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What do downward-revised population and GDP projections mean for climate futures?
The illustrator Chris Ware surveys the work of Richard Scarry.
Why is there almost nothing on the left hand side of the USA? Water scarcity! We’re missing 300 million Americans. We’re missing 30 global cities west of 100 degrees longitude. We shoul…
Photo: Al Diaz/Miami Herald/Getty Images The first time anyone started to wonder if it was safe for Tua Tagovailoa to keep playing football was early in the…
These three imagined scenarios lead many physicists to doubt that space-time is fundamental.
Noah Smith, author of the economics Substack Noahpinion, often refers to a common trajectory in Chinese manufacturing as the “China Cycle”:
Pulling back the curtain on one of Africa’s most enduringly unique nations
With the recent SpaceX Starship orbital flight tests, it is time to commit to building the largest physically possible space telescope. Such a telescope would…
My Two Cents Personal-finance columnist Charlotte Cowles asks the nosy, revealing, sometimes uncomfortable questions about money so you don’t have to.…
Alpine Connections was the name of the WhatsApp group I had with some friends who helped me during this journey across the Alps linking summits over 4000…
The Neom giga-project in Saudi Arabia is currently using one fifth of all the steel produced in the world, an official said
Search Find anything you save across the site in your account The Art World The Met’s new exhibition on Siena—the first of its kind in America—shows how the…
Ten years after officials seized $50 million worth of illegally harvested rosewood, the logs have been returned to the traffickers and sit in limbo in a Singapore port. The legal saga highlights the ongoing corruption and gaping holes in efforts to save endangered species.
Google’s first nuclear energy deal is a step toward helping the world decarbonize through investments in advanced clean energy technologies.
Funnel Beaker Culture site may hold one of the earliest insulated cellars constructed in Europe to preserve food
I'm thinking morose thoughts about the practical prospects for space colonization (ahem: stripped of the colonialist rhetoric, manifest destiny bullshit, "the…
This post is broken down into two parts: Which AI productivity tools am I currently using (as an alignment researcher)?Why does it currently feel hard to spend…
A Syllabus for Generalists by Cristina Jerney In recent years, there’s a tendency towards specialism and specialists, from the job market to identities to relationships to education and …
We would rather talk about literally everything else.
The treatment’s success in three people raises hopes for mass production of cutting-edge CAR T therapies.
On October 1st, 47,000 members of the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), primarily dockworkers on East and Gulf Coast ports, went on strike after failing to agree contract terms with USMX, an alliance of port operators and employers.
Sean Combs sat down three years ago for a magazine profile in which he applauded #MeToo while waxing lyrical about this love of women – as he launched a rebranding as ‘Love’ himself in his latest name change. The entire interview was performative, the writer tells Sheila Flynn – and revelatory in new ways as Diddy faces a litany of civil and criminal charges