Strip and Quantum

“Blight” And Entrepreneurship In Manassas

Addison Del Mastro | The Deleted Scenes | 9th November 2026

Dispatch from small US towns that defy “our inherited conceptions of suburbia”. “This commercial strip is the kind of place for which we have not yet developed a language or an understanding. They are physically deteriorated, but they are not blighted. They are heavily populated and buzzing with commercial activity.” Nearly-half Latino, they are what Chinatown or Little Italy would have been in their heyday (3,100 words)

Puzzle: Play Nomido, the Browser’s daily word game.

Telling Things Apart

Vincent Russo | Antigone | 8th November 2026

For 500 years, the Stoics and Sceptics debated whether, and how, ordinary perception served as a basis for truth. The question is still being asked in quantum theory, using the Stoic-Sceptic structure: “the criterion of truth, the discipline of withholding assent, the fallback to the merely probable, the negative method of ruling things out”. Only now they are written down as measurement protocols and theorems (3,800 words)