How Hollywood appeases China, explained by the Barbie movie (www.vox.com)
What the new Trump indictment has already proven (www.vox.com)
Why did the US credit rating just get dinged? (www.vox.com)
On August 1, the Fitch Ratings agency downgraded the United States’ long-term credit rating from AAA to AA+ for only the second time in the nation’s history, in what’s generally seen as a signal of concern about the US’s creditworthiness....
Trump was just indicted for trying to steal the 2020 election (www.vox.com)
Former President Donald Trump was indicted for an unprecedented third time on August 1, adding another set of serious federal charges to the mounting legal issues he faces.
What can caged lab monkeys tell us about free human beings? (www.vox.com)
Where biomedicine gets it wrong about primate research....
Here’s how the EU’s ETIAS program will impact your travel (www.vox.com)
This tick’s spit can make you allergic to meat (www.vox.com)
Inside the Republican effort to force millions of farm animals back into cages (www.vox.com)
Decades of progress for animal welfare are potentially at risk.
There’s a handy new label to tell you if your gadget is easy to hack or not (www.vox.com)
Telephone operation was a good career for women. Then it got automated. (www.vox.com)
Hollywood’s historic double strike, explained (www.vox.com)
A monumental LGBTQ rights case is barreling toward the Supreme Court (www.vox.com)
A new federal appeals court decision is a terrible blow to trans rights, and a potential earthquake in the fight for LGBTQ equality.
So is Turkey finally going to let Sweden into NATO? (www.vox.com)
The Turkey-Sweden-NATO drama, briefly explained.
AI is a "tragedy of the commons." We’ve got solutions for that. (www.vox.com)
"Arms race" is the wrong mental model for AI. Here’s a better one.
The WHO is about to declare aspartame can cause cancer (www.vox.com)
AI is a "tragedy of the commons." We’ve got solutions for that. (www.vox.com)
"Arms race" is the wrong mental model for AI. Here’s a better one.
The troubling court decision roiling Guatemala’s elections, explained (www.vox.com)
This past weekend, Guatemala’s Constitutional Court paused the certification of its recent election results after 10 political parties disputed the outcome and called for a review of the returns. It’s an unprecedented move that could potentially spur a recount, and one that further undercuts the country’s tenuous democracy...
Why scientists haven’t cracked consciousness (www.vox.com)
As the years passed, Chalmers and Koch forgot about their bet, but in 2018, the science journalist Per Snaprud brought it back to their attention. A few years later, as part of a $20 million project supported by the Templeton World Charity Foundation, a series of “adversarial experiments” were designed to pit theories of...
Spread of a rare desert fungus due to climate change (www.vox.com)
(apologies: edited the title to be slightly less click-baity)
The Supreme Court will decide if abusive spouses have a right to own guns (www.vox.com)
The justices are forced to confront the gun policy disaster that it created.
The nuclear industry’s big bet on going small: Small modular reactors might be the nuclear industry’s best hope for a renaissance. (www.vox.com)
The growing global support for a Gaza ceasefire, explained (www.vox.com)
Why the US and Israel are becoming "increasingly isolated."
Benjamin Netanyahu failed Israel (www.vox.com)
In the past 24 hours, two reports out of Israel have pointed to a striking conclusion: that the failure to prevent Hamas’s murderous assault on southern Israel rests in significant part with the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu....
George Bush is only for now - How one song from Avenue Q kind of explains the tumult of the 21st century (www.vox.com)
An essay on the socio-political commentary in Avenue Q, South Park and The Book of Mormon, and how the times have changed since these shows have premiered....
