Tuesday, October 20, 2026
ArchiveSpaceX and Tesla boards are exploring potential merger
Musk called it a "good idea" and the boards are now actually looking: rockets, robotaxis and Optimus under one ticker, pitched as the vehicle for an AI singularity.
Vast new fossil record challenges story of Earth’s ‘big five’ mass extinctions
Three of Earth's five great die-offs may not have been sudden at all. Four million fossils, one model, and the catastrophe curve flattens into something slower and stranger.
The Secret Romani History of Tarot
The cards everybody now reads for self-knowledge carry a route from India to Italy — and the Romani who carried them were written out of the story they still get blamed for.
Whatever Happened to Fire Escapes?
Those iron zigzags on old brick buildings stopped being built and nobody announced it. Behind the disappearance: decades of code-writers arguing over whether the escape route is itself the hazard.
How Trump’s FBI Purge Saved Lindsey Graham and James Clyburn From a Bribery Investigation
An FBI corruption investigation into two senators—one Republican, one Democratic—quietly died after Trump's 2017 purge of the bureau's leadership. ProPublica traced what happened to the case.