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Shaun Walker | Guardian | 13th August 2026 An 27-year-old Russian political activist, living in exile in Poland, has been convicted of espionage and collaboration with the FSB. Allies can't decide if he was a super spy or a fool. "He is convinced that Rogov was genuinely against Putin, but suspects he was so weak-willed that he was co-opted into working for the FSB, thinking he could make some money without doing anyone much harm" (6,600 words) Want more?

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Hana Lee Goldin | Card Catalog | 11th August 2026 Introduction to a research framework intended to help users navigate an increasingly confusing information environment. Once upon a time, resources existed in their silos — card index, books, papers — but now every kind of record comes to us on the same screen. It's confusing. We need a map. "Before deciding what to search, then, we need to know what we’re trying to find" (3,900 words) Puzzle: Play Nomido, the Browser’s daily word game.

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Sophie Fessl | Works In Progress | 5th August 2026 The ‘thoroughbred’, a type of horse designed for speed, was created in the 1700s from just three exceptional horses imported to England from Arabia. But modern breeders appear to have hit the ceiling on how fast an exceptional horse can run. Why? Horses have had great genetic diversity for thousands of years.

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Danny Bate | 6th August 2026 The Latin alphabet, 2000 years old in Emperor Claudius’s time, had 21 letters. A man of books, Claudius added three more letters, but scholars cannot know what they were with any degree of certainty because they did not survive his demise. Contrast this with Spurius Carvilius Ruga, the former slave credited with inventing the successful letter G centuries prior. “Perhaps they just weren’t good letters?” (3,100 words) Want more?