Nebraska went big for Trump—and that may kill its economy. FAFO.

Io’s southern hemisphere contains a hotspot of volcanic activity so massive, it is larger than Lake Superior.

MAGA’s revenge of the mediocre: Trump’s war on federal workers targets the meritorious.

SIR, I ALREADY TOLD YOU THAT I AM NOT A COMPUTER PERSON, YOU’RE REFUSING TO HELP ME SO I’M GOING TO HANG UP. Utterly clownish, but common.

America’s ‘Marriage Material’ Shortage.

Why Democrats Got the Politics of Immigration So Wrong for So Long.

Escaping Surprise Bills & Over-engineered Messes: Why I Left AWS.

Cosmologists Try a New Way to Measure the Shape of the Universe.

Trump Is Hitting the Gas on Our Path to Planetary Destruction.

See How Russia Is Winning the Race to Dominate the Arctic.

Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads. We’ve created a hell on earth of sorts.

Emergence of a Second Law of Thermodynamics in Isolated Quantum Systems.

Automakers brace for ‘massive’ impact of Trump’s tariffs. This is gonna be very bad.

Ukraine’s Intel Chief Disputes Claim That North Koreans Have Fled The Russian Front.

ICE Agent Decides He Wants Kids After Seeing Incredible Love And Devotion Of Parents Begging Him Not To Take Their Child.

How the quick high of ‘fast-food gambling’ ensnared young men.

Our Best Look Yet At Britain’s New Dreadnought Class Ballistic Missile Submarine Design.

Chatbot Software Begins to Face Fundamental Limitations.

Keeping the seat warm between peaks of cephalopod civilisation.

Inflation Worsened in December, Fed’s Preferred Metric Shows. “Transitory.”

My Father Says He’s a ‘Targeted Individual.’ Maybe We All Are.

Why does IT end up shoved in “caves?”

Here’s What Air Traffic Collision Avoidance Systems Can And Can’t Do.

These Are the Winds That Turn Wildfires Deadly in L.A.

He Was Pushed in Front of a Subway Train. How Did He Survive?

Logic is nothing without metaphysics.

Inflation Festers in Core Services, No Progress in 12 Months. PCE Price Index Accelerates for 3rd Month: Justifies Fed’s Pivot to Wait-and-See.

When everything becomes a profit center….

National Airport has long struggled to manage helicopter traffic, records show.

How killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO sowed fear for executives’ safety.

‘Goddamn, do something’ — years of warnings came before DC’s air tragedy.

RCA and the Roaring Twenties.

Optical Frequency Combs.

I have come to Uzbekistan to visit a vanished sea.

Ear muscle we thought humans didn’t use—except for wiggling our ears—activates during focused listening.

In research, ignoring female birds harms scientific understanding.

Tiffany Workers Mock Forced ‘Joy’ That Exacerbated Staff Exits.

Researchers confirm the existence of an exoplanet in the habitable zone.

Glut of New Houses for Sale in the South Is Bigger Even than during the Housing Bust. The Glut in the West Gets Close.

Turns out that quite a lot of what it is useful to accomplish with these elaborate machines does boil down to pushing metaphorical digital paper.

At least 11 Baltic cables have been damaged in 15 months, prompting NATO to up its guard. Prepping and probing.

Archaeologists Are Finding Dugout Canoes in the American Midwest as Old as the Great Pyramids of Egypt.

The further we get away from the 2016 Democratic National Convention, the more I become convinced that Michelle Obama standing on that stage saying, “When they go low, we go high,” was a death knell. That is not and never has been how politics actually works.

Often dismissed as the poor cousin of the sciences, chemistry has revealed natural laws that illuminate our Universe.

Step inside the secret lab where America tests its nukes.

Climate change set the table for Los Angeles wildfires. Not a “cause” as most people mean, but a definite contributor.

Students aren’t recovering from covid. Test scores are getting worse.

China’s Mysterious Tailless Stealth Fighter Has Swiveling Wingtips.

The Alpha Myth: How Captive Wolves Led Us Astray.

The Ocean Teems With Networks of Interconnected Bacteria.

You’re Just a Row in an Excel Table.

Empowering Users, Not Overlords: Overcoming Digital Helplessness.

AI Designs Computer Chips We Can’t Understand — But They Work Really Well.

Trump Is at War with America.

Inside the world of medieval espionage.

Suicidal tendencies and ’80s battlefield tactics: How North Korean soldiers are operating in Russia’s war on Ukraine.

An overlooked nuclear force helps keep matter stable, study reveals.

One man has an unfathomable level of influence over how humans interact with one another, and that one man happens to have not a hint of morality or scruples of any kind.

There was officially a Russian plot to kill European weapons chief.

Higher-income American consumers are showing signs of stress.

Why Ukraine’s all-drone, multi-domain attack could be a ‘seminal’ moment in warfare.

Advancements in farming technology set to transform the agriculture industry.

Particularly in the United States, we’ve lacked an ability to distinguish between the new and the improved.

How COVID-19 Transformed China’s Domestic and International Trajectory.

Germany’s Economic Model Is Broken, and No One Has a Plan B.

CIA says Covid-19 probably leaked from Chinese laboratory. Of course it was a lab leak. Nothing else makes any sort of sense.

What it would take for America to deport 11mn immigrants.

Lina Khan warns of ‘catastrophic consequences’ if Trump gives free hand to private equity. As usual, she is correct.

How the Mafia is weaponizing wildfires.

A big problem for young workers: 70- and 80-year-olds who won’t retire.

One House, Three Owners: The Ballooning Cost of the American Dream.

Trump Is Trying to Destroy Public Health in America.

Everyone Who Was Supposed to Protect You From This Failed Miserably.

How 19th Century Scientists Predicted Global Warming.

The susceptibility of hard information to convention, to standing in for fact, means that it often serves to engender a very authoritative kind of groupthink.

First-Time Homeownership Became Less Affordable Across Most of the United States in Recent Years.

‘This One’s Mine.’ Ukraine Says Russia Is Executing More POWs and Capturing It on Video. For the dense: that is an actual war crime.

NATO must from this moment be considered effectively obsolete, without the American security guarantee that has always been its bedrock. We may see new incursions by Russia into Europe – the poor Ukrainians are probably done for, but now it is the Baltics and the Poles who must worry – before the Europeans have time to organize an alternative.

Wall Street Enters Darker Age With Most Stock Trading Hidden. Very bad.

I recently watched a large apartment building get blocked in the Phoenix area, and one of the big complaints was that if they allowed it, families would live there.

Did a Private Equity Fire Truck Roll-Up Worsen the L.A. Fires?

A word on the ongoing deportations. Yep.

Stripe accidentally sends image of cartoon duck to laid-off employees.

Gen Z Americans are leaving their European cousins in the dust.

Artillery Rocket Launcher Disguised As Civilian Truck May Have Just Appeared In Russia.

Estimated preventable COVID-19-associated deaths due to non-vaccination in the United States.

The Plot to Poison Children’s Minds. Social media should be treated like alcohol. But money got in the way. Smartphones too.

North Korea preparing to send more troops to Russia after suffering casualties, South Korea says.

The Social Triumph and Political Tragedy of Immigration.

US home sales in 2024 fell to lowest level since 1995. I do always tend to move against trend.

Electric cars in UK last as long as petrol and diesel vehicles, study finds. Another myth busted.

A Harsh New Era for America’s Homeless People.

The Big Tech Takeover of American Politics.

For real, we may be taking blood pressure readings all wrong.

The latest rejection: A rogue AI was setting up interviews at Pizza Hut even though they weren’t hiring and they can’t stop it.

The FDA is about to make it a lot harder to get cheap weight-loss drugs. Another stupid mistake in a long, long list of them.

DOJ Issues Perhaps The Last Law Enforcement Investigation Report We’ll See For The Next Four Years.

Tech Takes the Pareto Principle Too Far.

Royal Navy Nuclear Submarine Surfaced Next To Russian Spy Ship To Send A Clear Message.

A new kind of urban firestorm.

The West’s Infernos Are Melting Our Sense of How Fire Works. Climate change hitting hard now. Deny it all you want; it’ll still happen. The only difference is, you’ll remain a dumbass.

Mississippi lawmaker introduces ‘Contraception Begins at Erection Act.’ LOL.

Trump’s Immigration Threats Are Already Wrecking the Food Industry.

Scientists detect chirping cosmic waves in an unexpected part of space.

Men have grown twice as much as women over past century, study shows.

Concept Cells Help Your Brain Abstract Information and Build Memories.

People are bad at reporting what they eat. That’s a problem for dietary research.

Psychodynamic nonsense. For twenty years, I was a practising psychotherapist. Today I believe it has no foundation in science and often causes harm.

Trump is this generation’s ‘normal.’ Here’s what that means.

He Did The Right Thing.

The strange loophole that transformed Berlin from tenant’s paradise to landlord’s playground.

Automation in Retail Is Even Worse Than You Thought. New technology is not just making shopping more challenging for workers and consumers—it’s poised to rip off the most vulnerable.

Growth is a policy choice.

China’s overlapping tech-industrial ecosystems.

Economics factors that drive business as always remain of prime importance, and we will start to see most companies cutting their workforce and using AI as an excuse. This is the sad future of my field.

417-Megapixel Andromeda Galaxy Panorama Took Over a Decade to Make.

Study uncovers psychological profiles associated with mental and brain health in middle-aged and older adults.

How Hollywood lost the culture war.

Charting the Biden economy: Despite all the growth and jobs, a deeply unpopular president.

Two things can be true at once. Yes, Islam is very much against any kind of sexual impropriety. And yet its messages about women – particularly non-Muslims & those who don’t conform to conservative standards of behaviour – fuel a sleazy predatory attitude among many Muslim men. Yup. Most Muslim men should not be unleashed on Western societies. Risk is too high.

The Great Layoff Scam – Inside Corporate America’s Machine of Greed and Exploitation.

It’s MAGA’s problem now. Living with the consequences imposed by a woefully uninformed electorate. Most people know nearly nothing, and the nearly nothing they do know is wrong.

We are approaching the end of the era when the only response to a natural disaster is “to rebuild.”

Gen Z thinks they need almost $9.5 million to be financially successful after anxiously watching their parents unretire.

Gen Z Upset About TikTok Ban For 4.3 Seconds, Which Is The Maximum Amount Of Time They Can Focus On Something Thanks To TikTok.

China crisis looms as Europe’s gravy train stalls: ‘nobody is making money.’

France’s 2024 Power Grid Was 95% Fossil Free as Nuclear, Renewables Jumped.

Tech CEO praises worker for selling dog so they could return to the office. Another CEO shows what it takes to rise to the top. Let Luigi out. He has some business to attend to.

Microsoft Office being rebranded again. Fuck, that’s stupid.

Trump reinforces use of his ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy. 100% agreed with this policy. These are economic migrants, not asylum seekers.