Today's broadcast has ended. Check the replay and join us LIVE next Tursday. AfDâs 43.8% win in Saxony-Anhalt cracked Europeâs firewall. Barbara and Bruce take your questions LIVE â Carney, Canada, Ukraine funding, and whatâs next.
AfDâs 43.8% win in Saxony-Anhalt rattled British and EU elitesâpledging to end open borders and halt Ukraine funding. Barbara ties the revolt to Germanyâs Mittelstand under China pressure, green/nuclear/energy shocks, Carneyâs EU dream, and Trump-era peace moves.
Rare Kremlin video: Putin with Witkoff and Kushner, then their first Kyiv trip this term and Zelenskyy's restrained reply. Moscow cites trust and economic projects; Bessent chokes offshore funding. Argentina presses Malvinas as Trump rethinks automatic U.S. backing of Britain.
In today's report: maglev hearts and rails, supersonic airliners, the Boeing strike, the Webb Telescope images the edge of our galaxy, and Trump's initiatives presented in New York.
In July, the first patient-volunteer received an implanted artificial heart with only one moving partâthe impellerâwhich is suspended by magnetic levitation and touches nothing but blood. The patient was the first of five to receive the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart as a bridge device to keep patients alive while waiting for suitable human hearts to become available. The patient lived with the device for 8 days until a transplant became possible. He has been in good health since receiving his transplanted human heart. The test program is being carried out at the Texas Heart Institute of the Texas Medical Center in Houston.
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By placing their superconducting maglev test vehicle inside a 2-kilometer low vacuum tube, the Institute of Maglev and Electromagnetic Propulsion of China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation succeeded in reaching a speed of about 621 kph, exceeding the long-standing Japanese superconducting maglev record of 603 kph. It should be expected that by lengthening the test tube, the Chinese should be able to reach their initial goal of 1,000 kph. That would exceed the speed at which typical jet airliners travel. They ultimately aim for 4,000 kph. As America considers development of high speed rail systems, systems within evacuated tubes should be put at the top of the list of candidate technologies. [Note that the headline of the New Atlas article, referenced below, mistakenly lists the speed as 621 mph instead of 621 kph.]
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Cable news is arguing eggs, beef, gas, and Iran. Bruce Director spent Saturday night on the real midterm question: American System vs. British System â two flavors of the same entropy, and nine weeks to pick a future.
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Four new nuclear reactors went critical in a single month â America's first in 40 years. Brian Lantz on the factory boom the media won't name, and the apprenticeship programs that pay you to help build it. The hardest problem was never the physics.
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