A24, the indie-darling studio known for cultivating an artist-first brand, is taking a $75 million investment from Google as part of a DeepMind partnership to build AI tools for film production and distribution. Fans revolted online, and the optics worsened given that the director of A24’s biggest hit, ‘Backrooms,’ recently called generative AI a symptom…
NextBigFuture argues that while scaling space tourism to 5 million orbital trips per year via Starship could add roughly 3% to current global tourism emissions, the long-term upside is moving mining, manufacturing, and data centers off Earth. The piece frames near-term launch pollution as a worthwhile tradeoff for eventually decoupling industrial growth from the biosphere….
A Mount Sinai study using All of Us biobank data found that social, behavioral, and environmental factors predict risk for common diseases as well as or better than genetics alone. For four of six illnesses studied—including asthma, chronic kidney disease, high cholesterol, and coronary heart disease—context outweighed DNA, with even loneliness emerging as a meaningful…
Stronger by Science reviews the claim that light drinking is heart-healthy and finds it collapses under better methodology: a large Mendelian randomization analysis shows alcohol increases cardiovascular risk at all doses once lifestyle confounders are controlled. For lifters specifically, low doses don’t seem to hurt short-term strength or power, but higher doses (~1g/kg) suppress strength…