March 7, 2025
A Spring in Every Kitchen
Johnny Appleseed used to be a staple character in old American children’s books. A ragged vagabond in the early...
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March 7, 2025
How Virologists Lost the Gain-of-Function Debate
Shortly after the outbreak of the Covid pandemic in early 2020, rumors started to circulate that the virus that...
February 11, 2025
If the Reagan Airport crash was “waiting to happen,” why didn’t anyone stop it?
If you study air and space disasters, you will notice a recurring pattern: there are often well-placed observers who...
February 10, 2025
The Deeper Question Raised by the NIH Grant Overhaul
Last week, in a classic Friday evening news dump, the Trump administration set off one of those frantic controversies...
January 30, 2025
The Mars Dream Is Back — Here’s How to Make It Actually Happen
America now has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to open the space frontier by initiating a sustained program of...
January 24, 2025
Stop Hacking Humans
In the spring of 2020, as social distancing became the norm and almost the whole world retreated online, one industry...
December 9, 2024
Make Suburbia Weird
Packing up my grandparents’ suburban house this summer, I was confronted with an unsettling and alien phenomenon: a...
December 9, 2024
The Tyranny of Now
On the evening of May 25, 1947, the fellows of the Royal Society of Canada — the country’s leading scientists,...
December 9, 2024
Can You Solve a Lifestyle Epidemic Without Lifestyle Gurus?
An avowed sun worshipper, the neurosurgeon Jack Kruse has skin the color of a Christmas ham. His cheeks emit a neon...
December 9, 2024
The New Control Society
Let me tell you two stories about the Internet. The first story is so familiar it hardly warrants retelling. It goes...