At the La Brea Tar Pits, the creator of “Digman!,” a show about archeologists based on a Nicolas Cage impersonation, sorts through dire-wolf remains and frets about Archeologist Twitter.
25/03/2023
At the East Village restaurant, opened by a queer couple, the menu, offered as a three- or five-course tasting, leans cerebral.
24/03/2023
In August, 2021, five Portuguese firefighters were battling a bushfire in the south of the country when a sudden wind drove the blaze up a steep slope beneath them. They had only a few seconds to climb into the cab of their truck before it was…
Miniaturization, experimentation, and A.I. have unlocked revolutionary potential in an old technology.
20/01/2023
Acid mine drainage has long been a scourge in Appalachia. Recent research suggests that we may be able to simultaneously clean up the pollution and extract the minerals and elements needed to power green technologies.
26/08/2022
In the golden age of con artistry, self-proclaimed finance gurus are everywhere, with few checks on their claims.
14/05/2022
A new manufacturing technique could drastically reduce the footprint of one of our dirtiest materials.
18/09/2021
Eren Orbey on how Harvard’s David Malan has worked to perfect online teaching, and what lessons his introductory course, CS50, might hold for the future of higher education, both during and after the coronavirus pandemic.
21/07/2020
Carolyn Kormann writes about Alexandria Villaseñor, a teen-ager in New York who has played a key role in organizing the global climate strike that took place this week in cities around the world.
21/09/2019
Bill McKibben on what would happen if the banking, asset-management, and insurance industries decided to move away from fossil fuels, and on how the financial sector affects climate change.
17/09/2019
Masha Gessen reports from a deliberative-polling event in Houston, during which hundreds of people from across the political spectrum debated issues surrounding immigration.
23/07/2019
Rapidly advancing technology and the falling costs of clean energy make the Green New Deal’s goal of transforming the U.S. economy to zero emissions by mid-century eminently achievable, John Cassidy writes.
04/03/2019