Neils Juul, the executive producer of Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, has launched a new firm with the goal of using NFT sales to finance Hollywood films, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “NFT Studios” already has its first project in the works, a comedy-drama film called “A Wing and a Prayer.” The film will tell the...
Tag: dec 7 2021
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NEW LITHIUM BATTERY DESIGN COULD CHARGE EVs TEN TIMES FASTER
At the Netherlands’ University of Twente, scientists have taken yet another step towards relieving a major worry of drivers thinking about owning an electric vehicle—waiting around for 20 or 30 minutes at a public charging station while your EV fuels up. No matter that a typical EV can run for two days or more on...
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MICROPLASTICS INVADE THE BRAIN, STUDY SHOWS
Microplastics—the small-to-invisible granular decay from plastic containers and packaging—literally cover the Earth, from the depths of the ocean to atop the Himalayas (“1,000 Tons of Plastic Dust Falls on National Parks Each Year,” 28 Jul 2020). Researchers have long known that these microscopic bits lodge in sea creatures’ bodies, weakening muscle structures, impairing cognition in...
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IMPLANTED ARTIFICIAL KIDNEY PERFORMS LIKE THE REAL THING
At the University of California San Francisco, scientists have successfully tested an implantable artificial kidney that not only works like the natural organ but that also doesn’t require anti-rejection drugs. In the device, blood is filtered through silicon membranes that remove waste. The blood then flows into a bioreactor of engineered cells that skims out...
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
INDIA’S VAST DATA NETWORK ENDS PRIVACY FOR 1.3 BILLION PEOPLE. India now leads the world in digital payments, registering 25.5 billion of them in 2020, compared to 15.7 billion in China and a mere 1.2 billion in the U.S., according to ACI Worldwide, a digital payments technology company. To use the payment system, an Indian...
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HANDGUN, KNIFE AND STICK
By Bradley J. Steiner, American Combato They are the most useful and effective personal weapons. Yet how many who train in martial arts today for self-defense recognize this, and are enthusiastic students of these weapons? Not too many. “Weapons of the martial arts” are customarily thought to be nunchucks, the nine foot pole, the manriki-gusari,...
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UNIONIZATION TREND ON TRACK
One of our 2022 Top Trends is “LABOR UNION COMEBACK,” and it is coming to a country near you. On 2 December, The New York Times reported that Canada Goose, the manufacturer of luxury apparel based in Winnipeg, Manitoba that makes parkas that can cost over $1,000, had workers at three of its plants vote...
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SUPPLY CHAIN NIGHTMARES BEGET “RESHORING” AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY
The global supply chain crisis—see “WORLD’S SUPPLY CHAIN SNARLED UNTIL WELL INTO NEXT YEAR” (14 Sep 2021)—as we have forecast, will give rise to more manufacturing returning nations who want to become more self-sufficient (see 2022 Top Trend “SELF-SUFFICIENT ECONOMY”). Termed “Reshoring,” presumably coined from “offshoring,” it will provide a new pathway for nations that...
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GERMANY: HEIL MERKEL! NO VAX, NO FREEDOM
German Chancellor Angel Merkel on Thursday imposed a new lockdown for unvaccinated citizens. Ramping up the lockdown laws, the outgoing Chancellor is also pushing Germany to follow in Austria’s footsteps and try to make vaccinations mandatory. (See “THE CHINESE WAY: MANDATORY VAXXING,” “AUSTRIA: ‘NO VAX, NO FREEDOM,” and “COVID WAR 2.0: MASS DESTRUCTION.”) The vaccine mandate...
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BANKSTER BANDITS FINED PEANUTS FOR CRIMES
Both The Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times reported, on 3 December, that four European banks had been fined by E.U. antitrust regulators in Brussels the equivalent of $400 million for participating in a scheme to manipulate foreign currency markets. The Bankster bandits involved were HSBC Holdings, Credit Suisse, Barclays, and NatWest Group (formerly...
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