Hasnain says:

This is bleak.

“For those at the bottom of our society, those low incomes translate into quasi-destitution: 2 million people report going without food for at least a day in any month. Malnutrition stalks our children – our five-year-olds are among the shortest in Europe. One in three children live in poverty. It is time to stop talking and thinking of Britain as a rich country. We are poor and living on the edge.”

Hasnain says:

“For many dermatologists, these lengthy regulatory battles and widespread issues with regular usage also underline a common recommendation that tends to go unheard by patients: Sunscreen is great, and sunscreen from Europe, Australia, and Asia may be better, but even the best, most cutting-edge SPF lotion is just one part of keeping your skin healthy. Floppy hats, big beach umbrellas, or loose, high-coverage clothing might not be your ideal beach look while you’re young, but if you can mostly cover up and stick to the shade, your elderly self will thank you.”

Hasnain says:

I still don’t get the whole concept of child influencers. I mean I get why people watch their content, but it seems kinda iffy to push it on young kids without super informed consent.

“Activists have been pushing for an expansion of child entertainer laws to include child influencers. The call for legislation has not only centered around finances, but privacy. Cam, 24, grew up with a social media presence they didn’t consent to. They say details of their life, including their first menstrual cycle and photos of them in the hospital following a car crash, were posted to their mother’s 10,000 Facebook followers. In a previous interview with Teen Vogue, Cam said “It’s easier to tell you what my mom didn’t post.”

Cam testified in support of Washington State’s HB 1627, which would allow children of influencers to request the deletion of content featuring them “from any internet platform or network that provided compensation to the individual’s parent or parents in exchange for that content.” In Cam’s testimony, they said, “when I was 9 years old, the intimate details of my first period were shared online... I plead [with] you to be the voice for this generation of children because I know firsthand what it’s like to not have a choice when a digital footprint you didn’t create follows you around the rest of your life.””

Hasnain says:

“Rent growth in Minneapolis since 2017 is just 1%, compared with 31% in the US overall, according to the Pew Charitable Trusts. Its share of affordable rental units and ratio of rent to income are better than most comparable US metro areas.

“There is no more effective way to rein in inflation than to expand the supply of affordable housing and increase housing affordability,” said Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi.”

Hasnain says:

“Kathy Kacher, a consultant who advises corporate executives on their return-to-office plans, is surprised the percentage isn’t higher.

“Many organizations that attempted to force a return to the office have had to retract or change their plans because of employee pushback, and now, they don’t look strong,” says Kacher, the president of Career/Life Alliance Services. “A lot of executives have egg on their faces and they’re sad about that.””

Hasnain says:

“Of course, I’m not saying complexity is bad. It’s necessary. Some day we’ll reach a fundamental limit of our database architecture, and before that day arrives, we’ll need to make a jump in complexity.

But until then, because we squeezed first, we get to keep working with the most boring system possible. This is by far the cheaper and more practical option.”

Hasnain says:

Exciting! Funnily timed too since the sci-fi book I’m reading also goes into new physics found at Fermilab.

“If confirmed, this would represent arguably one of the biggest scientific breakthroughs for a hundred years, since Einstein's theories of relativity. That is because a fifth force and any particles associated with it are not part of the Standard Model of particle physics.”

Hasnain says:

““I always find it fascinating when new mathematics is born out of just purely looking at data,” Fuchs said. “Without it, it’s really hard to imagine that [they] would have stumbled upon this.”

Stange added that none of this would have happened without the low-stakes summer project. “Serendipity and an attitude of playful exploration both have such a huge role in discovery,” she said.

“It was pure coincidence,” Haag said. “If I didn’t go big enough, we wouldn’t have noticed it.” The work bodes well for the future of number theory. “You can glean understanding of mathematics through your intuition, through proofs,” Stange said. “And you trust that a lot because you spent a lot of time thinking about it. But you can’t argue with the data.””

Hasnain says:

“Shu Nagata, a graduate student and co-author on the paper, added that they saw evidence that the reaction was taking place as a three-body interaction more often than as a two-body interaction. That is, three atoms would collide; two would form a molecule, and the third remained single. But the third played some role in the reaction.”

Hasnain says:

One thing that always stuck me about the US (both in the media and in the public) is how trusting people are - you hear someone say something and assume it’s the truth and don’t question it, unless they have a bad reputation. It was quite jarring as it’s the opposite in Pakistan where you assume everyone has an agenda and is out to screw you. Both extremes are bad for their own reasons, but I wish the US generally had more distrust and skepticism. Especially in the media.

“Before Musk, the person setting the day’s news agenda on Twitter was Donald Trump. As it became clear during his first campaign that Trump mostly did not tell the truth, the press corps gradually brought more scrutiny to the candidate’s statements. In some cases, cable networks stopped carrying his public appearances live, since they could not be fact-checked effectively in real time.

Musk’s broken promises have yet to reach anything near the volume of lies that Trump told as president. But given his recent track record, it’s well past time for the press to grant him an equal measure of skepticism.”