Wednesday, November 4, 2026
ArchiveGoogle Will Turn Off Search for Schools That Reject A.I.
Block Google's AI tools entirely and your students lose the search engine too. One company's product bundling has quietly become education policy in thousands of districts.
The next global pandemic could be brewing on a mink farm in Utah – and little is being done to stop it
Mink catch human flu, live caged by the thousand, and sit a mutation or two from something far worse. Monbiot's charge is that officials know it and are protecting the fur business anyway.
Chemical Analysis Shows Inca Used Coca, Beer and Ayahuasca on Sacrificed Children
Coca, corn beer and ayahuasca compounds, still readable in the hair of children sacrificed on Andean peaks 500 years ago. The chemistry maps their final months almost week by week.
The history of light (classic)
Before electricity, a candle meant raising a cow, killing it, rendering the fat. Nordhaus turned the falling price of light into the best yardstick we have for human progress.
The Living Museum in Queens, New York
On the grounds of Creedmoor Psychiatric Center, a 1983 studio where patients paint, sculpt and build installations — and where everyone in the room is simply an artist.