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Ben Naddaff-Hafrey | From The Archive | 9th October 2025 Before he became famous for his work on operant conditioning, B.F. Skinner approached the US military with a proposal to train pigeons to guide a missile to its target. The project was eventually deemed too eccentric and dropped. It did leave the world with three legacies — modern animal training, reinforcement learning for humans, and the touchscreen display technology used in smartphones (1,400 words) Nomido is the Browser's daily word game. Play today's before it's gone! Lauren Hough | Texas Highways | 13th October 2025 Dispatches from a trip through Texas’s ghost towns by an enthusiast. Texas has over a thousand of them, places “for which the reason for being no longer exists”. Specialised travel guides offer information about where to find them. “The stereotypical ghost town is a mining camp. The mine goes bust when the minerals run out or when the market for those minerals disappears. So people move on” (3,000 words) Want more? The full Browser recommends five outstanding articles, a video and a podcast daily, for less than $1 a week. Caroline Crampton, Editor-In-Chief; Robert Cottrell, Founding Editor; Kaamya Sharma, Editor; Sylvia Bishop, Assistant Publisher; Jodi Ettenberg, Associate Editor; Uri Bram, CEO & Publisher; Al Breach, Founding Director Editorial comments and letters to the editor: editor@thebrowser.com | Technical issues and support requests: support@thebrowser.com | Or write at any time to the publisher: uri@thebrowser.com Proudly published with Ghost, the fiercely independent website and newsletter platform
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