Here are the stories that defined the month of May: from melting ice shelves and global levels of CO2, to a 19th-century-inspired solar energy system to the insane amount of water a small piece of steak requires for it to reach…
We live in the Age of Metrics where every bit of information and experience can now be quantified and digitized: steps we take each day, calories burned, hours slept, the number of people who just unfollowed you on Twitter, and…
As of now, Leo and Hercules’ case is still pending. The two chimpanzees were briefly (for just a few hours) recognized as legal persons last month and granted a writ of habeas corpus, which basically frees them from detention, and…
Experts tell us that it is buildings—not earthquakes—which claim lives. Before we had buildings and cities rising up and dotting the landscape, when everything was just valleys or fields or marshes or forests, and certainly no people around—earthquakes were just…
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