The Saturday, July 25, 2026 Edition
Measles Cases Top 2,300, Russia Strikes Near Kyiv, and LeBron Joins the 76ers
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Science & Technology
£36 million
What Britain spent on its 1946 scheme to plant peanuts across 3 million acres of Tanganyika to solve a cooking-fat shortage. The colonial-era project ultimately harvested fewer peanuts than it planted, making it one of history's most spectacular agricultural failures.
Source: Boing Boing
Tonight: The WNBA All-Star Game tips off Saturday night in Chicago, following Friday's skills competitions where rookie Azzi Fudd won the 3-point contest.
Sunday: San Diego Comic-Con wraps up Sunday after a weekend of panels, including Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth announcement.
This fall: LeBron James suits up for the Philadelphia 76ers when the 2026-27 NBA season begins this fall, the first year of his new two-year deal.
Later this year: Pan's Labyrinth returns to theaters in a 3D re-release for its 20th anniversary, restored without AI, per del Toro's pledge.
- 1909Louis Blériot makes the first airplane flight across the English Channel
- 1946The US detonates its first underwater nuclear test at Bikini Atoll
- 1965Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival, dividing folk fans
- 1976NASA's Viking 1 photographs the famous 'Face on Mars' formation
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MIT Technology Review · Jessica Hamzelou$ Subscription
Taylor Farms Called White House to Try to Delay Cyclospora Recall
How Taylor Farms called the White House in an attempt to delay a cyclospora-linked recall. (Read, paywall)
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