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• At the Edge of the World, Facing the End of the World September 17, 2018
  Writing about climate change is an exercise in managed insanity. The human mind isn’t equipped to parse a crisis—the greatest in the history of our species—of such complexity and urgency and darkness. With record-breaking superstorms ravaging coastlines at a regular clip, it’s hard to feel good about the impact that Homo sapiens has had on […]
• Astronomers Have Found the Universe’s Missing Matter September 17, 2018
  Astronomers have finally found the last of the missing universe. It’s been hiding since the mid-1990s, when researchers decided to inventory all the “ordinary” matter in the cosmos—stars and planets and gas, anything made out of atomic parts. (This isn’t “dark matter,” which remains a wholly separate enigma.) They had a pretty good idea of […]
• How to Easily Locate the Accelerometer in an iPhone September 17, 2018
  Everyone should probably know that I’m obsessed with both physics and smart phones. If I can use my phone for a physics experiment, I’m good to go. That’s exactly what I am going to do right now—use some physics to find the location of the accelerometer in the iPhone 7. Your smart phone has a […]
• How Los Angeles Is Helping Lead the Fight Against Climate Change September 17, 2018
  Los Angeles doesn’t have a great environmental reputation. It’s the car capital of the United States. It’s famous for its curtains of smog, and for stealing a bunch of water once. But the city is in the midst of a metamorphosis. With fewer, yet stronger storms on the horizon, it’s begun an ambitious plan to […]
• How a Programmer Nearly Broke The Internet by Deleting Just 11 Lines of Code September 17, 2018
  You might not be aware, but on 23 March 2016, the internet as we know it almost came crashing down. A huge amount of the software the Internet is built upon crashed when an angry programmer decided to unpublish all his code from a popular Javascript registry called npm. That doesn’t sound like a big […]