Pregnancy tests draw a misleading, somewhat arbitrary, binary between a state of being pregnant and not being pregnant. You can be kind of pregnant, a little bit pregnant, or almost pregnant, or maybe pregnant, and still test positive for pregnancy. Pregnancy tests, particularly at-home urine tests, capture a moment in time at which an embryo has implanted and is interfacing with the uterus in some way. “We define how we understand the beginning of pregnancy based on this snapshot, but such a freeze-frame contains limited information,” Apoorva Tadepalli writes. Read more about the difficult task of determining when pregnancy actually begins: https://t.co/hGDewJfdDn
Do not add an apostrophe to a word ending in s when it is used primarily in a descriptive sense: citizens band radio, a Cincinnati Reds infielder, a Teamsters request, a writers guide.
One of the wildest stats you will see today. In April 2026, 98.6% of all new cars sold in Norway were EVs. In February 2026 just 12 gas cars were sold the entire month.
Incredible.
Very few people understand how much the “civilisational stock” of the western world was built between 1870-1970, and since then, it’s been been coasting on the exhausted fumes of that civilisational inheritance, extracting without replenishing. Bill’s coming due now.
“It is not just society that misses out on beautiful grand projects in the form of great works, large and small. The principals of private wealth themselves are being deprived of an opportunity to further self-actualize through the creation of a public legacy.”