IMF Graph Misstates 1960s Defense Spending Share
Unless I am seeing things, there is something wrong with this graph in @IMFNews WEO Chp2 2026. World defense spending did no halve as a share of global gdp in the mid 1960s! Can anyone explain. Ive checked @SIPRIorg database. https://t.co/KUCQo9rmBb
AI to Rank Judges by Sentencing Impact
Feel like I want to build an AI agent to scrape every Judge’s sentencing history, then cross reference that with court records and arrest records to calculate recidivism rates, then rank the recipients crimes by level of severity/violence, then rank...
Bearish Engulfing Signals Potential Oil Top, Await Confirmation
$USOIL - The weekly bearish engulfing candle is further evidence to what I claimed since the March 9 top, that a major top was in. Technically, it hasn't been confirmed yet. That will happen only when the price of oil...
Hidden-Propeller Drones Promise Safer, Sleeker Flight
Bladeless #Drone with Hidden Propellers: A Safer, Sleeker Future of Flight by @tweetciiiim #Innovation #EmergingTech #TechForGood https://t.co/N6IXo84NEz
Improve Cities, Boost Housing Support Across America
My thoughts on what America actually needs to do in order to make its cities nicer and increase support for housing construction: https://t.co/8adistZlJY
Global Trade Faces Redirection Amid Strait of Hormuz Tensions
From Liberation Day thru the Strait of Hormuz, is global trade and its supply chains being redefined, redirected, and reduced? And by how much? Supply chain risk mitigation or kicking the can down the road? And logistics? https://t.co/3oxe5s4MVA
Tech Can't Replace Realtors When Stakes Are High
Zillow didn’t make realtors obsolete. If anything, it reinforced their value. The tech to cut out advisors has existed for years. Contracts are standardized. Information is everywhere. But at a certain price point, the stakes get too high to go it alone. That’s...
Score Your Welcome Flow, Not Just Scan It
You can't audit a welcome flow just by reading it. Yeah, you'll catch bad subject lines, weak copy, and ugly formatting. But you're not going to notice that email 3 is cannibalizing email 4's offer, or that your first email never...
Shared Responsibility Saves Lives on Motorcycles
Motorcycle safety is a shared responsibility — and it saves lives. 🚗For drivers: look twice at intersections, avoid distractions, and give motorcycles extra space — at least two seconds behind, and more in poor conditions. 🏍️For riders: wear high-visibility, DOT-compliant gear, a...
Cell‑free DNA Manufacturing Eliminates Cloning Bottlenecks
Your DNA synthesis workflow is probably slowing you down more than you think. Cloning introduces delays, contamination risk, and hard limits on what you can build. Most of the field is still living with these constraints — even as mRNA therapeutics,...
Paid Travel Writing Gigs and Grants Available Now
New opportunities on my Substack this week: ✈️ $100k National Geographic Grant for climate storytellers ✈️ GetYourGuide is looking for freelance travel writers ✈️ Paid opportunity for outdoor content creators to attend a retail show this summer ✈️ JRNY is...
Fossil Firms Favor GWP100 to Dodge Real Climate Action
Fossil companies support GWP100 over GWP20 because GWP100 allows them to do nothing about air pollution or global warming-to continue spewing BC, CH4 & O3 precursors & proposing fake solutions to CO2 (carbon capture, direct air capture, blue H2, electro...
Columbus Core Home Prices Surge Year‑over‑year
LEFT: Year-over-year home price change in the core of Columbus, OH in spring 2025 RIGHT: Year-over-year home price change in the core of Columbus, OH in spring 2026 via ResiClub Terminal https://t.co/Poj3BM9z1y
Sea‑Savvy Leaders Needed to Fix Hormuz Ship Delays
Absolutely everyone is getting Hormuz wrong and over a year into this administration the SHIPs for 🇺🇸 Act is far from passing. Should I retardmaxx some ocean? The real problem behind Hormuz, U.S. shipbuilding delays, and the Royal Navy not...
Grant Predicted War as America's Suez Moment
Grant and @LukeGromen give a serious unbiased analysis here. I need to say this, as I did on GOG. Grant is the man. 5 years ago he wrote a piece on the new era of warfare. Prescient to the max....
Rubio Revokes Green Cards of Iranian Regime Affiliates
Secretary Rubio Terminates Green Cards of Foreign Nationals Tied to Infamous Iranian Regime Propagandist @SecRubio Fully support. https://t.co/w6zD05w5Uj Eissa Hashemi is the son of Masoumeh Ebtekar, also known as “Screaming Mary,” the infamous spokeswoman for the Islamist militants who stormed the U.S. Embassy...
Bauer Solar Unveils 480W Back‑Contact Solar Module
Bauer Solar launches 480 W back-contact solar module #energysky -- via pv magazine global: https://t.co/oCciheOsPl
Cost‑Cutting Masquerades as Sustainability at Westin Detroit
Westin Detroit Airport Took Away Free Bottled Water, Left An Empty Carafe — Cost Cutting Is Now Called 'Sustainability' - View from the Wing https://t.co/tzelaObk76
China’s Bureaucracy Embraces Export Controls, Unseen Impacts Loom
China’s bureaucracy has discovered export controls and likes them, we haven’t seen all the effects yet
Indian Forces Thwart Terror Plot, Defuse 14.5 Kg IED
"Indian Army and J&K Police avert major terror attack by neutralizing 14.5 kg IED in Shopian" https://t.co/FSXBrIcVWK
Adaptive Robot Gripper Revolutionizes Manufacturing, Education, Research
Evolving #Robot Hand: A Versatile Adaptive Gripper for Manufacturing, Education, and Research via @ZappyZappy7 #AI #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology #ML https://t.co/urjKEgSwst
Insulin‑Lowering Diets Show Promise for Metastatic Cancer
Insulin lowering diets and metastatic disease. The results are promising but we need more studies that are adequately powered to evaluate whether insulin-lowering diets improve cancer outcomes. On the other hand, there appears to be little downside. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36079800/
Under‑Excavator Bedding Feeder Cuts Pipe‑Crew Time
Bedding feeder mounted under the excavator = serious time savings. Loader feeds the hopper, trench gets consistent bedding without stopping. Not for every job, but for pipe crews it’s a game changer. https://t.co/W84iQ0vimD
Check CPM, Attribution, and ROAS Before Tweaking Campaigns
3 things shifted on April 1st that make this week's dashboard the hardest data read of the quarter. Don't touch your campaigns until you've checked all three. > ROAS is down > CPMs are up Don’t panic though… run these checks first: CHECK...
Copper Remains as Cheap versus S&P 500 as 2001
Copper $COPPER vs US Markets $SPY. Monthly. Incredibly, Copper is still as cheap relative to the S&P 500 as it was back in 2001! https://t.co/XLECEmoZAS
Israeli Airstrike Ravages Jibchit Amid Unchecked Campaign
Israel’s campaign in Lebanon continues UNABATED. Today, an Israeli airstrike caused MASSIVE destruction in the region of Jibchit, Lebanon. https://t.co/TpGNFGXVh3
Strait of Hormuz Traffic Shifts Amid Iran Plan, US Destroyer
Strait of Hormuz Traffic for 10 - 11 April; Iran's proposed traffic scheme; US Destroyer Appearance? Follow What's Going on With Shipping on YouTube
RAeS Recommends NASA Flight Test Nomination
I think there is an obvious flight test nomination here @NASAAdmin ! (And congrats from all of us at the RAeS)
China’s Power Surge Outpaces US, Boosting Geopolitical Clout
China added 1,514 GW of power capacity in 4 years. The US added just 161 GW. ENERGY CAPACITY = GEOPOLITICAL POWER. https://t.co/mIUmWJOAqL
Stool Test Detects 90% of Colorectal Cancers
As a medical school professor, I've watched colorectal cancer screening rely on colonoscopies for decades. That era may be ending. Researchers at the University of Geneva just published a breakthrough in Cell Host & Microbe: a simple stool test that detects...
Common Bowel Issues: Causes and Simple Solutions
These bowel function issues are remarkably common. Why? How can they be resolved? https://t.co/4t91w8Mnhm https://t.co/Z3pShlF0kA
WholeMars Joins Ride AI Robotaxi Event Lineup
great to notice @wholemars on the agenda of the Ride AI industry event on April 15th 👏 The event is one of *the* gatherings for robotaxi industry in the US this year. https://t.co/UD8yUbmyF1
February Home Price Cuts Hit Record High Since 2012
I ask you this Saturday. WHO has been ahead of this surge? If you don’t follow @m3_melody you’re behind trends “34.2% of Feb home sellers lowered their list price. That’s up from 31.5% a year earlier & represents the highest Feb...
US Destroyer Turns Back After Iran Threat via Pakistan
https://t.co/BrBdceeoER Interesting take by Bloomberg: A US destroyer was seen moving from Fujairah toward the waterway, Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency said separately. Iran’s armed forces monitored it and conveyed this to the US via Pakistani mediators, the news agency said. The US vessel...
Mark Kerr’s Unfiltered Journey on “What’s Your Story?”
Raw and Uncut with The Smashing Machine, Mark Kerr https://t.co/ZKdt43n52k via our "What's Your Story?" Podcast w/ @MikeLindstrom and I
Trump’s Oil Exports Could Spike U.S. Gas Prices
I wonder what Trump will do when he realizes that selling U.S. oil overseas raises gas prices here. I assume no one will ever tell him.
India's Jag Vikram First Flagged Vessel Through Hormuz Post Ceasefire
LPG tanker Jag Vikram crosses Strait of Hormuz; first India-flagged vessel to transit after Iran-U.S. ceasefire - https://t.co/OIwmmT9Xpw
Choosing Iran’s Strategic Control Risks Legal, Supply Chain Fallout
Giving Iran control of the Strat vs international law. Versus being able to claim victory. Enriching Iran. Power shift. And supply chains?
U.S.-Iran Ceasefire Leaves Chaos and Contradiction
What Does This Ceasefire Actually Mean? Once again, we've found ourselves in a chaotic and contradictory situation. The U.S.-Iran ceasefire is shaping up to be one big cluster. #iranwar #geopolitics
Stroke Research Stuck: Preclinical Successes Fail Clinically
Translational Block in Stroke: A Constructive and “Out-of-the-Box” Reappraisal 👉"The literature is saturated by >1000 effective preclinical studies in acute stroke research... yet almost none are successfully transferred to the acute clinical routine. This is the well-known translational failure or block...
Supply Chains Face New Test: Hormuz Free Passage or Toll?
Dating back to the pandemic, the world is again learning of supply chains. But the lessons/takeaways if and when the Strait of Hormuz is opened? As free passage or a toll for Iran.
USS Michael Murphy Detected Near Persian Gulf, Confirmation Sought
Did the USS Michael Murphy (DDG-112) sail into the Persian Gulf as she showed up on AIS four hours ago? @CENTCOM @US5thFleet @SecWar https://t.co/1sMOpp2WpI
Navy’s Legacy Fuels Artemis II Astronaut Recovery
Wings of gold. It's always been the Navy's job to get those astronauts, a legacy that lives on with Artemis II. Proud to have been part of the story of how the Navy prepared for this moment. 🦅🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸⚓️⚓️
Ohtani's $125M Sponsorships Eclipse Salary, Join Legends
I wrote about Shohei Ohtani's sponsorship deals. Recently went to Tokyo and couldn't walk a block without seeing his face. In 2026, he'll make $125m on sponsorships (vs. $2m salary), reaching endorsement heights only seen by Tiger, Roger and MJ: ...
Government Claims 21% Health Insurance Cost Decline Over Five Years
The most absurd number in CPI? According to the US Government, the cost of health insurance has declined 21% over the last 5 years... https://t.co/l5IYmkeySJ https://t.co/YUTqN8BlGp
Canada’s Key Contributions to Artemis II Revealed
When the Moon Met Canada Have you been watching Artemis II with awe? The Canada Letter today, by @LaVjosa, illuminates the Canadian elements in the mission. Sign up to get the New York Times Canada newsletter in your inbox every...
US-Israeli Conflict Severely Disrupts Gulf Fertil
Fertilizer flows from the Gulf continue to be disrupted. THE US-ISRAELI WAR ON IRAN = MAJOR DAMAGE. https://t.co/jiYKxSmV7U
Longi Launches Global Service Network for Integrated Energy
Longi to build global service network for integrated energy strategy #energysky -- via pv magazine global: https://t.co/HSF7jKS1NI
Instagram Plus Adds Multi‑audience Story Lists for Creators
Instagram confirmed it is testing Instagram Plus, a premium subscription that would include multiple audience lists for Stories beyond Close Friends, rewatch count insights, and the ability to view Stories anonymously. The multi-audience lists feature, which previously appeared for some...
Steady Lithium Price Rise Preferred Despite Deficit
Mr @Sw197843: Yes, the deficit is here but don’t expect an explosion too soon. A slow & steady price rise is the best thing for #lithium. https://t.co/4cJkLGIYRb