Harsh reality in today's market: you could work for Microsoft for 3-5 years then end up at Walmart as a retail worker.

Miami Overtakes New York as the Major U.S. City With the Most $1 Million Homes as Wealthy Buyers Head South.

430,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Are the Oldest Ever Found.

Extremophile molds are invading art museums.

Google to pay $68 million over allegations its voice assistant eavesdropped on users.

UPS retires its fleet of MD-11 cargo aircraft involved in deadly Kentucky crash.

Population Growth Slows to Crawl, Net Migration May Turn “Negative”: Census Bureau’s New Population Estimates.

Hard to Imagine an Economic Slowdown until this Business Investment Boom Fizzles. Core Capital Goods Orders Show Why.

Sources of America’s Hidden Inflation. How market power jacks up prices, and how Trump’s policies add to the pressure.

Scientists Identify Brain Waves That Define The Limits of 'You.'

Infinite Pancakes, Anyone?

Legacy F-15 Eagles Boost NASA Test Fleet.

Cost of living is up. Paychecks are not. And workers are not OK.

Britain 'discreetly bringing back Islamic State brides’ from Syria.

The Killer Was 27. The System Pretended He Was a Child.

AI makes quantum field theories computable.

Doctors face-palm as RFK Jr.’s top vaccine advisor questions need for polio shot.

Adoption of electric vehicles tied to real-world reductions in air pollution, study finds.

Poland’s energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware.

The future of work when work is meaningless.

Middle powers may miss the global order more than they think.

40 Years after Challenger: Lingering guilt and lessons learned.

Ancient Spanish trees reveal Mediterranean storms are intensifying.

Cancer tumors may protect against Alzheimer's by cleaning out protein clumps.

Gen Z is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents but Denmark has a solution.

How Do We Actually Test Semiconductors?

Arizona draws a line on groundwater use after letting Saudi-owned company pump freely for years.

Here’s where inflation is hitting the middle class the most.

Who Is the Winking Chef?

New filtration technology could be gamechanger in removal of Pfas ‘forever chemicals’.

TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users.

The End of Industrial Society.

Trump administration's defense strategy tells allies to handle their own security.

Nuclear power plant meltdowns / accidents have not killed thousands of people.

Immigrants don’t understand a high trust society, they’ll never understand it, they don’t belong here, and they need to go home.

We need to admit that all the multiculturalist dogma of the last forty years has been an abject failure, and that third world immigration is an unmitigated disaster.

We Removed Trucking's Gatekeeping Stick Shift. Then Crash Rates Climbed.

The most fascinating and honestly exhausting thing about the contemporary left, especially in its Gen Z student form, is how it can take one fragment of a sentence, extract it from the emotional and intellectual ecosystem it came from, and then build an entire moral prosecution around it as if interpretation is a courtroom and nuance is contraband.

Inside Anduril’s Bolt-M Kamikaze Drone Program.

Why are Amazon, Intel, Microsoft and 17 others cutting 165,000 jobs now? A massive structural shift is hitting the U.S. corporate workforce in 2026.

Your App Subscription Is Now My Weekend Project.

The TikTok Deal Is Awful.

The West Stepped Back From the Brink. But Europe’s Distrust of America Lingers.

Europe Is Prepared to Create Its Own Army. About time.

Chinese EV Batteries Are Eating the World.

Trump Administration Pushes Out Key Officials Focused on China Tech Threat.

Shadow Fleet Tanker Seizure Operations Expand In The Face Of Russian Warnings.

This 67,800-year-old hand stencil is the world’s oldest human-made art.

Webb reveals a planetary nebula with phenomenal clarity, and it is spectacular.

How the middle class was hollowed out from 1979 to 2022, according to new federal data.

Amazon reportedly to announce second wave of job cuts.

One in five Americans can’t afford their heating bills this winter as people are blindsided by utility costs.

In 1752, David Hume discerned that wealth was becoming untethered from land. Here lies the origin of our political divisions.

Porn Site ManyVids Descends Into AI Psychosis.

We built systems that reward acceleration, then act surprised when everything feels rushed, shallow, and slightly manic.

Russian mischief in Alaska is getting worse.

Rotavirus Could Come Roaring Back—Very Soon.

The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans.

Five US national parks only reached by sea or sky.

MRNA cancer vaccine shows protection at 5-year follow-up, Moderna and Merck say.

Defining Moments in TV History You’ve Probably Never Heard About. Heard about them all; still interesting.

What happens when the taps run dry? England is about to find out.

Trump’s crusade against offshore wind dealt legal setback.

Moderna curbing investments in vaccine trials due to US backlash, CEO tells Bloomberg TV.

Trump has growing stranglehold over EU and UK energy supply, study shows.

ATLAS confirms collective nature of quark soup's radial expansion.

GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers.

Talking to LLMs has improved my thinking.

European leaders show a fundamentally flawed understanding of the world’s capital markets and their influence.

Why Are New Zealanders Moving to Australia? More Money, Better Vibes.

Vast cluster of ancient galaxies could rewrite the history of star formation.

The 26,000-Year Astronomical Monument Hidden in Plain Sight.

California is free of all drought, dryness for first time in 25 years. Inside the remarkable turnaround.

What it was like to pilot the supersonic Concorde jet.

Got asked about a 8 month gap 15 years ago for a minimum wage job.

Zillow removed climate risk scores. This climate expert is restoring them.

Gender ideology fails to acknowledge the full extent of intrasex variation (and overlap between the sexes) in gender-specific traits. In this way, transgenderism ironically “defines” male and female too narrowly.

Democrats’ Racial Politics Do More Harm Than Good.

Whatever is causing this, it's not American. The machine is global.

These Gravitationally Lensed Supernovae Could Resolve The Hubble Tension.

The Brazilianization of the World.

The reality of trying to make US manufacturing great again.

‘I had hoped the virus would be contained in China’: An inside look at the Fed’s historic fight to save the U.S. economy.

The first commercial space station, Haven-1, is now undergoing assembly for launch.

Blood test can identify cancer in patients with non-specific symptoms.

This Is Why Our Rivers Are Turning Into Sewers.

A.I. and Our Economic Future.

Europe Is Bracing for a New Trade Fight With Trump. Here Are Its Options.

Morally judging famous and semi-famous people.

Jay Powell, the Prepster Banker Who Is Standing Up to Trump.

Glaciers are melting. It may reawaken the world’s most dangerous volcanoes.

When did humanity take its first step? Scientists say they now know.

Matt Damon says Netflix asks creators to repeat the plot "three or four times" for people on their phones. The modern world pretty much sucks and smartphones are 100% evil.

Capturing the Moment a White Dwarf Exploded.

Trump has rolled out many of the Project 2025 policies he once claimed ignorance about.

Air Safety Already Had Gaps. Then the Shutdown Came.

First direct evidence of Migdal effect opens new path for dark matter search.

The Rise and Fall of the American Monoculture. For most of the 20th century, pop culture was the glue that held the U.S. together. But what will it mean now that everything has splintered?

‘Soak the Rich’ Battle Cry is Rising From London to California.

Economists Are Studying the Slowing Job Market—and Feeling It Themselves.

If you put the Apple icons in reverse it looks like the portfolio of someone getting really really good at icon design.

It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons.

Army Punches Its MV-75 Tiltrotor Program Into Overdrive.

More than 8,100 stores closed across the U.S. in 2025, up roughly 12% from 2024,.

Trump’s promise to slash energy bills in half has failed across the US.

MacOS’s UI has gotten drastically worse over the last 10 years, in ways that seem so obviously worse that it boggles the mind how it happened.

Ocean damage nearly doubles the cost of climate change.

After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn’t need to look like news.

Food Inflation Gets Hot, but Not Every Item: A Look at Beef, Chicken, Coffee, Eggs, Dairy, Fruit & Vegetables, “Other Foods”.

The right will want a United States of Europe. As should the left, but I think they will prefer Islamicization.

China flies drone into Taiwan’s airspace for first time.

America is courting the old crises. Monetary policy is not meant to get as exciting as it has with the Trump administration’s attacks on the Fed.

Private equity speedrun.

How Iran’s Theocrats Allied With — and Then Crushed — the Left.

After Renee Good Killing, Derisive Term for White Women Spreads on the Far Right.

Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China’s Wind and Solar Buildout.

Boeing knew of flaw in part linked to UPS plane crash, US safety board report says.

I worry that the wealthy and the powerful are fully aware of the impending collapse of Western democracy, and are preparing for it by turning all of us against each other, and by setting women up to become property again. Probably true for more than a few of the plutes.

Students are increasingly choosing community college or certificates over four-year degrees.

Trump health care plan doesn't help people facing skyrocketing ACA premiums.

US Economic Data Resilience Is Masking Underlying Stagflation.

Climate Change Exposes a Major Home Insurance Gap.

As Tech Giants Get More Hands-On With Energy, Their Risks Rise.

Navy’s Top Admiral Eyes Modular Construction To Speed New Frigate Construction.

Reminder: Your coworkers aren't your friends.

Serial-position effect.

Pesticides may drastically shorten fish lifespans, study finds.

How the job market has changed over time. Mostly accurate.

The key to being a success in any business is to know your customers, and sitting in front of this particular screen it’s difficult to escape the conclusion that Mozilla have lost touch with theirs.

How rising testosterone misuse is reshaping behavior, institutions, and elections.

'This mysterious little beast is returning to our forests': Rare images of Europe's 'ghost cat.'

SC measles outbreak has gone berserk: 124 cases since Friday, 409 quarantined. What happens with no vax.

Trump Class Battleships Could Get Megawatt Lasers: Navy’s Top Officer.

Every Country Should Set 16 (or Higher) as the Minimum Age for Social Media Accounts.

The U.S. Military Can’t Do Everything at Once.

Will Google Ever Have to Pay for Its Sins? Probably not.

Trailcam captures catfish going for a walk on land in the middle of the night.

US, for 1st time in 50 years, experienced negative net migration in 2025.

Persistent virulent phages exist across
bacterial isolates.

A Biography of Earth Across the Age of Animals. New reconstructions of 540 million years of climate history show the planet tumbling between icehouse and hothouse states, revealing how rare and vulnerable our temperate moment is.

Killing in the name of… nothing. Political violence has become illegible, and increasingly, politics and language have too.

What Teddy Roosevelt has to do with Trump's moves in Venezuela and Greenland.

‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body.

Online Gaming’s Final Boss: The Copyright Bully.

Finland to acquire anti-personnel land mines and start training staff.

The rising cost of basic necessities could widen the gap between the well-off and everyone else.

Is 2026 the year buttons come back to cars? Crash testers say yes.

Exercise is as effective as medication in treating depression, study finds.

Most people aren’t fretting about an AI bubble. What they fear is mass layoffs.

Archaeologists Uncover Gigantic Medieval Ship With Features Seen Only on Paper.

U.S workers just took home their smallest share of capital since 1947, at least.

Researchers solve mystery of universe's 'little red dots.'

Why I No Longer Support Mozilla & I think bad about them!

Silicon Valley envisions artificial intelligence ushering in an era of economic plenty. But what if the benefits are largely confined to corporations and investors that own the technology itself?

UnitedHealth Commits Massive Fraud to Boost Medicare Payments, Senate Report Finds.

Putin’s great-power project faces the ‘end of an era’.

‘I rarely get outside’: scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI. In the race to embrace new technologies, some ecologists fear their field is losing touch with nature. Clownish.

Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy.

Rashomon in Minneapolis.

M65 atomic cannon.

The largest meteorite on Earth is still exactly where it landed.

American exceptionalism is real, but not in ways worth celebrating.

Oil, Venezuela, and China: How Trump’s Caracas Raid Fits With 25 Years of US Grand Strategy.

Return to the Office They Said, It Will Improve Collaboration They Said.

I made eye contact and combed my hair and acted like everything was fine. Even my facial expressions had been taken from me.

Russia, once a truly great power, a member of the G8, became a satellite of China, which is now a raw materials appendage of China.

The RAM shortage’s silver lining: Less talk about “AI PCs”.

We can go ahead and label the current internet era as the Enshittification era.