"...On August 10, the California Public Utilities Commission voted to allow Google’s Waymo and GM’s Cruise to begin charging customers for driverless taxi rides across the city. A week later, Cruise vehicles were involved in two serious crashes within hours of one another. The next day, the California Department of Motor Vehicles demanded that Cruise cut its driverless taxi fleet in half while these crashes were investigated" More at Ars Technica ➜

A few years ago, I had the opportunity to go on safari in southern Africa. One of the greatest thrills was going out at night looking for predators on the prowl: lions, leopards, hyenas....As we drove through the darkness, though, our spotlight occasionally lit up a smaller hunter – a slender, tawny feline, faintly spotted or striped. The glare would catch the small cat for a moment before it darted back into the shadows. More at The Conversation ➜

"While apples aren’t considered a superfood, they are considered a functional food. Apples are not high in vitamin A, nor are they beneficial for vision like carrots. They are not a great source of vitamin C and therefore don’t fight off colds as oranges do. However, apples contain various bioactive substances – natural chemicals that occur in small amounts in foods and that have biological effects in the body. More at The Conversation ➜

"Medical boards, a health department and even federal investigators have scrutinized Dr. James McGuckin’s vascular clinics. Today he still practices, despite a decade long string of sanctions, fines and lawsuits" More at ProPublica ➜

Wastewater processing facilities with advanced oxidization technology are now poised to make a significant difference on waste water treatment and purification More at Reasons to be Cheerful ➜ 

"Globally, 2023 has seen some of the hottest days in modern measurements, but what about farther back, before weather stations and satellites?" .... More at The Conversation ➜

"Past public ire over high drug prices has recently taken a back seat to a more insidious problem – no drugs at any price. Patients and their providers increasingly face limited or nonexistent supplies of drugs" More at The Conversation ➜

"About 400,000 years ago, large parts of Greenland were ice-free. Scrubby tundra basked in the Sun’s rays on the island’s northwest highlands. Evidence suggests that a forest of spruce trees, buzzing with insects, covered the southern part of Greenland. Global sea level was much higher then, between 20 and 40 feet above today's levels".... More at The Conversation ➜

"A Dutch entrepreneur says he’s been trying to alert US military officials to the leak for a decade" More at The Verge ➜

... "Why do some people seem to glide though their golden years and others physiologically struggle in midlife? ... A biologist explains why no two people or cells age the same way, and what this means for anti-aging interventions"  More at The Conversation ➜

"The recent transformation of the state’s election laws explicitly enabled citizens to file unlimited challenges to other voters’ registrations. Experts warn that election officials’ handling of some of those challenges may clash with federal law" More at ProPublica ➜

Fiber is your body’s natural guide to weight management – rather than cutting carbs out of your diet, eat them in their original fiber packaging instead  More at The Conversation ➜