In the nineteen-sixties, Syukuro Manabe drew a graph that foretold our world today—and what’s to come. | Continue reading
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The struggle to create a digital alternative to the analog office. | Continue reading
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How one of the Beatles’ greatest songs came to be. | Continue reading
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Michael Pollan told the audience, “If anyone can make the case for this technology, it’s Pam Ronald.” | Continue reading
Evgeny Morozov on how the ideas behind Project Cybersyn, a futuristic experiment in cybernetics from nineteen-seventies Chile, still shapes technology. | Continue reading
Strong current can kill us, but electrical impulses let us live—a power even the ancients may have attempted to exploit. | Continue reading
Researchers are pursuing age-old questions about the nature of thoughts—and learning how to read them. | Continue reading
Tired of migrants arriving from Africa, the E.U. has created a shadow immigration system that captures them before they reach its shores, and sends them to brutal Libyan detention centers run by militias. | Continue reading
Enforcing the law is harder than it might seem when those having the law enforced against them have contempt for it. | Continue reading
A “universal” flu vaccine could bring one of the world’s longest pandemics to an end. | Continue reading
Gen. John W. Raymond discusses being memeified, Steve Carell, and how his military branch plans to keep your smartphone from being turned into a stupid phone. | Continue reading
The quest to decode hieroglyphic writing. | Continue reading
New antiviral drugs are startlingly effective against the coronavirus—if they’re taken in time. | Continue reading
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A rib belt? Kinesio tape? Cupping? Do you wear a brace for it? | Continue reading
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Online, a math Olympian has found a way to nurture prodigies from around the world. | Continue reading
A contrarian account of our prehistory argues that cities once flourished without rulers and rules—and still could. | Continue reading
Should they be using these services at all? | Continue reading
Wildfires have grown more extreme. So have the risks of combatting them. | Continue reading
Swartz was brilliant and beloved. But the people who knew the gifted programmer best saw another side. | Continue reading
There’s no way to confirm that a crop was grown organically. Randy Constant exploited our trust in the labels—and made a fortune. | Continue reading
Patients want alternative therapies. How can hospitals offer them without putting medical integrity at risk? | Continue reading
At the core of a liberal-arts education is the ability to think independently within the parameters of what one’s professors have already said. | Continue reading
Over the past four years, William Helmreich, a sixty-seven-year-old professor of sociology at CUNY, has walked almost every street in New York City: a … | Continue reading
When large crowds assemble, is there a way to keep them safe? | Continue reading
Who among us wants to inhabit an even more virtual world of Mark Zuckerberg’s creation? | Continue reading
In an age of rising populism, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists is exposing the hypocrisy behind the hidden wealth. | Continue reading
Claude Fredericks, a Bennington classics professor, knew Anaïs Nin and James Merrill, and taught Donna Tartt. He kept a journal for eight decades, and persuaded many in his orbit that he was writing a titanic masterpiece. Did he? | Continue reading
All of us know people who have more energy than we do, but the science of the phenomenon is just coming into view. | Continue reading
The TV version of the classic sci-fi saga sidelines its source’s most pressing questions about power and precarity. | Continue reading
A growing group of laborers is trailing hurricanes and wildfires the way farmworkers follow crops, contracting for big disaster-recovery firms, and facing exploitation, injury, and death. | Continue reading
In the new literary landscape, readers are customers, writers are service providers, and books are expected to offer instant gratification. | Continue reading
At fourteen, Ron Bishop helped convict three innocent boys of murder. They’ve all lived with the consequences. | Continue reading
How Tim Ferriss’s 2007 manifesto anticipated our current moment of professional upheaval. | Continue reading
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A chronicle of a slow-motion climate disaster that became one of Oregon’s deadliest calamities. | Continue reading
On the seafloor, scientists watch as a carcass becomes an oasis. | Continue reading