Wednesday, July 10, 2024

Notes today

  • Bullets now for sale in vending machines. A Texas-based company has developed vending machines thatsell bullets and installed them at a handful of grocery stores in Texas, Oklahoma, and Alabama, with plans for expansion into other states, according to news reports this week.

  •  A problem perhaps?


  • Las Vegas just observed its hottest day on record with a scorching 48.9°C (120°F). This is a staggering +1.7°C hotter than the previous record.
  • Historic news today - a court in Ecuador rules that pollution ‘violates the rights’ of the river running through Quito. Ecuador is one of the few countries that recognises the rights of nature not to be degraded or contaminated…

  • US to resume sending 500lb bombs to Israel while withholding 2,000lb bombs, official says.

Problem with these notes: some tend to run up against a deeply rooted feature of human cognition - the desire not to think about anything unpleasant…Sorry about that.

Btw, humans can only think about 4 things at once – according to the research team led by University of Oregon psychology professors Edward Awh and Edward Vogel. So, to help, we limit notes. 😉

"Everything will be all right. And, even if it won't be, we'll have the consolation of having lived honest lives." Alexei Navalny

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