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EDITOR'S PICKHistoryThis Day in History, September 28: William the Conqueror Lands in EnglandA duke with a disputed claim to a foreign throne rowed ashore at a quiet English bay, and within three weeks a king was dead and a country's ruling class had changed for good.EDITOR'S PICKHistoryThis Day in History, September 27: Champollion Deciphers Egyptian HieroglyphsA French scholar who had never set foot in Egypt spent years comparing one royal decree carved in three scripts, and gave the world back three thousand years of Egyptian history that no one alive could read.EDITOR'S PICKHistoryThis Day in History, September 24: Eisenhower Sends Troops to Integrate Little RockWhen a governor called out the National Guard to keep Black students out of a Little Rock high school, the President answered by sending in the U.S. Army to walk them through the door.EDITOR'S PICKScienceOccam's Razor: The Simplicity Principle That Guides Scientific DiscoverySeven hundred years after a medieval friar argued for cutting away unnecessary assumptions, his principle now quietly shapes how doctors diagnose, physicists choose theories, and machines learn from data.ANALYSISSocietyNepal Flood Disaster 2026: What Happened—and the Lessons the World Must LearnA catastrophic Himalayan flood has killed hundreds, devastated communities and exposed dangerous weaknesses in early-warning systems, infrastructure planning and cross-border disaster cooperation.ANALYSISEntrepreneurshipThe Founders Who Went HomeA generation of African-born founders left jobs abroad to build companies at home, turning diaspora capital into deliberate economic strategy.ANALYSISLeadershipThe Employees Who Don't Want Your JobA 44-country Gen Z and millennial survey finds just 6% want to become leaders, and the reasons look more rational than lazy.EXPLAINERBusinessWhy Doesn't Inflation Match What You Actually Pay?Officials say inflation is cooling and the number feels like a description of somebody else's life. Here is the gap between the index and your receipt.EXPLAINERBusinessWhy Do Economists Ignore Food and Energy Prices?Excluding the two things households buy most visibly looks like a trick. The reasoning holds up, but core inflation has developed a blind spot of its own.EXPLAINERBusinessWhy Are Central Banks Independent From Governments?An unelected committee sets the price of money and no minister can overrule it. The reasoning is a 1977 economics paper about temptation and elections.NEWBusinessWorld in a Day: Monday, September 28, 2026WORLD IN A DAY · MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2026 Two escalation stories anchor today’s…
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Occam’s Razor: The Simplicity Principle That Guides Scientific Discovery

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William the Conqueror Lands in England

A duke with a disputed claim to a foreign throne rowed ashore at a quiet English bay, and within three weeks a king was dead and a country's ruling class had changed for good.

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