colin's August 2026 List

A supreme-court decision helped cause the Ceuta disaster.

They can do a lot more than ruin your summer day.

The ride-hailing giant promised to handle legal claims “in a way that is best for the survivor.” Its lawyers are pursuing a far more aggressive strategy.

We analyzed 132,003 attempts to mow a virtual lawn efficiently.

Players vs. teams. Doctors vs. insurers. How the same method for resolving pay disputes has led to wildly different results.

Are AI companies to blame?

Many young men are driven to resentment and are financially exploited as influencers sell them classes, pills, and the illusion of clout, a new report reveals.

Two-thirds of an octopus’s neurons are in its arms—each operating independently—including the one it uses to have sex.

As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing

The long, tangled, and mostly wrong history of the psychedelic toad.

A legal loophole kept “skill games” from being considered gambling. Now lawmakers are trying to save them from a court ruling.

People with schizophrenia face a perfect storm of dangers on a hotter planet.

An inside look at music’s widely misunderstood profession

The case represents a new front in President Trump’s mass deportation drive: arrests at airports of people who have active immigration cases and no criminal history.

What we did to Jason Arday

The data tells a different story.

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will soon launch to unravel the mysteries of dark energy and dark matter

Wispr Flow is supposed to make writing effortless and magical. So I “wrote” this column with it.

Body camera footage shows police surveillance abuse is common: "We’ve told them over and over again: 'You see a hot chick, you don’t look them up in a database.'"

A scientific and civilizational horror story.