Giant flying bug found at Arkansas Walmart turns out to be "super-rare" Jurassic-era insect

The giant bug was found during a trip to Walmart in 2012: "I put it in my hand and did the rest of my shopping with it between my fingers. I got home...and promptly forgot about it for almost a decade."
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lacewing-flying-bug-found-arkansas-walmart-rare-jurassic-era-insect/?source=Snapzu

Sam Bankman-Fried deleted a Slack message and tweets after FTX's top lawyer told the company to preserve records for regulators, prosecutors say

Sam Bankman-Fried eve. deleted a Slack message from FTX's own general counsel that said that FTX would close, prosecutors alleged.
Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-bankman-fried-deleted-messages-amid-ftx-scheme-prosecutors-say-2023-2?source=Snapzu

‘Lab leak’ report energizes Republicans’ covid probes

GOP broadens investigation into pandemic origin in wake of new assessment, even as other agencies still lean toward ‘natural’ outbreak
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/02/28/lab-leak-covid-origin-republican-probes/?source=Snapzu

VW wouldn’t help locate car with abducted child because GPS subscription expired

VW says its Car-Net service shouldn't have demanded $150 payment from detective.
Read more: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/02/vw-wouldnt-help-locate-car-with-abducted-child-because-gps-subscription-expired/?source=Snapzu

Wilson's 3D-Printed Basketball Is Full of Holes But Will Never Go Flat

How many times has a game of basketball been thwarted by a ball that was too flat to bounce? An air pump with a properly sized needle isn’t something most people carry around with them all the time, so Wilson has been working to redesign the basketball with a prototype that’s covered in an intricate pattern of holes but never goes flat.
Read more: https://gizmodo.com/wilson-eos-nba-airless-basketball-that-never-goes-flat-1850139570?source=Snapzu

The East Palestine train fiasco lays bare a far bigger crisis

It's a stark reminder that plastics, from cradle to grave, are poisoning people—and the planet.
Read more: https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2023/02/east-palestine-train-bigger-crisis-plastic-poison/?source=Snapzu

Dystopian games: how contemporary stories critique capitalism through deadly competition

If our nightmares change, what does that tell us about our waking lives? Dystopian stories, from novels and films to games, have often been considered a pessimistic reflection on the direction society is going in.
Read more: https://theconversation.com/dystopian-games-how-contemporary-stories-critique-capitalism-through-deadly-competition-199835?source=Snapzu