From & To Sathish #7 - Page 71

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/02/nx-s1-5435668/sleep-body-pain-minimize-morning-aches-soreness?utm_medium=email&utm_source=ten_tabs&utm_campaign=FIREFOX-EDITORIAL-TENTABS-2025_10_06&position=9&category=fascinating_stories&scheduled_corpus_item_id=a3b77c91-7c23-462b-92e8-cc5465fa4191&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2025%2F10%2F02%2Fnx-s1-5435668%2Fsleep-body-pain-minimize-morning-aches-soreness

Want fewer morning aches? You might need to change the way you sleep

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/oct/06/is-it-true-that-you-get-shorter-as-you-get-older?utm_medium=email&utm_source=ten_tabs&utm_campaign=FIREFOX-EDITORIAL-TENTABS-2025_10_07&position=9&category=fascinating_stories&scheduled_corpus_item_id=eb4ff3ac-2723-4982-89aa-0ddc605f4821&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Flifeandstyle%2F2025%2Foct%2F06%2Fis-it-true-that-you-get-shorter-as-you-get-older

Is it true that … you get shorter as you get older?

Some loss of height is inevitable, but diet, exercise and a healthy lifestyle can help slow the decline in bone and muscle mass as we age

https://www.outsideonline.com/health/training-performance/japanese-walking/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=ten_tabs&utm_source=ten_tabs&utm_campaign=FIREFOX-EDITORIAL-TENTABS-2025_10_07&utm_campaign=FIREFOX-EDITORIAL-TENTABS-2025_10_07&position=8&category=fascinating_stories&scheduled_corpus_item_id=456be556-8511-4a7d-b0ee-88cd0c4e3412&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.outsideonline.com%2Fhealth%2Ftraining-performance%2Fjapanese-walking%2F%3Futm_medium%3Demail

Why We’ve Been Chasing 10,000 Steps for Decades—and What Japanese Walking Gets Right Instead

https://5280.com/medical-aid-in-dying/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=ten_tabs&utm_campaign=FIREFOX-EDITORIAL-TENTABS-2025_10_07&position=3&category=fascinating_stories&scheduled_corpus_item_id=00272455-006a-4946-9677-0dbfa63f607f&url=https%3A%2F%2F5280.com%2Fmedical-aid-in-dying%2F

The Coloradans Exercising Their Right To Die—and a Doctor Who Helps Them Find Peace

More terminally ill Coloradans than ever are turning to Denver Health’s Medical Aid in Dying clinic. We spent the summer witnessing the quiet decisions and final moments of those who chose when—and how—to say goodbye.

China is going after American firms

to hit back atDonald Trump

Itsinvestigation of Qualcomm may be the latest example

The Economist, Shanghai,October 11, 2025

WHENHE FIRES his trade weapons atChina, President Donald Trump often appears to shoot from the hip. Officials inBeijing, by contrast, are said to deliberate much more, convening high-levelmeetings among ministries and regulators to determine their country’s nextsteps.

Thisprocess may have been at work on October 10th when the State Administration forMarket Regulation (SAMR), China’s antitrust watchdog, said it was investigatingQualcomm, an American semiconductor-maker, and the transport ministry leviednew docking fees on American-owned ships. A day earlier the Ministry ofCommerce had announced new controls on exports of rare-earth minerals. To MrTrump, the package came as a surprise affront after months of relative calm inrelations between the two countries.

SAMR saidthe probe into Qualcomm was routine and was caused by the company’s failure toreport its acquisition in June of Autotalks, an Israeli smart-transportcompany. Although the deal’s size, $80m, fell below the usual reportingthreshold, SAMR had stated in the past that the transaction would need itsapproval. Qualcomm has acknowledged that it did not report the deal.

Yet thetiming is suspicious. After all, in the past few years China has beenfortifying its legal and regulatory frameworks in what Xi Jinping, the country’ssupreme leader, views as an “international legal struggle”. Officials can addforeign companies to an “unreliable-entities list”. A Foreign Relations Actallows the government to go after anyone deemed to pose a threat to nationalsecurity. Its export-control regime now resembles America’s sophisticatedsystem: the measures announced on October 9th are similar to ones used by theDepartment of Commerce.

SAMR isshaping up to be one of China’s best-equipped regulators. It has widened itsjurisdiction in recent years. Chinese firms fear its new willingness to crackdown on local monopolies, as it did with Alibaba,an e-commerce giant, in 2021. It is also undertaking more probes of smalltransactions abroad, such as Qualcomm’s deal in Israel, which was hardlynoticed when first announced in 2023.

Thereis little doubt that SAMR’s antitrustinvestigations have been enlisted in the battle with Mr Trump. When fightingover trade broke out in his first term, SAMR useda probe into another Qualcomm acquisition—of NXP, aDutch chipmaker—to gain leverage. When the American president hit China withtariffs in February, it unveiled a probe into Google, one of America’s techchampions. Then, as a new phase of the trade war began in April, SAMR quicklyannounced an investigation into the China unit of DuPont, an American chemicalsfirm. That probe was just as quickly suspended in late July, ahead of tradetalks. The actions against Google were reportedly halted in mid-September asthe countries negotiated the fate of the American business of TikTok, aChinese-owned video app.

But SAMR’sinvestigations are more than just tactics in the trade war. The authority isbecoming more useful in China’s fight for tech supremacy,too. Its probe into Google may have been well-timed as retaliation, but itsmain target was probably the dominance of the American firm’s operating systemin Chinese smartphones. Around 70% of them use its Android OS; mostof the rest use Apple’s iOS. It is no secret that China’s technocrats view dependence onAmerican software as a weakness and would like to see widespread adoption of alocal version. SAMR’s investigation could be one tool for promoting a home-grownsystem.

Thesame applies to a probe into Nvidia, the dominant maker ofartificial-intelligence chips, which began late last year. SAMR’sjustification was flimsy. The watchdog said in September that the giantAmerican firm had broken China’s anti-monopoly laws in the acquisition in 2020of Mellanox, an Israeli supplier of computer networks. SAMR approvedthe deal at the time, and did not specify which conditions Nvidia had breached.

But itis clear that China’s leaders are wary of dependence on America’s mostsophisticated chips, even if they are needed to run the best AI machines.Chinese tech firms have been told to stop using Nvidia’s AI chips.Customs officials are cracking down on advanced-chip imports, the FinancialTimes has reported. SAMR’sinvestigations often double as trade-war leverage and a mechanism forsupply-chain security, says Angela Zhang, the author of “Chinese AntitrustExceptionalism”. They can “kill two birds with one stone”, she says.

Theprobe into Qualcomm is dual-pronged, too. Its acquisition target, Autotalks,makes intelligent-transport systems that connect cars with their surroundings.The connected-car industry is one that China seeks to dominate, along withelectric vehicles and autonomous driving. Qualcomm is a leading competitor inconnected-car technology; Chinese technocrats may want to slow the build-up inits capabilities. Outsiders may never know what takes place in China’s highesttrade-war councils, but it is increasingly clear that antitrust probes are partof their arsenal. ■