Members’ voting patterns reveal the eight types of House Democrats and Republicans, based on how much they do (or don’t) align with their caucuses. / FiveThirtyEight
See also: “The House passed bipartisan bills on climate change and border security this week, and almost no one noticed.” / Wake Up to Politics
Scientists are becoming frustrated with the USDA’s continued failure to provide data that would facilitate tracking H5N1’s spread. / STAT
The botched rollout of the federal government’s new financial aid application has left countless students unsure where, or even if, they’re going to college in the fall. / AP
See also: “This is, quite frankly, where [students] should be in this moment, as they are opening their eyes to what that world actually contains.” / Slate
“The most common dilemmas had to do with relational obligations: dilemmas about what we owe to others.” To study morality, philosophers analyze r/AITA. / Vox
Is AI-generated audio good for anything? Rarely. In a list of examples, most “seem at best misguided and at worst actively hostile.” / Read Max
“You can’t just come to terms with yourself once and for all.” On “deep reals” and how realism can be so real it seems fake. / Internal Exile
See also: An AI-generated image of the Baltimore bridge collapse, built from drone footage, shows the wreckage in startling detail. / Quartz, Voluma
In a first, a wild animal—in this case, an orangutan—was observed treating a wound with a plant known to have medicinal properties. / The Guardian
“All of Murray’s top four contributors had connections to mental asylums.” A history of the Oxford English Dictionary. / Commonweal
A list of some of the things Brian Cox hates—method acting, the word “process,” Quentin Tarantino. / GQ
