Tuesday, June 30, 2026
ArchiveCounty With 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to ‘Conserve Electricity’
A Virginia county with 37 data centers tells schools to close the blinds to save electricity. The irony writes itself, but the energy externalization story underneath is dead serious.
Supreme Court rejects Trump's attempt to end birthright citizenship (ABC News)
SCOTUS reaffirms more than a century of 14th Amendment precedent in a definitive rejection. This one will be in the history textbooks.
Scientists Found Ancient Human DNA on Cave Walls for the First Time and It Could Rewrite the Story of Prehistoric Art
For the first time, scientists pulled ancient human DNA off cave walls. Now we might finally learn who actually painted those animals 30,000 years ago.
How p-hacking built the world's most expensive safety regime
The world spends trillions protecting people from low-dose radiation. The science behind it may be built on statistical sleight-of-hand. A long, sharp read from Works in Progress.
Lost in Translation: How A Premier Chinese Think Tank Views U.S.-Chinese Competition
A major Chinese think tank dropped a strategy paper the morning Trump landed in Beijing. Almost no one in the West read it. War on the Rocks did the translation.