Assorted Links for Sunday

  1. Facing uncertain future in US, Chinese scholars ponder a return home (CSM)
  2. War Is In the Eye Of the Beholder
  3. Pregnant Women Are Turning to Cannabis to Ease Pain and Anxiety (WSJ)
  4. An Engineering History of the Manhattan Project
  5. Oil Giant Saudi Arabia Is Emerging as a Solar Power (WSJ)
  6. Partners’ health and silver splits in Europe: A gendered pattern?
  7. Would You Like the Ear-Shattering Package? The Race to Make EVs Roar (WSJ)
  8. Over 100 ships have sailed with fake insurance from the Norwegian Ro Marine
  9. Did your area just have its most humid summer? Find out here. (WP)
  10. The Sanctions Paradox in 2025
  11. Stablecoins: The Future of International Money?
  12. RTO Has Stalled, There’s Been Hardly any Reduction in WFH since Early 2023. This might be why the Washington Post is reporting another waive of return-to-office crackdowns is coming.
  13. Use the “Johari Window Model” to improve your conversations
  14. Russia Tests NATO With Poland Drone Breach
  15. Geopolitics of Trump Tariffs: How U.S. Trade Policy Has Shaken Allies
  16. Most Americans Think Political Violence Is Never Justified
  17. Predistribution, Not Redistribution, in the Nordic Countries
  18. Microscopes can now watch materials go quantum with liquid helium
  19. Good Old IBM Is Leading the Way in the Race for ‘Quantum Advantage’ (WSJ)
  20. Global EV market surges with 1.7M sales in August, up 25% YTD
  21. ‘You just can’t recreate that glow’: The people who hunt old TVs