Will Southeast Asia Actually Benefit From Its AI Boom?
by Gerald Mako
What does a country actually gain from hosting the massive physical machines that run AI?
0:00 / 12:39 · Narrator Algieba
Daily edition
2026-09-21
Today's Crosscut
American Democratic Collapse
How do you stop an American dictatorship—by bracing for the emotional terror of a science fiction nightmare, or by rewriting the dry legal rules that limit presidential power?
What Comes After America × Protecting the Republic When an Angel Isn’t in the Oval Office
0:00 / 1:30:42 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Future-gazing →
Behind the news →
Researchers Reveal the Power of ‘Quantum Proofs’
by Ben Brubaker
If a mathematical proof is physically impossible to write down, is it still a proof?
0:00 / 13:42 · Narrator Vindemiatrix
For the curious →
At an Old Steel Site in Pittsburgh, Bacteria Evolved to Survive – and Eat – Industrial Pollution
by Catherine Armbruster, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
When industrial waste sits in the soil for a century, what evolves to eat it?
0:00 / 8:53 · Narrator Sulafat
Terminal Lucidity: When Dying Dementia Patients Regain Awareness
by Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston
If a dying brain can suddenly find a lost memory, where was that memory hiding?
0:00 / 14:37 · Narrator Charon
The Death of Reading Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
by Cathy Young
If a nation of readers can still fall for a dictator, what exactly does reading protect?
0:00 / 21:29 · Narrator Gacrux