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Health Article · 10 min read

Does Stopping a GLP-1 Drug Raise Your Heart Risk?

A Veterans Affairs study of 333,687 people with type 2 diabetes found that the longer someone went off a GLP-1 drug like semaglutide, the higher their risk of stroke, heart attack or death climbed — 4% higher at six months off, 14% at a year, 22% at two years — compared with staying on it, and resta

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Treasury companies Article · 9 min read

Seventeen Billion Reasons They're Still Not In

Strategy bought bitcoin again last week, bought back its own preferred stock, and got snubbed by the S&P 500 for the fourth time running — this time for a very specific, very quotable reason: a $17.44 billion unrealized loss that the same accounting rule which handed the company a $10 billion GAAP p

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Law & Courts Article · 8 min read

Why the Washington Supreme Court Struck Down I-2066

On September 17, 2026, a divided Washington Supreme Court ruled Initiative 2066 — the natural gas measure two million Washingtonians approved in 2024 — unconstitutional in its entirety. What the ruling actually says, what I-2066 actually did, what the dissent argued, and which justices from the ruli

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Health Article · 12 min read

Alexander Disease, and the First Drug Approved to Treat It

What is Alexander disease, and what did the FDA actually approve for it? AxD is an ultra-rare, usually fatal genetic disorder of the brain's astrocytes, caused by mutations in the GFAP gene. On September 3, 2026, the FDA approved Zanvastro (zilganersen), an RNA-targeted drug given by quarterly spina

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Nutrition Article · 13 min read

Do Common Food Preservatives Raise Blood Pressure and Heart Risk?

A French cohort of 112,395 adults, followed a median of 7.9 years, found that the heaviest consumers of preservative food additives developed hypertension and cardiovascular disease at higher rates than the lightest. Eight individual preservatives were each tied to high blood pressure, including sod

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Markets & Economy Article · 11 min read

Eleven Percent for a Hole in Glass

Intel jumped in Monday premarket and closed up about 11 percent on reports that it will work with Taiwan's AU Optronics on Micro LED packaging built into glass substrates — embedding chips in glass and wiring them with through-glass vias, aimed at co-packaged optics for AI datacenters. The engineeri

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Manuscripts & Scrolls Article · 9 min read

Fifty-Two Weeks, No Remainder

A study by Prof. Eshbal Ratzon of Tel Aviv University argues that the Qumran sect really did run its famous 364-day calendar in daily life — at least at first — and then quietly stopped, because 364 days is a day and a quarter short of a solar year and the error compounds. Here is what the calendar

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AI Article · 11 min read

Four Hundred Million for a Model Nobody Has Seen

Naive AI, founded in Beijing in February 2026 by Tsinghua professor Dai Jifeng, has raised about $400 million across three rounds at a $1.42 billion valuation, backed by Tencent, IDG Capital, MPCi and HSG. It has fewer than a hundred employees and has not released a model. Every one of those investo

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The World Article · 5 min read

Nobody Wanted to Go First

When the UN's 81st General Assembly opens its general debate on September 22, Brazil's president speaks first, as every Brazilian president has, on and off, since the late 1940s. The standard one-line explanation — "a tradition dating to 1955" — is true, but it skips the six years in between when th

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Biology Article · 11 min read

The Calling Card in a Cat's Kidneys

Cat kidneys are stuffed with fat droplets, and nobody has known why for about 110 years. A study in Current Biology reports the answer: they are a reservoir for thirteen branched-chain fatty acids whose exact mix differs from cat to cat, holds steady within one animal, and survives on the ground for

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AI Article · 10 min read

The Most-Downloaded AI Models in the World Are Alibaba's

On 18 September Alibaba's Qwen team shipped Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash — one model that takes text, images, audio and video, holds a million tokens of context, and decides for itself which parts of a two-hour video are worth watching. The release is the news, but the program behind it is the story: Qwen pas

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Science Article · 10 min read

4.7 Sigma, and a New Kind of Spooky

CERN's ATLAS and CMS experiments have found strong evidence that pairs of Z bosons — the carriers of the weak nuclear force — come out of certain Higgs boson decays quantum entangled. It's the first time entanglement has been measured between two massive force-carrying particles rather than matter p

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Markets & Economy Article · 8 min read

Forty Months for a Yes

Deutsche Bank announced this week that it plans to custody Bitcoin, Ether and three stablecoins for European institutional clients — pending regulators, aiming to onboard its first customers within the next few months. The custody plan is straightforward. The interesting part is the paperwork: Germa

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