What Do Bruen, Dobbs, and SFFA Have In Common? The Supreme Court issued landmark rulings that were resisted by lower courts, and the Supreme Court refused to intervene. Reason · May 15
Panic near Harvard and MIT after gunman randomly fires at passing cars, hitting dozens of vehicles This is not the gunman's first run-in with the law. We Got This Covered · May 13
51 Funny Tweets That Are Hilarious Examples Why Having A Husband Is Never Boring (New Pics) Husbands may not be the traditional sole providers anymore but they haven't stopped providing us with comedy gold. Sometimes they're intentionally funny, other times they cause roars of laughter purely by chance. Here are the best tweets from wives and partners poking fun at their men in the most loving… Bored Panda · May 13
Harvard University may limit number of A grades awarded to students Harvard University faculty are voting on a proposal to limit A grades to 20% of students, aiming to curb grade inflation. This move, driven by concerns over declining academic standards and political attention, could influence other elite institutions. While supporters cite a devaluation of academic achievement, students strongly oppose the… The Economic Times · May 13
Shooting near Harvard University leaves two wounded, officials say A man with a history of gun violence and mental health issues opened fire on a busy road near Boston. He wounded two drivers with an assault-style weapon. A state trooper and a Marine veteran intervened, stopping the gunman. The incident caused panic among motorists. The shooter faces multiple charges. The Economic Times · May 13
US faces ‘reading recession’ as school test scores continue to decline Between 2022 and 2025, only five states and the District of Columbia had meaningful growth in reading scores The Independent UK · May 13
Trump’s rollback of toxic gas rules limits EPA’s authority to protect public health, analysis says Ethylene oxide (EtO) is about 60 times more carcinogenic than believed in 2006, research finds The Guardian - US · May 12
Two critical after gunman with assault rifle fires up to 60 rounds into traffic in Massachusetts Shooter opened fire on drivers passing along busy Memorial Drive in Cambridge, near Harvard University, before being taken down The Independent UK · May 12
Harvard Physicist Avi Loeb Warns Pentagon UFO Files Could Expose Secret Enemy Tech and Alien Visitors From Beyond Earth Harvard physicist Avi Loeb discusses the Pentagon's UFO files, highlighting potential adversarial advancements and extraterrestrial possibilities. International Business Times UK · May 12
Is CTE really the main reason behind the rise in NFL player suicides? Brain trauma and football have become inexorably linked. But a recent Harvard study suggests there are other dangers for football players The Guardian - US · May 11
Top universities among victims named in Canvas data breach - MIT, Oxford and more all hit ShinyHunters is increasing the heat on Instructure by listing all of the potential victims of the Canvas breach. TechRadar · May 7
Mark Cuban Warns Student Loans 'F*** Up Your Future' — Calls Them the 'Dumbest Move' Mark Cuban advises avoiding student debt by starting at community colleges, which offer the same foundational coursework as top schools and save you thousands. International Business Times UK · May 7
A Harvard study just found AI can now out-diagnose physicians in the ER: ‘We’re already at the ceiling’ Even the researchers were surprised by the results. Fortune · May 4
Recent Books on the Constitution My seminar picks for 2026 (and every year since 2005) Reason · May 3
Fortune · May 2 Stop donating to Harvard and the Ivy League. There's a better option that MacKenzie Scott already figured out MacKenzie Scott gets it. Most donors still don't.
Fortune · May 2 Blackstone's Steve Schwarzman built a program to teach young leaders about China. It's harder to get into than Harvard Inspired by the Rhodes Scholar program, Schwarzman's philanthropic initiative brings students in their early-to-mid-20s to spend a year immersed in understanding how China works.
Cycling Weekly · May 1 Best-ever 20-minute power and 3 Pan-Am golds: Inside the AI tech Olympic Champion Kristen Faulkner built, and is testing on, herself The American is using AI to turn nine years of data into a personalised performance model, and one that could reshape how women train
The Guardian - UK · Apr 30 AI outperforms doctors in Harvard trial of emergency triage diagnoses Researchers say results mark a really ‘profound change in technology that will reshape medicine’
Reason · Apr 30 CRISPR Genome Editing and the Future of Down Syndrome Treatment The ethics of using safe gene therapies to improve the health and cognition of Down syndrome children and adults.
International Business Times UK · Apr 28 39-Year-Old Turned $90K Debt Into $2M Hair Clip Business — Refuses To Pass Tariff Costs To Customers San Francisco artist Jenny Lennick had closed her shop $90,000 in debt. Her food-themed hair clip brand Jenny Lemons now brings in $2 million a year.
TechRadar · Apr 27 The fake Rolex problem: How AI turned amateur attackers into nation-state threats AI-powered attackers bypass defenses by engineering intent-driven, multi-layered phishing kill chains.
International Business Times UK · Apr 27 28-Year-Old Harvard Student's Dorm Room Side Hustle Made $7K In First Month — Now Targets $500K Brian Youngblood launched Prest, a shelf-stable powdered hummus, from a Cambridge donut shop kitchen while studying at Harvard Business School.
International Business Times UK · Apr 24 Secret Service Officer Makes Fortune Betting On Polymarket That Maduro Would Be Detained A US Army soldier is charged with using classified information about a Venezuelan mission to profit over $409,000 on Polymarket, raising concerns about prediction markets and national security
Sports Illustrated · Apr 22 A Tale of Two Jack Hughes: Two Players With Same Name Had Very Different Olympic Experiences Just before the Miracle on Ice, Jack Hughes was the last cut of the U.S. Olympic team. Forty-six years later, a player with the same name scored the gold-winning goal.
The Guardian - US · Apr 21 Requests for US legal aid linked to Palestine activism far surpass pre-2023 levels Civil rights group logs 300% yearly rise from before war and says ‘authoritarian repression … went into overdrive’