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☆ Gamma-ray burst in faraway galaxy disturbed Earth's upper atmosphere
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Will Dunham | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

This gamma-ray burst, researchers said on Tuesday, caused a significant disturbance in Earth's ionosphere, a layer of the planet's upper atmosphere that contains electrically charged gases called plasma. It helps form the boundary between the vacuum of space and the lower atmosphere inhabited by people and Earth's other denizens. The gamma rays from the burst impacted Earth's atmosphere for a span of about 13 minutes on Oct. 9, 2022. Instruments on Earth showed that the gamma rays disturbed the ionosphere for several hours and even set off lightning detectors in India. The effects of this gamma-ray burst were studied with the help of the China Seismo-Electromagnetic Satellite (CSES), also called Zhangheng, a Chinese-Italian mission launched in 2018.

Persons: Mirko Piersanti, Piersanti, Pietro Ubertini, Ubertini, Will Dunham, Rosalba O'Brien Organizations: REUTERS, Acquire, Rights, Ray Astrophysics, University of L'Aquila, Nature Communications, National Institute for Astrophysics, Thomson Locations: Italy, India, China

☆ Water beads: Lawmaker calls for national ban on children’s toy due to health risks
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( Eva Rothenberg | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Government officials, public health professionals and concerned parents are calling on Congress to ban water beads, a children’s toy that they say poses significant health risks. Water beads are tiny balls made out of extremely absorbent polymer material. Pall also emphasized that water beads have been responsible for 4,500 emergency room visits nationwide since 2017, and that these incidents have grown more frequent. Most recently, the Commission and company Buffalo Games recalled about 52,000 Chuckle & Roar Ultimate Water Beads Activity Kits in September. Hoehn-Saric said that, beyond the Commission’s recalls, the CPSC is investigating taking further action regarding potentially harmful chemicals in water beads.

Persons: Frank Pallone Jr, ”, Pallone, they’ve, “, Alex Hoehn, Saric, Harpreet Pall, Pall, ” William Wallace, Pallone’s, Ashley Haugen, ” Haugen Organizations: CNN — Government, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Target, Walmart, Amazon, CNN, Hackensack Meridian Health, Children’s, Consumer, Senate, Republicans, Commission, Buffalo Games Locations: New Jersey, Hackensack

Trautman purchased a 53-foot sailboat called the SV Delos for $398,000 with a $81,000 down payment. WE SailSince he started traveling the world by boat, Trautman has visited over 45 countries and has racked up 70,000 ocean miles. When Sierra turned four months old, the now family of three returned to life on the sailboat. To stay connected with their family members on land, Trautman says they have their loved ones visit them when they are docked. The couple stays connected to their family online and by planning trips to places they're docked.

Persons: Brian Trautman, Trautman, maxed, Karin, Sierra Organizations: Microsoft, CNBC, SV Delos, YouTube, Sailing SV Delos, WE Locations: Redmond , Washington, Bellingham , Washington, New Zealand, Polynesia, Sweden, Caribbean, Philippines, they're

☆ The Met Gala announces the 2024 theme ‘Sleeping Beauties’
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Jacqui Palumbo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute has revealed details of its 2024 spring exhibition, which serves as the inspiration for the theme of the accompanying Met Gala. “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” will be presented at the Costume Institute in New York from May 10 through September 2, 2024, pulling rare “masterworks” from the Institute’s archive for museumgoers to experience in a new, imaginative way, according to a press release. Nick Knight/Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art“When an item of clothing enters our collection, its status is changed irrevocably. Hippolyte Petit/BFA.com; Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of ArtGarments too fragile to be dressed on mannequins will be displayed instead as the titular “sleeping beauties,” appearing in coffin-like glass displays with microscopes available to observe their deterioration up close, according to the Institute. But how will celebrities interpret a more abstract, nuanced theme on the Met Gala’s red carpet — especially one that focuses on garments that one can no longer wear?

Persons: Karl Lagerfeld’s, Madeleine Vionnet, Elsa Schiaparelli, Christian Dior, Alexander McQueen, Charles Frederick Worth, Nick Knight, ”, Andrew Bolton, Hippolyte Petit, Karolina Kurkova’s Marchesa, Blake, Ralph Lauren Organizations: CNN, Metropolitan Museum, Art’s, Costume Institute, Met, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dior's, Metropolitan Museum of, Institute Locations: New York, Worth

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The lower chamber of Mexico’s congress once again turned to spectacle Tuesday, devoting hours of its time to a controversial character who pressed the case for “non-human beings” he said were found in Peru. Less than three weeks after Category 5 Hurricane Otis devastated Acapulco, a port of nearly 1 million people, the Chamber of Deputies spent more than three hours listening to journalist José Jaime Maussan and his group of Peruvian doctors. Maussan and some Mexican lawmakers became the subject of international ridicule in September when he presented two boxes with supposed mummies found in Peru. Political Cartoons View All 1237 ImagesOn Tuesday, Dr. Daniel Mendoza showed photographs and x-rays of what he said was a “non-human being.” Maussan said it was a “new species” as it did not have lungs or ribs. Lawmaker Sergio Gutiérrez Luna, from the governing party of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, said “all ideas and all proposals will always be welcome to debate them, hear them to agree with or not.”

Persons: ”, Hurricane Otis, José Jaime Maussan, Maussan, Daniel Mendoza, ” Maussan, Sergio Gutiérrez Luna, Andrés Manuel López Obrador Organizations: MEXICO CITY, Hurricane Locations: MEXICO, Peru, Acapulco

☆ Most distant black hole discovered by Chandra, Webb telescopes
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Two powerful NASA telescopes have detected the oldest and most distant black hole ever found. “We needed Webb to find this remarkably distant galaxy and Chandra to find its supermassive black hole,” said lead study author Akos Bogdan, in a statement. Potential black hole theoryTypically, black holes located at the centers of galaxies only have about 0.1% the mass of the stars within their host galaxy. The unusual black hole could be an “Outsize Black Hole” that formed when a huge cloud of gas collapsed, as theorized in 2017 by Priyamvada Natarajan, a coauthor on both studies and the Joseph S. and Sophia S. Fruton professor of astronomy and professor of physics at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. “We think that this is the first detection of an ‘Outsize Black Hole’ and the best evidence yet obtained that some black holes form from massive clouds of gas,” Natarajan said.

Persons: Chandra, James Webb, Webb, ”, Akos Bogdan, “, ” Bogdan, Abell, they’ve, Andy Goulding, Priyamvada Natarajan, Joseph S, Sophia S, ” Natarajan Organizations: CNN, NASA, Telescope, Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Chandra, telltale, Princeton University, Yale University Locations: Cambridge , Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Haven , Connecticut

These student doctors, nurses and physician assistants are the front line of health care for asylum-seekers in the nation’s third-largest city, filling a gap in Chicago’s haphazard response. “My team is a team that shouldn’t have to exist, but it does out of necessity,” said Sara Izquierdo, a University of Illinois Chicago medical student who helped found the group. Political Cartoons View All 1230 ImagesIzquierdo noted the medical care gap months ago, consulted experienced doctors and designed a street-medicine model tailored to migrants' medical needs. The migrants’ health problems tend to be related to their journey or living in crowded conditions. “You’re not going to tell a person who has gone through this journey to stop smoking,” said Ruben Santos, a Rush University medical student.

Persons: “, ”, Sara Izquierdo, we’re, I’m, Greg Abbott, Izquierdo, Abrahan Balizario, wasn’t, Miriam Guzman, Brandon Johnson, Rey Wences Najera, “ You’re, Ruben Santos, Moises Hidalgo, He’s, “ I’ve, Muftawu, Deen Iddrisu, Melissa Perez Winder, Robert Wood Johnson Organizations: CHICAGO, University of Illinois Chicago, Texas Gov, Hygiene, UIC, Rush University, Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Press, Associated Press Health, Science Department, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, AP Locations: Chicago, Peru, Venezuela, U.S, Hidalgo, Illinois, Ghana, Cuba

Debates about its efficacy abound, with the United States, Europe and several environmental groups speaking out about the opportunities and risks. Research has been conducted into other potentially less dangerous SRM technologies, including marine cloud brightening, which involves the spraying of seawater from ships to make clouds more reflective. One group of 60 scientists launched a global initiative last year aimed at persuading governments to ban outdoor solar geoengineering experiments. "Once you've committed to it, you've got to keep doing it," said Laura Wilcox, a climate expert at Britain's University of Exeter. "If you stop, then you're going to see all of that warming that you've missed, essentially on climate timescales overnight.

Persons: Luke Iseman, SO2, Benjamin Sovacool, Andrea Hinwood, you've, Laura Wilcox, David Stanway, Jake Spring, Pravin Organizations: REUTERS, U.S . National Academy of Sciences, Company, Reuters, Harvard University, Swedish Space Corporation, Research, Boston University, SRM, United Nations Environment Program, Britain's University of Exeter, Pravin Char, Thomson Locations: Baja California, Mexico, Handout, United States, Europe, China, England, Africa, Asia

Nielsen and Fox said Thursday the World Series averaged 9.11 million viewers, less than the 9.79 million average from the 2020 series, when the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Tampa Bay Rays in six games. Wednesday night's game averaged 11.48 million on Fox, a jump of 3 million compared to Tuesday night's audience. The total audience across Fox, Fox Deportes and Fox streaming platforms was 11.64 million. Monday night's Game 3 set the record for the least-watched World Series game on record at 8.13 million. “Whenever there's a chance for somebody to clinch, the numbers are usually high.”The World Series also continues to outperform every entertainment program.

Persons: Fox, “, Mike Mulvihill, you’ve, Bob Thompson, ”, there's, Mulvihill, it’ll, ___ Organizations: Texas Rangers, Arizona Diamondbacks, Nielsen, Los Angeles Dodgers, Tampa Bay Rays, Houston Astros, Philadelphia Phillies, Fox, Fox Deportes, Baseball, Rangers, Fox Sports Networks, Detroit Lions, Las Vegas Raiders, TBS, ESPN Locations: U.S

☆ Rangers-Diamondbacks World Series Ratings Are Lowest Ever
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( John Koblin | More About John Koblin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The World Series wrapped up on Wednesday night with the Texas Rangers storming the field to celebrate the team’s first-ever championship. The five games averaged 9.1 million viewers, displacing the 2020 World Series, which averaged 9.8 million after a pandemic-shortened season. Also, the 2020 World Series was played at a neutral stadium, depriving the telecasts of the crowd energy that fuels a championship broadcast. Monday night’s Game 3 had just 8.12 million viewers, making it the least-watched World Series game since records were kept. The previous low was Game 3 of the 2020 World Series — played between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Tampa Bay Rays — which was watched by 8.34 million.

Persons: — Organizations: Texas Rangers, Rangers, Arizona Diamondbacks, Nielsen, Los Angeles Dodgers, Tampa Bay Rays

Instead this year’s ozone hole was about average size for the last 20 years, even a bit smaller than 2022’s, according to NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. From September to mid October, the ozone hole this year averaged 8.9 million square miles (23.1 million square kilometers), which is the 16th largest since satellites started tracking in 1979. It peaked this year at 10 million square miles (26 million square kilometers), about the size of North America. The ozone hole and thinning ozone layer has improved a bit thanks to the 1987 Montreal Protocol, when countries in the world agreed to stop producing many of the chemicals that deplete ozone, Newman said. The ozone hole was at its biggest in 2000 at nearly 11.6 million square miles (29.9 million square kilometers), according to NASA data.

Persons: ”, Paul Newman, ” Newman, Newman, “, Seth Borenstein Organizations: NASA, National Oceanic, Atmospheric Administration, Goddard Flight, Twitter, AP Locations: North America, South America, Tonga, Montreal

☆ Scientists predicted Earth's ozone hole would balloon in size this year, but now admit their calculations were wildly off the mark
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Seth Borenstein | Associated Press | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Scientists predicted that we'd see a huge ozone hole over the Antarctic in 2023. From September to mid-October, the ozone hole this year averaged 8.9 million square miles (23.1 million square kilometers), which is the 16th largest since satellites started tracking in 1979. It peaked this year at 10 million square miles (26 million square kilometers), about the size of North America. The ozone hole and thinning ozone layer has improved a bit thanks to the 1987 Montreal Protocol, when countries in the world agreed to stop producing many of the chemicals that deplete ozone, Newman said. The ozone hole was at its biggest in 2000 at nearly 11.6 million square miles (29.9 million square kilometers), according to NASA data.

Persons: —, Paul Newman, Newman, NASA Goddard Organizations: Service, NASA, National Oceanic, Atmospheric Administration, Goddard Flight, YouTube Locations: Tonga, North America, South America, Montreal

☆ NASA missions spy celestial features that resemble a ghostly hand and eerie face
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —The cosmos is full of mysteries waiting to be solved, and some of them appear especially eerie with the arrival of Halloween. A haunting “face” on Jupiter and a ghostly, skeletal hand-shaped nebula are just a couple of creepy celestial features recently spotted by NASA missions. Jupiter's swirling atmosphere appears to include a face in this image taken by JunoCam. The nebula, known as MSH 15-52, is located about 16,000 light-years from Earth. NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory observed the pulsar, known as PSR B1509-58, for the first time in 2001.

Persons: Vladimir Tarasov, Juno, Wilhelm Röntgen, Chandra, ’ ”, Roger Romani Organizations: CNN, NASA, JunoCam, JPL, Caltech, Astrophysical, Stanford University in Locations: —, Stanford University in California

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Texas' extra-inning comeback victory over Arizona on Friday night was the least-watched Game 1 recorded in World Series TV history. The Rangers' 6-5 win over the Diamondbacks in 11 innings averaged 9.35 million viewers on Fox, Fox Deportes and Fox’s streaming service. It is only the sixth World Series game that didn't attract at least 10 million viewers. The World Series was the most-watched event on television Friday night by a significant margin. The least-watched World Series game remains Game 3 in 2020, which averaged 8.34 million.

Organizations: ANGELES, Arizona, Rangers, Diamondbacks, Fox, Fox Deportes, Los Angeles Dodgers, Tampa Bay Rays, Nielsen, Tampa, Philadelphia Phillies, Phillies, Houston Astros Locations: Texas, Arlington , Texas, Tampa Bay

LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Residents of Lewiston return to work and school Monday, the morning after coming together to mourn those lost in Maine’s worst mass shooting. More than 1,000 people attended Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul for a vigil in Lewiston, where days earlier a gunman fatally shot 18 people. Some put their heads in their hands as the names of the people who died in Wednesday’s shooting were read. Hundreds more watched a live stream of the vigil shown on a huge screen in front of the church. At Lisbon Falls Baptist Church, arriving church members greeted each other warmly but the atmosphere turned somber when the Rev.

Persons: Grace, ”, Saints Peter, Paul, Gary Bragg, Robert Card, Card, Kevin Bohlin, Allen Austin, ” Austin, Todd Little, “, Daniel Greenleaf, Brian Ganong, Jim Ferguson, Michael Sauschuck, Leroy Walker, Joseph, would’ve, “ It’s, David R, Martin, Matt Rourke, Michael Casey Organizations: —, Saints, Southern Baptist Church, Pathways Vineyard, First United Pentecostal Church, Lewiston, Lisbon Falls Baptist Church, Authorities, Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, Explosives, State Department of Public, Card, Associated Press, Residents, Schemengees, Central Maine Medical Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, AP, USA, Northeastern University Locations: LEWISTON , Maine, Lewiston, Lisbon Falls, ”, Boston, Auburn, Massachusetts, U.S, Lewiston , Maine

☆ Arts Calendar: Happenings for the Week of October 29
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-29 | by ( Wsj Arts In Review Staff | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

An orca hunts down a group of mobula rays in the Gulf of California in ‘Planet Earth III’ Photo: BBC AmericaFilm• “What Happens Later” (Nov. 3): Meg Ryan is in the director’s chair for only the second time in her career, helming this romcom. She also stars alongside David Duchovny as a pair of exes who bump into each other at the airport and reconnect after a flight delay. • “All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt” (Nov. 3): The beauty and hardships of growing up black in rural Mississippi are explored in Raven Jackson’s debut feature, which follows a girl from youth to adulthood.

Persons: Meg Ryan, David Duchovny, Raven Organizations: BBC America Locations: Gulf of California, Mississippi

The D-backs and Texas Rangers have been great with the leather all season long. So far in the World Series, that trend is continuing. The D-backs and Rangers combined for zero errors over the first two games of the Fall Classic, which is the first time that's happened since 2018. This is the first World Series since 1993 — and fifth ever — that will feature all of its games on artifical turf. Arizona stole five bases in the first two games of the series, including four in Game 1.

Persons: Geraldo Perdomo, Christian Walker, That's, “, Walker, Brandon Pfaadt, righty Max Scherzer, Jonah Heim, Nathaniel Lowe, Marcus Semien, Corey Seager, Adolis García, —, Bruce Bochy, Josh Jung, Gabriel Moreno, Alek Thomas, Evan Longoria, perserve, Heim, Merrill Kelly, Ryan Thompson —, Thompson, there's, ”, Torey Lovullo, it’s, ” Lovullo, Lovullo Organizations: PHOENIX, — Arizona Diamondbacks, Texas Rangers, Rangers, ” Rangers, NL, Brewers, Arizona, Tampa Bay Rays Locations: Phoenix, Arizona, Texas, Walker . Arizona

LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Dozens of Maine residents gathered at Sunday services to pray and support one another following a traumatic week in which a fellow Mainer gunned down 18 people in the worst mass killing in state history. The body of Card was found Friday in a trailer at a recycling center in Lisbon Falls. A stay-at-home order in place during the massive search was lifted Friday afternoon, hours before authorities announced they had found Card’s body at the Maine Recycling Corp. The Lewiston shootings were the 36th mass killing in the United States this year, according to a database maintained by AP and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University. The database includes every mass killing since 2006 from all weapons in which four or more people, excluding the offender, were killed within a 24-hour time frame.

Persons: Daniel Greenleaf, Saints Peter, Paul, Robert Card, “ Greenleaf, ” Greenleaf, Card, Jim Ferguson, Michael Sauschuck, ” Sauschuck, William Brackett, “, ”, Billy Brackett, didn’t, ” Brackett, ‘, ’, Michael Casey Organizations: Saints, Authorities, Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, Explosives, State Department of Public, Card, Associated Press, Police, Central Maine Medical Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Maine Recycling Corp, AP, USA, Northeastern University Locations: LEWISTON , Maine, Maine, Lewiston, ”, Lisbon Falls, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

This one won an extended Game 1 of the World Series for the Texas Rangers. If I did that, I’d be screaming, too,” Texas second baseman Marcus Semien said. “It's going to be a really good series,” García said. He became the first position player in MLB history to appear in a World Series 15 years after first playing in the Fall Classic. He also became the fourth player with a World Series hit at both age 23 or younger AND 38 or older.

Persons: Adolis García, Corey Seager's, mobbed, “, Josh Jung, ” Miguel Castro, El Bombi, Corbin Carroll, García, Max Muncy, Nathan Eovaldi —, ” García, Evan Carter's, Merrill Kelly, Jordan Montgomery, Seager, Paul Sewald’s, Leody, Bruce Bochy, ” José Leclerc, that's, we’ve, Torey Lovullo, ” Seager’s, Tony Beasley, ”, Marcus Semien, ” Seager, Tommy Pham, Ketel, Carroll, Zac Gallen, Mitch Garver, Gallen, Ryan Thompson, Joe Mantiply, Kevin Ginkel, Sewald, “ It's, Evan Longoria’s, Eddie Murray, Pee Wee Reese, Willie Mays, David Freese, Freese, ___ Organizations: Texas Rangers, Arizona Diamondbacks, ” Rangers, Los Angeles Dodgers, Boston, Rangers, Kansas City Royals, New York Mets, Arizona, Diamondbacks, Houston, Star, Marte, NL, Tampa Bay Rays, League, Rays, St, Louis Cardinals, Texas, Kelly Locations: ARLINGTON , Texas, Texas, Arizona, ” Texas

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The Globe Life Field roof will be closed for Game 1 of the World Series between the Texas Rangers and Arizona Diamondbacks. For the neutral-site 2020 World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Tampa Bay Rays, the Globe Life roof was open for Games 1, 2 and 4, and closed for Games 3, 5 and 6. Arizona's Chase Field in Phoenix also has a retractable roof, leading to the possibility of the first all-indoor World Series. Globe Life Field opened in 2020. There were six regular-season games with the roof open that season and 13 neutral-site postseason games with the roof open.

Persons: Arizona's Chase, ___ Organizations: Texas Rangers, Arizona Diamondbacks, Major League Baseball, Los Angeles Dodgers, Tampa Bay Rays, MLB, Texas, Philadelphia, Rangers, Houston, Life Locations: ARLINGTON , Texas, Phoenix

Mandatory Credit: Troy Taormina-USA TODAY Sports/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsOct 26 (Reuters) - The 2023 World Series will pit two gritty wild-card teams that have proved deadly on the road against each other when the Texas Rangers play host to the Arizona Diamondbacks for Game One on Friday. The Rangers, who are seeking their first World Series championship, started the playoffs red hot, hammering the Tampa Bay Rays in two road games and emerging victorious from the wild card round. They followed that up by sweeping the 101-win Baltimore Orioles in the Division Series before overcoming the Astros in Game Seven of the ALCS to capture the franchise's third pennant. Rangers manager Bruce Bochy will send ace Nathan Eovaldi to the mound for Game One. The Cuban slugger drove in a postseason series record 15 RBI thanks to a Game Six grand slam and two Game Seven homers to walk away with NLCS MVP honors.

Persons: Nathan Eovaldi, Troy, Bruce Bochy, righty Zac Gallen, Corbin Carroll, Ketel Marte, Adolis Garcia, Bochy, Rory Carroll, Gerry Doyle Organizations: Texas Rangers, Arizona Diamondbacks, Rangers, Houston Astros, American League, The Rangers, Tampa Bay Rays, Baltimore Orioles, Astros, Diamondbacks, Major League Baseball's, Dodgers, NL, Brewers, Philadelphia Phillies, Bank, The Diamondbacks, New York Yankees, San Francisco Giants, Thomson Locations: Houston , Texas, USA, Troy Taormina, Milwaukee, Los Angeles, Arizona, Cuban

For both the 30-year-old García and the Texas Rangers. García has helped the Rangers reached the Fall Classic for the first time since 2011 with his big bat and passionate approach. García angrily went face-to-face with catcher Martín Maldonado as benches and bullpens cleared before the Astros came back to win. “He’s someone who knows me, knows my abilities, knows what I can do,” García said of Arozarena. García went to spring training as a non-roster invite and hit .375 with three homers, 13 RBIs and four stolen bases in 22 games.

Persons: García, “ It’s, it’s, “, He's, ”, Mitch Garver, “ He's, He’s, Martín Maldonado, Randy Arozarena, Arozarena, ” García, Mike Foltynewicz —, wasn't Organizations: Texas Rangers, Rangers, AL, Houston, Astros, Tampa Bay, The Rays, Arizona, Louis Cardinals, Yomiuri Giants, Cardinals, ” The Rangers Locations: ARLINGTON , Texas, Cuba, St, Cuban, Japan, Dominican Republic, that’s, When Texas

The Tacoma-based Point Defiance Zoo is conducting dental exams and teeth-cleaning in its managed care program. The fittingly named vet is helping bolster a population of only 270 red wolves known to exist, mostly in managed care or zoos. The animals in managed care tend to live longer than free-ranging red wolves, in part because they have annual exams and dental hygiene. The rare red wolves once ranged from New York to Texas, but by the late 1960s to 1970s a once thriving population was decimated. Three of those released came from the Point Defiance Zoo program, including a pup born April 13.

Persons: Karen Wolf, Wolf, Natalie Davis, Matt McKnight, Daniel Trotta, Diane Craft Organizations: U.S, Fish & Wildlife Service, Association of Zoos, Aquariums, Defiance, Thomson Locations: Washington, United States, Tacoma, Defiance, North Carolina, Seattle, New York, Texas, U.S

☆ In a world of infinite AI, the new luxury item will be humans
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Alistair Barr | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

The same inevitable supply-and-demand dynamic is about to wash over us again with large language models and generative AI. AI models are trained on masses of data from the past. Humans are good at learning quickly from a small amount of data, while AI models need mountains of information to train on. Soon, human content creators will be vying for attention with content generated by AI models. 'Utility, value and signaling'Hartz, a venture capitalist who now chairs Eventbrite's board, says successful technologists will continue to spend heavily on human experiences.

Persons: —, Kevin Hartz, Eventbrite, Taylor Swift, Marc Andreessen, Hartz, John Barone, you'll, Sal Khan, That's, Gates, Michael Larson, Elon Musk's, Morgan Stanley, Jared Birchall, Noam Brown, He's, Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg Organizations: Service, Khan Academy, Menlo School, Sigma, Bloomberg, Meta, OpenAI, Google, Amazon Locations: GPT, Fiji, Palo Alto, Silicon, Menlo

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Thousands of hotel workers fighting for new union contracts rallied on the Las Vegas Strip on Wednesday evening, halting rush-hour traffic before dozens were arrested for sitting in the street. Las Vegas police said 58 people were cited for assembling to disturb the peace, a misdemeanor. Leaders of the Culinary Workers Union said they wanted a show of force ahead of any potential strike. As the protest began, Kimberly Dopler, a cocktail server at Wynn Las Vegas since it opened in 2005, said she planned to halt traffic. A Las Vegas strike deadline has not yet been set as the union and casino companies return to the bargaining table this week.

Persons: Mark Lourenco, Kimberly Dopler, “ I’m, ”, Cindy Hiatt, Michelle Shirley, ” Hiatt, Ted Pappageorge, Bethany Khan, Kahn, hasn’t, Leslie Lilla, “, we’ve, Scott Sonner Organizations: LAS VEGAS, Las, Palace . Police, Culinary Workers Union, MGM Resorts International, Caesars Entertainment, Wynn Resorts, MGM, Detroit, Wynn Las, Bellagio, Associated Press Locations: Bellagio, Michigan, Wynn Las Vegas, Missouri, Las Vegas, Vegas, Nevada, Hollywood, Detroit, Reno , Nevada

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