Author: David Brooks
There is a specific type of market moment that only makes sense in hindsight: when several smaller signals that everyone saw but no one really connected…
Something that didn’t fit was discovered by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope early on July 2, 2025. Somewhere in the direction of the constellation Scutum, close…
Ships are currently waiting somewhere in the Persian Gulf. While one of the most important waterways in the world is essentially closed, hundreds of them—oil tankers,…
No one at Epic Games wanted to read the first five words of Tim Sweeney’s blog post on the morning of March 24, 2026: “Today we’re…
You could sense the weight behind it as soon as the release date was announced at the EVO Awards, which are gaming’s closest thing to a…
There is nothing particularly noteworthy about the entrance to Bender’s Cave. This sinkhole is located in Comal County, Texas. It is one of hundreds that are…
When you open the financial news on a Monday morning and discover that the US economy grew at a 4.3% annual pace in the third quarter…
When data comes in that doesn’t fit the theory, a certain silence descends upon a room full of astronomers. Not panic—scientists are usually too cautious for…
Many PlayStation owners had been secretly dreading Sony’s blog update, which was released early on March 27, 2026. The PS5 disc edition would increase to $649.99…
Odin, a small unmanned spacecraft, took off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida early on February 27, 2025. NASA was…