Researchers recording brain activity directly from six people found two adjacent regions in the orbitofrontal cortex that compete during risky decisions, described in a Nature Neuroscience study published September 15. One region activates when a person leans toward pursuing a reward, while the other activates when they lean toward avoiding risk, with signals rapidly alternating between the two before a final choice is made.
nature.com
· 2026-09-17
A publication's ongoing series spotlighting unusual vocabulary from nonfiction books turned its attention to Clara Parkes' 'Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool.' The piece walks through five specialized terms Parkes encounters while tracing wool's journey from sheep to yarn, including sliver, mordanting, carbonizing, and casting.
blog.wordnik.com
· 2026-09-11
A commentary piece argues that if corporations enjoy legal personhood under the Fourteenth Amendment, they should also face the equivalent of capital punishment for serious wrongdoing. It traces this idea to 'judicial dissolution,' citing the 1889 New York Supreme Court case that forced the North River Sugar Refining Corporation—a 17-company sugar monopoly—to liquidate for abusing its charter through price-fixing and consolidation.
futurism.com
· 2026-08-29
President Trump called Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's cellphone in the middle of a company-wide staff meeting on Thursday, with Trump's voice audible through Huang's onstage microphone before Huang briefly stepped away and returned within a minute. The call came the same day Nvidia launched an employee-funded political action committee and a day after the company posted quarterly revenue of $96 billion, up 106 percent year over year.
wired.com
· 2026-08-28
Clara, a Y Combinator P26 company building an AI-driven primary care service, is hiring a growth engineer to own its entire patient acquisition and retention funnel. The role spans landing pages, SEO and paid channels, onboarding, experimentation, and lifecycle messaging, with the hire expected to code, ship, and analyze results directly. The position also requires close coordination with clinical and compliance teams to ensure marketing claims and experiments meet medical accuracy and HIPAA requirements.
ycombinator.com
· 2026-08-25
Autonomous box-truck startup Gatik has raised $200 million, its largest round yet, led by Qatar Investment Authority and Koch Disruptive Technologies with backing from Millennium Management, ARK Invest, and Intact Private Capital. The raise comes two months after Gatik signed a multi-year commercial agreement with PepsiCo, bringing its total funding since 2019 to roughly $500 million. The company did not disclose its current valuation.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-08-25
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