A Weddell Seal’s Swimming Class Under Ice
The Blind Film
Filming Antarctic wildlife is messy work. You can’t just drop a GoPro in and hope for the best. Postdoc Kaitlin Allen and...
Clouds as shields: The wild idea to geoengineer an El Niño
El Niño is coming. And it brings fire with it. Droughts, heat waves, chaos for every continent. The ocean temperatures off Peru and Chile...
RFK Jr. Eyes The Prevention Task Force
He’s not done with vaccines.
Not by a long shot.
After shaking up a key vaccine advisory panel with skeptics, Robert Kennedy, Jr. turns his gaze...
The Screen War Is Over. Here Is Your Peace Treaty
Summer hits. Structure vanishes. Kids find the remote.
The panic sets in for most parents. Screen time is the enemy, the theory goes. A digital...
Viking king coin masquerading as a button
A dirt-stained lump turned up by Morten Eek near Utstein Abbey looked like garbage. Specifically, a post-medieval button. One side was silver. The other?...
Don’t pinch your nose when you sneeze
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Your Egg Timer Might Not Be Ticking
Science used to say you were born with a set number of eggs. That’s it. Game over. Once you ran out, usually around menopause,...
Ancient bathrooms solve the Roman concrete mystery
27 kilometers east of Rome sits a communal toilet.
The concrete there is nearly 1900 years old. It outlasted the empire. It survived centuries of...
The Hidden Tax of Improvised Language Access
You hired one district interpreter for the big IEP meetings. Meanwhile your front office staffer fields calls in three languages she barely speaks. A...
One Man, Three Schools, Zero Bureaucracy
A LinkedIn notification landed in my inbox. Someone I’d just met in Boston typed a message. Jon Ketler is gone.
The weight of it hit...
