China's Country Garden warns of default again as property sales plunge (www.cnn.com) Chinese property development groups financial difficulties are not over yet
Treasury Department Releases First-Of-Its-Kind Report on Benefits of Unions to the U.S. Economy (home.treasury.gov)
Maui homeowner reveals property upgrades that left her house spared in wildfires (www.independent.co.uk) People are finding out how to protect homes against extreme weather in this changing climate
Plane crashes during airshow finale at Willow Run, Michigan (www.detroitnews.com) A Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 jet crashed near the airport during an air show. Both pilots ejected safely.
Kansas newspapers joint opinion: "Raid on Kansas newspaper is an intolerable overreach by police" (www.kansas.com) “Marion city police and the Marion County sheriff’s office did something on Friday that no government agency in America has any right to do. They shut down a newspaper.”...
3-year-old migrant girl dies aboard bus headed from Texas to Chicago (www.cbsnews.com) Not just any bus as the headline implies, but one of Texas Gov Greg Abbott’s trafficking asylum seekers to Democratic cities as a political stunt.
The death toll rises to 80 in Maui wildfires as survivors begin returning to communities in ruins (apnews.com)
Next-gen OSDP was supposed to make it harder to break in to secure facilities. It failed. (arstechnica.com)
First new Vogtle nuclear reactor enters operation, making history (www.ajc.com) The first nuclear reactor built from scratch in the U.S. in more than three decades enters service
Mathematicians finally solved Feynman’s “reverse sprinkler” problem (arstechnica.com)
Experimental antibiotic kills deadly superbug, opens whole new class of drugs (arstechnica.com)
Mummified baboons point to the direction of the fabled land of Punt (arstechnica.com)
Mysterious rock depicted in 15th-century painting is most likely a Stone Age tool (arstechnica.com)
China's Country Garden warns of default again as property sales plunge (www.cnn.com)
Chinese property development groups financial difficulties are not over yet
Treasury Department Releases First-Of-Its-Kind Report on Benefits of Unions to the U.S. Economy (home.treasury.gov)
Why is check fraud suddenly rampant? (www.bostonfed.org)
France to pay farmers €200mn for destroying wine surplus (archive.is)
China’s Worsening Economic Slowdown Is Rippling Across the Globe (archive.is)
Maui homeowner reveals property upgrades that left her house spared in wildfires (www.independent.co.uk)
People are finding out how to protect homes against extreme weather in this changing climate
I try synthetic salmon and enter the “uncanny valley” of taste (arstechnica.com)
Rust devs push back as Serde project ships precompiled binaries (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
NASA’s buildings are even older than its graying workforce (arstechnica.com)
China's Evergrande files for bankruptcy | CNN (www.cnn.com)
Dutch economy slips into a recession after 0.3 percent dip in 2nd quarter (nltimes.nl)
Russian warship fires warning shots on cargo ship in Black Sea (www.reuters.com)
Plane crashes during airshow finale at Willow Run, Michigan (www.detroitnews.com)
A Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 jet crashed near the airport during an air show. Both pilots ejected safely.
Kansas newspapers joint opinion: "Raid on Kansas newspaper is an intolerable overreach by police" (www.kansas.com)
“Marion city police and the Marion County sheriff’s office did something on Friday that no government agency in America has any right to do. They shut down a newspaper.”...
3-year-old migrant girl dies aboard bus headed from Texas to Chicago (www.cbsnews.com)
Not just any bus as the headline implies, but one of Texas Gov Greg Abbott’s trafficking asylum seekers to Democratic cities as a political stunt.
The death toll rises to 80 in Maui wildfires as survivors begin returning to communities in ruins (apnews.com)
Wholesale prices rose 0.3% in July, higher than expected (www.cnbc.com)
Next-gen OSDP was supposed to make it harder to break in to secure facilities. It failed. (arstechnica.com)
Being a Projectionist for Oppenheimer 70mm Film (www.youtube.com)
Winning the Fields Medal (with James Maynard) - Numberphile (www.youtube.com)
First new Vogtle nuclear reactor enters operation, making history (www.ajc.com)
The first nuclear reactor built from scratch in the U.S. in more than three decades enters service