Iran before the 1979 revolution

TARIFFS NOT ONLY IMPOSE IMMENSE ECONOMIC COSTS BUT ALSO FAIL TO ACHIEVE THEIR PRIMARY POLICY AIMS AND FOSTER POLITICAL DYSFUNTION ALONG THE WAY

In 2000, the first human genome sequence cost between $500M & $1B In 2006, the cost was $20M Two years ago, the cost is around $600. Now it is $100.

“The Vanishing of Imran Khan” — a must-read essay in the long form by journalist Osman Samiuddin for the Pulitzer Center: pulitzercenter.org/stories/commen… “What happens when a state erases its most famous public figure?  “This is what Pakistan has been trying to do with the

It's crazy that you can go to a bunch of American cities and use this quasi-magical sci-fi tech for not much more than the price of an Uber, and then in the other cities (and the vast majority of the rest of the rich world) we just pretend it doesn't exist

More evidence that the global decline in test scores that began after 2012 is linked to the proliferation of smartphones and computers in class: The slide was bigger in countries where students began spending more time on devices (for leisure) generationtechblog.com/p/phones-at-sc…

One of Khamenei’s legacies will be an institutionalized system of clerical crony capitalism — setting up Iran’s economy so that it rewards loyalists but shuts out almost everyone else from prosperity. A couple data points:

Celebrations in Tehran following the news of Khamenei’s death

Worth noting as we watch Iran: Russia has now seen three friends felled or diminished in little over a year: Syria, Venezuela and Iran, with no apparent ability to defend them or to execute measurable payback. It’s an indictment both of Russian power projection and the strength

Iran is more diverse than you think.

Spectre I scans for nearby microphones and sends out AI-generated cancellation signals that make your speech unintelligible to them. Your phone? Your Alexa? Your laptop? They won’t be able to hear.

Cancer death rates have fallen dramatically since the 1990s across most developed countries. Despite aging populations and more diagnoses, mortality is down ~25–50%. The biggest drivers: • Less smoking • Better screening • Improved treatments One of the biggest public

Overall cancer death rates are down 29% over the past decade. 📉 These are the cancer types with the biggest drops in deaths over 10 years: • Stomach cancer: -34% • Lung: -22% • Ovarian: -19% • Breast: -14% • Esophageal: -12% • Cervical: -11% • Leukemia: -9% • Bowel: 6%

"Perhaps the most shocking part of the theft is that the attacker managed to find NFTs still holding any value at all." 😅 My exact thought too when I saw the headline.

ester trellis walk My ancestors buried half their children. All mine are alive. My ancestors' house had a dirt floor. Mine is wood. I have indoor plumbing, I have hot water, I have never in my life hauled a full bucket half a mile and I probably never will. Do you know how rare it is, in human

this is actually insane > be tech guy in australia > adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live > not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4 > pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA > feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold > zero background in biology > identify mutated proteins, match them to

Hard to tell if measles vaccine works

An impoverished Bulgarian “proxy", a convicted German far-right firearms trafficker, and a digital trail leading to the FSB. Read the full OCCRP investigation for an insight into how global disinformation works: occrp.org/en/feature/spi…

Betting markets are messed up. Well, some of the gamblers on them are.