DAILY SCIENCE Researchers tried linking climate policy appealing to liberals with other policies popular with conservatives. The combination only lost support. April 2, 2024 Let the best of Anthropoce
The pandemic was supposed to be the death of the great American city. The rise of remote work unleashed an exodus to the Sun Belt and suburbs, leaving behind empty subway cars, abandoned offices, and
In this undated photo, a whale's tail breaches the surface of the Pacific Oregon off the Oregon Coast. Courtesy Oregon Parks and Recreation Department Spring Whale Watch Week kicks off Saturday along
On a Thursday morning in late March, a group of Wenatchi-P’squosa people and a few dozen supporters assembled amid patches of snow and mud atop Badger Mountain in central Washington. The foggy sagebru
One morning in 1999, while I sat at the office computer where I built corporate websites, a story popped up on Yahoo. An internet domain name, Business.com, had just sold for $7.5 million—a shocking s
“Big tech”—aka Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft—now outdoes the notorious trusts of the Gilded Age in their raw power. Much of it rests in the hands of some of the wealthiest men in the world. They
Explore We’ve all been there. In fact, I find myself there several times a day. A question emerges and my memory stumbles. Decades of education dematerialize into an expensive mist. I know I know this
Explore First come the sleeper sharks and the rattails and the hagfish, scruffily named scavengers of the sea, along with amphipods and crabs who pluck delicately at bits of flesh. Tiny worms, mollusk
Credits Nick Hunt is the author of three travel books about walking in different parts of Europe, two of which were finalists for the Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year. The flight from Istanbul
E360 Digest April 12, 2024 Study Reveals Vast Networks of ‘Ghost Roads’ in Asian Rainforests A logging road in Sabah, Borneo. T. R. Shankar Raman via Wikipedia An extensive analysis of satellite image
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Sometimes when I am standing on the beach, staring out at the ocean, watching waves roll in, I will become moved with an inarticulate sense of the sublimity of it all, and then, if I have my phone wit
I bought my first smartphone in 2012. At the time I was an undergrad at the University of Leeds, halfway through a year abroad at UCLA. If you’ve never made a similar move, you can’t possibly imagine
artificial intelligence How Do Machines ‘Grok’ Data? April 12, 2024 By apparently overtraining them, researchers have seen neural networks discover novel solutions to problems. Read Later Irene Pérez
Sam Russek In 1922, a pithy ad for Henry Ford’s automobiles proclaimed that “we shall solve the city problem by leaving the city.” From then on, it certainly seems like suburban developers took this t
The world’s most prominent verification program for corporate climate pledges is reportedly in turmoil following its board of trustees’ unilateral decision this week to allow carbon offsets to count t
An article that still haunts me is this Vice feature from 2021 about gamers who stream to no one—there are thousands on the platform who broadcast their gameplay to single digit audiences. The piece s
Credits Nathan Gardels is the editor-in-chief of Noema Magazine. Democracies across the West are so paralyzingly polarized today because the public square where competing propositions can be tested ag
Following my experiments with the ChatGPT-assisted AI Chair 1.0, I’ve been continuing experiments with a range of other LLMs. The below image is Chair 1.1, designed with the assistance of Mistral AI.
Many autistic people find accepting compliments and being kind to ourselves difficult, especially if our experience has been that other people lambast us if we dare to exist openly while autistic. Str
While the vendors pitched their latest voting machines in Concord, New Hampshire, this past August, the election officials in the room gasped. They whispered, “No way.” They nodded their heads and f
Some time ago, I embarked on a personal reading project: An informal survey of books that once had been widely read — so widely read, in fact, that they had earned their place in the literary lexicon.
Credits Laurence Pevsner is an inaugural Moynihan Public Scholar at the City College of New York. From 2021 to 2023, he was the director of speechwriting for the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
What factors must a court consider when the National Labor Relations Board requests an order requiring an employer to rehire terminated workers before the completion of unfair labor practice proceedin
The ‘thick skin bias’ obscures the reality of hardship. We should check our assumptions about those who are struggling Imagine this upsetting scenario: two women are both suffering physical abuse from
I’ve been a little less online lately, but not to worry, I have just been living my life :) Several weeks ago, I gave notice at work and left. Some people in my life were surprised, because it was a g
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. Usually when we talk about climate change, the focus is sq
Almost a year before the 1963 publication of The Feminine Mystique—the zeitgeist-shattering book that would launch second-wave feminism and change the life of millions of women—author Betty Friedan wr
Throughout history, human societies have relied on technological progress to solve their challenges. In technology’s early days, this worked well. It is hard to dispute, for example, the invention of
It Was fall in the Utah desert, and NASA scientist Lindsay Hays was watching the sky. A fat flying saucer soon touched down — a capsule containing bits of an asteroid, which NASA had collected and the
I specifically hoped not to be an old person that longed for the good old days, but, well, here’s the deal: I remember when binge was considered a bad word. Now, it is a weekend plan. And I’m not talk
In October 1217 the abbot of the Ursberg Abbey in present-day southern Germany looked to the firmament and, in the arc-shaped constellation Corona Borealis, saw something wondrous. “It was originally
There are many words that could be used to describe WASP-76b — hellish, scorching, turbulent, chaotic, and even violent. This is a planet outside the solar system that sits so close to its star it get
Some say there are two types of concrete – cracked and on the brink of cracking. But what if when concrete cracked, it could heal itself? We’re part of a team of materials scientists and microbiologis
In the North Sea, nearly 100 meters underwater, the seafloor is littered with more than 40,000 shallow pits in the sand. The pockmarks, sometimes spanning more than 10 meters, come in a variety of siz
April 9, 2024 Hey, before we get started — this is the day! The paperback of Promises Stronger Than Darkness is out today! The legendary Captain Argentian, the galaxy's greatest hero, is back at last,
Ask any birder, and they'll tell you about the thrill of identifying a new species. Recently, a tapping sound outside a window alerted one of us (Hsiung) to look up and spot a striking, unfamiliar woo
April 9, 2024 I've spent the past three years researching and writing a book about the history of psychological warfare in the United States. It’s called Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and
Decades ago physicists realized that gravitational waves are no mere passing phenomenon. Instead those ripples in space should leave behind permanent marks: a fixed distortion in their wake. So far th
DAILY SCIENCE A new study describes the shape of intergenerational altruism, and suggests a simple way to activate it—at least among half the population. April 9, 2024 Let the best of Anthropocene com