* “First malaria vaccine slashes early childhood mortality: Huge analysis of RTS,S in Africa shows it decreased toddler deaths by 13%.” Tremendous, hugely important news, and much more important than 99%+ of what’s in the headlines.

* How science often actually works. :(

* “Why America Doesn’t Build: Even green-energy projects get quashed by local opposition.” Relatedly: a good thread on how California “environmentalists” are overwhelmingly not. This might be easier to read, and it doesn’t require a Twitter login.

* “How to Prevent Gun Massacres? Look Around the World.” We’d rather live-action role play macho toughness than not be shot, which seems like a bad tradeoff to me.

* “The Sinking Submarine Industrial Base.” Part of the preparation for losing a war over Taiwan, or possibly the Philippines.

* “The Extremist’s Gambit Helps Explain Why Hamas Attacked Now.” Not just more of the same: depressing, but also interesting.

* “Open source news is the future of journalism.” One quote: “What the incident showed is that in a race to the truth between professional journalists and self-organizing investigators online, all of whom had access to the same public materials, the journalists lost by a long shot.” And they continue to lose.

* “When the Music Stopped: An Inside Look at the Hamas Assault on the Trance Festival.”

* “On Writing (or not): Bad habits and why the voice in my head needs to kindly shut up.”