Volcanoes are erupting in The Philippines, but on-fire Australia received some welcome rain. The Iran war cries have been called off and The Donald’s military powers are about to be hamstrung by the Senate. Meanwhile, his impeachment trial is starting, and we’re all on Twitter for a front-row seat.
Author: Molly Bergen
05/28/2022
Coleman Hughes on The Fracturing Of The Human Mind with Jonathan Haidt and Guests
Welcome to another episode of Conversations with Coleman. This episode is a recording of a live event that I did with Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff, and Rikki Schlott.
05/27/2022
This temporary pacemaker melts away once the job is done
A team of more than four dozen researchers has invented a remarkable new form of medical technology.
05/31/2022
Opinion: How Putin Has Played His Energy Cards
Almost as soon as the war in Ukraine began, in February, I found myself returning to an essay published online in Foreign Affairs in November. In “Green Upheaval,” Jason Bordoff and Meghan O’Sullivan predict that global decarbonization, while necessary, will not be the glide path to a peaceful green future that many climate activists imagine.
05/27/2022
Marine biologists may have found a surprisingly low-tech solution to bycatch
Early trials of a new type of fishing net have revealed that porpoises largely avoided getting entangled in them.
05/19/2022
Mindfulness Hurts. That’s Why It Works.
Facing the painful parts of life head-on is the only way to feel at home with yourself.
05/19/2022
The radio station giving indigenous people a voice
The high-rises and glass towers of Panama City gleam in the sunlight. But on the other side of town, there's an old office block where if you go up the stairs and you'll find a tiny makeshift radio studio.
05/18/2022
Older people using TikTok to defy ageist stereotypes, research finds
There are an increasing number of accounts belonging to users aged 60 and older with millions of followers.
05/16/2022
Opinion: The politics of white backlash and the endless cycle of racial violence, division, and anger
The 19th-century ‘Lost Cause’ advocates have become the 21st-century defenders of a racial status quo many thought relegated to history’s dustbin in the aftermath of Barack Obama’s election.
05/18/2022
Robot can fly, swim or hitch a ride by sticking to other objects
An amphibious drone that can attach itself to other objects with a suction cup could be used to track marine animals such as whales.
05/18/2022
Opinion: Requiring fixed, binary sex on birth certificates erases real Oklahomans
On April 26, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill prohibiting nonbinary gender markers on birth certificates.
05/15/2022
In Austria, the Government Pays to Repair Your Stuff
Sepp Eisenriegler loves giving second chances: To the defunct electrical appliances awaiting repair or refurbishment, the hundreds of unemployed people he’s trained as skilled repairers over the decades and even the two rescue dogs that follow him devotedly around R.U.S.Z., the repair and service center he founded in Vienna in 1998.
05/18/2022