A.I. Is Growing. So Is Your Electricity Bill.
The rush to build more data centers is driving up electricity costs.
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The Hottest Lunch Trend in America Just Ran Into a Very Unpleasant Problem
From Chipotle to Chopt, the cyclosporiasis outbreak is causing an implosion of sales—and an explosion of problems elsewhere.
Evernote Forever
It looks like Bending Spoons’ bet on nostalgia brands like AOL, Vimeo, and Evernote is playing off after its big IPO this week.
Money Talks: The Morality Market
Nobel Prize winner Alvin Roth explains what we learn when markets are shaped by big ethical questions.
It’s Not You, It’s NBC: the Great Media Breakup
Comcast splits from NBCUniversal as media companies realize bigger isn’t better.
Red states reject Trump’s shift on overdose prevention
With drug deaths plummeting, state officials are wary of halting harm reduction initiatives.
Americans who responded to Ebola outbreak are quarantined in Kenya, despite court order
The Trump administration said Monday Americans in Congo, where Ebola is spreading, must spend three weeks in a third country before coming home.
The GOP senators Trump disrespected are now interrogating his nominees
John Cornyn, Bill Cassidy and Thom Tillis are leaving the Senate after warring with Trump, but they still can block the president’s appointees.
Fraud investigations are crumbling this state’s Medicaid system
The Trump administration’s crackdown on Medicaid fraud in Minnesota has upended finances and disrupted access to care.
Americans in Congo barred from immediately returning home amidst Ebola outbreak
U.S. citizens in the Democratic Republic of the Congo will have to spend 21 days in a third country before returning to the U.S., even if they show no signs of disease.
When Church Was a Queer Space
Outward’s hosts sit down with the host and co-creator of When We All Get to Heaven.
Remembering, with the People of MCC San Francisco, AIDS Still Isn’t Over.
The neighborhood changes, the church moves, people forget and remember “the AIDS years,” but AIDS isn’t over.
What Happens When You Organize Church Around AIDS – and AIDS Changes?
The AIDS cocktail opens new possibilities. And MCC San Francisco tries to use the experience of AIDS to make bigger social change.
The Church’s Pastor Gets Diagnosed with AIDS. And the Church Wonders How Much They Might Lose.
The church’s minister gets sick and everyone knows it.
A Church Romance Between a Hula Dancer and a Lumbersexual Blossoms in a Dangerous Time.
The church’s “it couple” faces AIDS, caregiving, and loss as part of a pair, part of families, and part of a community.
Trump Is Caught in the Trap He Set
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You could, if you were so inclined, tell a story of the Donald Trump era via memes. Pepe the Frog, “This Is Fine” Dog, “Covfefe,” Leopards Eating People’s Faces—things of that nature.
The ‘Hair-Dryer Incident’ Is Just the Start
There are worse things you could do than drive to a Parisian airport and mess around with a temperature sensor on the airfield—for only a few minutes! But why do that at all?
To make money, maybe. This is the scheme that some mysterious person (or persons) reportedly carried out in April to win a bet on the prediction-market platform Polymarket, which allows people to wager on the highest temperature in Paris on any given day, not unlike weather derivatives.
Photos: 50 Years Since Viking 1 Landed on Mars
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Viking 1’s meteorology instrument stands aloft, on an extended boom, seen against the rocky and sandy surface of Mars on Sol 730. Small trenches visible in the foreground are left over from soil samples gathered by Viking 1’s surface sampler.Lowell Georgia / Corbis / Getty
Clarence E. Bunnell sets up a model of the Mars Viking spacecraft in June of 1967, during its development phase.Science Photo Library / Reuters
Viking spacecraft test, 1973.
‘Turning Up the Heat on the Streets’
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Friday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin was asked at a press conference about his previous comments of “turning down the temperature.” This was a reasonable question given that two men, one in Texas and one in Maine, were recently shot and killed by immigration agents who approached them in their cars.
The World Cup Could Not Be Americanized
A World Cup on North American soil ended with the most thoroughly imported, overseas-style final match possible.
Nearly 1,000 Wildfires in Canada Continue to Burn as Trump & Carney Double Down on Fossil Fuels
Millions of people across North America have experienced hazardous air pollution this month as nearly a thousand active wildfires continue to rage in Canada. In addition to releasing hazardous chemicals and smoke darkening skies across the continent, the fires in Canada have also disproportionately impacted Indigenous communities, forcing thousands to evacuate their homes.
Texas Rep. Al Green Accuses Trump Admin of Attempting to Cover Up ICE Killings
As calls mount for accountability over the ICE killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, we speak with Democratic Congressmember Al Green, who represents Texas’s 9th Congressional District. He demands an independent investigation into the shooting to stop “an attempt to cover up” the killing by the Trump administration.
“Justice for Lorenzo”: Houston Community Demands Accountability After ICE Killing of Mexican Father
Houston community members continue to demand justice for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, the 52-year-old Mexican father who was shot and killed by an ICE agent July 7. He had lived in the United States for nearly 35 years and had three U.S. citizen children. The ICE agents involved in his killing have not been identified, and it’s unclear whether they remain on active duty.
For more on the community response, we get a report from Democracy Now! producers on the ground in Houston.
U.S. Escalates War on Iran, Targeting Civilian Infrastructure as 3 U.S. Soldiers Are Killed
The United States is expanding its attacks on Iran after three U.S. soldiers were killed over the weekend, the first U.S. fatalities in the conflict since March. Two U.S. service members were killed in an Iranian attack on a base in Jordan, and a third soldier was killed in northern Iraq during a “controlled detonation” of a downed Iranian drone. The United States has now bombed Iran for nine consecutive nights, and Iran has retaliated by striking U.S. allies across the Persian Gulf.
A.I. Is Growing. So Is Your Electricity Bill.
The rush to build more data centers is driving up electricity costs.
The Hottest Lunch Trend in America Just Ran Into a Very Unpleasant Problem
From Chipotle to Chopt, the cyclosporiasis outbreak is causing an implosion of sales—and an explosion of problems elsewhere.
Evernote Forever
It looks like Bending Spoons’ bet on nostalgia brands like AOL, Vimeo, and Evernote is playing off after its big IPO this week.
Money Talks: The Morality Market
Nobel Prize winner Alvin Roth explains what we learn when markets are shaped by big ethical questions.
It’s Not You, It’s NBC: the Great Media Breakup
Comcast splits from NBCUniversal as media companies realize bigger isn’t better.
Red states reject Trump’s shift on overdose prevention
With drug deaths plummeting, state officials are wary of halting harm reduction initiatives.