Grist | The oceans just hit an ominous milestone
A new report sounds the alarm on ocean acidification as Earth breaches the seventh of nine “planetary boundaries.”
In a new report, scientists warn that we’ve crossed yet another “planetary boundary,” a threshold that keeps Earth’s systems hospitable to life — a sort of global resilience that allows the planet to absorb shocks. This time, it’s the relentless acidification of the seas that’s crossed into dangerous territory, threatening all manner of marine life, including the organisms at the base of the food web. Of the nine total planetary boundaries, this is the seventh that’s been breached.
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Katharine Hayhoe on LinkedIn | One of the most frequent questions I’m asked as a climate scientist is, “what can we do about climate change?”
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The Atavist | I’ve Gone to Look for America
Conversations and revelations about an ailing nation along Interstate 95.
We’re on the road, my oldest son and I, traveling nearly 2,000 miles on Interstate 95 from Miami to Maine, and pausing at virtually every rest stop. Our project is simple and vast at once: to ask fellow travelers where they’re headed, and where they think America is going too. I take notes. Cheney takes photos.
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Wired | AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All
I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.
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We created a searchable database with all 20,000 files from Epstein’s Estate
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Defector | Jeffrey Epstein Was The Unofficial Advice Columnist For The Elites
The trove of documents released by the House Oversight Committee this week shows that a staggering variety of high-profile figures were hitting up the sex criminal for expertise on a range of topics. The effort Epstein put into his responses may disabuse a reader of the notion that he was some kind of operative genius.
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