9.24.2024

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Deadly Barrage in Lebanon

Nearly 500 people, including 35 children and 58 women, were killed in southern and eastern Lebanon after Israel launched hundreds of airstrikes yesterday on the area's deadliest day of attacks since Israel's war with Hezbollah militants in 2006. At least 1,645 people were also wounded yesterday, according to Lebanon's health ministry. The casualty count does not distinguish between civilians and militants.

 

Israel said it struck roughly 1,300 Iran-backed Hezbollah (see background) targets in Lebanon, which shares borders with Israel to the south and Syria to the northeast (see conflict in maps). Civilians have also been ordered to evacuate from areas near the conflict. At least 60,000 people have been displaced from Israel's side of the border, while roughly 100,000 have been displaced from Lebanon. 

 

Fears of an all-out conflict in the Middle East continue to grow, with the US Pentagon announcing it is sending additional troops to the region. 

 

Octopus Hunting Parties

Octopuses can lead a group of fish in collaborative hunting, according to a new study published yesterday. The study is the first to outline the hierarchical roles each animal plays in the multispecies pack.

 

A team of German researchers diving in the Red Sea near Eilat, Israel, tracked 13 group cross-species hunts. In each case, a blue octopus normally found hunting alone, Octopus cyanea, led a pack of between two and 10 fish—often goatfish—to descend on mollusks and other small fish. The goatfish served as explorers, scouting possible targets that the octopus moved to approve or reject. Meal-sharing was not observed; each animal ate what it could scrounge from the hunt.

 

The octopus was also seen punching blacktip groupers attempting to freeload and fish within the group who were slacking in their roles (see video). As a next step, researchers are interested in investigating whether octopuses can remember and exclude individual fish for repeated misbehavior.

 

UNGA Kicks Off

The general debates of the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly are officially underway, with world leaders convening in New York to address urgent global challenges. More than 130 leaders are scheduled to speak, with President Joe Biden delivering his address this morning.

 

This year’s summit will focus on the group's Sustainable Development Goals (about 17% of which are on track to be completed by a 2030 deadline), combating climate change, and addressing international conflicts and health crises. The Summit of the Future, aimed at reinvigorating the multilateral system, featured the negotiation of a 56-action document designed to strengthen global cooperation. With more than 50 active conflicts in the world—the highest number since World War II—many discussions are expected to focus on ongoing conflicts such as those in Gaza, Ukraine, and Sudan.

 

The assembly will run through Sept. 30. Established in 1945, the UNGA is the only universally representative body of the 193-member United Nations. 

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In The Know
 

Sports, Entertainment, & Culture

> "Friends" competition game show begins production at Max in honor of the show's 30th anniversary (More

> 2005 Heisman winner Reggie Bush sues NCAA, Southern Cal, and the Pac-12 over name, image and likeness compensation (More)

> "Hamilton" creator Lin-Manuel Miranda set to star in "All In: Comedy About Love" on Broadway in January (More) | 2025 Tony Awards to return to Radio City Music Hall after a two-year hiatus (More)

 

Science & Technology

> Encrypted messaging app Telegram will begin providing some user information, including IP addresses and names, to officials when legally requested; change comes a few weeks after CEO Pavel Durov was arrested in France (More) | See previous write-up on Durov's arrest here (More)

> Giant panda skin cells reprogrammed into pluripotent stem cells, a key step toward potentially conserving the endangered species (More) | What are stem cells, and how do they work? (More, w/video) 

> Space experiment reveals low gravity environments weaken heart muscles, disrupt normal rhythms (More

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Business & Markets

> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +0.3%, Dow +0.2%, Nasdaq +0.1%); S&P 500, Dow close at new records (More

> California sues ExxonMobil over allegedly misleading the public for decades about whether the plastics the oil giant manufactured can be recycled (More) | Why plastics are hard to recycle (More)

> Boeing raises offer to striking union workers amid nearly two-week long walkout, which brought production of commercial jets to a near-halt; latest proposal includes 30% pay increase over four years and doubles signing bonus to $6K (More)

 

Politics & World Affairs

> Man found guilty of killing 10 people at a Boulder, Colorado, supermarket in March 2021, will receive life sentence (More) | Man accused in this month's assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump wrote down plans and tracked Trump's whereabouts months before incident, prosecutors say (More

> Murders in the US fell 11.6% year-over-year in 2023, the largest single-year decline in two decades, according to new FBI data; overall violent crime dropped 3% in 2023 while motor vehicle thefts rose 12.6% (More) | Explore data (More)

> Southeast US under storm warning as disturbance in Gulf of Mexico expected to strengthen into Hurricane Helene this week, with potential US landfall as Category 3 hurricane as soon as Thursday (More

 

In-Depth

> The Strange Theft of a Priceless Churchill Portrait

The Walrus | Brett Popplewell. The history of an iconic photograph of former UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill, from its origins in 1941 to an art heist in Canada and its recovery this year. (Read)

 

> Cream of the Crop

The Colorado Sun | Michael Booth. How a pair of farmers tripped up drought detection systems in Colorado and Kansas to attempt a multimillion-dollar insurance fraud, leaving weather analysts mystified. (Read)

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