The Myth of SpaceX
The company has mutated into something that defies both comparison and logic.
By Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic
SpaceX had its initial public offering last week. Now Elon Musk is a trillionaire on paper. But what is SpaceX? On one level, of course, SpaceX is a...
The Myth of SpaceX
The company has mutated into something that defies both comparison and logic.
By Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic
SpaceX had its initial public offering last...
The Myth of SpaceX
The company has mutated into something that defies both comparison and logic.
By Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic
SpaceX had its initial public offering last...
Cerebras: Can a New AI Architecture Challenge NVIDIA?
An AI IPO overshadowed by SpaceX may be one of the more interesting stories in the market.
Artificial...
The Economics of the AI Boom
Part 1: Real Demand or a Financial Feedback Loop? ...Yes
Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming the dominant story in the...
Iran Has Humiliated Trump
Officials in Tehran got the United States to sign a document that even Americans described as degrading, mortifying, a total capitulation.
By Graeme...
The Strait of Hormuz is reopening, but global shipping won’t return to normal for months
By Behrouz Bakhtiari, McMaster University
Iran and the United States are about...
Trump’s US‑Iran ceasefire deal is a costly return to prewar conditions – and resolving nuclear questions will run into the ‘indivisibility problem’
By Farah N....
Warsh Makes His Case With Jargon, and a Penchant for Detail
The Federal Reserve’s new chairman held a press conference where he bantered with reporters...
Netanyahu Finally Learns the Truth About Trump
An alliance with the president was the Israeli prime minister’s selling point. Now it may be his downfall.
By Yair...
The Invisible Hand That's Already Moving SpaceX's Stock Price
How index fund rule changes created a guaranteed buying machine for SPCX — and what it...
The Data-Center Panic Is Overblown
Critics are inflating the costs.
By Elias Wachtel, The Atlantic
Data centers are allegedly an unmitigated disaster: They guzzle water, strain electric grids,...
How cuts to CDC are dismantling its capacity to protect Americans’ health
By Candice Johnson, Michigan State University
Since the Trump administration took office in January...
Home insurance and the unraveling of Florida communities
By Zac Taylor, Delft University of Technology
While visiting family in St. Petersburg, Florida, in November 2024, I...
How are Saudis viewing the US‑Iran war? Our polling suggests Gulf kingdom is split on key issues
By Robert Kubinec, University of South Carolina and...
The Future of Drone Tech: Israel’s Iron Dome
By Peter Zeihan
Fiber-optic-controlled first-person drones are the star of the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. As Hezbollah...
Our Stock Market Is Broken
By Aaron Zamost, NY Times
Mr. Zamost is a tech communications consultant and a former executive at Square.
Steven Spielberg has an alien...
How cuts to CDC are dismantling its capacity to protect Americans’ health
By Candice Johnson, Michigan State University
Since the Trump administration took office in January...
Glucosamine supplements may speed memory loss from Alzheimer’s, new research shows
By Ramon Sun, University of Florida
People with Alzheimer’s disease who took the common supplement...
What ProPublica Found in the Genetic Code of America’s Measles Outbreaks
By Nat Lash and Patricia Callahan, ProPublica
For the DNA graphics, go to ProPublica's article here >
The U.S....
How and where the world’s 2 billion barrels of strategic oil reserves are stockpiled
By Gemma Ware, The Conversation
Drive on Interstate 10 along the Gulf...
Breakthrough drug nearly doubles survival with advanced pancreatic cancer – an oncologist explains how daraxonrasib overcame an ‘undruggable’ disease
By Christopher Lieu, University of Colorado...
Blue Origin rocket exploded on launchpad, throwing the future of NASA’s Artemis program into question
By Wendy Whitman Cobb, Air University
During an evening test fire...