Monday, July 20, 2026
ArchiveU.S. Official: Iran Attacks Injured "Far More" Troops Than Pentagon Admits
A U.S. official puts the injured count far above the Pentagon's, and confirms the first deaths in action since the ceasefire fell apart. The gap between the two numbers is the story.
Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled
Buzzard has spent years arguing about what machines can actually do to mathematics. A model just produced a counterexample nobody had, and he writes about it with unnerving calm.
Elite Young Runners Are Becoming Freakishly Fast. Welcome to 'Trackflation'
Middle schoolers are posting times that used to win college meets, and the four-minute mile has quietly stopped being news. Nobody in the sport agrees on what changed.
361 | Bonnie Bassler on How Bacteria Talk and Work Together
Bacteria hold votes. Bassler worked out how they count each other and act only once enough are present — a strange thing to discover a single cell can do.
Who's Afraid of Chinese Models?
Thompson's read is that the panic aims at the wrong target: the American labs will be fine, and the real gap is that nobody here ships an open model worth using.