• A Forgotten Underwater Sound Experiment Almost Changed How We Measure Global Warming
• Computers Learn to Use Sound to Find Ships
• Earth’s Most Mysterious Hums, Ranked
• Scientists Have Finally Caught the Eerie Hum of Earth Deep Under the Sea
• Earth’s Hum: Scientists t…
Democracy in Peril
• Climate Policy Can Help Avert Modern Liberalism’s ‘Doom Loop’
• The Doom Loop of Modern Liberalism
• Democracy Is Like Fun: You Can’t Set Your Mind to Having It
• The Death of Liberalism in Japan
• We Have to Rethink What “Educated” Means in a Post-Truth World
• A Philosopher Ponders the…
Banter & Boulder
• Why ‘Bushman Banter’ Was Crucial to Hunter-Gatherers’ Evolutionary Success
• Why It’s Human Nature to Ignore Our Instincts
• Jimmy Chin on the Deeper Meaning of Climbing
• Japanese Gardens: The Enigmatic Art of Raked Gravel and Rocks Does Not Give up Its Secrets Lightly
• Don’t Convert Africa…
New New Zealand Laws
• New Zealand Considers Creating Climate Change Refugee Visas
• A Proposal in New Zealand Could Trigger the Era of ‘Climate Change Refugees’
• New Zealand Is Banning Foreigners from Buying Houses
• New Zealand Compared to Italy
• The Secrets of Zealandia: The Lost Continent of the South
Physics & Physique
• 18 of the Greatest Photographs from 125 Years of National Geographic
• Inspiration for the Beatles’ Lady Madonna? National Geographic
• Finally, a Downside to Being Attractive
• Attractive Woman Says Being So Beautiful Is a Real Curse
• People Guess Which Strangers Are Virgins in Myth-Challenging Vide…
The City Struggle
• These Cities and Countries Will Pay You to Move There
• 25 Record-Breaking Cities: Highest, Cheapest, Oldest and Most Crowded
• What the Happiest Countries on Earth Can Teach Americans
• Why Is Leamington Spa the Happiest Place in Britain?
• Swiss Mountain Village, Population 13, Opens Hotel to Avoid Extinctio…
Runway Showstopper
• Even Earless Oysters Clam up over Noise Pollution
• The Plight of the Sea Otter
• This 450-Pound Seal Removed from Alaska Airport Runway
• Huge Sunbathing Seal Brings Alaskan Airport to a Halt
• Huge Bearded Seal Blocks Airport Runway in Alaska
• Climate Change and Overfishing Bring Explosion of Jellyfish
Tech to The Future
• Are the Amish Right about New Technology?
• Humans Are Bad at Predicting Futures That Don’t Benefit Them
• Advice on How to Predict the Future, from a Professor Whose Job Is to Predict the Future
• ‘Slightly Crazy’ 19th-Century Weathermen Who Braved Formidable Conditions Could Aid Climate Predictions
• Stephen Hawking Says the …
Map Lust 2
• The Independence Movements around the World
• Median Age around the World
• Population Density of Africa with US Equivalents
• African Climate with Equivalent Cities from around the World
• Countries by GDP per Square Kilometer
• Computer-Generated Maps Imagine America Redivided into Equal-Population Ar…