A Recipe for Disasters
Calculating the probable dates for very bad things—a catastrophic solar megastorm; Seattle destroyed by earthquake—that are likely to occur.
Archive
A collection of 14284 issues
June 9, 2015
* Patient zero in Seoul's MERS outbreak "coughed and wheezed his way through four hospitals." * Pools have a long history as a racist suburban site of urban ghettoization. * Summer: "the season of hyper-surveillance and even more aggressive policing of young people of color." * A
Silicon Valley High
No one’s surprised in Silicon Valley when a 12-year-old runs the family e-commerce store. But going to the same high school as Steve Jobs and liking it are two different things.
June 8, 2015
* Kalief Browder, who received national attention after his torture at Rikers, commits suicide. * Suicide rate in black teenagers has doubled since the '90s, even as the white rate has fallen. * Turkish ruling party loss could open door to left-wing, pro-Kurd coalition—or extreme nationalists. * The HDP say
June 5, 2015
* Hackers expose US government employee data—that's three federal data breaches in the past year. * Officials believe China is behind the latest federal data attack, and that it was state-sponsored. * Yesterday marked the 26th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protest. * "It's not just that
June 4, 2015
* South Korea closes more than 700 schools as a third person dies of MERS. * Two drugs already on pharmacy shelves are discovered to help treat Ebola. * The Red Cross raised a half-billion dollars for Haiti and built six homes. * Las Vegas, the youngest of the Southwest's water-
The Wild World
Photographs that find stillness in turbulence, moments close to reverence when almost nothing's in control. Peter Bohler walks us through what it’s like to find a niche in the world of glossy assignments.
June 3, 2015
* "The Senate has been riven into a strange mix of groups united by their ideas about surveillance and security." * The morals of Russia's secret army of misinformation operators don't always match those of the trolls they portray. * California's constant new crisis. * Never
June 2, 2015
* India's "mytho-nationalist" worldview. * How a University of Arizona professor precipitated media's transformed coverage of Caitlyn Jenner. * Sort through The Counted: the people who've been killed by police in the US so far this year. * China's strategic investments in infrastructure
The Riflemaker Dreams of Africa
The American West is a myth. One Wyoming gunmaker looks anywhere else—abroad, in the past, in himself—for new wilderness.