How Video Games Are Shaping a Generation of Boys, for Better and Worse - The New York Times
While the Digital Wellness Lab survey found that lonelier adolescents gamed more, gaming didn’t alleviate their loneliness — a pattern that was more pronounced for boys. This could be because those with weak social skills were more comfortable making friends online, but then got less practice interacting offline, researchers said.
The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025 to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth” with one half to Joel Mokyr “for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress” and the other half jointly to Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt “for the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction.”
Ted Lasso - Apple TV+ Press - Season 4 coming soon
iPhone 17 Pro Max “Real Review” - The Snyder Cut - YouTube — The definitive iPhone 17 pro review. Flossy pulls no punches.
New Englanders Are Fed Up With Leaf-Peeping Tourists Ruining Their Fall - WSJ — I know the feeling.
Only 48% Of US Adults Under The Age Of 30 Have A Full-Time Job | ZeroHedge – Feels like we are already in a recession.
A Short History of the Varangian Guard for Bostonians - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
Now, evuhryone knows that the Vikings were some sehriously hahdco’ah fuckin’ fightahs. ’Cept most’ah ’em actually didn’t go a-viking as they just stayed there in their frigid fuckin’ homelands fahmin’ n’ fishin’ n’ shit. But those that did go a-viking, they were some hahdco’ah fuckin’ fightahs… when they weren’t too busy tradin’ tah be supah fuckin’ violent that is. I guess accumulatin’ material wealth has always been a top human priahrity regahdless’ah race, gender, creed, ah innate inclination towahds extreme violence.
Nobel Prize in Literature 2025 - Press release - NobelPrize.org
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025 is awarded to the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai,
“for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”.
Six billion tonnes a second: Rogue planet found growing at record rate | ESO
Astronomers have identified an enormous ‘growth spurt’ in a so-called rogue planet. Unlike the planets in our Solar System, these objects do not orbit stars, free-floating on their own instead. The new observations, made with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), reveal that this free-floating planet is eating up gas and dust from its surroundings at a rate of six billion tonnes a second. This is the strongest growth rate ever recorded for a rogue planet, or a planet of any kind, providing valuable insights into how they form and grow.