Polling after the convention showed zero bounce for the historic ticket that includes the first female, Black, Jamaican and Indian vice presidential nominee for a major party.

The two early problems I noticed with the ticket (Senator Harris’ policy flip flops and criminal justice record plus Joe Biden’s diminishing mental capacity and propensity for gaffes) are problems the electorate seems to have identified and have concerns with as well.

I find it noteworthy that Joe Biden’s acceptance speech garnered a larger audience than President Trump’s acceptance speech but President Trump is the candidate leaving his convention with a polling bounce:

President Trump’s continued diplomatic successes, will continue to engender even more of them.

According to the Jerusalem Post, Hamas, long a blood enemy and opponent of Israel’s very right to exist, has announced a temporary de escalation of violence in the Gaza Strip.

The judges ruled 2-1 that the House of Representatives must pass a new law to make its subpoenas enforceable.

Researchers are developing a new battery powered by lab-grown gems made from reformed nuclear waste. If it works, it will last thousands of years.

Nuclear power is the Immovable Object of generation sources. It can take days just to bring a nuclear plant completely online, rendering it useless as a tool to manage the fluctuations in the supply and demand on a modern energy grid.

Now a firm launched by Bill Gates in 2006, TerraPower, in partnership with GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, believes it has found a way to make the infamously unwieldy energy source a great deal nimbler — and for an affordable price.

The new design, announced by TerraPower on August 27th, is a combination of a “sodium-cooled fast reactor” — a type of small reactor in which liquid sodium is used as a coolant — and an energy storage system. While the reactor could pump out 345 megawatts of electrical power indefinitely, the attached storage system would retain heat in the form of molten salt and could discharge the heat when needed, increasing the plant’s overall power output to 500 megawatts for more than 5.5 hours.