You don’t have to swallow frogs. Klein and Coates show that if you don’t know what your core beliefs are, you’re going to get played. “But pundits rarely shape politics.” LOLWUT?

The Government Has Been Shut Down for Months.

Inflammation now predicts heart disease more strongly than cholesterol.

How has mathematics gotten so abstract?

Microsoft moves to the uncanny valley with creepy Copilot avatars that stare at you and say your name.

Trump Is Shutting Down the War on Cancer. America’s cancer research system, which has helped save millions of lives, is under threat in one of its most productive moments. Fully fucking moronic beyond any words.

Is This the End of the Dictionary?

Getting Yelled at By Dumbasses. The defining experience of fascism.

Trump Has No Mandate to Destroy America.

Golden retriever boyfriends and ick lists: gen Z’s dating rules are making them ‘constantly disappointed.’

Funds Shifted To Develop New LC-130J “Ski Bird” Polar Airlifters.

A Memo To Corporate America: How To Stop Being Cartoon Villains.

Hiring only senior engineers is killing companies.

A blue jay and a green jay mated, researchers say. Their offspring is a scientific marvel.

FAA decides it trusts Boeing enough to certify the safety of its own planes again. I’m sure that will end well.

How the Brain Balances Excitation and Inhibition.

The “Lock-in Effect” and Mortgage Rates: Update on Unwinding a Phenomenon that Wrecked the Housing Market.

Chat Control Is Back on the Menu in the EU. It Still Must Be Stopped.

Correctness Isn’t Competence.

The death of the corporate job.

A world with two predatory superpowers. Nations must work out how to contend with Trump’s America and China.

The Russian spy ship stalking Europe’s subsea cables.

Boeing Has Started Working on a 737 MAX Replacement.

Patagonian Welsh.

The Long Strange Trip from Silica to Smartphone.

A General Principle of Neuronal Evolution Reveals a Human-Accelerated Neuron Type Potentially Underlying the High Prevalence of Autism in Humans.

Inside the Jaguar Land Rover hack: stalled smart factories, outsourced cybersecurity and supply chain woes.

Angry Tortoise Liquid-Fueled Hypersonic Missile In Development For USAF.

Ukraine Is Now The Strongest Ally Europe Can Rely On. Sad but alas true.

Europeans Privately Tell Russia They’re Ready to Down Jets. Time to start shooting.

Costa seeks to bypass Orbán’s veto on Ukraine’s EU membership bid.

How to hold Russia’s propagandists accountable.

Major bank issues warning that there’s a 93% chance of a recession in the US this year.

For Want of a Ferryman, a Two-Century U.S.-Canada Link Is Severed.

Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies.

The top 10% are responsible for nearly half of the consumer spending that’s keeping the economy afloat. There’s something disturbing about a tiny number of people having so much money that it effectively masks how poor everyone else is.

How much would mothers earn if they didn’t have children?

Isabella Stewart Gardner.

Why Microsoft Has Lower Borrowing Costs Than the U.S.

For 15% of California homeowners costs exceed half of income.

Spraying Roundup on Crops Is Fine. Really.

We need to be honest. Not all cultures are equal, and not all immigration is equal.

The AI bubble is the only thing keeping the US economy together, Deutsche Bank warns.

New Math Revives Geometry’s Oldest Problems.

Nouvelle intrusion d’un drone d’origine inconnue au Danemark ; l’Allemagne va désormais abattre tout drone en cas de survol de son territoire.

Why Today’s Humanoids Won’t Learn Dexterity.

Why a decades old architecture decision is impeding the power of AI computing.

‘Hidden costs’ of climate emergency are worsening California’s affordability crisis.

Could we make something good from social media? Most likely not.

Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice.

France and Britain are in thrall to pensioners.

Illiteracy is a policy choice.

The current war on science, and who’s behind it.

Athlon 64: How AMD turned the tables on Intel.

Cosmic simulations that once needed supercomputers now run on a laptop.

Do we have to recover from anti-vaccine misinformation the hard way, with suffering and death? Turns out, yes.

Austria hails ‘brain gain’ in luring 25 academics away from US after cuts.

We Must Save Public Media to Change It.

Block busting only worked because the threats were backed by real violence.

The Legend of a Jet Age Jesse James.

The industry is going through a period where a lot is changing all at once.

Breaking the chain. The role of the conscious observer has posed a stubborn problem for quantum measurement. Phenomenology offers a solution.

The A.I. Bubble Is Coming for Your Browser.

Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.

Preventing Simultaneous Contingencies in Europe and Asia.

A Diminished Social Security Work Force, and Its Customers, Feel the Strain.

Grocery prices are jumping up. We explain why.

Mapped: Median Salary by U.S. State.

The career ladder is collapsing. Gen Z is feeling it first.

Microsoft forced to make Windows 10 extended security updates truly free in Europe.

The next big financial crisis may be brewing. Warning signs are already there.

Private Equity Is Coming for America’s $12 Trillion in Retirement Savings. Of course they are.

Onboard a U.S. aircraft carrier as tensions rise over Russian incursions into NATO airspace.

America’s top companies keep talking about AI — but can’t explain the upsides.

The War on Roommates: Why Is Sharing a House Illegal?

US death rate dropped back to pre-Covid levels in 2024, CDC report says.

Fast food used to be a cheap meal option. Why has that changed?

It’s AI all the way down as Google’s AI cites web pages written by AI.

Why Won’t Farmers Rebel Against Trumponomics? Because They’re Rich.

Ford’s CEO: America is ignoring the ‘essential economy’ as AI eats entry-level white-collar jobs.

Deaths Rose in Emergency Rooms After Hospitals Were Acquired by Private Equity Firms.

The U.K. Tried to Clamp Down on Migration—and Wound Up With an Unprecedented Wave.

Hundreds of new bacteria, and two potential antibiotics, found in soil.

Paper2Agent: Reimagining Research Papers As Interactive and Reliable AI Agents.

Federal judge lifts Trump administration’s halt of nearly complete offshore wind farm in New England. Awesome.

Germicidal ultraviolet could make airborne diseases as rare as those carried by water.

Permitting Reform Is Hard. This Is Easier.

They Were Some of Earth’s Last Stable Glaciers. Now, They’re Melting.

Confessions of an Ex-Anti-Vaxxer. I spent years spouting conspiracy theories about vaccines. Now, as measles rages in my home of Alberta, I’m trying to convince vax-hesitant parents to inoculate their kids.

Greg Lukianoff: Bury the ‘Words Are Violence’ Cliché.

How Russia’s GRU Plotted Europe’s Parcel Explosions.

Extrachromosomal DNA–Driven Oncogene Spatial Heterogeneity and Evolution in Glioblastoma.

Windows 11 is adding another Copilot button nobody asked for.

For Gen Alpha, learning to read is becoming a privilege.

What climate targets? Top fossil fuel producing nations keep boosting output.

As of today the company I work for has officially replaced three humans with an AI. They named it, gave it a cartoony persona, and they’re SO EXCITED to see it doing customer service work (and also stuffing bonus money in leadership’s pockets)! Fuck those three people he replaced, right?

American students are getting dumber.

Priced out of traditional housing, more Americans are living in RVs.

AI Was Supposed to Help Juniors Shine. Why Does It Mostly Make Seniors Stronger?

A Change of Tune. A revolution in English bell ringing.

China’s 200m gig workers are a warning for the world.

The world is warming faster than we can cut emissions. Volcanoes are already cooling the planet, with particles that reflect sunlight. Maybe we can too.

Samsung brings ads to US fridges. Hell world.

The right to anonymity is powerful, and America is destroying it.

The system that moves water around the planet is increasingly ‘erratic and extreme,’ new report finds.

Trump-loving farmers want blue states to bail them out again.

Many Americans can’t buy homes, get jobs or move in this stuck economy.

Cardboard-Box Demand Is Slumping. Why That’s Bad News for the Economy.

Welcome to the era of stagflation-lite.

Wegovy pill could deliver as much weight loss as the shot, trial shows.

Internet Archive’s big battle with music publishers ends in settlement. Music publishers should burn in hell. Book ones too.

The best YouTube downloaders (and how Google silenced the press).

The health benefits of sunlight may outweigh the risk of skin cancer.

The Billionaire Trump Supporter Who Will Soon Own the News.

An engine doesn’t have horses inside.

Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel. Never thought I’d be defending Jimmy Kimmel, but here I am.

The 25 Most Interesting Ideas I’ve Found in 2025 (So Far).

Mosquito-borne viruses surge in a warming Europe.

The Surgeon Who Took On UnitedHealth Now Pays the Price.

Claims of pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no.

Windows 11 is a travesty, a loose collection of dark patterns and incompetence, run by people who have zero interest in lovingly crafting an operating system they can be proud of. Indeed. It is a royal piece of shit.

Who harms whom? An economics lesson from down the pub.

The Great Student Swap. For years, public universities have aggressively recruited out-of-state and international students, charging them higher tuition. But those pipelines may be drying up.

The Grave Threat Posed by Donald Trump’s Attack on Jimmy Kimmel. The President and his allies are using the power of the state to silence speech they dislike.

Home Insurance as You Know It Is Doomed. You’re Not Ready.

Russia, China and Iran Use Kirk’s Murder to Stoke Conspiracy Theories and Division.

Congress Has No Good Excuse to Keep Trading Stocks.

How Much Training Should an Airline Pilot Need? The government requires 1,500 hours of flight time to serve as first officer as an airliner. Some aviators say the rule is excessive—and doesn’t actually make flying safer.

The political mood feels like 9/11 again.

EVs Have Gotten Too Powerful.

The Illiberal, Transphobic Pipe Dream Of Banning Porn Reaches Michigan Republicans.

DNA study reveals origin of world’s first pandemic.

Gemini AI solves coding problem that stumped 139 human teams at ICPC World Finals.

Taiwan Just Unveiled Its Own High-Altitude Anti-Ballistic Missile System.

Our Sun Is Becoming More Active And NASA Doesn’t Know Why.

Jerome Powell says the Gen Z hiring nightmare is real: ‘Kids coming out of college…are having a hard time finding jobs.’

What Happened to “the West”? As America Drifts Away From Its Allies, a Less Peaceful World Awaits.

Denmark close to wiping out leading cancer-causing HPV strains after vaccine roll-out.

“Canada: The Industrial Implosion” v. the United States.

Publishers Clearing House’s bankruptcy means ‘forever’ winners will no longer get paid.

Wars of deception are coming for America. It isn’t ready.

The real enemy of democracy sneaked up on me. I used to be a cautious optimist, but social media has changed our politics for the worse.

The third Red Scare. The right’s new assault on free speech isn’t cancel culture. It’s worse.

Job seekers feel awful about the labor market. Data is finally starting to explain why.

Trump Secured the Border, So Where Are the Jobs?

The Jimmy Kimmel Suspension: A Huge Step Down the Authoritarian Road.