October 20, 2026·Edition 52
Does this make my brain look big?
Internet Microdoses
Elizabeth Holmes is selling out cinemas. Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s three-hour You Can See Everything made $15 million and sold out more than 2,000 showings in its opening weekend. That’s the biggest documentary debut in two decades, excluding music and concert films. Finally, she’s attached to a product that delivers. Cue the black turtlenecks this Halloween →

Tiny lab-grown brains can now tell Braille letters apart. Researchers turned Braille letters into electrical signals and fed them to clumps of human brain cells, each smaller than a millimeter. One clump got 61% right, while three working together got 83%. Sometimes you really do just need to rub a couple of brain cells together. Meet the brains in a dish →
The world's new contender just turned up near Turkey. The boat rotted away long ago, but divers found more than 30 clay jars and three stone anchors from up to 4,700 years ago, when Egypt's first pyramids were going up. Some jars still held residue, likely olive oil or wine. Dive in →
Arsenal’s font took four years to design. With tens of millions of fans, designer David Rudnick thought the football club deserved a hype-worthy typeface. He hand-drew Rocastle, a spiky Old English font named after the legendary David Rocastle, for everything from jerseys to fashion collabs. The G alone took about 2,000 redraws. What a G →
France’s protests have reached the Louvre. Students from the École du Louvre blocked the museum’s entrance on Monday, joining nationwide demonstrations over the cost of living. What started as demands for better school conditions has brought roughly half a million people into the streets across France. Behind the blockade →
Maine has its own Sistine Chapel. From the outside, the South Solon Meeting House is a plain white New England church. Inside, nearly every wall is covered in 1950s frescoes, including a Great Flood modeled on Michelangelo's. Let yourself in →





