Tuesday, September 15, 2026
ArchiveIran war cost US $38bn and significantly depleted missile stockpile, report finds
$38 billion spent, five years to rebuild the missile stockpile. The CBO just gave Congress — and voters — the first hard accounting of the Iran war, two months before midterms.
Most people prefer traditional architecture
Survey after survey, across cultures and demographics, people prefer traditional buildings. The architecture profession has spent decades pretending otherwise. The data is hard to argue with.
The New Chinese Way of Cyberwar
Not hacking for secrets anymore — Beijing is positioning to shut systems down. Foreign Affairs maps the doctrine of digital chokepoints China is building with AI.
A Digital Fly Brain Has Taken Over the Internet
Someone wired up the complete digital fly brain — 166,000 neurons mapped by Janelia and Google — and the internet did what the internet does. It's playing Doom, trading crypto, and cutting doner kebab.
Will I ever want to have kids? | The Gray Area
It's not just the money. Christine Emba and Anna Sussman trace the tangle of climate dread, economic precarity, and fertility-industry commodification that makes the question of kids feel impossible for a generation.