Russia’s war could make it India’s world
The invasion of Ukraine, compounding the effects of the pandemic, has contributed to the ascent of a giant that defies easy alignment. It could be the...
Happy low-key New Year
2 Jan 2023Some people are giving themselves permission to replace grand ambitions with more realistic expectations for 2023
Use your disillusion: A philosopher makes the case
2 Jan 2023This isn’t because the writing is convoluted; Bradatan, a philosopher, writes with elegance and wit, his every thought and sentence slipping smoothly...
Untidying up: Making the case for why clutter is good for you
31 Dec 2022There is, it turns out, a counter to the decluttering imperative inevitably given the unattractive label “cluttercore” that frankly celebrates the...
New Year beckoning: One resolution you might just keep
31 Dec 2022I have these words in mind as I greet a New Year that will mark my 70th birthday by yet again resolving, as Johnson did, to rise earlier, resist...
Get-together rules: This party season, you don’t have to RSVP -just...
30 Dec 2022In New York and Los Angeles, large cities where rates of Covid and other respiratory illnesses have surged, public health officials have issued...
Weighty proposition: It’s turtles all the way down in the fossil...
29 Dec 2022Earlier this year, Dr. Petermann and colleagues took the unusual project and applied it to an unrelated problem.
Peering through space: The Webb Telescope is just getting started
28 Dec 2022Nebulas and galaxies made visible by the penetrating infrared eyes of the James Webb Space Telescope.