Americans Spend 90 Percent of Their Lives Indoors. These Photos Will Make You Want to Get Outside.
The title of photographer Lucas Foglia’s third book, Human Nature (Nazraeli Press), lays bare the theme common to all his work—humans and their very complicated relationship with nature. Each project he’s photographed over the past six years explored, with growing depth, the increasingly complicated intersection of nature and us humans. It’s a thinking person’s kind…
Some Thanksgiving Trump/Defense Fact Checking
Donald Trump celebrated Thanksgiving by handing out turkey sandwiches and potato chips to the Coast Guard while regaling them with stories of the F-35: Donald Trump returned to a favourite subject on Thursday, telling a US coast guard audience the air force was ordering a new plane that was “almost like an invisible fighter”….Trump first…
Journalism Is Imploding Just When We Need It Most
Mother Jones illustration One of the few bright spots this past year was supposed to be the revival of journalism. And to be sure, it’s been a great time for muckraking, with newsrooms bringing home scoop after scoop on the Trump administration. Subscriptions to everything from the New York Times to Mother Jones are up.…
My Quasi-Annual Black Friday Post
According to the retail industry, “Black Friday” is the day when retail profits for the year go from red to black. Are you skeptical that this is really the origin of the term? You should be. After all, the term Black ___day, in other contexts, has always signified something terrible, like a stock market crash…
2 Million Stunning Images of Earth’s Biodiversity Are Now Available for Free
This story was originally published by Slate and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. There are thought to be about 10 million distinct species of plants and animals on Earth. That number is incomprehensibly large, not least because most species are still undiscovered. But now the Biodiversity Heritage Library, an open-access repository for some of the most stunning…
A Lot of “Ethical Consumers” Are Going to Make Really Unethical Shopping Choices
Patrick Semansky/Associated Press As a person living in the 21st century, it’s almost inevitable that you’ve had the seamless, fast, and hassle-free experience of shopping online: a few clicks and you’re done without ever needing to interact with anyone, and then your items can show up at your door in as little as a day. But as the holiday season ramps up,…