This is real, not some Globohomo climate change bullshit. The article skips the main information - the record shows that reliably - like clockwork - there is a major event every 700 years. The problem is that the record also shows repeated instances of an event at the half-way point around 350 years. These are the only times these sediment layer show up. The 700-year pattern is reliable but no one has figured out any pattern for when it happens at the middle of the cycle. The problem is that we are right now around one of those 350 year periods.
This is a reliable sediment record in multiple areas plus local history supporting it. The sediment record was found at the end of the 1990's. Oral history has been around since Europeans showed up - Indian tribes talk about places on the coast where they used to have villages and shit that got flooded.
This article summarizes a presentation done to update the status of a research project happening quietly in Russia. They are exploring a way to compete with ASML's "EUV" method of producing high-end chips. The basic idea is by using a different wave length of light you can avoid a bunch of the complexities in the ASML machine and produce similar results for far less money. Russia has long been a world leader in photo lithography research and a huge amount of the work done to create ASML/EUV was done by Russians living in Europe and the USA, so it is very credible for them to be able to produce something out of this work. The big game changer is China who have the manufacturing ability to commercialize it as well as a market and demand, plus money to fund development.
