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'Frustrated' voters demand 'bold and brave' politicians with a vision
2025-05-02 21:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
Hairdresser Renee Johnson hears a lot in her Muswellbrook hair and beauty salon.But one thing she has not heard, in the two weeks since the federal election campaign kicked off, is anything from either major party that would cement her vote.She is still undecided.As a small business owner in a traditional mining town, her biggest fear, and one that she shares with her customers, is job insecurity."It's fair to say that I haven't heard [anything] from either party to sway me."I get scared of the unknown," she said of the future of Muswellbrook in the NSW Hunter Valley, where the coal mine is moving to closure by 2030.Ms Johnson is not alone in her indecision. Nor is she alone in feeling that neither of the major parties has put forward anything that would definitively earn their vote.The ABC's Your Say project has heard from thousands of audience members since the start of the campaign.Many lament a lack of long-term political vision and express fear for the future. They question where...
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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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