INSANE: 37 - The Real Truth

11 Hours With Sam Bankman-Fried: Inside the Bahamian Penthouse After FTX’s Fall

Billions of dollars of customer money is missing, investigators are circling, and the 30-year-old ex-CEO admits his company broke its own rules.

Businessweek · Dec 2, 2022

Astronomers witness the dying flare of a star torn apart by a black hole halfway across the Universe

Some stars just get unlucky. There are billions of stars within a typical galaxy. Yet once every 100,000 years or so, one of those stars will wander too close to the supermassive black hole lurking at the galaxy’s centre and be torn apart. These cosmic behemoths weigh in at millions…

The Conversation · Nov 30, 2022

Will Bunch: Billionaires like Musk, Bankman-Fried didn't save the world. They wrecked it. Let's take it back

After growing up amid upper-middle-class affluence in Silicon Valley as the children of two Stanford Law School professors, as a super-smart kid who got into MIT to study physics, Sam Bankman-Fried decided in those teen years that he wanted to save the world in the worst way.

The Philadelphia Inquirer · Nov 22, 2022

Beyond the ISS: A new wave of stations could redefine science in space

While scientists have long conducted research in space, a new generation of above-Earth labs could be run remotely and even help humans venture to Mars.

Inverse · Nov 8, 2022

Concern about Discrimination against "Asian Americans" in University Admissions–in 1987!

Do Colleges Set Asian Quotas? Newsweek, February 9, 1987. With a mix of awe and animosity, students in the Boston area joke that MIT stands for Made in Taiwan. Like many of the nation's most competitive schools, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has experienced huge increases in Asian-American enrollments. Across…

Reason · Nov 7, 2022

'Overwatch 2' MIT stat: What is Damage Mitigated and why does it matter?

'Overwatch 2' is beset with problems before it even launches. The latest beta update brings some good news in the form of the MIT, or Damage Mitigated, stat.

Inverse · Nov 3, 2022

Marvel's 'Ironheart' series on Disney Plus — everything we know so far

Marvel's “Ironheart” series for Disney Plus looks to follow a character first introduced in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”. Here's what we know.

Tom’s Guide · Nov 3, 2022

Do naked ballots mean trouble for John Fetterman? Here’s what you need to know

PHILADELPHIA — Naked ballots didn’t cost Joe Biden the 2020 election. That doesn’t mean Democrats are in the clear this year.

The Philadelphia Inquirer · Nov 1, 2022

China's economy rotting from the head

China highlights a long-debated question about economic development: Can a top-down autocracy outperform liberal market economies in terms of innovation and growth?

Bangkok Post · Nov 1, 2022

Court Adopts Narrow Approach to Pseudonymity in Title IX Wrongful-Discipline Cases

A federal judge suggested that plaintiffs can sue as John Does only to the extent that identifying them would also identify nonparties who want to remain anonymous (such as the students who accused the plaintiffs of sexual misconduct).

Reason · Oct 31, 2022