On this day:
1405
Ming Admiral Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time.
1789
Jacques Necker is dismissed as France’s Finance Minister, sparking the Storming of the Bastille.
1804
A duel occurs in which the Vice President of the United States, Aaron Burr, mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton.
1864
American Civil War: Battle of Fort Stevens; Confederate forces attempt to invade Washington, D.C.
1940
World War II: Vichy France regime is formally established. Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Prime Minister of France.
1947
The Exodus 1947 heads to Palestine from France.
1972
The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky starts.
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Go to where your customers are. Gagosian opened a gallery at a private jet airport. --Senra
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Conception, a private biologics company, has generated the first early human egg cells (‘primary oocytes’) derived from stem cells. This has been done with rats, never before with humans.
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The unconscious brain appears to be far more capable than scientists once believed. Researchers found that patients under general anesthesia could still process language at a sophisticated level, distinguishing nouns, verbs, and adjectives while listening to stories. Even more remarkably, neural activity showed signs of predicting upcoming words before they were heard. The results challenge traditional ideas about consciousness and hint at new possibilities for brain-computer interfaces.--paper from Baylor
This also implies we do not truly understand anesthesia.
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SatStats
Platner won the Democratic primary by 72 percentage points last month. 72% of average Democrat voters thought he was their best choice.
The rate of growth of the AI “shadow grid” of custom power plants, some of which are big enough to fuel entire cities, is so enormous that the only global entity installing more gigawatts of gas plants than Texas is China.
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Housebuilding regulatory costs have climbed 40% since 2021. Regulations add an average of $131,734 to the cost of a newly built home, representing 26.4% of the final sale price.
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Anthropic just released its report on how people are using Claude Cowork, highlighting how much knowledge workers are leaning on AI.
The report found that, from a sample of 1.2 million anonymized and aggregated Claude Cowork sessions, a third of Claude's Cowork sessions involve business operations (33.4%), with the next top use cases including content creation and copywriting (16.4%), software development (8.7%), and DevOps and infrastructure (7.0%).
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A year ago, Pittsburgh averaged 3.6 runs per game, dead last in baseball. This season, the Pirates are scoring 5.16 runs per game, third-best in MLB.
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The stock market gauge that Warren Buffett once called "probably the best single measure of where valuations stand at any given moment" recently sat at a higher level than at any point in records dating back more than half a century.
The measure is simple: the total value of the U.S. stock market divided by the size of the economy, as measured by gross domestic product. It recently climbed past 230%, meaning American stocks are worth about 2.3 times the country's annual economic output. That's a record. For perspective, the same gauge peaked near 140% just before the dot-com bubble burst in 2000.
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MacKenzie Scott alone accounted for one-third of America’s $19.2 billion in megagifts last year.
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10% of births in 2023 were to illegal immigrant parents.
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Personality tests are taken by an estimated 60 to 70 per cent of job applicants in the United States who reach a certain stage in the hiring process, despite there being no evidence that such tests have predictive power.
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Spending $13.70 a day totals $5,000.50 across a 365-day year,
Invested at 7% a year, that $5,000 grows to about $69,000 in 10 years.
Stretched across a 30-year working career, the same habit redirected into investments reaches roughly $472,000.
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Only 47% of Americans say they have enough cash to cover a $1,000 emergency, according to Bankrate’s 2026 Emergency Savings Report.
The typical household that does keep an emergency fund holds a median of just $5,000, a U.S. News survey found.
The gap between the rich and the poor continues to rise at an extraordinary pace. Just 56,000 ultra-wealthy individuals—the world’s richest 0.001%—now control more wealth than the poorest 4 billion people on Earth combined, according to UBS’s 2026 Global Wealth Report.
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