What we are reading April 8, 2026
We are looking at the collapse of logic in a technological world, going to the moon, and plenty of business news this week.
NASA’s Artemis II Mission Leaves Earth Orbit for Flight around Moon - NASA
For the first time in more than 50 years, astronauts on a NASA mission are bound to fly around the Moon after successfully completing a key burn of Orion’s
Archive: A look back at the 1957 spaghetti harvest
In Ticino, Switzerland, a particularly mild winter produced an exceptional spaghetti harvest.
The pace of hiring just fell to the lowest since 2011, outside of the pandemic | CNN Business
US businesses are adding workers at the weakest pace in 15 years, excluding the onset of the pandemic, new data showed Tuesday, a sign that there was an even deeper chill cutting through the labor market before the Middle East conflict threatened to shake the US economy.
Alicia Wallace
Limiting Not Just Screen Time, But Screen Space | NOEMA
The internet has stopped being a place we visit — it’s now an environment we inhabit.
Laura J. Martin
Jamie Dimon warns that the Iran war could bring an economic ‘skunk’ to the party | CNN Business
Jamie Dimon is warning that the US-Israeli war with Iran could lead to another round of persistent inflation and higher interest rates that could sink the US economy into a recession and redefine the global economic order.
David Goldman
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