Good day. Welcome to the Daily Article podcast. Today is Monday, March the 11th, 2024. I'm Chris Elkins,

narrating today's daily article written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison.

Oppenheimer won last night's Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director Christopher Nolan,

Best Actor, Killian Murphy, and Best Supporting Actor Robert Downey Jr., as well as for

film editing, score, and cinematography. As you know, the movie tells the story of physicist

J. Robert Oppenheimer's quest to build the world's first nuclear weapons. One reviewer

explained its appeal, calling the film, quote, very much a movie of the moment, a feel-bad hit

for our feel-bad age, perfectly calibrated to capture the imagination of an audience

perpetually scanning the horizon for the bloom of some new mushroom cloud.

End quote.

We don't have to look far to find such clouds in the news.

Today marks the fourth anniversary of the World Health Organization's declaration of COVID-19 as a pandemic.

The global death count from the virus now exceeds 7 million.

The largest wildfire in Texas history was apparently ignited by a power company's facilities.

The conflagration has left at least two people dead, killed thousands of animals, and scorched more than a million acres of land.

For a theological reflection on this ongoing tragedy,

please see my new website paper,

The Texas Wildfires, What We Know, What We Don't Know Yet,

and what to do with what we know.

Find a link to it in today's episode notes.

The proliferation of AI, cloud computing, crypto mining, and electric vehicles

is making unprecedented demands on America's aging and increasingly inadequate power grid.

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