Building Nests Is Hard. That’s Why Some Birds Steal.
When Mauna Loa erupted in 1885, it enveloped native forests on the island of Hawaii in a layer of basaltic...
Can a ‘Street Taco’ Be Crunchy? A California Politician Is Finding Out.
Steve Hilton, a Republican front-runner in the race for governor of California, recently visited the oldest operating Del Taco in...
Oregon Prepares for a Challenging Summer of Water Shortages and High Fire Risk
This time of year, Don Gabbard, a fire chief in eastern Oregon, wants to look up at the Strawberry Mountains...
Rex Reed, Film Critic Known for Acerbic Reviews, Dies at 87
Rex Reed, who across six decades reviewed films and wrote about movie stars in prose that was graceful and evocative...
Will A.I. Help Humanity? A Journalist Looks For Answers.
AI FOR GOOD: How Real People Are Using Artificial Intelligence to Fix Things That Matter, by Josh Tyrangiel Even for...
Streaming, Toilet Paper, Underwear: Subscription Fatigue Is Setting In
If it seems as if much of your life has a subscription now — your TV, your car, even your...
What to Expect When You’re Expecting to Expect
Two millenniums ago, in the foothills of ancient Greece, the physician and philosopher Hippocrates described pregnancy in terms of bread-making....
For 10 Years, They’ve Been Building a Future for Female Composers
You never know what a chat over coffee will lead to. Back in January 2016, the composers Missy Mazzoli and...
True Crime Streaming: Informants Who Risk Almost Everything
Some spoilers below. The figure of the police informant is one that has recirculated on television and in films for...
Your Decision Making Is All Wrong
If in making decisions you are often guided by a search for the best, you are going about decision making...
The Author of ‘Divergent’ Returns With an Action-Packed Adventure
SEEK THE TRAITOR’S SON, by Veronica Roth I read Veronica Roth’s new novel for adults, “Seek the Traitor’s Son,” over...
A Nice Hang With a Low-Key Rock Star
Late at night, after his wife and his two teenage daughters go to bed, Kurt Vile heads down to the...
Hacky Sack Mounts a Comeback With Gen Z
A couple of weeks ago, a gaggle of freshmen at McCallum High School in Austin, Texas, pulled out a pouch...
Watching ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ as an Elegy for Magazines
“Do you remember when magazines were a thing?” In “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” one flippant rhetorical question from Emily...
Oil Prices Rise on U.S.-Iran Standoff
Oil prices edged higher and global stock markets cooled on Tuesday as investors wavered between optimism and despair over the...
