Portal, cracked.
The Federal Reserve raises its benchmark interest rate by 0.75%, the biggest increase since 1994. Five things to know about how it will affect you. / CNBC, The Conversation
Consumer sentiment has declined by 14% since May, continuing a downward trend over the last year. / Surveys of Consumers
GiveDirectly is picked to run Chicago's guaranteed basic income pilot, amid "a surge" in cash assistance programs. / Bloomberg
High temperatures break daily records in multiple US cities this week, among other displays of recent extreme weather. / CNN, Axios
The UN says more than 4,000 civilians have been killed in Ukraine. The true count is almost certainly much higher. / The Economist
An FDA advisory panel votes unanimously that Pfizer and Moderna Covid vaccines should be authorized for young children. / STAT
Dating is said to be making a comeback, post/mid-pandemic. "Everyone is getting a shot for somebody else and cheers-ing each other." / Vinepair
Researchers believe they've figured out the origins of the Black Death, more than 600 years after it killed tens of millions. / BBC News
Related/unrelated: How Catholicism became a meme. / Vox
Research in genetics has never been more exciting, but little of this new sophistication "has yet to reach the public eye." / Engelsberg Ideas
Nobel Prize-winning scientists describe things from their field of study they've never understood. / The Fence
See also: The quest for fusion energy. Also, what it looks like when your coworker opens a portal to "a demon dimension." / Inference, TMN
Display companies begin targeting NFT collectors, who struggle to display their digital art outside of their computers. / Artsy
TMN's Rosecrans Baldwin tries to watch everything Ewan McGregor has ever made or done. / GQ UK
Digging through the crates of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, once known as Astounding Stories of Super-Science. / Open Culture
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