I thought I’d finally figured out my phone addiction. I cut social media down to almost nothing, added some friction, and stopped reaching for my phone so much. Then I started checking everything else instead. Turns out, getting rid of the app isn't the same as getting rid of the itch.
Peter Solomon is back — physicist, five-time entrepreneur, and author of the Survival & Singularity Chronicles, who's spent his career sounding the alarm on the technologies he believes could end us. His new novel, 12 Years to AI Singularity, imagines a near future where AI surpasses human control,
George Schaller may be the reason mountain gorillas, Bengal tigers, and giant pandas still exist in the wild. Considered the father of modern field biology, he trained Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, worked in 32 countries, and sounded the alarm on the "great dying" of the natural world
Food companies spent decades engineering the perfect craving. Now another industry is making billions helping us silence it. GLP-1s may be changing how we eat—but are we treating the symptom while leaving the system untouched?
Have you ever looked at a chunk of time and decided, before it even started, that it was going to be wasted? That's where I was standing at a bus stop in Honolulu, watching the minutes tick down on my phone. Eight minutes until the bus. Eight minutes
Danica Novgorodoff has spent her career turning complex ideas into visually stunning stories — and A Better World Is Possible may be her most personal yet. The New York Times bestselling illustrator and 2022 Yoto Kate Greenaway Medal recipient, whose work includes the graphic novel adaptation of Jason Reynolds' Long
I was waiting for an elevator in the lobby of a building I was catsitting at. I pushed the elevator call button and stared blankly at the wall. There were various notices to the residents, but one was printed on bright yellow paper, like a warning notice. My eyes caught
Miist is a Billboard-charting artist and author whose life reads like it shouldn't be possible — abandoned at five, a terminal cancer survivor, and a self-taught songwriter who didn't pick up a pen until her 30s. That unlikely path produced over 100 compositions, a historic
This year, we didn't do anything for July 4th. And I was completely okay with it. No barbecue, no friends or family over, no sense that we were supposed to be marking something bigger than an ordinary Tuesday. We saw some fireworks from a distance, little bursts of
In 1974, an Austrian philosopher named Ivan Illich sat down and did the math on the American car. He added up everything — the driving, the parking, the hours spent earning money to pay for the thing, the gas, the insurance, the registration, the repairs. All of it. He came up
Meera Subramanian is an award-winning environmental journalist with over two decades of experience writing about the natural world and climate crisis. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Nature, and Orion, where she's a contributing editor. Her first book, A River Runs
There's an elephant in the room when it comes to sustainable living that we all feel but rarely say out loud: shame. Not just guilt about flying, or recycling wrong, or buying something you didn't need. Deeper than that. The quiet, nagging feeling that it doesn&