A Future of Programmable Medicine
by Works in Progress
How does medicine change when a drug is just a sequence of genetic code?
0:00 / 25:00 · Narrator Charon
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2026-08-28
Today's Crosscut
Storing Vital Resources
What happens when the physical containers holding vital resources begin to fail, from porous desert sandstone drinking a reservoir dry to underground salt caverns slowly dissolving with every barrel of oil pumped out?
Drain Lake Powell × How the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Works
0:00 / 34:56 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Future-gazing →
Will China Rewrite the Rules of Global Supply Chains?
by Li Qiang
If China rewrites the rules for global supply chains, does anything actually change for the workers?
0:00 / 7:52 · Narrator Rasalgethi
Behind the news →
The Real Problem Underlying India-China Tensions
by Pallavi Aiyar
When India and China look across the border, why do they only see old wounds?
0:00 / 18:20 · Narrator Sulafat
Politics Should Be More Boring
by Matthew Yglesias
If the actual work of governing is boring, why do politicians have to be exciting?
0:00 / 13:36 · Narrator Algieba
For the curious →
Why You Should Talk to Your Dead Ancestors
by Mariam Vahradyan
Why keep a conversation going with someone who can never answer back?
0:00 / 14:48 · Narrator Gacrux
Smart escape →
An 11-Year-Old Boy in a Small Midwestern Town Just Became the Guinness World Record Holder for Being the Youngest Museum Curator
How does an eleven-year-old go from hunting fossils in his driveway to running a museum?
0:00 / 5:17 · Narrator Vindemiatrix