Substack Daily Updates – 8-16-24

Today I published the following on Chemical Facility Security News:

• Transportation Chemical Incidents – Week of 7-13-24 – 568 Incidents (1 serious bulk release) – 2 fires, neither ranked serious - https://chemical-facility-security-news.blogspot.com/2024/08/transportation-chemical-incidents-week_16.html

• Review – S 4572 Introduced – ROUTERS Act – Would require a DOC study on the national security risks of routers and modems manufactured in China – Very similar to HR 7589 – Short version of article published here (premium content) – https://chemical-facility-security-news.blogspot.com/2024/08/review-s-4572-introduced-routers-act.html

• Short Takes – 8-16-24 – Swedish mpox case – Call for lunar standard clock – Artic mercury time-bomb – https://chemical-facility-security-news.blogspot.com/2024/08/short-takes-8-16-24.html

Today I published the following on my social media feeds (X, Mastodon, and Substack):

• Field observations of Ambula tardus on Planet IN-409 - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02459-6 Another Nature short science fiction story –