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So, The University of Texas at Austin is having a good week. A really good week. The kind of week a corporate PR department dreams about. The football team stomped their rival, a professor landed a "genius grant," and a pesky legal problem...
I Searched for a Story in Champaign, Illinois and All I Got Was This Lousy Cookie Policy. So they told me to find the story. Dig into Champaign, Illinois, they said. See what’s happening. And what I found is the perfect, soul-crushing monum...
The New Anatomy of Civil War: From Partisan Polls to Paramotor Attacks ====================================================================== Let’s start with the numbers, because they present a curious discrepancy. The current administrati...
Nike's Fairy Tale About a Black Dress Is Everything Wrong With Corporate Storytelling So I’m scrolling through the digital sludge pile we call the internet, and Maria Sharapova Legacy of the Nike Little Black Tennis Dress — NIKE, Inc. lands...
For years, the story of the electromagnetic railgun was one of America’s brilliant, heartbreaking failures. Headlines read like an obituary: ‘Cracked Barrels’: The U.S. Navy’s Big Railgun Failure Explained in Just 2 Sad Words. And for a whi...
You're worried about a little rain? Give me a break. The entire city seems to be collectively losing its mind over the remnants of some storm named Priscilla, a hurricane that got demoted faster than a corporate whistleblower. Local news is...
I see the smoke and the flashing lights. I see the passengers, hundreds of them, shuffling off a crippled metal beast onto the tracks in Ridley Park or Fort Washington, their faces a mixture of fear, frustration, and sheer disbelief. I read...
So they finally did it. The flying cars, the sci-fi dream we’ve been promised since The Jetsons, made their big public debut in California. Two companies, Joby and Archer, flew their electric whirlybirds—sorry, their "eVTOLs"—in front of a...
The Ghost in the Machine On the surface, it’s the kind of local news story that barely registers. A planned power outage for about 2,900 Consumers Energy customers in Flint, Michigan, originally set for a Monday night, gets pushed to Tuesda...
A Priceless Interstellar Asset Meets a Self-Inflicted Wound: The Data on 3I/ATLAS and the NASA Shutdown An object designated 3I/ATLAS is currently moving through our solar system at approximately 137,000 miles per hour. Its orbital eccentri...