20+ hour, 33+ min ago   (425+ words) Meta, the tech giant formerly known simply as Facebook, will pay upward of $17.1 billion in settlement funds to the 29 states that jointly sued the corporation back in 2023, per CBS. The suit was levied because of Meta’s disregard for the mental…...

1+ day, 45+ min ago   (590+ words) Founded in 1869, Nature has long been one of the world’s top science journals. Thus many were surprised by its editorial yesterday on who’s to blame for the tragic death, thought to be suicide, of disgraced Cambridge scholar Jason Arday: “The…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (627+ words) In addition, China’s housing boom was very different from the U.S. boom in the mid-2000s. The latter was fueled by lax loan requirements, subprime lending, and the securitization of questionable mortgages. In 2008, more than half of all U.S. mortgages were…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (156+ words) In the Smithsonian Magazine, Ben Crair recounts his journey to a Paleolithic “art gallery” cave: “The Prehistoric Paintings on the Walls of Caves … With the Right Kind of Light, Some Actually Seem to Move,” September/October 2026 Researchers like Diego Garate…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (386+ words) At The Eternally Radical Idea, academic freedom fighter Greg Lukianoff reminds us of how the printing press changed history, inviting comparison with the internet: But all the printing press really did was bring more people into the global conversation — not…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (838+ words) There has been a fair amount of political activity, pro and con, around the big new data centers, proposed to handle the increased AI traffic — and it all sprang up rather suddenly. Last Thursday, X’s Global Government Affairs unit announced…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (409+ words) This article is republished from National Review with the permission of the author. Nature — the most prestigious science journal in the world — has editorialized in favor of requiring scientists to register with governments as a condition of participation in the…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (727+ words) Recognizing that AI is a bubble requires one to apply the right test to the right companies and that requires one to understand the fundamental nature of the bubble in question. Generally speaking, bubbles exist when share prices and valuations…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1181+ words) We must be very careful to mind our language during everyday life and how you infer the news that’s implied regarding the ‘media is the message’. A corrupted commentary or concept can lead people astray, cause them fear, and send…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (898+ words) The solution to last week’s Microsofty involves a bit of math, so this week we offer a puzzle that challenges you to think outside the box instead: Landscaper Lou was given 10 apple trees and told to plant them in five…...