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White House proposes new rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants

White House proposes new rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants

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đź’Ą Read this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: May 28, 20263 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmWhite House proposes new rules giving political appointees final approval on research grantsThese proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaqueBy Dan Vergano edited by Claire CameronWhite House Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought. Andrew Harnik/Getty ImagesOn Thursday the White House released long-anticipated draft regulations that, if enacted, would give political appointees the final word on federal research grants and other funding across government agencies.Scheduled to…
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Virginia Evans: “I loved books about things that couldn’t exist.” imaginary

Virginia Evans: “I loved books about things that couldn’t exist.” imaginary

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🚀 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Fiction,Books,Culture đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: My first memory is readingI'm not sure what we were reading — "The Velveteen Rabbit" by Margery Williams or the poems in "Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein — but I was undoubtedly with my sister, who is two years older than me, and who has been my role model for being a reader. I imagine us in the back of our family car or lying on our twin beds in the room we share.My favorite book growing upI loved the…
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Naphtha Shortages Having a Growing Impact in Japan

Naphtha Shortages Having a Growing Impact in Japan

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đź’Ą Discover this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: The leading Japanese snack-food manufacturer Calbee has made headlines through its announced switch to black-and-white packaging for some of its products due to naphtha shortages, which are having a growing impact on a wide range of industries. A Clear Impact (© Calbee) The Iran war is leading to increased shortages of naphtha, a petroleum-derived raw material used in a wide range of products. On May 12, major snack maker Calbee, known for its potato chips, announced that it would use black-and-white packaging for 14 of…
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Review of Miss You, Love You – Allison Janney’s affecting old-school grief drama | Drama movies

Review of Miss You, Love You – Allison Janney’s affecting old-school grief drama | Drama movies

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🔥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Drama films,Film,Allison Janney,Culture,Comedy films,Comedy đź“Ś **What You’ll Learn**: HHollywood is currently in a strange but strangely exciting place, where no one is quite sure what kinds of “movies they don't make anymore” that they should start making again. We've seen period epics like Oppenheimer, sultry thrillers like The Housemaid, and female-led workplace comedies like The Devil Wears Prada 2 all become huge hits, and we're in the middle of a blockbuster year at the box office, trending toward pre-pandemic totals.But around the edges or between the cracks,…
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Ember 7.0 Released

Ember 7.0 Released

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✨ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź“Ś **What You’ll Learn**: The Ember project is excited to announce the release of Ember v7.0. Following Ember's Major Version Policy, the major includes only the removal of features that were deprecated until 7.0 as well as other bugfixes. This release of Ember.js means the previous version, 6.12, is now an LTS (Long Term Support) version. When it comes to introducing new features, Ember generally aims to ship new features in minor releases, offering backwards compatibility for existing code at the same time as giving developers the chance to…
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Add to playlist: Duo Ear’s weird, distorted electronics and the best new tracks of the week | music

Add to playlist: Duo Ear’s weird, distorted electronics and the best new tracks of the week | music

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🔥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Music,Culture đź“Ś **What You’ll Learn**: from Hudson Valley, New York and LondonRecommended if you like Books, Lily, World Peace DMTthe next Rumspringa was released on May 29Jonah Paz and Yaelle Avtan recorded their first-ever song "Ear" on an iPhone in the Bard College library. That song, “Nerves,” pits their whiny voices against weightless strings and barely perceptible drums. Just as it seems about to float away completely, the track is suddenly overtaken by a screaming bass synth that splits the agonizing call of the first act into…
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I went to the so-called ‘steroid Olympics,’ to understand why Silicon Valley is obsessed with peptides

I went to the so-called ‘steroid Olympics,’ to understand why Silicon Valley is obsessed with peptides

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🚀 Discover this must-read post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Biotech & Health,biotech,Enhanced Games,health industry,peptides đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: I am sitting in the sweltering Nevada heat watching a man struggle to lift a bar over his head. If the man manages to do it, he will win $250,000. The man is Boady Santavy — a two-time Olympic weight-lifting contestant from Canada — and he has muscles that look culled from the Marvel Cinematic Universe: massive, cartoonish arms that might as well belong to a superhero rather than a real human. Santavy is attempting to beat the world record for the…
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Daring Fireball: What Is a Dickover?

Daring Fireball: What Is a Dickover?

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✨ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: Friday, 29 May 2026 Please enjoy this article on its own webpage. Trust me. dickover n. : a modal panel, popover, or curtain presented by a website or app, deliberately obscuring its own content to frustrate the user with an unwanted, unnecessary, mandatory interaction; e.g. asking the user to accept “cookies”, subscribe to a newsletter, install the website’s mobile app, agree to terms of service, or anything else that the user couldn’t give two shits about. You know what a dickover is, even if you didn’t know…
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‘I shouldn’t be allowed to do interviews’: Nish Kumar on controversy and clashes with comics | Nish Kumar

‘I shouldn’t be allowed to do interviews’: Nish Kumar on controversy and clashes with comics | Nish Kumar

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✨ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Nish Kumar,TV comedy,Comedy,Culture,Television,Stage đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: nIsh Kumar - a mop of curly hair, wearing a Jimi Hendrix T-shirt, a sumptuous cake in hand - sits centimeters from me in the conference room of his advertising offices in Soho, central London. However, there is another comedian who is turning heads. On the wall is a huge poster promoting Prime Video's Last One Laughing UK - and looming above us from the center of the frame is the show's host, Jimmy Carr.This seems, let's just say, a…
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secluso/core: A privacy-preserving Raspberry Pi home security camera that uses advanced end-to-end encryption. · GitHub

secluso/core: A privacy-preserving Raspberry Pi home security camera that uses advanced end-to-end encryption. · GitHub

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✨ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź“Ś **What You’ll Learn**: Secluso is a private home security camera system for Raspberry Pi. Watch live video, get alerts, and open recordings from your phone without handing your footage to a cloud provider. Secluso is developed by Secluso, Inc. and co-founded by: Ardalan Amiri Sani, a UC Irvine professor with expertise in computer security and privacy, John Kaczman, an open source and privacy enthusiast with experience in automation, systems, and AI. End-to-end encrypted remote access: Watch live video, get alerts, and open recordings from your phone. 5-minute…
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