The headlines of 2025 painted a portrait of America in chaos, driven by the financial logic of America’s media ecosystem. It’s number one product isn’t news, but fear. “NYC youth crime doubled since controversial state Raise the Age Law kicked in,” exclaims one hysterical New York Post headline from September. “Business owners express frustration over… Continue reading When You Learn How Low the 2025 Murder Rate Was, You’ll Realize How Profoundly the Media Has Failed the American People
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Strange Mushroom Makes You See Tiny People Chilling on Every Surface
Magic mushrooms, an informal group of fungi that contain the naturally occurring psychedelic substance psilocybin, are known for inducing powerful hallucinations. They can induce feelings of euphoria, a sense of belonging in the world, and distort reality by messing with the brain’s visual cortex, turning the world into a trippy, shimmering pocket dimension full of… Continue reading Strange Mushroom Makes You See Tiny People Chilling on Every Surface
Why Minnesota Can’t Do More to Stop ICE
With the marshals under attack, Kennedy deployed first the Mississippi National Guard and then thousands of federal troops as well. (That military operation, codenamed RAPID ROAD, was actually the first and only time during the Cold War that the military activated and used plans it had developed to quell civil disturbances in the wake of… Continue reading Why Minnesota Can’t Do More to Stop ICE
Phonak Audeo Infinio Ultra Sphere Review: Premium Hearing Aids
If you’re comparing the photos of the Audeo Infinio Ultra Sphere—Phonak’s most powerful hearing aid to date—to the product’s name, you’re not crazy: It’s not the slightest bit round. Rather, it’s a traditional, teardrop-shaped, behind-the-ear hearing aid that takes its name from Phonak’s new Spheric Speech Clarity 2.0 system, designed to enhance the understandability of… Continue reading Phonak Audeo Infinio Ultra Sphere Review: Premium Hearing Aids
No One Is Quite Sure Why Ice Is Slippery
They intuited that molecules near the surface behave differently from those deep within the ice. Ice is a crystal, which means each water molecule is locked into a periodic lattice. However, at the surface, the water molecules have fewer neighbors to bond with and therefore have more freedom of movement than in solid ice. In… Continue reading No One Is Quite Sure Why Ice Is Slippery
It doesn’t matter if Alex Pretti had a gun
What is the point of law enforcement that doesn’t follow the law? by Sarah Jeong Jan 25, 2026, 5:01 PM UTC Sarah Jeong is a features editor who publishes award-winning stories about law, tech, and internet subcultures. A journalist trained as a lawyer, she has been writing about tech for 10 years. Shortly after federal… Continue reading It doesn’t matter if Alex Pretti had a gun
Children Starting School Are Trying to Swipe Books Like They’re Phones
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images An alarming proportion of kids just starting school are baffled by how books work. In a new survey of primary, or elementary, school staff conducted by the UK charity Kindred Squared, the teachers estimated that nearly a third of students in reception class — the equivalent… Continue reading Children Starting School Are Trying to Swipe Books Like They’re Phones
Waymo’s School Bus Situation Just Got Way Worse
Getty Images / SDI Productions If Waymo thought regulators would get off its back for its robotaxis blowing past stopped school buses, it thought wrong. On Friday, the National Transportation Safety Board announced it opened an investigation into the self-driving company over the alarming incidents, and specifically the more than 20 instances reported in Austin,… Continue reading Waymo’s School Bus Situation Just Got Way Worse
Trump Building Top Secret Installation Under East Wing
Heather Diehl/Getty Images Three months ago, the Trump administration broke ground on its highly controversial plans to add a sprawling ballroom to the White House’s East Wing. The State Department-funded buildout attracted plenty of scrutiny from congressional inquiries, lawsuits, and the press. Just this week, a US District judge will be weighing a bid by… Continue reading Trump Building Top Secret Installation Under East Wing
Asset Manager Warns That OpenAI Is Likely Headed for Financial Disaster
Chris Jung/NurPhoto via Getty Images Just over three years ago, OpenAI opened the floodgates with the launch of ChatGPT. The frantic industry-wide race that followed has resulted in soaring valuations for AI companies, tens of billions of dollars invested in data center infrastructure — and plenty of skepticism as well. For one, experts have pointed… Continue reading Asset Manager Warns That OpenAI Is Likely Headed for Financial Disaster