Many people think of him as a lone genius who was just conjuring up ideas out of thin air—the phonograph, motion pictures, the lightbulb… But Edison employed 200 engineers and scientists who worked round the clock generating ideas, many of them bad www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/the-myth-o...

Trump: "President Xi will be coming here toward the end of the year. I only wish we had the ballroom finished. The ballroom is right on budget and ahead of schedule. You also may want to go see the reflecting pool."

Rep. Ralph Norman: "Jim Clyburn, I like him personally, but he does not represent the rest of South Carolina, which is conservative. His district is close to 47% African American."

Q: Do you think you might travel to Russia this year? TRUMP: I will do whatever is necessary. I've settled eight wars.

Here is what defeat looks like. Iran remains in control of the Strait of Hormuz… Iran cannot afford to let the strait go… The Gulf Arab economies were built under the umbrella of American hegemony. Take that away… and the Gulf states will go begging to Tehran archive.ph/2026.05.10-1...

…regeringen ökadevanslaget till Teach for Sweden med 124 % sedan statsministerns svägerska valdes in i styrelsen… finansierades genom att skära ner på integration och jämställdhet. Statsministern deltog personligen i beslutet… ”Det blir ju en korrupt cirkel i det här” klagget.nu/2026/05/12/r...

Over the past decade, we have consolidated course content, assignment submission, grading, communication, assessment, and accreditation data into a single proprietary cloud platform…?When it fails, teaching and learning can grind to a halt lizalong.substack.com/p/blank-canv...

Sashko noticed an arm. He sensed that he knew it… focusing on the fingernails. He knew his mother’s pink polish. The arm was alone—it had been torn from her body… Olena told him, “This is Sashko, our neighbor. His mother died. Now he will be our son” www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The Palestinians I interviewed recounted various kinds of abuse beyond rape. Many reported that they often had their genitals yanked or were beaten on the testicles. Hand-held metal detectors were used to probe between men’s legs and smashed into their private parts www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

Not getting the warming speed right results in wide-of-the-mark predictions. In experiments with abrupt warming, reproduction was often more severely affected than in gradual warming experiments, while survival generally declined regardless of warming speed phys.org/news/2026-05...

(FT) - Japan’s most famous brand of potato chips will drain the colour from its packaging this month as the war in the Middle East squeezes supplies of petroleum-based colourants and manufacturers grapple with “ink-flation”. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/3b40...

…he seems to be confusing the fertility with fecundity… fecundity is the biological capacity to produce babies… In modern societies, thankfully, fertility rates are much more determined by conscious choices and sexual behavior familyinequality.wordpress.com/2026/05/09/p...

That position would have been unthinkable in previous American administrations, but… the fact that a free Taiwan versus a Chinese-controlled Taiwan has no material effect on him could result in Taiwanese independence becoming collateral damage of the war in Iran steady.substack.com/p/needed-a-d...

Last July, the pope called his bank in South Chicago. He wanted to update the phone number on his account. The teller told him that any changes had to be made in person with an ID. Knowing that was impossible, he asked: “Would it matter to you if I told you I’m Pope Leo?” She hung up on him.

Trump: "We've taken people that were dead. We had a person given the last rites -- gone, the kids are crying and everything -- and started them on this drug. And the person became better. It works."

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

…learning actually is not a transaction but a trajectory — movement through at least three different kinds of cognitive work… The first is retention… The second transfer… The third agency… You are not the same after genuine learning as you were before nickpotkalitsky.substack.com/p/is-ownersh...

ATTKISSON: What happened to the audit of Fort Knox? TRUMP: What are you talking about? A: You & Elon Musk talked about auditing the gold T: We wanted to go knock on the door and see whether we have any gold there. We played with that. I wonder if they left the gold in Ft Knox bc they steal a lot.

Xiaoying does operations work at a big tech firm in Beijing, now two years into her first job after graduation. She has noticed that overtime is simply the norm — past ten at night, the lights in the office are still mostly on… “I’m just a cog in the machine” chinaunread.substack.com/p/after-atte...

Trump Mobile makes it crystal clear that handing over your cash is not a finished purchase… paying upfront does not reserve a specific phone for you… your deposit is simply a conditional opportunity to buy the device if Trump Mobile eventually chooses to sell it www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-mobile...

Why don’t we call it deeper education… Deeper couldn’t do the ranking work… Depth costs faculty time, small enrollments, and patience from administrators who measure throughput. Higher can be claimed by any institution hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/what-does-...

These deaths are on him as well as the parents he has misled.

Thank you! I deflate the term, so technically I also conclude it is meaningless. I do then reinflate it, like so, however! doi.org/10.3390/bs16...

Look, you can hold more sugar molecules in the palm of your hand than there are stars in existence. We don’t need Whitman to tell us what we contain. Yes, you need chemistry. You are atoms and the universe lastwordonnothing.com/2026/04/29/g...

One thing that offends us about AI ‘slop’ images is a sense that the details don’t matter… In good human works, every detail feels carefully chosen… Great art is not predictable or obvious, it is surprising… The details of great artworks relate to each other nabeelqu.substack.com?utm_medium=e...

The students who benefit most from phone restrictions are students who need most support… None of the studies produced evidence that restriction teaches anything about digital wellness and literacy. The student walks out of school with the same use nickpotkalitsky.substack.com/p/screen-res...

…the audience largely saw through the deception… participants rated altered videos as far less believable… Even though people correctly suspected the videos were fake, their opinions of the politicians still dropped. The deepfakes successfully damaged the reputations www.psypost.org/deepfake-vid...

L.L.M.s encourage cognitive offloading before kids have done much onloading… chatbots warp how children forge their selfhood and relationships… ”potentially undermining complex thinking, changing the development of sociality, mistaking the learning goal” www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

Then Chittka and his team decided to bring untrained bees to watch demonstrator bees pull the string. The observers learned the task as well, and soon those bees were showing other foragers in the colony how to do it too www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

Breaking: After SCOTUS finds that Southern States are no longer racist, Southern States engage in very racist changes in elections.

Being prolific encourages—perhaps forces—you to experiment. You don’t need to worry too much about failure, because your next project will be coming up soon… the more attempts an artist or craftsperson makes, the more major works they create 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

Det er ikke det værste, man kan beskylde de superrige for, men det gør det ikke mindre slemt: De har ingen smag. Læs mere her: www.information.dk/kultur/2026/... Tekst: Bodil Skovgaard Nielsen Fotos: Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix

Det finns så många uppseendeväckande meningar i den här artikeln att det är omöjligt att citera bara en. Stiftelsens egna medarbetare ifrågasätter ökningen av anslaget. Läs gärna! www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/wr...

Valet kommer alltså att stå mellan ”Vi tror på Sverige” och ”Vi älskar Sverige”. Ett ödesval.

Airlines are a really, really bad business… the IATA’s report said, “the airline industry does not generate earnings that cover its cost of capital”… The airline industry itself can either be profitable, or it can be competitive: but it can’t really be both davidoks.blog/p/why-airlin...

…half a million children born between 1980 and 2001… 1,870 developed schizophrenia, but not one of the 66 children with cortical blindness… the pattern holds across 70 years of evidence: not a single congenitally blind person with schizophrenia has been reported theconversation.com/people-who-a...

I think about my friend and the young man, sympathetic and helpful as they had been. About the harvaid, who refused to take any money for his gentle and effective kindness 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

…the decline in happiness has been an across-the-board 10- to 15-point decimation experienced by practically every demographic… permanent unrelenting economic crisis, uniquely negative news and media environment, rise of solitude www.derekthompson.org/p/if-america...

In another significant development for Kyiv, Gulf States have emerged as a new set of partners… Ukraine – with four years of combat experience against Iranian-style drone swarms – possessed battle-tested capabilities that Gulf states urgently needed engelsbergideas.com/essays/ukrai...

Nu har Voi-vd:n svarat på X. Givetvis på engelska.

Vänstern har vad Hjelm och hans vänner i business kallar ”farliga idéer för Sverige”… som att landet inte måste vara ett skatteparadis… För att stoppa just den utvecklingen föredrar de rika en politik där oskyldiga tonåringar tvångsutvisas www.dn.se/kultur/johan...

it's hard for me to imagine the depravity of an organization which excuses the mass murder of its own hostages because they thought htey were following orders to commit genocide

I deliver meals… I realized these visits are bigger than food. Some of these people don’t see anybody else all day… Entire lives packed into quiet houses with ticking clocks and daytime television… Then I show up carrying a meal and five minutes of conversation ericfoltin.com/2026/05/09/h...

"Are these nine wars in the room with you now?"

…it implies the possibility of an independent invention of writing, similarly to what happened in other parts of the world where writing was an original creation… Mesopotamia, Egypt, China and Mesoamerica… another invention of writing in human history” www.popularmechanics.com/science/arch...

Naomi, 21, from Tokyo, studied abroad in California and described the jarring shift from sento culture to the pressure of beach-ready bodies in the U.S. “When you grow up going to the bathhouse, you just see everyday people in normal bodies in everyday settings” metropolisjapan.com/japanese-bat...

The dead can’t sleep if you’re always making noise, but I have never known a soul with my blood who wants to sleep, once dead, more than four days. The women, especially, are always wanting to wake up, shiver in the grasses, sigh poets.org/poem/daughte...

This has led to the grimly comic scenario of administration officials begging white men to file discrimination claims… ”Are you a white male who has experienced discrimination at work based on your race or sex?” www.publicnotice.co/p/stephen-mi...

evangelicals have finally created. the golden calf. from the classic bible story “don’t create a golden calf”

The problem is the virus’s one- to six-week incubation period… and that several now-known-to-be-sick patients flew out on commercial flights before the details of the outbreak had been established. This is a suppressible virus, but you do have to suppress it www.theargumentmag.com/p/hantavirus...