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Wolf escapes enclosure at Tokyo Zoo, visitors flee Anadolu Agency Those Curious Naturalists Wild Information I No Longer Think GLP-1s Are the Answer MedPage Today French cinema legend Brigitte Bardot dies at 91 France24 Climate/Environment ‘Ghost resorts’: as hundreds of ski slopes lie abandoned, will nature reclaim the Alps? The Guardian ‘When you plant something, […]
Key Takeaways The PBOC has issued an Action Plan to strengthen governance and infrastructure for the digital yuan. The new framework and mechanism for digital yuan management will be effective from January 1. Share this article China’s central bank, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), has released an action plan for the digital yuan, setting […]
Bitcoin miners produced block 929,699 on Dec. 27. What if that was the signal for a New Year’s moment, rather than our traditional calendar? The pitch is that block height, the ordered count of blocks every full node can verify, can act as a calendar layer for a market that trades and settles across jurisdictions. […]
Posted December 28, 2025 by Ben Carlson Here are some survey results from Deutsche Bank on the biggest risks investors think we’ll face in 2026: No surprises here. Investors are worried about the AI trade and a Fed policy mistake. Not very original but what else do you expect them to say? I could come […]
When Will My Pornographic Shrek Christmas Ornament Arrive? 404 Media Wild hogs wreak economic havoc for Mississippi agriculture Associated Press Why Britain has a deer problem – leaving damage that costs millions BBC (Kevin W) A new superconductor breaks rules physicists thought were fixed ScienceDaily (Kevin W) A Myth for Understanding Modern Mental Chaos CocotteMinute […]
What caught my eye this week. The Christmas break seems to be whizzing by even faster than usual this year. Perhaps it’s the cliché of time speeding up as you get older? Or maybe there’s just too much going on these days for us to ever slow down. Forty years ago I’d go through our […]
Key Takeaways The Flow Foundation is investigating a potential security breach affecting its network. Major Korean crypto exchange, Upbit, issued a cautionary advisory regarding the FLOW token following the incident. Share this article Crypto exchange Upbit on Saturday issued a caution advisory for Flow (FLOW), the layer 1 blockchain developed by Dapper Labs, after the […]
Trust Wallet’s Chrome extension shipped a malicious update in December, exfiltrating wallet data and draining roughly $7 million from hundreds of accounts before the company pushed a fix. The compromised version 2.68 was live for days, auto-updating in the background, the way browser extensions are designed to. Users who followed every standard self-custody rule, such […]
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Why there’s always room for dessert – an anatomist explains The Conversation Why Marathon Training is Shortening Your Life Your heart isn’t built for chronic punishment. The same cardiovascular stress that makes you endure pain and suffering for longer can also make you vulnerable. Exercise saves lives. That’s undisputed. But chronic high-intensity… pic.twitter.com/5QIApyi3Fm — Metabolic […]
