Apple cannot refuse the US government’s request for information. Photo: Getty Images. Authorities asked Apple not to disclose information. It was not until last May that McGahn was informed, the source of New York Times said. At the time, special counsel Robert Mueller was investigating allegations that Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign had ties to Russia. Don McGahn is one of the leading figures in the team supporting the US billionaire running for the White House. It is not clear from which side Apple received the request for information. At the beginning of 2018, Donald Trump himself also expressed anger at his aide. However, it is highly likely that the request comes from the Robert Mueller investigation. In addition to Don McGahn’s personal information collection, Trump’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort, is also facing trial for alleged election fraud. Mr. McGahn was not aware of Apple providing his information to the authorities. Photo: New York Times. Neither Apple nor McGahn’s attorney declined to comment. A few days ago, New York Times also revealed that the US Justice Department under Donald Trump asked Apple to provide information from the accounts of two Democratic politicians Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell. All of these cases have never been officially announced by Apple. In both cases, the concern is not only with who is being investigated, but also in how authorities exploit personal information. According to the Engadget For many years, technology companies have tried to be transparent in the use of user data, however, they do not explain and provide public information about such incidents. Can Apple become the bank of the future? Technology companies are looking to enter the financial technology industry such as Paypal, Samsung. Many rumors about Apple going to bank with Apple Wallet Pay and Apple Card.

LTS: Working at the first newspaper to charge readers in Vietnam, journalist Tran Tien Duan, Editor-in-Chief of VietnamPlus e-newspaper said that charging readers is a trend of the world’s press. To collect fees effectively, newsrooms must orient the production of content for paying readers that specialize in specific areas and must make a worthy investment to improve the quality of articles. Big, hot issues are at the forefront. VietNamNet would like to introduce the following article of Mr. For online newspapers, revenue is mainly from advertising and media contracts. However, now, there is a big shift when businesses choose advertising media through social media more instead of advertising on electronic newspapers. The transformation of advertising methods and the reduction of revenue is a really challenging economic problem for newspaper leaders. E-newspapers want to survive and develop, they need to find new forms of journalism economy, in which fee collection can be a solution for electronic newspapers in Vietnam. Editor-in-Chief of VietnamPlus Online Newspaper Tran Tien Duan Fee collection at VietnamPlus e-Newspaper There are many newspapers in the world such as Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post (USA), Financial Times, The Economist (UK), Svenska Dagbladet and Aftonbladet New Media (Sweden), Folha de São Paulo (Brazil). .. had early success with the digital-based fee model, before the growth of online advertising revenue slowed down and even declined in recent years. In addition, a harsh reality that has emerged in recent years is that up to 75-80% of digital advertising revenue flows into the pockets of two giants Google and Facebook. Because of that, newspapers found that they could no longer depend on advertising revenue, so charging readers really became a trend of the world press. On June 20, 2018, VNA’s online newspaper VietnamPlus became the first and only Vietnamese press agency to collect fees for reading content on digital platforms. Every day, VietnamPlus only distributes about 5-10 fee-based articles, including in-depth analysis articles, exclusive interviews, etc., produced by the newsroom itself, or translated under the franchise of major press units. In the world. Because the quantity of news sold is small, it does not affect the provision of essential information to serve readers and still ensures the principles and orientation of the VNA. VietnamPlus is the national foreign affairs electronic newspaper under the VNA. Therefore, the newspaper has many advantages due to the information system of the VNA and from 90 resident agencies at home and abroad. Therefore, VietnamPlus has more advantages when it comes to building specialized and in-depth content for its premium products, creating “commodity” products of high value and use value. Target a wide audience willing to pay to own that unique article or news. Interface of fee collection page of VietnamPlus newspaper The content that VietnamPlus has been collecting fees for focuses on 4 main areas: Politics – society, world, economy – technology and culture – sport. These articles are analyzed from multiple perspectives, and more importantly, have a lot of exclusive information because they are provided quickly, timely, and attractively by resident correspondents abroad. public interest. Regarding access organization, while The Straits Times and other fee-based online newspapers often put both paid and free content on the same website, Vietnam Plus separates the fee to https: //pay.vietnamplus.vn and free at https://vietnamplus.vn. This is to avoid offending readers who are not used to paying for e-newspapers, but will also affect the ability to cross-promote for subscriptions. In the near future, the newsroom is also planning to change it to allow partial reading, creating an incentive for users to be willing to pay. Taking the first step on a new path, VietnamPlus e-newspaper has constantly learned from the electronic newspaper fee models in the world, researched the information needs of domestic readers to build and develop this model. in your own newspaper. Currently, VietnamPlus uses many strategies to achieve its goals: Periodical newsletters, information on specific topics (politics, economics, culture, science) to attract subscribers to target each audience. customers and targeting each specific customer group on Facebook, Google does not use advertising to bring its posted content to potential new customers. Vietnamplus aims to continue to produce high-quality, long-form content such as mega-story, long-form, and not only restrict the content to economic, financial, strategic, and business secrets, but also open it up. other fields such as technology, sports, entertainment, politics, new trends, forecast information… and collect fees from these articles. Some problems raised in electronic newspaper fee collection In the economic activities of journalism, in order to collect fees effectively, newsrooms must orient the production of content for paying readers to specialize in specific areas and must make worthy investments to improve the quality. posts. Big, hot issues come first, otherwise there would be no reason to convince people to subscribe. Because the readers who can afford to pay are often businesses, researchers, press agencies, people with high income and qualifications, they need information from experts, managers, comment on a topics that are important to them. A newsletter from the VietnamPlus e-newspaper Through polling and surveying the groups and individuals that buy information from VietnamPlus, they found that the news sold has a high content of information, going deep into a field or issue that public opinion and society are interested in. Such news they accept to pay for the source of information they are using. Through this, VietnamPlus also determined, selling news must focus on readers, must find a way to determine what their readers need. Readers will spend money when they really believe that they have valuable, quality sources. And the question is: how can we create many “goods” that are attractive enough to users, making them “pickpocket” to pay? Payers buy high-quality content, not cheap. Readers pay for content because it helps them stay informed and post about issues they care about. And readers appreciate the exclusive content they have access to more than ancillary benefits like promotional giveaways when they sign up. Paid readers send a clear signal that news outlets that want growth cannot cut costs. Acquiring a paid audience requires an investment in high-quality content and a focus on meeting the needs of the audience. It is not easy to convince readers to pay when they are used to free information, so VietnamPlus’s pioneering in this field is also to help readers get used to reading paid newspapers. money. Must-know content turns free readers into paying readers. Informative, insightful, specialized content motivates readers to withdraw, which is the key to retaining readers. It is also about turning the habits of readers into our habits, understandable that when readers accept to pay for an information, it means that it is the act of paying for their own habits. Therefore, VietnamPlus e-newspaper also focuses on the habits of its readers. Habits are the best way to increase engagement. In addition, a difficulty in selling news is due to technology limitations. When it was newly built to collect fees, VietnamPlus’s method was still limited to only using mobile phones from a network operator. Currently, payment gateways have been expanded, allowing a variety of other payment methods such as bank cards, e-wallets, QR codes… VietnamPlus is planning to upgrade the payment system. Moreover, the fact that copyright in Vietnam has been a difficult problem to solve for many years. A good article just published in a certain newspaper will immediately be copied in its entirety. If a newspaper has a lock on its special articles and only provides them to paying readers, it is also difficult, because a website that aggregates information only needs to spend a little money to read and ” collage”, then this information will no longer be “poisonous”. Because of these reasons, it is understandable that the trend of charging readers to read e-newspapers in Vietnam is prone to failure right from the start. Collecting money from online readers in Vietnam is very difficult nowadays, but if they want to change the revenue structure, press agencies have to start working. The most important thing is to protect copyright, not to let a good article be cut and pasted by dozens of other websites on your site comfortably. The locking of articles and invitations to buy online newspapers need to be carried out simultaneously in many newspapers to create a positive effect. In 2019, Vietnam’s online advertising revenue was estimated at 648 million USD, of which Facebook accounted for 275 million USD, Google 174.9 million USD, domestic units accounted for only 180.9 million USD.

The reaction comes after the New York Times revealed about the special relationship between Apple and China. Accordingly, Apple is accused of being a tool to help the Chinese government “monitor and censor user data”. Telegram “father” believes that Apple is selling outdated hardware devices at too high a price. In addition, the billionaire also criticized Apple’s business model and said that the company is “selling outdated hardware devices at too high a price to customers and locking them in the ecosystem of Apple. the firm”. “Every time I have to use the app on my iPhone, I feel like I have to go back to the Middle Ages. The 60 Hz screen of the iPhone offers an experience that is not as good as the 120 Hz screens on many Android smartphones today,” Durov shared. Not stopping there, the billionaire also added that outdated hardware is not the real problem of iPhones. The worst thing Apple is doing is not allowing users to install apps from sources other than the App Store. At the same time, users cannot use services other than iCloud to back up the device. In the past, the “father” of Telegram and Apple had many conflicts. In 2018, Apple removed the Telegram app from the App Store due to concerns about child pornography on the platform. In July 2020, Telegram accused Apple of monopolizing the European Commission. Most recently, in mid-January, Apple was sued by a non-profit organization called “Coalition for a Safer Web” for not removing Telegram, accusing it of being used by hate groups and extremists. use. According to VTV

Recently, the shocking investigation of New York Times shows that Apple has tacit agreements and about data sharing in China. Taking the opportunity, Durov commented on his Telegram channel that Apple was operating under the direction of China. Telegram was once blocked in Russia because the government believed that terrorists used the app to plan and coordinate terrorist attacks. Photo: Caspiannews. Durov also said that Apple’s business model is based on “selling outdated, expensive hardware to customers in this company’s ecosystem”. He added that the 60 Hz screen of the iPhone cannot compete with the 120 Hz products of Android phones and iOS is an outdated software. According to Durov, the worst part is that iPhone users are seen as the company’s “digital slaves”. Specifically, they are only allowed to install apps from the App Store and back up data on iCloud. “It’s no surprise that Apple’s authoritarian approach is appreciated by China, allowing the country to have full control over the apps and data of all its citizens,” Durov said. Ironically, Apple was sued earlier this year for allowing Telegram to work on the App Store. According to the Coalition for a Safer Web (CSW), the app is used by opposition groups and extremists as a communication channel to spread misinformation and racial divisions in the US and Europe. .

Source: NYT After years of delays, the federal government approved the third offshore wind project in the US – and the biggest to date. The “Vineyard Wind” project consists of 84 giant turbines that will be built about 19 km from the Vineyard and Nantucket islands off the coast of Massachusetts. Vineyard Wind will have 800 Megawatts of generating capacity, outperforming Block Island Wind’s 30 MW and output from two test turbines installed in Virginia. According to the US Department of the Interior, this project, after going into operation in 2023, will generate enough energy to supply 400,000 homes and businesses. “Vineyard Wind” is a joint project between the energy company Avangrid Renewables and the Copenhagen Infrastructure Construction Company. It is expected that, when operating at full capacity, the Vineyard Wind farm has a total investment of 2 billion USD, can generate 800 MW of electricity / day. The Joe Biden government has a target by 2030 to generate 30 gigawatts of wind power. Interior Minister Deb Haaland evaluated the US licensing for this project as an important step to achieve the set goals of creating more jobs, combating climate change and strengthening the country. The US currently operates a number of small-scale wind farms off the coast of Virginia and Rhode islands.

However, the success of this person is not immune from scandals. MrBeast is accused of creating a hazardous work environment for employees. Photo: @mrbeast. In 2018, The Atlantic discovered that Jimmy’s old series of tweets contained obscene, mocking content aimed at homosexuals. In a video released in November 2019, the person was also accused of charity with counterfeit money, according to Dexerto . Jimmy then explained that he gave counterfeit money while filming to minimize the danger, avoid many people rushing to ask for free money. Last April, Jimmy faced a wave of outrage from fans – who lost significant amounts of money into a stream of cryptocurrency he promoted. A month later, 11 employees who used to work under Jimmy told New York Times that their former boss created a “hostile work environment”, based on bias and made “many unreasonable requests”. They affirmed this guy’s demeanor “immediately changed as soon as he left the camera”. Matt Turner (20 years old), the editor working for Jimmy from February 2018 to September 2019, said Jimmy cursed at him almost every day. He is also often referred to by Jimmy with phrases used to offend people with intellectual disabilities. Nate Anderson (22 years old), who only lasted a week working with Jimmy, admits his former boss is too perfectionist and “nobody can follow”. Jimmy vowed not to retire, pursuing this job for life. Photo: MrBeast / Twitter. After posting a video about his bad experiences while working with Jimmy, Nate quickly received a series of indignant comments, even death threats, from the fan community of the other net star. Many of them are just children. “Those kids don’t even know what they’re talking about. They just don’t want to see their idols fall, ”Matt, who is in the same situation as Nate, shared with New York Times . The Business Insider Jimmy is known for his mischiefs like reading every word in a dictionary, turning his backyard into a ball pool, buying everything in the store, even giving strangers $ 1 million but giving them only 1 minute to spend. use it. In January 2017, Jimmy became famous after posting a video counting from 1-100,000. After that breakthrough, this person produced a series of products with content similar to playing fidget spinner for 24 hours or watching MV. It’s Everyday Bro by Jake Paul for 10 hours straight. Due to regular vlogging to give random money to waitresses, taxi drivers and novice streamer, Jimmy is called a “generous philanthropist” by fans. In reality, however, much of this money is funded by brands, according to New York Times.

The world has exceeded 147 million Covid-19 patients, of which more than 3.11 million people died. The report also found that more than a billion doses of the vaccine have been injected globally. Sheet New York Times “Even though one billion doses of vaccine have been injected, Covid-19 has spread to almost every country in the world”. Because the number of one billion doses is not enough compared to estimated nearly 8 billion people in the world. According to the data of Our World in Data (Oxford University, UK), 82% of the dose of vaccine administered is in high-income and middle-income countries. Only 0.2% of the dose is allocated to low-income countries. “Fire pan” Covid-19 in India Data of New York Times This shows that India is the country with the number of Covid-19 cases accounting for only one third of the world. On average, this country has an additional 260,000 people infected with nCoV every day. The unusual increase in India is attributed to the double mutation. More than 2,000 people die from Covid-19 every day, bringing the total number of fatal illnesses to over 200,000. Experts say these numbers could in fact be more and more terrible. The luxury thing for India right now is oxygen, oxygen tanks. Thousands of patients died on the way to the hospital or lack of oxygen to breathe, the medical facilities were overwhelmed, the crematorium was burning everywhere. The Indian Serum Institute is the largest producer of vaccines in the world, but the proportion of people in the country vaccinated against Covid-19 is surprisingly low. Approximately 8.6% of the population received at least one dose of Covid-19 vaccine. Health experts are concerned that transforming the COV strain in India could create a “domino storm” for other countries around the globe. The double mutation was more contagious, while the vigilance in many places began to let the guard down. Another hot spot in Asia is the Philippines. After Indonesia, the Philippines became the second country in Southeast Asia to have the number of Covid-19 cases exceeding the one million mark. According to the AP The Philippines’ Ministry of Health recorded 8,929 new cases on April 26, bringing the country’s total number of cases to 1,006,428, including 16,853 deaths. Philippine health officials are looking at the possibility of prolonging the blockade in the Manila metropolitan area. A Covid-19 patient awaits admission to hospital in South Delhi, India. Photo: Atul Loke / The New York Times. Many new strains appeared Data from New York Times shows that more than 50% of Israel’s population has been vaccinated with 2 doses of Covid-19 vaccine. It is the country with the fastest immunization rates and speeds in the world. Israel is also expected to be the first country globally to achieve public immunity. In the UK, where the virus strain B.1.1.7 was found, nearly two-thirds of people 18 years of age and older were vaccinated against at least one dose of Covid-19 vaccine. Compared to its population size, the UK is the country with the lowest proportion of people with Covid-19 in Europe. In the US, the country’s officials have just confirmed that they will aid India with the Covid-19 vaccine, after the tragedy that this place is suffering. According to the Guardian, The US will share 60 million doses of AstraZeneca’s vaccine because it has enough demand for the people. Professor Barry Bloom, former rector of the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, said: “India has been caught off guard when the number of Covid-19 cases has decreased and they subjectively believe that the epidemic is over. The US and other countries should learn from this when deciding on all policies during a pandemic. Dr. Robert Murphy, Executive Director of the Institute of Global Health, Northwestern University, believes that the United States has a great responsibility for sending unused vaccines to other countries. “We have to think globally and how we can help other countries. If not, we will never be able to put out the whole fire. ” The number of new US nCoV infections every day in the US is falling sharply, but still at an alarming rate. Experts found this trend to be similar to last year when the US seemed to have suppressed the translation, when it suddenly spiked the number of cases again. One was vaccinated by AstraZeneca at Milan Military Hospital. Photo: Alessandro Grassani / The New York Times. Last week, scientists at Texas A&M University (USA) also discovered 3 new virus strains: BV-1, BV-2, and BV-3, analyzed from samples of students and lecturers in the school. . In particular, strain BV-3 is a mixture of more than one strain of SARS-CoV-2. Experts are still not clear about their virulence, but they fear this will be the cause of the upcoming outbreaks. The proportion of new cases of SARS-CoV-2 in most South American countries is high. In Brazil, the number of new patients has begun to decline but remains at an alarming rate, especially since the country has not been able to control the processing of the highly contagious strain P.1. By the morning of April 27, Brazil had recorded more than 14.3 million people suffering from Covid-19, nearly 391,000 deaths. In Europe, the vaccination rate is slower than that of the US and Canada, the number of nCoV infections is still especially high in France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden … In particular, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has just issued an injunction. spread across the country from the evening of April 29 to the end of May 17 in order to limit the spread of Covid-19. Turkey has recorded a sharp decrease in the number of new daily nCoV infections from 63,000 (recorded on April 16) to below 39,000 (statistic on April 25). However, the daily number of deaths from Covid-19 has remained above 300 people in the past week. In addition, on the evening of April 26, the European Union (EU) announced a lawsuit against vaccine pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca because it said that the company did not keep the vaccine supply agreement. According to the Bloomberg, AstraZeneca recently delivered 25% of the Covid-19 vaccine that the EU is expected to receive by the first quarter of 2021. At the same time, the company also plans to provide the EU with about 70 million doses in the second quarter, compared with 180 million. expected in the contract, according to the statement dated 12/3.

Actual casualties are 2-5 times higher The second wave of Covid-19 in India quickly pushed the country into a total crisis, overloading hospitals, depleting oxygen supplies, desperate lines of people not being treated by doctors and there is evidence that the actual death toll is much higher than officially reported, according to the New York Times. Every day the Government of India records more than tens of thousands of new infections – a world record high – more new cases than any other country to date. However, experts say those numbers, no matter how staggering, represent only a small fraction of the true spread of the pandemic that puts the country in a state of emergency. Millions of people dare not even step out the door for fear of spreading the disease. Indian people mourn in front of a cremation site. Photo: NYT The sudden increase in new infections in recent weeks, with a newer variant, is raising suspicions about the actual number of deaths from India’s Covid-19 – currently reported to be 200,000. , with more than 2,000 people dying every day. Investigations from cremation facilities across the country revealed a large number of deaths from Covid-19 far exceeding the official figure. According to analysts, politicians and hospital managers can reduce this number. “It was a complete data massacre,” said Bhramar Mukherjee, an epidemiologist at the University of Michigan who has followed India closely. “From all the models we have done, we believe that the actual death toll is 2 to 5 times what is reported.” At one of the major cremation sites in Ahmedabad, a city in the state of Gujarat, western India, flames blazed through the night sky, burning 24 hours a day, like an industrial factory never. Turn off. On April 24, Indian officials reported nearly 350,000 new infections, while the number of deaths continued to increase. At a hospital in New Delhi, doctors said 20 patients in critical condition died after oxygen pressure dropped. Doctors claim that severe oxygen scarcity is the cause of the soaring death toll. In Bhopal, a large city in central India, where the disaster of gas leaks in the 1980s caused thousands of deaths, residents said this was the “busiest” time in cremation zones. since that disaster. Over the course of 13 days in mid-April, Bhopal officials reported 41 deaths related to Covid-19. But a survey by the New York Times found the number of deaths at the same time to more than 1,000. A similar phenomenon took place in Lucknow and Mirzapur – major cities in the state of Uttar Pradesh – and across Gujarat, during the same time period, authorities reported between 73 and 121 Covid-related deaths. -19 per day. But detailed figures compiled by one of Gujarat’s leading newspapers – Sandesh – indicate that the number is many times higher, around 610 people per day. What’s happening in India? Months ago, India appeared to have effective epidemic control. After the stern blockade orders that prevented the first outbreak from being eased, India no longer recorded a large number of cases. Officials and citizens have begun to be subjective and act as if the worst days are over. Now, countless Indians have been forced to go to social media to send an emergency (SOS) calling to give them bed, medicine or “some oxygen to breathe”. At the same time, India’s Covid-19 vaccine campaign is also facing difficulties. Less than 10% of Indians have received the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, even though the country is the world’s leading producer of the vaccine. Severe Indian needs have had a ripple effect around the world, especially in poorer countries. The country had planned to export millions of doses of vaccine but so far this has stopped completely due to severe shortage of vaccines in the country. This also affects when some countries have to divert imports from other countries Doctors are concerned, this terrible wave originated from the emergence of a virus variant “double mutation” – B.1.617. This variant contains genetic mutations found in two other uncontrolled versions of the SARS-CoV2 virus. One of the mutations included in the highly contagious variant was the cause of California (USA) struggles earlier this year. The other mutation is similar to the one found in South Africa and is thought to make the virus more resistant to the vaccine. However, scientists warn that it is too early to know for certain how dangerous the new variant emerging in India is. The results can be worst when combined with the ability to spread faster and more difficult to control. This is worrying scientists across the globe as high-rate vaccinated countries are easing and starting to be subjective. Because of the failures in India, Brazil and elsewhere that there is a risk that the virus could mutate to “beat” existing vaccines.

Dr. Duncan MacDougall and article on his soul weighing experiment. There have been several attempts to verify the existence of the soul, notably experiments by a famous doctor, to find out how much it weighs. Strange experiment Dr. Duncan MacDougall is a wealthy and respected physician in Haverhill (Massachusetts, USA). He has his own clinic and works at a medical facility called the Cullis Consumptives’ Home, which is for end-stage cases. In 1901, he came up with a strange idea, that is to determine whether the soul has or not, and if so, how much weight. MacDougall began experimenting on six patients who had lost hope of being cured. Four people with tuberculosis, one with diabetes and one with an unidentified disease, all of which did not last long in this world. He spent a lot of time recruiting only “patient who died of a debilitating illness, death with little or no muscle movement, because in that case the weight could be kept.” equal to more perfect and any loss that happens is ready to be noted ”. To make sure there were no mistakes, he meticulously measured a person’s weight before death, even noting slight changes in sweat and urine output. When the patients are dying, their entire beds are placed on an industrial-sized Fairbanks scale, with a sensitivity of 5.6 g. Along with four other doctors, MacDougall carefully recorded the weight changes of patients before and after their deaths. For the first patient, the weight loss observed immediately after apnea was 21g. A piece in the New York Times on March 11, 1907 recorded this moment: “When life ended, the weight of the needle suddenly dropped, as if something had just separated from the body. Immediately the usual post-mortem mass losses were calculated, but still 21 g was missing. According to MacDougall, this weight loss is not possible from the evaporation of moisture and sweat through the inhalation. The amount of air in his lungs was not the reason he brought air back to the patient’s body but the needle on the scale remained the same. Wastes or urine, if released, remain in bed and can only affect weight by slowly evaporating. MacDougall thinks this is an extremely promising development, and he does a similar procedure with the rest of the patient but the results are not the same. In the third patient there was a strange change that body mass did not change immediately after death but a minute later, body weight was reduced by 21g. The team only measured results from 4 patients, 2 of whom died before they could install the device. He then repeated his experiments with 15 dogs and found that they had no change in weight at the time of death. This was completely consistent with his belief that dogs had no soul. Later, a physics teacher at the Los Angeles Polytechnic School, USA also tried to conduct a similar experiment on mice in 1917. The results were consistent with the experiment of Dr. MacDougall, there was no deviation of weight when the rats died. How real? The scale used to weigh the soul. MacDougall’s research has caused a stir through articles in The New York Times, Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research and American Medicine. Many see this as evidence of the existence of the human soul, but others disagree. The limitation of the experimental subject has been criticized, while his methods are considered unscientific. For the general scientific community, the experiment has many shortcomings and has no real value. Some scientists point out that at the time of death, the lungs stop cooling the blood, causing the body temperature to rise slightly, the skin sweating – 21g in Dr. MacDougall’s experiment. At the same time, dogs do not have sweat glands, so they do not lose weight in this way after death. Despite these harsh criticisms, MacDougall defended his position, even conducting an experiment to photograph the human soul in 1911, but to no avail. After that, he almost fell into darkness, giving up experiments that proved humans have a soul, finally dying in 1920. There were also a few people who performed similar experiments over the years on animals, but MacDougal’s human experiments have never been tried or replicated since then. Does your research have any meaning? Regardless of the answer, the existence of the soul is not scientifically proven, and we will certainly never stop searching to answer one of the most important mysteries of existence. our own. Either way, the work of MacDougall still makes an interesting impression, not because of what he found (or failed to find) but because of what he “suggested” from his experiment. For many people, MacDougall’s ideas deserve to be studied and seriously discussed.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Joe Biden.

The sanctions are part of the US government’s response to Russia’s election meddling in the US and the launch of the SolarWinds cyber attack last December, according to the New York Times.

Sources say that among the Russian citizens that the US is preparing to impose sanctions are both government officials and intelligence services.

The Wall Street Journal also cited sources as saying that US President Joe Biden would issue a decree extending a ban on US banks from conducting transactions related to Russia’s national debt.

Earlier in January, the US Agency for Cyber ​​Security and Infrastructure (CISA) issued a joint statement by the FBI and several other agencies, under which Russia is likely to be behind the attack. Large-scale networks targeted at customers of the computer security firm SolarWinds.

According to Washington, the goal of the attack was to gather intelligence. However, it was later reported that the attackers did not gain access to sensitive information.

In mid-March, US intelligence released a new report, accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin of directing the Russian government’s influence campaigns to reduce the likelihood of Democratic candidate Joe Biden’s victory in elections in 2020 and deepening political divisions in America.

Advisor to US President Joe Biden on national security Jake Sullivan recently stated that in response to this attack the White House is ready to use a variety of methods, not only sanctions but also “tangible and intangible” tools.

The New York Times also wrote that the US is planning to carry out “secret counterattacks” on Russian systems.

The Kremlin rated the allegations as “completely unfounded” and said that this was just an excuse for the new sanctions. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia did not interfere in the US election and was not involved in cyber attacks.