I’m a scientist who spoke up about climate change. I was fired for it
Soon after this brief action, the AGU, an organisation with 60,000 members in the earth and space sciences, expelled us from the conference and...
Ken Balcomb: Expert who revealed hidden world of orcas
13 Jan 2023 5:30 AMPeople also thought that orcas were numerous, living far out in the Pacific and only occasionally coming close to land, part of the sea’s supposedly...
Screens stole our focus? Medieval monks were distracted too
12 Jan 2023 10:30 AMKreiner, a historian at the University of Georgia, organizes the book around the various sources of distraction that a Christian monk had to face,...
Border trouble: Why India and China fight in the Himalayas
12 Jan 2023 3:08 AMFrom New Delhi’s perspective, the Chinese military aggression on the disputed border is the price India is paying for joining hands with the Western...
In memoriam: Willard Gaylin, a pioneer in bioethics, is dead at 97
11 Jan 2023 1:30 PMIn 1969 Dr. Gaylin, a psychiatrist, and Daniel Callahan started the Hastings Center, devoted to the study of bioethics, in Hastings-on-Hudson, north...
The hottest Gen Z gadget: A 20-year-old digital camera
10 Jan 2023 1:30 PMTabarez documented prom night with an Olympus FE-230, a 7.1-megapixel, silver digital camera made in 2007 and previously owned by his mother.
In memoriam: Nate Thayer, bold reporter who interviewed Pol Pot
9 Jan 2023 1:30 PMThayer interviewed Pol Pot in October 1997 after months of clandestine meetings with Khmer Rouge guerrillas, whom Pol Pot led.
Making America the opposite of great
7 Jan 2023 5:30 AMThis time, there has been no significant dispute about policy — Kevin McCarthy and his opponents agree on key policy issues like investigating Hunter...