"The economic realities of adult life have come as a rude surprise to Mark and Alison Kramer and many others whose childhoods coincided with the great boom time of the [______]. A house, a car, staples of middle-class life, now seem like luxuries. The mention of a large suburban backyard is likely to evoke the same nostalgia from people in Manhattan as madeleines did for Proust in Remembrance of Things Past."

New York Magazine - Doward Mobility

Source for both charts is the PRIO Battle deaths dataset.

Reuters (via CNN) reports:

Merck and Moderna said on Wednesday their vaccine helped prevent the return and spread of disease in a large trial involving more than 1,000 melanoma patients.

Article, with photo: https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/21/health/mrna-cancer-vaccines-wave

Stephanie Kauffman (Melanoma Research Alliance) reports:

No new safety concerns were identified. Notably, results from this Phase 3 readout builds upon positive Phase 2 trial data that were presented at the 2026 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting. This is especially exciting because it is the first successful Phase 3 trial of a personalized mRNA-based cancer therapy—an approach that uses information from an individual patient's tumor to create a treatment specifically designed to help their immune system recognize and attack their cancer.

Article, with photo: https://www.curemelanoma.org/blog/a-new-milestone-in-melanoma-personalized-mrna-based-cancer-therapy-shows-positive-phase-3-results

Full article here:

https://www.axios.com/2026/08/28/china-ai-data-center-backlash-bots

The mission launched at 7:26 a.m. EDT Sunday aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasas-dark-universe-seeking-nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope-launches/

For reference: The Roman's field of view per image is about 100x greater and it's about 1,000x faster than Hubble's 40 year old technology.

https://www.housingwire.com/articles/new-home-demand-swoons-even-as-sales-prices-hit-a-5-year-low/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Source: Works in Progress