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A library of interviews with the world’s biggest thinkers.
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In energy technology, it’s clear if your invention works or not. Either the device saves energy and people buy it and find out, or it doesn’t.
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The reason we haven’t innovated enough in energy technology is because energy used to be cheap.
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A process that mimics photosynthesis could create a fuel that provides energy in a convenient form.
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“When carbon dioxide is free to emit, we emit it like it ain’t going out of style.”
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If we are going to cut carbon emissions by 90 percent from their levels in the 1990s, we’re going to have to make a lot more clean energy than you […]
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The interplay between the dead and the living—the miraculous “webbing of nature in which death becomes life and life becomes death…around and around”—not only stands as the basis of our […]
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Mammals, including humans, have natural lifespans that have remained about the same through each species’ existence. What are these figures, and why do they vary so greatly across species?
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From our tiniest cells performing constant “suicide programs,” to the adaptive measures behind the grand sweep of evolutionary history, death is what truly drives life.
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Humans have developed elaborate rituals, institutions and even theories of immortality to lessen the life-long shock that is knowledge of death. What’s behind this primal urge and how does an […]
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Our atoms are formed from particles with seemingly infinite lifespans, so why do organisms die? The NYU professor explains the biology of death.
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A conversation with the author and professor of biology at New York University.
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The International Energy Agency chief economist’s biggest fear: that sharing the world’s primary commodities could spark another global war.
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We have to punish the extensive use of fossil fuels and provide incentives for the clean energy technologies.
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We have to leave oil before oil leaves us, says Fatih Birol.
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Whatever NYC loses to gentrification, the cartoonist argues, it maintains the same vitality it had throughout the whole 20th century.
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The role of political cartoonists has largely been usurped by Stewart and Colbert. But what should satirists even target these days?
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Comics now are every bit as vibrant as they were in their Depression heyday. And yet for the artists, cartooning still “ain’t a living.”
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How did a cartoonist “trying to overthrow the government” end up creating both the sex drama “Carnal Knowledge” and the illustrations for kid-lit classic “The Phantom Tollbooth”?
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Forget fancy pens: in his early career, the award-winning cartoonist used sharpened dowels from the local meat market.
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Back when MLK Jr. was caricatured as a violent radical and the U.S. was plunging into Vietnam, cartoonist Jules Feiffer vented his anger with an editorial freedom that few publications […]