America is a long argument
Reading Time: 4 minutes Whatever your political views, we need to drop the pretense that…
The startling world of plant intelligence
Reading Time: 5 minutes They don’t sense human emotion, but plants have some surprising talents. They can hear, see, learn, communicate…
When kids are defiant
Reading Time: 4 minutes As our children grow up, they push back against our authority. It’s natural, and parents ought to…
Let us all now praise caffeine
Reading Time: 6 minutes Caffeine is a psychoactive and addictive drug, even if we rarely think of it that way. Still,…
Tolkien never solved the problem of evil
Reading Time: 5 minutes Like the Christian theology that inspired him, J.R.R. Tolkien could never explain why a benevolent creator permitted…
What do trees say to each other?
Reading Time: 5 minutes The more we look, the more intelligence we find in nature. Even trees are capable of communicating,…
Beware the glory of war
Reading Time: 5 minutes I admit it: I’m a Ukraine news addict. I’ve gotten into the habit of starting each morning…
Direct air capture: Climate engineering for good
Reading Time: 4 minutes The technology to pull carbon dioxide out of the air could take all the urgency out of…
The myth of the lost golden age
Reading Time: 5 minutes In the service of recapturing a mythical perfect past, humans have committed the most terrible evils.
Watch the air
Reading Time: 5 minutes COVID has taught us that we don’t have to accept the annual onslaught of cold, flu, and…
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