3+ hour, 7+ min ago (680+ words) John Storyk, acoustician and architect of Jimi Hendrix's Electric Lady studios and many music venues, designed this home in the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony in 1969. The redwood-clad, four-bedroom, organic modern house is entered through a wood half-pipe and anchored by a curved, sunken living room with a white brick fireplace, while floor-to-ceiling glass allows for natural light. The almost 9-acre lot includes a guest house, pool, pond, and gardens. $3,500,000. Sharon Breslau, BHHS Hudson Valley, (845) 901-6978 The Boulder House, a California mission style home near San Diego, was designed by a father-son team comprising the late artist James Hubbell and his son, "ecotect" Drew Hubbell. Built in 2000, the eco-friendly three-bedroom features straw bale walls, arched doors, saltillo tile, and a temperature-regulating 14-foot boulder that juts into the great room. Outside are an arched arcade leading to a pool, patio, and mountain views. $2,000,000. Jeannine…...

5+ hour ago (635+ words) New research suggests that "early human pioneers" in Australia interbred with archaic species of hobbits at least 60,000 years ago "Experts have long debated the date that humans arrived in Australia," said LiveScience. Now a study using DNA from both ancient and modern Aboriginal people across Oceania may have finally "settled the debate". The study, published last week in Science Advances, looked at an "unprecedentedly large" dataset of nearly 2,500 genomes to determine that humans began to settle northern Australia about 60,000 years ago. But "even more interestingly", the study also added to growing evidence that along the way these "early human pioneers likely interbred with archaic humans", including the species known as "the hobbit", Homo floresiensis. Homo floresiensis "might have been slight in stature", at just over a metre tall, but its origins have "attracted lengthy debate", said the Natural History Museum....

5+ hour, 54+ min ago (390+ words) True crime, a book club and a therapeutic outlet led this fall's best podcasts The 2025 podcast season is wrapping up, and listeners have plenty to choose from, including the return of popular podcasts that fans have been anticipating. There are a couple of true crime immersions, a twist on the typical talk show and a show featuring deep dives from a BookTok celebrity. This interview show is "at once a parody of talk shows and an earnest attempt to reinvent them," Vulture said. Comedian Adam Friedland puts an ironic and "occasionally sincere" spin on the genre. The irony is part gimmick and also a "tool that disarms both guest and listener in the service of producing moments with genuine, unscripted feeling." For podcasts, a sharp turn to video The dead, the living and a bunch of scammers are the stars…...

7+ hour, 29+ min ago (307+ words) Kevin Hassett appears to be Trump pick President Donald Trump says he has chosen the next chair of the Federal Reserve, but he is not yet naming names publicly. Current National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett is widely expected to be the nominee, said Axios. Trump is not saying. "I'm not telling you, we'll be announcing it," he said to reporters. The next chair will replace Jerome Powell, who has "faced months of complaints and demands" from Trump to bring interest rates down more quickly, said Axios. Hassett would have "closer ties to the sitting president" than any modern Fed chair, said Axios. That might mean a quick drop in short-term rates, but long-term rates might stay high if Wall Street comes to believe he is "simply doing Trump's bidding, with little regard for inflation." That notion "might be difficult…...

10+ hour, 1+ min ago (336+ words) The Duffer Brothers" hit show returns for its "thrilling" final season "We"re finally here," said Vicky Jessop in London"s The Standard. Nearly a decade on from the first episode of "Stranger Things", the Duffer Brothers are "finally bringing the curtain down on their blockbuster hit show. What a ride it"s been." The fresh-faced kids "aren"t so little anymore", which is "appropriate because this feels like the most adult the show has ever been". Series five veers into "much darker territory": the town of Hawkins is now under full military quarantine and Demogorgons are "slashing people around like pinatas", blood and guts flying everywhere. Robin (Maya Hawke) and Steve (Joe Keery) now work for a local radio station, while Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) is on the run from the armed forces who understandably see her as a…...

10+ hour, 4+ min ago (284+ words) A growing number of conservative lawmakers are sounding an agricultural alarm as congressional China hawks work to limit commercial drone sales from Beijing As the United States and China jockey for global influence and power, American farmers are growing increasingly anxious over one of the less-obvious fronts in the Trump Administration's trade war with Beijing: commercial drones. But DJI drones are a "key agricultural tool to treat more than 300 types of crops in fields and orchards," said Michigan Farm News. "Over 90% of the spray drones our industry uses come from China," said the American Spray Drone Coalition. A "drastic" cutoff like the one being debated in Congress will "devastate our industry." Banning Chinese drones would have "real cost ramifications for commercial enterprises, not just farming," said North Dakota Republican Sen. John Hoeven to Politico, citing transmission line tracking and rescue…...

10+ hour, 19+ min ago (666+ words) Renewable source is environmentally friendly but it is location-specific Humanity's energy needs could be revolutionised by a source created during the very formation of the planet. Geothermal power plants use energy stored in the form of heat beneath the Earth's surface. They are built where there are underground reservoirs of water around fault lines in the Earth's tectonic plates and use the power of the planet's natural heat to generate electricity. Geothermal energy has a low carbon footprint because it produces minimal greenhouse gases when compared to fossil fuels. Once a plant is up and running, there's effectively no emissions produced and ground source heat pumps for the home, which use heat from water underground, require very little maintenance, with the capacity to heat properties for more than 80 years. But drilling into the ground to build geothermal power plants can…...

11+ hour, 5+ min ago (207+ words) The Dallas Morning News editorial board Andy Kessler at The Wall Street Journal Rami Nashashibi at The Guardian Kevin Sabet at Newsweek feature Cloudflare was the latest in a string of outages speed read This makes it the first non-European Union country in the Security Action for Europe (SAFE) initiative Today's Big Question Kevin Hassett appears to be Trump pick Speed Read The former personal attorney to President Donald Trump has been unlawfully serving as US attorney for New Jersey, the ruling says Speed Read The Trump administration claims Navy Vice Adm. Frank "Mitch" Bradley ordered a follow-up strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat, not Pete Hegseth Feature Trump is making the military"s "most senior leaders complicit in his unlawful acts" Feature The only explanation for this confusing series of events is that "rival factions" within the White House…...

12+ hour, 30+ min ago (320+ words) The former personal attorney to President Donald Trump has been unlawfully serving as US attorney for New Jersey, the ruling says The U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals Monday agreed with a lower court that Alina Habba, a former personal attorney to President Donald Trump, has been unlawfully serving as U.S. attorney for New Jersey since July 1. The theory put forward by the government to justify Habba's appointment was "so broad that it bypasses the constitutional process entirely," said the three-judge panel. It "isn't clear who will lead" New Jersey's U.S. attorney's office now, said CNN. Habba's case "may be the first of its kind to reach the Supreme Court," the Times said, though Halligan's appeal of her disqualification "could be expedited by virtue of being entangled with criminal cases against President Trump's enemies." Cartoons Tuesday's political cartoons include advent chocolates, Ali MAGA, and…...

12+ hour, 55+ min ago (229+ words) The Trump administration claims Navy Vice Adm. Frank "Mitch" Bradley ordered a follow-up strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat, not Pete Hegseth The White House and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Monday said Navy Vice Adm. Frank "Mitch" Bradley ordered a follow-up strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean in September, not Hegseth. Cartoons Tuesday"s political cartoons include advent chocolates, Ali MAGA, and more The Week Recommends The Duffer Brothers" hit show returns for its "thrilling" final season Pros and Cons Renewable source is environmentally friendly but it is location-specific Today's Big Question Obamacare subsidies are expiring soon speed read President Trump said he will pardon former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hern'ndez, who is serving 45 years for drug trafficking Speed Read Lawmakers suggest the Trump administration"s follow-up boat strike may be a war crime The Explainer Constitutional…...