black boxes, hunger stones, and borrowed skins

Sunday, August 16, 2026

I put the axe in him while he stood in the bath.

1. At-home tick test hits market — 31 million Americans bitten yearly
2. Scientists now routinely use tools they cannot inspect or verify
3. “If you see me, weep” — drought reveals Europe’s hunger stones
4. Artificial skin now detects forces below 1 millinewton, temperature to milliseconds
5. Why great ideas need to stay larval — and why coworking spaces kill them
6. 6,000-year-old Guernsey tomb may be a precision equinox calendar