April 19, 2023

We Cannot Countenance Windowless Bedrooms.



The Tennessee Expulsions Are Just the Beginning. Red states are trying to make their own rules. Get the fuck out. Now.



Book Banners Are Now Trying to Close Public Libraries.



The Windows 11 Trash Party.



Netflix Will End Its DVD Service, 5.2 Billion Discs Later.



The Age of the Crisis of Work.



Hundreds of years after the first try, we can finally read a Ptolemy text.



April 18, 2023

“Make it easier” is not a product strategy. This is why Firefox’s fucking idiotic strategy is an automatic failure.



Black Sea undersea river.



Dramatic realignment swings working-class districts toward GOP.



We must raise the minimum wage to a living wage.



The World’s Longest Suspension Bridge Is History in the Making. After 2,000 years of political and technical hitches, Italy says it’s finally ready to connect Sicily to the mainland.



Mother Nature can’t stop evolving eyes.



The Surge in New Businesses Is One of the Big and Surprisingly Sticky Changes Coming out of the Pandemic Economy.



U.S. tax breaks lure European clean tech companies as E.U. lags.



Studies show a mysterious health benefit to ice cream. Scientists don’t want to talk about it.



Epidermal threads reveal the origin of hagfish slime.



‘Zero Covid’ Behind It, China’s Economy Starts to Recover. I thought Zero Covid made economies prosper? No, that wasn’t right? Huh. Hehe.



April 17, 2023

The Geopolitical Labyrinth.



Taiwan highly vulnerable to Chinese air attack, leaked documents show. Well, yes.



Peru’s Great Urban Experiment.



The US Wants to Close an ‘SUV Loophole’ That Supersized Cars.



The modern Republican party is hurtling towards fascism.



Children Are Not Property. The idea that underlies the right-wing campaign for “parents’ rights.”



The Paratethys Sea was the largest lake in Earth’s history.



April 16, 2023

The real reason trucks have taken over U.S. roadways.



Efficiency trades off against resiliency.



In counties with more Black doctors, Black people live longer, ‘astonishing’ study finds.



Home Pregnancy Tests Could Now Put Women in Danger.



It’s Not ‘Deaths of Despair.’ It’s Deaths of Children.



The evolution of SARS-CoV-2.



The End of Computer Magazines in America.



April 15, 2023

Spanish woman emerges after spending 500 days living alone in cave.



Some Astonishing Trends in Retail Sales beyond the Month-to-Month Data Noise.



Over $23,000 Worth of Sabrent SSDs Deliver 168TB at 31 GB/s. I need this.



ESA’s Juice lifts off on quest to discover secrets of Jupiter’s icy moons.



Europe is not ready to be a “third superpower.”



The toxic ideology of longtermism.



‘Overemployed’ Hustlers Exploit ChatGPT To Take On Even More Full-Time Jobs.



April 14, 2023

How did solar power get cheap? Part I.



Warm liquid spewing from Oregon seafloor comes from Cascadia fault, could offer clues to earthquake hazards.



Primitive Asgard Cells Show Life on the Brink of Complexity.



Trendy “raw water” source under bird’s nest sparks diarrheal outbreak.



We’ve All Been Way Too Accepting of Inflation. It’s time customers push back against price increases. Corporate profits shouldn’t grow at the expense of the economy.



April 13, 2023

The Abortion Pill Legal Standoff Endangers Access to All Drugs.



Blaming ‘Capitalism’ Is Not an Alternative to Solving Problems.



April 12, 2023

What if the US followed Germany and shut down its nuclear plants? There’s a huge cost in lives from shutting off low-emission power plants.



In Seoul’s ‘piece rooms,’ there’s barely enough space to lie down. Inside South Korea’s brutal housing crisis.



Russia aims to tighten conscription law, pressing more men into military.



A Biologist Explains Why Sex Is Binary. In an effort to confuse the issue, gender ideologues cite rare ambiguous ‘intersex’ cases.



This Elephant Taught Herself to Peel Bananas.



Scientists map gusty winds in a far-off neutron star system.



Understanding the Red State Death Trip.



Findings on Summer Learning Loss Often Fail to Replicate, Even in Recent Data.



Scientists identify two new species of a big, strange flying squirrel.



Research with exotic viruses risks a deadly outbreak, scientists warn.



Urban water crises driven by elites’ unsustainable consumption.



Colorado River cities and farms face ‘dire’ tradeoffs with new federal review.



April 11, 2023

Mobile home park residents form co-ops to save their homes.



Deep in Florida, an ‘ecological disaster’ has been reversed—and wildlife is thriving. Much of Florida’s Kissimmee River has been restored to its natural state, a milestone worth celebrating—and learning from.



The financial turmoil is not over. If 2022 was about the repricing of capital, 2023 is likely to be about the reduction in the quantity of it.



The U.S. Built a European-Style Welfare State. It’s Largely Over.



The Superyachts of Billionaires Are Starting to Look a Lot Like Theft. Starting?



A Black Hole’s Orbiting Ring of Light Could Encrypt Its Inner Secrets.



Why America’s big companies keep getting bigger. The beneficiaries of post-crisis rescues are established companies — this is not how capitalism is supposed to work.



China escalates military drills near Taiwan and Japan.



The Epistemological Question of the Applicability of Mathematics.



First came the return-to-office policies. Now comes the discipline: How companies are punishing work-from-home holdouts.



Fascism’s History Offers Lessons about Today’s Attacks on Education. Moves in Florida to control public education mirror past fascist strategies in ways that are disquieting for American democracy.



April 10, 2023

Republicans caught off guard by the left’s ferocious backlash.



What Are Older Office Towers Worth When They Finally Sell amid Record Vacancy Rates? Not Much. Huge Losses Everywhere.



The Future of Republican Governance Is on Display in Tennessee. Republicans seem newly committed to removing their opponents from office under even the thinnest of pretenses.



People with ADHD are twice as likely to die prematurely, often due to accidents.



A team led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine, the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Scripps Research and the University of Chicago has identified an antibody that appears to block infection by all dominant variants of the virus that causes COVID-19, including omicron, the most recent.



How the Internet Archive faces potential destruction at the hands of Big Four publishers.



Ballistic Torso shot with a 152mm Howitzer. Sabot round.



The cruel irony of America’s neglected Adderall shortage.



April 9, 2023

This Friday night’s news dump is a biggie: Texas judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, an antiabortion Trump appointee, has ruled that the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the drug mifepristone in 2000 was flawed and must be suspended.



USPS facility in Utah does nothing but decipher your bad handwriting.



Violent extremists are not lone wolves – dispelling this myth could help reduce violence.



How Rural America Steals Girls’ Futures. Death in a dying town.



The Fed Isn’t Having a Lot of Luck Cooling this Labor Market.



America Is Back in the Factory Business.



Pricing of Electricity by Country.



The Hideous Resurrection of the Comstock Act.



E.P.A. Is Said to Propose Rules Meant to Drive Up Electric Car Sales Tenfold.



A $1.5 Trillion Wall of Debt Is Looming for US Commercial Properties. This is part of what is driving Return to Office.



April 8, 2023

Tesla Camera Scandal is the Latest Lesson in Dangers of Letting Companies Record You.



If we lose the Internet Archive, we’re screwed.



Hubble Sees Possible Runaway Black Hole Creating a Trail of Stars.



Kentucky’s new anti-trans horror signals a need for blue-state havens.



The Great Medicaid Purge begins.



House unanimously passes bill to work to remove China’s ‘developing country’ label.



The Case for an Environmentalism that Builds. Good to see pushback against degrowther nonsense.



Jellyfish and flies use the same hormone when they’ve had enough to eat. The regulation of hunger may go back to the base of the animal family tree.



On the experience of being dirt-poorish, for people who want to be. A report from the bottom of society.



Hastening the End.



Cancer and heart disease vaccines ‘ready by end of the decade.’



Why Oral Hygiene Is Crucial to Your Overall Health.



April 7, 2023

Adding capacity to the electricity grid is not a simple task.