Drone Boats Being Rushed To Help Prevent Baltic Seafloor Cable Sabotage.
How ‘Mild Bill’ Burns led a covert CIA campaign in Ukraine.
The tech bros have front-row seats at Trump’s inauguration, but what they want goes way beyond that.
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More Americans, Risking Ruin, Drop Their Home Insurance.
Million year-old bubbles could solve ice age mystery.
The Incredible Conundrum of Life’s Origin.
Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive.’
2,000-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past.
YF-118G: History’s Forgotten Stealth Aircraft.
The Hypocrisy of Clueless Executives Wanting Unicorn Candidates.
America’s Least Affordable Cities Going Into 2025.
Down by Tubes. Many such cases back then.
Why The Weak Nuclear Force Is Short Range.
The world is full of stuff that could be excellent with just 1% more effort. But people don’t care.
New research shows plants absorb 31% more carbon dioxide than previously thought.
America’s Coming Public Health Crisis.
Reckoning with Post-Columbus Empires.
We Had a Good 50-Year Run, Folks.
There is an ever growing problem with the posting of ghost jobs. Any exec who does this and/or participates should go to jail for one year minimum.
The South China Sea Comes to a Boil.
Top financial watchdog warns climate change set to trigger market panics. Correct.
How Germany declined under Olaf Scholz — in charts.
Neutron star measurements place limits on color superconductivity in dense quark matter.
The Caribbean has been unusually warm. That’s not a good thing.
The Crisis of Gender Relations.
Where the Left Went Wrong on Homelessness.
Thought UnitedHealthcare couldn’t get more awful? They’ve gone villain mode. Killing people with paperwork instead of a gun doesn’t make you any less of a murderer. Let Luigi out to take care of some more important business.
Inflation heated up in December, as prices continue to weigh on Americans. “Transitory.”
I’m a climate scientist and my house in LA burned down. My work has never been more real.
Mark Zuckerberg Defends Decision To Fly Confederate Flag At Facebook Headquarters.
How soda is changing the world.
‘Absolutely insane.’ Dragonfly’s extreme loop-the-loops are unparalleled in nature.
How corn syrup took over America.
Prospect Medical Holdings files for bankruptcy after owners took hundreds of millions in payouts. I got to get in in this legal fraud.
Big tech is picking apart European democracy, but there is a solution: switch off its algorithms.
Starbucks ends its ‘open-door’ policies.
What The Navy’s Massive Orca Submarine Drone Is Actually Capable Of.
Balance of Power Shifts Back Toward Bosses. Funny because RTO makes the workers less productive — but MBA types simply do not care about that at all.
NPR shopped for 96 items at Walmart to track how prices are really changing.
James Webb Space Telescope’s ‘little red dots’ come into focus.
The Era of Finance CEOs Running Retailers Is Over. Not over, but retailers who want to succeed will do more of this.
Mass Ukrainian Drone Onslaught Strikes Targets Across Western Russia. Nice.
Why it’s so hard to find starter homes in the U.S.
Joe Biden’s tragic curtain call.
The slow death of the California dream. The Romans built aqueducts stretching hundreds of miles in less time than it takes to permit an outbuilding in California — and their aqueducts actually held water. NIMBYs are pure evil. Society-destroying evil.
Young people are abandoning democracy for dictators. I can understand their despair.
TSMC’s Arizona Fab 21 is already making 4nm chips.
China hacked phones and wants nuclear first-strike ability against US.
Why Taiwan Matters (Actually), Part I.
Self-imposed solitude might just be the most important social fact of the 21st century in America.
The US software industry is at great risk, and the government must implement penalties for offshoring ASAP. Mostly agreed.
Don’t let them lie to you, December was NOT a strong jobs report.
Greenland and the Coldest War.
USDA report finds Boar’s Head listeria outbreak was due to poor sanitation practices.
Why Los Angeles, America’s most fire-ready city, became overwhelmed by flames.
‘This is your Hurricane Katrina’: Assessing the long road ahead for L.A.
First, they lost their home insurance. Then, L.A. fires consumed their homes.
A vanishingly small number of violent sex crimes end in conviction, NBC News investigation shows.
Finland’s Zero Homeless Strategy: Lessons from a Success Story.
Mark Zuckerberg’s commitment to free speech is as deep as Exxon’s commitment to clean energy.
Twin-headed Trump-Musk onslaught leaves Europe floundering for response. Europe can’t even respond to their own problems, so good luck.
To resist the climate crisis, we must resist the billionaire class.
On the Ground During L.A.’s Wildfire Emergency.
‘We’re in a New Era’: How Climate Change Is Supercharging Disasters.
The Best Time to Fireproof Los Angeles Was Yesterday.
Sweden Buys More Leopard 2 Tanks As Part Of Major Defense Build-Up. Sweden knows a Europe-wide war with Russia is likely.
Economists Are in the Wilderness. Can They Find a Way Back to Influence? Let’s hope not.
Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors.
The Labor Crisis Putting People With Disabilities at Risk.
Diary of a Dead North Korean Soldier Reveals Grisly Battlefield Tactics.
People Say Addiction Is a Disease. Mine Wasn’t.
Breaking Down the Average Household Budget in America.
The Hidden Middlemen Who Cost Homebuyers $12 Billion — And Counting.
UnitedHealth units ordered to collectively pay $165 million for misleading Massachusetts consumers.
China’s air bases will outlast those of U.S. in Taiwan war: report.
The Gambling Industry’s Sly New Way To Suck Money From Desperate Americans.
Cost Of Navy’s Newest Arleigh Burke Destroyers Is Ballooning.
This could be the beginning of the end for fire insurance in California.
Archaeologists just mapped a Bronze Age megafortress in Georgia.
The Economics That Define Social Media.
Los Angeles Fire Damage Likely to Be Costliest Blaze in U.S. History.
A Day in the Life of a Prolific Voice Phishing Crew.
Physicists magnetize a material with light.
Online Behavioral Ads Fuel the Surveillance Industry.
The surveillance octopus tightens its grip on immigrants—and everyone else.
Mortgage rates hit highest level since July, crushing application demand.
Trudeau was a poor steward of Canada’s economy.
What Tariffs Can and Can’t Do.
You Are Still Not Worried Enough About Foreign Influence Operations. They’re real. And they matter.
Permanent contraception surged after Roe v Wade overturned, study finds.
‘It didn’t use to be like this’: woeful US healthcare system exposed by CEO killing.
Bluesky Proves Stagnant Monopolies Are Strangling the Internet.
TikTok Brainwashed America’s Youth. Having an active propaganda arm of the CCP allowed to be ubiquitous in America is absolutely fucking insane.
How the AMA Undermines Primary Care.
Meta is ending its fact-checking program in favor of a ‘community notes’ system similar to X.
US corporate bankruptcies hit 14-year high as interest rates take toll.
New jets help passengers avoid congestion at hub airports.
The national park that draws mushroom hunters from around the world.
Meta’s Fact-Checking Reversal Lets Zuckerberg Drop the Charade.
Unemployed Office Workers Are Having a Harder Time Finding New Jobs.
Ukraine launches new offensive in Russia’s Kursk region.
Pandemic learning loss hit girls particularly hard in ways that haven’t been addressed by schools.
Intel’s Problems Are Even Worse Than You’ve Heard.
Private equity to lobby Trump for access to savers’ retirement funds.
I Was Nearly Killed on Jan. 6th. Four Years Later, I Feel Betrayed All Over Again.
Putin plus Trump spell trouble for European security.
Great Resignation Revenge? Oh, definitely.
Zelenskyy says Russia and North Korea lost ‘up to a battalion’ of soldiers in Kursk battles.
Chinese Vessel Cuts Taiwan Internet Cable in Apparent Sabotage. Practicing for blockade/invasion and testing things.
Domestic Theatrical Market Summary for 2024.
Species concepts in conservation biology.
It Was Never About Artificial Intelligence.
Bluesky Won’t Save Us. Like radiation, social media is invisible scientific effluence that leaves us both more knowledgeable and more ignorant of the causes of our own afflictions than ever. Social media is for most people a Level 1 cognitohazard.
We lost for one very simple reason: It was, it is, and it always will be the economy, stupid.
Enough With the Land Acknowledgments. Yeah, that is some absolutely moronic bullshit.
Russia Targets West With Drones, Exploding Parcels and Sabotage. We are already at war with China and Russia, but only they realize it.
China is currently experiencing ~1% deflation (official PPI) alongside 4% nominal growth.
Medicare Advantage Is Scamming You. That’s what it was designed to do, so mission accomplished?
Fast radio bursts originate near the surface of stars.
‘Battlestar Galactica’ Was Always About One Particular Kind Of Guy Failing Upwards. Yup.
Predistribution over Redistribution: Beyond the Windfall Clause.
Ukrainian Su-27 Flanker Pilot’s Rare Account Of The Changing Air War.
China’s EV Sales Set To Overtake Traditional Cars Years Ahead of West.
Advertisers Keep Avoiding News Sites and Publishers Have Had Enough of It. Clownish.
Washington Post Cartoonist Ann Telnaes Quits After Bezos-Owned Paper Kills Trump Satire Piece.