Sports betting is bad for America’s financial health. New data shows it.
Evidence of “snowball Earth” found in ancient rocks.
Artificial intelligence will affect 60 million US and Mexican jobs within the year.
Layoffs are proof that employees should reconsider priorities in life.
The Kids Who Didn’t Know Their Parents Were Russian Spies. So tragic.
Millions of seniors can’t afford their prescription medications.
Intel Solidifies $3.5 Billion Deal to Make Chips for Military.
The Cellular Secret to Resisting the Pressure of the Deep Sea.
Ambient meaning and the algorithms of culture.
A gene-rich mitochondrion with a unique ancestral protein transport system.
For Democrats, JD Vance Is the Gift that Keeps On Giving.
Hollywood’s 10 Percent Problem.
My Eulogy for the Open Web and Old Google. Better days.
Your Company Is Watching You. And Probably Doing It All Wrong.
Europe Has a Painful Choice: War vs. Welfare.
China uses LinkedIn to recruit academics for espionage, Czech intelligence warns. Someone should Czech that out.
The making of a Chinese spy: how Beijing turned dissident who fled to US.
The West has a plan to keep China, Russia out of subsea data pipes.
The Long-Range Weapons Ukraine Wants to Use on Russia, Explained.
Court clears researchers of defamation for identifying manipulated data.
Boeing workers vote overwhelmingly to strike, in defeat for troubled company.
If I could dissect a sauropod….
How did water bears get so hardy? Secrets of tardigrade evolution revealed in new fossil analysis.
CEO of “health care terrorists” faces contempt charges after Senate no-show.
Texas comes for the right to interstate travel.
The Market Alone Can’t Fix the U.S. Housing Crisis.
From Clinton to Trump, how talk about crime has changed since a landmark bill.
The Once-Dominant Tank Is Getting Humbled on the Battlefield
Russia expels six U.K. diplomats accused of spying as Putin warns of ‘war’ with West.
Tech giants fight plan to make them pay more for electric grid upgrades.
US Median Household Income by Characteristics (2023).
Intel Has Only Tough Options After Its Long and Stinging Fall From Grace. Sad to see.
Increasing Indications Storm Shadow Missiles Will Be Cleared For Use Inside Russia. Nice. About time.
The Bitter 17-Year Saga to Build a Power Line Critical to US Climate Action.
What More Do You People Want from Kamala Harris?
How Trumpism Rots a Small City.
Why Isn’t the Whole World Rich?
The Case for Public Nuclear Power.
The critical window of shadow libraries.
Age gap relationships are not just for ‘creeps’ and ‘cougars’ I briefly dated a man in his late fifties when I was in my late thirties, and I didn’t think there was anything unequal about it. People should have more age gap relationships; it’s good for them as long as they’re both legal.
A quarter of Republicans think Trump should seize power even if he loses.
Germany extends temporary controls to all its land borders.
Kamala Harris Won Debate by a Knockout—but Her Fight Is Far From Over.
Icons of Aviation History: Lockheed Constellation.
Google’s AI Will Help Decide Whether Unemployed Workers Get Benefits. Well that’s some deep evil.
Samsung Electronics plans global job cuts of up to 30% in some divisions.
It is about race. Sometimes the non-PC answer is the right one.
Giant bubbles on the surface of a nearby star preview the fate of our sun.
Fortress Europe keeps cruelly raising its walls against the global south. Europe doing something toward its own survival for once.
Polaris Dawn Astronauts Reach Record High Orbit Above Earth.
Republican Science Denial Has Nasty Real-World Consequences.
Sterilizations Among Women Rose After Roe Was Overturned, Study Finds.
The Complicated Rise of the Right in Germany’s Left-Behind Places.
NASA will proceed with final preps to launch Europa Clipper next month.
How ‘Analog Privilege’ Spares Elites From The Downsides Of Flawed AI Decision-Making Systems.
Polaris Dawn takes to the skies, setting the stage for a daring private spacewalk.
Indian migrants drive surge in northern U.S. illegal border crossings.
Datacenters to emit 3x more carbon dioxide because of generative AI.
China’s Deflationary Spiral Is Now Entering Dangerous New Stage.
Seeing plants anew. The stunningly complex behaviour of plants has led to a new way of thinking about our world. Many plants are smarter than many people.
Climate Catastrophism Leads to Illiberalism but Doesn’t Solve the Problem.
A day in the life of the world’s fastest supercomputer.
Boeing reaches tentative labor deal with 25% pay hike and commitment to replace 737 planes.
The U.S. needs to pay more attention to electronic warfare.
Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use.
Google’s Next Antitrust Trial Could Make Online Ads Less Annoying.
Unrealized gains taxes are a pointless hassle. Mostly agreed.
The Texas Billionaire Who Has Greenpeace USA on the Verge of Bankruptcy.
Amazon Wants Your Palm and TSA Wants Your Face. What Saying Yes Will Mean. Amazon can’t have my palm, but they can have my finger. The middle one.
China Is Becoming Much Harder for Western Scholars to Study.
Decaying jobs market overtakes inflation as U.S. economy’s biggest threat.
Ford Patents In-Car System That Eavesdrops So It Can Play You Ads. Hell world.
Why journalism doesn’t come back.
JD Vance personifies the joylessness of MAGA. His insult comedy tour is not going well. I really hate that slimy spineless fucking weasel.
The Big Five – 7 September edition.
Carrier Captain In Combat: What Went On During 7 Months Under Fire Around The Red Sea.
Biden Administration Announces Additional Security Assistance for Ukraine.
The New Bioweapons. How Synthetic Biology Could Destabilize the World.
Ukraine keeps crossing Russia’s red lines. Putin keeps blinking.
The origins of the steam engine.
My job is to watch dreams die. From 2011, still relevant. This was (mostly) Obama’s fault.
Forget Trump’s IVF promises. The GOP’s record shows contempt for fertility care.
Earth just sweltered through the hottest summer in recorded history.
The New Recruitment Challenge: Filtering AI-Crafted Résumés.
‘Silent killer’: Russia boosts grinding Donbas advance with chemical warfare.
Trump Wants to Hide His Attempt to Assassinate Mike Pence from Voters.
The mainstream press is failing America – and people are understandably upset.
We each have a Nazi in us. We need to understand the psychological roots of authoritarianism.
Progressive insurance ditches Texas after rising storm loss costs.
What’s the stupidest/most pointless interview-question you were asked?
Strength training activates cellular waste disposal.
Chinese agent case in New York is a ‘classic’ Beijing spy effort, experts say.
The US right keeps accusing Democrats of ‘communism’. What does that even mean? It means they are idiots.
Why Can’t the U.S. Build Ships? We need to fix this bullship.
Florida’s abortion law almost killed my wife.
After a study found toxic metals in tampons, lawmakers are pressing the FDA to act.
Testosterone Clinics Sell Virility. Some Men End Up With Infertility.
In a first, Phoenix hits 100 straight days of 100-degree heat.
People who believe they are physically attractive also believe they are important.
University College London: Serotonin Has Little or Nothing to Do with Depression.
How do you deal with real, actual Nazis? M242 Bushmaster.
Mathematicians Prove Hawking Wrong About the Most Extreme Black Holes.
How national security has transformed economic policy.
Goldman Sachs predicts stronger GDP and job growth if Democrats sweep White House and Congress. Agreed.
How Immigration Remade the U.S. Labor Force.
Men envy women for their physical attractiveness and their power of seduction. Indeed.
Canada Orders Federal Workers Back To Office To Bolster Real Estate.
Intel’s Money Woes Throw Biden Team’s Chip Strategy Into Turmoil.
Europe’s Populist Surge Isn’t Only About Immigration, It Is About Fading Trust.
Massive data breach that includes Social Security numbers may be even worse than suspected.
Most American workers want a union—and it may be the only way to save the middle class.
America isn’t ready for another war — because it doesn’t have the troops.
The AfD has stunned Germany – but this was no surprise victory.
Beloved Russian celebrity ‘spy’ whale is found dead off Norway.
Astronomers puzzled by little red galaxies that seem impossibly dense.
Deepwater Submarine Recovers Roman Battering Ram From Ancient Battle.
What I Saw at the 2024 DNC Inflamed My Hatred of the ‘Media Elite.’
The modularity debate ought to be considered resolved at this point.
Mechanisms and consequences of sex differences in immune responses.
The Forgotten History of Sex in America.
The Last Days of Pokrovsk: Ukrainians Dig Trenches and Say Goodbye to Their City as Russians Close In. Welp, guess we’ll be fighting in Poland in 2032. Great.
