The Latest Science This week in science: ocean spiders, baby planets and the odds of having a boy or a girl The Short Wave team talks about spider origins, why the odds of having a girl or a boy aren't 50-50, and what the Orion constellation reveals about the life cycles of stars. Regina G. Barber World French president and first lady sue Candace Owens for defamation French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte are suing a U.S. influencer for claiming that the first lady was born male. Rebecca Rosman Business Artificial Intelligence Setting All Airfares? That future might not be far off Delta airlines says it wants to use AI to price 20 percent of all domestic fares. Lawmakers and consumers alike have concerns about the implications of the company's policy when it comes to privacy and consumer protection. John Ketchum A wave of Israeli settler attacks reaches a Christian village in the West Bank Israeli settler attacks have reached a Palestinian Christian village of the occupied West Bank. It drew a rare rebuke from the U.S. ambassador to Israel, an evangelical Christian pastor and supporter of Israeli settlers. Daniel Estrin Technology Neurotic robots can be more relatable than extroverted bots, study finds Neurotic robots are a staple of science fiction. Researchers who study how people react to robot personalities, however, haven't focused on this much -- though one study recently found that neurotic traits in a robot can make them seem more relatable. Nell Greenfieldboyce National Deadline looms for states to comply with USDA's demand for personal data The USDA has told states they must turn over SNAP recipients' sensitive data between July 24 and July 30. A federal judge will weigh in on whether that happens. Jude Joffe-Block Politics Everybody hates big $ in elections. Is this a fix? The vast majority of Americans say that money in politics is a threat to democracy. Seattle came up with a novel solution: give everyone money to donate to candidates. In 2015, voters approved the Democracy Voucher program, but is it working? Scott Greenstone Health King County's next mental health crisis center could be on Seattle's First Hill. The community has thoughts King County’s next crisis center for behavioral health could be at the old Polyclinic building on Broadway, in Seattle’s First Hill neighborhood. Eilís O'Neill Politics Questions about Epstein files follow lawmakers home It's just the start of a summer recess for Congress, but already House Republicans are being asked questions back home about the push to release records related to the late Jeffrey Epstein. Carmen Russell-Sluchansky Politics Supreme Court keeps a pause for now on a ruling that weakens the Voting Rights Act The Supreme Court has extended a pause, for now, on a lower court ruling that struck down a key tool for protecting minority voters under the Voting Rights Act in seven states. Hansi Lo Wang Prev 705 of 1647 Next Sponsored
Science This week in science: ocean spiders, baby planets and the odds of having a boy or a girl The Short Wave team talks about spider origins, why the odds of having a girl or a boy aren't 50-50, and what the Orion constellation reveals about the life cycles of stars. Regina G. Barber
World French president and first lady sue Candace Owens for defamation French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte are suing a U.S. influencer for claiming that the first lady was born male. Rebecca Rosman
Business Artificial Intelligence Setting All Airfares? That future might not be far off Delta airlines says it wants to use AI to price 20 percent of all domestic fares. Lawmakers and consumers alike have concerns about the implications of the company's policy when it comes to privacy and consumer protection. John Ketchum
A wave of Israeli settler attacks reaches a Christian village in the West Bank Israeli settler attacks have reached a Palestinian Christian village of the occupied West Bank. It drew a rare rebuke from the U.S. ambassador to Israel, an evangelical Christian pastor and supporter of Israeli settlers. Daniel Estrin
Technology Neurotic robots can be more relatable than extroverted bots, study finds Neurotic robots are a staple of science fiction. Researchers who study how people react to robot personalities, however, haven't focused on this much -- though one study recently found that neurotic traits in a robot can make them seem more relatable. Nell Greenfieldboyce
National Deadline looms for states to comply with USDA's demand for personal data The USDA has told states they must turn over SNAP recipients' sensitive data between July 24 and July 30. A federal judge will weigh in on whether that happens. Jude Joffe-Block
Politics Everybody hates big $ in elections. Is this a fix? The vast majority of Americans say that money in politics is a threat to democracy. Seattle came up with a novel solution: give everyone money to donate to candidates. In 2015, voters approved the Democracy Voucher program, but is it working? Scott Greenstone
Health King County's next mental health crisis center could be on Seattle's First Hill. The community has thoughts King County’s next crisis center for behavioral health could be at the old Polyclinic building on Broadway, in Seattle’s First Hill neighborhood. Eilís O'Neill
Politics Questions about Epstein files follow lawmakers home It's just the start of a summer recess for Congress, but already House Republicans are being asked questions back home about the push to release records related to the late Jeffrey Epstein. Carmen Russell-Sluchansky
Politics Supreme Court keeps a pause for now on a ruling that weakens the Voting Rights Act The Supreme Court has extended a pause, for now, on a lower court ruling that struck down a key tool for protecting minority voters under the Voting Rights Act in seven states. Hansi Lo Wang