China Just Built a Working Battery That Stores Electricity and Hydrogen in the Same Device. The U.S. Government Just Cancelled 7.5 Billion in the Research That Could Compete (news.google.com)
Gary Black Explains Why He''s ''Not Interested'' In SpaceX IPO Despite All The Hype, Investor Explains When He''s Likely To Buy The Stock (finance.yahoo.com)
A 32-Year-Old Says They''re ''Terrified'' Of Waiting Until 65 To Finally Live. They Ask What Realistic Paths Exist To Have Freedom By 45 Or 50 (finance.yahoo.com)
Anesthesiologist Assistant Making 300K Says She ''Could Be Making Closer To 500,000'' — But Chooses 40-Hour Weeks So She Doesn''t ''Burn Myself Out'' (finance.yahoo.com)
Suze Orman Says ''Don''t Be Naive'' To Think You Can Retire Early With Only 2 Million Saved — ''It''s Nothing. It''s Pennies In Today''s World'' (finance.yahoo.com)
Australian taxpayers subsidise Big Mining’s use of fossil fuel to the tune of 4bn a year. It’s a strange way to tackle emissions Adam Morton (www.theguardian.com)
American farmers are taking out more debt—and some are struggling to keep up with repayments—as they contend with higher costs tied to the Iran war (on.wsj.com)
Ferrari—Europe’s most valuable automaker—just unveiled its first-ever model without an internal combustion engine, testing the appetite for EVs among the superrich (on.wsj.com)
Huawei said it has developed a workaround that will allow it to make chips on par with leading products manufactured by Intel and other top global companies by 2031 (on.wsj.com)
Why Any Plausible Iran Deal Is a Humiliation for Trump - Even as the U.S. claims to be nearing an agreement to end the conflict, Tehran’s ability to close the Strait of Hormuz and hold the global economy hostage has reinforced the power of regime hard-liners. (www.newyorker.com)
The Ukrainian Stunt Pilot Hunting Russian Drones - A Ukrainian flying ace is leveraging his aerobatics skills to protect his countrymen from nightly attacks. (www.newyorker.com)
Our Warming Planet Is a Petri Dish for New and Deadly Microbes - “Flesh-eating” bacteria is spreading. Infectious fungi are emerging. Microbiomes may never be the same. Are we ready? (www.newyorker.com)
What Dogs See When They Look at Us - A humane study of how artists have captured our canine companions becomes a meditation on sympathy, trust, and the virtues we have bred them to display. (www.newyorker.com)
How “The Chosen” Spurred a Golden Age of Christian Filmmaking - Dallas Jenkins’s show—a prestige drama about Jesus’ life that became the biggest crowdfunded television project in history—has come to model the sort of bottom-up, fandom-first entertainment that is quietly reshaping the industry. (www.newyorker.com)
Can Anything Stop Donald Trump’s Corruption? - The President’s stock dealing, 1.8-billion “anti-weaponization” slush fund, and grant of immunity from the I.R.S. demonstrate the need for major ethics reforms. (www.newyorker.com)
Mariska Hargitay Trades Her Badge for Confetti - On a break from “Law & Order: S.V.U.,” the actress takes over for Daniel Radcliffe in “Every Brilliant Thing”—steps away from where her mother, Jayne Mansfield, had her Broadway début. (www.newyorker.com)
The Trump-Epstein Files: Look but Don’t Touch - The Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room, in Tribeca, housed three and a half million bound files, along with a handy time line charting the ickiness. (www.newyorker.com)
The Useless Beauty of Christo and Jeanne-Claude - Plans for a forgotten art work by the late duo were found in an airshaft. Now, with the help of Christo’s nephew, “Air Package on a Ceiling” is finally on view, at Gagosian. (www.newyorker.com)
“Ecologies of Perception,” by Terrance Hayes - “The blackfly breeds in streams & rivers / during the dog days of summer, / but cannot survive on sadness like the housefly.” (www.newyorker.com)
“This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark,” Reviewed - The explorers’ crossing of the continent is America’s most famous camping trip. What was it all for? (www.newyorker.com)
“What I Saw,” by Matthew Dickman - “I laid my head on the place between my mother’s still-warm / arm and chest, closed my eyes, and cried.” (www.newyorker.com)
How Trump Created a Slush Fund for His Allies - The President may have committed the rare offense that turns Republican lawmakers against him. (www.newyorker.com)
Restaurant Review: Cote 550 - With a soaring new complex in midtown, the restaurateur Simon Kim continues to turn his Korean-barbecue-meets-steak-house concept into a high-status luxury chain. (www.newyorker.com)
How Prepared Are We for a Public-Health Emergency? - The outbreaks of hantavirus and Ebola expose the shortsightedness of America’s retreat, under the Trump Administration, from its role as a global-health leader. (www.newyorker.com)
The Leader of NASA’s Artemis II Mission Is Still Moonstruck - The astronaut Reid Wiseman talks about going deeper into space than anyone in history, eating maple cookies in microgravity, and deciding how to spend his first day off after returning to Earth. (www.newyorker.com)
“Many Worlds,” by Ayşegül Savaş - Wasn’t it the case that all friendships involved some amount of attraction? It was the engine of curiosity, the mystery that propelled any relationship forward. (www.newyorker.com)