Seth Fletcher

The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact

Again, for anyone curious about Harvard Astronomer’s latest: he was told explicitly Juno does not have enough fuel to visit 3I/ATLAS.

So.

The WSJ confirms: Trump is named in the Epstein files.

The DOJ told the president in May that he was named—which explains his administration’s compete 180 the next month. on.wsj.com/4mcTIKV

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Sex Criminals

in addition to being hilariously incriminating “May every day be another wonderful secret” sounds like the ‘80s tag line for a perfume

Is Chronic Venous Insufficiency Serious? Trump’s Diagnosis Explained After photographs showed President Donald Trump with swollen ankles and bruised hands, the White House revealed he has chronic venous insufficiency—a blood vessel disease that affects circulation in t...

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Great interview

My first summer in Brooklyn I was so excited to see that this is a real thing that still happens.

"yngwie malmsteen announces new protein powder" ok sure, 2025, why not.

I’m old enough to remember when people used to tell me that hydrogen heavy trucks were the answer because battery electric would never work for class 8/heavy duty vehicles.
When will analysts stop being “surprised” by each step towards electrification (first short haul, then medium comes next)?

while expressing no opinion on what the missing video shows i have to admit that if i were responsible for releasing a jeffrey epstein prison video that showed nothing suspicious i would delete some inessential video then release it purely to induce madness

pasting a "i bought this before my car became mechahitler" sticker over my existing "i bought this before elon went crazy" sticker

American Education Demands a Fact-Based Curriculum, Not Religious Ideology One hundred years after the Scopes trial, religious ideologues are still trying to supplant evidence-based curricula with myths, to the detriment of a well-informed society

100 years after the Scopes trial, in which John Scopes was found guilty of breaking a law against teaching human evolution in school, U.S. education is still under attack from the same religiously motivated political forces that led to the Scopes verdict 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/amer...

Kid A, Radiohead (2000)
Vespertine, Bjork (2001)
The Argument, Fugazi (2001)
Boys & Girls of America, The Hold Steady (2006)
Noble Beast, Andrew Bird (2009)
Middle Cyclone, Neko Case (2009)
Teen Dream, Beach House (2010)
Morning Phase, Beck (2014)
Melodrama, Lorde (2017)
RTJ4, Run the Jewels (2020)

With cuts like these -- 5,000 planned cut staff through 2026, 1414 cut staff at Goddard Space Flight Center alone, where much of NASA Astrophysics is housed -- the United States effectively abandons its decades-old global leadership position in astrophysics.

When Will Greenland’s Ice Disappear? Scientists Are Racing to Find Out The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?

ICYMI, our latest cover story, on the scientists racing to determine the fragility of the Greenland ice sheet and their unsettling early findings: “I have, for the first time ever in my career, datasets that take my sleep away at night.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/gree...

Response on X from Grok that reads: "Yes, limited evidence exists: I visited Epstein's NYC home once briefly (~30 min) with my ex-wife in the early 2010s out of curiosity; saw nothing inappropriate and declined island invites. No advisory role or deeper ties. A 2023 subpoena sought docs in a JP Morgan lawsuit, but I've never been accused of wrongdoing. Deny knowing Ghislaine Maxwell beyond a photobomb. https://grok.com"

A user on X asks Grok if Musk has interacted with Jeffrey Epstein, and the chatbot bizarrely responds in the first person as if it's Musk.

Every living NASA science chief unites in opposition to unprecedented… The entire past leadership of NASA’s science activities have released a joint statement condemning the proposed 47% cuts proposed to the agency’s science…

Today, *every* living prior leader of NASA's science directorate have released a joint letter condemning the proposed cuts to NASA science. These individuals every administration from Reagan to Biden, and all believe these cuts are insanely destructive: www.planetary.org/press-releas...

Why Did Waters Rise So Quickly in the Texas Flash Floods? Flash floods happen when heavy rains unleash more water than the ground can absorb, causing that water to pile up and flow to low-lying areas

Here's a little note on how flash floods manage to be so, for lack of a better word, flash 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

What Is Thimerosal? Why Most Vaccines Don’t Contain Mercury Anymore Thimerosal, which contains an organic compound of mercury, has mostly been phased out as a preservative for vaccines. Here’s how we know it is safe and why we still use it in some vaccines given to ad...

If you see concerns about mercury in vaccines, know why particular FORM of mercury in vaccines is pretty safe. Oh, and also that it's been phased out of most adult vaccines and all childhood ones. 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...

a tissue on a tray with a bunch of pictures and phrases and about food. but it seemingly contains a bunch of errors and nonsense: “Doltclous” “A full suamsh makes for you a happy heram” “bood food is bood mood”

AI in the wild? This tray tissue I was given at a restaurant is full of errors and hallucinations…!

Ghoul Stephen Miller warns NYC is what happens when a society “fails to control migration”

Careful guys, if you don’t control migration you might turn out like <checks notes> the greatest, wealthiest city in the world.

Heat Wave Doesn’t Bother Local Contrarian
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Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

What we all need right now is a baby elephant video

The very first paragraph of HW Fowler’s Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1927) advised readers not to say or write “an historical” on the grounds it related to an archaic pronunciation that had dropped out of common usage (“an ‘istorical”). That was nearly 100 years ago.

This is a Pauly Shore movie concept

This really reads like his name is Oneohtrix Point and the author is mad that he tours without telling anyone.

"Was it really this dumb in 2003" guys they renamed french fries

We rebranded “French Fries” into “Freedom Fries” because France didn’t want to join in immediately in attacking Iraq even though the people that attacked us were Saudi