Saturday, 10 October 2026
Picked from the best of the world's press
Bust of Germanicus, Getty Villa, California. The young Germanicus is depicted before the Roman rite of depositio barbae, the first shaving of the beard. Adopted by emperor Tiberius, Germanicus should succed him as Emperor, if he hadn't died on this day 2007 years ago.
Raking leaves into bags throws away both the fertiliser trees pump up for free and the winter shelter most native insects need to survive.
Political scientist Thessalia Merivaki studies how voters find election information and why trust collapses after counting night; her finding is that the strongest defence is not fact-checking but making voters fluent in voting procedures beforehand.
American shelves are piled with protein popcorn, protein soda and protein chips, yet calorie for calorie Greek yogurt matches them on protein and contains just milk and cultures.
Alzheimer's drugs that look promising in animals fail in human trials almost every time, so researchers are turning to old dogs that develop dementia naturally, comparing their brain tissue and blood to human samples.
A billionaire's real power is not money but the absence of anyone who can stop him: fines he can pay forever and a government he can buy turn one man's whim into several million people's reality.
Using single-cell sequencing data, biologists have constructed a real map of cell differentiation, showing that a metaphor sketched on paper seventy years ago describes a system that can be calculated and perhaps rewritten.
Building AI data centers takes hundreds of billions in borrowed money, and most of the borrowers have no revenue, no credit, and nothing but their proximity to Nvidia or a hyperscaler to vouch for them.
The author bought a single Liverpool share for £1,950 in 1996, doubled his money in months and sold; eleven years later shares went for £5,000, but what he really gave up was the lifetime priority ticket rights.
A 404 Media investigation found that a federal drug-policy program pipes city license plate cameras into federal databases, and Senator Wyden now wants a shelved 2024 privacy review made public.
Through the first nine months of 2026 the S&P 500 gained 13.4% while the CSI 300 lost 9.8%, a 23-point gap the author uses to renew his case for abandoning Chinese stocks.
