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It’s focusing too much on high prices and not on what’s so far kept them from being much higher.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

"That's when quantum effects stop being abstract and start becoming useful -- supporting future applications ranging from self-powered sensors and wearable technology to ultra-fast components for next-generation wireless networks."

From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026

He has claimed that the rise of artificial intelligence, combined with a declining birth rate, could result in "not enough people" being in the world.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

Fund managers who’ve made a killing this year with positions in the three top-performing emerging market stocks are increasingly being forced to diversify elsewhere.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

Although it is being pulled by four horses instead of the usual six, this is a New Hampshire-built Concord stagecoach, somewhere in Chile at about the time that Phineas Gage arrived there.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman