A 40-year-old man with no significant medical history arrived at a Michigan emergency department with a distended belly and pain that had exploded overnight. The day before, during what his surgical team described as mild blunt trauma, another person had landed directly on his abdomen with significant force. He had walked it off. Twenty-four hours…
For most of the history of robotics, contests between robots and humans have been entertaining precisely because they were so unequal. Humans could run, jump, balance, improvise, and recover from mistakes with an ease that made even sophisticated robots look awkwardly mechanical. The comparison flattered us. That capability gap is closing. Recent Chinese humanoid robot…
Shortly after taking office last year, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth polled the nation’s top commanders about cutting a program designed to protect civilians during U.S. military operations. Hegseth had bet senior officers would endorse his view that focusing on civilian security was “woke” and out of step with “maximum lethality,” current and former defense officials…
When video of a sleek, quick-footed animal darting through the streets of Abshway, a town in Egypt’s Fayoum governorate, began circulating on social media on 18 July, panic followed close behind. Some residents assumed a dangerous predator was on the loose. Environmental and veterinary authorities in Fayoum soon identified the animal as Herpestes ichneumon, the…
A 40-year-old man with no significant medical history arrived at a Michigan emergency department with a distended belly and pain that had exploded overnight. The day before, during what his surgical team described as mild blunt trauma, another person had landed directly on his abdomen with significant force. He had walked it off. Twenty-four hours…
For most of the history of robotics, contests between robots and humans have been entertaining precisely because they were so unequal. Humans could run, jump, balance, improvise, and recover from mistakes with an ease that made even sophisticated robots look awkwardly mechanical. The comparison flattered us. That capability gap is closing. Recent Chinese humanoid robot…
Shortly after taking office last year, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth polled the nation’s top commanders about cutting a program designed to protect civilians during U.S. military operations. Hegseth had bet senior officers would endorse his view that focusing on civilian security was “woke” and out of step with “maximum lethality,” current and former defense officials…
When video of a sleek, quick-footed animal darting through the streets of Abshway, a town in Egypt’s Fayoum governorate, began circulating on social media on 18 July, panic followed close behind. Some residents assumed a dangerous predator was on the loose. Environmental and veterinary authorities in Fayoum soon identified the animal as Herpestes ichneumon, the…
The White House released a statement after Canada announced its counter-tariffs, saying that the US was prepared to offer Canada “the most preferential market access of any country on Earth” in recent trade talks. “Instead of partnership, Canada chose unreasonable demands, walk-backs, and flat-out rejection,” it said. In a series of Tuesday posts on Truth…
Manchester United have completed the signing of Cameroon midfielder Carlos Baleba from Brighton & Hove Albion in a deal worth up to £70 million. The 22-year-old has joined on a five-year contract, with an option for an additional year. United will pay an initial £65m, with a further £5m in potential add-ons, while Brighton have…
When LeBron James signed up to lead the Los Angeles Lakers to NBA glory with a $154-million contract in 2018, it wasn’t the biggest deal he did that year. Just months before he joined, a limited liability company he controls borrowed almost $300 million from a pair of Midwestern life insurers advised by an arm…
By Robert Scucci | Published 12 seconds ago After going deep into the world of analog horror, I knew that No Through Road was essential viewing. The four-part web series is widely considered one of the defining early works of the subgenre, at least according to most internet scholars (read: people on Reddit), and my…
Public health researchers report that the number of Canadians under 50 dying from nine of the top 10 most deadly cancers has been trending down since the turn of the century. In a study published in August 2026 in JAMA Network Open, epidemiologists looked back at cancer deaths over 24 years to see how Canucks…
Yves here. Mentions of the Gates Foundation regularly produces almost Pavlovian reactions of antipathy for social engineering by squllionaires. However, it is not as if that response is unwarranted. As the case below, the Gates/Rockefeller Foundation initiative, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, not only did not produce much-hyped increases in agricultural productivity, but…
