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Newly discovered vessels may be key to flushing waste away from our brains
The post The Brain’s Hidden Drain appeared first on Nautilus.
Killer whales divulge more of their private lives with never-before-seen images of a wild birth and gruesome hunts
The post Orcas Giveth and Orcas Taketh Away appeared first on Nautilus.
The stock market bubble inflated by AI hype since late 2022 might finally be popping. If this week’s reversals turn into a sustained downtown, analysts might look back at the actions of tech executives and Trump adminstration figures this week as the straw that finally broke the camel’s back. The warnings have been coming for […]
These extraterrestrial treks make Mount Everest look like an anthill
The post Visit Our Solar System’s Tallest Mountains appeared first on Nautilus.
The U.S. claims it is engaged in “armed conflict” with Tren de Aragua, Ejército de Liberación Nacional, and Cártel de los Soles, among others.
The post Trump Has a Secret List of 24 “Designated Terrorist Organizations.” We Got Some of the Names. appeared first on The Intercept.
Whether or not Congress extends the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced premium tax credits, health care giants are poised to extract new profits from patient pain.
But can this make a dent in Earth’s plastic crisis?
The post Some Bacteria Have Evolved the Ability to Degrade Plastic appeared first on Nautilus.
Scientists might have finally uncovered the origins of bold streaks on the Red Planet’s surface
The post A Martian Mystery May Finally Be Solved appeared first on Nautilus.
Other than lawsuits, losing track of a child is every school district’s worst nightmare. We haven’t lost anyone yet, but an EdTech company has painted a compelling picture of this as a possible future problem that can be pre-solved with EdTech. Therefore, we’re pleased to introduce some cutting-edge yet profoundly user-unfriendly technology.
You’ve already been given an app for reluctantly volunteering to run the book fair, an app for viewing your kid’s hastily prepared report cards, and an app for lodging complaints about our apps. Effective immediately, we’ll also be tracking your child’s whereabouts on three additional apps.
First, if your child is going to be absent, log into your PITA, which does not stand for “Pain in the Ass” but for “Parents Informing Technology of Absences.” If you forget your login, call our wonderful school secretary, Marjorie. No, you can’t just call the office to tell Marjorie your kid is sick; you’ll need to call the office to retrieve your PITA login information, then log in to PITA to tell PITA your kid is sick.
The message behind the government shutdown is loud and clear: Hunger is acceptable collateral damage in service of Trump’s agenda.
The post The President Is Perfectly Fine If You Starve appeared first on The Intercept.
The relationship between white Christian nationalists and right-wing Jewish groups is often so stormy it...
As Russia moves to supply Venezuela with hypersonic missiles, Washington faces growing defiance across Latin America. Colombia and Mexico lead regional resistance to U.S. aggression as Trump’s new Cold War threatens to ignite the Caribbean.
The post Hypersonic Missiles, Imperial Wars, and Resistance: The New US-Russia Clash in Latin America appeared first on MintPress News.
Behind the headlines of “civil war” and “tribal clashes,” Sudan’s collapse reveals a U.S.-engineered campaign of starvation, displacement, and proxy war led by Israel and the UAE to crush resistance and control Africa’s resources.
The post How The CIA & Mossad Set Up Sudan for Genocide since the 1990s appeared first on MintPress News.
One Bidoon father’s all-consuming
and occasionally illegal efforts to assemble
the perfect personal library.
“Jeff Bezos says the future is so bright, he doesn’t see how anybody can be discouraged who is alive right now… ‘In the next couple of decades, there will be millions of people living in space. That’s how fast this is going to accelerate,’ he said.” — Yahoo Tech
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If you’ve been lying awake worrying about creeping authoritarianism, economic collapse, or climate disasters, have you stopped to consider that in our lifetime, some small fraction of humanity may reside beyond Earth’s atmosphere?
I mean, picture it: By 2050, as global temperatures blow past the 1.5C target set by the now-abandoned Paris Climate Accord, there may be millions of people living in space.
Palestinian students learned remotely, with flickering internet, through two years of Israel’s genocide. Now universities need funding to rebuild.
The post Gaza’s Students Kept Studying Amid the Rubble. Now Universities Hope to Rebuild. appeared first on The Intercept.
Generative AI sheds new light on the underlying engines of metaphor, mood and reinvention in six decades of songs
- by Prashant Garg
Psychologists are discovering what’s going on when you do something you enjoy, but also feel weird or embarrassed about
- by LaCount ‘JJ’ Togans
Creativity flourishes when people cross borders—and when those borders blur through deep, human connection
The post To Be More Creative, Immigrate appeared first on Nautilus.
Why is Nigel Farage's supposedly 'anti-globalist' Reform UK being bankrolled by a globe-trotting billionaire who once advised Amnesty International and the World Economic Forum?
The pharmaceutical industry spent decades manipulating the country’s top drug regulator into rubber-stamping its products. The Trump administration is making matters worse.