Nice example for your Time Series Are Tricksy files. When “Compared to the same time last year” leads you astray because the same (calendar) date is not the same (social) time.

Has International Travel to the U.S. Really Collapsed?

Despite some ominous signs, a close look at the data shows that travel to the United States is largely holding up — at least so far.

Nature reports that the NSF has stopped funding awardees entirely, “until further notice”. This administration is determined to destroy the country’s scientific research infrastructure by choking off funding and taking a wrecking ball to the merit review system. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01396-2

Happy Easter from Britain and Ireland’s most tortured 19th century hip-hop artist. (Quite seriously. That is what sprung rhythm is. Try it.)

I like how if you are discussing some large amount of money via text—like, a house price, or a federal grant or something, it doesn't matter—and you write out the number, then no matter what the number is Apple Pay will helpfully pop up and be like Hey! You need to send this cash to someone???

“Hi it’s Elon. Can we be friends? Will you be my friend? I’ll give you a cybertruck I promise.”

Palo Alto Online

Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons apparently hacked to imitate Musk, Zuckerberg voices

Crosswalk buttons along the mid-Peninsula appear to have been hacked, so that when pressed, voices professing to be Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk be...

Here’s a graph based on data from the Digest of Education Statistics, derived ultimately from IPEDS, both of which are overseen by the National Center for Education Statistics, which is a federal agency that traces its roots to legislation passed in 1867, which been collecting data on U.S. educational enrollment and attainment since 1870, and whose staff were apparently all fired yesterday.

I assume this is a direct translation from the Māori that the surveyor wrote down thinking it referred to a feature of the landscape.

Very helpful and accurate answer from Google AI to a search about how many episodes are in this season of Severance. Carefully reasoned.

Should probably make a habit of just reposting this.

I made this graph just now—sitting in my kitchen, drinking coffee—with free software and a subset of the four million data points provided for EVERY DAY since late 1981 publicly and without restriction by NOAA just on this measure alone. Now I wonder how much longer it will be possible to do this.