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Friday, June 19, 2026

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articleBloomberg
US Tells ASML It’s Concerned China May Have Top Chip Tool

If China got its hands on ASML's crown jewel chipmaking machine, the entire US export control strategy may have a fatal hole. The implications are enormous.

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articleWorks in Progress
The secret cause of the industrial revolution

England had a NIMBY problem for centuries. Then 1688 happened. This essay argues that smashing the vetocracy — not steam engines — is what actually created modernity.

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articleProPublica
Before SpaceX IPO, Investors in China Secretly Acquired Stakes

Chinese investors quietly bought into America's most important defense-adjacent space company through secondary markets. The irony writes itself.

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articleFast Company
Conservatives are dying at higher rates than liberals. A new study points to mistrust in medicine

A Nature study found the partisan health gap only appeared after 2010 — and it's now measurable in death rates. Your politics may literally be killing you.

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articleMIT Technology Review
The search for dark matter has been blown wide open

Deep under mountains in Italy, China, and South Dakota, xenon-filled detectors are hunting invisible matter. The cosmic search just got a lot more interesting.

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