fossils, muons, and missing guardrails

Saturday, August 1, 2026

Troy fell while I walked its streets.

1. Physicists solve the muon anomaly — and create a bigger one
2. How a Spanish court ruling killed 57 people at Ceuta
3. 40,000-year-old mammoth ivory bird figurines — among the smallest Ice Age art ever found
4. Google launched — then killed — an AI image generator inside Google Earth
5. Earth’s six greatest ice ages all produced oxygen-starved oceans
6. 7,000 tiny illustrations in an unknown language, made in 1940s Switzerland by nobody knows who