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Likweli is only the fifth new African monkey named in 75 years, and it split from its closest cousin 4–5 million years ago — the deepest divergence in the colobus family. Wide rivers and poor-soil forest appear to have fenced it into a range the size of a small city, where it’s already endangered.
The top 0.1 percent hold $1 of every $6 in US private wealth, much of it never taxed because they borrow against assets instead of selling. UC Berkeley’s Brian Galle, writing for the progressive Roosevelt Institute, proposes charging interest on deferred tax at the asset’s own rate of return — so holding forever no longer shrinks the bill.
Nearly 20 percent of veterans have used acid, a rate that survives every demographic control, in RAND’s first nationally representative survey — which also finds roughly half don’t know whether disclosing use could cost them their VA benefits.
Northwestern’s cerebellum-inspired memtransistor stays idle through normal beats and fires only at the unexpected, hitting 98 percent accuracy where standard AI was still at 70–80. The catch: only the devices were built — the surrounding network was simulated.
Dowry deaths have risen since the protest years — more than 6,500 in 2022 — even as the public mourning faded. In Public Culture, Kriti Kapila traces the silence to the 1955 reform that cut dowry loose from ritual and let it behave like a commodity.
A Nature Human Behaviour study of 31 million American workers finds party sorting at work now rivals sorting by gender. Whether it’s workers choosing, employers screening, or minorities leaving, the data can’t say — all four look the same.
A landmark National Academies report finds synthetic cells pose no wholly new risks, but calls for coordinated, adaptive federal governance of these life-blurring biotechnologies.
Rejections rose 67 percent over six years. After a denial, almost half of patients received no drug in the same therapeutic class within 90 days.
Most US police de-escalation training has never been rigorously tested on actual use of force. Of dozens of programs adopted nationwide, only two show solid evidence of reducing force.
A Hudson Institute report says America should treat rival kleptocracies as strategic targets, exposing corruption to weaken regimes from China to Venezuela.
Brain condition challenges David Hume’s claim that abstract thought depends on mental images, forcing philosophers to reconsider how minds handle ideas like justice and geometry.
People testing AI chatbots trained on the dead preferred emotional “reincarnation” over accuracy, while warning the technology could deepen grief.
