World
- Shops looted as German cost of living protests turn violent — BBC World
- 'We came back from hell', say Ukrainians after years in Russia-occupied front-line city — BBC World
- Ukrainian evacuees reunite with family after years trapped in Russia-occupied city — BBC World
- Judge dismisses Trump's lawsuit against Wall Street Journal over Epstein birthday book — BBC World
- Qatar LNG carrier struck by ‘unidentified objects’ in Gulf — Al Jazeera
- Jamaal Bowman: ‘If I had kept my mouth shut, I’d be in Congress’ — Al Jazeera
- Yemeni government forces seize strategic positions in al-Jawf — Al Jazeera
The protests in cities across Germany - including Berlin, Hamburg and Frankfurt - came on the same day hundreds of thousands also protested in France.
One evacuated couple says they crossed minefields in Oleshky in search of food.
Oleshky residents had been without food, water and electricity, with many resorting to cooking garden weeds to survive.
Trump had sued the media outlet after it published a letter to Epstein purportedly written and signed by the president as part of a birthday book.
Qatar Gas Transport Company says no injuries or environmental damage.
Marc Lamont Hill speaks to Jamaal Bowman about the growing battle between progressives and the Democratic establishment.
Weapons and ammunition depots are seized after a counteroffensive.
Technology
- HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN — Hacker News · 1385 points
- [No AI, 52 min. Build all Linux Files utils in C by Hand [video]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQRmSlcTq9c) — Hacker News · 34 points
- An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and planted them — Hacker News · 467 points
- A tiny Pacific country rolls out universal basic income — Hacker News · 7 points
- Brazilian Court Sanctions Lawyers for Prompt Injection in Court Filing — Hacker News · 134 points
- Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother — Hacker News · 99 points
- Seabirds racing home over the ocean can get jet-lagged — Ars Technica
- The FDA wants to pull its approval of a drug. It’s not so easy. — Ars Technica
Science
- This oddball reflective lava world is challenging to understand — Phys.org
- Looking for bats after dark can help science—and change how we see them — Phys.org
- Giant virus yields potassium channel gene that illuminates complex protein evolution — Phys.org
- Scientists say a forgotten particle may explain why the universe exists — ScienceDaily
- Scientists finally discover how a common gut bacterium can trigger colon cancer — ScienceDaily
- A New Map of ‘Empty’ Space Challenges a Tranquil Picture of the Galaxy — Quanta
- How Do You Take a Picture of a Black Hole? — Quanta
Among Kepler and TESS's many surprising exoplanet discoveries are the ultra-short-period (USP) planets. These planets move very quickly and complete an orbit in less than 24 hours. Ancient astronomers thought that…
What's that chirping sound coming through the detector? Did you feel something whiz past? Those are just some ways people react when they encounter microbats for the first time. Microbats are small, mostly…
Researchers have discovered a gene for a tandem potassium channel in an algal virus. The finding supports the view that giant viruses may have contributed significantly to the evolution of complex proteins. The study is…
A mysterious particle overlooked for decades may hold the key to why matter survived the Big Bang, allowing stars, planets, and life to exist. Scientists believe this forgotten neutrino reshaped the early universe and…
Scientists at Johns Hopkins have uncovered a crucial missing link between a common gut bacterium and colorectal cancer, solving a mystery that has puzzled researchers for nearly two decades. The bacterium, Bacteroides…
For decades, astronomers treated the interstellar medium as a static backdrop to the goings-on of the universe. Now, a wave of 3D mapping is bringing the interstellar medium’s dynamic nature into focus. The post A New…
Astrophysicist Shep Doeleman explains how capturing the first image of a black hole required a telescope the size of the world, and why the next goal is to create a movie. The post How Do You Take a Picture of a Black…
Ideas & Culture
- In praise of the dilettante — Aeon
- Hills and mountains — Aeon
- Just in Case You Have to Be Here — 3 Quarks Daily
- Trying to Feel at Home — 3 Quarks Daily
A wayfaring cosmopolitan who never gets stuck, the dilettante is the right anti-hero for our hyper-specialised age - by Jay Miller Read on Aeon
A girl’s story of forced marriage reveals how the Soviet invasion of 1979 transformed life in Afghanistan - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
by Lei Wang I have often scoffed at coping mechanisms. I wanted to be better than them. Freud said the end goal of therapy was to take you from neurotic misery to the ordinary unhappiness, but even in the midst of…
by Nils Peterson Since I last posted, I fell, broke my hip, and am now in a post-op facility trying to put my life back together. I mention this because the poem I discuss today is exactly what I need as part of my…
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