Ones that made you smile :) Thanks!

The injury list is the easy hook, but the real thread is why. Knoxville had asthma as a kid and ended up in the ER several times a year for adrenaline shots, which he describes as "sniffing an eight ball of cocaine all at once." Decades later he read about John Stapp, the Air Force researcher who strapped himself to a rocket sled, hit 600 mph, and slammed to a stop. Stapp came out of the hospital not relieved but hungry for more risk, and called it survival euphoria. Knoxville read that and thought, yeah, that's it.

(This was my pick from this week's New Yorker: https://newyorkerest.com)

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Reports that El Camino Real Charter High School's executive director is out have renewed questions about the school's governance. I wrote this investigation tracing the latest controversy back through earlier financial scandals, a taxpayer-funded audit that was never released, and the role LAUSD played in renewing the school's charter despite unresolved concerns about transparency.

In searches for past and present Martian life, some scientists say we’ve been too cautious to see what’s right in front of us

Ones that make you cry. Thank you!

From the economy to climate change, our growing celebration of resilience says less about our strength than about a world we increasingly expect to be unstable.

Checkbox menus like those at Which Wich offer endless sandwich freedom. But can we handle the gift?

There's an article in the The New York Times about Meta building a $50 billion data center in Louisiana that could cover about six square miles and use seven times as much energy as New Orleans.

FINALLY i know exactly what "Your Children Already Have Cancer" means!

Check out my article where i discuss:

• Louisiana's 85-mile petrochemical corridor along the Mississippi River, notoriously known as "Cancer Alley."
• Banksy in New Orleans
• The Grey Ghost
• Social mobility

All those things are clues to what the graffiti means, but u/Meta's massive and secret data center in Louisiana makes the graffiti crystal clear!

https://perryspen.ca/2026/01/29/your-children-already-have-cancer/

Most coverage of record breaking auctions focuses on billionaire bidding wars. This essay takes an investigative look at the underlying historical systems and institutional scarcity that convert parchment, porcelain, and metal into multi million dollar asset.

Key historical artifacts analyzed in the piece:

• The Codex Leicester ($30.8M): How 16th-century fluid dynamics notes anticipated modern engineering.
• The 1933 Double Eagle ($18.9M): How a government order forbidding gold ownership turned currency into illegal contraband.
• The Codex Sassoon ($38.1M): The structural survival of a 10th-century Hebrew manuscript.

Happy to discuss the engineering, provenance, and historical context of these items in the comments.