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JUST IN: 🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran says it now considers US company infrastructure legitimate targets, including belonging to:

• Microsoft
• Palantir
• Google
• Oracle
• Nvidia
• IBM

What's next for 7 million student-loan borrowers now that SAVE is over The 8th Circuit officially put an end to Biden's SAVE student-loan repayment plan. Here's what comes next for the millions of enrolled borrowers.

What's coming for those with student loans.

www.businessinsider.com/save-plan-wh...

Here's How to Track the Artemis II Mission in Real Time With NASA's New Tool The tool will let you track NASA's modern lunar program during its 10-day flight around the moon and back again.

Follow the Artemis mission.

www.cnet.com/science/spac...

F.D.A. Opens Door to More Flavored E-Cigarettes

Maybe this will help put food on tables or gas in cars. Blargh.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/h...

A new “magic mushroom” drug could treat depression without psychedelic hallucinations Scientists are exploring a new way to harness the medical promise of psychedelic compounds without the mind-bending side effects. Researchers created modified versions of psilocin — the active form of...

Treating depression with psychedelics and without hallucinations.

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Mutated life form at Chernobyl learned to grow faster by 'eating' radiation A fungus that evolved at Chernobyl and is now grown on the ISS, Cladosporium sphaerospermum, slightly reduced radiation levels.

Nature is amazing if we just get out of the way.

www.earth.com/news/chernob...

Multiple Types of Plastic Are Turned into Vinegar Using Sunlight-Powered Process Without Emissions The breakthrough offers a promising new approach to reducing plastic pollution through photocatalysis, a metabolic pathway also used by fungi.

More progress dealing with plastics.

www.goodnewsnetwork.org/multiple-typ...

How Toxic People Make Us Age Faster Real biological effects include accelerated ageing.

Beware the hasslers in your life.

How Toxic People Make Us Age Faster | Psychology Today share.google/IfzQpRKh5pEA...

Landfill Uses Gas From Waste to Grow Fruits and Vegetables in ‘World-First’ Green Food Dome A landfill 90 miles from London uses methane from its waste to generate electricity and grow sustainable produce—even during English winters.

Lemonade from lemons, etc.

www.goodnewsnetwork.org/landfill-use...

A Vexing Problem for College Students: Course Availability

A Vexing Problem for College Students: Course Availability www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/y...

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Court says Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis can't call civil rights group a 'terrorist organization' The executive order, issued in December, prevented the Council on American-Islamic Relations from receiving government benefits.

Duh. Florida, man.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research An Australian study of anti-feminist attitudes shows up to 30% of boys surveyed expressed agreement with various forms of violent extremism.

This finding is persistent.

theconversation.com/40-of-teenag...

Digital media is using negativity to steal our attention — here’s how to reclaim it Research in psychology and cognitive science suggests there are ways to fight back against this and reclaim your attention.

Negativity influencers.

theconversation.com/digital-medi...

State should be sued for giving degrees to unprepared students Don’t ignore the California Common Core State Standards.

Maybe it's better to focus on learning and not granting a commodity because they paid for it.

www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/03/08/s...

The honest conversation about antidepressants I wish my psychiatrist had with me How to think about long-term use, dependence, and withdrawal — according to a professional.

A lot of clarity is needed in this area.

www.vox.com/future-perfe...

The age of animal experiments may be waning Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there are still huge hurdles to overcome

Good.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Wife Used ‘Find My iPhone’ to Locate Husband Buried in an Avalanche for Over 4 Hours Unable to move, he couldn't reach his Apple Watch, nor his iPhone, even as he heard it ringing in his front pocket.

Tech can be useful after all.

www.goodnewsnetwork.org/wife-used-fi...

"One of the deepest longings of the human soul is to be seen." ~John O'Donohue

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

Be effulgent today.

MLA throws weight behind campaign to reset the credit scores of victims of coercive and abusive relationships Former partners often left to foot bill for reckless or dishonest loans exes have taken out in their names

Politicians are being urged to support a campaign to reset the credit scores of victims of coercive control.

The Central Lie of Prediction Markets Polymarket and Kalshi promise the wisdom of the crowds. They deliver something very different.

Prediction markets are the perfect technology for a low-trust society, Charlie Warzel argues: “They claim to get us closer to the truth but, in the end, they make us less certain about the world.”

15 hard truths that people swear made their lives so much better You might be the bad guy in someone else's story.

13. Nobody knows what they're doing.

www.upworthy.com/15-hard-trut...

A psychological need for certainty is associated with radical right voting How we handle uncertainty might shape our politics. Research in Personality and Individual Differences indicates that a lower tolerance for ambiguity is associated with right-wing authoritarianism and...

People who can't tolerate ambiguity scare me.

www.psypost.org/a-psychologi...

In 25-Country Survey, Americans Especially Likely To View Fellow Citizens as Morally Bad | Pew Research Center Across 25 countries, Americans are the most likely to see the morality and ethics of people in their country as somewhat or very bad.

Well then.

www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...

This study might make you stop drinking bottled water forever Plastic bottles shed harmful microplastics, toxins, and chemicals, creating hidden health risks from everyday drinking habits.

I'm still amazed we got convinced to drink bottled water.

www.earth.com/news/plastic...

New Elephant Ambulance Marks Inaugural Rescue, Bringing 27-year-old to Hospital with Leg Injury Wildlife SOS recently debuted their pachyderm paramedics aboard the Elephant Ambulance to save an overworked elephant.

An ambulance for elephants.

www.goodnewsnetwork.org/new-elephant...

People with the least political knowledge tend to be the most overconfident in their grasp of facts People often misjudge their understanding of verifiable political facts. A new study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied provides evidence that individuals with the least actu...

Well there you have it.

www.psypost.org/people-with-...

I feel we are all aboard the Terrible with Captain Death at the helm.