Wednesday, January 15, 2025 |
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How you can help victims of the LA fires |
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In rather sad news, it's been a devastating week for the US, with over 130,000 people now displaced from areas of Los Angeles, and 1,000 buildings burnt to the ground amid the rapidly-spreading fires that we've no doubt you've been hearing about. Among those dealing with the scale of the situation are a number of celebrities who have lost their homes, including Mel Gibson, who was on Joe Rogan's podcast at the time his property was up in flames. What's more, questions have been raised about what remains of some of the city's most iconic landmarks, including those Barbenheimer houses on Santa Monica beachfront. But, this tragedy has also brought out the best in humanity. Owners have been reunited with their lost pets, and Heidi Montag fans have streamed her 15-year-old previously-uncharted album to the top of every hit list to help her family re-build their lives. LA, we're all thinking of you. Want to help? Here's every way that you can show your support for victims. | Welcome to the Indy100 newsletter |
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| Another bad day to be Elon Musk. |
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| That's a truly eye-watering figure. |
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| Is it too early to start building our Christmas lists? |
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Are middle children 'better people' than their siblings? |
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Artificial intelligence is here to stay, and while some have embraced the technology, others are understandably worried about its swift evolution and how it can potentially impact our livelihood. Well now, according to a new study by the World Economic Forum (WEF), the inevitable is near with claims that some jobs are at risk of an AI takeover by the year 2030. They predicted that 22 per cent of today's total jobs will be impacted, through job creation or destruction. "This is expected to entail the creation of new jobs equivalent to 14 per cent of today's total employment, amounting to 170 million jobs," the WEF explained. "However, this growth is expected to be offset by the displacement of the equivalent of 8 per cent (or 92 million) of current jobs, resulting in net growth of 7 per cent of total employment, or 78 million jobs." Read more here |
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Back in August 1831, scientists of the time were left baffled after the sun appeared to turn blue and now experts think they know why it happened. Nearly 200 years ago, a two-year-long period of cold weather across the globe was ushered in when the sun turned blue. During the short, sharp cooling event, average temperatures dropped by around 1°C. Reports from around the world, including China, Europe, the US and the Caribbean, in August 1831 described the sun as appearing "blue, purple, and green". For years, the location of the eruption has not been pinpointed, but experts now finally think it came from the Zavaritskii caldera, solving the 200-year-old mystery. Scientists from the University of St Andrews in Scotland gathered evidence that the eruption emerged on the uninhabited remote island of Simushir, and their results have since been published in a study. |
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If you only have 100 seconds... |
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A TV host who lost her home in the devastating Los Angeles fires believes a medium "predicted" it in a clip from months prior. Talk show host Ricki Lake counts herself among one of the many celebrities to have lost their homes in the fires that are devastating parts of California, including the Pacific Palisades and Malibu. In a post on Instagram, Lake shared her prayers for others caught up in "this ongoing nightmare" and suggested that her loss was predicted by the medium Tyler Henry months prior. Lake shared a clip which came from an October 2024 episode of Live from The Other Side with Tyler Henry on Netflix, during which she was a guest with her husband, Ross. "If there was a loss of material objects from a fire and water, that's the kind of weird distinction – it's two separate things…," Henry told the couple. "So we're going to end up finding that there's a story where, like, there was a house fire or something along those lines. A fire risk." Read more here |
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