February 14, 2022

The “Crapification” of the U.S. Economy Is Now Complete.



Theses on Sleep.



IBM executives called older workers ‘dinobabies’ who should be ‘extinct’ in internal emails released in age discrimination lawsuit.



Meta’s threat to leave Europe hints at waning big tech influence.



February 13, 2022

Technology is central to how we make the future look different from the past. To leave that to the market, or to think it apolitical, is abdication.



On-Time Rent Payments Sag amid Massive Spike in Rents.



With CRISPR gene editing, unique treatments begin to take off for rare diseases.



Our Universe is normal! Its biggest anomaly, the CMB cold spot, is now explained.



Price Controls, Black Markets, And Skimpflation: The WWII Battle Against Inflation.



The average household is spending an extra $250 a month, or $3,000 per year, due to high inflation — but middle-aged Americans are paying even more.



Scientists Have Finally Seen What Happens to Shredded Worlds in Deep Space.



How it feels to watch a friend lose themselves to covid conspiracy theories.



When A Swap Becomes A Swipe.



February 12, 2022

WHOOSH Goes the Dollar’s Purchasing Power in January as Inflation Now Infests Services.



I learnt the hard way that maintenance matters.



“This is a molecule crisis. We’re out of everything, I don’t care if it’s oil, gas, coal, copper, aluminum, you name it we’re out of it.”



If Everything Is ‘Trauma,’ Is Anything?



Why (mostly) 20- and 30-something dudes made crypto and sports betting their personality.



Investors Love Companies Increasing Prices and Shifting Inflation to Consumers.



COVID causes “substantial” longterm cardiovascular risks, huge study finds.



Palaeoecological data indicates land-use changes across Europe linked to spatial heterogeneity in mortality during the Black Death pandemic.



How Targeting Programs to Poor People Leaves Out Poor People.



February 11, 2022

How to restore a savanna. Massive tree-planting programmes have come to substitute for the tradeoffs and complexity of restoring real ecosystems.



US inflation reached highest level in 40 years in January with prices up by 7.5% from 2021.



Accepting restrictions that weaken our social ties when they seemed temporary was one thing. Putting up with them indefinitely is quite another.



The psychological reason that so many fall for the “Big Lie.”



Mark Zuckerberg Is A Liar, And He’s Lying To You About The Metaverse.



How Douglas Trumbull Changed Movie History.



Scientists discover new planet orbiting nearest star to solar system.



Abrupt end to mask mandates reflects a shifting political landscape.



February 10, 2022

Where are the Beatles of software?



Pulp Fiction and the Trouble with ‘They Wouldn’t Make It Like That Today’ Arguments.



Overdose deaths cost US $1 trillion annually, bipartisan report finds.



The data are clear: The boys are not all right.



The Trucker Convoy Is Not A Workers’ Revolt.



Texas Got Double the Earthquakes in 2021. Fracking is the prime suspect behind a surge in Texas earthquakes last year.



Figaro the cockatoo is back and combining tools to “golf” for nutty reward.



It’s Your Friends Who Break Your Heart. The older we get, the more we need our friends—and the harder it is to keep them.



The Problem with COVID Contrarianism.



February 9, 2022

Why Trucking Can’t Deliver the Goods.



Scientists raise alarm over ‘dangerously fast’ growth in atmospheric methane.



Unesco warns of crisis in creative sector with 10m jobs lost due to pandemic. Due to lockdowns/restrictions and then not enough government support, really.



The Booster Problem. Why are Americans slow to get booster shots?



Comparative illusion.



SoftBank’s sale of Arm to Nvidia collapses.



Almost half of the US Covid-19 hospitalisations this winter could have been averted if the country had matched the vaccination coverage of leading European countries, according to a Financial Times analysis of the Omicron variant’s impact on either side of the Atlantic.



The Nuclear Industry Argues Regulators Don’t Understand New Small Reactors. Agreed here with the nuke industry.



A good workout doesn’t just boost your mood—it also boosts the brain’s ability to create new neurons.



The Case for Splitting Amazon in Two.



Women’s labor force participation still lagging.



Covid vaccines: the race for a single shot to prevent new pandemics.



Comet Arriving From the Oort Cloud Is 85 Miles Wide.



‘Exhausted’: In rural California, the unvaccinated and ill overwhelm hospital staff.



February 8, 2022

The Towers and the Ticking Clock.



Rising cost of living leaves 4.7mn Britons struggling to feed themselves.



Want to fight crime? Take on the gun lobby.



Mosquitoes are seeing red: Why new findings about their vision could help you hide from these disease vectors.



In the 737 Max, the engine nacelles themselves can, at high angles of attack, work as a wing and produce lift.



The rise of defense tech is bringing Silicon Valley back to its roots.



Wie China an der Mission “Cool” scheitert.



It’s Time to End Mandatory Masks in Schools. And airplanes too.



Quantum friction explains strange way water flows through nanotubes.



How Fake Calls and Paint Splatters Help Owls Relocate.



What if companies interviewed translators the way they interview coders?



The Super Wealthy versus the Merely Rich.



The president’s first year has been marked by failure and self-delusion. Going forward, we should expect more and worse.



California will lift mask mandate for vaccinated residents in indoor public places next week.



Being around predators makes animals pretty bad parents.



World’s glaciers contain less ice than thought, researchers find.



February 7, 2022

MIT Engineers Create the “Impossible” – New Material That Is Stronger Than Steel and As Light as Plastic.



Annual Outlook 2022: Decoding the Macroeconomic, Geopolitical, and Long-Term Investing Landscap.



‘The case for masks became hugely stronger’: scientists admit their Covid mistakes.



The Imminent Merger of a Supermassive Black Hole Binary.



Wokeness as old-time American religion. This is 100% correct.



Vastly unequal US has world’s highest Covid death toll – it’s no coincidence.



The Quest to Protect California’s Transcontinental Railroad Tunnels.



SPAM blacklisting is out of control.



First ever free-floating black hole found roaming through interstellar space.



Pre-infection deficiency of vitamin D is associated with increased disease severity and mortality among hospitalized COVID-19 patients.



People carrying excess weight have an increased risk of severe covid-19. Not fucking medical discrimination, clowns.



How Denmark Decided COVID Isn’t a Critical Threat to Society. Denmark is right.



We Almost Forgot About the Moon Trees.



February 6, 2022

Protons are probably actually smaller than long thought.



Amazon burns through workers so quickly that executives are worried they’ll run out of people to employ.



For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads.



America’s split-screen pandemic: Many families resume their lives even as hospitals are overwhelmed.



SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination boosts Neutralizing Activity against Seasonal Human Coronaviruses.



Scientists Found a Nitrogen-Fixing Seagrass.



Russia and the Menace of Unreality.



The multibillion-dollar costs of firearm injuries: Research and resources to consider.



The End of the Pandemic May Tear Us Apart.



Excess mortality during the Coronavirus pandemic.



The Supreme Court at the Crossroads of Hackery.



Why Are So Many Americans Still Dying of COVID?



A new study projects that the number of Americans exposed to flooding will double in 30 years. Development is largely to blame.



February 5, 2022

Don’t believe the hype: Web3 is not going to change the world. Other than making a buncha marks poorer, no it won’t.



The Planet Is A Political Orphan.



Covid-era Americans are using public transit less and having more car crashes.



Medical crowdfunding rarely helps those who need it most.



What America Would Look Like in 2025 Under Trump.