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What Happened to All the Human Bird Flu Cases?
 From the outset of the Trump administration, bird flu, or H5N1 avian influenza, has flown rather conspicuously - and in fact quite mysteriously - under the radar. So much so that this week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the end of its emergency response to bird flu, citing the lack of reported human cases. Updates, previously issued weekly, will now arrive monthly. But something isn't adding up.
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WorkWorkThe First World War, in Sharp Focus - The New Yorker (No paywall) The mud of the Somme Valley was still on Ewart Tempests boots when he marched into Vignacourt, a French village some fifteen miles behind the British front line. It was April 5, 1916. Tempest, a fair-haired and athletic twenty-six-year-old, was from Bradford, an industrial city in northern England which was then the global capital of the wool trade. Hed been a textile salesman there, devoting his spare time to writing. Essays of his had appeared in newspapers, including one on Shakespeare, which won a prize. Now he was an intelligence officer for the First-Sixth Battalion of the Prince of Waless Own West Yorkshire Regiment, a territorial unit from Bradford. The Sixth, as the regiment was known, had experienced many months of warfare, and the men were ready for some rest. WorkAncient proteins could transform palaeontology - The Economist (No paywall) ANCIENT PROTEINS nestled in fossils contain troves of information about long-dead creatures. However, like all ancient molecules, proteins degrade. Until recently the oldest proteins recovered for reliable, in-depth analysis were around 4m years old. But two separate studies published in Nature on July 9th, one by researchers at Harvard University and the Smithsonian Institute and another led by researchers at the University of Copenhagen, have recovered ancient proteins, some of which could be up to 29m years old. The discoveries should help palaeontologists investigate the behaviour, diet and evolution of animals long thought too old to be studied with molecular tools. Work
WorkWorkWhy You Need 'Productive Friction'.49.17_PM.png) We're living in an era where AI can generate polished designs, code, and writing with a single prompt - but something crucial is being lost. Willem Van Lancker argues that "productive friction" - the struggle of learning through trial, error, and critique - is essential for developing true expertise and taste. Read this if you want to understand how to balance AI's efficiency with the intentional friction necessary for mastery in your field. WorkTrump's war on multinationals tests Irelands economic miracle One economist saw it coming. In the summer of 2024, just after taking up an economic advisory role to Irelands government, Stephen Kinsella, professor of economics at the University of Limerick, warned that the next crisis wouldnt be homegrown it would come from Washington. Work
WorkMeet Nvidia's big new customers: governments - The Economist (No paywall) Late in 2023 Jensen Huang, chief executive of Nvidia, began peddling a new idea. Every country, he said, should have its own artificial-intelligence (AI) system, trained on domestic data, aligned with national values and built using local infrastructure. Appealing to policymakers fondness for manufacturing, the boss of the chip colossus described these systems as AI factories, ingesting data and churning out intelligence. He called it sovereign AI. WorkWorkWork
WorkWorkWorkWorkSmart Money Buys the Solar Dip The Senate's passage of the "Big Beautiful Bill" reduces solar tax credits through 2028, but provides a transition window.
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