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So you want to be an astronaut? Um. Well… Telling people that they can do anything, whether fueled by imagination or hard work, conceals the critical role of genetics, environment, education, culture, timing and chance in success. Not every everyone who wants to be a neurosurgeon, a sports star or head of state can become…
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Apple is strongly objecting to a court’s order stating that the company must help the F.B.I. access the phone of one of the San Bernardino shooters. What if the government asks us for something we simply do not have, and something we consider too dangerous to create? Should a back door be built into devices…
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AP Photo/Carlos Osorio Trump is running an exceptionally visceral campaign. As Donald Trump’s GOP opponents regroup in South Carolina, they are running into a new political phenomenon: Trump is riding on a wave of adulation. Rarely has a presidential hopeful emerged like Donald Trump, who consistently touts his resume and plans for the nation in…
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Consumers can make more informed choices. (Brennan Linsley/Associated Press) Making the changes necessary to fix the problems in both our agriculture and in our diets requires a fundamental shift in attitude. Some of today’s major agricultural problems, such as pollution, greenhouse gases and soil erosion began decades ago, with government incentives that rewarded production of…
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“Despairing white middle-class has long yearned for a white knight to fight for it against the global economic elite.” – Trump is that white knight. Trump, to enter the race to the GOP nomination, from a billionaire real estate mogul, has entirely reinvented himself and could soon attempt another transformation. In words and deeds, he…
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PARIS — More and more voices at the U.N. climate change conference are standing up for at least trying to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, rather than the more commonly cited 2 degrees C. It’s a dizzying goal: The world is already at about 1 degrees Celsius of warming, with about 400…
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A general view on the chimneys of the Hsieh-ho Power Plant in Keelung, northern Taiwan. EPA/DAVID CHANG In a paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists demonstrate the full ramifications of a widely accepted theory about climate change: that it will almost certainly have a disproportionate impact on the poor. Climate change won’t…
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Amazonian tropical rainforest near Manaus, Brazil. (Image credit: William Anderegg) A surprising new study pinned down the climate factor most strongly tied to variations in terrestrial carbon storage: that is, the ability of plants and other features of the Earth’s surface to take up carbon, thus preventing it from going into the atmosphere. Scientists are…
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Donald Trump, a new reality to live with! Donald Trump insults and exaggerates; he dismisses the need for public policy ideas; he gets confused about world affairs and, sometimes says things that flat-out aren’t true. And the cheers from his backers and supporters are only growing louder. By the standards voters typically judge a presidential…
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