Wednesday, September 30, 2026
ArchiveA Near-Disaster on Flydubai
A co-pilot stabbed his colleague mid-air and pushed the nose down; passengers stormed the cockpit. The reporting is everywhere today — the consequences are what nobody has worked out yet.
A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
A girl nearly died. The farmer who sold the milk wasn't licensed, and California did close to nothing about it. The enforcement gap here is wide enough to drive a truck through.
Surprisingly Complex Waves Reveal the Brain’s Inner Workings
Your neurons don't just fire in place. Waves roll across the cortex in patterns stranger than anyone had charted, and they may be rearranging what the brain is doing in real time.
Forty years of what if
He spent months telling NASA the seals would fail in the cold. Seventy-three seconds after liftoff, he was right. Forty years on, Brian Russell finally narrates it himself.
Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?
OpenAI's AI models aren't breaking free from their creators—they're just reflecting back what they were built to do, raising uncomfortable questions about who's actually responsible when things go wrong.