Monday, October 26, 2026
ArchiveLula’s Upset Is a Win for the Rule of Law and a Blow to Trump
A Bolsonaro lost the world's seventh-largest economy, and the argument here is that the aftershocks run through the Amazon, the courts, and every Trump-aligned movement abroad.
Anthropic Warns of Existential Risk, Liability and Slowing Sales
Nearly 100 of the 335 pages are risk factors, and some of them describe the company's own technology endangering humanity. Wall Street is now being asked to put a price on that.
How Voting Is Like a Klein Bottle
Three voters, three candidates, and no winner — the paradox that has haunted democracy since the 1780s. Fold the preferences onto a surface with no inside or outside and it stops looking like a bug.
Erik Winfree on DNA Computers and Robots
Strands of DNA that fold themselves into machines, walk, and run programs. Silicon is one way to compute; Winfree has spent decades proving chemistry got there first and stayed weirder.
The Secret History of Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock
Hang their canvases side by side and the old story — tortured genius, supportive wife — stops holding up. The show makes the case that neither painter exists without the other.