by Brian Howey
Howey dives into the obsessive culture of collecting carnivorous house plants, and how the culture is leading to the illegal poaching and extinction of all kinds of wild and sought after species.
136 days ago
by Anonymous
Wind power in the North Sea could shift Europe's energy needs.
136 days ago
by Erik Sherman
"We can preserve a lot of information digitally, but the process is far from perfect."
139 days ago
by Rebecca Ackermann
"The giving philosophy, which has adopted a focus on the long term, is a conservative project, consolidating decision-making among a small set of technocrats."
139 days ago
by Matias Vernengo
As inflation rises throughout the world, governments and economists are arguing about its cause. Many see excess demand as a root cause, with ports and distribution hubs backed up for days. Others cry wolf on government spending, others blame the increasing profits of billionaires and large firms. Vernengo hopes to pick apart these theories under a socialist lens.
418 days ago
by The Economist
A more-or-less unified response to the war in Ukraine took many in the West by surprise. Although diplomacy failed to stop the war, it seemed to succeed in bringing together a group of nations under a common cause.
426 days ago
by The Economist
Throughout the pandemic, there was much criticism and approval of China's COVID policies. They both seemed overly authoritarian yet seemed to work way better than the rest of the world.
426 days ago