Baghdad offers a troubling glimpse into a future where only the wealthy are equipped to escape the effects of climate change, Richard Hall writes | Continue reading
Nearly every well-informed adult needs to be reading Steven Pinker’s latest book: "Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress." | Continue reading
Alaska Public Media reports that a Russian floating nuclear power plant has begun its journey through the Arctic this month causing concerns in Alaska. | Continue reading
Ornate netsuke were practical status symbols. | Continue reading
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The Seattle "experience" was listed by a host identified as Nick. Nick appears to be Nick Dimitrov, the cofounder of Amazon Game Studios. | Continue reading
The move is aimed at California as it fights one of the world’s largest agriculture companies. | Continue reading
"Ambitious" is a word that I've been hearing a lot lately. It's often used descriptively when talking about people, but also prescriptively when talking about desirable characteristics in a friend/partner.I think both of these are misguided, and that "ambitious" is a word that we … | Continue reading
In the 1990s farmed fish (aquaculture) accounted for about one-quarter of global seafood production according to the UN Food and… | Continue reading
1BX is a super fast, lightweight, mobile first, responsive grid framework for AMP websites. Download and copy the CSS into the amp-custom stylesheet of your AMP website to get started. Based on the popular Bootstrap framework, 1BX provides a responsive 12 grid system enabling you … | Continue reading
Reporter Andrew Leland has always loved to read. An early love of books in childhood eventually led to a job in publishing with McSweeney’s, where Andrew edited essays and interviews, laid out articles, and was trained to take as much care with the look and feel of the words as h … | Continue reading
We all know lots of jobs will go away in the next decade or two. When I visited Tesla’s factory this year I noticed about 20% more robots than when I visited last year. Take that trend out a … | Continue reading
Apple constantly updates their networking APIs to make them easier to use. However, I find that a lot of people still are hesitant to… | Continue reading
There's no single formula for a great talk, but there is a secret ingredient that all the best ones have in common. TED curator Chris Anderson shares this secret -- along with four ways to make it work for you. Do you have what it takes to share an idea worth spreading? | Continue reading
Elusive crypto revolution | Continue reading
The complexity of Latino communities has for too long been lost on America, as Latinos have been misunderstood, underreported, stigmatized, and grouped into an indistinguishable mass. | Continue reading
Andrew Fedorov considers the legacy of prolific Hollywood extra Robert G. Haines. | Continue reading
Working as a freelance writer is a very enjoyable position to be in, and can be incredibly fulfilling creatively. However, while working freelance for a number of clients, one unforeseen challenge can be that of managing one’s time. In my own situation, I have to balance writing … | Continue reading
Share this article:Kary Banks Mullis, who won a 1993 Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing a process of rapidly replicating DNA sequences — revolutionizing medical and scientific research and laying the groundwork for mapping the Human Genome — has died in Newport Beach, his fa … | Continue reading
Using the Facebook Ad Library API to reveal how each candidate is using social media to attract voters. | Continue reading
Yale, and other elite colleges, have been rocked by controversies and protests. The problem is an elite that has forgotten itself, neglected its institutions, and fallen into ideological frenzy. | Continue reading
As a general rule, I try to read everything that Matthew Ball writes about media at REDEF. His work is high-quality, perceptive, and I always learn something. So I was surprised, but also intrigued… | Continue reading