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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,273,290 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/08/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

"'…war is hitting…global economy in cumulative waves: 1st through higher energy prices, then higher food prices, & finally, higher inflation, which will push up interest rates & make debt even more expensive,' said Indermit Gill…World Bank Group's Chief Economist '…poorest people, who spend…highest share of their income on food & fuels, will be hit…hardest…All of this is a reminder of…stark truth: war is development in reverse.'"

Middle East War to Spark Biggest Energy Price Surge in Four Years
Energy prices are projected to surge by 24% this year to their highest level since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, as the war in the Middle East sends a severe shock through global commodity markets, according to the World Bank Group's latest Commodity Markets Outlook.

Over the two and a half years
following the 2022 rollout of the 988 national suicide prevention hotline,
the rate of suicides among young people in the United States dropped 11 percent below projections,
decreasing most sharply in states with a higher volume of answered 988 calls, a new study has found.

Youth Suicides Declined After Creation of National Hotline
Suicides among young adults dropped most sharply in states that actively embraced the 988 crisis line, new research has found.

Industrial electrification is now a security imperative, finds Oxford analysis. “Industry has now lived through two major fossil fuel shocks in three years. First the 2022 gas crisis and now Hormuz. At some point you have to ask: how many times does the alarm have to go off before we change the system?”

Industrial electrification is now a security imperative, finds Oxford analysis
Industrial electrification is becoming a matter of economic security as well as decarbonisation, according to new analysis from researchers at the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford. 

Titans select Carnell Tate, WR from Ohio State, with No. 4 pick in 2026 NFL Draft https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7212087/2026/04/23/carnell-tate-ohio-state-titans-nfl-draft-pick-4-2026/

Former Disney CEO Bob Iger rejoins Joshua Kushner's Thrive Capital in an advisory role; he served as a venture partner at Thrive in 2022 (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/bob-iger-returning-to-joshua-kush…

Raiders sign fifth-round pick CB Hezekiah Masses https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-sign-fifth-round-pick-hezekiah-masses-cornerback-california-golden-bears-football-2026-draft

The Trump administration settles the 2022 Murthy v. Missouri case, preventing the Surgeon General, CDC, and CISA from pressuring social media to suppress speech (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/u

#DDA "Seltene #Vögel in Deutschland 2023" ist erschienen und kann bestellt werden, "Seltene Vögel in Deutschland 2022" gratis als pdf.

🧸 Spotted a bear lately? You're not alone—why sightings are on the rise
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Spotted a bear lately? You're not alone—why sightings are on the rise
By the time Kim Ring arrived at her neighbors' yard that spring afternoon in 2022, their chicken coop was a flattened pile of lumber surrounded by feathers. The poultry had been raided by a bear. At the neighbor's request, Ring and her husband headed into the woods abutting their home in the rural Massachusetts town of Ware, in the hopes of finding any fluffy survivors. What they encountered instead was a bear with her two cubs in a tree—the mother bear downing one of their neighbor's chicken…

NBCU says the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics averaged 23.5M viewers on its platforms for US afternoon and primetime periods, up 96% from the 2022 Beijing Olympics (Katie Campione/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/02/milan-cortina-2026-olympics…

Milan Cortina Olympics Deliver Most-Watched Winter Games Since 2014 Across NBCUniversal Platforms
The Milan Cortina Olympics struck gold for NBC, Peacock and the company's other platforms with the best audience for a Winter Games since 2014

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,256,080 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/18/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Raiders sign fifth-round pick CB Hezekiah Masses https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-sign-fifth-round-pick-hezekiah-masses-cornerback-california-golden-bears-football-2026-draft

The Trump administration settles the 2022 Murthy v. Missouri case, preventing the Surgeon General, CDC, and CISA from pressuring social media to suppress speech (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/u