Offspring die informeert over een examen op de unief. Bericht 1: "HOLY SHIT". Ouders: hartslag van 75 naar 160 op 1/100 seconde. Bericht 2: "Het is goed gegaan". Zich in de plaats stellen van de ontvanger van Whatsapp berichtjes is duidelijk iets dat geen evolutionair voordeel bood in de savanne 🤪

A Chinese company is now selling spray-on coating that makes drones harder for radar to detect, available in buckets and applied with a spray gun. What was once a classified military technology is now a commercial product sold by the kilogram. defence-blog.com/chinese-firm...

During the Queen Elizabeth competition for cello last week, some commentators referred to Jacqueline du Pré's Elgar as their favorite piece of music with that instrument. Wouldn't want to deprive you of it. open.spotify.com/track/5YnoNG...

Peak Finnish joy: winning the hockey World Championship.

Interviewing 50 individuals with high IQs is definitely not how you establish an association between intelligence and musical preferences, but I like the conclusion. This being said, Adrian North of Herriot-Watt has found strong likenesses between metal fans and classical music aficionados

Who says Pigs can't fly?

Draining the swamp

Although migration 'has fallen by 44% over the past 2 years, (...) one in 6 adults are aware that it fell last year; half think it has risen.... on average (people) think that asylum-seekers accounted for 33% of immigrants last year. The true figure was about 12%.' www.economist.com/britain/2026...

How the boomers screwed Europe www.economist.com/europe/2026/... From The Economist

The Strait of Hormuz crisis is the latest reminder that as shocks become the norm, countries must build resilience rather than respond to each crisis in isolation. My latest in @weforum.org: www.weforum.org/stories/2026...

The dangerous delusion of modern warfare www.economist.com/interactive/... From The Economist

105 yrs ago tonight and tomorrow, an organized and resentful White mob raged through the African-American neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma—known as “Black Wall Street” for its wealth—burning and looting 35 city blocks, massacring up to 300 African-Americans, and leaving 10,000 homeless.

The lesson.. is not that future wars will always involve wretched infantry moving only a few metres a day on long, static front lines. It is that armies will have to train and equip themselves properly to blind, disrupt and elude the cameras, sensors and munitions www.economist.com/leaders/2026...

BREAKING: Charles Manson backs out of the Freedom 250 concert

The Ukrainian decision to double down on drone warfare, from the battlefield, to mid range and long range strike, and not to draft all of its young men to make infantry, will be seen by historians as one of the most important decisions in 19th-21st century warfare.

Social media is increasingly anti-social Only 7% of Instagram time & 17% of Facebook time is spent on content from friends or followed accounts. The rest is algorithmic video from strangers. This is what happens when you condition algorithms on looking time rather than real social engagement.

"Depuis plus de 200 ans, les Inuits du Groenland et de l’est de l’Arctique canadien transmettent des témoignages d’ours polaires utilisant des outils pour tuer des morses." Et ils avaient raison ⬇️

And to everyone who is wondering, “how could humans be causing more than 100% of the warming?” — it’s because, according to natural factors, the earth should be cooling right now. So our emissions are offsetting that cooling AND causing all of the observed warming. For more, watch:

Things World War Two military planners did not have to reckon with: how an air bombing campaign could lead to a surge in STDs.

This Belgian had no idea that there also was a paralympics for beers.

Look, plantar fascitis sucks but I think this guy has bigger issues going on

This is so on point. The worst chapter in every such book. (I've had several authors tell me that publishers basically force them to write this chapter.)

Comment est-ce qu'on formulerait cette phrase dans l'ère Tiktok: "porté de préférence vers les passions des sens qui s'éloignent le plus de ce qu'éprouvent ou ce qu'avouent la plupart des hommes, celles qui obligent au secret, souvent au mensonge, ce David aux prises avec le Goliath scolastique/

The Zinneke parade is truly one of a kind! Perfect day in Brussels 🤗

Just visit the Humboldt University in Berlin and look at the hall with the portraits of Nobel Prize winners. Then count how many were received after 1945

Breakthroughs for batteries could soon make them much better www.economist.com/science-and-... From The Economist

Stuck in the middle

#Tesla facing consumer lawsuit in China over its #FSD Full Self-Driving feature, with a Beijing court holding its first hearing in a case brought by 10 car owners alleging misleading advertising and #fraud Ten plaintiffs are seeking more than 3.95 million yuan ($583,000) in damages: #$TSLA #$TSLAQ

Never ages

"The amount of heat transported to the north Atlantic is huge. […] It’s enough to warm the entire region by 4.5°C on average which means that I’m cutting the grass in November rather than shovelling snow." drtomharris.substack.com/p/amoc-weake... by @drtomharris.bsky.social #AMOC #climateChange

Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)

Zambia has submitted its official emissions inventory to the UNFCCC. ▸Forests have switched from a large CO₂ sink to a source over the last 30 years. ▸Methane emissions from livestock are larger than CO₂ emissions from energy use. robbieandrew.github.io/country/?cou...

Can an Italian company disrupt Germany’s broken railway industry? www.economist.com/business/202... From The Economist

🚨🚨Great news: #Hungarian PM Péter #Magyar announced his government will join the #EuropeanPublicProsecutor’sOffice — a sharp break with Viktor #Orbán’s long-standing refusal to sign up and a midst a race to obtain release of EU #ruleoflaw funding. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/pete...

A senior Kremlin official openly threatening foreign diplomats is a normalisation of violence against protected diplomatic personnel — and a threat of actions that could amount to a war crime.    This threat should be treated with the seriousness it deserves.

No one judges you for cranking up the heating in winter. Why should air con in summer be any different? ✍️ www.linestotake.com/p/air-condit...