Wednesday 27 January 2021

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.



Tuesday 26 January 2021

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.



Monday 25 January 2021

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