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Orcas in the Gulf of California were filmed ramming sunfish until they exploded, a behavior published in Frontiers in Ethology and possibly linked to social learning.
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From Solnit on Homer to a 30-year sentence for zines, the week’s literary news collided canon, silence, and AI in uncomfortable ways.
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Booksellers fill the criticism void, Doubleday launches Outsider Editions, and AI theft hits writers where it hurts. The week in books, July 13–17, 2026.
Trump promised “really, really big news” before his prime-time election-fraud speech. The declassified, heavily redacted documents he delivered drew immediate comparisons to Pam Bondi’s Epstein binders.
Tom Holland is promoting both The Odyssey and Spider-Man: Brand New Day simultaneously. His stylist told GQ they wanted to “step it up for this big moment.”
SpaceX scrubbed a Starship test flight Thursday after engines failed to start during booster ignition. No new launch date announced.