Exploitation cycle: My continent is not your giant climate lab
As a climate expert, I consider these environmental manipulation techniques extremely risky.
Social media cycles: How Musk is changing the Twitter experience
18 April 2023But nearly six months after Mr. Musk took over Twitter, his ambitions for the platform have remained mostly that — ambitions.
Monetary upheals - Wonking out: Global money madness strikes again
18 April 2023Dollar’s international role sounds vital and seems mysterious, making it a natural subject for conspiracy theories, catastrophic thinking
New point of view: A fresh map of Mars, from a spacecraft called Hope
17 April 2023The main scientific objective of Hope, which entered orbit around Mars a little more than two years ago
Quick Turnaround: The end of faking it in Silicon Valley
17 April 2023Recent charges, convictions and sentences all indicate the start-up world’s habit of playing fast and loose with the truth has consequences
Virginia Norwood, satellite imaging systems ‘mother’, dies at 96
14 April 2023The Landsat satellites, speeding 438 miles above the surface, orbit the earth every 99 minutes and have captured a complete image of the planet every...
Epidemic saga: Imagine we knew how the pandemic began
14 April 2023Three years since its start we are still more likely to see the pandemic in partisan rather than world-historical terms.
Al Jaffee, Mad Magazine’s inventive cartoonist, dies at 102
12 April 2023It was in 1964 that Jaffee created the Mad Fold-In, an illustration-with-text feature on the inside of the magazine’s back cover that seemed at first...