2025-10-01 01:27:24
As one might expect, Congress is having trouble figuring out how to fund the government, which is likely headed towards a shutdown. For the New York Times, Lazaro Gamio charted the history of funding, lapses, and shutdowns.
Congress is supposed to pass 12 spending bills every year before October 1, and they’ve only been able to do it five times since the rule began in the 1970s. They don’t seem to be getting better at it.
Tags: funding, government, Lazaro Gamio, New York Times
2025-09-30 20:05:11
For Quanta Magazine, Joseph Howlett and Mark Belan explain the mechanics of how greenhouse gases lead to a hotter planet.
Earth will eventually settle into a new, hotter equilibrium, but only if its atmosphere stops changing. As long as we keep adding more greenhouse gases, the planet will keep getting hotter, chasing an equilibrium it can never reach.
Simulations and interactive animations throughout the piece keep things spicy.
2025-09-30 00:23:16
You can find rhythms and patterns when you look closely at the activities of daily life. Cars move across a freeway, a ping pong ball hits back and forth, and clouds float across the sky. Matthew Wilcock translates these rhythms to music and ambient sounds. It is surprisingly calming.
2025-09-27 00:25:04
Most of the H-1B attention has been on companies, but many visa holders are at research institutions studying topics that might be of use to society. From Alex Ip for The Xylom:
The Xylom’s analysis of data from the U.S. Customs and Immigration Services (USCIS) identified more than 13,000 H-1B workers who have joined over 200 four-year or postgraduate-only land-grant, sea-grant, and R1: Very High Spending and Doctorate Production institutions so far this fiscal year.
2025-09-26 18:51:53
The wildfires keep coming, and the smoke pollution keeps filling the air. It seems to be getting worse. For the Washington Post, Shannon Osaka, John Muyskens, and Daniel Wolfe have the charts and map to show the increases.
Tags: pollution, smoke, Washington Post, wildfire
2025-09-26 00:00:28
This is quite a visual story from Reuters. In a comic format, they illustrate and describe the story of travelers tricked at the airport in Thailand. The travelers are abducted and forced into scamming others out of savings, or face consequences.
Tags: comic, illustration, Reuters, scam
