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Mercury: The Solar System’s smallest planet may once have been as large as Earth.

Seismologists suspect earthquake on San Andreas Fault is imminent despite odd attenuation parameters.

Etak. I remember reading about this back then; never saw it in person, though.

A tech company with 30,000 workers is bucking the trend of enforced RTO and letting its employees be completely flexible.

China is giving Russia significant support to expand weapons manufacturing as Ukraine war continues, US officials say.

A Disgruntled Federal Employee’s 1980s Desk Calendar. I see no signs of disgruntlement here?

Chronic loneliness can be as detrimental as obesity, physical inactivity and smoking.

Nearly 40% of Renters Think They’ll Never Own a Home, Up From 27% Last Year.

Boeing’s long fall, and how it might recover.

Russia Is Buying Politicians in Europe. Is It Happening Here Too? A former CIA officer explains how a vast, pro-Putin corruption network uncovered in Europe is a warning sign for the U.S.

Boomers Bought Up the Big Homes. Now They’re Not Budging.

Sizing up the New Axis.

Summers: Inflation Reached 18% In 2022 Using The Government’s Previous Formula. This is correct.

Vast majority of US hospital websites are sharing visitor data with Big Tech companies. HIPAA be damned.

American women are stockpiling abortion pills amid political uncertainty.

As obesity rises, Big Food and dietitians push ‘anti-diet’ advice. General Mills warns of ‘food shaming’; dietitian influencers promote junk foods and discourage weight loss efforts. Fat Acceptance has and long has had large corporate sponsorship.

US drug shortages reach record high with 323 meds now in short supply.

You Can’t Blame Everything on Covid-19.

Two Things about the PPI Today: The March Seasonal Adjustments Were Huge, and the 3-Month Rates All Jumped.

The Silver or the Lead: How White Collar Crime Prosecutors Get Punished.

GPT-4 ranked higher than the majority of physicians in psychiatry, with a median percentile of 74.7% (95% confidence interval [CI] for the percentile, 66.2 to 81.0), and it performed similarly to the median physician in general surgery and internal medicine, displaying median percentiles of 44.4% (95% CI, 38.9 to 55.5) and 56.6% (95% CI, 44.0 to 65.7), respectively.

‘The 401(k) industry owns Congress’: How lawmakers quietly passed a $300 billion windfall to the wealthy.

The EV Battery of Your Dreams Is Coming. Quiet developments signal that over the next five years we will see technological leaps. Another “impossible” thing will be here soon.

Team finds evidence of commonly conducted ritualized human sacrifice across Europe in the Stone Age.

First languages of North America traced back to two very different language groups from Siberia.

About 69 percent of the global diet is “foreign,” says a study that pinpoints the origin of 151 food crops. Look at all this horrible culture appropriation! 😉

Biden plans to expand two national monuments in California.

Researchers find a new organelle evolving. A “nitroplast” converts nitrogen from the air to a chemically useful form.

What Makes Tiny ‘Water Bears’ So Tough? They Quickly Fix Broken DNA.

Cheap Mortgages Deter Workers From Relocating for $250,000 Jobs.

The Demographic Costs of a War Over Taiwan. China’s population is already shrinking. The further demographic consequences of a Taiwan invasion would be devastating.

Sci-fi Books With a Female Main Character.

Closeness requires time, and time has not fallen in cost or risen in quantity.

Consumer prices moved higher in March. Auto insurance costs were a major reason.

16% of Home Listings Were Affordable for the Typical Household in 2023, Likely the Bottom for Housing Affordability.

Hollywood Believes The Time Is Ripe To Bring Back SOPA.

Starting today, ISPs must display labels with price, speeds, and data caps.

All-cash offers, wealthy buyers push Southern California home prices to a record.

Bad news for Biden (and all Americans): Inflation is creeping higher at the worst time. “Transitory.”

The Hidden Costs of Homeownership Are Skyrocketing.

Solving an early medieval money mystery with lead isotope and trace analysis.

Companies are using inflation to price-gouge Americans – and making it worse.

In the Arctic, American commandos game out a great-power war.

Privatization Warning. A VA advisory panel issues a red alert on outsourcing.

The Biggest Landlords of Single-Family Rental Houses and Multifamily Apartments: Who Owns the US Housing Stock?

Google continuously states (and very publicly) that their goal is to show helpful content, to reduce spam, and make the search results fairer to all sized websites. But the opposite is happening, and aggressively.

The Person Who Was in Charge of OpenAI’s $175 Million Fund Appears to Be Fake.

“Record-shattering” heat wave in Antarctica — yep, climate change is the culprit.

Higher gas and rents keep US inflation elevated, likely delaying Fed rate cuts. “Transitory.”

The urban-rural death divide is getting alarmingly wider for working-age Americans.

Inflation comes in hotter than expected in March. “Transitory.”

On board a B-52 bomber mission to China’s doorstep.

Computer scientist wins Turing Award for seminal work on randomness.

China’s Shipbuilding Capacity is 232 Times Greater Than That of the United States.

I followed all the “rules” to set myself up to try and purchase a house. I will still never be able to afford one.

For-profit corporations are bleeding us out.

Why beating inflation is turning out to be as hard as losing weight. “Transitory.”

Shipping’s Shadow World. The shipping industry, which moves more than 80 percent of global trade, is poorly regulated, environmentally dangerous, and rife with labor violations.

The 67-Hour Rule. Married couples are working as much as ever.

Yellen Implores China to Rethink Economic Growth Strategy.

A Memo to OpenAI: You Are Not the Protagonists. Bury their new Voice Engine program in an unmarked grave.

She Built a Microcomputer Empire
From Her Suburban Home. The untold story of Lore Harp McGovern.

After a fiery finale, the Delta rocket family now belongs to history.

Germany to Order Ships, Armored Vehicles Worth Up to €7 Billion.

What Middle-Aged People Can Do Now to Help Prevent Dementia Later.

Yes, Social Media Really Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage Mental Illness.

The EPA’s push to clean up trucking goes way beyond 18-wheelers.

Is the frequency domain a real place?

What John von Neumann really did at Los Alamos.

TSMC will build third Arizona fab after winning $6.6B in CHIPS funding. Nice.

Here’s why Americans under 40 are so disillusioned with capitalism.

The Explosion of Asylum Claims Driving the Global Migrant Crisis. Laws meant to protect refugees from persecution are now used by vast numbers of economic migrants, nearly guaranteeing entry at borders and allowing applicants to remain while yearslong cases work through courts. We should stop all of this.

Many cancer drugs remain unproven 5 years after accelerated approval, study finds.

Ripples in Spacetime Reveal Mystery Object Colliding With a Star’s Corpse.

Blissymbols.

Insurers Are Spying on Your Home From the Sky. Companies are using drones to check out roofs or to spot yard debris and undeclared trampolines.

The perfect heist? Inside the seamless, sophisticated, stealthy L.A. theft that netted up to $30 million.

Scientists confirm record highs for three most important heat-trapping gases.

What Chinese Navy Planners Are Learning from Ukraine’s Use of Unmanned Surface Vessels.

The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus. 😉

Why are there so many species of beetles?

Data brokers are gearing up to fight privacy bills.

SLAC completes construction of the largest digital camera ever built for astronomy.

Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads. Evil, evil.

The Race to Reinvent CPR. A new, high-tech approach called ECPR can restart more hearts and save more lives. Why aren’t more hospitals embracing it?

The U.S. would be insane to go it alone on trade and manufacturing.

Dark extinction: the problem of unknown historical extinctions.

Environmentalism could stop the clean-energy transition. NIMBYism masquerading as environmentalism, that is.

Revealed: a California city is training AI to spot homeless encampments. We waste money on shit like this instead of fixing the actual issue.

Rich state, poor state, red state, blue state: who gets the most from federalism?

99 Cents Only to close all 371 stores and wind down its business, laying off 14,000 employees.

1 in 18 people in the U.S. live in “deep poverty”, making less than $6,380 a year as an individual or $13,100 for a family of four.

Bidenomics Is Making China Angry. That’s OK.

Millennials are so broke they’re ruining their parents’ retirements. Well Boomers ruined their lives…so only makes sense?

An Utterly Misleading Book About Rural America.

As some countries spurn cars, the U.S. continues to embrace highways.

Realtors association must face US Justice Dept. probe, US appeals court says.

Fed Governor Bowman says additional rate hike could be needed if inflation stays high. “Transitory.”

Boulders rain down on cars after Taiwan quake.

America’s Great Poet of Darkness. A reconsideration of Robert Frost at 150.

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