Sunday, October 11, 2026
ArchiveFDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review. Experts are alarmed
The proposed bar for a new food additive would be "probably doesn't cause cancer" — no review, no disclosure. Toxicologists walk through what that actually lets through.
I Went to Uganda and Saw the Authoritarian Future
Phone taps, facial recognition, a disappeared opposition — all running on imported kit, with Washington conspicuously silent. The claim: repression has gotten cheap enough to scale.
The Madman Who Saved Mothers: The Invention of Handwashing and the Bittersweet True Love Story Behind ‘Frankenstein’
Semmelweis died in an asylum, beaten by guards, for insisting doctors wash their hands. Decades earlier the infection he'd have prevented killed Mary Wollstonecraft — whose daughter wrote Frankenstein.
A Distant Planet Emitted a Burst of Radio Waves. Why?
A millisecond of radio static that left its galaxy ten billion years ago, finally traced home. The researchers explain how you reverse-engineer a distance from a single blip.
DeepSeek Solved AI’s Memory Problem
DeepSeek cracked how to make AI models actually remember things efficiently—turns out the solution involves treating memory like OCR instead of traditional databases.