A baby moose trapped in a lake is rescued by a man and Alaska police as its worried mother looks on AP
Stonehenge solstice sunrise attracts 15,000 people BBC
Disaster memory, geopolitics and the risks of financial contagion Gillian Tett, FT
The weather
Relatives seek lost in Saudi Arabia as hajj death toll reaches 900 France24
Heatwave in Mexico has killed more than 150 people since March 24
Why some scientists think extreme heat could be the reason people keep disappearing in Greece CNN
India heatwave sparks wildfires, sparks calls for tougher safety rules Channel News Asia. Comment:
the whole area is hot to the touch. The human body cannot tolerate constant heat without rest. ACs work non-stop, but the rooms never get cold, house plants die – you have to douse yourself with boiling hot water. Struggling to breathe in the sweltering hot air
— Rituparna Chatterjee (@MasalaBai) June 19, 2024
NCR = National Capital Region (India).
Bats die in trees in Kanpur due to heat wave India Today
****** Economist suggests saving grain to prepare for next Guardian of global emergency
****** Occasional paper: Fungal banking Crooked Timber
Book Review – Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World A Curious Biologist
Water
What happens when we break the Colorado River? Salt Lake Tribune
Syndemics
Public health devastation and the growing threat of H5N1 WSWS avian influenza
The human challenge of SARS-CoV-2 reveals the dynamics of local and systemic responses
China?
Xi Jinping’s mysterious PBoC plans appear with the biggest change in years Business Standard
China aims to solve housing puzzle with affordable housing push, but debt cloud remains South China Morning Post
****** South China Sea: Philippines advised to file claim in dispute with residents South China Morning Post
Philippines secretly strengthens ship at center of South China Sea FT dispute
Putin, Kim and the new multipolar world. Sullivan, beating Russia is common sense. Conflicts in Lebanon (video) Alex Christoforou, YouTube. Watch at 8:30.
The Koreans
‘We will continue our struggle’: South Korean doctors’ strike crisis deepens as more join Channel News Asia
Hanwha scores $100m deal for Philly Shipyard Splash 247
Could the CIA Destroy North Korean Weapons Shipments to Russia? Spy Talk
Inside the success of South Korea Brands Harvard Business Review
Vietnam’s ‘bamboo diplomacy’ wins with visits from Biden, Xi and now Putin FT
Putin’s State Visit to Vietnam Karlof1’s Geopolitical Gymnasium
Five Decades On, Cambodia Takes Ownership Of Its Troubled Diplomatic Past
Syracistan
Endless War, Not ‘Total Victory’: IDF Wants to Leave Gaza, But Netanyahu Has Other Ideas Haaretz. Comment:
“What we have heard from those arrested: there is torture with electricity as well as standing and stretching and there is also pulling of nails and great grief that we have heard from some people who have been reported by more than one person that the worker abused them in the area…
— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) June 20, 2024
The IDF is handing over power in the occupied West Bank to civil servants who support the settlers
The US power structure has blindly surrendered to Israel Mondoweiss
I am sorry Sir Atrios, Eschaton
The breakup of Europe
French women voters are swinging heavily to the far-right Politico
Why the Greens are losing in the EU and what Ukraine should learn from European Pravda
EU cancels vote on child sex abuse law amid encryption crisis Politico
Hello Old Blighty
Leaving Blackburn Craig Murray
Sunak may punish UK youth if they refuse compulsory national service Al Mayadeen
The New Cold War
Zelensky’s peace conference The Spectator
****** US says Ukraine can attack inside Russia ‘anywhere’ its forces attack on border Politico. Caption: “’This is not about the world. It’s about common sense,’ national security adviser Jake Sullivan told PBS.”
The US will improve Ukraine’s air defenses by suspending exports to other countries WaPo
****** EU Ambassador: “The law on ‘foreign agents’ has stopped Georgia’s European integration” JAM News
Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan & China: When was the deal actually made? BNE Intellinews
A digital clock
This week in AI: Generative AI spams academic journals TechCrunch
Neo-Nazis All-In on AI Wired
Hackers ‘jail’ powerful AI models in global effort to highlight FT flaws
Meta warns of slow rotation, some hardware errors cause AI Registry errors
Bezzle
Abandoning paper money has made Sweden a hotbed of online fraud The Straits Times
Fast Crime at Lambda School Sandofsky
Supply Chain
Shipping boats challenged by changes in call patterns during Red Sea crisis Hellenic Shipping News
Liberia blocks Russia’s Ingosstrakh from insuring ships to proceed against “shadow ships” pushing sanctions, BNE Intellinews
Health care
Drug Shortages Continue to Grow. Elderly, Injectable Agents Among Most Vulnerable. MedPage Today
The Final Frontier
Cosmic kidney disease: an integrated pan-omic, physiological and morphological study of spaceflight-induced renal dysfunction Nature. From the Introduction:
The renewed zeitgeist for space travel, created by the advent of commercial and tourist spaceflight, has encouraged government-funded organizations to embark on the most extensive ‘Deep Space’ exploration campaign. The first of these, namely the Artemis Program, the Lunar Gateway space station and later the Deep Space Transport/Mars Missions, will expose for the first time humans outside the Earth’s protective magnetic field to the unmitigated mass of space radiation and the weightlessness of many. months to years at a time.
The health effects of low Earth orbit (LEO) spaceflight (eg the International Space Station) are many, and most of the research community has focused on the deterioration of the muscles and bones, nerves, eyes and cardiovascular system that can be seen in a few weeks. in the machine. Notably, the effects of LEO atmospheric light on other multi-organ systems are less clear, with important organs such as the kidneys receiving little attention in the absence of obvious symptoms. However, when faced with extended periods of deep space travel health issues may only be present when they start late due to the hidden pathophysiology and chronic damage that consumes the wide functional areas of those organs.
This Revolutionary New Observatory Will Find Threatening Asteroids and Millions of Galaxies Smithsonian
Class War
America’s Sweethearts The Incredibly Infuriating Picture Of The Ultimate Pink-Collar Job TIme
High Expectations Baffler
‘These stores are not healthy for our communities’: FAIR
Bella Baxter and the Machine: In Yorgos Lanthimos’s “Poor Things” and Julie Wosk’s “Self-Made Women” LA Book Review
Heed Your Soul’s Warning The Daily Stoic
Antidote du jour (Harald Wehner):
Bonus antidote:
why did I just find out that my father vacuumed at night 😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/VmbyjQCU9R
— andy 🌷🫧🍓 (@frogclubs) June 21, 2024
See yesterday’s links and the Antidote du Jour here.
