A Talker Research survey of 2,000 Americans finds 54% say their mental load is at maximum capacity during a typical week — tracking appointments, bills, meals, decisions — and 70% say they don't do enough with each day. Also: Stanford Medicine published a landmark study in Nature Neuroscience finding that the human brain develops from two completely separate progenitor cell populations, suggesting evolution fused two ancient nervous systems together — and the hindbrain that runs your heart and breathing is as evolutionarily distinct from the forebrain that produces poetry and math as jellyfish are from humans. And the data on what's happening to America's scientific pipeline is now in: NIH training awards are down 75%, graduate enrollment at MIT is down 20%, 75% of scientists say they're considering leaving the US, and a modeling study found these cuts create training setbacks that take decades to recover from. Plus the Florida deodorant driver, the Fort Worth toddler fight club, the baby born in Golden Gate Park traffic, and Wendy's closing 300 locations over beef prices.
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