Book of the Dead: The Species Declared Extinct in 2022
This year we bid farewell to two lost frogs, the Chinese paddlefish, a plant from New Hampshire, and many others.
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US Renewable Energy Farms Outstrip 99 Percent of Coal Plants Economically: Study
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Biden’s Documents Dilemma
Palace politics? Or an unhappy accident?
Too Many Murdered By American Police: It’s Way Past Time for Genuine Reform
Congress should pass legislation to create national standards for policing to regulate local and state police departments so violence-prone and violence-craving individuals don’t end up as cops.
The DeSantis Book Club: A Bonfire of the Vanities
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) wants to control what students learn, read and think. That is likely a winning strategy to win the GOP nomination. The question is whether the rest of America is on board with backing a book burner.
Power, Paranoia, and the Fraying of Our Politics
From neoliberalism to evangelicalism, a look at history, power, myth, and paranoia in our current politics, and an alternative vision of liberal democracy.
One River Dies, Another Is Born
In north Brazil, the combined effects of a hydroelectric dam and earth-shifting livestock have altered the landscape — and upended people’s lives.
Will the Machine Stop?
A rant on technology, capitalism, and the future.
Atmospheric Greenhouse Gases Do Not Discriminate, but People Do
What real estate, oil wells, racism, and yogurt containers reveal about the disparate damages caused by fossil fuels.
Brazil’s New President Works to Reverse Amazon Deforestation
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George Santos and Lisa Marie Presley: Media Missed the Story
Santos could have been spotted earlier; Presley stories leave out what mattered most: the effects of Scientology.
Prospective Energy Sources: Fusion Is Hot! (and Cold!)
The Livermore announcement is impressive as a feat of engineering but, after 60 years, they are nowhere close to a commercially viable energy source.