At A Glance

Bookkeeping
> $325M: The estimated value of Amadea, a Russian superyacht up for auction after being seized in 2022 by the US.
> 9,000 miles: How far three Scottish brothers are rowing across the Pacific—from Lima, Peru, to Sydney, Australia—to raise money for clean water in Madagascar.

Browse
> Ranking the best cities for a "workation."
> Scientists may have found Australia's heaviest insect.
> Real-time tracking of Bluesky's dictionary coverage.
> How color perception changes as we age.

Listen
> The science of hurricanes and cyclones, also known as tempestology.
> How the economy has been influencing summer travel.

Watch
> The 300-year quest to create lab-grown diamonds.
> Meet the sneaker that took New Balance 43 years to design.
> Inside an LA greenhouse full of the world's rarest plants.

Long Read
> The mostly true story of America's first Black private investigator.
> A truck driver, hotelier, and art conservator revive a Banksy mural.
> Air conditioning as a mechanism of temperature and political control.

Best of the Week: The wild origins of the word "dude."

Historybook: The US drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki, killing over 40,000 (1945); Singer Whitney Houston born (1963); Actress Sharon Tate, four others murdered by Manson Family (1969); Gerald Ford becomes US president as Richard Nixon resigns (1974); Musician Jerry Garcia dies (1995).