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American teen was killed by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank. The U.S. has said little about it.
2025-05-02 21:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
TURMUS AYYA, West Bank To his family, Amer Rabee was just a 14-year-old American boy picking almonds with two friends.But to the Israeli soldiers who gunned him down on Sunday night, the trio were three terrorists who were endangering civilians by throwing rocks at cars. The hail of bullets the soldiers fired over the next several minutes succeeded in eliminating one terrorist and hitting two additional terrorists, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement Tuesday.Now, as the village of Turmus Ayya, which has a large number of U.S. citizens, mourns the loss of one of its children whose family insists had neither violent tendencies nor political allegiances its grappling with a deeper question: why President Donald Trump and the U.S. government have said so little about the killing of one of its citizens.Amer was an American citizen, Mohammed Rabee, 28, said Thursday about his cousin, who grew up in Saddle Brook, New Jersey. He thought his passport came with freedom...
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Data centers drive ERCOTs massive power demand forecast
2025-05-02 12:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
By Philip JankowskiAustin Bureau CorrespondentApr. 9, 2025|Updated 5:03 a.m. CDT|3 min. readTexas power grid operator ERCOT is projecting an explosion in energy demand over the next five years, with peak electricity use more than doubling as new data centers come online around the state.The Electric Reliability Council of Texas on Tuesday updated its projections to show peak electricity demand as high as 218 gigawatts in 2031. The current power demand record, set in August 2023, was 85.5 gigawatts.Energy-hungry data centers are driving the massive increases in ERCOTs long-term estimate, accounting for a whopping 86 gigawatts of demand growth. Thats enough electricity to keep the lights on at 21.5 million homes.ERCOT also downplayed the estimate, simultaneously releasing an adjusted estimate that showed power demand would grow, but at a significantly reduced pace. It showed demand hitting 145 gigawatts in 2031, 33% lower.Business BriefingBecome a business insider with the latest news....
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Releasing the Hydra with Rafael Yuste
2025-05-02 12:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
Profiles / Neural networks Losing HHMI Investigator status prompted Yuste to study neural networks in a new way. By Brady Huggett, Shaena Montanari 4 April 2025 | 10 min read comments https://doi.org/10.53053/WLAP1965 https://doi.org/10.53053/WLAP1965 - opens a new tab Cite this article Go West: After Yuste finished medical school in Madrid, his mentor Sydney Brenner guided him toward a Ph.D. at Rockefeller University. Photography by Mackenzie Calle Rafael Yuste woke up in his bedroom. It was early on a Sunday morning at the end of March 2019. Manhattan was quiet outside his windows. He had been dreaming of Sydney Brenner, sitting face to face with the Nobel-Prize-winning biologist. Brenner was speaking about Hydra as a model in neuroscience but also chiding Yuste, telling him to forget funding concerns and focus on the things that truly matter in science.He was so shaken by the dream that his wife woke up, too. A few days later, Yuste was reading the news online when he saw that Bre...
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