy of Hany Farid’s 3D forensic study: https://farid.berkeley.edu/downloads/publications/jdfsl15.pdf
And here’s the study by Pawan Sinha: http://web.mit.edu/sinhalab/Papers/anomalous_illumination2005.pdf
Plus, more links to other resources about the photo:
https://history-matters.com/archive/jfk/hsca/reportvols/vol6/html/HSCA_Vol6_0072b.htm
https://aarclibrary.org/publib/jfk/wc/wr/html/WCReport_0075b.htm
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,1,Navalny's movement is unlike any in recent history.
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In 2006, a lawyer named Alexei Navalny started a blog where he wrote about corruption in his home country of Russia. It’s the most prominent problem under the regime of Vladimir Putin, who has ruled Russia since 2000. Putin has systematically taken over the country’s independent media, oligarchy, elections, and laws to cement his own power and wield corruption to his advantage.
That’s what Navalny set out to expose. And in 2010, he published a groundbreaking investigation into a state-owned transportation company, Transneft, which was funneling state money into the hands of its executives. The post launched Navalny into politics.
By 2016, he had become the face of Russia’s opposition movement, run for mayor, and was running for president against Putin himself. Navalny was unifying Russia’s opposition like no politician had before. That’s why the Kremlin tried to kill him. Navalny survived the assassination attempt, launching a movement never before seen in Russia.
Further reading:
Alex Ward, Vox, https://www.vox.com/22254292/alexei-navalny-russia-protests-vladimir-putin-palace-video
Frontline, https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/interview/vladimir-kara-murza/
Bellingcat, https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2020/12/14/fsb-team-of-chemical-weapon-experts-implicated-in-alexey-navalny-novichok-poisoning/
Levada Center,
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xj4ptyse6wob6u9/united_russia_as_the_dominant_party.pdf?dl=0
Atlantic, https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/07/is-aleksei-navalny-a-liberal-or-a-nationalist/278186/
Alexei Navalny, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipAnwilMncI
Masha Gessen, the NYer, https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/across-russia-pro-navalny-demonstrations-continue-to-build-momentum?utm_brand=tny&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=twitter&mbid=social_twitter&utm_medium=social
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Previous headline: Why Putin wants Alexei Navalny dead
,1,For an influential group of American Christians, support for Israel -- and hatred of Iran -- are based in a biblical prophecy.
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When President Trump authorized the drone strike that killed the powerful Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, he wasn't just flexing America's muscle in the Middle East.
He was also acting on the advice of a politically powerful group of evangelical Christians who believe that the US and Israel are part of the Bible's plan to bring about the second coming of Jesus.
Once considered a fringe element of the religious right, evangelical Christian Zionists are playing an increasingly visible role in Republican politics. Today, unprecedented access to the Trump administration has given them an opportunity to reshape the Middle East.
Additional reading:
https://newrepublic.com/article/156166/pence-pompeo-evanglicals-war-iran-christian-zionism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/05/14/half-of-evangelicals-support-israel-because-they-believe-it-is-important-for-fulfilling-end-times-prophecy/
https://www.vox.com/2018/11/5/18059454/trump-white-evangelicals-christian-nationalism-john-fea
A previous version of this video misstated, at 1:40, the percentage of Americans who are Christian but neither Evangelical nor Catholic. The error has been corrected.
The headline on this piece has also been updated. Previous headline: How the Bible shapes Trump's foreign policy
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,1,Is breakfast the most important meal of the day?
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Cereal companies have perpetuated a big myth about breakfast: that the first meal of the day is crucial to good health. And one of their most long-lasting claims is that breakfast is a good strategy for weight loss. Turns out, a closer look at the science suggests that may not be the case. We trace the origins of this myth, and the long history of breakfast companies making dubious health claims.
Check out Julia Belluz’s Vox article that this video is based on here: https://www.vox.com/2019/2/1/18206873/breakfast-diet-weight-loss
And for a deeper look at some of the studies we mention in the piece, you can find them here:
https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/364/bmj.l42.full.pdf
http://faculty.seattlecentral.edu/jwhorley/Breakfast_BMI.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4473164/
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,1,Is keto just another dieting fad?
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New year, new dieting craze. The ketogenic diet is the latest in popular diets in the US. It shares many similarities with the Atkins diet; it’s low-to-no carbs, some protein, and a lot of delicious fat.
The keto diet isn’t exactly new. It’s been used to treat epilepsy since the 1920s, and it’s had promising outcomes from treating Type 2 Diabetes. However, epilepsy and diabetes aren’t the only reason people give the ketogenic diet a try. It’s also used as a diet for weight loss. The diet banishes most carbs, including fruit, and opts-in for fatty foods like avocados, salmon, eggs, cheese, butter, oil, and the holy grail of fatty meats — bacon.
Unfortunately, science has not yet proven the keto diet to be the miraculous cure to losing weight, that some kept devotees claim it to be. The more extreme a diet, the harder it is to adhere to, and though the diet may be beneficial to some, that does not mean it will work for all who give it a try.
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,1,There are invisible cages that extend far beyond prison walls.
Every year, more than 600,000 individuals are freed from America’s jails and prisons.
But many of America’s formerly incarcerated people face numerous obstacles when integrating back into public life once free, according to Wes Caines and his former colleagues Scott Hechinger and Hannah McCrea at Brooklyn Defender Services, a public defender service in New York City.
Former prisoners are routinely denied employment, housing, education, and other benefits that would help ease their integration into life on the outside, Caines says.
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,1,No bombshells here. But it's worth a peek behind the curtain.
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,1,Find more background here: http://www.vox.com/2015/5/19/8624675/what-is-the-real-illuminati
Vox's Phil Edwards investigates the real Δ.
The Illuminati is fascinating, but is it real? This is the history of the real group, including everything from the Freemasons to Dan Brown. If you've heard about the group, you've probably wondered: what is the real illuminati? Conspiracy theories like "illuminati confirmed" have confused the issue, so here are the illuminati facts about the history of the group.
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,1,Let's start with what actually happened on September 11, 2012.
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On September 11, 2012, a partially armed group of men stormed a US diplomatic outpost in the Libyan city of Benghazi. At the time, it was not clear who they were or why they'd attacked. But by the time the attack was over, four Americans, including US Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens, had been killed.
The attack ended by the early hours of September 12. But it has echoed in Washington ever since. The controversy has centered on Republican accusations that the Obama administration did not take heed of intelligence warnings before the attack, that during the attack it refused to call in available military support, and that after the attack it deliberately covered up what had happened.
Repeated independent investigations have disproven all of these allegations. But Republicans have continued to push them, insisting that these failures go all the way to the top, personally involving President Obama and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. They've done so partly out political expediency — they think it's a great way to attack Clinton's presidential campaign — and partly out of a genuine belief that the administration is covering up the truth.
But regardless of the motivation, it's kind of paid off for Republicans: The House Select Committee on Benghazi, created by Speaker of the House John Boehner in 2014, found the first documented evidence that Clinton used unauthorized private email servers for State Department business, which became a major scandal. Unless Clinton is defeated in the Democratic primary, Benghazi will be around for the rest of the 2016 election — and if she wins, you'll likely be hearing about it for much longer.
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,1,Undercover videos filmed by an anti-abortion group have Republicans calling to defund Planned Parenthood. Here's what the videos do and don't prove.
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