Top 12 Blog Posts of the Year
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I’ve never known how to judge a category like this. I can’t do it by memory since I don’t remember most of what I’ve written for more than a few days. I can do it by the pure popularity of posts, but this year I…
Top 1 Books of the Year
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I had a pretty dreary year in books. I’m not sure if it was me or the books, but there were very few I’d really recommend strongly. Among fiction, my favorites were all trilogies: Cixin Liu’s Three Body Problem (outstanding hard SF, especially the first…
Top 5 Photos Taken From Airplanes
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s the end of the year, and that means it’s time for some Top X lists. I’m going to post a few of these today because—oh, I don’t know. I’m bored, and USC isn’t in a bowl game this year. Let’s start with airplanes. A…
Like Fruit, Vegetables, and Almonds? Scientists Have Bad News.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. So far, this winter has brought ample snows to the Sierra Nevada, the spine of mountains that runs along California’s eastern flank. That’s good news for Californians, because the range’s melted snow provides 60 percent of the state’s water supply. Anyone in the United States…
Anxiety Is Like Having an “Improv Group in Your Brain”
Shaughn & John Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Aparna Nancherla is a comedian who also happens to be an introvert grappling with depression: “A lot of people have a fear of missing out,” she jokes. “I have a fear of missing in.” Petite and in her mid-30s, she has been…
Remember That $20 Million Ocean Cleanup Project? It Isn’t Working.
Michel Porro/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The $20 million effort to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch has hit a bit of a snafu. Organizers for The Ocean Cleanup, which launched the project…