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What If We Never Run Out of Oil?
New technology and a little-known energy source suggest that fossil fuels may not be finite. This would be a miracle—and a nightmare.
The world may never run out of oil—and the consequences could be dire. Plus: avoiding the worst parts of death, Henry Kissinger's statesmanship, reconsidering hair metal, and more.
New technology and a little-known energy source suggest that fossil fuels may not be finite. This would be a miracle—and a nightmare.
We can't address climate change without carbon reduction, but we also can't afford to neglect a vital second option: carbon capture.
Angelo Volandes's low-tech, high-empathy plan to revolutionize end-of-life care
He was the 20th century's greatest 19th-century statesman.
A short story
A glance at five academic studies
The new typography of irony
A new look at the famous Harvard study of what makes people thrive
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Germany grapples with the bicentennial of Richard Wagner's birth.
An urban renaissance for public telephones
In which Sam Harris teaches me Brazilian jiu-jitsu and explains why violence is like rebirth
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Three suggestive stats
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An interview with the synthetic biologist Christina Agapakis
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In a new memoir, the lead singer of Ratt remembers what may be the most forgettable cultural phenomenon of the modern era.
On the new biography of a literary Lothario
An old extreme sport is new again.
The theory and practice of serving a drink vibrated, not stirred
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What's the most important Supreme Court case no one's ever heard of?
A poem
A poem