Roy’s Links:
Some links you might want to check out for yourselves:
The Sad Tech of CES 2026
Ozempic Quitters Pay a Heavy Price, Research Shows
NWS AI-Generated Weather Predictions Are Making Up New Towns
Google Just Stuffed a Bunch of New AI Into Your Gmail
Astronomers Discover Unusual Asteroid Spinning Faster Than Anything Its Size
Woman Visits the Galápagos and All She Got Was This Exotic Eye Parasite
Do I Have the ‘Super Flu’? Here’s What You Need to Know
NASA Orders ISS Medical Evacuation—but Here’s the Real Surprise
Iconic Hubble Telescope Could Be Dead in 3 Years
Will 2026 Be the Year That the AI Industry Stops Crowing About ‘AGI’?
Weight Loss Drugs Like Zepbound Could Help Treat Arthritis, Trial Shows
Researchers Just Sampled 1.4-Billion-Year-Old Air—and It’s Not What They Expected
Utah Becomes First State to Let AI Prescribe Medication
Florida’s Surgeon General Is Now Peddling Fake Water
Covid-19 Is Still Killing a Disturbing Number of Americans, Study Finds
Silicon Valley Is Flirting with a Very Stupid New Way to Die
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From Paul’s SpaceNet Report:
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(From January 4, 2026)
Some links you might want to check out for yourselves:
The ‘Super Flu’ Is Hitting Kids Hard—and Some Aren’t Surviving
Scientists Scanned 3I/ATLAS for Alien Signals. Here’s What They Found
Physicists Turn Quantum Chaos Into Something Surprisingly Useful
Raw Oysters Behind Salmonella Outbreak Sweeping Across the US, CDC Warns
People Spent the Holidays Asking Grok to Generate Sexual Images of Children
SpaceX Will Move Thousands of Starlinks Closer to Earth in 2026. Here’s Why
Startup Satellite Hits 1,800 Degrees, Cooks Up Plasma in Orbit for the First Time
A Deadly, Drug-Resistant Fungus Threatens People Around the World, Scientists Warn
As Measles Cases Top 2,000, the U.S. Is on Brink of Losing Its Elimination Status
A Deadly Mad Cow-Like Disease Is Spreading Among North American Deer
Something Is Making Humanoid Robot Makers Worry: The Robots Suck
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From Paul’s SpaceNet Report:
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(From January 4, 2026)
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