Can We Survive Extreme Heat?
By Jeff Goodell Rolling Stone On a scorching day in downtown Phoenix, when the temperature soars to 115°F or higher, heat becomes a lethal force. Sunshine assaults you, forcing you to […]
By Jeff Goodell Rolling Stone On a scorching day in downtown Phoenix, when the temperature soars to 115°F or higher, heat becomes a lethal force. Sunshine assaults you, forcing you to […]
By Madhushree Ghosh Longreads Seventeen years ago, I receive the call most immigrants dread. It is inevitable, and yet. The call announces that my Baba, my indefatigable, extroverted, positively enthusiastic […]
By Jesse Eisinger, Jeff Ernsthausen & Paul Kiel ProPublica In 2007, Jeff Bezos, then a multibillionaire and now the world’s richest man, did not pay a penny in federal income […]
By Steven Johnson The New York Times Magazine The period from 1916 to 1920 marked the last point in which a major reversal in global life expectancy would be recorded. […]
By Vidya Krishnan The Atlantic This month, Arvind Kejriwal, the chief minister of Delhi, India’s capital and home to millions, tweeted that the city was facing an “acute shortage” of […]
By James Hamblin The Atlantic Edward Lorenz was just out of college when he was recruited into World War II. He was assigned to be a weather forecaster, despite having […]
By Ed Yong The Atlantic How did it come to this? A virus a thousand times smaller than a dust mote has humbled and humiliated the planet’s most powerful nation. America […]
By Bob Holmes Knowable Magazine The unusual cases of pneumonia began to appear in midwinter, in China. The cause, researchers would later learn, was a coronavirus new to science. By […]
By Scott D. Halpern, Robert D. Truog & Franklin G. Miller Journal of the American Medical Association As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic abates in many countries worldwide, and […]
By Tim Vernimmen Knowable Magazine It is new, but not entirely. The coronavirus upending the world right now is so similar to the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) virus of […]