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ECONOMICS

Bastiat’s telephone?

Marginal REVOLUTION

Oakland has seen a 37% decrease in car break-ins over the last year. What’s good news for car owners is less so for repair shops that specialize in window and windshield replacements. Multiple businesses have reported...

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STEM FEATURED STORY

Blue Origin Awarded NASA Contract to Provide Lunar Lander for Artemis V Moon Mission

NASA

NASA awarded Blue Origin a $3.4 billion contract in May 2023 to design, develop, and test a human landing system for the Artemis V mission, making Jeff Bezos's aerospace company the program's second lunar lander provider alongside SpaceX. Blue Origin's Blue Moon lander, standing approximately 52 feet tall, will dock with the Gateway lunar orbital station before descending to the Moon's surface, with the contract including an uncrewed demonstration landing before the crewed Artemis V mission currently scheduled for 2029. Blue Origin will partner with Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Draper, Astrobotic, and Honeybee Robotics to build the system, competing architecturally with SpaceX's Starship-based lander contracted for earlier Artemis missions. The award followed Blue Origin's unsuccessful legal challenge to NASA's 2021 sole-source contract award to SpaceX, which was resolved only after Congress appropriated additional funds specifically to enable selection of a second provider.

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CULTURE

Revisiting the Myth of Western Civilization's Origins

Literary Hub

The concept of Western civilization as a coherent tradition stretching from ancient Greece through Rome to modern Europe is, historians argue, more ideological invention than historical reality, a narrative largely constructed in the 18th and 19th centuries to provide a mythologized lineage for Enlightenment political ideas and to justify European colonial dominance. Scholars have documented how the ancient Greeks themselves acknowledged extensive intellectual debts to Egyptian, Babylonian, and Persian predecessors, debts that later European scholars systematically minimized to portray Western thought as self-generated.

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LOCAL

Swimming Pools on Martha's Vineyard Gain Popularity Amid Summer Rental Demand

Vineyard Gazette

Swimming pools have proliferated across Martha's Vineyard at an accelerating pace, with more than 750 pool permits issued in Edgartown and Chilmark alone over the past two decades, driven by competition among rental property owners to offer amenities that command significant weekly premiums. Realtors described pool installation as a calculated investment rather than a luxury, with return on construction cost measured in rental income within a handful of seasons.

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INDUSTRY

Bookshop.org: Empowering Independent Bookstores in the Digital Age

Publishers Weekly

Bookshop.org, the online marketplace launched in 2020 with an explicit mission to support independent bookstores, has distributed over $35 million to more than 2,200 independent booksellers across the United States, functioning as a direct alternative to Amazon by routing a portion of every sale back to participating local shops. In 2023 the platform replaced IndieBound as the American Booksellers Association's official partner for linking to books online, significantly expanding its reach and visibility.

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SPORTS

The NFL's Gambling Policy: the Need for Uniformity and Integrity"

CBS Sports

The NFL suspended 10 players during the spring and summer of 2023 for violating its gambling policy, with some found to have placed bets on games involving their own teams, exposing significant inconsistencies in how players understood the rules governing wagering in an era of rapidly expanding legalized sports betting. The league issued fresh guidance to all teams acknowledging that the national proliferation of legal sportsbooks since the Supreme Court's 2018 Murphy v. NCAA decision had fundamentally changed the environment in which players operate, without a commensurate update in cultural norms around gambling in professional sports.

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