Tuesday, 6 October 2026
Picked from the best of the world's press
Berries from a Mahonia aquifolium shrub. Focus stack of 19 photos.
Meta's AI camera glasses turn ordinary people's worst moments into searchable, shameable content, while the people who build and cheer for them guard their own privacy ferociously.
A study in mice found that fat cells retain molecular traces of obesity after weight loss, and that an inflammation signal can jam the appetite hormone asprosin into the on position.
Official figures put average savings at over 120,000 yuan per person, but a Southwestern University of Finance and Economics report finds the median household holds just 87,000 yuan, with three quarters below 100,000.
Lawmakers from both parties have introduced bills to cut federal agencies off from Flock's license-plate camera network, citing 404 Media's reporting as their reason.
A tracker covering 74 technologies finds China leading research output in nearly 90 percent of them — but leading in papers and being able to build the thing are two different races.
The author spent two years starting every morning furious at strangers online, then read a study that stopped it, and turned the withdrawal into a 14-day plan.
A finance writer realized after becoming a father that the content creators he had idolized for a decade are mostly unmarried and childless, and that nobody in the industry ever pitches settling down.
The class that ruled 19th century Britain barely studied science at school, got up near noon, and spent five months a year at parties, held together by one dense social network.
A lab worker in Siberia died of plague and nearly 200 contacts are quarantined. Pneumonic plague can pass between people, but it spreads poorly, antibiotics work, and the response was fast, so the odds of a pandemic are very low.
Pad Thai is treated as Thailand's national dish, but its technique and noodles came from China, and it was pushed on the public by a mid-century military prime minister building a national identity.
In his Book of Prophecies, Columbus recast the naming, claiming and converting he did in the Caribbean as a divine plan, showing that religious zeal and conquest were one project from the first voyage onward.
The old picture of American school funding, where local property taxes guaranteed rich districts more money per pupil, no longer holds: since the 1990s, high-poverty districts have been getting more, not less.
A new study reconstructed the finances of 71 large Chilean firms between 1967 and 1973, 32 of which were nationalised: profitability fell by 11 to 13 percent on average afterwards.
