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Results 1 to 30Classified Secrets of the Rich
2023-02-04, 20:14The FBI searched Biden’s palatial beach home for classified...
Louisiana Democrats ‘Funneled’ Utility Donations to Climate Candidate Challenger
2023-02-03, 18:21Louisiana Democratic Party leaders are accused of funneling thousands of dollars from utility companies to the campaign of a fossil fuel-friendly candidate who ran for reelection on the state’s utility regulatory committee. Campaign finance records filed this week show that the party received more...
Race to Vaccinate Rare Wild Monkeys in Brazil Gives Hope
2023-02-03, 18:21PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers because they are important, surprising, troubling, enlightening, inspiring, or amusing. They appear on our site and in our daily newsletter. Please send suggested articles, videos, podcasts, etc. to...
Would the World Be Better Off Without Us?
2023-02-03, 12:22Adam Kirsch, an acclaimed poet and literary critic, has reignited the debate about human exceptionalism and whether humans are still necessary in light of the emergence of innovations like ChatGPT and other forms of artificial intelligence. In this week’s WhoWhatWhy podcast, Kirsch discusses the...
From Ashes to Fly Larvae, New Ideas to Revive Farm Soil
2023-02-02, 18:19PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers because they are important, surprising, troubling, enlightening, inspiring, or amusing. They appear on our site and in our daily newsletter. Please send suggested articles, videos, podcasts, etc. to...
Great Quotes on Lies, Liars, and Lying
2023-02-02, 16:30Everyone lies. Every minute of every day, someone is lying. Even animals lie. Scientists tell us that chimps who were taught sign language shamelessly tell whoppers: Who broke the vase? Chimp signs: the cat did it. Who swiped the pizza? Chimp signs: the dog did it. Who cleaned up in here? Chimp...
When an Angry Bum Spit at Me on Eldridge Street
2023-02-02, 12:18Opinion The other night, I went to a crowded art opening on Eldridge Street. Eldridge Street, below Delancey, has retained its gritty New York City character, racially diverse, with galleries, bars, and underground clubs near low-income housing projects. The opening reminded me of old times when I...
Japan and Netherlands Expected to Join US in Ban on Tech Exports to China
2023-02-01, 18:51PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers because they are important, surprising, troubling, enlightening, inspiring, or amusing. They appear on our site and in our daily newsletter. Please send suggested articles, videos, podcasts, etc. to...
Book of the Dead: The Species Declared Extinct in 2022
2023-02-01, 12:50Last July scientists in Texas announced some surprising news: They had rediscovered an oak tree species previously believed to be extinct. Until then the last known Quercus tardifolia tree was believed to have died more than a decade earlier. But lo and behold, one more tree was discovered in Big...
The Death and Life of New York
2023-02-01, 12:50Daniel Pinchbeck recently wrote an essay on this site posing the rhetorical question, “Has New York Lost Its Soul?” I assumed it was rhetorical, because everything in his jeremiad suggested it was an open and shut case: His city has become a soulless hellhole. His self-described rant is illustrated...
US Renewable Energy Farms Outstrip 99 Percent of Coal Plants Economically: Study
2023-01-31, 18:29PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers because they are important, surprising, troubling, enlightening, inspiring, or amusing. They appear on our site and in our daily newsletter. Please send suggested articles, videos, podcasts, etc. to...
Biden’s Documents Dilemma
2023-01-31, 12:46Matt Taibbi used to be in much greater favor with Democratic Party supporters than he is right now. And he was in great favor for more than a few reasons. The section reprinted below, taken from his podcast America This Week, is an example of one of those reasons. Do you wonder why the news about...
Too Many Murdered By American Police: It’s Way Past Time for Genuine Reform
2023-01-31, 12:46As the horror of the police murder of Tyre Nichols washes across our TV screens, we’re reminded again of the crisis — its severity unique to America among developed nations — of police violence. As Nichols’s stepfather, Rodney Wells, told CNN: When I saw the police officer, you know, they have this...
Colorado Bear Takes Hundreds of ‘Selfies’ on Wildlife Camera
2023-01-30, 18:43PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers because they are important, surprising, troubling, enlightening, inspiring, or amusing. They appear on our site and in our daily newsletter. Please send suggested articles, videos, podcasts, etc. to...
Scientology Strikes Back — and News Org Knuckles Under
2023-01-30, 17:49Last week, I wrote about the media’s abject failure to tell the true story of Scientology and its relationship with Lisa Marie Presley, who lived most of her life in the notorious cult before breaking away. She died January 12 at age 54. This week, I received an interesting email from Dodge...
The DeSantis Book Club: A Bonfire of the Vanities
2023-01-29, 12:55In a very heated political environment, people are often quick to toss around labels that they probably don’t understand, like “Nazi” or “communist.” So let us stress right from the start that Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is (likely) not a Nazi and he is (definitely) not a communist. That...
Remembering the Holocaust Is Not Enough
2023-01-27, 19:44There’s a sequence in Ken Burns’s elegiac The Civil War series in which he recounts the many glass-plate photographs taken by Mathew Brady’s studio of the battle locations in Vicksburg, Gettysburg, and Antietam. During the war there was a brisk trade in these images, but afterwards, no one was...
US Infiltrates Big Ransomware Gang: ‘We Hacked the Hackers’
2023-01-27, 18:48PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers because they are important, surprising, troubling, enlightening, inspiring, or amusing. They appear on our site and in our daily newsletter. Please send suggested articles, videos, podcasts, etc. to...
Power, Paranoia, and the Fraying of Our Politics
2023-01-27, 12:48Our guest on this week’s WhoWhatWhy podcast is Jared Yates Sexton, host of The Muckrake Podcast and author of The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis. Sexton sees a world that is increasingly volatile and unpredictable, one where the current order, he says, is...
Delight as Dolphins Are Spotted in New York’s Bronx Rive
2023-01-26, 18:46PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers because they are important, surprising, troubling, enlightening, inspiring, or amusing. They appear on our site and in our daily newsletter. Please send suggested articles, videos, podcasts, etc. to...
One River Dies, Another Is Born
2023-01-26, 16:21Jaime Lucian dos Santos Filho was born and raised in a stilt house on the Araguari River, in the north Brazil village of Bom Amigo. His family and the several dozen other inhabitants of the town ate fish from the Araguari, ranched buffalo on its banks, and watered subsistence gardens with it. When...
Will the Machine Stop?
2023-01-26, 13:02Today, I reveal parts of my incessant internal monologue as I contemplate technology, late-stage capitalism, and our collective future. I don’t claim to have the answers. I enjoy being challenged and, generally, would like to be proven wrong. I recall when blockchain-enabled cryptocurrencies started...
Exotic Green Comet Not Seen Since Stone Age Returns to Skies Above Earth
2023-01-25, 18:59PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers because they are important, surprising, troubling, enlightening, inspiring, or amusing. They appear on our site and in our daily newsletter. Please send suggested articles, videos, podcasts, etc. to...
Artificial Intelligence Truly Terrifies Me
2023-01-25, 12:22A friend of mine recently sent me a poem about corks. It was a valiant effort and rhymed, if a little off meter, but I wanted to be supportive, so told him (tongue slightly in cheek) that the verse should be inserted into every wine crate heretofore shipped from a vineyard. My friend is a prose...
T-Mobile Says Data on 37M Customers Stolen in New Breach
2023-01-24, 18:55PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers because they are important, surprising, troubling, enlightening, inspiring, or amusing. They appear on our site and in our daily newsletter. Please send suggested articles, videos, podcasts, etc. to...
Atmospheric Greenhouse Gases Do Not Discriminate, but People Do
2023-01-24, 17:06Not only does every good story begin with a question, but the first questions journalists are most likely to ask are often the same, and they start with one of two letters, a “W” and an “H.” But before we get started, let us first tip our hat to some accurate and apparently excellent science on the...
Brazil’s New President Works to Reverse Amazon Deforestation
2023-01-23, 18:50PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers because they are important, surprising, troubling, enlightening, inspiring, or amusing. They appear on our site and in our daily newsletter. Please send suggested articles, videos, podcasts, etc. to...
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