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NASA needs your help spotting meteors hitting the moon

NASA needs your help spotting meteors hitting the moon

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Establishing a long-term human presence on the moon is a daunting challenge. Daunting—but not impossible. One way to help prepare for our imminent arrival is to gain a better understanding of the frequency and effects of meteorite strikes on the lunar surface. NASA isn’t only relying on its brave squadron of astronauts like the recently returned Artemis II crew to do the work, however. They need help from anyone willing to spend some time gazing up at the moon from here on Earth. For those ready and willing citizen scientists, it’s time to contribute to the ongoing Impact Flash endeavor. Earth is bombarded by tiny meteorites every day, but only a fraction of them actually survive their fiery passage through our home planet’s atmosphere. The moon isn’t so lucky.. Astronomers estimate around 100 meteoroids the size of ping-pong balls strike the lunar surface every day, each impact releasing the equivalent energy to seven pounds of dynamite. If that weren’t …

Progressive groups launch ad on Earth Day hitting Republicans over gas prices, EVs 

Progressive groups launch ad on Earth Day hitting Republicans over gas prices, EVs 

Published by Sam Flores

Two progressive groups are launching a new eyebrow-raising ad attacking Republicans over gas prices and electric vehicles (EVs) to coincide with Earth Day, as the war between the U.S. and Iran has hit consumers’ pocketbooks at the gas pump.  Progress Action Fund and Energy Everywhere launched a new $500,000-backed ad buy on Wednesday, first shared with The Hill, showing… Source link

‘Eat Me’ review: Hitting a dead end in a foodie wonderland

‘Eat Me’ review: Hitting a dead end in a foodie wonderland

Published by Sam Flores

Talene Monahon, an American playwright of Armenian descent, wrote one of the most talked about plays of 2025, “Meet the Cartozians.” The play, which received its off-Broadway premiere from Second Stage Theater, examines Armenian American identity through the politicized lens of race classification, viewing the legal history and the contemporary ramifications side by side in an ingenious diptych comedy-drama that deserves a major production in Los Angeles. For this reason, I was eager to catch Monahon’s latest, “Eat Me,” which is having its world premiere at South Coast Repertory, where the play was developed at last year’s Pacific Playwrights Festival. I wish I could be enthusiastic, but “Eat Me” is a relentlessly quirky work that gorges on its own dark whimsy. A few audience members at Sunday’s matinee appeared to take issue with some of the play’s brief spasms of vulgarity. One particularly boisterous early exit sent a loud message of protest. I found the dithering in the writing more offensive than the dirty talk. Monahon, whose impressive list of works includes “The Good John …

The Benefits of Hitting the Sauna After Your Workout, According to Experts

The Benefits of Hitting the Sauna After Your Workout, According to Experts

Published by Jenni Sidey

We could discuss sauna benefits all day. Of the myriad trending wellness hacks, a traditional sauna—not an infrared sauna, not the steam room, and certainly not an ice bath—is one of the most reliably beneficial and scientifically validated modalities out there, backed by decades of research and confidently endorsed by leading physicians and scientists, many of whom are sauna users themselves. Generally speaking, you don’t have to stress about finding the perfect time to use a sauna. “As long as it’s part of your routine, the benefits—the cardiovascular benefits, the neurological benefits, the overall anti-inflammatory benefits, the mitochondrial benefits—are going to happen no matter where it falls in your day or week,” says Jason Sonners, DC, PhD, a longevity and recovery expert leading research at the University of Miami’s Department of Molecular Biology. That said, there are some reasons to schedule your sauna time right after your workouts. For example, “if you’re using it for muscle soreness, specifically, then the closer to the workout, the better,” Dr. Sonners says. A post-workout sauna sesh can also …

France prepares for terror attack hitting London amid Donald Trump Iran war tensions

France prepares for terror attack hitting London amid Donald Trump Iran war tensions

Published by Sam Flores

France is preparing for a terror strike targeting London. French diplomats in the capital have carried out a “crisis management” exercise on responding to a major incident in the city. They have sought to strengthen their emergency response plans as tensions run high over Donald Trump’s Iran war. The Met Police recently told how MI5 and counter-terror police have disrupted more than 20 Iranian state-backed terror plots in the past year, including alleged assassination attempts targeting individuals in London. Security at a London-based dissident Iranian TV station suspected of being targeted in a Tehran terror plot (PA) The Standard understands that the French crisis response blueprint aims to cover all scenarios, including a terror attack affecting French citizens in London. If this happened, diplomats at France’s Embassy in Knightsbridge would be guided by the French government’s Centre de Crise et Soutien (CDCS – Crisis and Support Centre) based in Paris. Under plans to deal with a very challenging incident, or if it affected a large number of French citizens, CDCS agents could be flown over …

Pirro’s Jerome Powell Fed investigation is hitting roadblocks

Pirro’s Jerome Powell Fed investigation is hitting roadblocks

Published by Sam Flores

Jeanine Pirro is sworn in as the new interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia during a ceremony hosted by U.S. President Donald Trump, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 28, 2025. Leah Millis | Reuters Federal prosecutors are still pressuring the Federal Reserve over the Trump administration’s allegations that there was some malfeasance involved in ongoing building renovations and Chair Jerome Powell’s testimony to Congress about them. But legal experts say U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro’s investigation appears to be in trouble, and she faces a ticking clock to appeal a judge’s rulings against her.  Investigators from Pirro’s office visited a Fed construction site Tuesday, according to a note sent by the Fed’s legal team to the prosecutors and seen by CNBC. The investigators appeared “without prior notice” and asked for a tour, Robert Hur, an attorney for the Fed, wrote in the note. “Any construction project that has cost overruns of almost 80% over the original construction budget deserves some serious review,” Pirro said in …

AI data center startup Fluidstack in talks for B round at B valuation months after hitting .5B, says report

AI data center startup Fluidstack in talks for $1B round at $18B valuation months after hitting $7.5B, says report

Published by skeptic

Fluidstack, a startup that builds specialized data centers for AI companies, is in talks to raise a $1 billion round at an $18 billion valuation, potentially led by Jane Street, Bloomberg reports. Should this deal come to fruition, it would more than double Fluidstack’s valuation in a matter of months. In December, the company was reportedly raising around $700 million at a $7.5 billion valuation, sources told Bloomberg at the time, although it didn’t formally announce the close of that round. That round was said to be led by Situational Awareness, an AGI-focused fund founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, and backed by Stripe’s Collison brothers, former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, and the AI investor and entrepreneur Daniel Gross. Talks were apparently still ongoing for this round in February, at least with Google, which was considering kicking in $100 million to the round, The Wall Street Journal reported. There’s good reason for the hype over Fluidstack. In November, Anthropic announced that it had signed a $50 billion deal with the startup to build data …

Golf Attire for Men: 21 Ways to Actually Look Cool When Hitting the Links

Golf Attire for Men: 21 Ways to Actually Look Cool When Hitting the Links

Published by Jenni Sidey

Dressing for a round of golf is a task that has perplexed society for decades. Adhering to the standard golf dress code for men (i.e. collared shirts, no denim, proper shoes) while also not looking like your least stylish uncle is a difficult needle to thread. You’re spending the entire day outdoors in the elements, engaging in a physical activity with plenty of other people around, so you need an outfit that’s going to be equal parts functional, comfortable, and easy on the eyes. Lean too far in any one direction, though, and you’re in trouble. Go too hard in the performance department, for instance, and you might wind up in a regrettably form-fitting athleisure look made from swagless synthetic materials. Make comfort your primary concern, and suddenly you’re 2005 Phil Mickelson with billowy pants and sleeves the size of California King topsheets. Care only about style, meanwhile, and you might be sacrificing a few strokes in the name of looking cool. And don’t even get us started on the question of headwear—just because Vijay …

China Is Cracking Down on Scams. Just Not the Ones Hitting Americans

China Is Cracking Down on Scams. Just Not the Ones Hitting Americans

Published by skeptic

Governments around the world have been struggling to address the rise of industrial-scale scamming operations based in countries like Laos, Myanmar, and Cambodia that have cost victims billions of dollars over the past few years. The operations often have ties to Chinese organized crime, use forced labor to carry out the actual scamming, and rely on vast money laundering networks to collect a profit. They have become so widespread and ingrained in the region that even major international law enforcement collaborations targeting individual scam centers or kingpins haven’t been able to stem the tide. The FBI said this week that “cyber-enabled” scam complaints from Americans totaled more than $17.7 billion in reported losses last year—likely a major undercount of the real total, given that many victims don’t report their experiences. Some US officials say that a major barrier to comprehensively addressing the issue is the lack of collaboration with Chinese authorities. China’s efforts to address industrial scamming, they argue, appear aimed at reducing the number of Chinese citizens being impacted rather than comprehensively stopping the …

“Unprecedented” Withdrawal Requests Now Hitting Private Credit

“Unprecedented” Withdrawal Requests Now Hitting Private Credit

Published by Jenni Sidey

Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance Late last week it was reported that one private credit company has effectively frozen up under a wave of redemption requests, an abrupt liquidity crunch that will likely do lasting damage to what little credibility it still had with investors. This is exactly the kind of stress event I’ve been expecting ever since I flagged that psychology in the private credit space was starting to break—and I still believe conditions in private credit will get worse before they get better. I’ve been flagging the sector as one of ten that I see as an avoid at all costs, and just days ago I wrote that conditions were worse than they appeared on the surface. This latest development only reinforces that view. According to reporting from Bloomberg, Blue Owl Capital Inc. is now limiting redemptions from two of its flagship private credit funds after facing an unprecedented surge in withdrawal requests in the $1.8 trillion market. Blue Owl shares are down about -40% so far this year. Investors in the $36 billion Blue Owl Credit Income Corp. asked …