They Resisted Getting Vaccinated. Here’s Why They Changed Their Minds. Mandates have prompted a surge in vaccinations among those who had held out. Some report feeling relief; others, anguish and rese

Even if you are not a Mac user, you have likely heard Apple is switching from Intel CPUs to their own custom CPUs, which they refer to collectively as “Apple Silicon.” The last time Apple changed its

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It was around 2016 on the edge of the desert when the Touch Bar began to take hold. I remember saying something like “I’ll need several adapters for that…” And suddenly there was a terrible roar all a

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William T. Sedgwick believed that no good could come of letting women vote. “It would mean a degeneration and a degradation of human fiber which would turn back the hands of time a thousand years,” Se

During the 2020 Democratic primary, Sen. Elizabeth Warren made fighting corruption her number one priority. It may not have seemed that way in the press, which tended to characterize the senior senato

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PHYS ED Is Aerobic Exercise the Key to Successful Aging? Aerobic activities like jogging and interval training can make our cells biologically younger; weight training did not have the same effect. Cr

Despite an appeal by Gov. Gavin Newsom for all Californians to voluntarily cut water use by 15%, Southern California has lagged in conservation efforts and even increased water consumption slightly in

In the final days before the 2010 midterm elections, Barack Obama was in Charlottesville, Virginia campaigning for an almost certainly doomed member of Congress. It would be one of the final stops of

SACRAMENTO — California’s pandemic-inspired move toward mailing a ballot to every registered, active voter will become a permanent part of the state’s political landscape, an embrace of an extended an

Chaim Gartenberg, writing for The Verge, “ The Lightning Port Isn’t About Convenience; It’s About Control ”: Notably absent from Apple’s argument, though, is the fact thatcutting out a Lightning port

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Why does the iPad mini exist? Let me count the ways. It’s for kids, people with small hands and good eyesight, people who want a pocketable(-ish) iOS device that doesn’t compromise on features, claust

I wish I had something more clever to say about the new iPhone 13 lineup. But the practical reality is simple and obvious. The two ways that Apple could best improve the day-to-day utility of using an

Steve Potash, the bearded and bespectacled president and C.E.O. of OverDrive, spent the second week of March, 2020, on a business trip to New York City. OverDrive distributes e-books and audiobooks—i.

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For a while, a COVID-19 crisis in India seemed to have taught the world a valuable lesson : that an uncontrolled coronavirus outbreak anywhere poses a threat everywhere and, crucially, that without mo

Posted on August 9, 2021 Posted by John Scalzi I feel sad for all the people this fellow misled before serving as an object lesson. Apparently he was a deathbed conversion to vaccination. Had he conve

Updated at 5:10 p.m. ET on August 18, 2021 I n September 2020 , just before COVID-19 began its wintry surge through the United States, I wrote that the country was trapped in a pandemic spiral, seemin

President Joe Biden stands with the bipartisan group of senators working on the infrastructure deal on June 24, 2021, in Washington, DC. Win McNamee/Getty Images Not many people wake up thrilled at th

Covid vaccines are incredibly effective. The media’s overhyping of new research from the CDC is making people think otherwise. Published in Elemental · 5 min read · Jul 31, 2021 -- Roger Stames, Sr. f

The Barbaric History of Sugar in America How sugar became the “white gold” that fueled slavery — and an industry that continues to exploit black lives to this day. The 1619 Project examines the legacy

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Updated at 5:30 p.m. ET on July 29, 2021 “Liberté, égalité, fraternité!” is the cry that once stirred a nation to action, but out here in the crumbling state of California, we’re at a lower ebb. A hob

Climate Change Drove Western Heat Wave’s Extreme Records, Analysis Finds A rapid analysis of last week’s record-breaking heat found that it would have been virtually impossible without the influence o

PORTLAND, Ore. — On the heels of one of the worst wildfire years on record, the federal government is struggling to recruit and retain staff as firefighters grapple with low wages, trauma and burnout

Venus Lacks Plate Tectonics. But It Has Something Much More Quirky. Scientists say giant slices of rock may move across the surface of Earth’s closest neighbor like pack ice floating in the sea. A 1,1

C ities and towns are opening back up after their coronavirus-induced shutdowns. Job vacancies have surged to historic highs . Millions of Americans report that they are looking for work. Yet employer

Your credit card rewards are paid for by America’s poor. Getty Images/iStockphoto This story is part of a group of stories called There is an entire ecosystem dedicated to gaming the credit card rewar

Any diagnostic test worth its salt has precision on its side. It can pinpoint the presence of this condition, but not that one; it can, when used for an infectious disease, distinguish between microbe

By Ezra Levin, Co-Founder & Co-Executive Director, Indivisible 7 min read · Jun 8, 2021 -- If you had the misfortune of being online this weekend, you might have seen Senator Manchin’s op-ed explainin

Covid has unleashed the most severe setback to women’s liberation in my lifetime. While watching this happen, I have started to think we are witnessing an outbreak of disaster patriarchy. Naomi Klein

A Big Climate Problem With Few Easy Solutions: Planes The airline industry might not be able to reduce greenhouse gas emissions for decades because most solutions are not yet viable. A recently announ

Money, it’s often said, is a shared fiction. I give you a slip of paper or, more likely these days, a piece of plastic. You hand me eggs or butter or a White Chocolate Mocha Frappuccino, and we both w

Guest Essay Covid’s Deadliest Phase May Be Here Soon May 28, 2021 By Dr. Tufekci is a contributing Opinion writer who has extensively examined the Covid-19 pandemic. 阅读简体中文版 閱讀繁體中文版 If world leaders d

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has decided it still needs a strong financial plan before greenlighting a pilot project that would allow students and low-income people to ride Metro trains a