Economic Indicators4 hours ago (Mar 26, 2020 05:05PM ET) (C) Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Federal Reserve building pictured in Washington By David Henry NEW YORK (Reuters) – With encouragement from the Federal Reserve, U.S. banks have turned to a long-shunned lending facility known as the discount window to borrow $50.8 billion, […]
France’s Virus Train Moves Patients to Less Hard-Hit Areas
Along with much of the world, France has gone into lockdown mode to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus. Citizens are staying at home, planes are on the tarmac, cars in garages. The national railroad has whittled service to a minimum, but it sent a TGV high-speed train from […]
A South Korean Covid-19 Czar Has Some Advice for Trump
As America’s first week of social distancing drew to a close, I called Dr. Min Pok-kee, who heads up the Covid-19 response in Daegu, the South Korean city hit hardest by the epidemic. Though Min usually works as a dermatologist, he has spent the past six weeks as a volunteer […]
U.S. weekly jobless claims soar to record 3.28 million
2/2 (C) Reuters. Job seekers speak with potential employers at a City of Boston Neighborhood Career Fair on May Day in Boston 2/2 By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The number of Americans filing claims for unemployment benefits surged to a record of more than 3 million last week as […]
Record Jobless Claims Are Overwhelming States’ Aging Tech
Christine Cemelli was at home on March 16 when she got the text. Her husband, a chef at a fine-dining restaurant in New Jersey, had been laid off. Earlier that day, Governor Phil Murphy had signed an executive order restricting the operations of nonessential businesses in an attempt to slow […]
G20 leaders commit to united front against pandemic
Economic Indicators10 hours ago (Mar 26, 2020 11:11AM ET) 2/2 (C) Reuters. Russian President Putin takes part in a meeting with G20 leaders via video link at his residence outside Moscow 2/2 DUBAI (Reuters) – G20 leaders said during on Thursday they were committed to presenting a united front against […]
That 8-Star System in *Star Trek: Picard* Really Could Exist
You’ve heard of binary star systems, right? It’s where there are two stars close to each other, and they both orbit around a common center of mass. Sure, you saw binary stars in the original movie, where Luke Skywalker was on the desert planet Tatooine. Oh wait, that’s Star Wars […]
The Heady, Intricate Beauty of Watching Whiskey Evaporate
If you’ve got a tiny bit of whiskey, though, and you let it dry out, the water-hating chemical compounds form a skin, or monolayer. “Then as it evaporates, the surface area will crumble and buckle,” Williams says, and a web pattern emerges. Four Roses materializes a dense network of chemical […]
How to See the World’s Reflection From a Bag of Chips
However, some experts caution that future versions of the technology are ripe for abuse. For example, it could enable stalkers or child abusers, says ethicist Jacob Metcalf of Data & Society, a nonprofit research center that focuses on the social implications of emerging technologies. A stalker could download images off […]
U.S. weekly jobless claims surge to a record 3.28 million as coronavirus spurs mass layoffs
Coronavirus33 minutes ago (Mar 26, 2020 09:05AM ET) 2/2 (C) Reuters. Job seekers speak with potential employers at a City of Boston Neighborhood Career Fair on May Day in Boston 2/2 By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The number of Americans filing claims for unemployment benefits surged to a record […]