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Cold War bombers navigated by stars using mechanical computers with cams and gears. Ken Shirriff cracks one open and explains every layer of analog genius inside.

Europe's most entrenched illiberal leader just lost in a historic landslide. But the deeper question — what his defeat doesn't fix — is where this gets interesting.

Cows in Denmark stop drinking water and start drinking urine. An investigator visits the farm and nopes out. Classic Radiolab rabbit hole from there.

The ceasefire is signed, Hormuz is open, and the question nobody can answer: what was the war actually for? A sharp strategic autopsy.

Artemis astronauts recreated the 1968 Earthrise photo from the same angle. Fifty-eight years of planetary change, visible from the Moon.