In Earth’s icy fringes, bacteria, moss and nematodes are bearing life anew. — Read on http://www.washingtonpost.com/science/ancient-life-awakens-amid-thawing-ice-caps-and-permafrost/2019/07/05/335281f8-7108-11e9-9f06-5fc2ee80027a_story.html
Opinion | Democracy Is for the Gods – The New York Times
It should be no surprise that humans cannot sustain it. — Read on http://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/05/opinion/why-democracies-fail.html
Drink a Pint, Waste Less Food – The New York Times
A brewery in Manchester, England, has been using discarded breakfast cereal to make beer in a project intended to address the issue of waste. — Read on http://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/03/business/media/beer-cereal-food-waste.html
The enduring fascination with Sherlock Holmes: It’s elementary. – The Washington Post
Four new books demonstrate (again) why he’s the most famous (and beloved) detective. — Read on http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/the-enduring-fascination-with-sherlock-holmes-its-elementary/2019/06/18/34536fd8-9113-11e9-aadb-74e6b2b46f6a_story.html
Opinion | A Philosopher on Brain Rest – The New York Times
A mild traumatic brain injury forced me to question where the “I” in my identity truly lies. — Read on http://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/25/opinion/brain-injury-philosophy.html
The biggest Arctic expedition ever will spend a year in sea ice studying climate change – Washington Post
Hundreds of researchers will spend a year in the fastest-warming place on the planet to understand the consequences of climate change. — Read on http://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/science/arctic-sea-ice-expedition-to-study-climate-change/
Boeing Built Deadly Assumptions Into 737 Max, Blind to a Late Design Change – The New York Times
A system that doomed two flights was expected to engage only rarely and originally used two sensors. Critical decisions were based on those factors even when they no longer applied, employees said. — Read on http://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/01/business/boeing-737-max-crash.html
The Eclipse That Made Einstein Famous – The New York Times
Before 1919, cosmology was as subjective as art history. A solar eclipse, and a patent clerk’s equations, changed everything. — Read on http://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/science/solar-eclipse-einstein-physics.html
‘Ship of Horror’: Discovery of the Last Slave Ship to America Brings New Hope to an Old Community – The New York Times
Enslaved Africans smuggled into Alabama in the schooner Clotilda founded Africatown after the Civil War. Now residents want to raise the wreck from under the Mobile River as a symbol of pride. — Read on http://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/26/us/slave-ship-alabama-africatown.html
A Billion-Year-Old Fungus May Hold Clues to Life’s Arrival on Land – The New York Times
A cache of microscopic fossils from the Arctic hints that fungi evolved long before plants. — Read on http://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/science/fungi-fossils-plants.html
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