1. Do reconnaissance satellites lower the risk of international conflict?

2. Did life on earth start earlier than we had thought?  (You will note this is an example of Cowen's 17th Law, namely that origins of things go back earlier than you had thought.)

3. Miami Heat arena to be renamed after cryptocurrency exchange FTX it would seem.

4. Lev Aronian plays Banter Blitz (and banters) "blindfold."

5. Serbia giving free Covid shots to visitors.

6. Charges against Foucault for abusing young boys in Tunisia (London Times, gated).

7. Chinese universities in Hungary.