If successful, #brain– #computer interfaces could redefine treatment options for #neurological conditions. This would have #significant #implications for #healthcare systems, insurers, and patients, potentially reducing long-term care costs.
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Tag: #economic
NBC #News : ‘ #Economic carnage’ – #Groceries are likely to be especially sensitive to higher #diesel prices, Brusuelas said, in part because many #supermarkets are already operating on razor-thin margins owing to the high cost of beef.
Sept. 11, 2026, 12:35 AM PDT /
Updated Sept. 11, 2026, 2:31 AM PDT
By Steve Kopack and Kayla Steinberg
NBC News
Beyond the supermarket, however, grocery #prices will also reflect the rising cost of diesel across the entire food supply chain, starting with farmers.
The impact of $6-per-gallon diesel will make it even harder for some U.S. farmers, already under pressure this year from a #fertilizer #shortage, to stay afloat.
“It’ll push me right to the edge,” said Mark Mueller, a fourth-generation #Iowa farmer. “If I don’t get pushed over the edge by diesel fuel prices, higher fertilizer prices will push me over the edge because a lot of petroleum goes into fertilizer prices, as well.”
As long as the war in Iran keeps sending prices higher for necessities like diesel and fertilizer, he said, “we are endangering one of the strongest #economic pillars that we have in this country through economic uncertainty, higher prices.”
“We’re #shooting ourselves in the foot, and we don’t have to,” said Mueller, who chairs the Iowa Corn Growers Association.
Mueller is hardly alone in his frustration with how the war in Iran is affecting prices back home.
As #Republicans gathered in Dallas this week for what #President Donald Trump dubbed a midterm #election convention, a new NBC News poll found that around 70% of voters disapproved of his handling of the Iran war.
“I just see economic carnage the longer this war goes on,” Mueller said.
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#Christian Today : #Decline in #marriage and #relationships among factors driving #global #fertility slump – study
Christian Today
A growing “relationship #recession”, alongside #economic #insecurity, delayed #parenthood and changing #attitudes towards having #children, is #contributing to an #unprecedented fall in fertility rates around the #world, #according to a major new study.
The #research – published in the ‘ #Reproductive #BioMedicine Online’ journal – and led by #demographer and #deputy #director of the Vienna Institute of #Demography, Tomáš Sobotka, warns that the latest global #decline in births is “more #widespread, deeper and more #permanent than previously #anticipated”.
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Christian Today : Instead, falling #BirthRates appear to be the result of a #combination of #economic, #cultural and #social changes #affecting everything from #employment and #housing to #relationships, contraception and #attitudes towards #parenthood.
Christian Today.
The Iona Institute, commenting on the #research, highlighted the “decline of #marriage and #intimate relationships” as an especially #important part of the picture.
An increasing share of adults in their 20s, 30s and even 40s are neither #married nor in #romantic relationships, reducing the number of #people entering the stable #partnerships in which most #children are born.
Attitudes towards parenthood are changing too. Young adults are also increasingly unsure about whether parenthood is something they want for themselves, while deliberately remaining #childless has become more socially accepted.
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#Prophecy #News Watch : #Christianity Locates The Problem Deeper Than #Economic Class
By PNW Staff
September 08, 2026
Prophecy News Watch :
#Socialist traditions have often understood #society through #tensions between #economic classes and #ownership of #productive #resources.
#Christianity certainly recognizes #economic #oppression. #Scripture repeatedly condemns #exploitation of the poor.
But Christianity’s #diagnosis goes deeper: the #fundamental human problem is #sin.
Rich #people can be greedy. #Employers can exploit #workers. But workers, #politicians, #bureaucrats and #revolutionaries are fallen #HumanBeings as well.
Changing who controls #wealth does not change #HumanNature.
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#Technology : In a #business or #economic sense, #identity is a “ #resource.”
Sep 5, 2026, 3:05 pm EDT |
Chris Burt
Biometrics News
Oil generates #energy.
#Trusted identity #generates trust.
The language of resource #extraction and #utilization is mature, and fully integrated with our existing #terminology for #infrastructure, both #physical and #institutional. Energy travels in pipelines, tankers, batteries or wires. #Digital #Identity travels through networks, from LANs to the #internet.
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#Prophecy #News Watch : Don’t Look For The Obvious Villain
By PNW Staff
September 02, 2026
Perhaps the most #important lesson is that #Christians should stop assuming the #Antichrist will initially look like the Antichrist.
If #Scripture portrays him as #deceptive, #persuasive and #politically #successful, the world’s first reaction to him may not be fear.
It may be relief.
After years of #wars, #economic #turmoil, #political #division and constant #threats of something worse, #humanity could become #desperate for someone promising #peace and #stability.