“It’s a bold and ambitious journey that I am about to embark upon,” says Chief Richard Currie as he pauses pensively to take a sip of coffee. It has been less than 72-hours since his oath of office was taken as the youngest leader ever of Jamaica’s Accompong Maroons and the new colonel, age 40,…
People wear face mask in New York, Feb. 25, 2021. John Smith/VIEWpress via Getty Images The novelist Julia Dahl asked fellow writers how they are taking on, or steering clear of, the coronavirus. “We need to chronicle this,” said Jodi Picoult, who has multiple projects related to Covid. Others said they weren’t ready to process…
The Paris Agreement is a paradox. On the one hand, it provides an essential, shared framework for the nations of the world to tackle the climate crisis. On the other, as those who follow climate politics closely have long known, it has almost no power to ensure the commitments made under it are anything other…
(We’ve got major spoilers below for the eighth episode of the Marvel series “WandaVision,” “Previously On”) We’re very close to the end of “WandaVision” now, and the first Marvel series on Disney+ just keeps on with its big reveals. We got a few of those this week — perhaps the biggest of which came from…
Making cocktails at home is kind of like cooking risotto. Sure, you can do it every day, but there are probably 10 people on earth for whom that would be practical, let alone desirable. Put another way: Making cocktails is a hassle. Yes, I wrote a whole entire book that teaches people how to make…
Everyone seems to be talking about the problems with physics: Peter Woit’s book Not Even Wrong, Lee Smolin’s The Trouble With Physics, and Sabine Hossenfelder’s Lost in Math leap to mind, and they have started a wider conversation. But is all of physics really in trouble, or just some of it? If you actually read…
Halfway through a recent New York Times story about Governor Andrew Cuomo’s long (but perhaps not widely known) history of governance-by-bullying, an ally tried to defend his signature political style. He didn’t say that Cuomo’s behavior was ethical, or reasonable, or even responsible. He just said that people liked it. The governor’s pugilistic personality is…
This site contains affiliate links to products. We may receive a commission for purchases made through these links.Omega-3s are an important part of overall health and bodily function. These fatty acids are commonly found in fish and other sea creatures, but they’re also found in certain vegetables and oils. Many people get their Omega-3s via…
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, we may receive an affiliate commission. Another wave of grocery hoarding recently made many essentials hard to find yet again. Grocery stores in some areas across the US have put strict purchase limits in place as a result, and some…
With NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover ready to begin its multiyear mission to collect rocks and soil for future retrieval, planetary scientists are concerned other Mars research goals could suffer during the decade-long wait for those samples to complete their three-legged relay back to Earth. With those worries in mind, NASA’s planetary science division chartered the…
