Google Changes Its Search Box for the First Time in 25 Years

June 7, 2026

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/business/google-seach-bar-ai-gemini.html


Experimental Drug Yields Dramatic Weight Loss

June 7, 2026

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/science/retatrutide-weight-loss-drug.html


One-and-Done Heart Disease Prevention? Scientists Show It May Be Possible.

June 7, 2026

uses PCSK9, a human KO – a pgene motivation
One-and-Done Heart Disease Prevention? Scientists Show It May Be Possible. – The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/health/cholesterol-ldl-gene-therapy.html


YouTube Is Crawling with Pirated Audiobooks Made Using A.I.

June 7, 2026

Publishing’s Latest Piracy Problem: Audiobooks on YouTube – The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/books/audiobook-piracy-youtube.html


An Owner’s Guide to the Human Genome

June 7, 2026

https://web.stanford.edu/group/pritchardlab/HGbook.html
Nice chapters on GWAS + The coalescent


Coaching for Success | Faculty of Arts and Sciences

June 7, 2026

https://fas.yale.edu/teaching-research-resources/scholars-leaders-scholars-learners-sal2-program/coaching-success perhaps a useful program at Yale


Move over, AlphaFold: open-source model predicts shape of 1 billion proteins

June 7, 2026

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01686-3


Robot can beat elite players at table tennis

June 7, 2026

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01045-2

wonder if this uses a world model ?


Amid a flood of AI advances, astrophysicists are questioning the soul of their field | Science | AAAS

June 7, 2026

https://www.science.org/content/article/amid-flood-ai-advances-astrophysicists-are-questioning-soul-their-field


Ultraprocessed foods and obesity: Interpreting the evidence | Science

June 7, 2026

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aef3495