Daily Archives: August 13, 2025
Keir Starmer’s gov tells UK residents to delete old emails and pictures to save water during drought
"Simple, everyday choices – such as turning off a tap or deleting old emails – also really help the collective effort to reduce demand and help preserve the health of our rivers and wildlife," said Helen Wakeham, the Environment Agency's director of water.
The UK government has issued new guidance on how to save water as parts of the country are dealing with a drought. One of the recommendations includes deleting "old emails and pictures", according to a press release on the government's website, which claims that data centres "require vast amounts of water to cool their systems."
The advice was issued as five areas of Great Britain have entered into drought following the fourth heatwave of the summer.
"The current situation is nationally significant, and we are calling on everyone to play their part and help reduce the...
In Trump’s America, Vaccination Rates are Declining and Measles Is Spreading
August 13, 2025
Trump and RFK Jr. have made every effort to undermine one of the major civilizing advances of the 20th century—our public health infrastructure
US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks behind President Donald Trump during an executive orders signing event in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 5, 2025. (Alex Wroblewski / Getty Images)
New data from the CDC suggests a grim back-to-school tradition emerging: In 2024, kindergarten vaccination rates declined for the fifth consecutive year. Meanwhile, vaccine exemptions reached a record high.
These statistics became all the more disturbing last fall when, shortly after 286,000 children began their educations without proof of full immunity against measles, a man who has bragged about never getting a flu shot was reelected to the presidency. Since then,...
He Ruined Our Five-Year Relationship Because Of Somebody’s Girlfriend
At the end of December 2024, I discovered the most heartbreaking news about my supposed boyfriend. In hindsight, I should have listened to my gut. There were signs that he was up to something shady, but I was dealing with a lot around that time. I was battling some health issues, so I was always in and out of the hospital. I had also just lost my best friend. With my grieving heart and my ailing body, I didn’t have the mental energy to process the little things that didn’t add up in my boyfriend’s life.It was even harder to monitor him because he lives in Ghana while I live overseas. Of course, all our conversations happened over the phone. Despite all the barriers between us, I still caught hints that he was entertaining another...
NASA’s SpaceX-33 Resupply Mission Launches Research to Station
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Research on travelling to the International Space Station aboard NASA’s SpaceX 33rd commercial resupply mission includes testing 3D bioprinting of an implantable medical device, observing the behaviour of engineered liver tissues, examining microgravity’s effects on bone-forming cells, and additional 3D printing of metal in space. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to launch to the orbiting laboratory in late August.
For nearly 25 years, the International Space Station has provided research capabilities used by scientists from over 110 countries to conduct more than 4,000 groundbreaking experiments in microgravity. Research conducted aboard the space station advances future space exploration – including missions to the Moon and Mars – and provides multiple benefits to humanity.
Read more about some of the latest investigations headed to the orbiting lab.
Scientists are creating an implantable device in microgravity that could support nerve...