This Week’s Texted Discoveries
We are constantly sharing relevant stuff we find — here’s this week’s fetch
The Next National Security Challenge Is Research Integrity
In the age of AI, research integrity has become critical infrastructure, writes Stanford Law School’s Rachel A. George.
Rachel A. George
Scientific American and the Collapse of Science Journalism — John Horgan (The Science Writer)
HOBOKEN, JULY 13, 2026. I shouldn’t write a eulogy for something that’s not dead. But I fear for the future of Scientific American --and science journalism as a whole. Attention must be paid. On June 23, Nature Springer, Scientific American ’s British-German parent company , sold the magazi
John Horgan
Media that sell content to OpenAI, Google and Meta are “cutting their own throats."
Trump administration pursues more durable changes to science policy after setbacks in court
The White House has proposed sweeping changes to the bedrock regulation undergirding all federal contracts, empowering the executive branch to direct research, terminate grants, and external scientific reviews.
Anil Oza
What Makes Humans Stupid
What Makes Humans Stupid: It takes intelligence to get things spectacularly wrong. An essay on our undoing.
David C. Krakauer
Pete Hegseth says soldiers over age 30 to be screened for testosterone deficiency
US defense secretary unveils plan that will work to ensure service members have the ‘right testosterone levels’
Marina Dunbar
How about for strategic thinking deficiency?
Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster
A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project
Alex Reisner
LinkedIn and X Are Flooded With AI Spam, Browsing Data Suggests
An AI detection company found that amount of AI content that users actually see in their day-to-day browsing is shockingly high.
Jason Koebler
RFK Jr. plans COVID-19 vaccine injury list
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to make it easier for people to get compensated for injuries they claim came from COVID-19 vaccines. A rule being prepared by the Dep…
Nathaniel Weixel and The Hill
Nominee for key federal health role has a history of questioning vaccines
Sean Kaufman’s views on vaccines may put him at odds with Sen. Bill Cassidy during next week’s confirmation hearing.
Chelsea Cirruzzo
‘Broken journal system’ needs government oversight, says Nobelist
Federal authorities should enforce minimum standards for peer review in ‘unregulated’ journal sector, argues Thomas Südhof
Jack Grove
Reclaiming Childhood in the Digital Age
A Manifesto for Real-World Development
Rob Price
This is what School of Rock can do, and why music, theater, and offline interactions matter!
Where our first book signing is happening next week — love the book community!