Friday, October 30, 2026
ArchiveHow a Secret Vote by U.N. Scientists Legitimized Carbon Capture and Skewed Decades of Climate Policy
A handful of UN scientists took a quiet vote, and carbon capture became the fossil-fuel industry's permission slip. ProPublica traces how one procedural moment bent twenty years of climate targets.
Only the Gulf Can End the Iran War
Washington and Tehran each need a way out that doesn't look like surrender, and neither can hand it to the other. The case that the Arab monarchies are the only ones who can.
Alkaline batteries are obsolete — but not for the reason you'd think
The argument against the AA battery turns out to have almost nothing to do with how long it lasts. Twenty-odd minutes on why a boring object quietly stopped making sense.
London’s Railway for the Dead
London ran out of room to bury people, so a company built a train line for corpses — with separate carriages by class, for the living and the dead alike.
North Korea is likely culprit behind $6.3bn crypto hack, ‘largest heist in history’
$6.3 billion walked out of the world's biggest exchange; investigators have located about $3bn of it. Binance says customers are covered. Nobody says the money is coming back.