Monday, September 28, 2026
ArchiveSpaceX’s Starship Makes It to Orbit for the First Time, but Returns to Earth Early
Fourteen test flights in, the biggest rocket ever built finally cleared orbital velocity — and then came home sooner than anyone planned. The moon-and-Mars timeline now hangs on what went wrong.
Why Empathy Is Now ‘Toxic,’ ‘Suicidal,’ and a ‘Sin’
Gad Saad and a growing set of powerful acolytes now describe compassion as a recipe for the West's suicide. Bruenig tracks where that idea came from and who carried it into the mainstream.
Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified
Internal documents show human contractors paging through what people type into Microsoft's assistant, plus the images they upload. The reviewers are the ones using the word horrified.
The flat-pack skyscraper: how wood can shape the cities of the future – podcast
Concrete is one of the planet's great carbon sinks in reverse. Crawford argues the thirty-storey wooden tower isn't a gimmick — and walks through the buildings already standing.
Dmitri Shostakovich at 120: How the icon drew on Bach, jazz, and cinema to create his own musical language
Bach fugues, American jazz, silent-film cues — he smuggled all of it into symphonies a hostile state kept auditing. A guide to hearing what Shostakovich hid in plain sight.