YouTube — 2026-07-25#

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The standout today is Veritasium’s deep dive into biological scaling laws: Why does every mammal get 1 billion heartbeats in their life?. It is a brilliant, perspective-shifting exploration of Kleiber’s Law, moving from why a 3,000-kilogram elephant only needs 100 times the calories of a cat, all the way to how human cities scale like biological super-organisms.

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News & Business#

On the political front, The Wall Street Journal does a solid job breaking down how President Trump and allies raised $781 million since the 2024 election, while The New York Times highlights potential security risks on his retrofitted Qatari jet replacing Air Force One. In business, CNBC looks at the rise and fall of Kohl’s as it struggles to hold onto middle-class shoppers. Additionally, the Hoover Institution released a flurry of shorts critiquing California’s proposed one-time 5% billionaire tax, arguing it will drive wealth flight and permanently lift caps on intangible property taxes.