I see things like these mass child sacrifices carried out by the Inca or Aztecs, to appease their demons and to try and make life better for themselves—and I sometimes wonder how it's possible for a culture to be so blind to the evil it's engaged in. www.livescience.com/…

By combining data from the JWST and Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have discovered a black hole nestled in the center of its galaxy, a mere 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang. Named LID-568, the black hole is growing 40x faster than thought physically possible.

About the quote for the latest edition of Techno-Optimist: it’s borrowed from American investor and entrepreneur Nat Friedman, who originally said “Pessimists sound smart. Optimists make money.” But I think it applies to most scientific and technological endeavors...