Efficient light control: Meta-optics replace conventional lenses.

Trouble with a capital ‘T.’

More Americans Can’t Afford Medical Care, Poll Finds.

Despite organized religion dropping in attendance, religious patterns of behavior are still everywhere, just adapted to a secular world.

The Slow Collapse of Critical Thinking in OSINT due to AI.

Worse Than McCarthyism: Universities in the Age of Trump.

Trump just imposed the largest tax hike since 1942 without congressional approval.

Trump tariff price hikes could start with clothing, cars and coffee. Prices are already increasing.

America has hit the MAGA tipping point.

Mass layoffs are underway at the nation’s public health agencies. We are a nation of morons.

Vaccines save lives. Leaders must champion them.

The Big Secret About Medicaid: It’s a Middle-Class Benefit.

There’s no longer any scenario in which A.I. fades into irrelevance. We urgently need voices from outside the industry to help shape its future.

Universities May Offend You. That’s How Innovation Works.

Germany launches permanent troop deployment on NATO’s eastern flank.

I asked my HR why we have ghost job openings.

Silica gel’s secret history and path to worldwide ubiquity.

Exidy Sorcerer.

The Evermaskers. The isolation of people who take precautions against COVID has only gotten more intense. Crazy, wacky sad fuckers.

Open Source Genetic Database Shuts Down To Protect Users From ‘Authoritarian Governments.’

Klarna hit by buy now, pay later backlash as it targets $15bn IPO. Evil stuff.

‘Chaos’: Trump cuts to NOAA disrupt staffing and weather forecasts. Also evil stuff, and harms the entire country and world for that matter.

Large majority of Europeans support retaliatory tariffs against US, poll finds.

Coin-sized nuclear 3V battery with 50-year lifespan enters mass production.

The Coming Recession Will Be Self-Inflicted.

Green card holders, travelers caught in Trump’s immigration crackdown.

The CDC Has Been Gutted. Insanely idiotic.

A Marine’s decision to eject from a failing F-35B fighter jet and the betrayal in its wake.

The average college student today.

The Dingo’s Fate. The convoluted story of how a species of dog first arrived in Australia and subsequently took over the Outback challenges fundamental notions about what it means to be “native.”

A cretaceous fly trap? remarkable abdominal modification in a fossil wasp.

Over 17 million EVs sold in 2024 – Record Year. I remember when this was “impossible” and would “never happen” a decade ago. Degrowthers suck.

As DOGE Mauls Social Security, Profit-Hungry Private Equity Is Swooping In.

People aren’t fungible tokens.

RFK Jr. Expected To Lay Off Entire Office Of Infectious Disease And HIV/AIDS Policy. Blisteringly moronic.

How Does Disease Modeling Work?

Understanding Advanced RNP.

Here’s what military planning usually looks like — and why it doesn’t include Signal.

Trump’s war on immigrants is the cancellation of free society.

Obscenely Wealthy Bosses Are Openly Flaunting Their Riches to Struggling Employees. Hell Has Broken Loose.

Lego Introduces ‘California Home’ Set Where Kids Fill Out Permit And Wait 2 Years For Approval.

When the physicists need burner phones, that’s when you know America’s changed.

Sundance Picks Its New Home: Boulder, Colo.

The Secret History of America’s Involvement in the Ukraine War.

We’re In a New Age of Techno-Spiritualism.

The Oxford English Dictionary added 42 new words borrowed from other languages, including gigil, a Tagalog expression for witnessing something adorable.

Coyote, Roadrunner Loitering Drone Interceptors To Arm U.S. Navy Destroyers.

Trump admin moves to end federal HIV prevention programs. ‘Catastrophic’ consequences, experts say.

Why Did the Government Declare War on My Adorable Tiny Truck?

Poland gears up for war.

Hunt for Red October’s English Switch Is Still the Best Way to Handle Languages in Movies. Agreed.

Elon Musk’s war on Social Security unmasks the GOP’s true disdain for retirees.

The Plot Against America.

Chamath Palihapitiya Agrees You Should No Longer Learn To Code, Says Parents Should Advise Their Kids To Focus On These Subjects Instead.

Poland suspends right of migrants to apply for asylum.

Digital Echoes and Unquiet Minds. There’s a psychological burden of digital life even heavier than distraction.

Promising efforts at disentangling the effects of genes and the environment on complicated traits may have been confounded by statistical problems.

Fossilized fish up to 16 million years old found in Australia, with last meal still intact.

AI models miss disease in Black and female patients.

Russia May Already Have Accessed Group Chat, Ex-Official Warns. Oh, I am sure they were given access right away.

Against Normalization: The Lesson of the “Munich Post.”

Despite Musk’s claims, the Trump administration’s spending is on pace to surpass Biden levels.

Despite claims that women are dramatically better at empathizing with men’s experiences than the inverse, the bar is quite literally in hell. Most women have zero empathy for men and do not understand anything about them at all.

Not Content With Its Billions Of Web Scrapings, Clearview Tried To Buy Millions Of Mugshots And SSNs.

Mark Cuban Says a ‘Red Rural Recession’ Is Coming Soon. Cuts, Firings, and Grant Cancellations Are Set to Wreck Small Town Economies. FAFO.

This Is the Land of Wolves Now.

‘I Thought It Was a Joke’: North Carolina Woman Loses $850,000 Home After Missed $400 Payment to Homeowners Association Leads to Foreclosure.

Earth’s storage of water in soil, lakes and rivers is dwindling. And it’s especially bad for farming.

Magnolias are so ancient they’re pollinated by beetles — because bees didn’t exist yet.

DOGE ends America’s golden age of biomedical research. So fucking moronic. Like everything those idiot clowns are doing.

I now see how people become homeless.

Putin’s endorsement of Trump’s Greenland takeover reflects their vision of a new world order.

Trump’s Trade War on Canada Could Devastate Northern Border States.

Trump Could Hand China a ‘Strategic Victory’ by Silencing Voice of America.

The Drone Dilemma: How Unchecked Warfare From Above Threatens the Indo-Pacific.

The Mysterious Flow of Fluid in the Brain.

Unveiling the mysterious ‘red sprite’ lightning strikes over the Himalayas.

Has the Decline of Knowledge Work Begun? It absolutely has.

How Did Silicon Valley Break Bad?

The Housing Market Needs More Condos. Why Are So Few Being Built?

After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers.

Low- and middle-income Americans say they are sacrificing their happiness in the face of stubborn inflation and more tariffs ahead.

Canada races to secure its Arctic frontier.

The U.S. now suffers from these 5 dead giveaways of an emerging-market economy in trouble, former IMF official says — ‘It pains me to say it.’

Chicago-Sized Iceberg Hid Ancient Ecosystem, Scientists Reveal.

How DOGE is making government almost comically inefficient.

We need to pay closer attention to Svalbard.

The Existential Threat of Ultra-Billionaires. Probably no one should have more than $100 million or so.

Microsoft’s Many Outlooks Are Confusing Users. So moronic that Microsoft has done that.

Long waits, waves of calls, website crashes: Social Security is breaking down.

Bill Gates: Within 10 years, AI will replace many doctors and teachers—humans won’t be needed ‘for most things.’

Regular exercise improves general cognition, memory, and executive function in both healthy individuals and those with clinical conditions.

How Airbus took off.

Social Security: A Time for Outrage. Trump’s policies attack his own base — but who will tell them?

Researchers Search For More Precise Ways To Measure Pain.

Aircraft Detection at Planetary Scale.

I won’t connect my dishwasher to your stupid cloud.

600 million years of shared environmental stress response found in algae and plants.

Japanese scientists use stem cell treatment to restore movement in spinal injury patients.

Don’t Believe Trump’s Promises About Protecting the Social Safety Net.

Covid Vaccines Have Paved the Way for Cancer Vaccines.

If the last six weeks are any indication, the damage Trump and Musk and MAGA will do in the next six months will be horrific. Yeah, it will be depression-causing.

Don’t visit the US – it just isn’t worth the risks right now.

Donald Trump is seeking to erase the United States as we know it.

As Trump negotiates with Putin, NATO fights Russian sabotage of undersea cables. NATO is already at war with Russia.

United Airlines Flight Diverts After Pilot Forgets Passport.

Archaeologists Excavated a Pyramid and Found 2,400-Year-Old Puppets That Look Hauntingly Alive. Great, now you’ve unleashed the curse.

Americans’ increasing antisocial habits, explained in one chart.

AMoRE experiment sets new limits on neutrinoless double beta decay of ¹⁰⁰Mo.

Social media may be trapping us in a cycle of loneliness, new study suggests. Phone/social media addicts are screaming in rage now.

They’re Cheering for Trump in Moscow—Again.

America Is Done Pretending About Meat. Plant-based eating has lost its appeal. Good. Because it sucked.

Super Hornets Are Now Carrying Stormbreaker Glide Bombs On Combat Missions.

Trump’s Threat to Canada Won’t Be Defeated by Centrist Nostalgia. You can’t fight fascism with cozy memories.

Through a Glass Lushly: Michalina Janoszanka’s Reverse Paintings (ca. 1920s).

There’s no emotion we ought to think harder and more clearly about than anger.

This pattern repeats across industries: the shorter the time horizon of your core tasks, the greater your automation risk.

IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA. Sounds about right.

The Media Is Responding to Trump With a Huge Face-Plant.

Perception is a Shortcut That Often Fails in the Long Run.

The Race to Decipher Cuneiform in the 19th Century.

A Win for Encryption: France Rejects Backdoor Mandate.

Global gridded population datasets systematically underrepresent rural population.

The Cult Of The American Lawn.

“I don’t regret the vote”: Why most Trump voters stand by him, even as he ruins their lives.

Universities are caving to Trump with a stunning speed and scope.

The ‘Free World’ Is Gone and There’s No Turning Back.

Size Inclusivity Is Eroding on Fashion’s Runways.

Never give your 100% at your job, Here’s why. Correct.

Rickover’s Lessons. “The status quo has no absolute sanctity.”

Resan.

How Virologists Lost the Gain-of-Function Debate. By being complete fucking dangerous perfidious clowns?

Unilever Turns On Ben & Jerry’s CEO As It Tries To Lick Trump Administration’s Boots.

A Planetary Geopolitical Realignment?

Harvard study: Open source has an economic value of 8.8 trillion dollars.

No One Is Safe From America’s Abusive Immigration Authorities Anymore.

The Data Is Clear: Democrats Face Their Own Tea Party Revolt. Good.

The DEI Purge Will Weaken Our Military. It sure will.

Stagflation can be worse than recession. Investors are already bracing for it.

We should be living in the golden age of hobbies. What happened?

The loneliest people (and places) in America.

We Are Uncomfortably Close to 1933.

Hints grow stronger that dark energy changes over time.

Tech Layoffs: The Harsh Reality & What You Need to Know.

I saw a quote from one of the Dogeheads saying that all universities should be shut down. Hey you can say whatever you like, but they want to actually do it.

Menaced by Trump, Canada Prepares to Join E.U. Military Industry Buildup.

The Cost of the Government’s Attack on Columbia. American universities have given the country prosperity and security. The Trump administration’s attack on academic freedom endangers all of that.

The EU wants to break its security dependency on the US and buy more European weapons. Smart decision.

Grieving husband says “reckless” Texas abortion law led to pregnant wife’s death.