Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
NASA’s first medical evacuation is here. It won’t be the last.
The first medical evacuation in the history of the International Space Station (ISS) is happening today. Crew-11 will return to Earth ahead of schedule because of an unspecified medical issue. Included in the group are NASA astronauts Mike Fincke and Zena Cardman, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, and Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui. NASA didn’t specify what […]
The Trump administration can’t stop winking at white nationalists
Progressives have long argued that Donald Trump’s immigration agenda is a fundamentally fascistic enterprise. In their telling, the president’s goal is not merely to enforce America’s borders but to purify its blood — and unleash state violence against anyone who resists his campaign of ethnic cleansing. Of course, there’s nothing new about the left deriding […]
Trump’s EPA is setting the value of human health to $0
The Environmental Protection Agency is taking a major step toward changing its math to favor polluters over people: It’s going to stop tallying up the dollar value of lives saved and hospital visits avoided by air pollution regulations. Instead, the agency will consider the effects of regulations without attaching a price tag to human life. […]
AI is uncannily good at diagnosis. Its makers just won’t say so.
How often have you asked ChatGPT for health advice? Maybe about a mysterious rash or that tightening in your right calf after a long run. I have, on both counts. ChatGPT even correctly diagnosed that mysterious rash I developed when I first experienced Boston’s winter as cold urticaria, a week before my doctor confirmed it. […]
Why is America so horny for gay hockey jocks?
To outsiders, the phenomenon of Heated Rivalry could not seem more impossible: A show about two rival hockey players is one of the most popular shows on HBO Max. Not only that, but these two puck buddies have a lot of sex. There has never been a moment in history when the world has been […]