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From AFP via Phys.org:

Greenland's west coast posts warmest January on record

February 16, 2026

Greenland's capital Nuuk registered its warmest ever
January—beating a record that stood for 109 years—as temperatures
soared across the Arctic island's west coast, the Danish
Meteorological Institute said Monday.

While Europe and North America experienced a cold snap in
January, Nuuk registered an average monthly temperature of 0.1C
(32 Fahrenheit), a whopping 7.8C above the average for the month
of January over the last three decades.

That is 1.4 degrees above the previous record for Nuuk from 1917.

On the warmest day in Nuuk in January, the mercury rose to a
balmy 11.3C.

From the southern tip of Greenland up the west coast—a distance
of over 2,000 kilometers (1,243 miles)—the temperature in January
set monthly records, DMI said.

In Ilulissat in Disko Bay, the January average was -1.6C, 1.3
degrees warmer than the previous record from 1929 and 11 degrees
warmer than normal for January, DMI said.

Warmer air occasionally sweeps over Greenland, bringing milder
temperatures for a day or two, but such an extended heat record
across such a large area is "a clear indication that something is
changing," DMI climate researcher Martin Olesen said.

"We know and can clearly see that global warming is well
underway, which, as expected, leads to more records at the warm
end of the temperature scale and gradually fewer records at the
low end," he said.

The Arctic region is on the frontline of global warming, heating
up four times faster than the rest of the planet since 1979,
according to a 2022 study in the scientific journal Nature.

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-greenland-west-coast-warmest-january.html


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From National Public Radio:


TV antennas and Super Bowl rehearsals: How prediction market
traders seek an edge

Bobby Allyn
February 17, 2026

Ahead of the Super Bowl, 21-year-old Caden Booth of Cincinnati
was looking for "alpha."

That's finance slang for finding a competitive edge. With the
rise of prediction markets allowing people to bet on elections,
sports, musical performances and live press conferences, traders
are becoming increasingly creative to outmaneuver other bettors.

In Booth's case, it meant literally going the extra mile. Armed
with a stopwatch and a recording device typically used for
capturing bird sounds, Booth boarded a flight from Ohio to the
San Francisco Bay Area so he could be outside of Levi's Stadium
in Santa Clara, Calif. to time rehearsals of "The Star-Spangled
Banner."

A gusher of money was flowing into prediction markets for niche
questions unrelated to the game itself. One of them was: How long
would it take to perform the national anthem? Traders poured in
nearly $2 million taking guesses.

"I thought I'd show up and there would be 500 people in lawn
chairs trying to make easy money," said Booth, who shares side
hustle tips on his TikTok. "But I was the only one."

When he saw a formation of jets fly over the stadium, he knew
singer Charlie Puth's rehearsal was about to kick off, so he got
his stopwatch ready. He clocked the patriotic ballad at 104
seconds and placed winning bets that netted many thousands of
dollars. He wouldn't reveal exactly how much he made since, he
said, "I've gotten a lot of hate for doing this," with some
calling him a cheater.

Booth said he's brushed off the haters.

"I try to make money on prediction markets for fun the same way I
try to win a video game," he said. "Going to the stadium felt
pretty obvious. I think you'll see more people outside the
stadium next year."

Kalshi and Polymarket saw nearly $5 billion in wagers the week
leading up to the Super Bowl, inviting opportunists of all kinds.

One account on Polymarket correctly guessed 17 out of 18 bets on
the halftime show, including that Ricky Martin and Cardi B would
perform. Another bettor on Kalshi put down $500,000 on Lady Gaga
appearing, prompting accusations online that someone may have
been cashing in on confidential intel.

Under federal derivatives laws, which apply to prediction markets
in the U.S., using manipulative or deceptive practices, like
trading on nonpublic information, is illegal.

Kalshi says it does not comment on investigations, but that the
platform's surveillance team is constantly monitoring markets for
suspicious trades.

When an edge is hiding under a website's hood

Alpha-seeking, as prediction market traders call it, is coming in
all different forms.

Some are purchasing TV antennas to get a tiny
fraction-of-a-second advantage during live events where traders
wager six-figure sums on what words or phrases someone says.
Others scour social media for clues, like a trader who bet on
Lady Gaga performing at the Super Bowl after a muffled clip of
her rehearsing before the game circulated on TikTok. Then there
are traders uncovering information hiding on websites for a
handsome payday.

Take, for instance, one of prediction market trader Brandon
Fean's biggest wins. It came after poking around the website of
hip-hop artist Travis Scott. Fean's digital sleuthing led him to
inspect the HTML code of Scott's website, and he spotted a
mistake: a not-yet-public announcement about single sales for
Scott's song "4X4" was hiding in the site's code but viewable if
you looked hard enough.

The sales figures indicated that Scott's track would be No. 1 for
the upcoming week.

"You just need to know where to look to find alpha," said Fean, a
25-year-old public school teacher in the Philadelphia suburbs who
is a devoted trader on Kalshi, one of the leading prediction
market sites.

Fean used his discovery to wager that Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars'
song "Die With a Smile" would not be topping the Billboard
charts, despite the market odds considering it the favorite. At
the time, other traders thought Scott's single had only a 6%
chance of being the week's top song.

But Fean's nugget of gold made him confident, and he bet $719
against Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars landing in the No. 1 spot. His
payout: $10,438.

"This trick is hard to do now because most have figured out
people are looking to see what they can find on sites," he said.
"But don't worry, I know a lot about music, so I think I still
have an edge."

Prediction market traders put a new spin on an old idea

Tactics like these have a long history, said Chester Spatt, a
finance professor at Carnegie Mellon University. High-frequency
traders on Wall Street have used new technology to gain a
two-millionths of a second advantage over rival traders. Even
further back in history, he said, people in the 1600s would
glimpse with a telescope the size of boats docking ashore to
secure competitive intel about commodity imports.

"Participants in markets always have an incentive to invest on
information that gives them an edge," he said. "Is that a bad
thing? I'm not sure it is. But if you're betting in these
prediction markets, that should give you some cautiousness before
trading."

In June, an account on Polymarket correctly predicted military
events between Israel and Iran that paid out about $150,000.

Multiple prediction market traders interviewed for this story
refused to reveal their best "alpha," saying they didn't want to
let others in on their secret sauce.

In chats among Kalshi traders on the online forum Discord, some
show their reluctance to reveal their trading tricks by
misdirecting.

Since it's a chronically online community, that can take the form
of tongue-in-cheek quips, whether about an informational edge or
a speedy antenna.

"Antenna is super slow," Discord user Oliv, whose avatar is a
cartoon dog with green shorts, said sarcastically. "Don't try
it."

The comment received eight cry-laughing emoji reactions.

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/17/nx-s1-5716224/kalshi-polymarket-super-bowl-alpha
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New Zealand's Dane Menzies practices before the men's
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