Data Center of Attention
by Gabrielle Gurley
When did the artificial intelligence revolution become a fight over local water and electricity?
0:00 / 26:46 · Narrator Sulafat
Daily edition
2026-09-13
Today's Crosscut
Silicon Valley and Washington
Tech elites are watching their new political machine fracture, yet their actual products easily outrun a paralyzed Congress that cannot pass basic laws even when CEOs beg for help.
Don’t Look Now, but the Tech Bros Are Losing × AI is Running Laps Around Our Political System
0:00 / 37:01 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Future-gazing →
For the curious →
Opinion: the Quiet Joy of Being an Oncologist
by Khushali Jhaveri
Where does a cancer doctor find joy when the medicine stops working?
0:00 / 7:13 · Narrator Gacrux
How We Meet the Future
by Tom Ralston
Why does the mind use the same mental shortcut to catch a bus and stereotype a stranger?
0:00 / 25:06 · Narrator Charon
Smart escape →
The Invention of the MMO
by Virginia Postrel
How much human nature can fit inside 64 kilobytes of memory?
0:00 / 13:07 · Narrator Algieba
Could You Survive the Oregon Trail? An Emergency Medicine Doctor Offers Tips on How to Not Die in the Great Outdoors
by Elaine Reno, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine-Wilderness and Environmental Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz
Even with smartphones and GPS, why do the survival lessons of a 1980s computer game still apply?
0:00 / 10:01 · Narrator Vindemiatrix