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Risking Everything to Offer Abortions Across State Lines. Doctors and midwives in blue states are working to get abortion pills into red states — setting the stage for a historic legal clash.

The Housing Revolution Is Coming. Accessory dwelling units might just spell the end of the American suburb as we know it—in the best possible way.

Much of what you’ve heard about Carter and Reagan is wrong.

Long COVID symptoms resolve in a year for most mild infections, study finds.

Medicare Begins to Rein In Drug Costs for Older Americans.

The Dangerous Decline of the Historical Profession.

Marion Stokes. Hero.

Remembering Intel’s Andrew Grove, Who Sounded the Alarm Against Offshoring.

Money creation in the modern economy.

Services Inflation Spikes to 4-Decade High. CPI for Gasoline & Durable Goods Plunge.

NASA overspent $15m on Oracle software because it was afraid an audit could cost more. Oracle is terrible.

The James Webb Space Telescope Is Finding Too Many Early Galaxies.

US vaccination decline continues: 250,000 kindergarteners vulnerable to measles.

Why Must We Go About Our Lives With an Eye on the Nearest Exit?

Astronomers Discover Two Invisible Stars Spinning Around Each Other at Breakneck Speed. These ‘ultracool’ stars have such low temperatures that they only emit infrared light.

What Three New USGS Maps Reveal About Mars.

We cannot escape the burden of judgment by offloading all of our cognitive efforts onto formal rules, no matter how solid they might seem.

Ghent system.

Amazon loses bid to overturn historic union win on Staten Island warehouse.

Cougars Are Heading East. We Should Welcome Them.

How Stanford Failed the Academic Freedom Test. For America’s new clerisy, scientific debate is a danger to be suppressed.

Micron Unveils 9400 SSD: 30 TB Capacities.

Wokeness as prairie fire. How I think America’s crusading social justice movement will evolve in the 2020s.

Six minutes of high-intensity exercise could delay the onset of Alzheimer’s disease. Americans: “Six minutes? That’s crazy!”

How Germany became Europe’s leading Big Tech trust buster.

Road Deaths Surged Alongside Covid — But Who Died, Exactly?

No debate anymore: Climate change makes extreme weather worse.

What Happens When A CPU Starts.

Electric Vehicles Keep Defying Almost Everyone’s Predictions.

Extreme Acceleration Is the New Traffic Safety Frontier. The electric vehicle revolution has also helped deliver a new golden age of automotive horsepower — and safety regulators aren’t ready for it.

Something big is happening in the U.S. housing market—here’s where 27 leading research firms think it’ll take home prices in 2023. I was told this couldn’t happen again…yet it’s happening.

The Last 8 Years Were the Hottest on Record.

German carmakers signal easing of supply chain woes.

China’s industrial policy has mostly been a flop.

The Poland/Malaysia model. A get-upper-middle-class-quick scheme.

Working fewer hours is associated with higher life satisfaction, according to new research.

Public Transit Goes Off the Rails With Fewer Riders, Dwindling Cash, Rising Crime.

As Infrastructure Money Lands, the Job Dividends Begin. Trillions of dollars in government spending will profoundly affect the labor market, but in ways hard to measure, and mostly under the surface.

NASA’s Retired Compton Mission Reveals Superheavy Neutron Stars.

Kansas research shows reintroducing bison on tallgrass prairie doubles plant diversity.

Lina Khan: Noncompetes Depress Wages and Kill Innovation.

Your stuff is actually worse now. How the cult of consumerism ushered in an era of badly made products.

When Cities Treated Cars as Dangerous Intruders.

Long thought of as big and dimwitted, the T. rex might owe its perch as king of the Cretaceous to its brains as much as its jaws and giant teeth.

Astronomers find the most distant stars in our galaxy halfway to Andromeda.

Society Is Failing Visual Thinkers, and That Hurts Us All.

Pete Buttigieg’s Day Job. The ambitious transportation secretary has the power to go after multiple abuses by the airlines and signal administration support for suffering consumers. He’s barely touched it.

Getting Lost in the World’s Largest Stack of Menus.

A Look into Medieval Homes.

Cheap, sustainable hydrogen through solar power.

How Big Pharma Actually Spends Its Massive Profits. New research shows that pharmaceutical companies have spent more on enriching shareholders than drug research and development over the past decade.

Widening Highways Doesn’t Fix Traffic. So Why Do We Keep Doing It?

How gun violence shatters lives, and our country’s public life.

Hurdle to Broad Adoption of E.V.s: The Misperception They’re Unsafe.

CVS and Walgreens Plan to Offer Abortion Pills Where Abortion Is Legal.

Holocene capuchin-monkey stone tool deposits shed doubts on the human origin of archeological sites from the Pleistocene of Brazil.

A Plea for Culinary Modernism: Why We Should Love New, Fast, Processed Food.

Why Paul Ehrlich got everything wrong. And why we should still listen to warnings about environmental catastrophes.

Half of glaciers will be gone by 2100 even under Paris 1.5C accord, study finds.

Euro Inflation without Energy Hits Record, Services CPI Hits Record. Subsidies, Drop in Energy Push Down Overall CPI.

We’ve just discovered a new part of the brain’s waste disposal system.

Actual Layoffs & Discharges in the US Are Still Historically Low.

The ‘breakthrough’ obesity drugs that have stunned researchers.

What are some examples of content that has been censored or altered and you’re glad you have an original copy?

Lagging Arms Production Makes Pentagon Wary of Further Industry Consolidation.

New York Urges Halt to Forced Arbitrations That Trap Foreign Nurses.

US inflation has not ‘turned the corner yet’, top IMF official warns.

US and Germany agree to send infantry fighting vehicles to Ukraine.

The right thrives on bullying ‘snowflakes’. But who will vote for it when they grow old? Young people deprived of prosperity may represent the first generation that doesn’t grow more conservative with age.

The Celery Man.

Status of US Dollar as Global Reserve Currency: USD Exchange Rates Hit Foreign Exchange Reserves. Complicated times for the dollar. The Chinese Renminbi, a distant also-ran, loses ground.

Humans Walk Weird. Scientists May Finally Know Why. Humanity’s peculiar gait has long confounded engineers and biomechanists—but it might be one of nature’s clever tricks.

The Hidden Cost of Cheap TVs. Screens have gotten inexpensive—and they’re watching you back.

Scientists are reviving proteins from billions of years ago to fight diseases in human cells.

In a turnabout worthy of Pac-Man, DeLong and his colleagues have found that a species of Halteria — microscopic ciliates that populate freshwater worldwide — can eat huge numbers of infectious chloroviruses that share their aquatic habitat.

Study finds “incel” traits are linked to paranoia and other psychopathological issues.

The internet is already over.

The politics of pain. Medical science can only tell us so much. To understand pain, we need the cultural tools of history, philosophy and art.

Hacker Lexicon: What Is a Pig Butchering Scam? This type of devastating scheme ensnares victims and takes them for all they’re worth—and the threat is only growing.

‘Entire Body Is Shaking’: Why Americans With Chronic Pain Are Dying.

France to send ‘tank killer’ armoured vehicles to Ukraine.

Musicians Wage War Against Evil Robots.

Study: Wearing surgical masks over N95s can cause dangerous leaks.

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