Events, Verisoph

2020 British Airways cuts 30 percent of workforce ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Major airline cuts 30% of 42,000-person workforce due to collapse of travel demand from pandemic lockdowns. ●●

2020 Zoonotic diseases quadruple over past 50 years rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Wildlife and environmental groups report that animal-to-human disease transmission has increased fourfold in recent decades. ●●

2020 Land-use changes drive majority of zoonotic disease risk rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Agriculture and habitat disruption are primary drivers of emergence of spillover diseases from animals to humans. ●●

2020 China bans wildlife trade after COVID-19 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Chinese authorities permanently prohibit wildlife trade and consumption following pandemic emergence. ●●

2020 During the talk the President had expressed the wish to see B, and as a prelimin rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story During the talk the President had expressed the wish to see B, and as a preliminary step F advised B to give an account of his views in a brief memorandum.2020 The Bohrs turned to the task as Washington steamed, the last days of June and the first days of July dawning in the high eighties and sweltering above 100° by afternoon. ●●

2020 Mitch Horowitz films The Kybalion documentary in Egypt ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Recent to the writing of the Seeker's Guide (2020), Mitch Horowitz visited Ancient Egypt to work on a feature documentary about The Kybalion with director Ronni Thomas, to identify the manner in which the book intersects with aspects of Egyptian thought. ●●

1 February 2021 Myanmar Civil War 0 cit. no story The military's 2021 coup against the elected government triggers nationwide armed resistance allied with ethnic insurgencies. Large parts of the country slip from junta control as the war continues. politics / war ●●●

15 April 2023 Sudanese Civil War (2023-present) 0 cit. no story Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces turn on each other, devastating Khartoum and Darfur. The war has killed tens of thousands, displaced over ten million people, and produced famine and ethnic massacres. war ●●●

7 October 2023 Gaza War 0 cit. no story Hamas attacks Israel on October 7, 2023, killing around 1,200 people and taking hostages, and Israel responds with a devastating campaign in Gaza. Tens of thousands of Palestinians die and the war ripples across the region. politics / war ●●●●

2030 2030: Vinge says this will occur by 2030. rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story ves to be even supersmarter, and will thus no longer need us mortals. Vinge says this will occur by 2030. 19 On the other hand, these latest stories might turn out to be like the similarly phrased one ●●

2030 2030: rsmarter, and will thus no longer need us mortals. Vinge says this wil rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story rsmarter, and will thus no longer need us mortals. Vinge says this will occur by 2030. 19 On the other hand, these latest stories might ●●

2032 Notice that Bohr does not propose a world government of centralized authority bu rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Notice that Bohr does not propose a world government of centralized authority but a consortium: “An open world where each nation can assert itself solely by the extent to which it can contribute to the common culture and is able to help others with experience and resources must be the goal to put above everything else.”2032 And most generally and profoundly: “The very fact that knowledge is itself the basis for civilization points directly to openness as the way to overcome the present crisis.”2033 Such an effort would begin with the United States, Bohr suggested to Roosevelt in the summer of 1944, because the United States had achieved clear advantage: “The present situation would seem to offer a most favourable opportunity for an early initiative from the side which by good fortune has achieved a lead in the efforts of mastering mighty forces of nature hitherto beyond human reach.” Concessions would demonstrate goodwill; “indeed, it would appear that only when the question is taken up . ●●

2034 of what concessions the various powers are prepared to make as their contributio rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story of what concessions the various powers are prepared to make as their contribution to an adequate control arrangement, [will it] be possible for any one of the partners to assure themselves of the sincerity of the intentions of the others.”2034 The untitled memorandum Bohr prepared for Franklin Roosevelt in Washington in 1944 went to Felix Frankfurter for review on July 5 along with a cover letter apologizing for its inadequacies. ●●

2035 and 50 percent by 2050, positioning it, claims van Beurden, to “meet the go rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2035 and 50 percent by 2050, positioning it, claims van Beurden, to “meet the goals of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change ●●

2035 Bohr worried through the hot night and composed another apology the next day: “I rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Bohr worried through the hot night and composed another apology the next day: “I have had serious anxieties,” he confided, “that [the memorandum] may not correspond to your expectations and perhaps not at all be suited for the purpose.”2035 Frankfurter had the good sense to recognize the document’s merit—it is still the only comprehensive and realistic charter for a postnuclear world—and about a week later told Bohr he had handed it to the President. ●●

2051 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story .2051 He resented even more that he was removed [by lack of administrative contact] from Oppenheimer.” The theoretical complexity of the Super challenged Teller as the fission bomb had not; it also offered a line of work along which he might lead. ●●

2055 You have to have a gun emplacement, and a gun, and a sand butt, which is nothing rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story You have to have a gun emplacement, and a gun, and a sand butt, which is nothing but a huge box full of sand that you fire projectiles into so that you can find the pieces afterwards, and because there might be somebody else out there.”2055 The site they chose was Anchor Ranch, a former working ranch three miles southwest of the mesa that the Army had bought as part of the reservation; they fired the first shot on September 17, 1943. ●●

2069 “Both because of the theoretical problems still to be solved and because of the rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story “Both because of the theoretical problems still to be solved and because of the possibility that the Super would have to be made with tritium,” reports the Los Alamos technical history, “it appeared that the development would require much longer than originally anticipated.” Work could continue—the Super was too portentous a weapon to ignore—but only to the extent that it “did not interfere with the main program.”2069 Von Neumann soon drafted Ulam to help work out the hydrodynamics of implosion. ●●

2070 “The hydrodynamical problem was simply stated,” Ulam comments, “but very difficu rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story “The hydrodynamical problem was simply stated,” Ulam comments, “but very difficult to calculate—not only in detail, but even in order of magnitude.”2070 He remembers in particular a long discussion early in 1944 when he questioned “all the ingenious shortcuts and theoretical simplifications which von Neumann and other . ●●

2081 At the present time the method to which an over-riding priority must be assigned rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story At the present time the method to which an over-riding priority must be assigned is the method of implosion.”2081 That necessity was painful, as the Los Alamos technical history makes clear: “The implosion was the only real hope, and from current evidence not a very good one.”2082 Oppenheimer agonized over the problem to the point that he considered resigning his directorship. ●●

2083 “The Laboratory had at this time strong reserves of techniques, of trained manpo rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story “The Laboratory had at this time strong reserves of techniques, of trained manpower, and of morale,” says the technical history.2083 “It was decided to attack the problems of the implosion with every means available, ‘to throw the book at it.’ ” Going over the prospects with Bacher and Kistiakowsky, Oppenheimer decided to carve two new divisions out of Parsons’ Ordnance Division: G (for Gadget) under Bacher to master the physics of implosion and X (for eXplosives) under Kistiakowsky to perfect explosive lenses. ●●

2084 He was extremely suspicious of me rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story He was extremely suspicious of me.2084 Parsons had his hands full in any case designing the uranium gun, Little Boy, and arranging its eventual use. ●●

2093 I remember that I met the man at the old Warner Theater here in Washington, up i rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story I remember that I met the man at the old Warner Theater here in Washington, up in the balcony—real cloak and dagger stuff.”2093 Abelson briefed the BuOrd officer about the plant he was building. ●●

2094 This vital information the BuOrd man carried to Los Alamos and passed along to E rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story This vital information the BuOrd man carried to Los Alamos and passed along to Edward Teller.2094 Teller in turn briefed Oppenheimer. ●●

2095 suddenly told me that we had [made] a terrible scientific blunder,” Groves testi rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story suddenly told me that we had [made] a terrible scientific blunder,” Groves testified after the war.2095 “I think he was right. ●●