The forgotten success story of America’s teenagers
It’s been feeling very 1995 lately.Oasis, whose last good song came out back when Macs were still see-through, was the ...
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The climate case against leather
The climate case against beef is now almost boringly well-established: It is, by far, the most carbon-intensive food in the ...
The lanternflies are here. Is it okay to stomp them?
Last summer, I was standing on a block near my house when I saw a very distinctive bug skittering up ...
The moral case for being less online
Hi readers! Shayla Love here, science journalist and longtime fan of Your Mileage May Vary. I’m honored to be subbing ...
Why Americans are living longer again
America is a uniquely sick, unhealthy country — just ask Americans. We’re addicted to ultraprocessed food and succumb to deaths ...
The fatal flaw in how America handles heat waves
It was not the postcard-worthy aesthetics that prompted Greek islanders to first drench their cliffside-carved homes, churches, and pathways in ...
The unlikely cause bringing liberals and conservatives together
“This is demonic stuff.”“It’s downright abusive.”“That sounds like torture to me.”It causes “physical problems and psychological anguish.”These are quotes describing ...
Why air conditioning became a cross-Atlantic culture war
As temperatures blew past 100°F in cities across Europe last week, it was difficult to tell what was generating more ...
There’s an escaped giraffe on the run in Texas. Why was she there at all?
In mid-June, a giraffe named Gracie escaped from a ranch in Texas located about 100 miles west of San Antonio. ...
Who gave AI companies the right to build the future?
In 1954, years after he led the project that created the atomic bomb, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was called to ...
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