1/ Nach zwei Boomjahren leider 2024 herber Rückschlag bei den Wärmepumpen Installationen in der Schweiz, wie seit Kurzem im FWS Q4-Reporting publiziert und heute in der Sonntagszeitung berichtet. Es wurden 30'811 Wärmepumpen zur Gebäudebeheizung installiert. Das sind 29% weniger

Going from 2,000 steps/day to 8,700 reduces all-cause mortality risk by 60%! - 2000 steps = 20 min of walking (basically only walking in your house and to the car) - 8,700 steps = 1 hour 20 min (adding a longer walk) Easiest 60% risk reduction of your life

Your brain volume decreases every year after 30. This is why focus fades, names slip, and why thinking feels… slower. Lion’s Mane helps support memory, protects neurons, and encourages new neural pathway growth. This is the best one I’ve found 👇

This is largely being ignored but it's easily one of the biggest China news of the year. What China is doing with Hainan - a huge island (50 times the size of Singapore!) - is pretty extraordinary: they're basically making it into a completely different jurisdiction from the

❗️Zelenskyy: "For Russia, the most terrifying thing is when Ukraine and Poland are together. The two of us — they definitely cannot defeat us."

The future German F127 air defense frigates will be significantly more combat-ready than previously planned. As hartpunkt has learned from industry sources, the ships are to be equipped with a total of 96 cells for the Vertical Launch System (VLS) 🇩🇪🚀 https://t.co/1SH5qimbkO

WHY YOUNG PEOPLE ARE BETTING ON EVERYTHING In today’s Wall Street Journal, I wrote about how an economy with fewer stable paths is pushing young people toward low probability, high payoff bets in search of upside - even though this is not what people actually want.

Google’s venture portfolio is incredible: > Invested $900M in SpaceX in 2015, owns 7% - 7.5% = $105B - $112B based on a $1.5T target IPO valuation. > Invested $10B in Waymo, owns 80% = $88B based on latest $110B valuation. > Invested $3B in Anthropic (2023–2025), owns 14%

Batterien in E-Autos halten deutlich länger als 300.000 Kilometer. https://t.co/9nWZ8ygXTb

Very interesting. It appears that Tencent in China is gaining access to Blackwell chips through a Japanese data center company. per Barron’s.

Despite being a small minority of the population, almost all of the people infected in the ongoing measles outbreak are unvaccinated. The outbreak could be quashed by vaccinating their communities, but instead, America will lose its measles elimination status next month.

Ukraine lost 87% of its Abrams tanks in under two years. Australia's 49 replacement tanks arrive as the 68-ton breakthrough weapon has been forced into a different role It is now used not as a spearpoint but a "shielded hammer" — only surviving in a symphony of sensors, jammers,

The Russians claim to have successfully tested a massive 65 km fiber optic FPV coil. What longer distances will be seen in 2026?

Wir steuern wohl auf einen neuen Rekord bei den Schweizer eAuto Neuzulassungen zu. Bis jetzt im Dezember 30,2% pure BEV. Hinzu kommen 11,3% Plugin Hybride. Ergibt total 41,5% Steckerfahrzeuge! In der laufenden Kalenderwoche Zahlen sogar noch höher!

If you purchased Nike stock 10 years ago you are now negative on your investment $NKE

Burkina Faso is one of the world's poorest countries But infant mortality has plummeted since the 1960s Why do you think that is? Clue : it's vaccines

Imagine seeing this 3 years ago with no explanation.

I wrote about a barrister friend who spilled the beans, anonymously: AI is going to destroy the legal profession as we know it https://t.co/fJxaH9BRGX

Once it tips, it will happen fast. There will be attempts to outlaw the use of AI, but the economic incentives will be too powerful. Nations will have to figure out what to do with a wave of unemployed, formerly high-income members of the priestly caste who have no prospects.

Deutschland hat mehr als 800 gepanzerte Fahrzeuge beim finnischen Unternehmen Patria in Varianten mit Mörser und dem Kampfmodul RS4 bestellt, mit einem Gesamtwert von über 2 Milliarden Euro. Auch wir rüsten auf gut so

This is one reason why growth is important.

Stone-built Snake Bridge on the Macclesfield Canal, England.