2025-04-13
The U.S. Navy’s Great Nuclear Attack Submarine Shortage Is Real
Not Enough U.S. Navy Submarines? Yes. There must be a way to counteract the growth of the Chinese and Russian navies. China has the world’s largest maritime branch, and Russia...
The Navy’s F-14 Tomcat Had a ‘Bad Engine’ Problem
When the F-14 Tomcat first entered service, it was powered by a pair of Pratt & Whitney TF30 engines that had been designed for the F-111B, which was more multi-role...
F-14 Tomcat vs. F/A-18 Hornet: Did the Navy Make the Wrong Call?
Over 50 years after it first flew and almost two decades after it was retired from service with the United States Navy, the military aviation enthusiast community’s love affair with...
Scientists Intrigued by Tree That Harnesses Electricity to Kill Its Enemies
For trees, lightning strikes are the great leveller. Stick your neck out by growing taller than the rest and you risk getting zapped into oblivion. Hundreds of millions of trees...
China’s Revolutionary J-50 Stealth Fighter Is Built for 1 Mission
The Challenge the U.S. Military in the Sky: The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is well-known for its theatrics when introducing a new-generation weapon system, particularly tactical combat aircraft. The...
F/A-XX: The Navy’s New 6th-Generation NGAD Fighter Fails a Key Range Test
The Navy Might Have a F/A-XX Range Problem: The U.S. Navy and its aircraft carriers patrolling East Asia have a problem. They are often in range of Chinese anti-ship ballistic...
Russia’s T-72 Main Battle Tank Was Built for 1 Mission
It Was Built for WWIII Against NATO. It Now Fights in Ukraine: The T-72 main battle tank (MBT) is one of the most iconic and widely used tanks in the...
China’s J-50 6th-Generation Fighter Is Built for Just 1 Mission
Beat the U.S. Military in a War: China has been busy churning out naval ships and aircraft, and two new sixth-generation fighters are going through flight testing. The latest is...
Bottles of "Holy Water" Contaminated With Cholera Send European Tourists to the ICU
Researchers are warning that bottles of "holy water" from a well in Ethiopia could be laced with dangerous bacteria that could cause cholera. As detailed in a new report published...
Four Types of Disagreement
Published on April 13, 2025 11:22 AM GMTEpistemic status: a model I find helpful to make sense of disagreements and, sometimes, resolve them. I like to categorize disagreements using four...
John Romero's brutal megawad Sigil 2 has formally chainsawed its way into Bethesda's Doom + Doom 2 remaster
Doom's unofficial sixth episode is now considerably more official.
Five Ways Your Favorite Stablecoin Could Totally Fall Apart
Explore how DAI maintains its $1 peg through smart contracts, market belief, and simulations—plus key risks affecting stablecoins in volatile DeFi markets.
Inside the Digital Dollar That Refuses to Flinch
Explore how DAI maintains its $1 peg through smart contracts, market belief, and simulations—plus key risks affecting stablecoins in volatile DeFi markets.
DAI Stays at $1 Even When ETH Goes Crazy. Here’s the Data.
Explore how DAI maintains its $1 peg through smart contracts, market belief, and simulations—plus key risks affecting stablecoins in volatile DeFi markets.
Inside DAI: The Crypto Dollar That Defends Itself with Code
Explore how DAI maintains its $1 peg through smart contracts, market belief, and simulations—plus key risks affecting stablecoins in volatile DeFi markets.
DAI Doesn’t Stay at $1 by Accident—Here’s the System That Keeps It There
Explore how DAI maintains its $1 peg through smart contracts, market belief, and simulations—plus key risks affecting stablecoins in volatile DeFi markets.
Doctors Just Found Something Horrifying in the Brains of Heavy Alcohol Drinkers
Heavy boozers beware: a new study has found links between hitting the bottle and earlier death. As the American Academy of Neurology notes, Brazilian researchers have found in a new...
Scientists Invent Holograms You Can Touch
Get your hands on the latest in holographic tech — or if you want to be pedantic about it, volumetric displays. Using a clever system of elastic bands and rapidly...
Modern Engineering Tools Are Designed to Punish System Thinkers
This article explores how modern tech companies systematically filter out high-agency, systems-level thinkers by design. Through tools like LeetCode, Go, and React, the industry scales control and predictability—at the cost...
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