This week’s question: Florida has been invaded by the giant African land snail, a banana-sized gastropod that devours foliage, gnaws on buildings, and transmits diseases and parasites in its trail of slime. Come up with the title of a creature-feature horror film about this slow-moving menace. Click here to see the results of last week’s contest:…
The smartest insight and analysis, from all perspectives, rounded up from around the web: Farewell, Twitter, said Oliver Darcy at CNN. This week, “the text-based social media platform that played an outsize role in society by serving as a digital town square was killed by its unhinged owner, Elon Musk.” Musk officially changed the company’s iconic…
Balance Europe Britons favor ‘controlled openness’ over closed door as immigration soars | View caption Hide caption High immigration rates motivated many Britons to favor leaving the European Union in 2016. But migrant numbers have risen to record heights since then, and the public seems largely unconcerned, instead happy with “controlled openness.” Anti-immigration hard-liners in…
First Look What links toothbrushes and weapons systems? A $52 billion investment. The U.S. government has reached a rare bipartisan agreement to invest $52 billion to develop advanced computer chips. Factories, autos, appliances, electronics, toys, toothbrushes, and weapons systems all depend on semiconductors. | View caption Hide caption | A 77-year-old factory in a hard-luck…