Extra, Extra
Snake Oil Sells Itself: “This rejection of empiricism makes selling falsehoods easier and contradicting them harder, which creates a fertile environment for anyone with something to sell, whether shady businesses or authoritarian governments. Gullicism creates not just a void but also an opportunity. It creates an ideal business opportunity for snake-oil salesmen to peddle products whose whole appeal is that they’re not scientifically validated.” Adam Serwer in The Atlantic (Gift Article) attempts to explain everything. Gullible, Cynical America.
+ Slam, Jam, Thank You, Bam: “It was a perfect confluence of chaos channeled into a willing and able vessel. Adebayo had already set a new career high in points by halftime; he’d more than double his previous best of 41 points en route to history. Adebayo made as many 3s against the Wizards (seven) as he did in his first five seasons in the league combined.” The Bam Game: The 83-Point Night That Broke the NBA’s Order.
+ Photo Bombing: “Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is banning press photographers from department briefings on the U.S. war on Iran because he didn’t like the way he looked in recent photos.” (Guys, I’ve told you a million times. He likes that blue steel lethal look.)
+ Air Time: We were promised flying cars. And we might be getting them. Electric air taxis are about to take flight in 26 states.
+ Beeing There: “Using specialized laboratory chambers and sensors, the researchers discovered that queen bees in diapause are consuming oxygen and producing carbon dioxide while underwater. Somehow, it seemed, the insects were breathing.” Bumblebee Queens Can Breathe Underwater.
+ Story With Layers: “It looks like an onion. It smells like an onion. In short there is nothing to suggest that within the brown papery skin sits anything other than a bog-standard allium. Yet the curiously named Smile Ball sitting on my chopping board is the result of 20 years of cutting-edge research, research that has led us to the very boundaries of human endeavor.” These onions will never make you cry. (I wonder if they can use the same technology on the news…)
