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Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s “Professional Degree” Rule Days Before Loan Caps Hit

Passive Income June 25, 2026

A federal judge paused the Education Department’s narrow “professional degree” rule, but the new $100K and $200K federal borrowing caps…

When Doug Wheelock came home after 163 days in space, he said he had craved the aroma of leaves, grass, flowers, and trees, the rush of Earthiness that reaches astronauts only when the hatch opens back onto the living planet

Saving Tips June 9, 2026

When Doug Wheelock came home from the International Space Station in November 2010, the first thing that startled him was…

When the SS Great Eastern laid the first working transatlantic telegraph cable in 1866, a message that had taken ten days by steamship suddenly crossed the ocean in minutes, and the financial markets of London and New York were forced, within a single trading week, to invent the modern concept of synchronised global price.

Saving Tips June 8, 2026

On the morning of July 27, 1866, the SS Great Eastern dropped anchor in Heart’s Content, Newfoundland, with 1,686 nautical…

In May 2017, an NSA contractor named Reality Winner mailed a printed classified document to a news outlet, and federal agents identified her within days because the yellow tracking dots on the page named the exact printer in her office and the minute she had pressed print.

Saving Tips June 6, 2026

Reality Winner was 25 years old, a contractor at an NSA facility in Augusta, Georgia, when she folded a five-page…

When cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov stepped out of his Soyuz capsule in March 1995 after 437 consecutive days aboard Mir, doctors recorded him at several centimetres above his pre-flight height, and his spine had become so unaccustomed to gravity that the recovery team carried him to a chair rather than risk the compression of letting him walk.

Saving Tips June 5, 2026

When cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov climbed out of his Soyuz capsule on the Kazakh steppe in March 1995, after more than…

In 1977, Ann Druyan recorded an hour of her brainwaves and heartbeat two days after she and Carl Sagan agreed to marry, and NASA pressed the compressed minute onto Voyager’s Golden Record as a private love signal now more than 25 billion kilometres from Earth

Saving Tips June 4, 2026

On June 3, 1977, Ann Druyan sat for an hour-long recording session in New York while instruments captured the electrical…

Suzanne Simard sealed paper birch and Douglas fir seedlings inside plastic bags, fed them carbon-14 and carbon-13 dioxide, and nine days later found carbon had crossed between species through fungal threads in the British Columbia soil beneath her boots

Saving Tips May 31, 2026

Suzanne Simard’s 1997 forest experiment did not show trees whispering to each other. It showed something narrower, stranger, and easier…

In 1979, a Sony engineer named Nobutoshi Kihara built the first Walkman prototype in four days because his boss Masaru Ibuka wanted to listen to opera on long flights, and the team launched it with no advertising budget, no headphone jack standard, and an internal forecast of 5,000 units a month that the device beat in its first fortnight.

Saving Tips May 31, 2026

In February 1979, Sony co-founder Masaru Ibuka walked into the office of audio engineer Nobutoshi Kihara carrying a bulky TC-D5…

Venezuelan mother dies 10 days after state confirms missing son died in custody

Personal Finance May 18, 2026

Venezuelan mother dies 10 days after state confirms missing son died in custody

Federal Reserve Board – Federal Reserve Board releases results from two surveys of senior financial officers at banks about their views on discount window operating days and their strategies and practices for managing reserve balances

Banking May 14, 2026

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