The Art of the Cover Letter

The muses don’t sing to cover letter writers—they’re busy with the poets.

‘Dostoevsky in Love’ Review: Possessed by Words

Sentenced and reprieved, exiled and returned, Fyodor Dostoevsky made human suffering the center of his work.

Moderna to Cut Deliveries to Canada

In new blow to vaccination campaign.

The Tyranny of Work

Jobs have become, for so many, a relentless, unsatisfying toil. Why then does the work ethic still hold so much sway?

The Dangerous Evolution of the Coronavirus

These scientists have a new model for identifying variants before they kill.

Microsoft Patent Shows Plans to Revive Dead Loved Ones as Chatbots

The patent also mentions using 2D or 3D models of specific people.

Why is Wombat Poop Cube-shaped?

Wombats are the only animals in the world that produce cube-shaped scat. But how and why do they do it? Scientists now have a better idea.

Lockdown Has Ravaged the Working Class

In both lives and livelihoods, the poorest have borne the brunt of our disastrous response to the pandemic.

Clive James

The enduring prose and poetry.  

Salt Fat Acid Defeat

The restaurant before and after Covid.

Trudeau MIA Aamid News of Further Vaccine Delays

PM allows Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin to deliver the bad news instead.

Get Ready for the Gesture Presidency

Turns out the purpose of job training programs is not actually to train workers.

Artificial Intelligence: MIT Creates ‘Liquid’ Machine Learning - ‘Future of Robot Control'

AI engineers have designed a new ‘liquid’ machine-learning system potentially capable of revolutionising everything from autonomous cars to medical diagnosis.

NZ Trade Minister

Suggests Australia should speak with ‘more diplomacy’ in dealings with China.

Who Wants to Defend Trudeau’s Vaccine Plan Now?

The Trudeau government knew about problems with the deal to develop a COVID-19 vaccine with a Chinese firm but kept the truth hidden from the public for months.

Where Will Everyone Go?

ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, with support from the Pulitzer Center, have for the first time modeled how climate refugees might move across international borders. This is what we found.

Everyone’s a Critic

The indispensable quality of amateurism.

Indian Army

Eyes Tibetology to checkmate China.

 

How to Be a Genius

I travelled the world and trawled the archive to unearth the hidden lessons from history’s most brilliant people.

Dreaming Is Like Taking LSD

A new theory explains that dreaming opens our minds to unexplored possibilities.

Trophy Hunters, You’re Wrong. Dead Wrong.

Trophy hunting hurts, not helps, conservation.

U.S. Suffers Sharpest Rise in Poverty Rate

In more than 50 years.

Trudeau: If Liberals Vetted People Before Giving Them Powerful Jobs

I’d never have become Prime Minister.

Scientists Discover Electric Eels Hunting in a Group

One of the new species of electric eel is capable of producing 860-volt electric shocks—the strongest electric discharge of any animal on Earth. 

Why Can't You Smell? Doctors and Scientists Are Working to Understand COVID-19's Impact on Our Senses

One of the telltale symptoms of coronavirus infection is a nightmare for wine lovers: loss of smell and taste. Researchers are studying why it happens and if it can be cured.

A Year in Space: Bordeaux Wine Splashes Down

NASA’s first space wine mission has successfully returned to Earth, where 12 bottles of Bordeaux and hundreds of Merlot and Cabernet vines will now be analyzed.

Beware the Proliferation of Preferred Pronouns

Pronouns can’t be mandated from above. But that hasn’t stopped the pronoun police from trying.

Seeding the Ocean

Inside a Michelin-starred chef’s revolutionary quest to harvest rice from the sea.

The Tie

It’s time to say adieu. 

Remember

What Snowden told us.

The Problem with Prediction

Cognitive scientists  see human minds as predictive machines. Right or wrong, they will change how we think.

Space

How it became the next ‘great power’ contest between the U.S. and China.

The Politicization of Unhappiness

We all yearn for happiness, and yet so many are unhappy. 

Who Said Nobody Read Isaac Newton?

It’s a myth that legendary works in science aren’t read.

No, This Is Not ‘Getting Back to Normal’

The extinction of reason, justice and freedom on campus is now to be institutionalised as American government policy.

A Plan of Last Resort:

Choosing who lives and dies if ICUs turn into virus war zones.

Humans Could Be Living in a ‘Floating Asteroid Belt Colony’

In 15 years’ time.

Making Meaning

Against ‘relevance’ in art. 

City’s Plan to Demand Writers Buy Business License Fails

When ‘Charlottesville taxes its residents, it must do so constitutionally.’

Electric Vehicles Don’t Save Money

Sure, you’ll cut costs on oil changes, but you’ll pay way more over the life of the car.