Saturday, October 24, 2026
Archive‘If Anything Happens to This Guy … Everyone Is Screwed’
Ondřej Surý was an anonymous volunteer patching a language that runs most of the web. Then two critical flaws landed at once, and the internet's week depended on his laptop.
The U.S.-Funded Plan To Kill Infants In Africa By Withholding Vaccines Has Been Thwarted
A vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau was designed around newborns who wouldn't get the shot. Police raided the offices this week. Defector traces the money back to Washington and names who wanted it run.
No device could prove our theory of gravity wrong... until now
Clocks are now so precise that raising one a few centimeters changes how fast time passes for it. Physicists have pointed that precision straight at Einstein's theory to see what cracks.
Moscow promised to leave Budapest, then sent 60,000 troops to crush Hungary's 1956 uprising
Moscow agreed to pull its troops out of Budapest. One week later it sent 60,000 soldiers to crush the city. A historian walks through how the double-cross was planned while the ink dried.
Alaska’s Senate Race Could Be Decided by Salmon
Alaska's salmon aren't just dinner—they're the hidden fulcrum of a tight Senate race, and understanding the fish might be the key to understanding the politics.