From duck stamps to doomsday: the past year in American politics [The Economist]

The Economist’s picks for your reading list [The Economist Podcasts]

Erik ten Hag: Manchester United manager confident of strong relationship with Ineos [BBC Sport]

Books We Read in 2023 to Prepare Us for the Future [Bloomberg]

Fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas rages after nearly 200 killed in Gaza [Reuters]

Israel-Hamas war live: UN aid chief decries Israeli attack on relief convoy [AL-Jazeera News]

The Top Twenty-Five New Yorker Stories of 2023 [New Yorker]

Pokemon Concierge is a beautiful reminder to take some time off [The Verge]

The 14 predictions that came true in 2023 — and the 7 that didn’t [Vox]

Best budgeting apps for individuals, startups and small businesses [TechCrunch]

We need a moonshot for computing [MIT Technology Review]

COMIC: How a brutal dictatorship rose in Chechnya, and what my family had to do to survive it [Business Insider]

Calendrier économique #TeamFranceBayArea, H1 2024! A vos agendas! Economic agenda for H1 2024, #TeamFranceBayArea! Join us! French-American Chamber of Commerce San Francisco, French Tech San Francisco, #CCFE, Business France, Consulate General of France in San Francisco. [LinkedIn]

South Africa launches case at UN court accusing Israel of genocide [The Guardian]

How the Supreme Court May Rule on Trump’s Presidential Run [New York Times]

Trump Said He Would Fight For Workers. He Fought For Business Lobbies Instead. [Huffington Post]

How to Be Happy Growing Older [The Atlantic]

The 25 coolest charts we made in 2023 [FiveThirtyEight]

Opinion Palestinian and Israeli cartoonists see the war differently (and the same) [The Washington Post]

Le Monde's favorite albums of 2023 [Le Monde]

NASA rover posts glorious GIF of a Martian day [Mashable]

You Thought Weed Was Legal in The Netherlands? It is Now [VICE News]

What We’re Reading [The Intercept_]

New Wonders to Discover [Nat Geo]

Public libraries reveal their most borrowed books of 2023 [NPR]

Yolo County recommends residents vaccinated, mask indoors as regional virus activity rises [CapRadioNews]

Les bonnes œuvres de Michel-Édouard Leclerc [Le Monde diplomatique]

Israel-Hamas War: News, analysis, and background on the ongoing conflict. [Foreign Policy]

Don’t Give Up on a Better Russia: An Opposition Activist in Moscow on How His Country Can Change [Foreign Affairs]

The Year in Math [Quanta Magazine]

#ThrowbackThursday à une vue unique du site principal du CERN à Meyrin en 1971, recouvert de neige. Aujourd'hui il héberge des nombreuses installations de recherche, le Synchrocyclotron, le Centre de calcul, @ATLASexperiment, et #CERNScienceGateway. [CERN_FR]

http://visit.cernNASA Flies Drones Autonomously for Air Taxi Research [NASA]

BLOGPOST UPDATE IN PROGRESS

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 1058 & BENKYO RADIO 1058. Have you played MLB The Show on Playstation? Great game. Even better is to toss around the baseball in the park, or attend a ballgame. I couldn’t afford to watch the Cincinnati REDS against SF GIANTS this past year, but I hope that next time around when they come to SF, we can afford to go.

Until Next Time!