The Most Important Question

This week: What does it mean when people say “revolution”? For these purposes, which are pretty narrow and entirely of my own invention, I don’t mean some single moment in time, un...

How can I be a better ancestor? This question has haunted and inspired me since way back in 2019 when I first read the Optimist's Telescope. A beautiful, helpful, inspiring book by...

Across the front of our website, in big bold letters, is our calling card: “Science for people who give a shit.”You may have seen it and immediately thought “That’s me!” or “You si...

We’re taking giving a shit quite literally this week! Our guest is Newsha Ghaeli, the president and co-founder at Biobot Analytics. If you read our newsletter, you’ll have hea...

What’s one big change we can make that can make our food healthier, make farming more lucrative, draw down carbon in the atmosphere, and reduce climate emigration?That’s today’s bi...

Aluminum. It’s everywhere!And we’re going to need a hell of a lot more of it in the future.Aluminum is a primary ingredient in solar, wind, hydro, concentrated solar, bioenergy, th...

This week: Global climate news roundup beyond COP27The human cost of vaccine inequityWater runs dryChatbots aren't your friendsCaveats to exciting AI developmentsHere's What You Ca...

There’s nothing quite like breaking bread with family and friends, old or new. By mid-2020, we’d have all taken the opportunity to break bread with just about anyone.Why are recipe...

It’s always worth revisiting the inarguable fact that our country was designed to be inequitable.And while much progress has been made over time, the powers that be continued to im...

This week: Climate change in the curriculumIncreasingly divergent subvariantsCell-cultured meatRSV vaccines are comingGenerative AI (...didn't write this, but it might one day)Here...

Climate change is a touchy topic in farm country. But one third of greenhouse gas emissions come from food and agriculture, so it’s crucial that the industry becomes part of the cl...

This week: $1 billion for electric school busesA potential "tripledemic" sandwich (not as delicious as it sounds!)One person's (treated) wastewater is another person's drinking wat...