Selected articles from Fortune, The Wall Street Journal and Salon
The Pentagon’s Weather Nightmare
A few years ago, Andrew Marshall, a balding, bespectacled octogenarian known as the Defense Department’s “Yoda,” got interested in the national security implications of research showing that climate change could reach a tipping point and abruptly trigger disastrous global weather changes. This story broke the news about the alarming report he commissioned. Free the Chimps!
What our primate cousins have to tell us about Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Wall Street bankers’ outrageous bonuses.
Tracing Autism’s Roots
There’s no compelling evidence that childhood immunizations are behind the rise in cases of autism. But genetic studies are shedding light on its causes. Stewart Brand’s Green Manifesto
A review of one of the most important green tracts since Silent Spring by the creator of The Whole Earth Catalog.
Trouble in Prozac Land
For certain people, popular antidepressants called SSRIs appear to pose much more risk than psychiatrists and patients have long thought, and a number of suicides have been tied to their use.
How Disease Evolves Evolutionary theory is shedding fascinating light on medical riddles, including why hospital-acquired infections tend to be extraordinarily dangerous.
Doolittle’s Raiders
How the federal Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, an elite force deployed on the border between science and science fiction, is exploring the use of rats, wasps, honeybees and other alternatives to dogs to ferret out terrorist bombs.
Can China Overtake the U.S. in Science? A look at this burning issue based on interviews with researchers at some of China’s top labs, including scientists trained in the West who have returned to help build up the Asian tiger’s research prowess.
A Little Worry is Good For Business Optimism isn’t all it’s cracked up to be—things are likely to turn out better if defensive pessimists are in charge when things go badly awry.
Journalism
Selected articles from Fortune, The Wall Street Journal and Salon
The Pentagon’s Weather Nightmare
A few years ago, Andrew Marshall, a balding, bespectacled octogenarian known as the Defense Department’s “Yoda,” got interested in the national security implications of research showing that climate change could reach a tipping point and abruptly trigger disastrous global weather changes. This story broke the news about the alarming report he commissioned.
Free the Chimps!
What our primate cousins have to tell us about Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Wall Street bankers’ outrageous bonuses.
Tracing Autism’s Roots
There’s no compelling evidence that childhood immunizations are behind the rise in cases of autism. But genetic studies are shedding light on its causes.
Stewart Brand’s Green Manifesto
A review of one of the most important green tracts since Silent Spring by the creator of The Whole Earth Catalog.
Trouble in Prozac Land
For certain people, popular antidepressants called SSRIs appear to pose much more risk than psychiatrists and patients have long thought, and a number of suicides have been tied to their use.
How Disease Evolves
Evolutionary theory is shedding fascinating light on medical riddles, including why hospital-acquired infections tend to be extraordinarily dangerous.
Doolittle’s Raiders
How the federal Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, an elite force deployed on the border between science and science fiction, is exploring the use of rats, wasps, honeybees and other alternatives to dogs to ferret out terrorist bombs.
Can China Overtake the U.S. in Science?
A look at this burning issue based on interviews with researchers at some of China’s top labs, including scientists trained in the West who have returned to help build up the Asian tiger’s research prowess.
A Little Worry is Good For Business
Optimism isn’t all it’s cracked up to be—things are likely to turn out better if defensive pessimists are in charge when things go badly awry.
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