In a first, Phoenix hits 100 straight days of 100-degree heat.

People who believe they are physically attractive also believe they are important.

University College London: Serotonin Has Little or Nothing to Do with Depression.

How do you deal with real, actual Nazis? M242 Bushmaster.

Mathematicians Prove Hawking Wrong About the Most Extreme Black Holes.

How national security has transformed economic policy.

Goldman Sachs predicts stronger GDP and job growth if Democrats sweep White House and Congress. Agreed.

How Immigration Remade the U.S. Labor Force.

Men envy women for their physical attractiveness and their power of seduction. Indeed.

Canada Orders Federal Workers Back To Office To Bolster Real Estate.

Intel’s Money Woes Throw Biden Team’s Chip Strategy Into Turmoil.

In advocating for free time during a child’s school day, we had no idea the cultural quagmire we were stepping into. Insane.

Biden did stuff, and it looks like it’s working so far. Only one President has taken actual concrete steps to address U.S. industrial weakness vis-a-vis China.

Ukraine’s Acoustic Drone Detection Network Eyed By U.S. As Low-Cost Air Defense Option. Ukraine’s network of nearly 10,000 acoustic sensors has been highly effective and the U.S. Army is interested in copying it.

Activists Charged With Pushing Russian Propaganda Go on Trial in Florida. Experts say the case offers a window into how the Russian government tries to influence American elections and promote its own geopolitical agenda.

Cognitive abilities predict performance in everyday computer tasks.

The Future Of The AC-130 Gunship: Evolve Or Die.

Concern over housing costs hits record high across rich nations.

A Trump loss could stabilise US politics for a generation.

America Is Losing Southeast Asia.

American restrictions on hitting Russia are hurting Ukraine. The Biden administration’s justifications keep changing.

When the Mismanagerial Class Destroys Great Companies.

Europe’s Populist Surge Isn’t Only About Immigration, It Is About Fading Trust.

Massive data breach that includes Social Security numbers may be even worse than suspected.

FinCEN Issues Final Rules to Safeguard Residential Real Estate, Investment Adviser Sectors from Illicit Finance.

Most American workers want a union—and it may be the only way to save the middle class.

America isn’t ready for another war — because it doesn’t have the troops.

AI Layoffs have begun….

The AfD has stunned Germany – but this was no surprise victory.

Beloved Russian celebrity ‘spy’ whale is found dead off Norway.

Astronomers puzzled by little red galaxies that seem impossibly dense.

Chatbots Are Primed to Warp Reality. A growing body of research shows how AI can subtly mislead users—and even implant false memories.

Buy, Borrow, Die – Explained.

Deepwater Submarine Recovers Roman Battering Ram From Ancient Battle.

What I Saw at the 2024 DNC Inflamed My Hatred of the ‘Media Elite.’

Cathedrals or computer chips: which way modern man? Modern achievements are pretty awesome. We should acknowledge that.

Progressives need to learn to take the W. Outrage is only one motivation for change, and it comes with a cost.

The modularity debate ought to be considered resolved at this point.

Mechanisms and consequences of sex differences in immune responses.

The Forgotten History of Sex in America.

The Last Days of Pokrovsk: Ukrainians Dig Trenches and Say Goodbye to Their City as Russians Close In. Welp, guess we’ll be fighting in Poland in 2032. Great.

Fed Favored Annual Core PCE Price Index Slightly Up, at 2.6%: Core Services Inflation 3.7%, Durable Goods Deflation -2.5%.

India Adds Record 1 GW Rooftop Solar Capacity in 1H 2024.

Why the U.S. isn’t ready for wars of the future, according to experts. For once, the experts are right.

Weight-loss drugs ‘slow down the ageing process’, scientists suggest.

Don’t rejoice yet, Elon Musk and his tech bros-in-arms are winning the global battle for the truth.

Every job posting in 2024 be like….

California’s Housing and Wildfire Crises Are on a Collision Course.

Hollywood gave nerds exactly what we wanted. Oops.

After Chinese Incursions, Japan Plans a $2 Billion Defensive Satellite Network.

The Grammar of Food.

Boar’s Head plant linked to deadly outbreak broke food safety rules dozens of times, records show.

The Times Strikes Again.

Why Trump’s Arlington Debacle Is So Serious. He’s just a louche douche clown felon.

Trump Calls Out Arlington National Cemetery For Hazard-Filled Fairways.

The future of the world may depend on what a few thousand Pennsylvania voters think about their grocery bills. That’s it. Nuke Pennsylvania!

Kroger Executive Admits Company Gouged Prices Above Inflation.

Mark Zuckerberg Vows to Be Neutral–While Tossing Gifts to Trump and the GOP.

Bosses Are Finding Ways to Pay Workers Less. After a tumble in pay for white-collar job openings, wages for new hires in many blue-collar sectors are now falling.

The American Dream Feels Out of Reach for Most.

Does Ozempic Burn Fat or Just Reduce Appetite? A New Study Offers a Clue.

The Right Hates Kids. It’s Weird. Love fetuses, though. Right up until they are born.

CEOs with lowest-paid US workers ‘focused on own short-term windfall’ – report. CEOs spending more on stock buybacks than capital investments and employee retirement plan contributions.

ASML’s China Chip Business Faces New Curbs From Netherlands.

3 Takeaways From the Department of Energy’s Big New Jobs Report.

What Will We Do With Our Free Power?

The US presidential race will be fought over competing definitions of ‘freedom.’

The Social Recession Is Accelerating. Did wages rise 10-fold to match the 10-fold rise in the cost of a modest house? No. That is social recession in a nutshell.

California passes school cellphone restrictions. But some students find workarounds.

Why all the shade for the Godfather of Gloom? He’s a straw man for the post-Swift pop wave—which includes Carpenter, Roan, Olivia Rodrigo, and Billie Eilish—as it makes a forceful, witty reply to the music-snob tradition of portraying male emotion as deep and female emotion as trifling.

When A.I.’s Output Is a Threat to A.I. Itself.

COVID-19 intranasal vaccine.

30 Vintage Photos Capture People With Radios During the Golden Age of Radio. Those AI captions are terrible.

Your Immune System is Not a Muscle.

Microsoft security tools questioned for treating employees as threats. Cracked Labs examines how workplace surveillance turns workers into suspects.

This state calls itself the ‘most pro-life.’ But moms there keep dying.

‘Barely surviving’: Some flight attendants are facing homelessness and hunger. Did not know their pay was that low; that’s inexcusable.

A lot of new in-car tech is “not necessary,” survey finds.

Manufacturing (beyond Boeing) Not Dead: Orders Rose to New Highs in 2024, after a Little Dip in 2023, after Pandemic Boom.

America’s most boring job is on the edge of extinction. Inside the desperate campaign to get Gen Z to become accountants.

Webb telescope spots six rogue worlds within a glowing cosmic cloud.

Ukraine’s Mysterious New ‘Rocket Drone’ Targets Russian Air Force.

How bringing back the woolly mammoth could save species that still walk the Earth. The main reason to do it is because it’s freakin’ awesome, though.

Calif. tech companies see laid-off workers as ‘table scraps,’ recruiters say.

About Those Crowd Sizes: Take A Look For Yourself.

Say It to My Face. How Democrats learned to tell the plain truth and like it.

Why has Japan been hit with rice shortages, soaring prices despite normal crops?

Chinese Imports of Chip Gear Hit Record $26 Billion This Year.

Deliberate Practice and Acquisition of Expert Performance: A General Overview.

The possibilities for dark matter have just shrunk — by a lot.

My recommendations for the ultimate configuration of uBlock Origin.

Can a Closed Nuclear Power Plant From the ’70s Be Brought Back to Life? Surging demand for electricity and new investment in green energy drove the plan to restart Michigan’s decommissioned Palisades plant. It would be a global first.

Homebuyers need to earn 80% more than they did in 2020 to afford a home in today’s market.

Baby boomers aren’t downsizing, and it’s straining the housing market.

Social Security promised a retirement free from poverty. Some boomers say it isn’t working anymore.

In a world where everything might be fake, it’s vastly harder to prove something is real.

Plunging fire.

First January 6 rioter to breach US Capitol is sentenced to more than 4 years in prison. Nice.

Intertemporal Empathy Decline: Feeling Less Distress for Future Others’ Suffering.

‘Unprecedented Times’ Is the New Normal.

The federal courts are full of judges who could retire but won’t. Little can be done about it.

How hidden WW2 bombs across the Pacific are found and destroyed, decades after war.

How Lidl accidentally took on the big guns of cloud computing.

IBM Shuts China R&D Operations in Latest Retreat by U.S. Companies. Good.

Hackers Have Found an Entirely New Way To Backdoor Into Microsoft Windows.

There Are No Magic Beans: Easy Options to Deter China Militarily Do Not Exist. Correct. But we should do it anyway.

Competition and the form of the subsidy.

Germany is still messing around with its future.

Why Alaska Airlines is investing in a jet that’s like nothing you’ve seen before.

US grid adds batteries at 10x the rate of natural gas in first half of 2024. By year’s end, 96 percent of the US’s grid additions won’t add carbon to the atmosphere.

The Success of Messaging at the DNC. Democrats are hitting all the notes that have eluded them. It’s strange having an actually organized party. Hasn’t happened since the 1990s.

China’s Export Strategy Causes Global Market Havoc.

Taiwan jails spies ‘seduced by money’ to work for China.

Beware the Pundit-Brained Version of the Democratic Convention.

One year after Prigozhin’s death, the Kremlin is humiliated once more.

How Democrats snatched ‘freedom’ back from Trump and the Republicans.

I switched to a flip phone and dramatically improved my well-being.

Democrats Are Saying No to Leslie Knope Politics. The Harris campaign is the first Democratic campaign to understand that once you throw policy details into the wind, they will be used against you, never for you.

All of Trump’s recent public appearances show a babbling, angry old man who can barely string a coherent sentence together. Would a woman, and especially a woman of color, get even one of those passes?

Zelensky’s Invasion of Russia Sends a Message to Moscow—and Washington. Ukraine’s audacious move across the border is an effort to show the world that the country is still in the fight. Well, yes, as that was the purpose of the attack after all.

I worked at Google for almost a decade. Its problem is bureaucracy — not hybrid working.

Most Climate Policies Don’t Work. Here’s What Science Says Does Reduce Emissions.

Mobility vs. density in American history.

How the world’s last wild red wolves are avoiding extinction.

A Very Good Sign: Kamala Harris Is Going Right at Corporate Greed.

The surprise Kursk offensive caught Putin and the Russians off guard, but no one, not even the Ukrainians, seems to know what happens next.

I founded a pioneering tech magazine. Tech killed it off.

Biden’s Asylum Restrictions Are Working.

Are You Sure Your House Is Worth That Much? Climate risk is still not being priced into American homeownership.

NASA not comfortable with Starliner thrusters, so crew will fly home on Dragon.

DNA Tests Are Uncovering the True Prevalence of Incest.

Why I Want Apple to Bring Back The Glowing Logo (We Have the Technology). Me too. That and MagSafe should come right on back.

As cars and trucks get bigger and taller, lawmakers look to protect pedestrians. Can protect them by requiring commercial licenses to operate huge vehicles.

The United States has emerged as the largest importer of Indian defence products, accounting for nearly 50% of India’s total defence exports.

The Democratic Party Has Finally Gone YIMBY.

My Company Bragged about how Much Money Employee Deaths Saved Them.

In a world of infinite automation and infinite surveillance, survival is going to depend on being the least boring person. Sounds like hell, but she might be right.

Confessions of a Theoretical Physicist. My life among the elementary particles has made me question whether reality exists at all.

The former CEO of a small Kansas bank was sentenced to more than 24 years in prison for looting the bank of $47 million — which he sent to cryptocurrency wallets controlled by scammers who had duped him in a “pig butchering” scheme. Bro you could’ve just sent that money to yourself.

A data-driven case for productivity optimism.

How to Build a 50,000 Ton Forging Press.

Crayola’s Factory Makes 13 Million Crayons a Day for Back-to-School Season.

Mixed Story: What the Revision to the Jobs Data Means. Mostly accurate.

Economists Are Wrong About Price Gouging. And much else.

Hurricane Debby Reveals Hazards of the Suburban Development Pattern.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype.

Mask bans disenfranchise millions of Americans with disabilities.

Non-mortgage costs were 40 percent of housing budgets through 2021. Non-mortgage costs are 100% of our housing budget.

Should We Think of Our Children as Strangers? A new line of inquiry asks us to imagine them as random individuals who just happen to live in our homes.

Insurance lobbyists block federal crackdown on costly retirement advice. The financial services industry has blocked the Biden administration from requiring brokers to put retirees’ needs first — above lucrative commissions. Scam economy.

Dozens of pregnant women, some bleeding or in labor, are turned away from ERs despite federal law. Who could have ever predicted this? No one, no one I tell you!

Am left of the US Democratic party, but at this point they represent an infinitely better option for America than does anything connected to Donald Trump. Same. No senile two-bit felons in office, please.

How Tim Walz Saved Workers’ Lives and Limbs. The Democrats’ vice-presidential nominee has won extraordinary advances in worker safety in Minnesota.

In Florida and elsewhere around the U.S., many retirees are gravitating toward the same solution: They’re “unretiring” and heading back to work.

Trump slams Harris’ call for a price-gouging ban, but 37 states already have their own. Including quite a few red states.

America’s oil capital was moving away from cars. Then a new mayor arrived. Houston faces choices confronting many U.S. cities. Billions of federal dollars are available for them to upgrade rail and bike transit, but some are balking. We are all dumbasses.

Astronomers think they’ve found a plausible explanation of the Wow! signal.