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MakeUseOf: “I treat Bluetooth like a light switch. I turn it off when I don’t need it, and assume it’s gone. You did too, right? Turns out, we’re wrong. When you’re not actively connected to anything, your phone is still talking, constantly, to anyone nearby set up to listen. Your Bluetooth signal isn’t really turned …
Washington Post [no paywall]: “A committee led by the interior secretary known as the “God Squad” voted Tuesday to exempt oil and gas companies from complying with the Endangered Species Act when drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, a move expected to threaten Rice’s whale and other species with extinction. Meeting for the first time …
MIT Technology Review: “Specialized chatbots might make a difference for people with limited health-care access. Without more testing, we don’t know if they’ll help or harm.”
ClearHealthCosts: “We’re a journalism company from New York City bringing transparency to the health care marketplace by telling people what stuff costs. People should be able to know what things cost in health care. If you knew that your MRI could cost $350 or $6,200, maybe you’d choose a different provider. Maybe you’d wonder if …
The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health, and the Rule of Law – Part 8 – This article by Sabrina I. Pacifici is the eighth in a series with a focus on the continuing onslaught on science, healthcare and public health, and the rule of law. AI in Discovery: Some Tools Are …
Washington Post [no paywall] – Alexander Porter Morse, a Confederate officer during the Civil War and a Louisiana attorney, argued for legalized segregation in the landmark 1896 Supreme Court case that established the “separate but equal” doctrine and buttressed Jim Crow laws. He is again playing a key role in a monumental case to be …
Reddit – Data is Beautiful – Global-Thought-1049 Sources: Zillow Home Value Index (typical home tier, 35th–65th percentile), Census ACS 5-year income distributions (16 brackets per ZIP), county property tax rates (Census ACS), state homeowners insurance averages (MoneyGeek). Methodology: For each of 26,000 ZIP codes, I used the full Census income distribution, not a single median …
The Atopian: One of the loudest vehicles in America, visually, is the humble school bus. These mighty metal machines are tasked with carting children around safely. Thus, so much of the design of the school bus, from its eye-searing yellow color to the padded seats, serves an important safety role. One of the coolest style …
IEEE Spectrum – “Facial recognition technology (FRT) dates back 60 years. Just over a decade ago, deep-learning methods tipped the technology into more and menacing—territory. Now, retailers, your neighbors, and law enforcement are all storing your face and building up a fragmentary photo album of your life. Yet the story those photos can tell inevitably …
CRS Report: R48887. Publication Date: 03/26/2026 – U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran on February 28, 2026, have sparked a wide-reaching regional conflict, with ongoing U.S. and Israeli air operations in Iran and Iranian retaliatory strikes on a range of targets in a number of countries and threats and attacks that have largely halted maritime …
The Guardian – “The US has caused an eye-watering $10tn in global damages to the world over the past three decades through its vast planet-heating emissions, with a quarter of this economic pain inflicted upon itself, new research has found. By being the largest carbon emitter in history, the US has caused greater harm to …
The noaasis.noaa.gov website will be discontinued, effective as of June 23rd, 2026. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Satellite Information System (NOAASIS) website is a central location for information about NOAA’s geostationary and polar-orbiting environmental satellites. Information is provided by various contributors within the NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) and …
