CURRENT EVENTS - JANUARY 2026
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Not registering to read the article but I'm doubting you'll find any unequivocal statements about what they absolutely know.
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“… A new analysis of these primordial bones offers evidence that Sahelanthropus was our first known ancestor to regularly walk on two feet, a sign that bipedalism evolved early in our lineage and constitutes an evolutionary hallmark of our kind. The interpretation, if it holds, would push back the date at which early hominins stood tall by about a million years.
But the new study is unlikely to settle the long-simmering debate over whether Sahelanthropus walked on two or four feet. And it underscores just how little scientists still know about human evolution, with only a handful of fossilized bones of early hominids ever unearthed after decades of digging.
… Guy and Daver agreed the new paper will not settle the controversy. “Indeed, closing the debate would require the discovery of new remains,” they said.…”
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Before reading the article I immediately thought this was at the heart of the issue. Doctors are just employees now….”More young doctors are choosing to join healthcare systems or hospitals—or larger physician groups. Among physicians under age 45, only 32% own practices, down from 44% in 2012. By comparison, 51% of those ages 45 to 55 are owners.”
When you consider the costs of medical school, malpractice insurance and medical equipment as well, I'm not that surprised.
The costs of opening a private medical practice have risen substantially over the last 30 years, driven by overall medical inflation, administrative burdens, and technological advancements. While a precise average national percentage increase for startup costs is unavailable in the search results, data indicates that general medical care prices are over 250% higher in 2025 than in 1990.
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I am not anywhere close to a Medical profesional. I did have a Medical school doc in my family. I did work in Physician pay for years
Things have changed. Orders from the top focus on MBA analytics in producing revenue
Now in so far as Docs see more patients-that is good
FWIW Dook Hospital has ALWAYS had the "produce revenue" emphasis-and care at dook is very good.UNC Health Care started with this model when Bow tie guy took over. We have blown up since then in the volume of Care we produce
Overall costs of Health Care has of course also blown up
Things have changed. Orders from the top focus on MBA analytics in producing revenue
Now in so far as Docs see more patients-that is good
FWIW Dook Hospital has ALWAYS had the "produce revenue" emphasis-and care at dook is very good.UNC Health Care started with this model when Bow tie guy took over. We have blown up since then in the volume of Care we produce
Overall costs of Health Care has of course also blown up
Awful, tragic story in Raleigh. Guy with a mile long list of priors killed a beloved teacher while breaking in to her house. She was on the phone with 911 when she was attacked.
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Police: Man who broke into Raleigh teacher's home and killed her has lengthy criminal history
According to the Raleigh Police Department, a woman, identified as Zoe Welsh, called 911 around 6:33 a.m. from her home on Clay Street to report that a man was inside her home. While Welsh was on the phone, the suspect began assaulting her.
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That’s terrible.Awful, tragic story in Raleigh. Guy with a mile long list of priors killed a beloved teacher while breaking in to her house. She was on the phone with 911 when she was attacked.
Police: Man who broke into Raleigh teacher's home and killed her has lengthy criminal history
According to the Raleigh Police Department, a woman, identified as Zoe Welsh, called 911 around 6:33 a.m. from her home on Clay Street to report that a man was inside her home. While Welsh was on the phone, the suspect began assaulting her.
I didn’t know who Raleigh’s police chief was until reading that article. I went to school with him years ago. I didn’t really know him personally, but knew of him. He was an exceptional athlete.
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“…and nobody can stop us.”
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So we're going to simply take over a territory that has never belonged to us, but has belonged to a traditional ally, Denmark, for centuries, and whose residents have repeatedly said that they don't want to be a part of the United States. But hell, let's just go full rogue and send in the troops and isolate ourseleves and destabilize the world situation even more! We're becoming a pirate state, like the old Barbary states in North Africa.
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In re Greenland: In terms of US needs, what would we get by taking over Greenland that we don't already have now?
1. One idea is that there are strategic minerals in Greenland that Trump, Inc. think could be licensed to those who make appropriate bribes and campaign contributions. Mining is difficult, costly, and dangerous. North Carolina has enormous lithium resources that are only now getting renewed attention. The cost of mining made exploiting that lithium uneconomical until very recently. If mining lithium, until recently, was cost prohibitive 30 miles east of where I live, unless something like Unobtainium is lying beneath the snow and ice of Greenland, I just don't see how it would be economically feasible to mine there.
2. If the idea is that global warming is going to make the fabled "Northwest Passage" the most heavily travelled sea route in the world and will make the Panama and Suez Canals obsolete, then I think that idea is so farfetched as to make St. Donald of Mar-a-Lago's oft repeated lust for Canada and Greenland delusional. a) Climate change sufficient to make the "Northwest Passage" a feasible route for transporting goods to/from Asia and Europe/US East Coast would be so disruptive in so many unforeseen ways as to make any plans to exploit it beyond mortal imagination. b) Also, when I was a teenager, I read about a grand plan to build an enormous railroad system that hugged the US/Mexican border from San Diego to Laredo and then Corpus Christi for transferring containers and such from the Pacific to Gulf of Mexico. The purpose of this was to free America's economy and shipping from the bottleneck and political uncertainty around the Panama Canal. That plan--a super-rail system entirely within US borders--now seems sane compared to the ravings I read about the Northwest Passage.
1. One idea is that there are strategic minerals in Greenland that Trump, Inc. think could be licensed to those who make appropriate bribes and campaign contributions. Mining is difficult, costly, and dangerous. North Carolina has enormous lithium resources that are only now getting renewed attention. The cost of mining made exploiting that lithium uneconomical until very recently. If mining lithium, until recently, was cost prohibitive 30 miles east of where I live, unless something like Unobtainium is lying beneath the snow and ice of Greenland, I just don't see how it would be economically feasible to mine there.
2. If the idea is that global warming is going to make the fabled "Northwest Passage" the most heavily travelled sea route in the world and will make the Panama and Suez Canals obsolete, then I think that idea is so farfetched as to make St. Donald of Mar-a-Lago's oft repeated lust for Canada and Greenland delusional. a) Climate change sufficient to make the "Northwest Passage" a feasible route for transporting goods to/from Asia and Europe/US East Coast would be so disruptive in so many unforeseen ways as to make any plans to exploit it beyond mortal imagination. b) Also, when I was a teenager, I read about a grand plan to build an enormous railroad system that hugged the US/Mexican border from San Diego to Laredo and then Corpus Christi for transferring containers and such from the Pacific to Gulf of Mexico. The purpose of this was to free America's economy and shipping from the bottleneck and political uncertainty around the Panama Canal. That plan--a super-rail system entirely within US borders--now seems sane compared to the ravings I read about the Northwest Passage.
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Trump’s Critics Are Falling Into an Obvious Trap
The capture of Nicolás Maduro is a show of ambition that calls for an effective response.
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Trump’s Critics Are Falling Into an Obvious Trap
The capture of Nicolás Maduro is a show of ambition that calls for an effective response.www.theatlantic.com
—> Trump’s Critics Are Falling Into an Obvious Trap“… Because the Trump movement is a cult of personality, with no consistent principles and no concern for truth, many of its boosters don’t care whether the success is real or phony. They don’t care whether the advertised “success” actually happened the way Trump says it did. They don’t care whether the so-called success achieves anything important or lasting. They don’t care if there later turns out to be a corrupt underside. They celebrate peace plans that don’t bring peace, trade deals that don’t enhance trade.
The Trump movement exists to glorify Trump, in all his erratic mania. Results in the real world don’t matter.…”
