A review-contest finalist revisits We Present Television, a 1940 collection on experimental broadcasting and the hopes surrounding a new medium.
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Top Forecasters On The Plague
Sentinel and two AI forecasters estimate a low chance of more than 1,000 global plague deaths in the next year after a Russian lab worker’s death.
Open Thread 454
Astral Codex Ten’s Open Thread 454 invites reader discussion and shares updates on meetups, Fatima documents, book reviews and AI safety.
Opus 5.5 Agents Discover Two Room-temperature Magnetic Semiconductor Candidates
Vals AI reports two predicted Luttinger-compensated magnetic semiconductor candidates, including a newly designed compound and a material made in 1999.
ArXiv’s Updated Rate Limit Policy
Starting Oct. 1, 2026, arXiv caps each submitter at two monthly submissions and three active submissions, citing moderator workload and submission growth.
10 Things: Movie Night
NASA Science’s “10 Things: Movie Night” points viewers to free, on-demand space documentaries and other agency video resources.
NASA Asked Several Former SR-71A Staffers To Help Secret Restart
NASA quietly pulled SR-71A Tail No. 844 off display and offered jobs to former Blackbird engineers to return the Mach 3 jet to flight.
SpaceX’s Starship Launching To Orbit For First Time Ever Today
SpaceX’s Starship flew to Earth orbit for the first time on Sept. 28, deploying 26 Starlink V3 satellites before a Pacific splashdown.
Tonight’s Sky Story: Mirrored Meteor and Milky Way (NASA APOD, 2026-09-26)
A Perseid meteor, the Milky Way’s core, and a 23-meter telescope mirror collide in one photo. Here’s the science and how to shoot your own version.
Fall Meetups 2026
Interest in “Fall Meetups 2026” is rising, but the available source does not identify a specific event or confirm what prompted the attention.
