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The one thing you can do to help a whole lot of animals, explained in 4 charts
Many people, when they learn about the horrors of factory farming, become vegetarian or vegan. I’m one of those people, ...
An elegant fix for one of America’s deadliest road problems
In 2012, Southern California was besotted with an unlikely celebrity: a telegenic mountain lion who had crossed one of the ...
America is built for driving. There’s hidden demand for something better.
Maybe you’ve heard this unkind old joke about American culture: We will pay a small fortune to amble through the ...
My students think it’s fine to cheat with AI. Maybe they’re onto something.
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Elon Musk wants to put data centers in space. Should we let him?
During a tense vote on a data center being built in her drought-stricken Arizona district last summer, Tucson City Councilmember ...
The most sympathetic case for NIMBYism is still wrong
A natural disaster can do in one day what decades of public zoning fights cannot: Erase entire neighborhoods and force ...
The three words that will decide whether robots can kill people in war
Imagine this: Two countries are at war. Country X sends a drone into a major industrial city in Country Y, ...
What Dolly Parton taught us about how to give
Dolly Parton was on her way to the studio to polish off “Blue Smoke” when the SUV she was riding ...
This transplant surgery could save countless lives. Why aren’t we doing more of them?
In an episode from the fifth season of Grey’s Anatomy, Miranda Bailey, played by Chandra Wilson, orchestrates an ambitious 12-person ...
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