Monday, October 12, 2026
ArchiveGulf powers can't count on old alliances as Houthi attacks intensify
A missile hit Riyadh's international airport this weekend, and the first casualty may be the Gulf's oldest assumption: that Washington shows up. Malik makes the case the old alliances won't hold.
Cyberattack triggers mass defrosting at European supermarkets, spoils food and raises prices
The hackers didn't steal anything. They turned on the defrost cycle in supermarket fridges across Europe — spoiled stock, scrambled prices, and a very soft underbelly suddenly visible.
The Great Fertility Collapse (with Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde)
Fertility is falling fastest in Guatemala and Thailand, not Japan or Italy — which breaks most of the economics textbook. An hour with the economist tracking what happens when the curve bends down.
Blood Cells From an 80-Year-Old Transformed into Young Brain Cells
Draw blood from an eighty-year-old, rewind the cells, grow neurons that act young. Researchers studying aging brains have never had living tissue to work with. Now they might.
Magic, made by hand: inside the world-first exhibition revealing how Jim Henson’s puppets came to life
Seventy years of Muppets, Fraggles and Labyrinth creatures hauled out from behind the curtain — foam, fur, visible seams. The magic survives knowing how many hands it took.