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View More NewsThe measles outbreak, that began in America nearly two years ago, has only increased in velocity. We recently talked about the deaths of two children in Pennsylvania who both died while infected with measles. I’m altering my language slightly here from that original post in which I described those children as having died of measles purely to acknowledge that there are some, including RFK Jr., who are trying to dispute the cause of those deaths. I’m comfortable stating that they died of measles, as are state officials in Pennsylvania, and as are competent local health professionals like Paul Offit. As…
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What follows is an excerpt from Advocacy in Literary Studies, a report published earlier this month under the auspices of the Vanderbilt–WashU Commission on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences. Its Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences was published in April and excerpted in Quillette.Mathematicians and physicists typically do not instruct students in the history of their disciplines. What is old is outdated. That is not true of great literature. As nineteenth-century British essayist William Hazlitt pointed out in his essay Why the Arts Are Not Progressive?,…
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In brief Robinhood and Crypto.com’s OG.com, announced a multi-year deal Tuesday making OG.com an infrastructure and clearing provider for Robinhood’s Prediction Markets platform. Robinhood…
On January 18, 2026, German journalist Eva Maria Michelmann and her Kurdish-Turkish colleague Ahmed Polad were detained while reporting from the northern Syrian city…
The deal could grant Circle vital, regulated “last-mile” infrastructure, bridging the gap between stablecoins and traditional local banking systems. Read the full article here
You stack sats. You farm yield, and you’d rather sell your car than part with your BTC. But does that mean you should bank…
Ledger and Trezor said researchers have a responsibility to publish their findings if vendors fail to fix bugs within an agreed disclosure window. Read…
South Korea’s budget office warned that stablecoin adoption could reduce banks’ roles as credit intermediaries and potentially destabilize token pegs during mass redemptions. Read…
Humo Digital will test HUMO payments with more than 20 merchants under a sandbox jointly overseen by NAPP and Uzbekistan’s central bank. Read the…
In brief A Katowice court approved pretrial detention for Roman Ż., charged with computer fraud and organized crime membership. Three others were held in…
Bitcoin, gold and technology stocks fall as the yen rallies, while oil prices and government bond yields climb globally. Read the full article here
Cronos’s post-mortem put the Tectonic exploit’s affected borrowing at $120.4 million, with 7.6% transferred off-network before validators intervened. Read the full article here
A golden cross has triggered on bitcoin’s daily price chart, indicating a potential long-term bullish trend ahead. Read the full article here
The unit formalizes past operations, building on 1.5 million euros in seized crypto the exchange processed in 2025 for agencies including Interpol and Europol.…