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David Reich's new paper finds human evolution didn't slow after agriculture — it sped up dramatically. The Bronze Age pushed cognitive performance up a full standard deviation. This rewrites the timeline.

The world's most important oil chokepoint is shut. Commercial shipping through Hormuz has been halted since Tuesday after US-Iran clashes overnight. This is the economic escalation everyone feared.

Last August, a landslide triggered a wave taller than all but 13 of the world's tallest buildings in an Alaskan fjord. Twenty cruise ships had passed through that week. A new Science paper has the details.

ProPublica got the emails. Major polluters requested Clean Air Act exemptions from the Trump EPA and got them through informal correspondence. The paper trail is damning and specific.

Futurism is a modern invention. For most of history, humans didn't try predicting what comes next. This New Yorker essay makes a surprisingly strong case that they were onto something.