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Blake, Wm. Age Teaching Youth. 1785.

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Elon Musk is planning to start a university in Austin, Texas, according to tax filings from his charity The Foundation.
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Seeded with $100 million from Musk, the new institution will begin with a STEM-focused primary and secondary school that has an initial class of 50 students.
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The ultimate goal is expanding operations “to create a university dedicated to education at the highest levels.”
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The university will employ “experienced faculty” and feature a “hands-on learning experience including simulations, case studies, fabrication/design projects and labs.”
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The timing of this news is notable—it comes as top schools like Harvard and UPenn are battling accusations of antisemitism and declining educational standards that many say have harmed their world-renowned reputation.
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The question has always been if a new, top-notch university can emerge, and time will tell if Musk delivers.

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Blake, Wm. Frontispiece to The Elephant, Ballad the First. 1802.

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Southwest Airlines' “customer of size” policy offers complimentary extra seats for fat passengers, garnering praise from overweight influencers.

Passengers can request an additional seat or 2 at no extra cost if their body extends beyond the armrest, even for fully booked flights.

Overweight customers are the top priority, as there is one public case where 3 passengers were removed from an “overbooked flight” to accommodate a "customer of size," despite spending $620.72 on tickets.

Critic: “Please help me understand. Why do I have to spend the night without any accommodations in Baltimore because an oversized person didn’t purchase a second ticket?”

Jae’lynn Chaney, Plus-Sized Travel Expert: “Super fat is how we identify. There’s a spectrum of fatness. And as a ‘super fat’ individual you start needing different accommodations. The Southwest customer size policy helps many travelers offset the disproportionate costs that we incur because of needing extra room.”

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Blake, Wm. The Progress of Poesy. 1797.

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A federal jury in San Francisco on Monday found that Google’s app store was an illegal monopoly that the company used to prevent competition.

This comes just months after Google settled with a coalition of state attorneys general, who also alleged Google’s store was breaking antitrust laws.

In South Korea and the Netherlands, legal challenges have been mounted against the 30% fees that Google and Apple charge on app store transactions.

Apple and Google make billions of dollars a year funneling users to make purchases through their app stores, and these legal challenges could threaten their dominance for the first time.

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Blake, Wm. Saint Peter and Saint James with Dante and Beatrice and with Saint John Also. 1824.

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Architecture students at Penn State are using 3D printing to revitalize a city that has been in decline.

Oil City, Pennsylvania, is where innovations in petroleum began in the 1800s, turning the city into a bustling economic nexus.

Today, however, the oil companies that supported the town’s economy and infrastructure in its early days have moved away, leaving the town in a gradual state of decline.

Selina Pedi-Smith, a community developer in the region: “The smaller towns have been in steady decline since then.”

In a mission to revitalize the city, Pedi-Smith reached out to the architecture school at Penn State.

One of Penn State’s initiatives right now is to use concrete to 3D print sustainable, affordable housing, and Pedi-Smith saw that technology as the perfect approach to reviving Oil City.

The school identified a plot of land in the city to be used as a case study in a class for how 3D-printed concrete homes could bolster the economy.

Students were divided into groups, with each creating different designs, all focusing on community engagement and tourism.

They presented their final designs to a jury of reviewers in December, and Pedi-Smith said she will take inspiration from each project as she continues her efforts to restore the city.

Trevor Klatt, student: “Resilient housing is very important, especially in a housing crisis that is continuously getting worse. We always need more houses.”