Episode notes
How do you find the thing that's hiding in plain sight? This week: the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record in the DRC, the sharp escalation between Russia and Ukraine, and — looking up — a giant planet the Webb telescope found without ever seeing it, detected purely by its chemical fingerprint. Our cover story traces the art of detecting the invisible, from finding Neptune with a pencil to Pauli's ghost particle to dark matter. The feature is Ignaz Semmelweis, the doctor who spotted an unseen killer and was destroyed for being early. Plus a new Corrections desk, a new celebrity desk skewering the World Cup's halftime spectacle, and a Podcast Feature on 99% Invisible's "Structural Integrity." Reporting up front, opinion in the back, and the commerce is fake.